Needs command my attention. They tell me how important they
are and that they must be met. Sometimes they seem to be not only the issue but
the only issue. This is not true. However, when I consider these times, I
realize they were some of my most difficult periods of unrest and insecurity. ―
Jim Rosemergy Even Mystics Have Bills to Pay
Recently, I watched a video of a
whirlpool on a river, which seemed to suck down all of the ice and surface
debris, pulling it from all sides with a powerful current. From the surface
view, it looked as if everything was going down a huge drain, never to be
available again. Sometimes periods of need appear to us that all is lost and
everything that we do receive is insufficient to stem the flow. For me, though
rare, these times have taxed my faith with images of loss, lack, and inevitable
oblivion.
There was a period, just prior to
my achievement of ministry, when I saw my resources dwindling, and, at the same
time, I felt isolated from my peers, even unable to share my fears at home. My
needs became so prevalent that I could not easily concentrate on finding a
solution. God seemed far off and ruin seemed at hand. Fortunately, the years I spent
in meditation and prayer had rewired me to succeed despite my fear. I have
developed a mechanism for transcending problems through years of spiritual
practice, which is a deep trust that God always answers me with what I need and
as soon as I relax my sense of urgency, my vision clears.
I found my reserve of faith and
focused on Spirit’s presence as my guide and as my provider. This required that
I look at all seeming competition as a process of personal spiritual fitness
training; that I see the good in every no answer as well as every yes by
looking at them as shoulders of my highway to prosperity. This was hard. Some
days, when I move into new territory and do not know my way, I have to sweep
away every doubt and rethink many memories to open myself to receive my inner
direction to my next destination. It is always worth the time.
Life gets easier. Just knowing
that need is a sign of availability lightens my load. I delight in knowing that
though unfilled wanting leads to pain, wanting also reveals availability and I
can have, do have what is available to me and therefore I live in peace. What
was once a daily struggle now has no more effect than an occasional sneeze,
which clears all channels for easier breathing. By focusing on priorities of
health, calling, relationships, and giving my contribution freely to my world,
I open to receive the full measure of God’s eternal and immediate gift of
prosperity. I plug the sinkhole for all time.
Now, I rest upon the firm
knowledge that Spirit is my life and my supply, vital within my body as health,
creative in my daily expression, essence of love in all of my relationships,
and every commodity, tool, and resource essential to my free easy life of
prosperity for so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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