One of my dear friends said something to me today; “we are like fish in the Ocean – crying out “I am thirsty!” I believe I had heard that saying before, (sounds a little bit like Rumi) but for some reason it hit me as something new, so I thought I might write about it.

I think that statement is so true. The possibilities that are around us and within us are infinite. Every day we are asked to make thousands of choices. Every day we create this and that, we manifest this and the other, and still we cry for more. There is never enough for us. There is not enough money, not enough happiness, not enough food, not enough time, not enough love in the world.  

What we have to remember is that our life on this earth is relative. Meaning that all is a duality. It is right or it is wrong. It is hot or it is cold, it is light or it is dark. Our physical world is made of such things, so of course we will have, or we will have not. The only way to experience one is to experience the others. You cannot know hot if you have never felt cold. And you cannot HAVE, unless you HAVE NOT.  

So you ask, “OK… I’ve experienced ‘have not’… when will it be my time to HAVE!” Well, it is my perspective that we ‘have’, the moment that we experience ‘not having’. We are simply not aware of ‘having’ because it does not match our expectations. Our expectations are the cause of much of our suffering. I love the scene is Evan Almighty when God is telling Evan. “… if you pray for patience, do you think I merely give you patience? No, I give the opportunity to learn and show patience …”  

So stop worrying about what it is you don’t have, because it simply is not true. You have so much more than you remember!  

Bright blessings ~ Richard