abundance
Extravagant consumption
For Jesus, the inverse of scarcity isn’t abundance—it’s accumulation.
Learning to give thanks
How is thankfulness engendered? By giving thanks in all circumstances.
Times of abundance: Terra Brockman on food and feasting
"We often have the idea of the feast appearing magically from the kitchen without labor. But the participatory aspect is the most important part of the feast."
by Amy Frykholm
Unlimited good: Acts 9:1-20; John 21:1-19
My mother’s generation of women was raised to expect that families would depend financially on the husband’s income. My mother is lively and creative, and as a child she wanted to be a doctor—but women just didn’t do that. When her husband left her, her creativity and energy were channeled into supporting three children on the small income from a job initially intended to supplement the family’s welfare and provide a personal challenge.
More than enough: John 6:1-21
The church of my youth majored in a miserly view of God’s grace. Its message was grim. Life had no edge, no elegance and no joy, but was only a bitter temporal existence largely limited to preparations for the sweet hereafter. Our bleak church building reflected the theology: it was aptly situated in the Pacific Northwest with its endless days of dreary, overcast weather.