Wealth is not only money and material possessions.
The aspect of wealth that I am inclined to focus on today is the wealth of children. We hear that having many children is a form of wealth, and when we hear this, sometimes what comes to mind is that, oh, I have many children which means they’ll be able to carry me on. I’ll live for a long time through them. The more children I have, the more possibility of my legacy to grow….etc. While all of these things are certainly a possibility, It’s not the only way our wealth manifests through our children.
What I have come to understand as a mother of many children, is that the blessing of wealth is gifted to us from our children.
Our children can be our most effective teachers. They have an uncanny way of showing us ourselves. Because of the bond that we have with our children. We are intuitively programmed to pay instinctive attention to them. We are paying attention to them in a way that we don’t pay attention to other people or things in our lives. Sometimes, even including ourselves. Often our intuition guides us to know when there is harm, danger, or neglect. Also we know when their spirits are well nourished, when they are genuinely happy and thriving.
For some of us, it is our children who through whom we gain understanding of love outside of ourselves. Our children have a way of presenting us with the choice of seeing ourselves through the lens of honesty, and having the courage to question or change if necessary the things that do not serve us or our lineage.
With each child we are blessed with, we are given the opportunity to understand something different about life. We love each one of our children completely and differently, with that complete love, we learn new ways of relating. We learn how to be effectively compassionate through those children. When we are blessed with many children, we are capable of embracing many different ways to love. We gain an abundance of understanding. We gain an abundance of love. Therefore we gain an abundance of wealth.
Ifayinka 