I wasn’t going to post today, but I just can’t help myself. I recently saw a post on Facebook that said, “Does anyone need anything today?” When someone wrote “a few $million,” the person who asked the question responded, “Oh, I never ask for money. It always comes at a price.”
How sad! I know that many people are raised in homes where they are told that money is evil (the quote is that it is the ROOT of all evil, by the way), and similar stories about how it is somehow better and more noble to be poor than to be rich. Give me a break!
I’ve been poor and homeless, and I’ve been really well off (with my husband and I making a good 6 figures a year). Let me tell you something flat out: there is nothing Noble about being broke. It’s that simple.
It is much easier to advance spiritually when I have extra money around than when I am working 3 jobs 85-100 hours a week. Do you really think I had time to meditate or reflect on my inner state of being when I was too busy trying to scrape up something to eat because it had been two or three days since my last meal?
So please, for the love of whichever God (or Goddess) you may feel like worshipping, stop focusing on lack. Stop telling people that there is something wrong with making money or having more than enough. If I don’t have enough, there is no way I can help anyone else. The Universe is a vast and rich place, and there is enough for everyone. In fact, there is more than enough. There is no terrible cost to having money. To think so, in my opinion, is a tragedy.
When we can all realize that and concentrate on how much we have, we will see that money is not a bad thing. In fact it is very, very good.And you can take that to the bank! 😉
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2 responses to “Money is not a Bad Thing”
I certainly agree, Ame, that money per se is not evil. It's when folks focus ONLY on the money (or its accumulation) that problems ensue. Or, if every decision rendered revolves on the accumulation or expenditure of money.
Avoiding these two factors as driving forces will preclude the malevolence of money issues from one's life.
Ame,
Money is currency. Sound familiar to the current of electricity? It is an intangible until someone tapped into it, and created the on/off concept with the flip of a switch.
All currency has to move in and through things. And we need to look at money much the same! It is abundant and plentiful for all of us. In fact, I’m going to tap into my stockpile that I’ve unknowingly been accumulating my entire life!
Money is currency waiting to be allowed to move in us and through us, with enough for philanthropy and our bank account!
I am grateful for what I have come to learn, and scarcity and lack are only a mindset. Where our attention goes, that’s where energy flows!
And, when I find just a penny, it says, “In God We Trust.” 🙂
Great post!