Choosing Care
What steps can you take towards creating abundance and enoughness, rather than scarcity and greed?
Exodus 16:16-18
This is what God has commanded: Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer [equivalent to 10 cups] per person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed.
There are a lot of people in this world, the majority in fact, who do not experience enough of what they need to live.
This is not because of God. God has provided everything we need on this earth and given us the gifts of our minds, bodies, and the Holy Spirit to create what we need.
Individually and collectively we take more than our share. And some take a violent, subjugating amount more than their share, enslaving others to create even more wealth.
God provides what we need. When we gather as much as we need there is enough for everyone. Both the Bible and scientific data make this argument.
We have the ability to care for everyone, we just choose not to. Not only do we choose not to care for others, we choose to do them harm. These are the social and economic systems humans have designed and that we take part in.
Because we take part in and designed these systems, we can change them. It may not be easy, but it is possible. We can cocreate different ways of being.
Imagine what your life would be like if you had enough? If your neighbor had enough. If people on the other side of the planet had enough. What steps can you take towards creating habits, relationships, and systems of abundance and enoughness, rather than scarcity and greed?