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Transforming Our Relationship with Money
Dear friends,
I received this beautiful summary from my step-mother a few days ago. The inspiring story at the end literally brought tears to my eyes. May we all come to see money simply as a tool for manifestation in our lives which flows just as it is meant to flow when our hearts and minds are clear.
With much love and joy to you, Fred
Lynne Twist presentation at Bioneers Conference, 2003 Notes
by Jean Barker
Lynne arrives at the company and takes the elevators to the top floor. She feels scared. She meets the man in his large office behind glass doors. She sits at a long conference table with him on the other end. She gives her talk within the15 minute time limit given to her, and he presents her with an envelope. Inside is a check for $50,000. It is the largest single donation she has ever raised. She thanks him, yet deep down she feels unsettled.
Lynne then goes on to NYC to meet with a black church group in their basement meeting room in Harlem. The pastor has invited her to speak about The Hunger Project. The rain pours down and she is late. She enters and finds that rain leaking into the room is collecting in puddles and spattering into pans placed around the room. She is surprised to find about 75 people waiting for her. She begins her talk, and eventually gets to the place where she is to make the pitch for money. She pauses, wondering how can she ask these people to give, when their own need is so great! She remembers that the pastor has asked her to come and do this very thing, ask for money. She makes her request and then stops.
There is silence. No one speaks. Then a woman dressed in a uniform stands and says, "My name is Gertrude and I like you! I don't have no bank account or checking account, but I earned $75 dollars this week and I'm gonna give it to you!" Deeply moved, Lynne places the check in the same brief case where she had earlier placed the huge check from the CEO. She then watches as one after another, people follow Gertrude's lead and put in their contributions.
Later that evening sitting in her hotel room, Lynne decides to write a letter to the CEO. She thanks him for his contribution and for the time he took to listen to her. She then says she has to return the check because it did not come from his heart.
Four years after that memorable day, Lynne received a letter from the CEO. He said that he had been deeply affected by her letter, that he had followed the work of the Hunger Project over the years, and that he had seen that it was a fine organization. He had left his prior company and gone on to other work. Now he wanted to send her another contribution, but this one was from his heart. There was a check for $250,000 in the envelope.
Lynne said that she was not the one responsible for this huge change of heart. It was Gertrude and her giving from her heart that had changed both Lynne and this CEO. This man had never forgotten Lynne's letter, a letter which eventually changed his life, and which inspires us all, even now, to take a deep look at the soul of money.
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