Scarcity and Abundance

I went outside this morning to water my flowers and found this:

The flowers - gone. Eaten down to the nubbins. Their little delicate flowers consumed, overnight by deer, while my husband, dog, and I soundly slept (and snored) on the other side of that open window. The luscious, full, bountiful impatients growing in my window boxes seemingly provided an all-you-can-eat buffet. And you know how impatients get… fluffy, gorgeous and massive. That is how these were. They were so beautiful and I loved taking care of them every morning, talking to each one and noting its own unique color and contribution to our home. Oh how lovely they were!

Now, they are pretty much gone. I was deflated.

Until I realized that the “leftovers” were actually given to me as a practice in moving from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance.

I had just been listening to a podcast about this very topic. (Oh, how the Universe likes to drive her messages home in many ways at the same time!) The feasting of the deer on “my” flowers gave me the perfect illustration of what that shift entailed.

When the deer ate the flowers, they didn’t eat them all. As you can see in the photo (and the one at the end of this newsletter) they left a little bit of each plant behind from which the flowers can regenerate. I realized they didn’t take the flowers from me (scarcity), they simply pruned them (abundance) so they can grow back more luscious and fluffy than before.

The deer’s feast also demonstrated that they only took what they needed and purposefully left some so the plant can replenish itself. If the deer don’t follow this method, their food source will simply be gone, never to grow back and feed them again. What a way to stay in abundance!

All of these lessons the deer showed with me made me smile. And then they clued me into a bonus. The deer in my area are comfortable coming up to my open bedroom window for a snack!

How’s that for abundance?