Blog 91 – 8.11.15

One of my dad’s favorite jokes was telling people, “I’m working on my second million. I gave up on the first.” Several years ago the Social Security was mailing out an annual statement on your birthday estimating what your benefit would be at retirement and listing  what you had paid in all your working career to date. It also listed your gross income for all those years. Just for fun I got out the calculator and started adding it up. Guess what, I was already working on my second million. How do you like that, Dad?

Of course, before you ask me for a loan or to invest in that “sure fire money making idea of yours.” Let me say what was said of the first Secretary of Treasury of the brand new United States of America, Alexander Hamilton, his face is on the ten dollar bill. It was said to his credit not so much to mine that millions of dollars passed through his hands and not a penny stuck. Yes, friends, I spent it all and even plan to continue working till aged seventy hoping to pay off my current debts by then.

By my rough estimate I will be well on my way to my third million by then. If my writing finds a large enough audience maybe even more. I am already rich though. Like George Bailey in the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, I am the richest guy in town because I have many friends. Some I haven’t even met yet.

If you are tempted to “poor mouth” your situation stop and think, by your thoughts and your words you create your reality. Sometime ago I was thinking about the power of gratitude and these words came to me like a prayer:

I am so grateful that everything I could
ever want or need is already mine and
coming to me at just the right time and in
just the right way from my Loving and
Infinite Source.

I say it out load to myself and others often. This is the reality that I am creating for my life with my thoughts and with my words. When something comes to me that looks otherwise. I look for the gift. Sometimes you have to look at something’s from several angles before you see it but it is always there. “Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights and he does not change.” We sang a song in the church I attended as a boy:

God’s way is best. If human wisdom a
fairer way may seem to show, ’tis only
that our earth dimmed vision the truth can
never clearly know.

God’s way is best I will not murmur
Although the end I may not
Where e’re he leads I’ll meekly follow
God’s way is best, is best for me.

If that is too fatalistic or too trusting for you I suggest another similar take on life. Imagine, that you, a super being, on a lark, decided to have an adventure leaving the knowledge of you super powers behind even the knowledge of who you are. In your adventure you planned problems to face, maybe even trials, and perhaps you talked a few of your super hero brothers into coming along with you to play various roles in your dream vacation from being a super being. Just trust your higher self to have written the perfect play for your enjoyment. Life is not meant to be a trial, a test, or an endurance contest. Life is meant to be fun. This is your life. Relax and enjoy the play. Look for the gifts, the surprises, the plot twists, and especially the cameo appearances by some of the greatest stars in the universe. If you’re lucky, even a walk on by …

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White