Family

Affirmations:

I change what is not working for what is better for all.

I let go of attachment and release myself to love everyone.

I trust my brothers who are one with me.

I apologize and forgive myself for ignorance, stuckness and separation.

Family of Humanity

Everyone is a part of our human family.

We can choose who we include.

We can choose who we trust.

We can choose how we relate.

I prefer to include everyone.

I choose to help those within my awareness.

I create a lifestyle where I am available.

I choose an environment that is healing.

I trust those who come together are meant to be together.

We come together for healing and learning, for creating and enjoying.

We are here to support and encourage one another.

We are all seeking safety, security, belonging and achievement.

I know that everyone is doing the best they know.

Everyone is creating with their thoughts and words, emotions and behavior.

Each person perceives what they have learned through their life experience.

All function from a fear base or a love base or through both intermittently.

We live in family and community, partnership and relationship or solitary and self-contained lives.

We choose our beliefs and opinions, ideas and dreams, activities and accomplishments.

We decide as we journey who, what, where and how we continue with what is to be.

Each decide based on our own priorities, influences, associations and emotions.

When we learn dysfunctional patterns of secrecy and withholding, we live these patterns.

When we forgive patterns and behaviors that do not work, we choose again for what serves all.

When we cease conforming to the environment from which we have come, we are free to change.

When we create our own healthy choices, we find new systems and functional family habits.

Life often throws upsets or interference into what seems to work to wake us up .

The family of humanity at home and work, in community and country, calls us to seek better ways.

How we live and love, listen and speak, learn and teach is our individual choice.

We choose our role models and examples of right action and functional systems to learn what works.

Let us look and listen, imagine and feel what works best for us.

Let us ask and learn, appreciate and teach what works best for all.

Let us step away with grace and bless needed changes with respect.

Let us trust what will be to be good for the Greater Whole, always including everyone.

And so it is, I am loving me and you and all of us together,

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.