A Reading from Michael Schut found in Money and Faith: The Search for Enough
I am a gardener. The most important task I have as a gardener is to build healthy soil. Healthy soil is full of life, retains water, holds nutrients, helps minimize pests and plant disease and is the foundation for a delicious harvest. Unhealthy soil is bereft of life, sloughs off water and nutrients and does much less to protect plants from pests and disease.
Abundance and scarcity are two markedly different soils, producing very different harvests.
Living out of a framework of scarcity—there is not enough—nurtures seeds of fear, war, hoarding and injustice. Living out of a framework of abundance—there is enough—nurtures seeds of generosity, trust, peace and community. Scarcity and abundance are foundational to our experience of life in general, and our experience of money specifically.
Read as the first reading on of Judith Liro's Sermon on November 13, 2011
