{"id":4132,"date":"2012-11-04T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2012-11-04T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:09:39","slug":"fortune-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/11\/fortune-cookie.html","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whenever I wanted to experience the reflection of abundance from the Universe, I would have lunch at a Chinese restaurant around the corner from where I worked in Ambler, PA. It\u2019s called Golden Great Wall and it differs not a bit from most suburban places and the menu in and of itself isn\u2019t unusual .\u00a0 What makes it special is the owner, aptly named Grace who always greets me at the door with her bright smile and the same words \u201cLong time, no see. You work hard?\u201d\u00a0 She then ushers me to a table and pours water and tea and then recites the order that I generally place that shows me I am a regular.\u00a0 \u201cEgg drop soup, no scallions, brown rice, chopsticks.\u201d\u00a0 And then whatever the entr\u00e9e is, which varies from time to time between two or three. By the time the soup is halfway gone, she has come out with the main course. Before I have taken a few bites, she asks:\u00a0 \u201cYou like?\u201d\u00a0 A few more minutes pass and she has already refilled my water glass, topping it off a couple of times.\u00a0One time when I was there, \u00a0it occurred to me that this was definitely symbolic of the way I had been perceiving my life. At that restaurant, my glass is never half empty or half full, it is always full, almost to overflowing.<\/p>\n

A short while later, I knocked over the glass and actually \u2018saw\u2019 myself doing it in advance, (kind of like when you lock your keys in the car) but couldn\u2019t catch it before it splattered water and ice cubes on the table and floor. I got up to get a towel to clean it up and then carried the rapidly melting cubes to the bathroom sink. On the way, I passed a table on which there were plates of freshly made veggie sushi. I commented on them and asked Grace if they were going to be new menu items. She shook her head and then said, \u201cYou have some.\u201d\u00a0 I thanked her and asked for one. She wasn\u2019t about to just give me one. \u201cNo, you take more.\u201d, as she put two on a plate. A moment later, she came bearing a third. Clearly there was a message I wasn\u2019t getting. I willing accepted her generosity.<\/p>\n

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When it came time for the fortune cookie, I opened it with eager anticipation, since this was a restaurant at which (a year or so apart) I twice received the same fortune that reads:\u00a0 \u201cGod will give you everything you want.\u201d I keep it in my wallet as reminder of how openhanded Spirit is.\u00a0 Today\u2019s was just as powerful, but not particularly unique:\u00a0 \u201cYour happiness is wrapped up in your view of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

I haven’t worked at the hospital since June and haven’t visited with Grace since then, so I guess it’s time to stop by. Even so, I know I am fortunate, regardless of whether a slip of paper tucked into a sweet treat tells me that I am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So often, I (and probably many of you), am reluctant to accept what is offered to me by a beneficent Cosmos; because of feelings of unworthiness or the perception of being greedy if I have more than what I believe I should have. What I am learning many times over, is that if I welcome the profusion of gifts, I have more to offer back to those whom I encounter. A spiritual truth is that we can\u2019t give what we \u2018ain\u2019t got and that we can\u2019t fill someone else\u2019s cup if ours is empty. So, I thank Grace for standing in for the Divine giving force and keeping my cup full. May yours always be full as well.\u00a0 Drink deep.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/5IvlMHAbZfc<\/a>\u00a0Money Comes To Me \u00a0Cassendre Xavier a.k.a. Amethyste Rah.<\/p>\n

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