The Law of Attraction or The Law of Believing
Some Universal laws are immutable like gravity. In the last decade a new term popped up for something that has been around and has been taught for ages. But it seems that what comes around will come around again, only dressed in new clothes to fit the times.
Here's a true story that happened only this morning.
I was laying in bed deciding either to roll over or throw off the covers . After all, being a Sunday morning, it felt right to linger. While I was lingering I thought, "It sure would be nice to have some cantaloupe with my coffee."
I thought it and let it go.
I threw the covers off and went into the bathroom first and then to the front door, as my custom is want to do. I like to open the door and see the morning. To see the three huge trees out front. To smell the morning and feel it.
This morning when I opened the door, what do you think I saw on my doormat?
An elephant?
Flowers?
A squirrel?
No . . .
A ziplock bag full of nicely cut-up pieces of cantaloupe!!!
That's right, folks.
If you think it, it will come.
But it doesn't end there. I laughed, opened the door, bent down, picked up my cantaloupe, and thanked The Universe or God or whatever you would like to call All That Is, and I carried it into the kitchen and started my cup of coffee.
While my coffee was sputtering I went to the couch, sat down, plugged in my cell phone, and looked at the random and not so random emails that swooshed into it during the wee hours of the night.
Let me back up . . .
Yesterday afternoon I was texting to someone that I would love, or rather needed, a pool in my back yard. I texted it facetiously because it was soooo hot outside. So in texting it you may assume that one has the thought first in order to text. So the bottom line is . . . I thought it.
So what do you think one of the many emails was about that I got during my sleep?
Was it about a trampoline?
A go-cart?
An Arabian tent?
No . . .
"Best Time To Buy A Swimming Pool is Now!"
That's right, folks. It was about above-ground swimming pools. (Okay, so maybe the internet picked it up and put down an email and dropped it on my phone because we all think that we are being watched or listened to via our phones, even if they are off, or our Alexas on the counter.)
At any rate, I laughed again and looked up to the ceiling and said, "You rascal!'
If you think it, it will come.
I have been practicing it specifically for two years. But I added something to the LOA thinking. Do you want to hear it? If so, read on.
First of all, the Law of Attraction has been around for a long time. We all know that. In fact it only appears to be a new thing. But it is only an old thing wrapped up in new paper. Put into the Biblical times it was called The Law of Believing and it went like this to those people:
"Now unto him (God) that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." Ephesians 3:20
So, one year I thought I would really put it to the test, or rather my thoughts to the test. In doing so I thought of another verse that I matched with the one above and it goes like this:
" ... and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Malachi 3:10
Then another thought came to me and I added one more thing to the bowl of attraction soup:
"Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls." Luke 12:24
Putting all of the above together this is what I did. I had a conversation with God or The Universe, whatever you want to call her. And I said:
I am going to prove you now herewith and I am coming boldly before you (Oh yea, that's right, I added this too: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace ...", Hebrews 4:16) to say:
Feed me.
After all, you told me that I was more than the ravens and they are fed. In fact you also say that I am more than the lilies of the field and they are clothed. And you said that you are able to do exceeding, abundantly, above ALL that I can ask or THINK. So I am thinking and asking that you feed me. Show me your stuff! Prove it to me. Here's what I will do . . . I will eat one meal per day that you provide.
I proceeded to neither sow, reap nor toil. I did however keep my eyes open to seeing how God/the Universe would feed me and I was determined not to be surprised nor ungrateful about how it would happen. It became quite comical to me to see His/Her sense of humour for I did not interject any pride into it either. If a fish jumped into my lap from a tree then I would catch it and say thank you.
OK, don't fash Sassenach, that didn't happen but it would have been grand if it did. And a great, true story.
But I was fed.
I ate one meal a day, even if it was to half my lunch, and save the other half for dinner. It was still one meal that I stretched. I don't eat breakfast. It makes me slow.
As I began my "proving" I kept it to myself. Unbelievably I did not lose any weight. After a while I would find food left at my doorstep. And not just any food. I would think it and it would show up. People would insist on paying for my lunch. I gratefully accepted and said thank you. Sometimes those lunches were so big that I would be able to have the leftovers for dinner. One time I was in the ER with my father and I had been there since before lunch so I had not eaten anything. Soon they decided since Dad had not eaten for awhile that they would order a tray up for him. When it came he ate the fruit and told me to have the rest. I did!
And there are more stories but it would be great fun for you to start receiving your own true stories through your own thoughts.
If you think it, it will come.
(c)nancy 6.14.2015
