The Grocery Store Of Life
Is always open and fully stocked.
Standing in the grocery store aisle, staring at the shelf, I couldn't find what I wanted. I tried another aisle, then another, but still nothing.
Finally, I did what I should have done in the first place. I shifted my point of view.
It was easy. I said to myself, "What I am looking for is here."
On that particular day, I was looking for a few unusual ingredients because I was preparing to try out some new Indian recipes that included things I had never heard of, let alone found in our grocery store.
As I said that—and believed it—I immediately saw one of the things I was looking for in a different package than I thought it would be in.
Then, I had the idea to go down another aisle and look in a different place for the next thing on my list, and there it was.
For the next item, I asked a clerk, and she found it for me. And that one item I didn’t find in the store, I found on Amazon when I returned home.
What's true about how all the items showed up is that I knew they had been provided for me, and I knew I would find them.
However, none of them were in the package or place my preconceived idea thought they would be.
This works the same way in the Grocery Store of Life.
We have set ideas about how what we need and want is packaged and where we will find it.
Let's take the idea of "income," for example.
We believe that income comes to us in packages called jobs, work, gigs, inheritance, lotteries, trust funds, and investments.
We divide these packages even further into what kind of job, work, gig, inheritance, etc., it will be, and that is how we expect income to arrive.
We think income is gone if any of these familiar packages are changed or removed from our personal grocery store.
The good news is that we are wrong.
But revealing this to ourselves means breaking a habit of thinking and shifting our point of view.
We must stop demanding and visualizing how things look, including income, and instead step into the Grocery Store of Life and expect what we need has already been provided.
However, probably not in the way we expect or want it to be.
Instead, if we have let go of our ego about how we want it to be, it will always be better than we could ever plan for or visualize.
Of course, the Grocery Store of Life is Life Itself.
It includes all ideas stocked by the infinite intelligence of the One Mind and the Principle of Love.
However, we often forget this fact, and instead of shopping there, we shop in little rooms closed off from this abundance.
Income is an essence of Life.
We, as the compound idea of Life, include all right ideas, including income. How we experience this in our lives is not ours to say.
The minute we do, we exile ourselves to the tiny store that only stocks a few items.
To get back takes a shift of perception.
In the Grocery Store of Life, everything is found. Nothing has been removed. Everything is present.
Only the illusion vanishes.
This means that anything we believe we have lost is not, whether it is a person, place, or thing, because they are ideas held within the compound idea of Life too.
This is not magical thinking or mind over matter. It is a statement of the Principle of Life.
It includes all the right ideas, is ever-present, and has provided for itself before the need appears to have arisen.
The symbols of this are seen everywhere in our everyday life.
For example, even before I desired to learn more about Indian cooking, what I needed was already provided.
My only responsibility was to align myself with that thought, get my limited perception out of the way so that I could perceive what was already present, and follow divine direction.
As we readjust our perception and continue to practice this shift—not once a day, once a week, or just when we need it—but habitually every moment, what was not visible to us before will come into view.
As in my local grocery store, I took action; there will be action to take.
However, this action will not stem from trying to divert a disaster, make something happen, or make something appear, but will come from the guidance of the still small voice within.
Expanding our thoughts beyond what the package looks like, we will begin to experience in our lives that income, as in all ideas, is a constant provision, coming to us in a multitude of ways, never stopping, never less than before, and never part of the worldview idea of economic times.
We live in that Grocery Store of Life.
Let's choose this spiritual perception and not let anyone or anything persuade or trick us into material perception blindness.
Lead the way—others will follow.
Spiritual perception acknowledges that what we think is reality is an illusion, and Reality is the Principle of Love in action.
"What I am looking for is here! " So good.