Thanks for letting me know the Calendar arrived okay. The Calendar was a moderate success and I just sold my last two copies. I’ll have to come up with another prize now.

I intend to keep doing what I’m doing to , I hope , an ever growing circle of friends.

To Your Beautiful Summer Morning,

Nick

Thank you so very much for the prize.. a beautiful 2008 calendar and your note.

Wish you all thats best for the coming year and more.

Keep doing what you do to bring pleasure to so many of your friends.

Many blessings always

Your friend

Pauline R

Yes, I did have fun writing the article. I accomplished several goals all in one article. I wanted to use a headline that came from the current news files to attract attention, I wanted to think with the idea, play with it a bit, and the Saudi Prince gave me a great spring board. And I was perhaps surprised at where I ended up with the “flat world view” and the spinning coin.

The thirsty man doesn’t care how much water is in the cup, even a single drop is abundance to him.

Have a beautiful summer morning every day,

Nick Grimshawe

THANK YOU indeed !!!

This sure is a pleasant surprise, I have answered you mail.

Grace n Peace to you,

Pauline R

Great article, I got the feeling you really enjoyed writing it.

All of us go through tough times and as a result appreciate the good times all th more. But here’s where it gets sticky. What’s good for me could be terrible for someone sles and vice versa. It’s all relative to your outlook on life and your expectations.

I always liked and appreciated the biblical saying (my translation from Hebrew). “Who is the rich man?? The one that is happy/satisfied with his share (what he has)”.

Take your coin or the cup of water that could be seen as either half full or half empty. It’s all a question of attitude and outlook on life. I always prfered to see the cup as being half full and not half empty.

All the best & Shalom,

Peter

Thanks for your comments, they are greatly apprecaited. I had a lot of fun writing that article because I wanted to understand for myself just what Abundance really meant. But Abundance is not a definition, it is a point of view. You can’t say a person is abundant becuase they have 100,000 dollars in their saving account, cause they might owe 1,000,000 dollars due tomorrow. If you believe you are abundant, live in a shack and only have bananas to eat, you are abundant.

Your Chinese saying is exactly right, it is relative.

The neat thing is, just by changing how you look at a condition, you can change that condition and I thing that is so amazing and wonderful.

I am sure a life in India, filled with the contrasts you must see every day, gives you amazing insights into the nature of things.

Pauline You have won my comment prize for this week. I have your email I believe and I will be in touch.

Nick

You are so right, it is relative,

Scarcity and abundance are things that we create. a Chinese saying comes to mind don’t remember who said it !

‘I grumbled because I had no shoes, till I met a man who had no feet!’

My living in India teaches me a lot about this, everyday has a new lesson for me.

Blessings

Pauline R

That is a beautiful story and illustrates the article perfectly. Your mother had faith. She did not question, she believed. She did not look at her situation and throw up her hands, and say, sorry money is scarce. She saw instead abundance enough to pay the fees each week.

Just taking a different look at something can change the equation from scacity to abundance. Now how magical is that?

Have a beautiful summer morning,

Nick