Blog 3689 -12.10.2025

Everything I Could Ever Want Or Need

I have often shared the words that came to me out of the blue some years ago that became the core of my daily mantra that I continue to write and repeat:

“I am so glad and grateful that everything that I could ever want or need is already mine and coming to me at just the time and in just the right way from my loving and infinite source.”

My loving and infinite source is my highest and best self. Do things happen that on the surface seem to challenge those often repeated words? Of course they do, yet with persistence and patience those are proven true time and time again.

Just yesterday retuning to our campsite in Bon Wier, Texas after a drive in the East Texas Piney Woods, when we turned off US 190 onto FM1416 and crossed over the railroad tracks my wife and I heard a knocking and pulled to the side of the road to see if we could figure what it was. A younger man named Justin who was working in his yard across the road walked over to offer his help. I told him that I heard a knocking after the railroad tracks and he said it might have been just the noise of crossing the tracks, but as I pulled forward he heard it too, he looked under the truck and saw that one of my dual exhaust pipes had broken off from the muffler, fallen down, and was hitting the drive shaft. I said I needed to wire it up till I could get it to a muffler shop and have it repaired. 

Justin said he had some wire and would wire it up for me and that also he had a welder friend that might be able to save me a costly repair. After crawling under my pickup and wiring the broken tail pipe up front and back he said I would probably need a muffler shop to do the repair after all because his friend would not have the specific coupling needed. He directed me to the nearest muffler shop which was about twenty-six miles away in Jasper, Texas.

I thanked him and offered him twenty dollars for his trouble. He refused it, but he had shared a little of his story with me I knew he could use it. So when he said the second time, “I can’t take that,” I pressed it into his hand and said , “But you can use it,” and he accepted, my help graciously as I had his.

The plans for the day were modified on the spot and my wife and I after a brief stop at our RV camper to pick up our laundry to take to the laundromat in Jasper, we headed to the muffler shop. It was located just down US 190 from the laundromat we frequently use in Jasper. 

Having worked out of state the last ten or so years of my career as an oil and gas pipeline welding and utility inspector, more than once when my vehicle needed repair it was costly and required making an appointment for service and usually a rental car to use while the repairs were being done. I confess I was not thrilled at the possibility of such an expensive, time consuming inconvenience. To calm myself, I repeated the core of my mantra to myself again.

We found the tire shop my new friend Justin had recommended and were directed to a small muffler shop in back. The man there said it would be about an hour before he could get to it. I found that encouraging because there was no mention of needing to make an appointment. It was only about fifteen minutes later he directed me up onto a lift rack and after raising the truck and inspecting the exhaust pipe and muffler he said, “Let me see what I can do” firing up his acetylene welding torch. What seemed like only fifteen minutes later he announced, “You’re all set, fortunately I never throw anything away and had the right coupling that I took off another Dodge truck recently.” I asked how much I owed him and he said that they will have that figure up front. 

In a recent Note From the Universe I was advised whatever the cost of good or services to cheerfully and sincerely reply, “Only that much” with a smile.

Constantly complaining about the rising cost of living only makes us feel poor and cut off from our loving and infinite source. So I had prepared a big smile that grew even bigger when the man up front said that will be a hundred and thirty-eight dollars, cash, credit or debit. I was expecting a much larger number. I did not say “Only that much” but I thought it.

I was “Glad and Grateful” which is the Secret to living happily ever after in the nasty now and now and not forever looking back to some lost paradise or forward to some land over the rainbow that you may have heard of once in a lullaby or in church.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

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