Hey there !
I had the first such phone conversation last Saturday with a dear friend who had a client cancel the work he was doing with her. Why? Because one of HIS clients stopped working with him because their business revenues have plummeted because they cannot get supplies from China.
This is one example of the ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic. Not surprisingly, my friend was feeling more than a little anxious – wondering how she would survive if there is another recession.
She’s not alone. I’ve had multiple conversations this past week with clients and friends expressing their fear that they won’t have enough money to pay their bills and/or keep their businesses afloat. While COVID-19 is threatening the PHYSICAL survival of some people around the world, it is threatening the FINANCIAL survival of many more – especially those who were
already “on the edge”.
Imagine, if you will, the impact on local Chicago businesses now that the St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been cancelled. Or on the local businesses in cities where March Madness basketball games will be played – in EMPTY stadiums. All of which ripples down to the individual owners and employees of those businesses ¬– and beyond. Perhaps you’ve already been
affected. (I pray not.)
All this because a virus known as COVID-19 was allowed to spread – first throughout provinces of China and now throughout the world. And with it, FEAR.
Which is why I’m writing this now. Because there is another, even more potent “virus” that could easily grow to pandemic proportions as well.
It’s the virus of SCARCITY – the fear of and belief in lack, limitation, and “not enough.”
I call it a virus because what I know is that when we are in scarcity and fear, we make choices that create even more scarcity and fear – for ourselves and others.
Scarcity can go viral just as fast (if not faster) than COVID-19 unless we do something to stop it. (If you've tried, unsuccessfully, to buy toilet paper this week - you know what I'm talking
about.)
It’s not that there are not and will not be financial repercussions for us all. To pretend otherwise is delusional. This is not a time to stick your head in the sand any more than it is a time to watch the news 24/7 and panic.
But with the coronavirus comes an OPPORTUNITY – the opportunity for us, both individually and collectively, to anchor ourselves in the TRUTH of Abundance.
By “abundance”, I do not mean the common understanding of abundance that is being threatened as I type. THAT definition of abundance is about having enough, plenty or even a lot of money (OR toilet paper!).
THAT understanding of abundance is based on EXTERNAL, objective results and has MONEY be the source of our security – which is why it’s creating so much fear.
Rather, the understanding of abundance that I invite you to ANCHOR yourself in as you navigate through this present-day storm is the one I was given in a divine download about a year ago.
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Abundance is KNOWING that you are part of something bigger than us – something more loving, powerful, creative, resourceful, generous, intelligent and eternal than you – AND you have access to all that you need in any given moment.
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This understanding of abundance is not measured by external, objective results but by something more empowering, infinite and eternal. Here, your security, freedom and power comes from within – within yourself and within this “something bigger” that you may call God, Spirit, Universe, the Divine or some other name.
This is not simply an “intellectual” knowing, my friend. Rather, this “knowing” is an internal, subjective, EMBODIED knowing. It’s knowing it "in our bones".
Many years ago a client told me, “it’s so easy to think and feel abundant when things are going well. But when the shit hits the fan? Then it’s really hard.”
It's SO true!
Which is EXACTLY why – in the midst of what is happening in our world right now - we need to PRACTICE it consciously, actively and collectively.
In the midst of the storm, we need to regularly REMEMBER and CONNECT with the Truth of Abundance. We need to be supported and empowered to claim our fears without giving our power to them. And then, to make choices rooted, not in scarcity and fear, but anchored in FAITH and ABUNDANCE – of faith IN Abundance.
This is MY practice these days and I invite it to be yours.
And it's something I'd love to support you with.
While “social distancing” and quarantines are helpful in stopping the spread of COVID-19, they have the exact OPPOSITE effect on fear and scarcity.
Which is why I’m inviting you to join me, beginning Monday (the 16th) for “Anchored in Abundance” – a daily Facebook-LIVE series that will support you to connect with and live from a place of abundance – a place of faith IN Abundance – as, together, we navigate this pandemic and its economic ripple effect.
Part prayer, part meditation, part channeling, part teaching – through these 15-20 minute videos I will share whatever message I am guided to share that will support you to remember and experience the True Source of your security, power and freedom.
To begin, I will be offering this ministry every day at 10:00 a.m. CST, Monday through Saturday, for the next two weeks – at which point I will reassess. If they are serving you and others in the way I intend, I will be happy to continue to offer them.
I'd LOVE to have you join me at www.facebook.com/AccessAbundance.
And if you can't, my current plan is to email you a link to the recording each day so you can listen then.
Together, let us commit now to remaining ANCHORED IN ABUNDANCE in the rapidly changing world we are living in.
Are you with me, ?
I hope to see you Monday - either LIVE or via recording!
Until then, know that I send you my love and prayers…
Be well!
xoxo
T.