The most important thing about you, asserts Dallas Willard, is your mind. 

“Not your brain, but your mind. You are, more than anything else, a mind. That is what makes you precious in a special way. Categorizing people and treating them in specific ways just because of their bodily features violates the central worth of the person as a mind. The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.”

As the Renovaré Book Club nears its last book, Life Without Lack, I’m pondering how my daily life would be transformed if my default mindset was ​“God is my shepherd, I lack nothing.”

This week on the Renovaré Podcast, Becky Willard Heatley commented that a life without lack mindset requires that ​“you understand how much God loves you, how God wants the best for you, that he is capable of taking care of everything you need, and that he wants to take care of everything you need.”

Much happening around the world tempts us to fear, to meditate on lack. It appears we are in short supply of so much. But the Shepherd is not alarmed nor is he aloof. He is here. In him there is always enough, even when appearances say otherwise.

lOne last note as I think about some Renovaré friends who lost loved ones this week. Awareness of loss is different than awareness of lack. We do not grieve as those who have no hope, but we do grieve. For those grieving, our hearts are with you. May you know the companionship of the Shepherd in the valley of the shadow of death.