*Receiving with Grace*

Q:  I've been flown to Russia and all over the world as a healer.  Many
people have offered me money but I've never felt good about taking money,
ever.

B:  Why?

Q:  I don't know.  What excites me the most is to be able to help people in
the best way that I can.

B:  All right, but what about you being helped?

Q:  Well, that's right.  So I was curious, because I would love to do other
forms of healing also.

B:  All right.  Start with healing yourself.  Understand that there are
many forms of abundance.  Now, in a sense, what you call money on your
planet can be one representative form of abundance.  But it will not always
require that money be in your life to allow you to do what you need to do.
You can be supported in many different ways.  If someone is simply willing
to put you up in their place, to give you food, to share with you many of
the things that it might otherwise require money to get, then certainly you
can take that as a form of abundance in lieu of the concept of money.  But
at the same time, for many individuals, the gesture of sharing money is the
only thing that really represents to them the idea of equal exchange.  For
you to refuse that exchange beyond a certain point is, in a sense, not
allowing yourself to allow the situation to be balanced.  Do you
understand?

Q:  Yes.

B:  There is nothing wrong with the acceptance, there is nothing wrong with
receiving, if you are given a gift.  The idea that people be willing to do
that out of love is an indication to you that the Universe is attempting to
support you in return for the love that you are willing to give.  Do you
understand?

Q:  Yes, that makes sense.

B:  Again, it doesn't always have to come in the form of money, but
sometimes that is what will allow another individual to really feel they
are returning a gift to you.

Q:  Thank you.  I see.

B:  So you do not have to throw the gift back in their face.  Accept it
with gratitude and graciousness, and again, realize you don't have to be
worried that your ego will go negative on you and get out of control, or
that you will have to become fixated in the idea of materialism.  It is all
right for you to be absolutely and effortlessly abundant, as long as you
understand that your abundance, no matter what form it takes, will always
only be exactly representative of the level of sharing that you are
creating and the level of abundance and joy you are creating for others as
well.  Therefore, it's simply a direct reflection of what you're doing.
And I will remind you once again, and all of you, that the true opposite of
love is guilt... not hate.