There are many people who do not see abundance in their lives. Believe it or not, these are people who have houses to go home to, beds to sleep in, food to fill their bellies, and enough clothes to keep them warm. How can they NOT acknowledge their abundance?
Until a few years ago, I had not heard of “poverty consciousness.” I learned that the term describes a perspective of lack and limitation. For poverty conscious people, you could give them lemons with plenty of sugar and they still wouldn’t make lemonade. From the way they look at things, their glass is always at least half-empty. Haunted by too little money, too little security, too little of what someone else has, they expect the worst to happen every time. Their talk is most often negative; their feelings are generally envious; their actions are stingy; their lives are diminished by their focus on what they DON’T have. Continue Reading 
