By DR. PETRA WELDES
This article originally appeared in the March 2023 issue of Science of Mind magazine
Love is the self-givingness of Spirit into Its creation.
–ERNEST HOLMES
So often we are looking for love in all the wrong places - outside of ourselves in a partner, on the dance floor, at work with a promotion or a sense of being part of the group.
I spent years thinking love was something I wanted, so that meant I had to get it by someone giving it to me. And, oh, the ways we try to get love, right? By being perfect, pretty, sexy, powerful, even hard to get or too easy, codependent or a people pleaser. And it's never enough, is it? It is surprising how easily it goes.
Doesn't it also feel like we could say many of these same things about money? We try to get it in lots of places that aren't right for us – at jobs we hate or doing things that are boring and debilitating. Someone has to give it to me. I have to earn it. And I better do it right. I better be perfect and work all the time, doing whatever it takes to get the money I need.
And it's never enough, is it?
But according to Science of Mind, love is giving, not getting. What do you give yourself to? The things you love - your family, the garden, work you love, art and creativity? And when love is given in joy, not in martyrdom, then it's inexhaustible and fills us up in ways that go beyond anything we've had before. Doesn't it feel like we could say the same thing about money?
Let's pour our money into the things we love. Let's give from the passion of our hearts and watch our money - and our love - grow.
Give to those things you care about and watch them grow, too.
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