ABUNDANCE AND FLOW
|
|
|
TV Show Interview
|
Everybody knows the story Of Stone Soup. A soldier is
returning home and comes to a poverty- stricken village. He is refused food and
lodging by the villagers, so he sets up his kettle in the square and announces
he will make stone soup. He produces a stone from a velvet bag and plunks it.
�Stone soup is delicious� he says, but it�s so nice to have a bit of cabbage.�
Soon a villager arrives with some cabbage. �Wonderful!� he exclaims. �Now if we
had just a couple of carrots!� Soon enough, some one else produces carrots. On
it goes until a great stew is made and the villagers and soldier sit down to eat
happily together.
The moral of the story is clear. When we step beyond ourselves, when we open to trust in something bigger, wonderful things happen. The villagers were so frightened about being hungry they were clinging to their tiny portions. After a warrior arrived and |