Knocked up Way too Young

Knocked Up Way too Young

For Thanksgiving, I went to a small town in Kentucky and discovered a community that had taken a large farmland and covered it with white trailers that looked almost exactly alike, except for the different plastic flowers on each front stoop. In each of these trailers was a different version of stuck-at-the-bottom-of-American-economy family—much like me when I grew up. But in this neighborhood, I noticed that mostly it was because that a great portion of the children began having their own families at a very young age and never took time to go to college, study, or go much farther than their own front yards.

The people were genuine and nice. They cooked a mean deep-fried turkey. But one thing I noticed immediately is that they had not much worldly influence. Their religious influence was usually small-town preacher’s hell and damnation. Their financial skills ranged from small-time business owners to manual labor to living off of the government from disability to welfare.

In my teens, after my mother left my father, I grew up living in an apartment complex much like where I visited in Kentucky. My family was one of maybe ten white families. The rest were African American and the others of many different cultures, mostly immigrants with little money and equally small education on everything from English to cleanliness. We lived on 20-30 dollars every two weeks for groceries.

Interestingly, I never really felt threatened by the housing project. If you lived there, you were kind of protected because you were a part of the challenged ones. We all had our plastic lounge chairs in the backyard, sun bathing in the summers. We all gathered around when a shooting would happen at an apartment, or a robbery occurred. It was part of the culture. You struggled from paycheck to paycheck, and you helped each other, even if it was by cradling two children while you smoked your last cigarette.

So, when I moved to the rough midtown in New York, it wasn’t much of a stretch to live in a place where on every street corner there were drug dealers and pimps. I became their friends, and we all took care of each other.

I often juxtapose my life then with my life now, which is very cushy. People from that kind of life style probably snub their noses at me now, as I did at them when I was living in poverty. Because of this, it was hard for me to accept abundance in my life. I often felt I didn’t deserve it. When I had big financial opportunities come, I often would sabotage them, simply because I felt as if money might destroy my connection to innocence.

The truth about money is that it does nothing but what you let it do. Money can make you be philanthropic and compassionate. Or money can sweet talk you into a lair of drugs and lust. Money is not the problem with riches. The brain is the problem.

If you feel as if you are worthy of good and abundance, the unlimited God who created you in It’s image will see to it that you are set on to pathway of gold. Your mind will change. You will begin to see your wealth and good fortune as a stepping-stone for others to join you in your right thinking.

Here is a Meditation: I am made in the image of God. God is unlimited in source and abundance. Anyway I look at it, I have the DNA to function as a child of the king if I so choose. Today, I choose to be in the royal family, to live abundantly in heart and mind, and to claim my right as a child of God and all that belongs to me. And so it is!

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