Bee in heaven

"If your eye is generous, your whole being is full of light!" Jesus

It is the season of plenty for bees. This Ornimental Onion at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay is heaven for the bees. We always associate plenty with heaven...in heaven, we assume, there will be no lack or want...we will always have plenty of everything we need...or, depending on your view of heaven, and human and devine nature, everything we want. Of course to want what we need is natural...a hunger we all share, part of life. To want what we want is a bit more problematic...spiritually...because we do not always want just what we need, or even what we need. It is not need that will kill us spiritually, it is want. 

Plenty is an aspect of the generous eye. When we see with the generous eye, we see that we can and will have all we need. That is part of God's blessing on us as the children of God. Certainly greed can get in the way...when someone wants what we need, and decides to take it from us. And certainly there are droughts and floods and hurricanes that disrupt the plenty...but generosity of eye is a matter of faith that operates independently from circumstance. It is the faith that carries us through the famine. 

Easy for me to say. I have never experienced real need. (Real want? Well that is another story, and not to my credit.) I can only hope that should circumstances turn, I would keep my generous eye...more than hope...that is an element of faith as well. I am not eager to have it tested, to be tested, but I can and do hope the generous eye, which is, after all, God's gift to me, would survive. 

In the end it is not about me at all...but about the light that fills me...the God who is generous to all the children of God. To live in God's generosity is to have all we need...just like the bee in the Ornimental Onion. That is heaven on earth. 

Happy Sunday!