Enough?

Are you struggling to find "just the right gift" for that one person, or perhaps all the people on your list.  If I had a quarter for every time I've heard, "what do you get for the person who has everything?"  I'd go on a trip around the world.  It's a shame that there are websites dedicated to that question.  My mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas/birthday and sometimes it just feels like I'm grasping at straws to tell her something I "need."  Yeah, I thought of some things that might make life easier or more enjoyable...I'm sure we all can think of those things, but I like to get things that I actually need and I have to tell you, I'm coming up empty on that one.

Do we have enough?  I'm sure most reading this will answer with a resounding YES.  We have enough food every day.  We have enough friends.  Even though we say we don't, we have enough time in the day.  We have enough "stuff."  

And yet, we walk around and live life constantly wanting more, not stopping to realize that we have enough.  There is grace in enough.  The grace of enough is stopping to look at the sunrise.  The grace of enough is hugging that friend of yours that always gets your jokes.  The grace of enough calls your mom to thank her for loving you enough to give life and to even mess up sometimes in raising you.  The grace of enough reads the birth narrative with awe and wonder year after year and says a prayer of thanksgiving that this story is our story.

Have you paused today to experience the grace of enough?  Take it in.  Realize that you are full, not just physically, but of heart, and mind, and spirit. And give thanks.