Where is Your Faith?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about big dreams and visions.  I have been exceptionally blessed this past year to have made friends with many of the planet’s leading-edge visionaries. 

I have marveled at their fearless intentions and wondered at just how they can hold visions with no idea about how they will come to fruition.  Not knowing “how” doesn’t stop them one bit!

One of the things that these amazing people have shown me is that there seems to be a very fine line between a dreamer and a visionary.  A dreamer sends forth an intention that is hopeful and even somewhat wistful (“wouldn’t it be nice...)

A visionary knows that their dream will come true.  There is no doubt.  Visionaries have faith.

The concept of faith has been an elusive one for me for a good bit of my life.  As a child I was raised Catholic and told to have faith in God.  I confess.  I didn’t really know what that meant. 

In some strange, nebulous way, I thought that faith meant believing in God, which I easily do but, God was something kind of big, reserved for saints and people in dire circumstances, and not very accessible to someone like me.  I suspected there was something more to this faith thing.

Later on in my life I figured that faith was about believing in something or someone.  My personal experience of faith was hopeful.  I had “faith” but I always had a back up plan, just in case the Universe had different ideas than me or things didn’t work out as planned.

My faith was limited and interestingly enough, for the last 42 years yielded some results but not always quite what I think I was hoping for. 

Today is my birthday.  I have journeyed 42 times around the sun. 

With my age comes the great gift of hindsight.  I have a nice perspective on my life from where I sit and can see how I have received all of the things that I have had faith in, albeit, not always in the way I imagined.

In the beginning of my conscious spiritual journey, which started before the conception of my third child, I had faith in little, specific, concrete things that were limited and tangible and involved a lot of my own human will to make happen.

For example, one of the first things I tried to manifest using the Law of Attraction was the sale of my house in Texas prior to my move to Arizona. 

I visualized how much money I wanted to make from the sale.  I could feel it in my bones that everything would work out exactly the way I wanted.  I got all kinds of signs and confirmations from the Universe.

When I sold the house, I was $452.00 short on the profit I had visualized.  When I checked the mail for the last time at the house, there was an unexpected check from the IRS for $452.00 exactly!

But, I was in an innocent phase of my faith.  Pretty soon my head got involved in my faith and my sense of “responsibility” took over.

In my personal life, I got divorced and found myself parenting full time and being financially responsible for my children all on my own.

Responsibility took the place of faith.  I felt like taking care of my family was all up to me alone and I couldn’t “afford” to be filled with delusions and fancy day dreams.  I had to be “realistic” about my life and my finances.

Being realistic meant that I only allowed myself to create things that I KNEW how to create and was certain that I could accomplish with my own sheer will.  (Luckily, I was  raised by my German mother and I knew the value of hard labor and sheer will power.)

But will power only gets you so far. 

My life was exhausting.  I was working all the time and bored with what I was creating.  It wasn’t big enough.  It didn’t grow fast enough and I couldn’t see how to change things.

There was a finite limit to what I could create on my own without faith.  And I was tired from trying to figure it all out for myself.

I had, at that point, experienced so many disappointments and failures…things I thought would work out a certain way but didn’t.  I was afraid to hope or dream and all my creativity shut down and stopped dead in its tracks by my logic.

In the midst of feeling very stuck, I was graced by a great blessing.  Earlier this year I was moving and packing up books when I came across some old journals filled with all my hopes and dreams during my “innocent” faith-filled phase. 

I was fascinated to find, after flipping through the pages, that almost every dream and desire that I had written down during that time had come into form into my life. 

I didn’t consciously focus on my dreams.  I didn’t even affirm them. 

But, just the simple act of writing them down, gave birth to the eventual fruition of my visions in my real life. 

When I reverse engineered so many of my successes, even the ones I had really willed into form, I began to see that all my current life experiences were rooted in dreams put into words so long ago…an act of faith from the distant past…

And, most importantly, what I noticed was that the desires I had set forth, came true, but rarely in the logical, linear way my human mind struggled to conceive of. 

What I saw was that seemingly disappointing events and heartaches were in fact, often blessings in disguise, cleverly moving me into position to receive serendipitous gifts that did truly bring me what I wanted.

My life review showed me that I was always being provided for.  My heavenly requests were always being heard and delivered, to the degree to which I believed I could receive.

And, truth be told, sometimes they were delivered even if I didn’t have a whole lot of faith that I could receive them.

What I have learned is that Faith is like a muscle. 

You would never go into the gym and just pick up a heavy weight and start lifting.  You start with a light weight and gradually, with practice and repetition, work your way up to heavier and bigger weights.

And just like you need repetition and smaller weights to build your muscles, you need repetition and small successes to grow your faith.

Before Moses could experience the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea, he had to first build his faith muscles.  Moses was, at best, a reluctant leader.  He was called out into experiences, such as his surviving the 10 Plagues, that allowed him to grow his faith until it was strong enough for him to lead his people out of slavery and into the desert, where there was no food or water.

And ultimately survive and thrive….

Yes, his followers often thought he was nuts.  But each time he let go and lived his faith, Moses and his people were provided for perfectly.  And as his faith grew, so did his ability to create greater and bigger things.

So, as I stand facing my 43rd journey around the sun, I am asking myself what do I have faith in?  Do I have the faith to take great leaps and not have a frickin’ clue how my dreams and my visions are going to come true?

I do.

In fact, as I am realizing how big my faith muscle is growing, I am excited to take greater risks and live a little larger. 

This year I would like to invite you to share my vision with me.  I have a vision to eradicate poverty off the face of the planet within the next 10 years. 

I have an intention to do this in two ways:

1. Educate 500,000 people around the world about how to open themselves up to unlimited Abundance and Prosperity Consciousness.
2. Create Planetary Economic Teams (P.E.T.) who will take Prosperity teachings and marry them with real-life economic opportunities to economically challenged areas around the world.  This will be a non-profit endeavor and can start as early as this year!!!!

These are the only two things that my brain knows to do to reach my goal.  But I have faith that all the right answers and opportunities will show up as needed. 

Imagine a world where no parent ever has to worry about how to feed their children.  Imagine a world where all children can thrive and grow in safety.  Imagine corporations and governments creating with a prosperous mindset and the predominant belief is one of MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE! 

I am so thankful and grateful for all of you, my students and clients who have shared so much of your lives and inspirations with me.  I am so blessed to be called to do this work. 

I honor all of you for being on your own glorious journeys!!!

Woooo Hoooo!!!

Love,
Karen