Thursday, October 13, 2011

Responsibility and Freedom

Are you willing to be responsible for your own happiness?
Are you willing to free yourself from distraction, delusions, delays and disappointments?
Are you open to committing to your own life and fulfill your destiny and dreams?
Are you loving, trusting and respecting your own calling and unique life adventure?

“You cannot be totally committed sometimes”. ACIM
Commitment means keeping your agreements with youself and with others.
Commitment means not quitting because you are discouraged or have lost faith.
Commitment means loving yourself and living in integrity with your highest principles.
Commitment means responsibility…being willing and able to respond always with Love.

Freedom comes from setting yourself and others free from your expectations, fears and regrets.
Freedom comes from not allowing the restrictions of your past to limit your imagination.
Freedom comes from being willing to let go of all you think you know. 
Freedom comes from fully enjoying the life you have created and changing what no longer serves.

Responsibility means having the ability to respond with Love, not react with fear.
Responsibility means keeping your agreements to Love.
Responsibility means always giving your best in each moment, in every relationship.
Responsibility means making no assumptions, judgments, criticisms, but willing to be truly helpful.

When we are trusting, we are able to respond.
When we are respectful, we are able to respond.
When we are forgiving, we are able to respond.
When we are free, we are able to respond.

When we have not loved ourselves well, we are not response able.
When we have not cared for ourselves, we are not free.
When we neglect, abuse or sacrifice ourselves, we are not responsible and free.
The key to responsibility and freedom is to love, trust, respect and appreciate ourselves.

For many, responsibility has been seen as burden, duty and obligation.
When we see responsibilities as hard, heavy, serious and difficult, we will experience them likewise.
When we see responsibilities as a gift of love, trust, freedom and choice, we experience them as blessings.
When we assume responsibilities as opportunity to loving service and creativity, we experience joy.

My choice is to be wholly responsible for the world I see.
My voice celebrates and appreciates opportunities to be responsible and truly helpful.
My life is about claiming my willingness to be able to respond with Love to all things.
I use my thoughts, my words and my activities to freely respond to all with open-mindedness and appreciation.

Loving you with what is whole, true, good and beautiful,
Betty Lue

¤      I love you      ¤
and I know you love me too.
LOVE IS FREEDOM
The freedom for you and I to be who we are.
The freedom to live life as we do.
The freedom to make mistakes and learn from them.
The freedom to express our own truth as we see it.

LOVE IS TRUST
The trust that there is a constant flow of love, 
no matter what.
The trust that, in spite of life’s problems, 
we believe in and support each other’s right 
to live as we choose.
The trust that in adversity, 
there is healing and learning and gifts of love.
The trust that under conflict and emotional expression,
there is love

I love you and I trust you.
I free you to be all you are.

Betty Lue 1978