Good Looking, Rich Looking

I recently saw an old friend whom I had not seen in a while. He gave me a broad grin, (no hug) and exclaimed, “My, don’t you look rich!”

I laughed and responded, “What you are seeing is not the result of having more money…”

He cut me off with a nod of the head and knowing wink, “Ooooh, I get you, something else is making you look the way you do, it’s not money, its….”

I just walked off, I knew what he was going to say and I also knew he would not have believed anything I explained.

But I admit it. I do feel rich. I feel wealthy and abundant, blessed, and bountiful and it has nothing to do with men or money.

How do you explain to your friends when they give you the my-don’t-you-look-rich stare that it is not what they are thinking? Are you going to tell them that you made a connection on a deeply spiritual level that lit the divine spark in you?

How are you going to tell then that you meditate every day?

That you have shifted your self-defeating beliefs to a strong faith in the power of Universal Energy?

That it had nothing to do with finding Jesus, (he was not lost) or a new partner or a new anything, except that you found a new attitude?

How do you explain that people, places, and things, no longer serving your higher good were left at the wayside?

How do you explain that you went deep, did the work, found your purpose, and are on your path?

I urge you, don’t waste your time, save your breath for your yoga session. They will not understand until there is a willingness to acknowledge the stirring of that questioning feeling within them, calling them to seek answers that explain their existence and what they came here to experience.

As long there is a positive response to this self-examination, and they do to work and stay the course, you will be the one looking at them, winking, and saying, “My, don’t you look rich!”