Peace and Plenty by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446574860
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

In God We Trust

God does do finances. In fact, turning our finances over to God’s care has often been a route not to poverty but to prosperity. God is an expert at husbanding resources. God is an expert at increasing the worth of what we hold. To involve God with our finances is to ask that source of all abundance to have a hand in our affairs.

—Julia Cameron

You’re a little past the panic state. You’ve grieved, you’ve surely railed, and maybe some things have become a little clearer as your anger’s settled and the fog of denial has lifted.

However, you’re a long way from having a real plan or having the peace of mind that a realistic plan, based on the life you really want, can provide.

So what do you do now?

Well, this is where “Good Orderly Direction”—or God—comes in, as the brilliant, compassionate writer Julia Cameron has shared in her groundbreaking work on creativity as a spiritual path. If you’re uncomfortable asking a Higher Power to help you with your finances, the idea of Spirit as good, orderly direction is very reassuring. “It is during hard times that we come to rely on God and that is a reliance that we can encourage in ourselves at all times. We do not need to be broke to ask God to help us with our money,” she writes in Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives. “We can ask God to make us attuned to our financial seasons, to cue us when we are free to spend and when we should curtail our spending. We can ask God to take away our fear of financial insecurity and to direct us as to where, from what corner, our prosperity might come from.”

Many women acknowledge that their spirituality is a great part of their life and yet, when being frank, will admit they don’t feel comfortable mixing money management with God. It just feels unseemly. Cameron admits, “This is an area where I do not want to let God run my life for me. I am afraid lest his will for me be less abundant. And so I say, ‘Sure, God, you can run the seasons and the planets and this green earth, but you cannot run my financial affairs.’ You see where my faith has holes in it.” However, what is faith without gaping holes? Perhaps I chafe at increasing the flow of money in my life—instead of asking to learn how to successfully manage the money I have and increase it with loving diligence. For that I need more wisdom. And to achieve more wisdom, I need to ask for it, to pray affirmatively that good, orderly direction is my daily bread, and then to give thanks.

It doesn’t seem to make sense that sitting down and figuring out exactly how much money you have—and how much money you need—is the way to feel more peaceful, even prosperous, but ironically, that’s just how it works. Somehow until we know,

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