Good Friday

After growing up in an area where Good Friday and Passover were taken very seriously, it amazes me how many people don't have a clue about their importance, not just in the religious sense but in the history of the world. So much of what happens in the middle east is tied back to those two events and the people involved. But more than that is the understanding of true abundance in the stories. Traveling for years with always enough to eat, but no more as long as you followed some basic rules. Don't take more than you and your family will eat in one day, remember to thank the provider, and stay true to your God. Then several centuries later, someone saying that there is an abundance of love available to us, we just need to accept the invitation to be truly forgiven and loved. It just boggles my mind that God feels that way about us. As I sat listening to the Crucifixion story again tonight I did it from a feeling of gratitude and heard an entirely different message than usual. I didn't hear about our sin, but about GOD Love. I didn't hear how we daily put Christ. to death, but about how we daily change for the better when we keep a conversation going with GOD.

After leaving Church, I had another abundance event. I stopped at the store for toilet paper and walked past the meat counter. They had the nearly $3.00 ground meat marked down to $.99 a pound. So the money I had budgeted for 3 pounds of meat, bought 9! This means that the food budget for next week will be available to pay down medical bills. As I tally this, it means that in the past two days I have received the equivalent of nearly $200 just by doing the daily things I normally do, but thinking about each activity with Thanksgiving and positive thoughts.