Affirmations:
I forgive myself for reacting with judgment to a lack of love.
I choose to remind myself “I am here to Love, no matter what.”
I live in love as an expression of the Love I AM.
I respond with Love to all appearance of lack.
Respond
with Love
If
you have never been fed, how can you know how to feed yourself?
If you have never
known Love, how can you know how to love yourself?
If you have not
experienced respectful conversation, how can you know how to discuss
respectfully?
If no one has
apologized to you for wrong doings, how do you know to say “I am sorry.”?
If
you have not been forgiven, how can you understand forgiveness?
If you have not seen
the people around you manage money responsibly, how do you know how to do it?
If you have not been
inspired and encouraged, how can you encourage yourself?
If you have never
trusted, who do you choose to learn from?
If
you have only known violence, threats and abusive behavior, how do you know
kindness?
If you have
experienced bullying at home, school and work, how can you believe in yourself?
If you with adults
who seem unhappy and complaining, how do you know the value of gratitude?
If the world seems
dark and scary without sanctuary, safety and comfort, how can you rely on
anyone?
We
live in an unusual time where there are few who lead by example.
Our children are growing
up often without healthy role models.
We live in a time
when our leaders seem to be more negative than inspired and positive.
Our
predominant teachers and leaders seem to have forgotten their influence
on future generations.
What
WE CAN DO is to step up to be a positive influence on our young people.
We can feed out
youth well at home and at school.
We can prepare
healthy meals and offer healthy conversation with our children.
We can stop
negative, threatening talk and engage in respectful kind conversation.
We can choose to be
happy, healthy and wise.
We can give your
youth and our communities hope and faith and helpfulness for others.
We can always give
our best selves to work for excellence to everything we do.
We can create better
relationships with all we encounter.
We can forgive our
own laziness, ignorance and intolerance.
We can show others
how to be kind, respectful and authentic with others.
We can stop all
gossip, bigotry, abusive language and unhealthy habits.
We can live up to
the highest standards of morality, ethics and principle-centered living.
We can contribute to
people and places who offer the best we have to others.
We can volunteer in
ways that inspire others to feel loved, valued and safe.
We can increase our
own faith, inspiration and courage by associating with others who are
faith-filled.
We can keep our own
counsel and live in integrity with what we believe is good for all.
We can focus on the
goodness, beauty and loving actions within and around us.
Remember
everything that is unlike love is calling for a loving response.
When we react with
fear to what is fearful, destructive and wrong, we increase the fear.
When we respond with
forgiveness and love to what is unkind and hurtful, we can heal the fear.
We are here learning
to respond to everything is ways that bring healing and good for all.
Loving
you in remembering Love is the only true and lasting Power,
Betty Lue
LOVE
There
is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No
disease that enough love will not heal;
No
door that enough love will not open;
No
gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No
wall that enough love will not throw down;
No
sin that enough love will not redeem.
It
makes no difference
how
deeply seated may be the trouble,
How
hopeless the outlook,
How
muddled the tangle,
How
great the mistake.
A
sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If
only you could love enough, you would be the happiest
and
most powerful being in the world.
Emmet
Fox