What Squirrels And Trees Know About Supply

And we keep forgetting.

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We watched a squirrel run by our door. He was intent on burying the nut that he had just found. We knew winter was coming because instead of just using the “squirrel highway” in the trees, the squirrels were on the ground looking for and burying nuts.

The squirrels were doing what they always do—gathering and planting.

Someone must have forgotten to tell them about the ongoing financial crisis.

What if no one told us about it?

What if we never heard the scary projections of those whose fear turned into greed, breeding the results of market ups and downs?

Writer H.L. Mencken said at least half a century ago, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

That was then, and this is now, and their intention hasn’t changed.

If we agree with these imaginary hobgoblins, it’s because we have forgotten that illusion begins within. When we accept illusion as reality, it becomes our perceived reality.

We all know that perception is reality.

Because we know this, it is up to us to decide if we want to live in Truth, known as big r Reality, or with what is being sold to us as an alarming perception—an illusion.

Isn’t starting internally with a perception shift the same thing as what Mark Twain meant when he said, "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

If we are to dissolve any effect produced by fear in our lives, our imagination needs to focus on what is true, not the illusion.

Fear is often imposed and projected on purpose by others who want to be able to continue with their lies and deception. When we are afraid, we don’t think clearly.

We must be determined to practice shifting our perceptions to the graceful cycle of abundance of Reality.

This shift in perception will free us.

It could even free those who appear to be intentionally doing wrong within the illusion of a dualist worldview.

Observe the squirrels.

They continue as they always have, finding and burying supplies, playing with each other, and protecting the inhabitants of their neighborhood with their alerts.

We might think of squirrels as savers and hoarders, but they are neither.

Although they prepare what they might need by gathering and saving for the winter, they leave what they gathered in the past once new food arrives in the spring.

This means that the seeds and nuts that they have hidden can sprout and produce more of what they will need to gather in the future while providing for the neighborhood of animals, insects, plants, and people in the meantime.

It’s a glorious, graceful cycle of abundance.

In fact, the whole of nature continues along as always in that cycle of abundance. It does not react to false and imposed imaginations.

Feel this truth for yourself. Sit awhile and listen to the birds, feel the wind, smell a leaf, and let the grace it represents seep into your being.

Imagine the cooperation, support, connection, love, and respect within the many functions of what appears as a body, and see how it becomes a fuller sense of body.

Your awareness of your body expands to include your home, neighborhood, and community.

Continue to imagine the grace that gently and intelligently guides each thought and action of what appears to be an individual but instead is a thread in the fabric of the intelligent representation of Life.

The wood in our fireplace gives off heat because that is what it does. It does not judge who is in the room or whether we deserve it or not. It radiates.

The fire is the continuation of the tree that also brought shade, food, and shelter.

A tree that breathed in and out to provide clean air for us. A tree that drew nourishment from the ground and then returned its leaves to the ground to nurture it.

As it burns in our fireplace, it releases the sunshine stored within to make food for itself—a perfect cycle of graceful, continuing abundance.

At no time did it judge who sat under it or worry if it was noticed or appreciated. As a tree, it continues to demonstrate grace, no matter its outward appearance.

Let’s imagine that grace and live it ourselves. Let’s make it our perception because we know it to be true. We understand that all that is present is God, the Infinite Good.

So, if we ruminate on and accept a financial crisis, where is God?

See beyond the appearance, the lie, and the illusion and feel only the power of grace because this will free us all from the tyranny of fear, which lives as greed.

Let’s perceive as Divine Intelligent Love perceives.

Let’s know, live, and respond only to the continuous cycle of abundant grace. All will be well if we follow the wisdom and guidance of the squirrels and trees.

When fear comes calling, sit with a tree and let it remind you what is actually going on—a cycle of infinite graceful abundance.

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