Abundance of Time

I was pretty new to blogging when I started 'living with abundance.' But I'd really like to kick it off again.
So, the lapse of time since my initial post is henceforth attributed to an abundance of.... exploration of creativity in other fields.

Living with abundance today is about sharing at least one thing with someone else - something they need. Last night I was gifted some food - a couple of takeaway containers of beautiful salad, in a sheer plastic shopping bag - and pictured myself eating it over the next two days, supplanting my own low budet stores for the week. On my way to the train station I passed one homeless person then another. There was no hiding the fact I had food. Ordinarily if I have something that doesn't need refrigeration or could survive overnight without a fridge, I hand it over. But then the fear: what if I give this to that person and they become sick because they can't eat it all straight away and clearly don't have a fridge to store it in - it looks fresh enough - what if, because we live in this ridiculous litigious age, and it all goes back to the source and they get in trouble and oh, ridiculous thought!

Turning down the steps into the train station, I found a woman in her fifties sitting on a step, a couple of bags. Before I knew what I was doing, my heart opened, and I greeted her, gave her the food with an apology for no fork. She said thank you and smiled. I continued to the train, betwixt one nagging thought about how she will store her food safely, etc, and the commonsense one, well it's just fine, the fulfilment of her stomach is more important.

Praying to Kuan Yin that night, I received a message: that what I should have shared was time to sit down and say hello properly. I can feel it now, sitting here, in the heart, that the salad was not enough. Time costs nothing.