A short sermon-style monologue arguing that people experience lack because they pay more attention to what's missing than what's present. The speaker uses a biblical example (Genesis 2:11–12) to claim abundance—symbolized by gold in the Garden of Eden—is a natural resource intended for 'the children of the king,' and that many live mistakenly focused on scarcity.
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What if the reason you experience more lack than you do abundance is because you are more aware of the lack that's present than you are the abundance that's present in your life. The awareness of abundance and awareness of lack. The awareness of the presence of abundance and lack. Interestingly enough, there wasn't. There weren't just trees in the Garden of Eden. Go read Genesis, chapter 2, verse 11 and 12. And there's gold in that land, and the gold of that land is good. God put gold in the Garden of Eden. And he didn't just put it there, but he also made sure he told us it was there. Why? Because I believe God wanted us to know that opulence and abundance are natural resources in the environment for the children of the king. And we think the children of the king are supposed to live in the booth, in the back, in the corner, in the dark, and live their whole life in a station of lack. And that's how most people live their lives. They live their lives so zoned in on what's missing that they miss what's there.