Are You Sorry? I Am.

I am sorry for my past mistakes.
I am sorry for your past mistakes.
I am sorry for our mistakes.
My prayer is that we all will learn from them.

I am sorry where humanity has lost a sense of family and community.
I am sorry that some still need to experience hunger and loneliness.
I am sorry that the world has war and that peoples still fight over petty things.
I am sorry for ignorance, disease, poverty and violence.

I am sorry that we have lost our way and forsaken the higher Truth.
I am sorry that we teach our children to be better than rather than be their best.
I am sorry some parents choose criticism, abuse, threats and demands rather than agreements and help.
I am sorry our teachers are not paid well and often not supported enough.

I am sorry that some of us need extreme measures to wake up and find a better way to live.
I am sorry that most work for money rather than work for the joy of contribution.
I am sorry that often adults forget to apologize for their mistakes and expect children to do so.
I am sorry that some people feel smug, arrogant, and better than while others feel weak and forsaken.

I am sorry that the mistakes we make in life are so judged that we get stuck making them repeatedly.
I am sorry that we have not recognized how forgiveness heals when we are willing to choose again.
I am sorry that we take a position and hold our opinions even when others see things differently.
I am sorry that people sometimes become righteous and demand to get their way only.

I am sorry that we cannot open our minds and respect our differences.
I am sorry that we still cling to what worked before and block out new solutions.
I am sorry that we act like we know everything when we really know nothing.
I am sorry that we allow our negative feelings to teach us rather than let Love reach us.

While I am sorry for you and me not believing Love is the way, I recognize that we will someday.
While I am sorry we have incurred great debt to all generations, I know we will heal our regret.
While I am sorry that I too have made mistakes, I recognize I can choose to change my ways.
While I am sorry that I may have lost my way, I feel my mistakes are wake up calls to begin again.

And so it is, that everything works together for Good.
And so it is, that I can forgive and choose again.
And so it is, that by my willingness to learn, I begin anew.
And so it is, I die to the old ways and am resurrected to new ways of Trust, Freedom and Love.

Laying down our old opinions, criticisms, judgments and fears, we choose again for the Highest Good.
Loving our willingness,
Betty Lue

If Children (people) Live With……….

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with: criticism, hostility, fear, pity, ridicule or jealousy,
They will learn to: condemn, fight, be apprehensive, feel sorry for themselves,
feel shy and feel envy.

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If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and others.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.