What You Value Most in Life, is What Expands

A Course in Miracles and other such texts often tell us not to give value to anything in the world. Yet, when I teach The Art of Tithing, it appears I’m telling us that we should give value to everything in the world. Especially everything that appears to be in our world.

Appearances can be deceiving, can’t they?

The Art of Tithing actually instructs us to assign a value. Not give a value — assign one. When unwanted things happen in our lives, we give large value to these negative or bad situations. Yet, we give very tiny value — or completely dismiss any value we might have assessed — to the small, incidental or ordinary good things in our lives.

Like the fact that we woke up today, or we have toilet paper and food in the house. Even if my son didn’t stock the toilet paper in all bathrooms like he is supposed to, we still have toilet paper in the house. Even if I don’t feel like cooking any of the food we have, we still have food in the house.

We value our inconvenience about the toilet paper not being stocked over our supply of toilet paper. We value our lack of enthusiasm for cooking over the supply of food in our kitchens. We overvalue the negative.

And we tend to undervalue the kindness of strangers and the people in our everyday lives who we take for granted…