Quick start sharing! If I was pouring an expensive wine, or a cheap, tasty wine, and I just kept pouring although the wine was spilling out of the glass, I would look like a madwoman. Why? Because we all know that when a cup gets full we stop pouring into it. It’s the same with abundance.

We don’t go to the frozen food section and buy more ice cream than we can store or eat. If we want more tubs of ice cream, we either have to get rid of something already in the freezer or buy another freezer. If we want more tomato plants in a raised bed, we have to make space for them by removing what’s there or making another raised bed. So what do we do? We make room, we share.

How many summers have you noticed where the number of gifted Zucchini squash surpasses reasonable numbers? Zucchini can quickly become more abundant than a gardener expects. All that gardener has to do is look away for a day or two.

It’s easy to see this analogy with food and drink but what happens when it’s money? Material wealth is one of the forms of abundance. When do we have an abundance of money? We can’t gauge it by limited freezer space but we can see some signs when we have to buy a larger house in order for all our stuff to have a home. Or maybe when we need a bigger garage, or a storage unit. We start spending our money to house the items we bought with our money.

Money is harder to see the line when one has enough. We don’t have to create a vault in our home to store the paper money, the bank does that for us. There’s truly no limit on storage space for money. Some people have taken their money to extreme levels. Could you imagine the response we would get if we collected ice cream? Millions of containers of ice cream, all sitting frozen in freezers underground. But with money, it’s fine, because it’s not really there. Once we begin piling vouchers for money away in every bank, the money itself becomes meaningless and we can add to it forever. It will no more actually exist at 1 billion dollars than it did at 900 million. The cup is full. It’s not a bigger cup. The cup has just been renamed.

When did it fill up? When the inflow became larger than the outflow. That was the point where we reached enough.