Stop Playing The Lack Game

What if .... leaves were currency?

I stepped into the lovely fall day and was surrounded by leaves. Leaves on trees, leaves falling like rain, leaves covering every surface on the ground. It was a stunningly beautiful sight!

For the next few hours, I blew leaves into piles, raked leaves into more piles, and carted leaves to the edge of our lawn to add to the millions of leaves already blanketing the “forest” part of our property.

As I moved hundreds of leaves to their resting place and marveled at their abundance, a “what if” question formed in my mind.

What if we believed that leaves were currency?

What if we traded leaves for our food and leaves paid our rent and our mortgages?

On that same day, I had another task to accomplish. It was the day to pay bills and balance checkbooks, and it struck me how differently those two tasks felt.

Although many days of taking care of leaves, hours and hours of moving them as more fell every day, and sometimes feeling as if it would never end, there was a glorious awareness of the beauty and intelligence of the divine in action.

Paying bills can feel exactly the opposite because, for every bill paid, the pile of money often diminishes rather than growing without effort, like leaves falling to the ground.

What if we felt the same about money as we did about leaves?

On a spring day many years ago, I felt paralyzed by fear that I didn’t have enough money to care for our family’s current needs. Looking at the human picture, that lack appeared to be true.

Seeking solace and an answer to my perceived problem, I walked outside and stood in a friend’s backyard. It had a ring of trees around it. I glanced up at them and admired their beauty and the contentment they stood within.

As I did so, I noticed the abundance of leaves they were wearing.

“This is what is True,” I heard within.

“This abundance, the display of so many leaves that they cannot be counted. Look around at the overflowing variety of abundance and know that this is a symbol of the overflowing abundance that is divine Love, always giving to everyone, including you.”

I returned to the day with that message ringing within me.

I don’t remember what happened after that because it was a non-event.

Our needs were met that day and the next because of that simple momentary awareness that abundance is the law, which meant that the appearance of lack was a lie.

Once walking along a familiar route, I saw a blue house I hadn’t seen before. It took a few minutes before I realized I had taken a different turn and was walking in the opposite direction from my usual walk.

The house was always there, but I didn’t see it going in the direction I had walked before. When I went in the opposite direction, it was clearly visible.

This exemplifies how shifting—repenting—and adopting an opposite or different perception often reveals what has always been present.

I was reminded of this law of abundance on that beautiful fall day.

So what if we declared leaves as currency?

It’s not as farfetched as it may sound. Tulip bulbs, salt, and tobacco are just a few items traded as money at one time or another.

What made them currency was the lack of them.

As soon as they became abundant, we no longer saw them as valuable.

In the human condition and the worldview, lack is the game we play.

Let’s not play the lack game anymore.

Let’s live in the Truth of abundance and stop agreeing with those who continue to produce fear through ignorance or intention.

Let’s see money in this new light.

Let’s take a different approach to viewing what we call supply.

Step outside and see for yourself. Abundance is the law.

All that is required of us is the awareness and discipline to stop believing in and promoting the lie of lack.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. —Rev 22:2