Affirmations:
I
hold my freedom with great respect.
I
free and trust myself with responsibility.
I
learn to respect my freedom by being wholly responsible for my actions and
inaction.
I
value and appreciate those who secure freedom for our nation and its people.
Are
You Free?
Do
you think for yourself?
Are you living
according to your own values?
Do you honor what
is true for you?
Are you giving
yourself an opportunity to do what is yours to do?
Do
you know what is right for you?
Do you follow the
crowd or your own way?
Are you living
your truth or listening to others?
Are you in
integrity with your beliefs and behavior?
When
we live with freedom of thought, we can imagine what is good for everyone.
When we live with
freedom of speech, we can say what is inspiring to people everywhere.
When we live with
freedom of behavior, we can choose to act with kindness and respect to all
people.
When we live with
the freedom to love and honor differences, we can celebrate the uniqueness of
all.
With
freedom for each person’s beliefs, we allow people to learn naturally.
With freedom of
choice of education, career, lifestyle and life purpose, we will play all the
parts.
With freedom to do
what is ours to do with no harm to others, we awaken to what is ours to do.
With freedom to eat,
live, love and learn as we choose, we benefit ourselves and others.
Freedom
comes with responsibility for the outcome.
Freedom comes with
receiving what we give to others.
Freedom comes with
accountability for others copying our thoughts, words and activities.
Freedom comes with
the price of paying for what we have chosen.
And so
it is, freedom is really choosing freedom to learn.
Freedom is choosing
to experience the product of our choices.
Freedom comes with
the responsibility of reaping the rewards or punishment of our actions.
Freedom is the way
we learn the highest and best way to live with others.
When
we choose ignorance, we are imprisoned in our own lack of awareness.
When we choose
harmful behavior, we are suffering the fear of harm to ourselves.
When we choose to
imprison and restrict others, we are burdened with responsibility for them.
When we choose to
restrict, distrust and control others, we often are left with their continued
dependence.
Fear
keeps us imprisoned.
Prejudice makes us
ignorant.
Ignorance keeps us
in the dark.
Judgments keep us
stuck.
We
break free by forgiving ourselves and others.
We free ourselves by
letting go of our criticisms, prejudices and stupidity.
We free ourselves by
opening our eyes to see and our hearts to feel.
We set ourselves
free by giving the understanding we want to receive.
Set
yourself free to seek and find the Truth.
Free yourself to see
and know.
Be free by
relinquishing all attack and condemnation.
Release your self to
your natural state of peace and joy and love.
Betty Lue
Getting Free
(By Setting Others Free)
It is not
unusual for us human beings to secretly wish and hope that the people we’re
close to don’t become too magnificent. We don’t really want these
significant others to be too free or too powerful or too
creative or too successful or to dream too wild a dream. We
actually prefer that they stay small, “manageable”, non-threatening, tame.
After all, we don’t want to be made to feel uncomfortable or inadequate or
diminished or challenged by the boldness and joyfulness with which someone else
lives his or her life.
But,
until we are willing and actively desire that the key people in our
lives be totally free and powerful, we cannot be free and powerful ourselves.
So, here is an affirmation-prayer that may help us begin freeing others, so
that we can begin to free ourselves.
I, _____(your name)_____ want you, _____(his or her name)_____, to be the highest,
clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I would not limit
you in any way, knowing that only as I encourage you to expand, explore and grow,
can I myself be free. So I fully support you in being and expressing all that
you are.
I want
you to go where you feel called to go, to speak and act as you feel guided, and
to express yourself in whatever ways seem right. There is nothing I do not want
you to do, for I know that all movement is contained within God and always
leads us to Him.
I am at
peace with whatever decisions and choices you make, no matter how they may seem
to affect me. Since I know that God loves and supports me perfectly, I know
that however you choose to be with me must be a manifestation of that divine
love and support. Because I trust God, I trust you. And because I trust you, I
trust myself.
So, be
free, be powerful, be unlimited. And know that I, _________, want you, _________,
to be the highest, clearest, most powerful expression of God that you can be. I
fully support you in being all that you are.
Life
is forgiving .
You
are the gift.
It
is in freeing and being the gift you are, that you recognize the gift.
Set
yourself free with forgiveness.
Loving
you,
Betty
Lue