Sharing our experience, strength and hope.
Food can be grown almost anywhere yet millions are starving.
Oil is in abundance yet prices soar. To quote Parker Palmer, “What is truly
remarkable about the human animal is not that we take physical abundance and
turn it into scarcity (or demand an exorbitant price for it) but that we
do the same with the infinite gifts of the Spirit.”
It is one thing to overvalue diamonds or
under supply tomatoes. Yet how often in our relationships with God and others do
we act as if the Spirit’s stores of love, affection, trust and compassion were
limited. Why do we hold back; afraid if others get too much of it, there won’t
be enough left for me?
We in recovery often hear we have been given
an abundance of love, “much more than we deserve.” We also know that by sharing our experience,
strength and hope that we receive much more in peace and serenity in out lives.
It simply comes down to “we have to give it
away, in order to keep it.” The more freely we share the more we get in return.
We in recovery have been invited to a King’s banquet yet we
stop at the first Hors d'oeuvres table, satisfy our own
appetite with finger food, sometimes hesitant and afraid to enter into the main
dinning hall to sit at the King’s table and share the feast with others.
Jim
