What do you trust?
Do you trust in Goodness?
Do you trust in the world?
Do you trust in experts?
Do you trust in intuition?
Do you trust in what you see?
Do you trust in what you believe?
Do you trust in your heart?
Do you trust your opinions?
Do you trust in science?
Do you trust in Spirit?
Do you trust in evil?
Do you trust in Love?
Is it time for you to test what you trust?
By observing how your opinions affect the outcome, you may begin to notice thoughts create.
Watch how people often behave according to your beliefs about them.
Notice how your affirmations and defamation actually attract what you are thinking and saying.
When our forefathers chose to affirm, “In God We Trust”, they knew the Creative Power of these words.
They realized that to depend on external sources was to count on the ever-changing beliefs of mankind.
They used the inner Power of an eternal unchanging Presence to guide their choices.
They relied on an inner strength that gave them vision and fair agreements and profound accomplishments.
To confirm life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone, they saw beyond what history provided.
Is it time for us to choose again by listening within, rather than rely on history, facts or opinions?
Is it ours to seek for what heals and reveals what is truly for the Good of All?
Is now the moment to remember to Trust in God….Trust in Good…. Choose for Everyone’s Good?
Can we release our need to follow the crowd?
Can we give up pretending to be satisfied when anyone goes hungry?
Can we stop denying how it hurts to leave anyone out in the cold and homeless?
Can we ignore leaving anyone needy or without good health care?
Can we really let any child go without a good home, warm clothing and great education?
When we listen within to Good conscience (the Voice of Love), can we leave anyone lacking?
Are we the generation that steps up and affirms, “There is enough for all”?
Is it our responsibility to choose a world which is trusting, sharing fairly and living up to our founding fathers’ guiding principles?
Are we the ones to affirm again the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for All?
I Am, How About You?
Loving you for choosing using the voice of Love within,
Betty Lue
Are you ready, willing and able to serve the Wholeness and Holiness of All?
Helping, Fixing, Serving
--by Rachel Remen (May 29, 2000)
Service is not the same as helping.
Helping is based on inequality, it's not a relationship between equals. When you help, you use your own strength to help someone with less strength. It's a one up, one down relationship, and people feel this inequality. When we help, we may inadvertently take away more than we give, diminishing the person's sense of self-worth and self-esteem.
Now, when I help I am very aware of my own strength, but we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all our experiences: our wounds serve, our limitations serve, even our darkness serves. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in the other, and the wholeness in life. Helping incurs debt: when you help someone, they owe you. But service is mutual. When I help I have a feeling of satisfaction, but when I serve I have a feeling of gratitude.
Serving is also different from fixing. We fix broken pipes, we don't fix people. When I set about fixing another person, it's because I see them as broken. Fixing is a form of judgment that separates us from one another; it creates a distance.
So, fundamentally, helping, fixing and serving are ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak; when you fix, you see life as broken; and when you serve, you see life as whole.
When we serve in this way, we understand that this person's suffering is also my suffering, that their joy is also my joy and then the impulse to serve arises naturally - our natural wisdom and compassion presents itself quite simply. A server knows that they're being used and has the willingness to be used in the service of something greater.
We may help or fix many things in our lives, but when we serve, we are always in the service of wholeness.
--Rachel Remen, from Zen Hospice