on Reaping in order to Sow … (08/07/12)

“Whatever God’s dream of man may be, it cannot come true unless man cooperates.” ~ Stella Mann

Traditionally witnessed, the pictured scene would have us think that the woman has encountered wealth; that she, like the rest of us, has awoken to the Truth that she is surrounded with an abundance of riches.

Fair enough … Such abundance does indeed fill all our days. Some of us might live in circumstances where it is a bit more difficult to see than others, and yet wealth surrounds us all nonetheless. We all have more than enough blessings in our lives to be deeply and profoundly grateful every day. That is something worth remembering, to be sure …

And yet there is a deeper Truth being shown here as well.

This woman might also very well have tapped into true Wealth — the Wealth that knows that the riches of sustenance and pleasure and beauty and fun and money and influence and friendship and comfort become infinitely more potent when we not only collect them, but when we also then choose to use them to lighten the burdens of another.

You see, true Abundance is not sowing appreciation to God in order to reap Peace for yourself, nor is it sowing “friendliness” to those around us in order to reap our own “happiness” in return …

No, true Abundance, my friends, is reaping your life’s Joys & Wonders …

… in order to sow them back again into the garden of another.

“If you don’t see God in the next person you meet, there’s no use looking any further.” ~ M. Gandhi

P.S.  LOVE is the lavender — and YOU are the gatherer!