Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

It is my hope that despite the gravity of the trials, we will never forget that the privilege to live life always offsets the difficulties involved in the living of it. This is the essence of thanksgiving.

If I don’t ‘see’ life as a gift I might be ‘seeing’ something, but it’s not life.

Achievement without the privilege to achieve means that we can be thankful for the former when it happens, but we need to be thankful that the latter allowed it to happen.

What am I owed except the responsibility to see life as a gift?

Freedom (properly understood) is less about the privilege that we’ve been granted to make decisions. Rather, I think that it’s far more about the opportunity that we have not to make them when we shouldn’t.

Our imagination is God’s ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can’t see only because we’ve yet to create them.