{What does that term mean?}

It starts with the basic understanding of what you have … then being self aware enough to realize you’ve been blessed with so much more than you can use that you can’t help but be … embarrassed.

If you asked any one of the people fighting for their lives right now, whether due to a virus, cancer, heart disease or a myriad maladies that rob the stricken of the quality of life we aspire to, health is their riches.

If you visited a prison filled with people who made poor decisions, whether accidental or malicious, crime of passion or convenience, good hearted, cold hearted … and offered freedom, absolution would be their riches.

If you are well traveled, you have likely seen how so much of the rest of the world lives on so much less than we do in the USA; scavenging through dump sites for articles others have thrown away, sleeping without shelter and going days without food…they would say that we live in an embarrassment of riches.

{How am I supposed to react to this?}

How about starting with something as basic as food.

I watched a news story tonight as milk producers in nearby Wisconsin donated milk, that would have otherwise been dumped, to produce 20,000 pounds of cheese, then donated to local metro food pantries.

{That’s nice…but how does this affect me?}

You’ll get up tomorrow morning from a comfortable bed and clean sheets, take a hot shower, eat a nutritious breakfast, jump in your late model car to your essential job or get on your computer with a fast enough network to work remotely.

Perhaps you can find a few minutes during the day to reflect on the embarrassment of your riches and pass on some of those through a donation to a charitable organization, take your pick.  I like Second Harvest.  None will turn away help.

It’s important to count your blessings but it’s even better when you share them.

Peace.