If I really believed that I had everything I need, what would I do next?

At the moment I am very much in need water, but I have it here, and I’m grateful for it. I’m just back from the farm and it was very hot today, and I feel a little shaky, even. I stayed and worked as long as I could bear the heat and sun. But as I drink the cool water, I am so grateful to have it and the shade in this room, and a cooling fan.

I’m finding the sharing today from everyone so very interesting! Some of us feel in need now, and I can’t help but wonder what people need. I have neighbors who were displaced this year and are struggling to rebuild their lives after losing their previous apartment and everything for a while. They lived without utilities last winter, and slowly have been getting income and they are able to stay somewhere for the time being rent free. They have their kids back with them now, a home, utilities, food, and income, after an extremely hard year for them. And a sister of theirs was just evicted and is camping in their back yard, in the same displaced situation as so many in our country right now. For them the obvious needs are/were physical — they needed shelter, food, utilities, and they want/wanted work. But emotionally it was hard for them, too! They felt ashamed they couldn’t pay bills, even though it was not their fault.

For others around us the needs might be different. Many people are lonely. some might be depressed, some are wanting justice, some need emotional healing. These kinds of things reflect needs, too.

So this is a long way coming around to the question, which I noticed does not ask if we have everything we need — look at the question again. It asks what we would do if we BELIEVED we had everything we need. And I don’t have an answer for that yet, other than yes, I would want to share and help people, but we don’t have to have everything we need to share. Perhaps the question is hinting that we can find what we need now — perhaps by looking, asking, thinking creatively, trusting, reaching out, readjusting….

Not sure. I will think on this but perhaps someone else has an opinion?