How Do We Trust Enough To Trust Abundance? Its A Koan Or At Least A Dilemma. A Few Nights Ago, A Friend Shared How He Recently Worked With His Fears And Limiting Beliefs Around Money, Trust, And Abundance.For Six Years He Had Been At A Lossliterally, Unable To Figure Out Why He Was Living In Poverty While Everyone Around Him Seemed To Manifest Abundance So Easily. A Few Weeks Ago, He Decided To Stop Asking Why And Started To Simply Walk The Walk Of Abundance. It Started With His Awareness That He Was Out Of Integrity With Himself And His Church. His Church Asks Its Members To Agree To Tithe 10 Of Their Earnings To Charity. Although He Had Made The Agreement, He Had Been Skimping, Telling Himself That He Didnt Have Enough Money For Food Or Rent So How Could He Possibly Give 10?When He Confronted This, He Made A Decision To Tithe 10 Anyway, Even If It Meant Going Hungry. He Made One Other Behavioral Change To Stop Reinforcing His Fear Of Lack. He Stopped Letting His Gas Tank Get Dangerously Close To Empty Or Even Running Out Of Gas. From The Moment He Stopped Letting The Fear Of Lack Control Him, His Business Began To Boom. Within Two Weeks, He Was Booked With Work For The Next Three Months And Has Since Given The Overflow To Other Contractors.So How Do We Trust Enough To Trust Godthe Universe? This Is Where Faith And Working In Concert Come In. Faith Means Allowing Godthe Universe To Provide Even Though We Cant Know Ahead Of Time How Things Will Work Out. Faith Is Trusting, Even With Our Fears And Limiting Beliefs. Working In Concert Means Not Sabotaging Godthe Universe Through Behaviors That Reinforce Our Fears And Limiting Beliefs. It Means Acting As Ifas If We Have Perfect Faith, As If It Will All Work Out, As If We Can Help Ourselves And Others Even When We Dont See How.This Is What My Friend Did By Tithing And By Filling Up His Gas Tank. He Behaved As If His Fears And Limiting Beliefs Didnt Have To Be True Or Run The Show Anymore. I Acknowledge Him For His Hard-won Mastery Of Trust. He Is An Inspiration.
