Be like the Sea of Galilee, not the Dead Sea

How do we tap into the abundance of the universe that is all around us? I found the secret a few years ago.

It was a huge awakening that changed my life.

I found it in a story called the Tale of Two Seas, the Sea of Galilee, and the Dead Sea.

In the land of Israel, there is a river called Jordan, which runs from North to South. On its way south, it flows into the Sea of Galilee.

The Sea of Galilee is a body of water that is clean, serene, and blue. It is thriving with life, both in it and around it. There are all kinds of fish in that sea. That is where the future apostles Peter and John were fishing when Jesus called them. Thriving biodiversity abound around that sea. It is brimming with abundant life.

About 80 miles farther down south is another sea — the Dead Sea.

It is called the Dead Sea because it is dead — there is no life in it or around it.

Obviously, there are no fish in the Dead Sea and no vegetation around it. The water is so salty and thick you can float in it. There are no lifeguards around the Dead Sea because you cannot drown in it even if you try.

Do you know why the Sea of Galilee is alive and flourishing and the Dead Sea is damp and dead?

In the case of the Sea of Galilee, the water flows into it, nourishes everything in it and around it, and the water flows out.

In the case of the Dead Sea, the water flows into it and it is stuck there.

The Dead Sea takes in the water, but it doesn’t give it away. It cannot because it is the lowest point on Earth — 1400 feet below sea level. It doesn’t have the ability or mechanism to share its water. It gets stuck and saturated and dead.

When you live in lower consciousness with narrow mindedness, dualistic thinking, scarcity mindset, poverty consciousness, victim mentality, anxious feelings, and fear of strangers — you are stuck and stagnant and unable to share anything positive.

If you want energy, effervescence, and abundance in your life, be like the Sea of Galilee.

Let the blessings that flow into you, flow out of you. The familiar Christian hymn says, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.”

It doesn’t say: …blessings come. The blessings in our lives are supposed to flow.

But due to our scarcity mindset, we think that we aren’t enough — good enough, pretty enough, successful enough, or have enough.

Brother David Steindl-Rast reminds us that “Blessing is the spiritual lifeblood throbbing through the universe; blood is alive only if it keeps flowing. This is true also of blessing.”

According to Neale Donald Walsch,

“It is in sharing the most, not in gathering the most, that the most is received.”

(from Cosmic Kindergarten: Earthly Lessons for a Heavenly Life)