A Lesson in Abundace

Don't Shoot the Messenger.

Last night Felix ate our supper. He quietly consumed all twelve smokies while we busily did other tasks. The smokies were in a glass Pyrex baking dish on the counter waiting to go into the oven. He managed to get at all twelve without knocking the glass pan on the floor and alerting the household to mischief.

 Our abundant dinner suddenly took on the aura of scarcity while Felix felt good about manifesting twelve lovely, plump smokies.

 Now I have to admit that this is my entire fault.

 You see I have been thinking allot about abundance. I even asked for help….which probably explains our empty roasting dish. Sometimes when you ask…the answers arrive in unexpected ways. Just a heads up; because I told you to ask.

 So let’s take a look at this.

 To Felix the universe is an abundant place. He has complete certainty on this. Food miraculously arrives in his food bowl every day. If for some reason the food doesn’t manifest on time he simply lies down next to his bowl and waits. Sooner or later his bowl gets filled. He never worries that the food might not appear. He doesn’t think from a fear of scarcity…why should he…abundance abounds. He trusts in abundance without any reservations or doubt.

So when a gift of abundance is unexpectedly put before him (12 smokies for example) he has no hang ups about receiving it. One should always receive abundance that’s the way of the universe. He doesn’t stop to ponder whether he should receive it… or worry whether he is worthy of abundance or all those other human calculations (are there strings attached?) that clutter up our field and make it almost impossible for abundance to grace our table.

While I was temporarily annoyed, especially about having to traipse out to the grocery store and 8 PM to get some more smokies I never said a word to Felix because deep down I knew there was a reason for this.

 It was on my drive down to the grocery store to resolve our temporary issue of scarcity (scarcity seems to be a sort of localized affect [there is more to ponder there] isn’t it? In our kitchen there were no longer any smokies (a lack) while a short trip to the store returned our abundance to us. I never for a moment doubted that I could get more smokies (abundance thinking).

So maybe abundance is: Never having a doubt that it (what ever it happens to be at the moment) will be there. That’s sort of the way Felix looks at it.

Much later than we expected we sat down to dinner and ate our abundance…so again no Smokies…but now we didn’t feel we had a scarcity (no smokies). It’s just that we’ve transformed our abundance. Our abundance is now in our tummies, and much the same for our rather stuffed Felix.

 Interesting.

 Felix doesn’t sweat abundance and things just show up for him.

 We humans sweat abundance (just google the word abundance for proof), we Cialis worry about it, try to define it, wring our hands about it, worry about being more abundant or not.

 Felix without the aid of language or higher intelligence, seems to understand abundance better that I.

 Now that is really annoying.

 Felix lifts his sleepy head and shakes it, “humans”, he seems to say, “just don’t get the simple things.”  He follows that with a huge yawn and back to sleep. Why not…he has total certainty on abundance!

 With Love

 Nick Grimshawe

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