Finding Abundance: Stop Overlooking Your Remarkable Life
I’ll be honest. When I first heard the word abundance, my brain went straight to more. More margin, more resources, more time, more of whatever felt scarce in that particular season. And I spent a fair amount of energy quietly wishing life looked a little fuller than it did.
Then one ordinary afternoon I was sitting at my desk, surrounded by a half-finished manuscript, a homeschool schedule that needed adjusting, and a cup of herbal tea that had gone cold an hour earlier I realized I had it all wrong. My circumstances didn’t change with this realization. Only my eyes.
I wasn’t looking at lack. I was looking at a life full of things God had specifically placed in my hands. And I had nearly missed it entirely.
Why Finding Abundance Starts With Looking Down, Not Up
We’re wired to look ahead to what’s coming or around at what others have. Finding abundance requires a different reflex. One where you look down at what’s already in your hands.
Psalm 90:17 anchors this month’s theme beautifully: “May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us.”
That prayer isn’t asking God to hand us something new. It’s asking Him to establish what we’re already holding. The work. The ordinary, daily, sometimes unglamorous work that’s already in progress. Finding abundance begins when we stop waiting for a different set of circumstances and start asking God to make something meaningful out of the ones we’re already experiencing.
This isn’t going to be a change you see externally. That manuscript was still half-finished. The schedule still needed work. The herbal tea was still cold.
But I started seeing the manuscript as a story God entrusted to me to tell. The homeschool schedule as an opportunity I’d been given to pour into my kids during years I’ll never get back. The cold tea as evidence that I’d been so engaged in the work that I forgot to stop.
That’s what real abundance is. Not a dramatic revelation, but a quiet reframe. Stewardship starts with recognition. You can’t steward well what you haven’t first acknowledged as a gift.
Finding Abundance Through Faithful Hands
FAVOR this month asks us: How do I steward what God entrusts? And I think the first answer is simply this: pay attention to what’s already there.
The talents, the relationships, the responsibilities, the creative work, the daily rhythms. None of it landed in your life by accident. God placed it there with intention. And Psalm 90:17 suggests He is ready and willing to establish it, to make it fruitful, to breathe meaning into what might feel mundane.
Finding abundance isn’t about acquiring more. It’s about becoming a faithful steward of what you’ve already been given and trusting that, in God’s hands, what feels ordinary has the potential to become something remarkable.
Join the Conversation
Take a look at what’s already in your hands today. Your work, your relationships, your responsibilities. What have you been treating as ordinary that might actually be a gift worth stewarding more intentionally?
Spend a few minutes journaling or recording a voice memo finishing this: “Something God has already placed in my hands that I’ve been overlooking is _____, and one way I can steward it better is _____.” I’d love to hear what comes to mind when you sit with that question.
