it's delightful...it's delicious...it's dawesome

I had a moment of quiet this fine rainy morning.

A rare thing for me these days.

In this moment I decided to eat breakfast.

Also something that doesn’t happen on a regular basis.

I poured myself a bowl of frosted mini wheats – I love frosted mini wheats, do you?

Then I remembered that we have a few raspberries…and I wanted to consume them before they go the way of all the earth.

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For some reason I was struck by how beautiful these raspberries looked. Like gorgeous jewels. The amazing configuration of tiny balls stacked together perfectly. Their sweet flavor. They are remarkable!

Sometimes I think that when we isolate just one of God’s brilliant creations it is striking – that all that perfection in one tiny creation is for US! For you and me! Right there in front of us. And there are so many of them -these beautiful manifestations of God’s genius and ultimately, his love for us that we DON”T EVEN SEE THEM!

Walk out your door and have a look – they are everywhere, all around us, even in our cereal bowl, made for us.

It makes me teary!

I thought, if God had only given me raspberries that would be more than enough. And yet he has given me so, so, so much more!

As I prayed over my bowl of cereal I asked God to help me do what was most important with my time, and the first thing that came to mind was to read my scriptures.

So I did the reading out of the Sunday School study guide. Check out what the assigned reading lead me to,

Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;

Yea, for food and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.

And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used…

Then I thought of this wonderful poem that I read recently call the “The Net of Gratitude”,

Giving thanks for abundance

is sweeter that the abundance itself;

Should one who is absorbed with the Generous

One

be distracted by the gift?

Thankfulness is the soul of beneficence;

abundance is but the husk,

for thankfulness brings you to the place where

the Beloved lives.

Abundance yields heedlessness;

thankfulness brings alertness:

hunt for bounty with the net of gratitude.

— RUMI

This little heart of mine is feeling full!

Right to the brim, full!



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2 Responses to “God’s ABUNDANCE”

  1. Brynn Zimmer Says:
    June 18th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Liza, I just wanted to thank you so much for this post. I really think I needed to read it. There’s more I want to say, but I think I’ll have to tell you what I’m thinking/feeling later.

    I love you, oh, so very much.

    Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!

  2. Summer Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    RUMI is the man!

    And YOU are the greatest Liza you are such a good, good, soul, I love reading your blog! This was a great post. I love the scripture that you shared. I think like Brynn I needed this post too. “Catch it with the net of gratitude!” might need to become my new inner mantra.

    Thanks again, sweet girl!