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Enough - Episode 6: Enough Enough. You know you have this enough dilemma handled when you no longer ask the question. You’ve attained “enoughment.” Okay, we just made that up, but hey, wouldn’t it be great to always feel like you have what you need, not longing for more? The problem is that you live in the real world and your enoughment boat is going to be rocked. We will walk you through some ways to help you get on board and back on again when you’ve fallen off.

Episode 6: Enough Enough

Gathering wisdom from other people’s experience wrestling with and coming to grips with enough can help us all. This episode is listening to some of our Fabric family and friends. Continue to listen for others, and your own heart, to help keep enough a positive rather than a negative force in your own life. 

First Learning: 
Don’t judge others for where they are in their relationship with Enough.

How can you extend grace to yourself for your own lifelong struggle with enough, and how can you extend that to others as well?

Second Learning:
Gratitude! It has the power to transform the enough of the insatiable appetite into the enough of contentment.

Or to put it another way: Appreciation is the handle that turns off the faucet of ‘not enough.’

Give thanks IN all circumstances.  (Note: Not “FOR all circumstances.) 1 Thess 5.18a

Listen to Carol’s story as she deals with a sudden cancer diagnosis and surgery and seeks to understand ‘enough.’

Third Learning: 
Enough is unavoidably communal.

You may be a unique individual, but you were created for community.

You may be finding your ‘enoughness’ inside yourself, not in the approval or acceptance of others, but you will find the meaning of your ‘enoughness’ through relationship.

Third Learning - Part 2: 
And that community of enough is not only as broad as you and others, it is woven deeply into the fabric of existence (AKA God?)

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Greg’s translation would read, “A threefold cord is enough!”) Ecclesiastes 4.9-12

Fourth Learning:  
Practices and Perspectives can help you keep Enough as contentment, not appetite.

Listen to Jen’s story as she struggles to find enough after her dreams for her life and her family were disrupted. Her perspective was changed by looking into her daughter’s mirror and seeing herself, her daughter and their family like she had never seen them before. How can you see your image in God’s mirror? Could this become a practice for you?

Listen to George’s story of being a nurse supervisor in a hospital during the pandemic and having his ability to be enough stripped away by the unrelenting demand of his work. George adopted a meditation practice that helped him avoid the split of chasing what he wanted things to be like, and avoiding what he did want them to be like, so that he could be in the moment and accept and face it.

Something to consider: 
Contentment, being enough, isn’t a substitute for growth. It isn’t earplugs to sound of change. It is the quietness within that lets you hear it more clearly, a steadiness of footing that allows you to accept the challenges.

The BIG Question this week!
What is my role in the Three Strands of Enough?

“It is important to get a handle on enough in your life, because if you don’t, it will drive you to try to do, be and have things that don’t matter, and it will do it at the expense of the things that do. Enough, however, will bring tears to your eyes and hope to your heart. It will see the one world and the one you that is, not just the many that aren’t. 

You are Enough.”

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