Sunday, June 18th, 2006
We don’t have to wait for summer. Yes, it is a wonderful time to have abundance affirmed around us, if we live in a seasonal climate, but we don’t have to wait for summer in order to blossom, or to bloom. We don’t have to wait for summer to expect miracles, or to expect fruits. This applies not just to the seasons but to the climax of any experience that we find ourselves waiting for, or postponing our expectation of happiness for.
We don’t have to wait until it is summer for everyone around us either. We can carry summer in our hearts year round, always feeling that we have plenty of light, plenty of joy, plenty of support and abundance, plenty of love…plenty.
The feeling of having “plenty” is something we seem to grow out of or get weaned from in this world in our time, but the feeling of lack is a mirage. Please note that I am not saying that lack is a mirage, there are things we sometimes feel are out of our control in this world, including loss, poverty, and pain which can all be connected to the actual experience of lack. I am talking about the feeling of lack. The feeling of lack can strike no matter how many things, how much money, or how many people we have in our lives. When we can get down to addressing that feeling within, then we can begin to not just enter but remain in the land of abundance. True abundance, of course, meaning having plenty of what we love and the means to enjoy it, whatever they may be.
Sometimes in our world we are taught that having plenty is wrong…that there isn’t enough for everyone and that having plenty is like wasting or hoarding. Let me assure you they are vastly different things. In fact, having plenty only allows you to give more. It is feeling lack that leaves us feeling we have nothing to give. This applies to having plenty of our own light as well…the light which we can shine in to the world or hide. Our having plenty just spreads the sense of that bounty into the world in a way that lends to its extension and repetition.
Some of us want nothing more than the sense of plenty of time. Time to do whatever we want, or to do nothing for once. Some of us want plenty of love and attention, to be held and supported and adored. Some of us want plenty of money, to be able to fund our dreams and care for our loved ones and live with financial ease and freedom. Some of us want plenty of inspiration, friendships, homes, kisses, trees, travel, classes, dances, books, sunlight…it is okay to want. And we don’t have to limit our wants. When they come from a void that never ends, they can be detrimental…when they come from lack. But when they come from the sense of plenty they are never-ending expressions of the joy of the universe.
I know it seems ironic that we have to feel plenty to find plenty, but it is easier to do than we may imagine at first. Start with one thing that you have plenty of in your life, and begin to luxuriate in it and celebrate it. If you have no money or friends but you have time, start with time. If you have money and friends but no time, luxuriate in what you do have and the time will manifest. We forget to enjoy what we do have, and that focusing on it will open the doors more quickly to what we want. When we enjoy what we have, however small it may begin, we open inside, and the more we open the more the universe and our guides can send in our dreams and answer our prayers.
