Enough

I know I’ve blogged on this topic before but it’s worth repeating because I need to hear it over and over again. I’m grateful to have enough.

Enough food. Enough water. Enough money. Enough love and support and encouragement and friends and opportunity and safety and health. Enough.

I’m lucky because I feel like I’ve always had enough.  I guess you have to go without to truly understand how our society overflows with abundance.  The other night Jane Goodall mentioned that the half glass of water she had on stage and that same glass we unthinkingly discard in restaurants represents a day of labor for the women of Africa, assuming they could even get clean water.   For that simple thing I take for granted, they walk hours carrying heavy jugs, hoping not to encounter dangerous people or animals.  Every day.  All day.  For a glass of water.  Enough said.

I don’t want to have to become destitute to recognize I have enough.  My problem is that I often want more than enough – money, praise, validation or reward. But when I reflect on abundance in my world, I do know I have enough.

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