Abundance is defined as the state of having more than enough.. Does anyone here ever feel as if they have more than enough? More than enough bills maybe, and more than enough worries and more than enough to do…but, many of us live as if Scarcity was the law of the Universe.
Just the opposite is true, We live in an Abundant Universe. But, somehow, we have inherited myths about scarcity. Maybe when we were told to share as children, we interpreted it to mean that there is not enough to go around. When we see our world as deficient, everything reflects that. What we SEE in life, is what we get. It’s time to replace the scarcity mentality with sufficiency thinking. I like the word sufficiency. Just enough – not too much and not too little. Enough to enjoy life, enough to have all your needs and wants met. Do you know what would be sufficient for you? It’s a good exercise to figure it out.
There’s a great story that illustrates this- set at Christmas time, the message is timeless.
I was doing some last minute shopping in a toy store and decided to look at Barbie dolls for my niece. A nicely dressed little girl was excitedly looking through the
Barbie dolls as well, with a roll of money clamped tightly in her little hand. When she came upon a Barbie she liked, she would turn and ask her father if she had enough money to buy it. He usually said yes, but she would keep looking and keep going though their ritual of do I have enough. A little boy wandered in across the aisle and was sorting through the Pokemon toys. He was dressed neatly, but in clothes that were obviously rather worn, and probably a couple of sizes too small. He had money in his hand, -no more than five dollars or so at the most. He was with his father as well, and kept picking up the Pokemon video toys. Each time he picked one up and looked at his father, his father shook his head no.
The little girl had chosen her Barbie, a beautifully dressed glamorous doll that would have been the envy of every girl in the block when she had stopped and was watching the interchange between the little boy and his father. Rather dejectedly, the boy had given up on the video games and had chosen what looked like a book of stickers instead. He and his father then started walking through another aisle of the store. The little girl put her Barbie back on the shelf, and ran over to the Pokemon games. She excitedly picked up one and raced toward the check-out, after speaking with her father.
I got in line behind them. Much to the little girl’s obvious delight, the little boy and his father got in line behind me. After the toy was paid for and bagged, the little girl handed it back to the cashier, and whispered something in her ear. The cashier smiled and put the package under the counter. I was rearranging thing in my purse, when the little boy came up to the cashier who rang up his purchases and said, “Congratulations, you are my hundredth customer today, and win a prize”. With that, she handed the little boy the Pokemon game, and he could only stare in disbelief. It was, he said, exactly what he had wanted.
The little girl and her father had been standing at the doorway, and I saw the biggest, prettiest, toothless grin on that little girl that I have ever seen in my life. Then they walked out the door, and I followed, close behind them. As I walked back to my car, in amazement, I heard the father ask his daughter why she had done that. “Daddy, didn’t Nana and PawPaw want me to buy something that would make me happy”? He said “Of course they did,” and with that she giggled and started skipping toward their car.
She had decided she had the answer to her question “Do I have enough?”
