Gifting from the heart

Fundraising is interesting and challenging work. When I fundraise for a cause that touches my heart and my soul, it is easy. Of late I have been realizing the limiting beliefs others and I have around money. There seems to be a feeling of lack, scarcity, when what I am beginning to see and feel in my own life is that I am sufficient, I have purpose and I have freedom. 

I always have enough; this is a realization I have made over the years. As a single mother I worried about supporting my little family, until one day I realized that the fridge always had food in it, the electricity meter was running, the car had fuel and we had a roof over our heads...it was always my projection of lack that made me feel that lack. Now I can see money as one part of my life, not all of my life. I have so many other wonderful 'resources' in my life that I am sufficient; my family, my friends, the air around me, the sky, simple pleasures that do not relate to how much money I have. 

This belief system of not enough, need more is outdated. We must change our relationship with money. Money does not define who I am: how I spend my money defines who I am, how I live my life defines who I am. 

So when I am given an opportunity to fundraise (for Work for Love www.workforlove.co.za) I know that with each pledge that is given that the community investment will be at work for ever, not used up, but continuously returning worth to everyone in this community.

These moments of connection through our money are deeper perhaps than we imagine possible; and when, in those instances, we act from the heart, then our money communicates that heart, which is our true wealth.