Abundance in a Change Purse

I have a change purse in which I keep quarters to use to buy a treat at the drug store or a book at Friends of the Library now and then. At first I was hording the coins, but recently I started to use it as an abundance practice.

Since the move last year, I’ve been feeling as though money is tight. That’s why I was collecting quarters. We used to collect them for laundry until we switched to a laundromat that uses machines that take a card. I continued to collect them in order to have some spending money. But I was reluctant to spend too much for fear of the change purse not filling up again. This awareness helped me zero in on how I was feeling about money.

The practice is to spend it not in fear but with the idea that it will always fill up again. And it does. Invariably. If I spend it, more shows up. The law of circulation played out via a change purse.

It’s the little things, the small steps; the glimpses of understanding that begin to open us up. Maybe I’ll start doing it with dollar bills in my wallet. I’ve always approached this abundance thing from a high vantage point. Beginning with let’s see if I can make $1000/month or even $4000 instead of starting closer to where I am. They say to dream big and have a higher vision, but something about that hasn’t worked for me. It has worked for some, but if it hasn’t worked for you, I invite you to give something else a try. Start small and build up.

Something in me still resists my highest good, especially in the form of financial abundance. Perhaps if I just do these simple exercises I can build my trust in the spiritual laws and principles of Life. Even though I know them and understand them at an intellectual level, I haven’t really lived them, at least not consistently. I’ve had enough experience of them to still be here willing to walk them into my life more fully.

Faith isn’t foolish. Faith is essential. It is the breath of life. We breathe knowing the next breath will come. We step out into the world knowing we’ll return to our sanctuary. And every time it does and we do. The day we don’t is the day we exchange air for love and our sanctuary will be the light.