Riches Everywhere

Riches Everywhere

Don't envy my talents, 
or seek them.
For few could bear the suffering it took
to mine the jewels I have. 

There are divine riches everywhere.
The most natural way 
for most to find them
is by caring for those around us
as if they were our Beloved. 

       Do you ever consider yourself to be a gardener of life? Extracting the fruit from the root? Mining the gems of this Earth? Do you ever listen to the wind, and draw the Spirit from it? Whirl in ecstasy? Bow down in worship? The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest challenge is being happy with what you find. Are you happy with the riches you have mined? Are you interested in scattering them abudnantly?
       1 John 4:17 (MSG): "God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and matures in us."
      There are two things I would like the share here. One is a fragment from the poem Gardener by Tagore: "Who are you, reader, reading my poems hundred years hence? In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across the years."
      The second is the lyrical poem, turned folk song, by Woodie Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land.

This Land Is Your Land (1944), Woodie Guthrie

Lasting Good

What lasting good has ever been rushed?

             Dictionary.com defines wealth in a multitude of ways, but one of those ways is:

wealth (n): an abundance or profusion of anything; a plentiful amount; rich or valuable contents

        I've thought of wealth in many ways, the obvious monetary wealth, and then there is love, knowledge, experience, physical health, mental health, spiritual health, etc. Today, for the first time ever, someone suggested to me the wealth of...time. I've always thought of time as a gift, but I like that I can now include it as one of the ways to be wealthy. 

There Goes My Life (2004), Kenny Chesney