Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
A while back, this thought captured my imagination:
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
-- Melody Beattie
There is a deception in maintaining our perception that abundance is primarily about more. The reality is, it isn't. It is about acknowledging what we have, rather than striving for what we don't have. Abundance isn’t about quantity — it is about our understanding of enough.
As we meet people, we can tell who has learned this truth. This Thanksgiving, I want to be increasingly one of those people who has learned about and is grateful for enough.
What I have been given is all that matters. Feeling a need to get more seems only to diminish my ability to be thankful. I really have everything I need, not to mention so much of what I also want. The shift from needing more to acknowledging what I already have changes much of my perspective.
What we have is enough. It is from there that we are able to truly appreciate and enjoy both it and life — this is true abundance.
