Losing a Winning Lottery Ticket
24 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in spiritual awakening, spiritual fitness, success, success from failure, wisdom Tags: appreciating your health, cashier lost winning lottery ticket, losing a winning lottery ticket, rena, soul salon international
My kids mock me that I make any life event a philosophical message or lesson for myself and hopefully anyone who will lend me their ear for a few seconds…
Duck.. Here comes another one…
While at the grocery store I selected the line of one of my favorite cashiers. She is a little Greek woman with sparkling blue eyes like the Aegean Sea and the cutest broken English accent. Her name is Georgia and while I do not know her age I feel safe saying that she is working past the age that many have retired. On her feet during her job, she is bright-eyed and kind. However her heart was a little heavy on this day b/c she had just learned that morning– that the lottery ticket she purchased the previous week (the numbers she has played for years) was a winner.
21 Million Dollars was the payout for this ticket….HER ticket…but… She cannot find it. She in fact LOST her 21 million dollar lottery ticket. Each spare moment she has (when not working) is spent tearing her house apart to find it.
If you learned that you were holding a 21 million dollar lottery ticket in your hands, how would you treat it? Where would you keep it? Do you think you’d sleep with it in your hand? Would you be vigilant with its care and keeping?
But like a lottery ticket, our physical bodies are there–just there– we use it for entertainment in a way– and treat it pretty mediocre b/c it doesn’t seem so special…. until we find out that it is. You see when an illness or brush with death comes into our life, we realize what we had was the equivalent of a 21 million dollar lottery ticket. We hustle to “find it” (restored health) when we’ve lost it. Today I am appreciating it all.. my eyes, fingers, muscles, brainpower, and everything else from teeth to toenails. Georgia’s story woke me up to further appreciation of all things…
I am hoping that next week at the grocery store I find that there is new cashier training where Georgia used to stand. That would make me smile.
All the best!
Rena M. Reese
Founder, Soul Salon International
