Saturday, April 23, 2011

Willing to Be Extraordinary?

Are you willing to rise above the world’s problems?
Are you open to find a better way?
Are you willing to erase past hurt and resentment?
Are you seeking to raise your consciousness to respond only with Love?

Do you commiserate with others?
Do you feel sympathy and pity?
Do you spend time wondering why bad things happen?
Do you want to belong with the masses?

We can change our minds and seek a higher perspective.
Or we can fit in, believe in and join in the suffering.
We can breathe with compassion and choose to trust.
Or we can fear for the worst and suffer with the least.

Both are holy and healing paths.
Both are a blessing to all humanity.
One path is in the trenches.
The other path is that of transcendence.

To be willing to nurse and nurture is a calling of great worth.
To be helpful and reassuring is a path of great compassion.
To be prayerful and seeking creative solutions is an option of faith.
To be trusting is to know all is well no matter what the apparency.

Can you seek for the highest path for you without another’s approval?
Do you trust those who choose another way to serve and live?
Can you allow for others’ differing perceptions?
Do you believe everyone is learning in their own unique way?

As we allow ourselves to grow in consciousness and faith, we see life differently.
Our place in the world is a gift to us as well as to others.
When we are willing to listen within, forgiving our judgments, we lift out of old ways of thinking.
As we learn to see the world as a place to explore and experiment, we seek for better ways to live.

Today’s world seems to be polarized and full of extreme catastrophic problems on one hand.
From another perception, we can see the rise of conscious beings who contribute selflessly.
And another viewpoint is that all is in divine order as we awaken to our Creative potential.
Remembering to Love is a key to accepting all the various ways we deal with today.

What is your path?
Selfish consumption of all resources available?
Unselfish education and helpfulness?
Vigilance for the bad guys with threatened punishment?
Ultimate transcendence and acceptance of the lessons humanity is learning?

I am accepting all ways that we each choose to live and let live.
I am trusting everyone is learning at their own level of willingness.
I see freedom to choose as our spiritual right.
I value the opportunity to forgive, undo and choose again.

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.