Money Does Grow On Trees

Under The Sun

Money Does Grow On Trees

By Quandi Jackson

Disclaimer: I do not write these passages to make you think the way I think or know in my truth. I write to encourage you to think and to help you develop a truth that influences you to live your best life.

When you saw the title of this passage, what story did you begin to develop in your thinking? Was it: Quandi must be rich, if she’s ranting that, “Money grows on trees,” or maybe you’re thinking: That’s not true, because if it were, I’d be rich now?

The cliché goes: Money doesn’t grow on trees, which insinuates that money does not come easily or frequently. Nobody, however, asks the question: From which trees does the money not grow? Being as though every event that happens in our lives is a past event and really has no value except for the value we give to it, we can decide to perceive information from our experiences in a different way and from a place of self-empowerment. Say that, in our imagination, we paint pictures of trees, which have an abundance of money dangling as leaves. There’s such an overflow that there are piles of money surrounding the tree. As we think of this picture in our imagination, we begin to feel good and get excited. Paint additional scenery. The tree with money is the same tree in the backyard of our home. Whenever there’s a need for money, all you’d need to do is fold your shirt outward, like a bowl, and stuff it with the money you collect from the ground or the leaves. Wouldn’t  imagining a story like this feel better than you telling yourself that money doesn’t grow on trees; that you are always broke; that money is hard to come by and is definitely the root of all evil?

See, the pictures we paint in our imagination could be one that influences us to attract lack or abundance. We have total control over the paintbrush – over our perceptions and the belief over the stories we instill in ourselves. Money growing on trees, in my mind for instance, could mean that the tree limbs in which money grows are the limbs of God (Source, The Universe, Divinity, The Creator), and this Source is bountiful and supplies all of my needs and wants. This Source is the Tree of Life, always giving and receiving, always nurturing and soothing, always – always – always working and bringing people and situations together in benefit of me!

Every story is a perception, but if you have the will to tell the story from a place that will enable you to live your best life – to in-joy abundance, peace, joy, and love, then why stay stuck on telling a story that inhibits you from being that vessel of opportunity? It is your perception that got you to where you are and it is your perception that can get you from where you are. In this case and as always forever more, you are the creator of the experience you want to live; you are the author of your story. This means that at any time you can deliberately scratch out that which does not serve you and write a new story.

Don’t allow your physical trash to interfere with your inner instructions. You’ve been under the sun with Quandi.  Balance in the celestial realm!