The universe is a huge place. Our own world is ripe with possibilities. In each of our own communities there is so much potential.
So why when we have a real need do we often doubt it will be met?
Sometimes it comes down to not seeing what is there. So this week, how to find what we really need along with a classic account of not seeing the extra-ordinary, but first
Thought for the day
Look at the birds of the air;
They do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
And yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Can any one of you by worrying
Add even a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labour or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon
In all his splendour was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
Which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,
Will he not much more clothe you – oh you of little faith?
Matthew 6: 26-30
This is a true story.
2007, a cold winter’s morning, Washington Metro station. An unassuming man busking with a violin for around 45 minutes. Around 2,000 people pass him by. A child pulls at his mother’s arm to pause, but she hurries him along. This happens again with several other children. A few slow on passing, 6 actually stop for a moment, a few drop coins; he pockets the $32. One woman actually does recognise him and is in awe.
Two days earlier, this same world renowned violinist - Joshua Bell - sold out Boston’s major arts theatre where seats averaged over $100. He played the same pieces while busking – extremely intricate music of Bach, and he played on a violin worth $3.5 million; and this was in 2007!
Watch the amazing video...
What can we take from this intriguing social experiment?
Perception is a curious thing. Can we see – or hear - beauty out of context? If we cannot recognise what is on offer, be in too much of a hurry, be too pre-occupied to notice the beauty around us, what else might we be missing out on?
When my children were young we had a rubber boat to play with in our dam. The boat perished and we replaced it one Christmas. I mistakenly had thought the oars were still good so did not buy new ones – mistake.
So on going back to work in the New Year, I wondered where I might buy just new oars.
Travelling the same route as I did every day for the past several years – about an hour’s drive – a startling discovery!
Over the Christmas break, 4 new stores had opened along that route that potentially had what I was looking for.
Now of course these stores had not really just opened, they had been there all the time in this abundant world we live in, but I had no need of them, was not looking for them, so for all intents and purposes, they were not there!
The moral of these stories? Once we are really clear about what we are looking for, it is likely to be there; we simply need clarity and persistence to go looking.
And that in simple terms is the art and science of manifestation.
Simple really.
Oh, and trust in an abundant universe - like birds do.
And lilies seem to do alright too..
As well as the dahlias...
And the ...
May we all find what we are looking for…
So why when we have a real need do we often doubt it will be met?
Sometimes it comes down to not seeing what is there. So this week, how to find what we really need along with a classic account of not seeing the extra-ordinary, but first
Thought for the day
Look at the birds of the air;
They do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
And yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Can any one of you by worrying
Add even a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labour or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon
In all his splendour was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
Which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,
Will he not much more clothe you – oh you of little faith?
Matthew 6: 26-30
This is a true story.
2007, a cold winter’s morning, Washington Metro station. An unassuming man busking with a violin for around 45 minutes. Around 2,000 people pass him by. A child pulls at his mother’s arm to pause, but she hurries him along. This happens again with several other children. A few slow on passing, 6 actually stop for a moment, a few drop coins; he pockets the $32. One woman actually does recognise him and is in awe.
Two days earlier, this same world renowned violinist - Joshua Bell - sold out Boston’s major arts theatre where seats averaged over $100. He played the same pieces while busking – extremely intricate music of Bach, and he played on a violin worth $3.5 million; and this was in 2007!
Watch the amazing video...
Perception is a curious thing. Can we see – or hear - beauty out of context? If we cannot recognise what is on offer, be in too much of a hurry, be too pre-occupied to notice the beauty around us, what else might we be missing out on?
When my children were young we had a rubber boat to play with in our dam. The boat perished and we replaced it one Christmas. I mistakenly had thought the oars were still good so did not buy new ones – mistake.
So on going back to work in the New Year, I wondered where I might buy just new oars.
Travelling the same route as I did every day for the past several years – about an hour’s drive – a startling discovery!
Over the Christmas break, 4 new stores had opened along that route that potentially had what I was looking for.
Now of course these stores had not really just opened, they had been there all the time in this abundant world we live in, but I had no need of them, was not looking for them, so for all intents and purposes, they were not there!
The moral of these stories? Once we are really clear about what we are looking for, it is likely to be there; we simply need clarity and persistence to go looking.
And that in simple terms is the art and science of manifestation.Simple really.
Oh, and trust in an abundant universe - like birds do.
And lilies seem to do alright too..
As well as the dahlias...
And the ...
May we all find what we are looking for…
Great article Ian. Thank you. I will come back to this, I am sure, and in the meantime reflect on manifestation which it seems to me is linked to the skill of being present in the moment.
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