I was just watching some of the broadcast from the Live 8 concerts that took place around the world on Saturday.  Besides the reuniting of Pink Floyd (amazing!), what really struck me was how world poverty is one of the biggest mirrors of scarcity in human hearts.

Nelson Mandela has said that poverty is man made.  Scarcity is at the root of poverty, not just in the obvious "lack of resources", but in our attitudes, assumptions and behaviors about the poor and how we "deal" with them. 

When I was a VISTA volunteer, I began to get a hint of this idea that scarcity is man made.  I saw first hand how people treated the homeless, based on their assumptions of how they got there and why they stayed there.  I saw people abusing the system, playing a game of how much they could get without giving. 

But I also saw the pure gratitude in a mother's eyes when she was able to feed her child one more day and the relief in a battered woman's face when she was told she would be safe.

Scarcity is a state of mind created by human beings.  God did not create scarcity.  The universe is abundant.  In a world that has more than enough food and resources to feed every man, woman, and child, we have the solutions. 

But we choose not to live the solutions.  We choose not to BE the solution.

I am choosing differently.  By sharing the Living Into Greatness work with you, my intention is to inspire you, question you, provoke you, move you, and love you . . .

All for who you are.

Because that is what the world needs and that is what the world deserves.