Thursday, November 25, 2010

Family, Tradition, Well-Being

Who is your family?
This morning as I listened in silence, I heard “ You are a gifted and dedicated woman who loves here earth family as much as she loves herself.”  I am here to love everyone I encounter by inspiring and encouraging each one I encounter to give your best self to all you pursue.  Goodness and Love live in you and need to be fully and freely expressed by you everyday in everyway. Let go of all blocks and simply Love and bring forth the Goodness that is in you.  My family is the family of man. Every since I was a young child, I knew that I can make a difference with young and old, rich and poor, sick and well. I have loved and served all people with as much love as I know lives within me.  I am so thankful I know and love and give.  It is the air I breathe and my reason for Being.

Who do you love and how do you love?
Is it possible that you are here to love the animals of the earth or the trees or the sun or God more than anything else? Perhaps you are here to celebrate victories and to help others “Win” or “succeed”. Each one of us has a calling and in this we are here to love unconditionally, serve from the heart and to always remember the Good.  Perhaps you are here to embrace the children, the needy, the suffering or perhaps your calling is to give your all to create beauty in music, art, writing.  Maybe you are called to prepare good good or to create safe places or to sing in church or to simply walk on the earth giving your blessing with every step you take.  All is equally valuable to all other callings. You see each one of us is here to love and serve in some special way.  When you find your way, embrace it and give your best to this calling.  To often we find guilt for leaving other people or causes behind.  There is enough Love and we are enough people to serve all needs and all peoples, if only we would let go of our fear and doubt and simply abundantly give!  Bring Goodness and God forth in everyway.  


Traditions
As times change traditions may change. With so many broken and blended families there may be a need to find new ways to honor each and everyone.  This year we will be establishing  some new times of celebration, not on the holidays but another time during the year. This flexibility takes away the pressure of trying to meet everyone’s desires to celebrate on the same day. Robert and I like to give when and where we are called, spontaneously and on an as needed basis.  So Christmas giving happens throughout the year.  Thanksgiving is offered daily, weekly and monthly throughout the year.  To make one date the most special seems to put pressure on folks for spending money, buying food and gifts and getting dressed up to go to some relative’s home, when we might prefer to stay home and watch football or sleep all day or simply have a “flow day” to play.  When we make tradition an obligation rather than a joyful choice, it loses its function.  Tradition is useful to bring families together with joy and gratitude.
May today and everyday be a choice to fully express our love, joy and gratitude to everyone we encounter, including ourselves.



Well-Being
To be well is to be happy.

If what we are doing fills us with happiness, we are on purpose.
If what we are saying, inspires more joy in us, our words are on purpose.
If what we are imagining lifts our hearts with happy energy, our thoughts are on purpose.
Being on purpose with thoughts, words and deeds is the source of our well-being.
We can easily and quickly change our thoughts, words and activity without asking others for anything.
We can easily undo what is not wholly happy and good for us, simply by changing the inner channel.
We can be responsible for our well-being by being willing to be well, using the tools we know.
Let us each learn to be responsible for our own well-being by being able to respond to our own inner calling.
When we are flexible and willing to change, undo, edit and recreate our duties and obligations, traditions and customs, we can choose again for what works for us right not………creating Happiness for everyone, including ourselves.
When we listen in the silence for our calling, our higher purpose, we begin to dedicate our lives to what has meaning and true happiness for us to give and enjoy.
May we each fulfill our holy purpose and experience the joy of wellness in mind, body and Spirit.


May this Thanksgiving give each one of us food for thought, as well as the body.  Remember the body is here to serve our Good Works.
So serve the body so that it allows you to live and give the Goodness and Love You Are.

Loving you, 

Betty Lue