Blog 268 – 04.07.2016

On Sunday I was at a drive-thru window attempting to pay for my order with a twenty dollar bill. Thinking the cashier had the twenty I let go and the wind took it. I was not pleased but only remarked, “Well, I guess that’s gone.” And then I  dug into my wallet for another twenty. The cashier said her manager would go outside and try to find it. I figured it was already several blocks away and hopefully headed to someone who could use it. Since I have found hundred dollar bills on the ground on several occasions I figured there was no point in crying over a lost twenty. I do not consider myself a loser or a victim. I am way ahead of the game as my often repeated mantra says: “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 read recently that we cannot choose what comes to us but we can choose how we react to it. I think that we actually can choose at least in a large degree what comes to us. When we maintain an attitude of gratitude and an outlook of expectancy and positivity that is what comes to us. Likewise when our thoughts, words, and actions are all about gloom, doom, and dire straits that is what we see all around us. The Peanut character Pig Pen always has a cloud of dust around him. Many times some of us have what seems like a perpetual dark cloud that follows us wherever we go.

That dark cloud is our filter and sadly prevents us often from seeing the clear light of day. The bright blessed day and the dark sacred night both have lots of light in them but a cloudy filter will keep us from perceiving much of that light. As is the case with the twenty I lost and the several hundreds that I found, the Universe giveth and the Universe taketh way, it is also true that the Universe allows its sunshine and rain to fall upon us all. There is a flow and every good and perfect gift comes down from above. Some of those gifts are not immediately recognized as gifts but they are. I have it on good authority. Furthermore, if we allow bitterness, resentment, a victim mentality, or anger to become our filter we effectively stop or at least greatly reduce The Flow to us and through us to others.

My advice, you didn’t ask for it, but here it is. To paraphrase the Snow song, and I love snow. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White