Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. — Eric Butterworth
“As you think, so shall you be.” Every day I remind myself to not fall into the trap of lacking in life, because I am all that I need to be, a complete, whole being.
If I were to choose to live as I did in the past, my life would be full of regrets, envy, jealousy, anger, all the words in the dictionary that described nothing but pain and poison to the system. I recognized that there was a hole in my life, but instead of looking inward, I looked outward and tried to find people, and things to fill it with, knowing that the hole was much to big, and would only swallow these things up.
I have found a way to go inward now and fill that hole with the something out there that I knew was much bigger than me. I am a much happier person now, and I know that even though I didn’t recognize it then, that I had everything within me I needed to transcend these petty problems in life that I made mountains out of.
Because of that new found way of seeing, that new found way of thinking, and more importantly that new found way of being, my life is filled to the brim with prosperity, as it says in the Bible, “my cup over flows.” Here is the great secret to life. So does yours, only if you choose to accept this truth.
I have been dog sitting for the past couple of weeks for Rita and Denny, and I was sitting and just staring at this dog, who over the past year has become a sweet loving friend of mine. What an amazing life that dogs lead that can teach us so much about our true relationship between us, and God. To a domesticated animal like a dog, we are their God. We are the source of many things in their lives that allow them to sustain their living. These animals are perfect beings. Without exception, they live in the now, knowing without worry, that all their needs will be met.
Take a step back and watch your dog as it just sits in the back yard just being. Do you think he is sitting there worrying about what tasks he didn’t finish before he left work? Are there those annoying little conversations going on in his head where he’s going to tell off Fido the next time he sees him at the dog park? Is he sitting there worrying about where his next meal is coming from? No, once again they are just there being, and anything and everything they need comes to them, and with how we treat the animals we love, it comes abundantly.
So how could you think things would be different than you and your God, your source? It isn’t. Which is why personally, I am trying hard to quit chasing so many goals, to quit chasing the things I want, or think I need. My God is providing for me, every day I wake up there is another breath, and it all begins there.
Am I saying goals are a bad thing? No, they are something to clearly define, put onto paper, tape them to your bathroom mirror, but once you do, go forth knowing that everything will be taken care of, all your needs will be met, there really is no need to worry.
Matthew 6:25 - 26 Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
