One of the things I do weekly is sit as the study hall monitor for three hours at my son’s school. During this three hours I interact with the students, listen to their stories, monitor their behavior and just thoroghly enjoy their presence.

Watching their personalities, listening to their conversations, monitoring their dance moves and judging their acrobatic feats is such a joy for me. We are usually in the church youth room which has a basketball hoop, jungle gym set, round tables and even picnic benches to sit on. But that room is under renovation this week, so we were moved to the conference room.

For one hour 10 students sat around a board room table and since it was the last hour of the school day, we created a scenario where we were in a Billionaires Board Meeting with one agenda topic, money. I wrote the agenda on the white board, they sat in their high back chairs around the mahogany table with laptops open and we opened our discussion with one question, “If you had access to unlimited resources what would you do with it?”

The answers to this question were wide and varied from buying houses and vacations for family members, to shopping for all the clothes they wanted. But one student, who is challenging at times, spoke up and said, “I would give everyone in the world a million dollars.” The room went silent. I let the silence linger for a moment then said, “Now that is what abundance sounds like.”

From the one student who has struggled in school came the answer about abundance that this mock board meeting was all about. One mom came in the room and asked what class this was and I said study hall. She smiled and said they are sure learning a lot today in this class.

Friends, Jesus said in John 10:10 that He came to give us life and give it to us more abundantly. Abudance is about generosity, and the one student who seemed least likely to understand abundance understood it clearly and revealed the kingdom of God in that mock Billionaires Board Meeting with those students in my study hall. May we have an abundance attitude in every area of our lives.