Have you Had Enough ( or give and lets give )
Well if you are about to hit the time of excess….. and please I don’t get this, “we have lost the spirit of Christmas”, I mean surely the Christmas period just started as a pagan festival which the early Christian Church overlaid the babe in a a manger thing, a bit of Mithras, a bit of Freya….but I digress.
Anyhow there I am in Waterstones book shop looking at the self help books that seem to flood the place at Christmas, and I thought most of us that can afford this stuff have enough already, we don’t need another book, self help tape, or slice of stollen cake. But something is telling us or teaching us if only I had that book, I would be OK, or those designer jeans, jacket, jug, sofa then I will be OK and others will see I am OK, because conspicuous consumption symbolises prosperity and fullfillment to a vast number of people, so why is it that no one seems particularly happy. As Good Charlotte say in their song Life styles of the rich and the famous:
Always see it on tv or
Read it in the magazines
Celebrities want sympathy
All they do is piss and moan
Inside the rolling stone
Talking about how hard life can be
I’d like to see them spend the week
Livin’ life out on the street
I don’t think they would survive
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Why is it when we have problems, feel under pressure, get stressed, we think having more, anything more will fix it, why do we feel if only I had….X, that everything would be alright. Why do we imagine that some other ordinary person might have the answer that I don’t have, and if only I could have it or they would give it to me then my problems would be solved.
There is a marvellous line i think from the Course in Miracles or some such, that suggests “to give this gift is how to make it yours”. Nothing can truly be had, and the spirit of the Season is one of giving.
“A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume (Course in Miracles)” (Foundation for Inner Peace)
However I don’t want to be misinterpreted here, living abundantly is also the Universe’s gift to us, and prosperity is a good thing to connect to. However both of these things have been closely related in modern thought to having, possessing, owning, buying and so on, we have lost site of true abundance and prosperity and our ability no only to connect with it without being attached to the idea of it, but also that abundance and prosperity are a creative process and one we can use to gift wealth and abundance to others.
The question that needs to be asked is less in the having than in the giving, a friend of mine once gave everything that he owned away, because some of it was ill gotten gains and he wasn’t sure anymore what had been gained legally and what legally, and he wanted to start a fresh.
What can we give to enrich someone elses life, what can we do to increase their abundance, to help them live in prosperity, when we can work towards ridding the world of poverty of ensuring that what the world provides is provided for all the we will truly have it all.
What you give next will decide how well you are and how you feel, maybe if we all thought…. if only I could give more then everything will be alright…. it would be!
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