I was thinking about my little lemon tree today, and a mind-blowing revelation came to my mind that I wanted to share.
Right now, in a little plant pot, in the front yard of a suburban home in Riverside California, a little lemon tree is growing. A lemon tree that one day will grow and produce 150-300 lemons a season for the rest of eternity if nothing stands in its way. Each lemon will contain up to 10 seeds...each with the potential to create a tree that will create 150-300 lemons a season for eternity, if nothing stands in their way. This little lemon tree has the potential to contribute to the infinite abundance of not just the ecosystem of my back yard but the Universe as a whole. In the grand scheme of things, each little lemon tree has the potential to feed and provide a home for an infinite number of birds, insects and animals. When you really think about it, the abundance created by ONE tiny little seed boggles the mind!
Now...contemplate this. It get's better!
Look at that little lemon tree sitting in that pot, from a seed I planted nearly 3 months ago.
Do you know the odds of it even existing right now?
Firstly, lemons have been growing in this garden for about 30 years, and as far as I know, this is the ONLY seed that has been removed from a lemon and planted. What are the odds of that alone? 300 lemons a year x 10 seeds x 30 years...(am I doing the maths right? That's a heck of a lot of seeds that have NOT been planted. But out of all those seeds, I decided to choose one and plant it!
Now, what are the odds of that even occuring! Close to ZERO!
I'm from England, and had to live 50 years of life before I even got here....to this country, this state, this city, this neighborhood, and this house with this garden and these lemon trees. You see what I mean?? And during that 50 year period, at a point a long the way, I just so happened to read a book (The Ringing Cedars Of Russia) that would transform my life and place a desire in my heart to ONE DAY plant a seed and begin the process of cultivating my own produce.
As it turned out, about 12 years after that seed was planted in me (excuse the pun!) I just so happened to find myself living in this house, 6000 miles from where I was born, and have a spark of inspiration to grab a lemon off the tree, take out a seed and plant it in that little plant pot! And now we have a little lemon tree sprout, with the potential to provide an infinite number of lemons for the rest of it's time on Earth!!! WOW!! WOW!! WOW!!!
If you were to work it out, what are the odds of that little lemon tree even being alive today, packed with all that potential! But it does, and a whole bunch of orchestration had to take place for it to be here. Right now it's just a green shoot, but one day it will be dripping with golden juicy fruit and the center of my garden for my family to admire and enjoy for perpetuity!
Think about it...that seed didn't ask to be planted....it didn't know that the highly improbably event of me ever planting it, would ever occur.....it didn't know whether it would end up in the belly of a bird or scattered on the asphalt....it certainly didn't know that one day, it would one produce a tree full of lemons and therefore begin a potentially ETERNAL supply of fruit....it had NO IDEA of the ABUNDANCE it would one day be providing!
I don't know if any of that made sense, resonated, or if anyone even cares, but to me that is FREAKING MIND BLOWING!
As much as that little seed did not know when, how when, or even where it would reach its potential....neither do we!
So, I guess what I'm saying is, there's no way in God's green Earth that when we contemplate that, we can ever feel any lack of abundance at all! Creation, which we are a part of, is beyond abundant! We are surrounded by abundance, drowning in abundance!!
WE ARE ALREADY ABUNDANT!!
Just stop and think about that for a moment and let the gratitude from its contemplation just fill you....and any time you have a thought that, maybe your life is limited, or that something is impossible ....you know what to do...
Just think of my little lemon tree