ABUNDANCE

I joined the 21-day online meditation program with Oprah and Deepak Chopra which started this week. I'm not sure what to expect, but with these two heavy hitters, anything could happen. Right?

Every day in my email, I get a centering thought for the day. Not to be confused with word of the day where you need to use it in a sentence. Still, I found myself repeating the thought on various times throughout the day.

"Abundance surrounds me" was one of the centering thoughts this week.  I used it frequently and got excited when I came home to find a letter from the Barrow Neurological Foundation. This was it! This was my abundance!  Not only was I going to be surrounded by it, I was going to get a million dollars worth of it.

You see, each year Barrow holds a Health and Wellness Raffle with some pretty sweet prizes, with the grand prize of  one million dollars.  You can win luxury cars, vacations, motorcycles, jewelry and other swag. This year you could even win the opportunity to view  brain surgery  performed by a world renowned surgeon or meet Brett Michaels, hunky lead singer of Poison, an 80's hair band, for those who remember that far back.

I wasn't interested in the surgery observation nor the chance to meet Brett Michaels. All I wanted was the cold hard cash. My hands were shaking when I ripped open the letter. Two tickets to a Phoenix Suns game fell to the kitchen counter top. Was that it?

I know it was better than a jab with a sharp stick, as my mother used to day. But, I'm not quite sure that's what Oprah or Deepak had in mind for abundance.  Me either.