Page 13 - Spirit- Teachings from the Highest Source

Nothing taken for granted.

Fortune rarely blesses the fortunate. This statement will, we
feel, provoke some thought. We need to understand the meaning of
fortune and fortunate. They are unrelated words. We could say that it
is fortunate that fortune never favours the fortunate. Now this
statement is starting to become understandable. In the normal sense of
the word, fortune indicates that somebody who receives or inherits
one would become financially better off. Better off, that’s another
statement we will have to examine later. To be fortunate is to have
something wonderful happen for or to you – an event that was
unexpected by oneself even if obvious to others. So we can see that
there is a difference between these words. A fortunate event need not
carry fortune with it to make it worthy of the description fortunate.

Of all the fortunate events that you have experienced how
many of them have involved fortune? Maybe none! Yet they have
been very fortunate and very often no amount of financial benefit
could have given you what it was that you received through your good
fortune.

We need to look away from the financial measure of wealth.
We miss so much because we cannot put a price on it. If you were to
receive a gift of little or no financial value where do you display it? It
might carry a spiritual value beyond anything that money can buy yet
it will take second or less place next to the gold clock. Take the
contents of your handbag, brief case or pocket, what is it that you
most value in it. Is it your bankcard? Your battered, torn photograph
of Granny that the negatives of which are long lost. I suspect that it
will be the photograph. The loss of this photograph will be regretted