As I ponder my evening's activity I am engulfed by the sense of helplessness at my present personal condition. No amount of escapism via television watching, or romance reading can eradicate the real necessity of $800 for the procurement of school books for both boys. Neither can any amount of complaining remove the fact that they will suffer - both academically and socially if they do not get those books, pronto.
And complain indeed I can. I mean how in the hell do you put children in private school when you can NOT afford it; when every mundane activity deforms into an albatross of a financial burden that I have to shoulder because I happened on not one, but two occasions, to make love with you sans protection??!!
Again, complaining will do no good. I can only remember all that I am learning, all that I am striving to assimilate into my chromosomal structure: That I live in an abundant Universe, and that even before I ask, my God has answered. I have experienced time and time again when my faith has been all the currency I've needed in the realm I live in: God's kingdom. I may not have had physical dollars, or connections in high places, yet have seen God orchestrate events and situations to meet my needs miraculously, multitudinously.
So what is different with these needs I face today? $800 for books?! A car?!?? Being a bonafide, regularly scheduled parent?? Though indeed all of these will drown me in a sea of helplessness if I even for a single moment, give myself the dubious luxury of forgetting Whose I AM, and therefore, Who I AM! So just that quickly, I will need to rein these thoughts in if I'm to come out on the victorious side of this condition.
So what is different with these needs I face today? $800 for books?! A car?!?? Being a bonafide, regularly scheduled parent?? Though indeed all of these will drown me in a sea of helplessness if I even for a single moment, give myself the dubious luxury of forgetting Whose I AM, and therefore, Who I AM! So just that quickly, I will need to rein these thoughts in if I'm to come out on the victorious side of this condition.
I have work to do. And as much as my faith has been my currency, it is my belief that I am to begin manifesting tangible wealth because being rich matters. There's too much good to be done in this world that requires tangible, touchable, real money. I do not want my thoughts to predicate my financial lack. I mean can you imagine me saying and being happy with saying that I am causing me to be broke --- by my thoughts!??
"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought" so writes Napoleon Hill in his timeless classic, Think and Grow Rich.
an excerpt:
When the English poet W.C. Henley wrote the prophetic lines, "I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul," he should have informed us that the reason we are the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls is because we have the power to control our thoughts.
He should have told us that the ether in which this little planet floats, in which we move and have our being, (any Bible students, here? Acts 17:28) is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute (change in outward structure or looks) our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
If the poet had told us of this great truth, we would know why it is that we are the Master of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls. He should have told us, with great emphasis, that this power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds.
By means with which no one is familiar, these "magnets" attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
He should have told us that BEFORE we can accumulate riches in great abundance, we must magnetize our minds with intense desire for riches, that we must become "money conscious" until the desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.
But, being a poet, and not a philosopher, Henley contented himself by stating a great truth in poetic form, leaving those who followed him to interpret the philosophical meaning of his lines.
