Spirit requested that I write a book entitled,
Abundance Born of Poverty
. Confused by the seeming contraction between abundance and poverty, I accepted the call. Believing it to be a book about financial poverty, I explored abundance born of financial poverty. However, even as I wrote Chapter I, I discovered other forms of poverty.
In Chapter II, I explored the poverty of hate as it relates to people who are othered because of their difference. The story reveals abundance beyond measure when the poverty of hate is replaced with simple love. In Chapter III, I explored the poverty of apathy about our mother earth. Cailleach decried our abuse of mother earth. And, she called to us, saying we are the answer, the hope. While writing these chapters, my heart failed, throwing me into a contemplation of my own mortality. So in Chapter IV, I shared that journey and the strength that was born of weakness. In all these explorations, I found abundance, hope and promise. Truly, abundance can be born of poverty. There is hope.