Redefine God’s Will

Today, let's explore the ways our limited beliefs about God/source/Creator limits our financial abundance.

THE GREAT CREATOR

“I’m a believer,” Nancy declares. “I just don’t believe God gets involved with money.” Although she doesn’t recognize it, Nancy carries two self-sabotaging beliefs. She believes not only that God is good—too good to do money—but also that money is bad. Nancy, like many of us, needs to overhaul her God concept in order to fully recover her creativity.

For many of us, raised to believe that money is the real source of security, a dependence on God feels foolhardy, suicidal, even laughable. When we consider the lilies of the fields, we think they are quaint, too out of it for the modern world. We’re the ones who keep clothes on our backs. We’re the ones who buy the groceries. And we will pursue our art, we tell ourselves, when we have enough money to do it easily.

And when will that be?

We want a God that feels like a fat paycheck and a license to spend as we please. Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, “You’re enough.”

We cling to our financial concerns as a way to avoid not only our art but also our spiritual growth.

Most of us harbor a secret belief that work has to be work and not play, and that anything we really want to do—like write, act, dance—must be considered frivolous and be placed a distant second. This is not true.

We are operating out of the toxic old idea that God’s will for us and our will for us are at opposite ends of the table. “I want to be an actress, but God wants me to wait tables in hash joints,” the scenario goes. “So if I try to be an actress, I will end up slinging hash.”

Thinking like this is grounded in the idea that God is a stern parent with very rigid ideas about what’s appropriate for us. And you’d better believe we won’t like them. This stunted god concept needs alteration.

(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 105 – 106)

I am enough just as I am, as is God.

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MONEY MADNESS

Complete the following phrases:

1. People with money are ________________________

2. Money makes people _________________________

3. I’d have more money if ________________________

4. My dad thought money was ____________________

5. My mom always thought money would __________

6. In my family, money caused ____________________

7. Money equals ________________________________

8. If I had money, I’d _____________________________

9. If I could afford it, I’d __________________________

10. If I had some money, I’d . ______________________

11. I’m afraid that if I had money I would ____________

12. Money is ____________________________________

13. Money causes _______________________________

14. Having money is not __________________________

15. In order to have more money, I’d need to ________

16. When I have money, I usually ___________________

17. I think money ________________________________

18. If I weren’t so cheap I’d ________________________

19. People think money ___________________________

20. Being broke tells me ___________________________

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“The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have.”

– Shakti Gawain