The Objective

Much of our lives are lived out of the past, dictated by negative beliefs and attitudes: I’m not good enough, this is hard, that’s hard, I can’t do this, I can’t do that. 

We also have a profound belief in scarcity.  Everything in fact is scarce, especially what we need most: love, trust and peace. 

The negatives we carry from the past create a future of fear, worry and anxiety.  The result is that we may spend little time in the present and it is only in the present that we can encounter God and God’s abundance. 

Christ came into our world of scarcity and negativity proclaiming abundance.  ‘I came,’ he said, ‘that you may have life and have it in abundance.’ 

Our most urgent requirement is to leave aside the negative past and negative future, allowing ourselves to live in the present, entering into relationship with Christ and his abundance.  In other words, we need to create sacred space for a new and transformed life. The Abundance Prayer is a method of creating this sacred space.

We can set ourselves free from the prison of negativity by using God's gift of freedom, choosing to take our energy, our attention, away from these negatives, gathering it into the present moment where an utterly transformed life is available.

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