Affirmations:
I live with love for all humanity, including my family.
I release the need to hold judgments about others.
I am free of my past and choose love everyday.
I have learned past lessons and moved on.
Family
Love
Love
for family is not always easy.
There are lessons to
be learned with family.
Familiarity does not
always make it easy to love.
Family history can
create regrets and resentment.
Family
life may not be fun, safe or easy.
Memories may not be
enjoyable or kind.
Communications may
be strained or absent.
And still we are
called to extend peace and love.
There
may have been rejection or abandonment.
There may have been
abuse and neglect.
There may continue
to be judgment and comparison.
And still we are
asked to forgive and forget.
What can you do to free yourself from the pain of the past?
What are you to
do to let go of the hatred and bitterness?
What can you do
to dump your own toxic waste?
What can you do
to open yourself to kindness and respect?
Letting
go of what was is easier than you might think.
Beginning to rise
above the hurt and pain to begin again is essential.
Learning to erase
the past with love set you free to fully be alive.
Dumping the remnants
and reminders is like taking our the stinking trash.
Families
are made of people who each have their own lessons to learn.
Each person has
their life history which they usually keep repeating.
We can become the
person who feels and heals ourselves.
We can clean up our
own garbage and maintain kind thoughts, respectful words and honorable
behavior.
We
can be the One we admire.
We can demonstrate a
better way.
We can love no
matter what.
We can forgive and
choose again.
Forgiveness
is the key to our own happiness.
Forgiving the past
can release us to creative future.
Relinquishing the
hurtful stories can free us from re-wounding.
Letting go of the
trash of the past opens the way to our own rewarding future.
We
may not need to do anything but let go of our own pain.
We may not feel
called to connect or communicate but treat all with respect.
We can begin again
where we are to build the family we desire.
Release the past,
change your attitude and begin again where you are.
Respecting
you in living true to what is right and good and healthy for you.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
I have learned: Never Quit On Love.
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.