In our individual lives, we can go in search of precise answers only when we understand exactly where to look and what we need to focus on. Yet, living abundantly has been presented much like the hypothetical question about the tree in the forest. Subtle. but important distinctions have been missing. Without these subtle distinctions, we can not know where to look to find the right answer. We can not know for certain whether the path we are on takes us toward the right outcome or farther away. Everything is open to interpretation and , if we get it wrong, we get the wrong outcome and we don’t know why.
When repeated efforts don’t lead to intended outcomes, and we can’t determine why, we feel out of control and when we feel out of control, the result is often desperation.
Our birthright is abundance, not desperation. For those who are living desperate lives, this statement must seem absurd and hard to buy. Such statements consistently lead to questions such as , “What about people starving in Africa?”, “What about people with cancer through no fault of their own?” and so on.
These are legitimate questions and we can see that they contain their own answers, if we are paying attention to the subtleties that suggest why we are compelled to ask them in the first place. We ask because, at some level, we realize that abundance must first occur collectively.