The kitchen of abundance
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Within the home of our heart are many rooms, castles, mansions, places that we can reach by contemplation, prayer, or other kinds of meditation. Or just by listening to the sights and sounds of life that surrounds us.
Here on Pastor’s Porch, we are discussing this notion as the home in our hearts. We are moving through this home and exploring these different rooms within our soul.
After exploring these many rooms within our heart, the interior castle, we are invited to come into the kitchen of abundance. In this kitchen the cupboards are stock to overflowing. These cupboards are endless, and the kitchen is vast. The scents that we smell create in us a yearning to be fed in our spirit and in our belly’s. It reminds us how hungry we are to sit in the presence of a God who will feed us, who will fill our spirit to overflowing.
The aromas in this kitchen overtake us when we enter. They invite us deep into the heart of this place of creation, dreaming, remembering, exploring, and abundance. This kitchen, this endless supply of everything we need to be nourished in spirit and sustenance, invites us to remember the abundance of blessings in our lives. A reminder that God is an endless God who knows no bounds and breaks down all barriers that prevent human flourishing.
This kitchen reminds us that no one deserves to go hungry in body or spirit. It reminds us that there is enough, more than enough, an abundance of blessings to share. Within this meditation on abundance, we pull ourselves into a theology of more than enough and we push against a worldview or theology of scarcity.
This overflowing kitchen invites us to sit and experience what it is to be in the presence of God’s eternal plentifulness and abundance. It teaches us to sit in the spirit of gratitude and from that place of gratitude we are able share what has been given, freely and unconditionally. It invites us to dream of new and different recipes for sharing all that we have been given.
In this kitchen we are taught to prepare and openly share from an overflowing spirit of gratitude.
Come, pull up a chair.
Sit in the presence of eternal abundance.
Breathe into your spirit the aroma of plenty.
Relax as God prepares our hearts for sharing.
Look around, notice all that God has done.
Look around, notice all that God is preparing.
Explore all the ways that we can share.
Explore all the ways we can nourish our soul.
Explore all the ways that we can be nourishment for a hungry world.
The doors are open.
The kettle is on.
A meal is being prepared.
Come and be fed.
Come, no one goes hungry.
God is in the kitchen.