Having it all

Spiritual resource to share: abundance

In a season known for consumptuous giving, what does it mean -- having it all?

What is all? All the stuff we want? All the things we need? Being able to do all things, to be all things to all people?

What about applying this idea of allness to our most primitive relationship – to our relationship to God?  What does this do for us on a daily basis?

Once when I was putting myself through college, with very little money and a family to visit over Christmas break, I decided that I could bank on God as All and expect to have a fulfilling Christmas – including being a part of our tradition of giving gifts.

I started out by thinking about God as All, and that I am included in God’s love, in God’s allness. So, I thought, I have infinite ideas and resources and ways to show love and cheer this season. I have unlimited ideas.

I started thinking outside the box. I re-gifted, made up coupons, went to thrift stores and wrote poems and prose.

What started out as a picture of lack became an adventure in abundance. I had come home for Christmas with arms full of the most funky, fun and unique gifts for everyone in our extended family.

It really helped me to consider God in totally new terms – God as All: all-power; all-presence; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving.

To know God, not as a glorified person, but as a creative force that is all-pervasive blew the top off of any  idea of God that was changeable and unpredictable. To see that God is the source of life’s ability to be self-sustaining was to see God as a self-enforced law of being.

In order for life to be self-sustaining, it needs to be pure and permanent -- much like you would see the law of gravity – operating on and governing us all in a way that is consistent, unconditional, unaltered and permanent.

God is like that. God is the origin or principle of life; God is intelligence or Mind, the soul and substance or meaning behind all things; God is the animating principle or spirit of our lives, the permanent fixture of life, the purity and stability of truth; God is the harmonizing and inclusive nature of love.

God is All. And so it follows that we draw from and reflect the infinite combinations of Love, intelligence and Truth. We can have it all, because we reflect All.

To learn more about the law of God and how it operates in your life, check out spirituality.com. Also, check out a startling new way of understanding God with these questions and answers from Mary Baker Eddy:

Question. — What is God?


Answer. — God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite
Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.



Question. — Are these terms synonymous?


Answer. — They are. They refer to one absolute God.
They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and
wholeness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice,
mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on.


Question. — Is there more than one God or Principle?


Answer. — There is not. Principle and its idea is one,
and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-
present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.
Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying all.
Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science
or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifesta-
tions of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter,
and have one Principle.