Money and Sharing

Money had been pulling me in different directions. I was at once a being of Love and Light and then I had to pay bills in order to eat, to sleep, to have good health, to be reassured I’d be safe, to clean myself, to mend myself, to prepare myself for the future, to exist at all.  In short, I realized quickly that money was a necessary element to living on this planet.   Fast forward to a spiritual event where God or a Higher Power within that, when aligned, makes us feel that there is rhyme and reason for our existence.  We suddenly have an experience that gives us proof that there is good within us and in the world. We become changed.  We live differently, we give to our neighbors.  We look different to ourselves and to others.  Then another reality sets in.  Money.

We realize that we have bills that enjoy showing up in our lives to be paid in full, preferably.  We witness others begging for this green paper.  We see haves and have nots.  We note when others look at us as a dollar sign and ask us to give them green paper for things we do not need.  Suddenly, we forget some of our spiritual experiences.  The need to eat and pay bills and keep others (that are trying to sell us something so that they can eat, too) at bay becomes paramount.  We lose our previous experiences of sublime grace.  We become consumed with consumerism.  We now spend more time trying to calm our nerves to reassure ourselves that there is enough of this green paper coming into our lives, or at least more coming in than going out.  Our focus has changed. The God or Higher Power within that had us loving ourselves and each other has become replaced with the pulling need to pay for lettuce and rice milk. 

Our priorities shift and our blood level changes and our nervous system becomes tuned to a rat race to pay bills and eat, to maintain our shelter and fix the holes in our shoes.  Life has turned into survival for oneself where it used to be concerned with sharing with another.  Emergency has occurred.  God or the Higher Power within is now thought of less than the green dollars that are needed to obtain transportation to our chosen holy shrine.  Nothing is more important now than that we can afford a way to live on this planet.  What happened to praise for the God or Higher Power within that is the yarn weaving the shawls of who we really are? What happened to the sheer delight of sharing?  What happened to the open hearted, open armed ways of being that trusted that the last crust of bread shared would somehow be replaced with more because there was faith in the Unseen Abundance that weaves its threads through the many. What happened?  We spend more time thinking about escaping our life than rejoicing in it.  More time chasing the green dollar than having an intimate conversation with another. More time working than sharing our love with another.  What happened? 

What happened to our faith in Unseen Abundance, in heart to heart sharing and trusting in this now moment.  It became replaced with a bill that said due now or forfeit your shelter, forfeit your food, your ability to provide for ones that might count on you, forfeit your dignity to live equally among others.  Something happened.   We gave up en masse our spirituality and replaced it with the green dollar that we prayed to show up in more plentiful ways.  Our deep inner peace now has nothing to do with a Higher Power, but the amount of money we have to allow us to stay in our comfort zones.  What Happened?

We hear that money and God or Higher Power within is the same energy. That it is all Love and there is no separation.  We learn that once we have the peace of love in our hearts that money will flow in because there won’t be the energy of lack that attracted an absence of something needed or desired.  So, we have made God or the Higher Power within the energy that attracts good, the absence of doubt, the absence of lack, the presence of fullness that fills with its confidence that there is always more of a good thing.  What happened to this knowing? What happened to these teachings? What happened?  Instead of remembering that what we desire is ours once we know we have it now, even if we cannot see it with our eyes, we have only trusted what we can see.  We see with human eyes, whereas before we saw with an opened third eye that saw what wasn’t there physically until it became manifest in this apparent third dimensional reality. 

Our faith was put to the test:  see it by feeling it even if you cannot actually see it and then you will be able to actually touch it; it will be made manifest.   What happened to these teachings?  We lost our faith and replaced that with effort.  We became exhausted from doing and lost our concept of being.  We started to pull energy from each other instead of getting it from a Higher Source. We saw the bread in front of us as more important that what we were fed from within.  We began to live in the third dimensional world only and starved ourselves for any higher connection. What we now call spiritual is but a mere shell of the potential that is within us.  Our connection to what is Unseen is so starved for that we can only reach for money instead because this we can see. We lost our sight for the Unseen, closed the shutters on the window of the third eye, and became obsessed with things and others to fill what cannot be filled from the third dimension.

There is only one thing left to do now.  We must not do until we see each action as coming from a Higher Purpose.  Gathering of money must not be for oneself alone but also for the betterment of all. We must go back to a desire to share from the heart. This is who we really are.  We are those that share from the heart. Anything else is not who we really are. We cannot survive as a planet unless we redeem ourselves by going back to who we really are:  those that share with each other from the heart. Then, our actions are infused with a Higher Energy because they have a Higher Purpose.  Sharing from the heart is simple and yet we are taught to feed are own mouths and fill our own pockets and stand in line first, to be the early bird who gets the worm.  We run to beat our neighbors who might get in line before us.  We must fight our tendency to be selfish with the concept from the Kabbalah: To receive in order to share.