Saturday, July 03, 2010

Freedom and Responsibility

True Freedom Comes with Real Responsibilities
True Freedom is realized only when you are responsible for everything you experience.
True Freedom is for those who love and trust the Good in themselves and All.
True Freedom requires consciousness, willingness, courage and Higher Vision.

What would it take for you to be free?
Are you ready and able to take on the responsibilities?
Are you aware of the natural consequences of your mistakes?
Do you realize how much we are all called to step up and into responsibility for the Good of All?

This country was founded on faith.
Are you faith-filled?
Our forefathers envisioned liberty and justice for all?
Can you foresee today and everyday how to impart freedom and justice for everyone?

Freedom without responsibility, rules and structure is chaos.
Restriction without justice, fairness and respect for all is tyranny.
Responsibility without freedom can seem like martydom and sacrifice.
Responsibility and freedom feels expansive, open and trusted.

To be ready, one must be self aware.
To be self aware, one must know and respect oneself.
To know and respect oneself, there must be self trust, self confdence and love for oneself.
To truly love oneself, all mistakes and past experiences must be forgiven.

When we become aware from personal experience that all mistakes are learning opportunities, we trust that others are learning as well from natural consequences.
When we are trusting of the lessons life provides, we can allow everyone, including ourselves to enjoy the experiences that come from freedom.

Even the greatest among us has made errors and learned.
Even the wisest among us has been ignorant at times.
Even the strongest among us has been weak.
Even the most loving has had moments of fear and lack of faith.

Here we are capable, willing and conscious enough to choose our life path.
Be willing to step into the unknown of freedom and have faith.
Be open to allowing others to learn from the consequences of their actions.
Be trusting that as we love ourselves well, we are able to respond to all that comes in life.

I invite us all to celebrate this land of unlimited possibility and abundant opportunity.
Step forward in freedom and faith, actualizing your highest vision and learning from everything.
Life is miraculous, sacred and abundant when we learn to accept all responsibility and go for it!
Trusting our journey with joy, gratitude, trust and freedom.

Loving Us All, 

Betty Lue

Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.  Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy it all overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.