On Prosperity

Another jewel that I uncovered today as I am re-reading a beautiful book by Eric Butterworth called "The Universe is Calling:  Opening to the Divine Through Prayer."  This excerpt is on prosperity ( a little lengthy, but well worth the read, in my humble opinion!) Too cool for me not to include in my blog!  From what I learned in twelve-step programmes, take what you like and leave the rest!

"For a prosperity need:  First, we need to get out of the pie-in-the-sky concept of prayer that suggests a Brink's truck rolling up to your door bringing bags of currency and coins.  There is no magic and certainly no miracle involved in the demonstration of abundance in our lives.  Prayer deals in consciousness.  When you have a lack of consciousness, you inhibit the natural flow of the universe in your life.  This consciousness frustrates jobs and salaries and general income, as a beaver's dam effectively blocks the flow of a stream.  And when you have a prosperity consciousness, you are consciously in the flow of the abundance of the universe that rushes and streams and pours into you from all sides.

There is no lack in the universe.  Lack is simply a state of mind that separates us from the divine flow.  Don't let lack become a part of your prayer.  Know the truth of omnipresent supply.  Don't pray for lack, unemployment, or failure, for this serves to emphasize them and treats them as if they were real.  Let your prayer be to establish you in the awareness that you live and move and have your being in a sea of infinite substance, as a fish lives in water.

There is a divine mind counterpart for every human need.  There is an answer for every problem, substance for every financial requirement, and a job for every willing worker.  The economic indicators may not tell you this.  You need to tell it to yourself, for economics is a spiritual process.  As far as your experience in the marketplace is concerned, you make the difference.

Take time, occasionally, to visualize yourself settling comfortably in the universal flow of substance cascading into you and through you.  Then you might want to speak the word of truth:  "I am prospered and successful."  Not to make it true, but to identify with that which is true."

How cool is that! 

Love,

Nicola