Freedom created us free.
Love created us loving.
Creativity created us creative.
Joy created us joyful.
The infinite created us unlimited.
Why are we here?
We are here to remember Who and what we are.
We are here to realize our unlimited potential.
We are here to be happy and free.
We are here to create our lives and enjoy the life we experience.
We are here to undo our mistaken and limiting beliefs and programming.
We are here to forgive our guilt and regret, our anger and resentment.
We are here to undo and heal the past.
We are here to make bless and perceive only wholeness and Holiness.
We are here to be fully here.
We are here to be responsible and able to respond to whatever comes our way.
We are here to stop complaining and victimizing ourselves and others.
We are here to pray and praise the Good within us.
We are here to recognize the Truth of our Being.
We are here to know and align with God.
We are here to believe and live in freedom and trust.
We are here to let go of all that we cling to.
We are here to enjoy what is.
We are here to create thoughts and words and deeds which are for the Highest Good.
We are here to wake up and awaken to the Truth of our Being.
We are here to fully experience and express the free, creative, unlimited and joy-filled Love we are.
Love is the way.
Be free.
No guilt.
No fear.
Seeing the perfection in our exploration to return to Love,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Monday, February 02, 2004
Home… Safe and Sound
Yes, I have just returned from Kalamazoo, MI with gratitude and love for the adventure of life and all those reflections of learning, healing, and experiencing fully All That I Am.
When I sat, read and walked for seven hours in the O’Hare airport in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, I blessed, I enjoyed, I appreciated the opportunity to trust exactly what I was experiencing. And Yes, I made calls to cancel my Thursday evening workshop. When I arrived at 11:30PM on Thursday eve. I appreciated my little studio apartment where I stay for only $40/night. I was grateful for the basket and flowers and vacuum cleaner which are lovingly left for my use every visit. I enjoyed the solitude of grocery shopping at my favorite D&W (open until midnight) store for my food supplies. I thoroughly enjoyed loving and being with each and everyone those who joined with me for sharing, counseling, laughing, learning, healing and remembering the truth of who we are.
Our focus for the weekend was on remembering we are here to experience life.
Love makes all things new again.
Love is freedom and trust.
The more we enjoy the experience, the more free we are to choose again easily and quickly.
The more we judge our experience, the more we seem to repeat, struggle and endure.
I always learn… or one might say, I remember and realize what is within me.
I have remembered and reclaimed a mission statement I have lived since first moving to Kalamazoo in 1994.
“I am the space of freedom and trust where love is remembered and wholeness restored.”
In other words, I realize my Holiness and see only Holiness in others.
In our Holiness we are free to choose and free to be.
I am loving, you as I am loving me.
In this Love, we all are free.
Betty Lue
When I sat, read and walked for seven hours in the O’Hare airport in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, I blessed, I enjoyed, I appreciated the opportunity to trust exactly what I was experiencing. And Yes, I made calls to cancel my Thursday evening workshop. When I arrived at 11:30PM on Thursday eve. I appreciated my little studio apartment where I stay for only $40/night. I was grateful for the basket and flowers and vacuum cleaner which are lovingly left for my use every visit. I enjoyed the solitude of grocery shopping at my favorite D&W (open until midnight) store for my food supplies. I thoroughly enjoyed loving and being with each and everyone those who joined with me for sharing, counseling, laughing, learning, healing and remembering the truth of who we are.
Our focus for the weekend was on remembering we are here to experience life.
Love makes all things new again.
Love is freedom and trust.
The more we enjoy the experience, the more free we are to choose again easily and quickly.
The more we judge our experience, the more we seem to repeat, struggle and endure.
I always learn… or one might say, I remember and realize what is within me.
I have remembered and reclaimed a mission statement I have lived since first moving to Kalamazoo in 1994.
“I am the space of freedom and trust where love is remembered and wholeness restored.”
In other words, I realize my Holiness and see only Holiness in others.
In our Holiness we are free to choose and free to be.
I am loving, you as I am loving me.
In this Love, we all are free.
Betty Lue
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Am I perfect? Are you?
What is perfection, but an image we have made that there is a right way to be?
My image of perfection is to be happy, and to be happy I am free and unlimited.
Your image may be to be happy requires making others happy or following a certain path.
My image of abundant and successful living is to live purposefully, confidently and faithfully.
Your image of perfection may be to be successful at work and home.
What is being successful at home and work for you?
My image of perfection is to learn from life, to fully enjoy life’s experiences, without judging them.
Your image of perfection may be to only have “good” experiences.
My idea of perfection is to make “mistakes” and see them as opportunities to see things differently.
Your idea of perfection may be to try not to make mistakes and to try to do things perfectly.
My belief about perfection is that given to Spirit, everything is in my own best interests, ie Spirit uses it all for Good.
Your belief about perfection may be that God wants us to only do things a certain way. When we do things wrong we need to repent or make compensation.
I see us as naming ourselves as “human” to give ourselves permission to make mistakes.
What if it is Divine to make mistakes to be perfectly imperfect.
What if everything is on purpose when viewed with no judgment.
What if we really are unlimited in power, in peace, in choice, in non judgment.
What if this is an experiential Exploratorium in which we learn the most by being free.
What if we are so loved that we are totally and absolutely free.
What if it is only with our own self judgment that we get stuck repeating what we judge.
What if when we fully embrace our experience that we are totally free to choose again.
Interesting look at perfection.
Perfectly loving you and loving me,
Betty Lue
Smile….there may be no such thing as perfection as we usually define it…or maybe it all is perfect.
My image of perfection is to be happy, and to be happy I am free and unlimited.
Your image may be to be happy requires making others happy or following a certain path.
My image of abundant and successful living is to live purposefully, confidently and faithfully.
Your image of perfection may be to be successful at work and home.
What is being successful at home and work for you?
My image of perfection is to learn from life, to fully enjoy life’s experiences, without judging them.
Your image of perfection may be to only have “good” experiences.
My idea of perfection is to make “mistakes” and see them as opportunities to see things differently.
Your idea of perfection may be to try not to make mistakes and to try to do things perfectly.
My belief about perfection is that given to Spirit, everything is in my own best interests, ie Spirit uses it all for Good.
Your belief about perfection may be that God wants us to only do things a certain way. When we do things wrong we need to repent or make compensation.
I see us as naming ourselves as “human” to give ourselves permission to make mistakes.
What if it is Divine to make mistakes to be perfectly imperfect.
What if everything is on purpose when viewed with no judgment.
What if we really are unlimited in power, in peace, in choice, in non judgment.
What if this is an experiential Exploratorium in which we learn the most by being free.
What if we are so loved that we are totally and absolutely free.
What if it is only with our own self judgment that we get stuck repeating what we judge.
What if when we fully embrace our experience that we are totally free to choose again.
Interesting look at perfection.
Perfectly loving you and loving me,
Betty Lue
Smile….there may be no such thing as perfection as we usually define it…or maybe it all is perfect.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Abundant Living
The richness of life is found in fulfillment and inner peace.
No amount of money can create that deep and abiding inner contentment.
Even the poorest beggar can live abundantly.
The financially rich are often distracted from the real and lasting peace that comes from living life purposefully, gratefully and faithfully.
What do you live for?
What is your Highest Purpose in being alive everyday in everyway?
Who do you live with?
What are the thoughts and feelings you have, the activities you enjoy and the gifts you share?
What is your faith?
What are the beliefs that guide your life journey?
Are you certain, confident and without doubt and fear?
When you live with purpose, confidence and faith, life is fulfilling and content.
Life is abundant.
Living and Loving Abundantly,
Betty Lue
No amount of money can create that deep and abiding inner contentment.
Even the poorest beggar can live abundantly.
The financially rich are often distracted from the real and lasting peace that comes from living life purposefully, gratefully and faithfully.
What do you live for?
What is your Highest Purpose in being alive everyday in everyway?
Who do you live with?
What are the thoughts and feelings you have, the activities you enjoy and the gifts you share?
What is your faith?
What are the beliefs that guide your life journey?
Are you certain, confident and without doubt and fear?
When you live with purpose, confidence and faith, life is fulfilling and content.
Life is abundant.
Living and Loving Abundantly,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
What Is Real?
If what I see and hear is interpreted through filters of history, beliefs, programming and expectation, what is real?
If what I feel is the response to my perception through these filters in my mental computer, are my feelings based on what is real or what is distorted and misperceived?
If my thoughts are a product of my learned response, my fears and judgments of my experiences, how can my thoughts be real?
If my judgments of right and wrong, good and evil, are creating my experience of “reality”, how can I undo this fearful and ungodly miscreation?
Meditation and prayer bring neutrality, open-mindedness, and trust to all perceptions.
Meditation and prayer are an invitation for vision, to see all things with the eyes of God.
Meditation and prayer open the way to perceive with wonder of a child.
Meditation and prayer heal my mind and my attitude that I might see the gift and the blessing.
Meditation and prayer encourage my heart to extend Love and my mind to be enlightened.
When I am healed, I am not healed alone.
When we forgive, erase with Love, we perceive the world new again.
Nothing is named or judged. Everything is new again.
To live fully and freely,
To live abundantly invites us to see ourselves
As beloved, protected and provided for,
With no need to worry or doubt or fear.
Is this reality?
Is the illusion we have made so convincing that we are stuck in the fearful, separated experience, a nightmare that consumes our thoughts, feelings, relationships and resources?
Can we now forgive, erase and release our judgments so that we can see rightly?
What would happen if we trusted in the Love that is our Source?
How would life be if we became as an innocent child?
Who would we be if we lived as the Holy Child of God we are?
What would we perceive if we saw all things as the journey to awakening?
How would life be if we lived in a state of peace and love and joy?
What is real?
Loving you,
Betty Lue
If what I feel is the response to my perception through these filters in my mental computer, are my feelings based on what is real or what is distorted and misperceived?
If my thoughts are a product of my learned response, my fears and judgments of my experiences, how can my thoughts be real?
If my judgments of right and wrong, good and evil, are creating my experience of “reality”, how can I undo this fearful and ungodly miscreation?
Meditation and prayer bring neutrality, open-mindedness, and trust to all perceptions.
Meditation and prayer are an invitation for vision, to see all things with the eyes of God.
Meditation and prayer open the way to perceive with wonder of a child.
Meditation and prayer heal my mind and my attitude that I might see the gift and the blessing.
Meditation and prayer encourage my heart to extend Love and my mind to be enlightened.
When I am healed, I am not healed alone.
When we forgive, erase with Love, we perceive the world new again.
Nothing is named or judged. Everything is new again.
To live fully and freely,
To live abundantly invites us to see ourselves
As beloved, protected and provided for,
With no need to worry or doubt or fear.
Is this reality?
Is the illusion we have made so convincing that we are stuck in the fearful, separated experience, a nightmare that consumes our thoughts, feelings, relationships and resources?
Can we now forgive, erase and release our judgments so that we can see rightly?
What would happen if we trusted in the Love that is our Source?
How would life be if we became as an innocent child?
Who would we be if we lived as the Holy Child of God we are?
What would we perceive if we saw all things as the journey to awakening?
How would life be if we lived in a state of peace and love and joy?
What is real?
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Monday, January 26, 2004
The Healing Power of Prayer
Four points were discussed by the author of this book on Hour of Power.
These feel important to pay attention to for all of us.
Prayer brings us close to God.
Within the prayerful relationship we experience intimacy with God.
Prayer changes us.
It helps to clarifies our priorities as we release unforgiveness and open to love, thus, experiencing what is real and of value.
Prayer enables the body to heal itself.
When we are in prayer we relax, quiet the fearful and judging mind and open to the natural healing energy of God.
Prayer releases God to perform miracles. The prayerful person lets go of fear and resistance and allows faith to release the healing energy. With faith in God, we are healed in mind. With peace, the natural flow of healing energy brings balance and healing to the body.
In prayer we may come from need and demand, to wishful thinking and bargaining, until we reach the moment of letting go of our misperceptions and fears to allow what is the Highest Good to be done through God. Not my will but Thine be done.
When you pray with all your heart and mind and soul, you know that God is at work in you.
Praying for forgiveness of all that is untrue and unloving,
Betty Lue
These feel important to pay attention to for all of us.
Prayer brings us close to God.
Within the prayerful relationship we experience intimacy with God.
Prayer changes us.
It helps to clarifies our priorities as we release unforgiveness and open to love, thus, experiencing what is real and of value.
Prayer enables the body to heal itself.
When we are in prayer we relax, quiet the fearful and judging mind and open to the natural healing energy of God.
Prayer releases God to perform miracles. The prayerful person lets go of fear and resistance and allows faith to release the healing energy. With faith in God, we are healed in mind. With peace, the natural flow of healing energy brings balance and healing to the body.
In prayer we may come from need and demand, to wishful thinking and bargaining, until we reach the moment of letting go of our misperceptions and fears to allow what is the Highest Good to be done through God. Not my will but Thine be done.
When you pray with all your heart and mind and soul, you know that God is at work in you.
Praying for forgiveness of all that is untrue and unloving,
Betty Lue
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Life Is A Full Time Job
Staying on track requires my full time intention.
Taking impeccable care of me requires my total investment.
Being completely honest with myself and others requires absolute vigilance.
Staying connected and attuned to Spirit asks nothing less than full commitment.
Life is a full time job.
Abundant living requires abundant investment.
Total healing asks total focus on wellness and wholeness.
Unconditional love demands loving myself without withhold, judgment or condition.
My life asks nothing less than to commit, forgive and give my All.
How could I possibly have time to tell others what to do?
How could I imagine I know what is best for you?
How can I take time away from what Spirit is guiding me to do to tell you what to do?
The best I can do is remind you of what I need to remind me, so that I remember.
In other words, relationships are all opportunities to hear ourselves and see ourselves and trust ourselves and believe ourselves and affirm ourselves and commit to ourselves and to love ourselves and to forgive ourselves and to befriend ourselves and to teach ourselves and to learn from ourselves and to unite with ourselves and to heal ourselves and to free ourselves to be ourselves.
I love reminding me of what I need to remember. Thank you.
Betty Lue
P.S.
In Kalamazoo, Michigan from Jan. 29-Feb. 1, with gratitude and love.
Taking impeccable care of me requires my total investment.
Being completely honest with myself and others requires absolute vigilance.
Staying connected and attuned to Spirit asks nothing less than full commitment.
Life is a full time job.
Abundant living requires abundant investment.
Total healing asks total focus on wellness and wholeness.
Unconditional love demands loving myself without withhold, judgment or condition.
My life asks nothing less than to commit, forgive and give my All.
How could I possibly have time to tell others what to do?
How could I imagine I know what is best for you?
How can I take time away from what Spirit is guiding me to do to tell you what to do?
The best I can do is remind you of what I need to remind me, so that I remember.
In other words, relationships are all opportunities to hear ourselves and see ourselves and trust ourselves and believe ourselves and affirm ourselves and commit to ourselves and to love ourselves and to forgive ourselves and to befriend ourselves and to teach ourselves and to learn from ourselves and to unite with ourselves and to heal ourselves and to free ourselves to be ourselves.
I love reminding me of what I need to remember. Thank you.
Betty Lue
P.S.
In Kalamazoo, Michigan from Jan. 29-Feb. 1, with gratitude and love.
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Doubts Deplete
Wherever we doubt or fear, we decrease our energy.
Wherever we trust and love, we increase our energy.
When I allow negative thinking, I negate, dis-empower and dilute my positive energy.
When I forgive myself and return to positive thinking, I erase and release my mis-direction.
When I listen to the Voice Within, to my heart, to Holy Spirit:
Saying “yes” is choosing to trust and move ahead.
Saying “ no” is choosing to stop and move away.
Saying “maybe” is choosing uncertainty and waiting.
I observe that when I judge my choices, I am confirming that I cannot trust myself.
I am affirming, I doubt and disbelieve in myself.
When I make choices from a place of fear, those choices deserve questioning their value and validity.
When I make choices from a place of love, contribution and goodness,
I must believe in them to create them Good and Whole and Beautiful.
Creations and choices for the Good of All are to be believed, trusted, affirmed and enjoyed.
We are here to create what is good and beautiful and holy.
Even when there is an apparency of difficulty, I must look to see the gifts, the helpers I meet, the people I call on, the lessons I learn, the opportunities to grow in faith or the encouragement to write this Loving Reminder.
Everything given to Spirit will be used for Good, my Good and the Good of others.
Whenever I judge or condemn, fear or doubt and try to fix the situation myself,
I hold the outcome away from the Spiritual Good that I am to see, believe and experience.
I choose to give my life, my choices, my path and purpose, my relationship and finances, my health and happiness to God, to Good, to create the Highest Good for everyone everywhere.
I choose to give my life to be an instrument of peace, an inspiration of Joy and a reminder of Love.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Wherever we trust and love, we increase our energy.
When I allow negative thinking, I negate, dis-empower and dilute my positive energy.
When I forgive myself and return to positive thinking, I erase and release my mis-direction.
When I listen to the Voice Within, to my heart, to Holy Spirit:
Saying “yes” is choosing to trust and move ahead.
Saying “ no” is choosing to stop and move away.
Saying “maybe” is choosing uncertainty and waiting.
I observe that when I judge my choices, I am confirming that I cannot trust myself.
I am affirming, I doubt and disbelieve in myself.
When I make choices from a place of fear, those choices deserve questioning their value and validity.
When I make choices from a place of love, contribution and goodness,
I must believe in them to create them Good and Whole and Beautiful.
Creations and choices for the Good of All are to be believed, trusted, affirmed and enjoyed.
We are here to create what is good and beautiful and holy.
Even when there is an apparency of difficulty, I must look to see the gifts, the helpers I meet, the people I call on, the lessons I learn, the opportunities to grow in faith or the encouragement to write this Loving Reminder.
Everything given to Spirit will be used for Good, my Good and the Good of others.
Whenever I judge or condemn, fear or doubt and try to fix the situation myself,
I hold the outcome away from the Spiritual Good that I am to see, believe and experience.
I choose to give my life, my choices, my path and purpose, my relationship and finances, my health and happiness to God, to Good, to create the Highest Good for everyone everywhere.
I choose to give my life to be an instrument of peace, an inspiration of Joy and a reminder of Love.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Friday, January 23, 2004
Commitment to What?
Are you committed to anyone or anything?
What do you value so much that you will not quit?
What is important enough for you to forgive and begin again?
What do you value enough to let go of the past and be wholly present?
What do you love enough to trust the Divine Outcome no matter what?
What have you given your life to?
For what have you given your time, money and energy?
Why are you here?
For what or for whom do you live?
What is your life purpose?
How much of yourself do you bring to your place of value?
What do you hold back from making a Holy committment?
Committed to respect for all beings?
Committed to loving without condition?
Committed to keeping your agreements?
Committed to being your best?
Committed to being grateful?
Watch how your life changes dramatically when keeping your commitment to what really matters to you.
Commitment changes your life.
Commit to what is good and beautiful and Holy.
Committed to loving you,
Betty Lue
What do you value so much that you will not quit?
What is important enough for you to forgive and begin again?
What do you value enough to let go of the past and be wholly present?
What do you love enough to trust the Divine Outcome no matter what?
What have you given your life to?
For what have you given your time, money and energy?
Why are you here?
For what or for whom do you live?
What is your life purpose?
How much of yourself do you bring to your place of value?
What do you hold back from making a Holy committment?
Committed to respect for all beings?
Committed to loving without condition?
Committed to keeping your agreements?
Committed to being your best?
Committed to being grateful?
Watch how your life changes dramatically when keeping your commitment to what really matters to you.
Commitment changes your life.
Commit to what is good and beautiful and Holy.
Committed to loving you,
Betty Lue
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Under the Weather?
What does that mean?
Letting the weather, the quality of our consciousness affect our well being?
I am responsible for how I respond to whatever I experience.
How I respond to my experience affects the experience I have and how long it lasts.
Some say we are responsible for illness.
Some say it all is gift or a lesson to learn.
Some say we are responsible for our thoughts about illness.
Some say we are responsible for how we respond to an illness.
Some say we are responsible for treating ourselves with love and respect no matter what the appearance.
What do you think about illness? What is your philosophy or belief?
When I judge anyone or anything, the experience lingers and gets stuck in my consciousness.
What we resist persists.
When I am forgiving, the experience naturally moves on through like passing clouds.
What we embrace, softens in gentleness and love.
How do you treat those who are sick, in pain, having difficulty physically or mentally?
All my life I have been privileged to be available to those who are ill, suffering and dying.
While it is not the most joyous experience, I find it extremely rewarding, a true loving reminder.
Whenever there is love, there is healing.
Whenever there is acceptance, there is peace.
Whenever there is compassion, there is shared experience.
Whenever there is kindness, there is love.
What do you seek when you are ill, in need or in pain?
Solitude or companionship?
Quiet focus or distraction?
Encouragement or sympathy?
Time to heal from within or external cures?
For me…trust in my natural healing process..
Give it to God and know I am healed.
See me whole no matter how it might appear.
Love me as I am and judge (fear) nothing.
These reminders are for me and you to be clear about how best to love one another.
Remember, when you don’t know, just ask.
I am listening,
Betty Lue
Letting the weather, the quality of our consciousness affect our well being?
I am responsible for how I respond to whatever I experience.
How I respond to my experience affects the experience I have and how long it lasts.
Some say we are responsible for illness.
Some say it all is gift or a lesson to learn.
Some say we are responsible for our thoughts about illness.
Some say we are responsible for how we respond to an illness.
Some say we are responsible for treating ourselves with love and respect no matter what the appearance.
What do you think about illness? What is your philosophy or belief?
When I judge anyone or anything, the experience lingers and gets stuck in my consciousness.
What we resist persists.
When I am forgiving, the experience naturally moves on through like passing clouds.
What we embrace, softens in gentleness and love.
How do you treat those who are sick, in pain, having difficulty physically or mentally?
All my life I have been privileged to be available to those who are ill, suffering and dying.
While it is not the most joyous experience, I find it extremely rewarding, a true loving reminder.
Whenever there is love, there is healing.
Whenever there is acceptance, there is peace.
Whenever there is compassion, there is shared experience.
Whenever there is kindness, there is love.
What do you seek when you are ill, in need or in pain?
Solitude or companionship?
Quiet focus or distraction?
Encouragement or sympathy?
Time to heal from within or external cures?
For me…trust in my natural healing process..
Give it to God and know I am healed.
See me whole no matter how it might appear.
Love me as I am and judge (fear) nothing.
These reminders are for me and you to be clear about how best to love one another.
Remember, when you don’t know, just ask.
I am listening,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Letting Go
Whenever there is stress, upset, uncertainty, crisis, disease, difficulty,
letting go is the fun, safe and easy way to return to the natural state of peace, love, joy and fulfillment.
Undo what is not true.
Release the blocks to certainty and confidence.
Erase the limiting patterns of behavior, thinking and speaking.
Clear the fear, worry, guilt and regret.
Forgive judgments.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Undoing is like taking a spiritual shower.
Wash away the limiting beliefs, the negative programming, historical perspectives.
The ego likes to be right.
The ego clings to its own prophecies and justifications.
The ego seeks to keep what is familiar in place.
The ego surrounds itself with examples and associations that support its position.
The ego tends to be stubborn and unchanging.
The ego trusts in what it sees and will not accept responsibility for its perceptions.
The ego creates a fortress for defending its agenda.
I now let go of letting my ego run the show.
I now easily and gently lay aside all that I have placed as obstacles on my path.
I now freely and easily love myself into wholeness.
I now release everything that is not wholly true and totally loving of me and All.
Letting go of excess pounds is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of any apparent illness is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of faulty beliefs is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of activities and associations that support my ego is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of any limiting history is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of my acquired things and achievements is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of allowing others emotions, neediness or limiting beliefs to control my choices is fun, safe and easy.
Wow! That was fun, safe and easy.
What anyone of us does is a gift for everyone of us.
Such is the Truth.
Loving you and me,
Betty Lue
letting go is the fun, safe and easy way to return to the natural state of peace, love, joy and fulfillment.
Undo what is not true.
Release the blocks to certainty and confidence.
Erase the limiting patterns of behavior, thinking and speaking.
Clear the fear, worry, guilt and regret.
Forgive judgments.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Undoing is like taking a spiritual shower.
Wash away the limiting beliefs, the negative programming, historical perspectives.
The ego likes to be right.
The ego clings to its own prophecies and justifications.
The ego seeks to keep what is familiar in place.
The ego surrounds itself with examples and associations that support its position.
The ego tends to be stubborn and unchanging.
The ego trusts in what it sees and will not accept responsibility for its perceptions.
The ego creates a fortress for defending its agenda.
I now let go of letting my ego run the show.
I now easily and gently lay aside all that I have placed as obstacles on my path.
I now freely and easily love myself into wholeness.
I now release everything that is not wholly true and totally loving of me and All.
Letting go of excess pounds is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of any apparent illness is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of faulty beliefs is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of activities and associations that support my ego is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of any limiting history is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of my acquired things and achievements is fun, safe and easy.
Letting go of allowing others emotions, neediness or limiting beliefs to control my choices is fun, safe and easy.
Wow! That was fun, safe and easy.
What anyone of us does is a gift for everyone of us.
Such is the Truth.
Loving you and me,
Betty Lue
Monday, January 19, 2004
Look Beyond the Apparency
Can you see beneath the surface?
Can you see your brother as yourself?
Can you see beyond the skin tone?
Can you feel the same call for love as is in you?
Can you see beneath the anger?
Can you feel the fear and hurt calling for someone to listen and let go?
Can you see beyond the illness?
Can you see the essence, the heart of the being who is created by our Creator?
Can you see beyond the poverty?
Can you feel the same need to provide for one’s family?
Can you see beneath the ignorance?
Can you see the hunger and despair seeking for a better way?
Can you see beyond the immaturity, the emotional displays?
Can you feel the calling of the soul to live, to learn, to love?
Can you see beyond what appears in the personality, the body the behavior?
Can you find within the same Love that lives in you?
Can you call it forth?
Can you sing it lullabies of peace and reassurance?
Can you speak in tones which are safe and gentle?
Can you ask questions which are meaningful?
Can you listen with an open mind?
Can you reach out with a compassionate heart?
Can you give what you have to One who is the same beneath the apparency?
Loving you in loving All,
Betty Lue
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Can you see your brother as yourself?
Can you see beyond the skin tone?
Can you feel the same call for love as is in you?
Can you see beneath the anger?
Can you feel the fear and hurt calling for someone to listen and let go?
Can you see beyond the illness?
Can you see the essence, the heart of the being who is created by our Creator?
Can you see beyond the poverty?
Can you feel the same need to provide for one’s family?
Can you see beneath the ignorance?
Can you see the hunger and despair seeking for a better way?
Can you see beyond the immaturity, the emotional displays?
Can you feel the calling of the soul to live, to learn, to love?
Can you see beyond what appears in the personality, the body the behavior?
Can you find within the same Love that lives in you?
Can you call it forth?
Can you sing it lullabies of peace and reassurance?
Can you speak in tones which are safe and gentle?
Can you ask questions which are meaningful?
Can you listen with an open mind?
Can you reach out with a compassionate heart?
Can you give what you have to One who is the same beneath the apparency?
Loving you in loving All,
Betty Lue
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Sunday, January 18, 2004
What Is Love?
Love is energy.
Love is creative.
Love is eternal.
Love is healing.
Love flows.
Love extends.
Love cannot be destroyed.
Love never ends.
Love is all there really is.
Love is not an emotion.
Love is not temporary.
Love is not earned.
Love is not erased.
Judgment, fear, anger, hurt may hide the awareness of Love.
Love can be forgotten.
Love may be misunderstood.
Love is sometimes overlooked.
Some say, God is Love and Love is God.
In this world, we often block the awareness of Love’s Presence.
Love is real no matter what may be the appearance.
Forgiveness is a tool which can be used to clear our perception.
Forgiveness can erase our judgments.
Forgiveness can clear our fear.
Forgiveness can remove our self-made obstacles to the awareness of Love’s Presence.
Forgiveness is our Holy work.
Forgiveness is the path to peace and understanding.
I forgive myself for limiting my perception.
I forgive myself for fearing Love.
I forgive myself for forgetting to Love.
I forgive my world for teaching me Love is unsafe.
I forgive myself for hiding the Love in me.
I forgive myself for letting anyone or anything keep me from Love.
I am Love created by Love for the purpose of being Love.
Betty Lue
Love is creative.
Love is eternal.
Love is healing.
Love flows.
Love extends.
Love cannot be destroyed.
Love never ends.
Love is all there really is.
Love is not an emotion.
Love is not temporary.
Love is not earned.
Love is not erased.
Judgment, fear, anger, hurt may hide the awareness of Love.
Love can be forgotten.
Love may be misunderstood.
Love is sometimes overlooked.
Some say, God is Love and Love is God.
In this world, we often block the awareness of Love’s Presence.
Love is real no matter what may be the appearance.
Forgiveness is a tool which can be used to clear our perception.
Forgiveness can erase our judgments.
Forgiveness can clear our fear.
Forgiveness can remove our self-made obstacles to the awareness of Love’s Presence.
Forgiveness is our Holy work.
Forgiveness is the path to peace and understanding.
I forgive myself for limiting my perception.
I forgive myself for fearing Love.
I forgive myself for forgetting to Love.
I forgive my world for teaching me Love is unsafe.
I forgive myself for hiding the Love in me.
I forgive myself for letting anyone or anything keep me from Love.
I am Love created by Love for the purpose of being Love.
Betty Lue
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Brief Reminders in Response to You
Tithing and Giving
Give to what gives to you. Contribute time, money and energy where you are energized and fulfilled.
Feed the activities and associations that inspire, teach, heal and bless your life.
This can be a school, a church, a person, a cause, and definitely to yourself (ie vacation/retreat to renew your whole Self or a new car to stop worry about breakdown or air pollution or whatever brings you into your natural state of joy, love and peace.)
Giving to what drains, sucks, depletes, fatigues and depresses you only yields more of the same.
Pay attention to where you spend your money and where you give your thoughts. Let go of what no longer works for you.
Is It for You or for Others?
People who want to do something for themselves often try to convince others they are doing it for them.
This demonstrates their guilt about choosing for themselves.
Be honest about what you want.
Be honest about whether fear or love guide your path.
Trust whatever is truly best for you is always best for others.
Commitment must be made on the basis of what is Good for you. Otherwise it becomes duty /obligation.
I choose what is for the Highest Good and always include myself.
I listen to my doubts and fears only as an indicator of where I am being misled by my ego/separated self.
I choose for what brings happiness and peace.
Where there is conflict, I am not hearing the Voice of Spirit. So I ask and listen again.
EveryOne Is Equal
When we are living on purpose and sharing our gifts fully and freely, we are all perfectly playing our part on the stage of life.
When we are withholding, judging ourselves or doubting our worth, we limit, confuse and distort the part we play.
We often get stuck with a diminished role or identity. We see ourselves as being treated unfairly or less than equal.
To be free:
I forgive myself for limiting myself.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
I now easily recognize and release all the judgments and fears that have kept me from fully being present, alive, alert and enthusiastic in life.
We are all equal, no matter how we act, think or speak.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Give to what gives to you. Contribute time, money and energy where you are energized and fulfilled.
Feed the activities and associations that inspire, teach, heal and bless your life.
This can be a school, a church, a person, a cause, and definitely to yourself (ie vacation/retreat to renew your whole Self or a new car to stop worry about breakdown or air pollution or whatever brings you into your natural state of joy, love and peace.)
Giving to what drains, sucks, depletes, fatigues and depresses you only yields more of the same.
Pay attention to where you spend your money and where you give your thoughts. Let go of what no longer works for you.
Is It for You or for Others?
People who want to do something for themselves often try to convince others they are doing it for them.
This demonstrates their guilt about choosing for themselves.
Be honest about what you want.
Be honest about whether fear or love guide your path.
Trust whatever is truly best for you is always best for others.
Commitment must be made on the basis of what is Good for you. Otherwise it becomes duty /obligation.
I choose what is for the Highest Good and always include myself.
I listen to my doubts and fears only as an indicator of where I am being misled by my ego/separated self.
I choose for what brings happiness and peace.
Where there is conflict, I am not hearing the Voice of Spirit. So I ask and listen again.
EveryOne Is Equal
When we are living on purpose and sharing our gifts fully and freely, we are all perfectly playing our part on the stage of life.
When we are withholding, judging ourselves or doubting our worth, we limit, confuse and distort the part we play.
We often get stuck with a diminished role or identity. We see ourselves as being treated unfairly or less than equal.
To be free:
I forgive myself for limiting myself.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
I now easily recognize and release all the judgments and fears that have kept me from fully being present, alive, alert and enthusiastic in life.
We are all equal, no matter how we act, think or speak.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Friday, January 16, 2004
Everyone is Our Teacher
The age of gurus is past. The time of inner reflection and direction has come, for those who are willing to take responsibility for their own lives. It is easy to give credit and blame to someone else for the life you experience. It is easy to allow others to lead your parade. It is easy to ride through life on the “destiny” or “luck” train, but it takes willingness to be conscious and responsible to know you are choosing your destination and even the experiences you have along the way.
All my life I have seen everyone as equal…the infant and my great grandma, both rich and poor, expressive and quiet, educated and simple. I have learned from everyone. I love to learn, therefore I observe. I listen. I explore, I wonder. I reflect. I experiment.
Life is my teacher. As you live your life and allow me the privilege of learning from you and through your life choices, I can more easily see and follow the path of my choice. I choose light. I choose joy. I choose helpfulness. I choose freedom. I choose peace. I choose wonder and delight. I choose respect. I choose what is for the Highest Good. I choose teamwork and togetherness. I choose independence and solitude. I choose forgiveness and love. I choose all these qualities because I have admired, appreciated and valued the lives of those who choose likewise.
I learn from those whose lives and choices I value and appreciate.
I learn from those whose lives and choices I prefer not to experience.
I choose to let go of what interferes with the values and life I choose.
It is simple. Follow the master whom you value.
Live the qualities you enjoy and prefer.
Whose life do you admire?
What do you appreciate in others?
What is the life experience you most value?
Let those who live this way be your example, the doormen to open the doors of possibility for you.
Choose and be responsible for your choices.
Forgive and let go when you have allowed someone or something to mislead you.
Simply choose again. Every mistake is an opportunity for a new choice.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
All my life I have seen everyone as equal…the infant and my great grandma, both rich and poor, expressive and quiet, educated and simple. I have learned from everyone. I love to learn, therefore I observe. I listen. I explore, I wonder. I reflect. I experiment.
Life is my teacher. As you live your life and allow me the privilege of learning from you and through your life choices, I can more easily see and follow the path of my choice. I choose light. I choose joy. I choose helpfulness. I choose freedom. I choose peace. I choose wonder and delight. I choose respect. I choose what is for the Highest Good. I choose teamwork and togetherness. I choose independence and solitude. I choose forgiveness and love. I choose all these qualities because I have admired, appreciated and valued the lives of those who choose likewise.
I learn from those whose lives and choices I value and appreciate.
I learn from those whose lives and choices I prefer not to experience.
I choose to let go of what interferes with the values and life I choose.
It is simple. Follow the master whom you value.
Live the qualities you enjoy and prefer.
Whose life do you admire?
What do you appreciate in others?
What is the life experience you most value?
Let those who live this way be your example, the doormen to open the doors of possibility for you.
Choose and be responsible for your choices.
Forgive and let go when you have allowed someone or something to mislead you.
Simply choose again. Every mistake is an opportunity for a new choice.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Giving Your Gifts
When you share your wisdom, extend your love and radiate joy, be aware of your attachment to the response.
Are you giving to get something in return?
Are you giving to enjoy the gifts you give?
Are you giving just because it flows freely and naturally?
Are you giving to spread the love and Light you are?
Are you giving to make sure others get it?
Are you giving to appreciate the gifts you have?
Are you giving to yourself?
When I wait to be appreciated, acknowledge or affirmed, I am attached to the outcome.
When I wish others would “Get it”, I am attached to their response.
When I want my contribution to make a difference, it matters to me how I am received.
When I get hurt or offended, resentful or withholding, I am at the effect of the other.
And those with whom we are in relationship can feel our attachment.
When others feel conditional giving, they become conditional in their response.
When others feel our caution and withholding, they too become cautious and withholding.
When others fear their response will hurt our feelings, they often separate and avoid intimacy.
When others feel guilty about causing us pain, they often become fearful and distance themselves.
How attached are you to the reception of the gifts you give?
How affected are you by the response to your gifts?
How much do you need others to accept and appreciate?
How much do you take very personally the way others treat you?
What is true?
Others give what they have to give.
Others respond according to their current state....love or fear.
Others are a reflection of parts of the self.
Others often are calling for forgiveness and love.
Others are often playing the part of some unhealed experience from our own history.
Others often are unconscious and ignorant about how to respond differently.
Others are often getting a mixed message about what we really want from and with them.
Others represent opportunities for healing.
Celebrate every upset, disappointment, and emotional button that is pushed.
It shows you what is calling for clearing, forgiveness and healing in you.
Be grateful for the opportunity to see and feel what needs to heal from within.
When we are filled with light and love, there is only light and love.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Are you giving to get something in return?
Are you giving to enjoy the gifts you give?
Are you giving just because it flows freely and naturally?
Are you giving to spread the love and Light you are?
Are you giving to make sure others get it?
Are you giving to appreciate the gifts you have?
Are you giving to yourself?
When I wait to be appreciated, acknowledge or affirmed, I am attached to the outcome.
When I wish others would “Get it”, I am attached to their response.
When I want my contribution to make a difference, it matters to me how I am received.
When I get hurt or offended, resentful or withholding, I am at the effect of the other.
And those with whom we are in relationship can feel our attachment.
When others feel conditional giving, they become conditional in their response.
When others feel our caution and withholding, they too become cautious and withholding.
When others fear their response will hurt our feelings, they often separate and avoid intimacy.
When others feel guilty about causing us pain, they often become fearful and distance themselves.
How attached are you to the reception of the gifts you give?
How affected are you by the response to your gifts?
How much do you need others to accept and appreciate?
How much do you take very personally the way others treat you?
What is true?
Others give what they have to give.
Others respond according to their current state....love or fear.
Others are a reflection of parts of the self.
Others often are calling for forgiveness and love.
Others are often playing the part of some unhealed experience from our own history.
Others often are unconscious and ignorant about how to respond differently.
Others are often getting a mixed message about what we really want from and with them.
Others represent opportunities for healing.
Celebrate every upset, disappointment, and emotional button that is pushed.
It shows you what is calling for clearing, forgiveness and healing in you.
Be grateful for the opportunity to see and feel what needs to heal from within.
When we are filled with light and love, there is only light and love.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Balance and Integration
Finding ones balance requires standing up for oneself.
Being confident and clear requires living in integrity with one’s true values.
When I am clear, I can take a stand for what is true for me.
When I am serving others’ values, I lose a sense of my integrity, my self and my worth.
Is sustaining our relationships with others most important?
Or are we to use our relationships to discover our primary relationship with ourselves and our “God”?
When I listen to what you want from me, think about me or criticize in me, you become my God, my Source, my guidepost as to what to be, what to say and what to do with my life.
When I listen to what I want for me, what I believe about me, what I need to improve in me, I become the author of my own life.
When I listen to my Essence, my Creator, the inner voice, I am called to think and say and do what is for the Highest Good.
Who is the author of your life?
What is the source of your beliefs, values and current state of mind?
How do you listen within to find what is wanted and needed there?
What time do you take to honor your own calling?
How much are you invested in being here for yourself or for others?
Are you here to serve others needs, so they will not serve their own?
Are you here to serve your own needs so you will not need others?
Are you here to teach others to meet their own needs, as you model honoring your own path?
Dependent..Independent..Interdependent.
Where are you in relationship to God, to Self, to Source?
What does it look and feel like to be dependent on God?
What does it look and feel like to be dependent on yourself?
Is your life a tightrope or a freeway?
Does your life have a safety net or is this a death-defying adventure?
How can you find and maintain your balance on the tightrope of your life?
Do you have traveling companions or are you a lone pioneer?
What is it you are learning as you experience the pitfalls, along the way?
Wow, that self-reflection could take a lifetime….
And so it does.
What an awesome and wonderful journey!
Betty Lue
Being confident and clear requires living in integrity with one’s true values.
When I am clear, I can take a stand for what is true for me.
When I am serving others’ values, I lose a sense of my integrity, my self and my worth.
Is sustaining our relationships with others most important?
Or are we to use our relationships to discover our primary relationship with ourselves and our “God”?
When I listen to what you want from me, think about me or criticize in me, you become my God, my Source, my guidepost as to what to be, what to say and what to do with my life.
When I listen to what I want for me, what I believe about me, what I need to improve in me, I become the author of my own life.
When I listen to my Essence, my Creator, the inner voice, I am called to think and say and do what is for the Highest Good.
Who is the author of your life?
What is the source of your beliefs, values and current state of mind?
How do you listen within to find what is wanted and needed there?
What time do you take to honor your own calling?
How much are you invested in being here for yourself or for others?
Are you here to serve others needs, so they will not serve their own?
Are you here to serve your own needs so you will not need others?
Are you here to teach others to meet their own needs, as you model honoring your own path?
Dependent..Independent..Interdependent.
Where are you in relationship to God, to Self, to Source?
What does it look and feel like to be dependent on God?
What does it look and feel like to be dependent on yourself?
Is your life a tightrope or a freeway?
Does your life have a safety net or is this a death-defying adventure?
How can you find and maintain your balance on the tightrope of your life?
Do you have traveling companions or are you a lone pioneer?
What is it you are learning as you experience the pitfalls, along the way?
Wow, that self-reflection could take a lifetime….
And so it does.
What an awesome and wonderful journey!
Betty Lue
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Life is Changing...... Are You?
As I watch our world transform, I see masculine energies closing down, needing a respite from long overuse and abuse.
I see the feminine being called forth in a surge of earnest longing for healing, for recognition of the Earth, the Mother, the Love we are. Where the masculine and feminine unite, there lies creation, insight, vision and great joy and peace. Where we resist, judge and fear the apparent polar opposite, there is depletion, disintegration, limited perception, depression and often fear and violence. (Read the best seller, DaVinci Code).
Over the years I have often spoken about and referred to what I have called the spiritual leadership of the feminine. There is a calling forth of the feminine Christ, a hunger for the missing piece of our holy selves. The Holy Grail refers to plugging into that which is wholly Loving, sipping of the cup of profound inner peace.
How do we claim what we have not named?
What is the place in your life that is missing?
Where are you bereft and in grief?
Where are you angry and afraid?
What do you seek and hunger for?
What are you doing to complete the whole of your life?
What are you offering to yourself that will fulfill your hunger?
How can you give to others when you have not fully given to yourself?
What would it take for you to be fulfilled and enlightened?
How do you hide the light from your life?
Where do you withhold love from yourself?
Where you have needs, fill them.
Where you seek Love, clear the fear of finding it.
Love yourself Holy and Love will wholly Love You,
Betty Lue
I see the feminine being called forth in a surge of earnest longing for healing, for recognition of the Earth, the Mother, the Love we are. Where the masculine and feminine unite, there lies creation, insight, vision and great joy and peace. Where we resist, judge and fear the apparent polar opposite, there is depletion, disintegration, limited perception, depression and often fear and violence. (Read the best seller, DaVinci Code).
Over the years I have often spoken about and referred to what I have called the spiritual leadership of the feminine. There is a calling forth of the feminine Christ, a hunger for the missing piece of our holy selves. The Holy Grail refers to plugging into that which is wholly Loving, sipping of the cup of profound inner peace.
How do we claim what we have not named?
What is the place in your life that is missing?
Where are you bereft and in grief?
Where are you angry and afraid?
What do you seek and hunger for?
What are you doing to complete the whole of your life?
What are you offering to yourself that will fulfill your hunger?
How can you give to others when you have not fully given to yourself?
What would it take for you to be fulfilled and enlightened?
How do you hide the light from your life?
Where do you withhold love from yourself?
Where you have needs, fill them.
Where you seek Love, clear the fear of finding it.
Love yourself Holy and Love will wholly Love You,
Betty Lue
Monday, January 12, 2004
Forgiveness Restores
Love makes all things new again.
Love makes relationships new.
Love makes the world new.
Love makes our bodies new.
Love is the absence of judgment, criticism, resentment, anger, hurt, woundedness, regret, fear and all those emotions, energetic clouds of inter-fearance.
If you imagine that emotions are temporary blocks to the awareness of the presence of Love, then you might trust that underneath, and in Truth Love is always present beneath those clouds. The illusion of judgment and fear is supported by our misperceptions which are distortions of what is present. Without judgment we would see things as they are without comparison, categorization and reference to past experience. “Ahhh… that is interesting? How amazing! Wonder-full!” would be our response to what is.
Forgiveness is the grand restorer.
Forgiveness is a mental and emotional eraser.
Forgiveness clears our vision.
Forgiveness seeks to see what is.
Forgiveness knows not what anything is for.
Forgiveness restores all to its natural state.
Love is our natural state.
Peace is our natural state.
Wholeness is our natural state.
With forgiveness and Love we see all things new again.
Just imagine what would be your experience if all things were new again.
Just imagine if you would see what is without fear and judgment.
Just imagine how you life would be if you were in love all the time.
Just imagine how beautiful, good and whole you would see all your creations.
Just imagine.
Loving you always new,
Betty Lue
Love makes relationships new.
Love makes the world new.
Love makes our bodies new.
Love is the absence of judgment, criticism, resentment, anger, hurt, woundedness, regret, fear and all those emotions, energetic clouds of inter-fearance.
If you imagine that emotions are temporary blocks to the awareness of the presence of Love, then you might trust that underneath, and in Truth Love is always present beneath those clouds. The illusion of judgment and fear is supported by our misperceptions which are distortions of what is present. Without judgment we would see things as they are without comparison, categorization and reference to past experience. “Ahhh… that is interesting? How amazing! Wonder-full!” would be our response to what is.
Forgiveness is the grand restorer.
Forgiveness is a mental and emotional eraser.
Forgiveness clears our vision.
Forgiveness seeks to see what is.
Forgiveness knows not what anything is for.
Forgiveness restores all to its natural state.
Love is our natural state.
Peace is our natural state.
Wholeness is our natural state.
With forgiveness and Love we see all things new again.
Just imagine what would be your experience if all things were new again.
Just imagine if you would see what is without fear and judgment.
Just imagine how you life would be if you were in love all the time.
Just imagine how beautiful, good and whole you would see all your creations.
Just imagine.
Loving you always new,
Betty Lue
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Whole Self Renewal
Love makes all things new.
You are Love created for the purpose of Loving.
Where are you to begin? With You, of course.
Love created You from Love as Love for Love.
The most awesome gift you will ever receive is your Self.
Your gift to your creator is to love the gift you have been given.
So Love You and You shall be made new again and again.
To renew your whole and holy Self is to let go of everything that is not whole, true and loving of you.
Be aware.…
What is not good for you?
What scares you?
What limits you?
What distracts you?
What confuses you?
What drains you?
What is no loving you?
Likewise…
What is best for you?
What assures you?
What frees you?
What focuses you?
What clarifies for you?
What fulfills you?
What loves you?
Life is filled with opportunities for unconsciousness and forgetting.
How do you remind yourself of what is true?
How do you remember?
How do you keep loving you?
How to you stay in love?
Remember….
Wherever you are not loving you, you are off path.
Wherever you are upset, you are off purpose.
Wherever you are losing energy, you are following a mistaken source.
Loving you by loving me.
Reminding you as I am reminded.
Betty Lue
You are Love created for the purpose of Loving.
Where are you to begin? With You, of course.
Love created You from Love as Love for Love.
The most awesome gift you will ever receive is your Self.
Your gift to your creator is to love the gift you have been given.
So Love You and You shall be made new again and again.
To renew your whole and holy Self is to let go of everything that is not whole, true and loving of you.
Be aware.…
What is not good for you?
What scares you?
What limits you?
What distracts you?
What confuses you?
What drains you?
What is no loving you?
Likewise…
What is best for you?
What assures you?
What frees you?
What focuses you?
What clarifies for you?
What fulfills you?
What loves you?
Life is filled with opportunities for unconsciousness and forgetting.
How do you remind yourself of what is true?
How do you remember?
How do you keep loving you?
How to you stay in love?
Remember….
Wherever you are not loving you, you are off path.
Wherever you are upset, you are off purpose.
Wherever you are losing energy, you are following a mistaken source.
Loving you by loving me.
Reminding you as I am reminded.
Betty Lue
Saturday, January 10, 2004
Why Do It?
Why should you get up in the morning?
Why teach what you want to learn?
Why give your best?
Why keep your promises?
Why be forgiving?
Why heal the past?
Why learn how to love unconditionally?
Why trust God?
Why take care of your Self?
Why be honest and fair?
Why reach out and touch others’ lives with Goodness?
Because….
It is the right thing to do.
It feels good.
It creates a better world for you and others, too.
Whatever you think and say and do teaches everyone everywhere.
When we are not living the way we want our world to be, we help it slide into unconscious error, selfishness, violence and craziness.
When we find and live a better way, we see the results in our own life.
We are healthier, happier and more Fulfilled.
I see life can be fun, safe and easy, because I Am.
Betty Lue
Why teach what you want to learn?
Why give your best?
Why keep your promises?
Why be forgiving?
Why heal the past?
Why learn how to love unconditionally?
Why trust God?
Why take care of your Self?
Why be honest and fair?
Why reach out and touch others’ lives with Goodness?
Because….
It is the right thing to do.
It feels good.
It creates a better world for you and others, too.
Whatever you think and say and do teaches everyone everywhere.
When we are not living the way we want our world to be, we help it slide into unconscious error, selfishness, violence and craziness.
When we find and live a better way, we see the results in our own life.
We are healthier, happier and more Fulfilled.
I see life can be fun, safe and easy, because I Am.
Betty Lue
Friday, January 09, 2004
Are You Living Your Truth?
What do you value?
Is this how you live?
Where you say one thing and do another, you lose integrity.
Where you value something, but ignore it in daily life, you lose confidence.
Where you believe but do not live, you lose energy.
Living our values consistently, openly and authentically gives us power, confidence and certainty.
Where we live in integrity with what we believe, we are fearless and formidable.
Where we function honoring our highest truths, life is fun, safe and easy.
Where we dismiss and ignore our true values, we cause doubt, depression, sickness and despair.
My guideline is that when I am upset for any reason, I am off purpose. I am not living my values.
Guidelines for this new year and ever new moment.
Clarify your values. They change, so ask again.
Find the top three values for you by comparing them.
Do I value more travel or security?
Do I value more family or money?
Do I value more spiritual Truth or harmony?
The biggest areas of ego/spirit conflict seem to be God or money?.... Another’s happiness or my own?
Assess your integrity.
Note how you spend your time, energy and money.
Are you living what you say you value?
Do you spend your time and your money on what really matters to you?
Do you spend your mental and emotional energy on what has heart and meaning for you?
Do you value family pain and problems? Or do you value family harmony and happiness?
To what do you give your attention, conversation, support and effort?
Do you value your health and wellbeing or your physical problems and disabilities?
Where do you focus your thoughts, spending and conversation?
Forgive your dishonesty, lack of commitment, unconsciousness and choose again.
It takes courage to be wholly responsible for your life. It takes courage to be honest with yourself.
Once you are aware of where you are living a lie, you can correct it by choosing the truth.
What we value shows up in our lives.
What we value is where we place our attention….our time, money and energy.
What we value is our gift to ourselves.
If you don’t like the gifts you are receiving, check out your integrity and your values.
Some values to consider: RESPECT, HONESTY, FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, COMMUNITY, GENEROSITY, PATIENCE, TRUST, FAITH, LOVE, GOD, HEALTH, HAPPINESS, GOODWILL, PEACE, CHARITY, SERVICE, ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATION, INSPIRATION, EXCELLENCE, MASTERY, PRIOSPERITY, WEALTH, BEAUTY, NATURE, CREATIVITY, RESPONSIBILITY, COOPERATION, UNION, PLEASURE, TRAVEL, FREEDOM, SECURITY, POWER, PRESTIGE, WISDOM, HELPFULNESS, SELF CONFIDENCE. FUN, FULFILLMENT.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
Is this how you live?
Where you say one thing and do another, you lose integrity.
Where you value something, but ignore it in daily life, you lose confidence.
Where you believe but do not live, you lose energy.
Living our values consistently, openly and authentically gives us power, confidence and certainty.
Where we live in integrity with what we believe, we are fearless and formidable.
Where we function honoring our highest truths, life is fun, safe and easy.
Where we dismiss and ignore our true values, we cause doubt, depression, sickness and despair.
My guideline is that when I am upset for any reason, I am off purpose. I am not living my values.
Guidelines for this new year and ever new moment.
Clarify your values. They change, so ask again.
Find the top three values for you by comparing them.
Do I value more travel or security?
Do I value more family or money?
Do I value more spiritual Truth or harmony?
The biggest areas of ego/spirit conflict seem to be God or money?.... Another’s happiness or my own?
Assess your integrity.
Note how you spend your time, energy and money.
Are you living what you say you value?
Do you spend your time and your money on what really matters to you?
Do you spend your mental and emotional energy on what has heart and meaning for you?
Do you value family pain and problems? Or do you value family harmony and happiness?
To what do you give your attention, conversation, support and effort?
Do you value your health and wellbeing or your physical problems and disabilities?
Where do you focus your thoughts, spending and conversation?
Forgive your dishonesty, lack of commitment, unconsciousness and choose again.
It takes courage to be wholly responsible for your life. It takes courage to be honest with yourself.
Once you are aware of where you are living a lie, you can correct it by choosing the truth.
What we value shows up in our lives.
What we value is where we place our attention….our time, money and energy.
What we value is our gift to ourselves.
If you don’t like the gifts you are receiving, check out your integrity and your values.
Some values to consider: RESPECT, HONESTY, FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, COMMUNITY, GENEROSITY, PATIENCE, TRUST, FAITH, LOVE, GOD, HEALTH, HAPPINESS, GOODWILL, PEACE, CHARITY, SERVICE, ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATION, INSPIRATION, EXCELLENCE, MASTERY, PRIOSPERITY, WEALTH, BEAUTY, NATURE, CREATIVITY, RESPONSIBILITY, COOPERATION, UNION, PLEASURE, TRAVEL, FREEDOM, SECURITY, POWER, PRESTIGE, WISDOM, HELPFULNESS, SELF CONFIDENCE. FUN, FULFILLMENT.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Interdependence Anyone?
I have wandered around this world seeking to play the game of life with those who would let Spirit lead.
I have tried following and leading, teaching and learning, giving and receiving, listening and staying silent, watching and participating, talking and encouraging.
I have created and destroyed, built up and let go, created safe havens and moved on, been enthused and disappointed.
Life is an amazing place of realization of the Self We Are, the One I Am.
You can’t push the river.
No matter how much I see us all working together as one family, joined in vision and purpose, honest and true, equally giving and receiving, committed to the Highest good for All, and totally responsible and able to respond to what is being called forth, the reality of this Vision is not yet it seems. Is this true? Are you seeking for interdependent spiritual partnership?
Stages of Development for the Children of God, the peoples of this Earth
Dependence. This stage is necessary for infants dependent on their parents for nourishment, learning and love. So it is for those in spiritual infancy. We need to be told and shown what to do. We want to know what is right and what is wrong. We need to be given to until we recognize we are whole. We seek and suckle. We give only to get what we want.
Independence. This stage is the separation from the apparent Source of our survival, identity, happiness, livelihood and direction. We often hate, run away, resist, criticize and try to abolish those we have depended on. We seek control, perfection and winning the game of life. I don’t’ want you to tell me what to do, I want to do it myself. Me, first. All I have is mine to do with as I want.
Interdependence. This stage is reached when there is self-actualization, completion and fulfillment of our self-initiated attempt to be something and achieve what we have designed for ourselves. There comes a time when we are complete and seek for Union with God, in living in and giving to the Highest Good, in being One with All. In this stage we connect with an inner calling to play our part with a fullness of Spirit, seeking nothing and giving All. The journey looks like many separate travelers all headed home. To love, support and encourage one another is natural, as we are the family of God. Whatever I can do to help and support you is a gift to us all.
Recognizing and accepting where you are brings peace and understanding.
Honoring and valuing your place in the wheel of life encourages trust in the process of humanity.
Be fully where you are with respect and gratitude and you will open the flow in your own spiritual development.
Where we are stuck is where we judge.
Where we appreciate and bless is where we grow.
I Am Who I Am,
Betty Lue
I have tried following and leading, teaching and learning, giving and receiving, listening and staying silent, watching and participating, talking and encouraging.
I have created and destroyed, built up and let go, created safe havens and moved on, been enthused and disappointed.
Life is an amazing place of realization of the Self We Are, the One I Am.
You can’t push the river.
No matter how much I see us all working together as one family, joined in vision and purpose, honest and true, equally giving and receiving, committed to the Highest good for All, and totally responsible and able to respond to what is being called forth, the reality of this Vision is not yet it seems. Is this true? Are you seeking for interdependent spiritual partnership?
Stages of Development for the Children of God, the peoples of this Earth
Dependence. This stage is necessary for infants dependent on their parents for nourishment, learning and love. So it is for those in spiritual infancy. We need to be told and shown what to do. We want to know what is right and what is wrong. We need to be given to until we recognize we are whole. We seek and suckle. We give only to get what we want.
Independence. This stage is the separation from the apparent Source of our survival, identity, happiness, livelihood and direction. We often hate, run away, resist, criticize and try to abolish those we have depended on. We seek control, perfection and winning the game of life. I don’t’ want you to tell me what to do, I want to do it myself. Me, first. All I have is mine to do with as I want.
Interdependence. This stage is reached when there is self-actualization, completion and fulfillment of our self-initiated attempt to be something and achieve what we have designed for ourselves. There comes a time when we are complete and seek for Union with God, in living in and giving to the Highest Good, in being One with All. In this stage we connect with an inner calling to play our part with a fullness of Spirit, seeking nothing and giving All. The journey looks like many separate travelers all headed home. To love, support and encourage one another is natural, as we are the family of God. Whatever I can do to help and support you is a gift to us all.
Recognizing and accepting where you are brings peace and understanding.
Honoring and valuing your place in the wheel of life encourages trust in the process of humanity.
Be fully where you are with respect and gratitude and you will open the flow in your own spiritual development.
Where we are stuck is where we judge.
Where we appreciate and bless is where we grow.
I Am Who I Am,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
What does it mean to Love?
I “love” You.
I “love” God.
I Love the I Am.
I love the One We Are together.
I love receiving and sharing these loving reminders.
When we “Love”, we receive in the “loving”.
When we “Love” we receive in the sharing of our Love.
Love is freely being who I Am and giving the gift of my Soul Self.
Love is the joy of authentically sharing the fullness in my heart.
Love is the songs I sing to you without self consciousness or afterthought.
Love is the freedom to fully be me without embarrassment or self judgment.
Love is knowing I am enough.
Love is joining with you in prayer, in vision, in purpose.
Love is honoring who you are and where you are without asking you to be somewhere else.
Love is supporting and encouraging you to grow in your own pace and timing.
Love is never needing to say “I am sorry” because the intention for Goodness is so clear.
Love is the peace that passes understanding, as I have total faith in the Presence of God in you.
Only when I am limiting my loving, do I withhold the fullness of my Self.
Only when I fear being hurt, do I be cautious in letting Love flow.
Only when I resist losing my separate Self, do I measure my giving to you.
Only when I seek filling my own cup, do I feel guilt and unworthy.
Only when I know I am called by duty or obligation, do I resent freely giving.
I am open and willing to Love.
I am free and happy when I am loving.
I feel at peace and more empowered when I give my Love freely.
I trust myself and my world when I am on purpose and in Love.
Have no doubt,
I am loving you.
Betty Lue
I “love” God.
I Love the I Am.
I love the One We Are together.
I love receiving and sharing these loving reminders.
When we “Love”, we receive in the “loving”.
When we “Love” we receive in the sharing of our Love.
Love is freely being who I Am and giving the gift of my Soul Self.
Love is the joy of authentically sharing the fullness in my heart.
Love is the songs I sing to you without self consciousness or afterthought.
Love is the freedom to fully be me without embarrassment or self judgment.
Love is knowing I am enough.
Love is joining with you in prayer, in vision, in purpose.
Love is honoring who you are and where you are without asking you to be somewhere else.
Love is supporting and encouraging you to grow in your own pace and timing.
Love is never needing to say “I am sorry” because the intention for Goodness is so clear.
Love is the peace that passes understanding, as I have total faith in the Presence of God in you.
Only when I am limiting my loving, do I withhold the fullness of my Self.
Only when I fear being hurt, do I be cautious in letting Love flow.
Only when I resist losing my separate Self, do I measure my giving to you.
Only when I seek filling my own cup, do I feel guilt and unworthy.
Only when I know I am called by duty or obligation, do I resent freely giving.
I am open and willing to Love.
I am free and happy when I am loving.
I feel at peace and more empowered when I give my Love freely.
I trust myself and my world when I am on purpose and in Love.
Have no doubt,
I am loving you.
Betty Lue
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
Teacher and Learner
Everyone is our teacher. We all have something to learn from ourselves and from others.
Everyone is our student. We all have something to teach for ourselves and for others.
Our choice is what we would teach and what we would learn.
Where we place our attention and focus teaches.
Where we give agreement teaches.
Where we are silent and where we speak up teaches.
Where we reach out and help teaches.
Where we give appreciation and criticism teaches.
Our choice is what we would learn as we teach.
We can learn the lessons the world…math, science, literature.
We can learn the lessons of spirit….faith, hope and love.
We can learn the lessons of our peers….comparison, competition, and being better than.
We can learn the lesson s of the sages….compassion, generosity and cooperation.
We can learn how to make more, have more and spend more money.
We can learn how to be more, give more and live more of the Love we are.
Life is really all about becoming conscious of the choices we make.
Life insists that we see where we are expending our energy by giving us a clear reflection.
Life is our ultimate teacher as she offers us the opportunity to view our choices made obvious.
Everything you think, say and do teaches both you and others.
Choose what you want to learn more, have more, be more and live more.
I want a loving world, so I choose Loving reminders in everyone and everything.
Ask yourself what you want to learn, to have, to be, and to live.
Teach what you value. Learn what you value. Live what you value.
Your world will be healed and transformed.
Happy New Beginning. This moment is precious. Live it fully conscious.
Betty Lue
Everyone is our student. We all have something to teach for ourselves and for others.
Our choice is what we would teach and what we would learn.
Where we place our attention and focus teaches.
Where we give agreement teaches.
Where we are silent and where we speak up teaches.
Where we reach out and help teaches.
Where we give appreciation and criticism teaches.
Our choice is what we would learn as we teach.
We can learn the lessons the world…math, science, literature.
We can learn the lessons of spirit….faith, hope and love.
We can learn the lessons of our peers….comparison, competition, and being better than.
We can learn the lesson s of the sages….compassion, generosity and cooperation.
We can learn how to make more, have more and spend more money.
We can learn how to be more, give more and live more of the Love we are.
Life is really all about becoming conscious of the choices we make.
Life insists that we see where we are expending our energy by giving us a clear reflection.
Life is our ultimate teacher as she offers us the opportunity to view our choices made obvious.
Everything you think, say and do teaches both you and others.
Choose what you want to learn more, have more, be more and live more.
I want a loving world, so I choose Loving reminders in everyone and everything.
Ask yourself what you want to learn, to have, to be, and to live.
Teach what you value. Learn what you value. Live what you value.
Your world will be healed and transformed.
Happy New Beginning. This moment is precious. Live it fully conscious.
Betty Lue
Monday, January 05, 2004
Beginning a New Year
A renewal of Spirit, a new physical program, a new focus in work… all are valuable only if they truly represent what is in my heart.
I can see how the end of the year did not represent my desired state or pace in life.
While I did no shopping, there was plenty of moving both office and home, newsletter mailings, beginning a new business partnership, attending others’ needs. holiday gatherings in our home and travel all added to the stress.
This is not the way I choose to have the peace I want in 2004. So I immediately forgive myself and choose again.
I can create the lifestyle and pace I want.
I can do as much or little as I choose.
I can have fun everyday in everyway.
I can be at home and at peace.
I can enjoy the fullness of life without overdoing.
I can be happy with what I have.
I can enjoy our return to Walnut Creek with no regret.
I can honor the needs of others without neglecting my own.
I can be present for all who enter into my consciousness in thought or in person.
I can celebrate the goodness and beauty in everyone I meet.
I can create a loving experience from everything I do. Life loves me as I love myself.
I can….I will….I do…
I choose to wholeheartedly love me, so that I can wholeheartedly love You.
This is the way I learn and grow.
I find what works and I am grateful this is so.
Try free flowing your own thoughts and forgiveness and choices as I have just done.
See what appears on the screen of your consciousness.
Renewal is as fun, safe and easy as becoming aware forgiving all and choosing again.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
PS The more awake and aware you are, the smaller the misstep will be discerned.
The resulting “scritch” is obvious and unable to be ignored.
Blame and guilt will no longer work.
Take total responsibility, forgive and change your mind.
I can see how the end of the year did not represent my desired state or pace in life.
While I did no shopping, there was plenty of moving both office and home, newsletter mailings, beginning a new business partnership, attending others’ needs. holiday gatherings in our home and travel all added to the stress.
This is not the way I choose to have the peace I want in 2004. So I immediately forgive myself and choose again.
I can create the lifestyle and pace I want.
I can do as much or little as I choose.
I can have fun everyday in everyway.
I can be at home and at peace.
I can enjoy the fullness of life without overdoing.
I can be happy with what I have.
I can enjoy our return to Walnut Creek with no regret.
I can honor the needs of others without neglecting my own.
I can be present for all who enter into my consciousness in thought or in person.
I can celebrate the goodness and beauty in everyone I meet.
I can create a loving experience from everything I do. Life loves me as I love myself.
I can….I will….I do…
I choose to wholeheartedly love me, so that I can wholeheartedly love You.
This is the way I learn and grow.
I find what works and I am grateful this is so.
Try free flowing your own thoughts and forgiveness and choices as I have just done.
See what appears on the screen of your consciousness.
Renewal is as fun, safe and easy as becoming aware forgiving all and choosing again.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
PS The more awake and aware you are, the smaller the misstep will be discerned.
The resulting “scritch” is obvious and unable to be ignored.
Blame and guilt will no longer work.
Take total responsibility, forgive and change your mind.
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Giving or Getting
Are you here to get what you want?
The ego always wants more.
For our fear-based personality, there is never enough.
Are you here to give what you have?
Our Spirit is always full, abundant and fulfilled in giving.
Our spiritual essence is overflowing with love and joy to share.
You have two voices within you.
One is learned from the consciousness of our world.
The other is the voice of Truth, the Voice of God.
One teaches us fear and speaks of our lack, littleness and limitation.
The other shows us Love and the abundance, magnificence and limitlessness of Spirit within.
When we recognize our inner Essence, we are focused on caring and sharing what is good and beautiful and Holy. We give for the joy and fulfillment of giving. Having rests on giving.
When we believe in our ego, our personality and our human limits, we seek for more and strive to get more. We give to get.
Life is for giving. Find the gifts within you and give them freely.
You recognize the spiritual gifts you have and the gift you are as you GIVE.
Giving all to all,
Betty Lue
Make 2004 a year to give more.
The ego always wants more.
For our fear-based personality, there is never enough.
Are you here to give what you have?
Our Spirit is always full, abundant and fulfilled in giving.
Our spiritual essence is overflowing with love and joy to share.
You have two voices within you.
One is learned from the consciousness of our world.
The other is the voice of Truth, the Voice of God.
One teaches us fear and speaks of our lack, littleness and limitation.
The other shows us Love and the abundance, magnificence and limitlessness of Spirit within.
When we recognize our inner Essence, we are focused on caring and sharing what is good and beautiful and Holy. We give for the joy and fulfillment of giving. Having rests on giving.
When we believe in our ego, our personality and our human limits, we seek for more and strive to get more. We give to get.
Life is for giving. Find the gifts within you and give them freely.
You recognize the spiritual gifts you have and the gift you are as you GIVE.
Giving all to all,
Betty Lue
Make 2004 a year to give more.
Friday, January 02, 2004
Peace on Earth Goodwill to All
How does peace begin?
It begins within the hearts of everyone.
Peace is extended through kindness.
Peace is shared as we have peace within our own minds.
Where anyone has prejudice, malice, hatred and fear, there is unpeace and a call for peace.
Forgiveness heals wounds of the past.
Forgiveness clears our history to return our minds to the peace of God.
Peace is practiced one day at a day and one relationship at a time.
When standing in line, extend peace.
When listening to an argument, extend peace.
When hearing a baby cry., give soothing peace.
When watching some violent act, offer peace.
When hearing about a conflict, give peace.
When noticing someone’s pain, offer peace.
Peace is a silent prayer.
Peace is a gentle touch.
Peace is a soothing song.
Peace is a kind word.
Peace is a gift freely given.
Peace is offering to help.
Peace is a smile for a stranger.
Peace is trusting in God.
Peace is an appreciation of beauty.
Peace is feeling respect for ourselves and others.
Let peace begin with me…and You.
Betty Lue
It begins within the hearts of everyone.
Peace is extended through kindness.
Peace is shared as we have peace within our own minds.
Where anyone has prejudice, malice, hatred and fear, there is unpeace and a call for peace.
Forgiveness heals wounds of the past.
Forgiveness clears our history to return our minds to the peace of God.
Peace is practiced one day at a day and one relationship at a time.
When standing in line, extend peace.
When listening to an argument, extend peace.
When hearing a baby cry., give soothing peace.
When watching some violent act, offer peace.
When hearing about a conflict, give peace.
When noticing someone’s pain, offer peace.
Peace is a silent prayer.
Peace is a gentle touch.
Peace is a soothing song.
Peace is a kind word.
Peace is a gift freely given.
Peace is offering to help.
Peace is a smile for a stranger.
Peace is trusting in God.
Peace is an appreciation of beauty.
Peace is feeling respect for ourselves and others.
Let peace begin with me…and You.
Betty Lue
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Another New Year!
What are your choices for your life today and everyday?
Every moment is a microcosm of my whole life.
When life isn’t working, I can watch the last hour of how I spend my time, my energy and my resources and see where I am not living what I value.
I got up at 5AM, took my Mom to the airport after a full 2 week visit, came home and organized my clothes in drawers and closet, my bathroom, the laundry room and now my office and creative room. I have done three loads of wash and made many phone calls, handled correspondence and business. I will prepare homemade pizza (yes, even the crust from scratch) and watch the Rose Bowl while writing thank you notes. Robert and I will take a one hour walk, when not raining heavily. Some more business to be done, organize the kitchen for fun, and read into the evening.
I like life full, balanced, in harmony and order and feeling pleased with my activities at the end of the day.
Choose what really has value to you and you will follow through.
I choose again to give my blessing to each and every one I encounter.
I choose again to forgive where I have judged.
I choose again to treat myself as I want to be treated in thought, word and deed.
I choose again to respond with both my mind and my intuition.
I choose again to seek the spiritual truth within every worldly experience.
I affirm to slow down a little and enjoy the journey with a little more enthusiasm.
I choose again to greet everyone I meet with the joy and love I feel.
I choose again to give myself the very best.
I choose again to do what I say I am going to do when I want to do it with joy.
I choose again to create only goodness, wholeness and beauty in everything I do.
I re commit to a life that is totally healthy, happy and fulfilling.
I recommit to fully enjoy and appreciate my home, my family, my friends and my good work.
I love to make New Year’s resolutions …because they are my everyday affirmations with a new feeling and flavor.
I love being alive, awake and enthusiastic.
I love being with you and Spirit,
Betty Lue
Every moment is a microcosm of my whole life.
When life isn’t working, I can watch the last hour of how I spend my time, my energy and my resources and see where I am not living what I value.
I got up at 5AM, took my Mom to the airport after a full 2 week visit, came home and organized my clothes in drawers and closet, my bathroom, the laundry room and now my office and creative room. I have done three loads of wash and made many phone calls, handled correspondence and business. I will prepare homemade pizza (yes, even the crust from scratch) and watch the Rose Bowl while writing thank you notes. Robert and I will take a one hour walk, when not raining heavily. Some more business to be done, organize the kitchen for fun, and read into the evening.
I like life full, balanced, in harmony and order and feeling pleased with my activities at the end of the day.
Choose what really has value to you and you will follow through.
I choose again to give my blessing to each and every one I encounter.
I choose again to forgive where I have judged.
I choose again to treat myself as I want to be treated in thought, word and deed.
I choose again to respond with both my mind and my intuition.
I choose again to seek the spiritual truth within every worldly experience.
I affirm to slow down a little and enjoy the journey with a little more enthusiasm.
I choose again to greet everyone I meet with the joy and love I feel.
I choose again to give myself the very best.
I choose again to do what I say I am going to do when I want to do it with joy.
I choose again to create only goodness, wholeness and beauty in everything I do.
I re commit to a life that is totally healthy, happy and fulfilling.
I recommit to fully enjoy and appreciate my home, my family, my friends and my good work.
I love to make New Year’s resolutions …because they are my everyday affirmations with a new feeling and flavor.
I love being alive, awake and enthusiastic.
I love being with you and Spirit,
Betty Lue
Thank you for Blessing our Home with your Presence
Wherever you go, you leave behind your blessing or your judgment.
What you give, your receive for yourself.
Whomever you meet, there is a healing, a teaching and learning in the encounter.
Where you teach only love, you are healed.
Whatever you do with your energy, you strengthen those qualities within yourself.
Where you focus on caring and sharing, you enhance your relationships.
However you choose to spend your time, energy and resources, you increase what you have expended.
Your values are demonstrated by what you focus your time, energy and money on.
Where you give generously, you increase within your own life.
Where you open the flow of energy, your energy and resources are enhanced.
Remember: Life is for giving and you are the gift.
Give freely of your Love and Love will give to you.
Thank you very much for your many gifts to me.
Keep giving generously.
Your love makes a better world for all of us.
Loving you,
Betty Lue and Robert
What you give, your receive for yourself.
Whomever you meet, there is a healing, a teaching and learning in the encounter.
Where you teach only love, you are healed.
Whatever you do with your energy, you strengthen those qualities within yourself.
Where you focus on caring and sharing, you enhance your relationships.
However you choose to spend your time, energy and resources, you increase what you have expended.
Your values are demonstrated by what you focus your time, energy and money on.
Where you give generously, you increase within your own life.
Where you open the flow of energy, your energy and resources are enhanced.
Remember: Life is for giving and you are the gift.
Give freely of your Love and Love will give to you.
Thank you very much for your many gifts to me.
Keep giving generously.
Your love makes a better world for all of us.
Loving you,
Betty Lue and Robert
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Love More in 2004
New Year’s Eve Reminders
Where is your focus as you end this year?
What was your intention as you began 2003?
Have you honored yourself and your calling this year?
Do you intend to love yourself more in 2004?
The cultural norm is to maintain the status quo.
Whatever you have done, keep it going.
It is easier to maintain than to change.
It is simpler to continue than to create a new plan.
Is your life calling for a new plan or a renewal of last year’s model?
What does your life tell you?
It is a reflection of what you have chosen consciously or unconsciously?
What you value is what you have.
Where you place your energy is what is projected.
Health problems may mean to slow down and relax more.
Family issues may tell you to extend more energy to those in your circle.
Financial woes may mean to simplify and let go of extraneous expenses.
Feelings of discouragement and depression may call for more wonder and appreciation.
This year for New Year’s and everyday for sanity:
I choose to Love myself with the best of care.
I choose to Love those I know with the best in me.
I choose to Love life by giving and living my values.
I choose to fully enjoy and express gratitude everyday.
I choose to extend Love more in 2004.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
“Life is very Good."
As I end this year 2004, I want to thank you for being my spiritual partners in remembering to Love.
There is no path more healthy, happy and fulfilling.
Each one of us has our own unique journey to Love more.
I trust you to find and follow your Way.
Learn as you go and grow as you learn.
Appreciate and enjoy the gift of Life.
Love your whole self as your gift to the Giver of Life.
You are a gift to me and to our world.
I love You.
Betty Lue
Where is your focus as you end this year?
What was your intention as you began 2003?
Have you honored yourself and your calling this year?
Do you intend to love yourself more in 2004?
The cultural norm is to maintain the status quo.
Whatever you have done, keep it going.
It is easier to maintain than to change.
It is simpler to continue than to create a new plan.
Is your life calling for a new plan or a renewal of last year’s model?
What does your life tell you?
It is a reflection of what you have chosen consciously or unconsciously?
What you value is what you have.
Where you place your energy is what is projected.
Health problems may mean to slow down and relax more.
Family issues may tell you to extend more energy to those in your circle.
Financial woes may mean to simplify and let go of extraneous expenses.
Feelings of discouragement and depression may call for more wonder and appreciation.
This year for New Year’s and everyday for sanity:
I choose to Love myself with the best of care.
I choose to Love those I know with the best in me.
I choose to Love life by giving and living my values.
I choose to fully enjoy and express gratitude everyday.
I choose to extend Love more in 2004.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
“Life is very Good."
As I end this year 2004, I want to thank you for being my spiritual partners in remembering to Love.
There is no path more healthy, happy and fulfilling.
Each one of us has our own unique journey to Love more.
I trust you to find and follow your Way.
Learn as you go and grow as you learn.
Appreciate and enjoy the gift of Life.
Love your whole self as your gift to the Giver of Life.
You are a gift to me and to our world.
I love You.
Betty Lue
Saturday, December 27, 2003
Completion of 2003
When we ending a chapter of our lives, a relationship, a job, a vacation, it serves us to soak up all the best.
And bless and release the rest.
This year 2003 has been a year of challenges, accomplishment, change, opportunity and learning.
Take time to assess and fully receive the gifts of all aspects of life.
Reflect and journal for your own enhanced awareness.
FOR THE YEAR 2003:
What have I learned this year?
How have I grown and developed spiritually as well as in worldly ways.
What have I earned this year? Not just $$ but accomplishments and goals met.
What were my challenges and how did I meet them?
How have my relationships been improved?
What do I most appreciate about 2003?
What are the memories I will treasure?
How have I changed?
What opportunities have called me to say “Yes”?
FOR THE NEW YEAR 2004:
How can I give my self more joyfully?
How can I learn more easily?
How can I live more peacefully?
How can I work more successfully?
How can I improve the quality of my life?
How can I walk with Spirit more truly?
Today I give thanks for the joy I feel in being fully alive, in being free to give, in being open to love.
Today I give thanks for All that I Am, All that I do and All that I have.
Today I give thanks.
Thankful for you,
Betty Lue
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No email until December 31—Out of town with our mothers.
Taking them to the Palm Spring Follies and Glory of Christmas in Garden Grove, CA
Call if you have need 800-919-2392.
I am with you in Spirit always and all ways,
Betty Lue
And bless and release the rest.
This year 2003 has been a year of challenges, accomplishment, change, opportunity and learning.
Take time to assess and fully receive the gifts of all aspects of life.
Reflect and journal for your own enhanced awareness.
FOR THE YEAR 2003:
What have I learned this year?
How have I grown and developed spiritually as well as in worldly ways.
What have I earned this year? Not just $$ but accomplishments and goals met.
What were my challenges and how did I meet them?
How have my relationships been improved?
What do I most appreciate about 2003?
What are the memories I will treasure?
How have I changed?
What opportunities have called me to say “Yes”?
FOR THE NEW YEAR 2004:
How can I give my self more joyfully?
How can I learn more easily?
How can I live more peacefully?
How can I work more successfully?
How can I improve the quality of my life?
How can I walk with Spirit more truly?
Today I give thanks for the joy I feel in being fully alive, in being free to give, in being open to love.
Today I give thanks for All that I Am, All that I do and All that I have.
Today I give thanks.
Thankful for you,
Betty Lue
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No email until December 31—Out of town with our mothers.
Taking them to the Palm Spring Follies and Glory of Christmas in Garden Grove, CA
Call if you have need 800-919-2392.
I am with you in Spirit always and all ways,
Betty Lue
Friday, December 26, 2003
Forgiving Eyes
When we perceive with forgiving eyes, our mind is clear and focused on seeing rightly.
When we see beyond this physical experience and perceive the Essence of everyone, we see as God sees.
We love as God loves.
We heal by seeing the holiness.
We teach by living what we know.
We give by giving only essential and ever lasting gifts.
We extend peace with peace in our own minds.
We express Joy by being free of anger and pain.
We offer Love by realizing the Love we are.
We are decisive as we allow the voice within to be our guide.
We are conscious as we are unclouded by fear and judgment.
The prerequisite for these gifts of Spirit is forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a gift to ourselves.
Forgiveness is about clearing our own being from the clouds of illusion.
Forgiveness ends all errors in our mind.
Forgiveness is a choice to stop judging our own miscreations.
Forgiveness is releasing our stuckness in the temporal.
Forgiveness is the freedom to choose again.
This temporary tool is highly effective in a world of human misperception and error.
When we have laid all judgment aside we will no longer need this tool.
For as long as we judge, compare, evaluate, figure out, defend, and think, we need the tool of forgiveness.
What a way to end 2003 and begin the new year!
Forgive everyone and everything for all time.
Forgiving all mistakes so we can freely choose again with God.
Betty Lue
PS
Don’t forget an awesome New Year’s Eve PlayShop. Dec. 31 from 2-5PM
This is our gift to free ourselves to love more dearly, follow Spirit more nearly and create more purely day by day. Plan on arriving at 2PM to receive the full gratitude and vision. Bring light food to share if you wish. Our focus will be on personal healing of the past, freedom in the present and vision for the future.
Call 800-919-2392 if you are coming please. Only those willing to spiritually focus on the New Year will receive value. It is our 2004 gift to You. 3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Entry 19, Walnut Creek. Cell phone 707-321-0604.
When we see beyond this physical experience and perceive the Essence of everyone, we see as God sees.
We love as God loves.
We heal by seeing the holiness.
We teach by living what we know.
We give by giving only essential and ever lasting gifts.
We extend peace with peace in our own minds.
We express Joy by being free of anger and pain.
We offer Love by realizing the Love we are.
We are decisive as we allow the voice within to be our guide.
We are conscious as we are unclouded by fear and judgment.
The prerequisite for these gifts of Spirit is forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a gift to ourselves.
Forgiveness is about clearing our own being from the clouds of illusion.
Forgiveness ends all errors in our mind.
Forgiveness is a choice to stop judging our own miscreations.
Forgiveness is releasing our stuckness in the temporal.
Forgiveness is the freedom to choose again.
This temporary tool is highly effective in a world of human misperception and error.
When we have laid all judgment aside we will no longer need this tool.
For as long as we judge, compare, evaluate, figure out, defend, and think, we need the tool of forgiveness.
What a way to end 2003 and begin the new year!
Forgive everyone and everything for all time.
Forgiving all mistakes so we can freely choose again with God.
Betty Lue
PS
Don’t forget an awesome New Year’s Eve PlayShop. Dec. 31 from 2-5PM
This is our gift to free ourselves to love more dearly, follow Spirit more nearly and create more purely day by day. Plan on arriving at 2PM to receive the full gratitude and vision. Bring light food to share if you wish. Our focus will be on personal healing of the past, freedom in the present and vision for the future.
Call 800-919-2392 if you are coming please. Only those willing to spiritually focus on the New Year will receive value. It is our 2004 gift to You. 3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Entry 19, Walnut Creek. Cell phone 707-321-0604.
Thursday, December 25, 2003
The Most Perfect Gift
I gave myself a gift today.
It came to me this early morning what I needed and wanted was mine to have.
So I accepted what was already available and ready to be used.
This gift heals my body of aches and pains.
This gift frees my mind from worries and concerns.
This gift brings me peace and love and joy.
This gift grants me hope for the future and release from the past.
This gift opens my heart to full appreciation of everyone everywhere.
This gift is available every moment and I can use it as much as I want.
It never wears out and works without batteries.
It costs me nothing except my opinions, my beliefs and my historical perspective.
This gift saves me from a lifetime of false teachings, limited perspectives and foolish expectations.
This gift can be given to everyone and not lose its power.
This gift grows freedom and trust in the hearts of all who receive it.
This gift is a breath of fresh air on a spring day and makes my heart sing with delight.
This gift is mine and yours and ours to free ourselves from all mistakes for all time—past and future.
I thank Spirit for this gift. And I thank myself for remembering and using it so well.
I am grateful both to receive and give this sacred gift.
It changes my mind. It changes my life. It changes my world.
What is this universally available and often unclaimed gift?
FORGIVENESS
I NOW FORGIVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING EVERY MOMENT.
MY MIND AUTOMATICALLY ERASES EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING AND NOT TRUE.
MY MIND NOW HOLDS THOUGHTS AND PICTURES THAT I THINK WITH GOD.
ONLY GOODNESS AND BEAUTY AND LOVE OCCUPY MY MIND.
FORGIVENESS IS THE GREAT ERASER FILLED WITH LOVE.
FORGIVENESS IS A GIFT TO MYSELF.
FORGIVENESS MAKES ALL THINGS NEW AGAIN.
FORGIVENESS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE AND RECEIVE ONLY GOOD.
May you receive this great gift from Spirit in me on this Holy Day.
30 forgivenesses a day will keep the Doctor and negativity away.
Ask me for more about how to operate this sacred gift if you want to know more.
Always loving you and giving to you from a place of forgiveness.
Cleaning house again and again,
Betty Lue
It came to me this early morning what I needed and wanted was mine to have.
So I accepted what was already available and ready to be used.
This gift heals my body of aches and pains.
This gift frees my mind from worries and concerns.
This gift brings me peace and love and joy.
This gift grants me hope for the future and release from the past.
This gift opens my heart to full appreciation of everyone everywhere.
This gift is available every moment and I can use it as much as I want.
It never wears out and works without batteries.
It costs me nothing except my opinions, my beliefs and my historical perspective.
This gift saves me from a lifetime of false teachings, limited perspectives and foolish expectations.
This gift can be given to everyone and not lose its power.
This gift grows freedom and trust in the hearts of all who receive it.
This gift is a breath of fresh air on a spring day and makes my heart sing with delight.
This gift is mine and yours and ours to free ourselves from all mistakes for all time—past and future.
I thank Spirit for this gift. And I thank myself for remembering and using it so well.
I am grateful both to receive and give this sacred gift.
It changes my mind. It changes my life. It changes my world.
What is this universally available and often unclaimed gift?
FORGIVENESS
I NOW FORGIVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING EVERY MOMENT.
MY MIND AUTOMATICALLY ERASES EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVING AND NOT TRUE.
MY MIND NOW HOLDS THOUGHTS AND PICTURES THAT I THINK WITH GOD.
ONLY GOODNESS AND BEAUTY AND LOVE OCCUPY MY MIND.
FORGIVENESS IS THE GREAT ERASER FILLED WITH LOVE.
FORGIVENESS IS A GIFT TO MYSELF.
FORGIVENESS MAKES ALL THINGS NEW AGAIN.
FORGIVENESS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE AND RECEIVE ONLY GOOD.
May you receive this great gift from Spirit in me on this Holy Day.
30 forgivenesses a day will keep the Doctor and negativity away.
Ask me for more about how to operate this sacred gift if you want to know more.
Always loving you and giving to you from a place of forgiveness.
Cleaning house again and again,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Within You
Within you lies everything that is true and whole and beautiful.
Within you is the wisdom of the sages and the music of the ages.
Within you is the gift of life, the healing of the past and the vision for our future.
Within you is the sun and moon and stars.
Within you lies a place of peace and eternal rest.
Within you is the enthusiasm and wonder of a child and the comfort and peace of our holy elders.
Within you is the forgiveness of all errors and the compassion of a saint.
Within you is the heart of God and the mind of Holy Spirit.
Within you is the prayer of Saint Francis and the affirmation of Emmett Fox.
Within you is the Power of Love and the Presence of Peace.
Within you lies everything Good and True and Holy, waiting to be born again anew.
Within You is All you seek.
Within You.
I Am within You.
May each day be one of holiness, healing and peace. You are a gift to me and to our world.
Betty Lue
Within you is the wisdom of the sages and the music of the ages.
Within you is the gift of life, the healing of the past and the vision for our future.
Within you is the sun and moon and stars.
Within you lies a place of peace and eternal rest.
Within you is the enthusiasm and wonder of a child and the comfort and peace of our holy elders.
Within you is the forgiveness of all errors and the compassion of a saint.
Within you is the heart of God and the mind of Holy Spirit.
Within you is the prayer of Saint Francis and the affirmation of Emmett Fox.
Within you is the Power of Love and the Presence of Peace.
Within you lies everything Good and True and Holy, waiting to be born again anew.
Within You is All you seek.
Within You.
I Am within You.
May each day be one of holiness, healing and peace. You are a gift to me and to our world.
Betty Lue
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Time for Peace
In the wee small hours of the morning I find myself in the loft (my new home office space) to get a few hours alone with Spirit. With my Mom, Gia and my daughter in our home, with the settling in of our household, with the holiday events each day, I realize how important it is to me to be quiet, to focus, to listen within, to respond, to be awake, to breathe deep, to be at peace. It is raining and the sound is like music on the roof and skylights above. This is my new sanctuary where I will go to be with God and the Good in All That Is. This is the upper room where the Christ Light is born again in me with Loving Reminders and my responses to You. This is my ascension into the peace that passes understanding.
From the business of the world, I transcend preparation, lists and worldly needs.
I can rest in Love. I can find here all that I truly need.
Spiritual fuel for my daily activities lie in these sacred moments.
I invite you to create a place and time to go within.
I encourage you to have a time of respite and inner peace.
I support you in meditating or walking in nature or taking your long bubble bath.
I urge you to listen to sacred music, to offer a prayer of gratitude daily, to enjoy the sunrise .
For in your peace comes the peace in our world.
Your inner peace extends to other minds.
Your inner peace brings healing.
Your inner peace is gift of Christmas.
Find your peace today. In this is your piece in the puzzle of life. Your peace is essential.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
From the business of the world, I transcend preparation, lists and worldly needs.
I can rest in Love. I can find here all that I truly need.
Spiritual fuel for my daily activities lie in these sacred moments.
I invite you to create a place and time to go within.
I encourage you to have a time of respite and inner peace.
I support you in meditating or walking in nature or taking your long bubble bath.
I urge you to listen to sacred music, to offer a prayer of gratitude daily, to enjoy the sunrise .
For in your peace comes the peace in our world.
Your inner peace extends to other minds.
Your inner peace brings healing.
Your inner peace is gift of Christmas.
Find your peace today. In this is your piece in the puzzle of life. Your peace is essential.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
Monday, December 22, 2003
Seeing With The Heart
So often we use our bodies eyes to see the imperfections and the pain in our world.
When we see through the filter of our mind, we judge what we see.
Our hair is too grey, our skin too pale, our food too fattening, our checking account too low, our kitchen too dirty, our friends too needy, our church too preachy, our world too violent, our government too fanatic, our schedule too busy, people too rude, etc.
When we see with our mind we evaluate, compare, perceive through past experiences, defend, have opinions and feel concern about ourselves and our lives.
When we see with our heart……….
We look at what is with Compassion and Kindness.
We are open and willing to Love and Appreciate.
We extend Love where there is lack.
We see Beauty within all creation.
We trust in the intrinsic Perfection.
We believe in the Highest Outcome.
We know we are in the right place at the right time to share the Love we are.
We see the Essence rather than the body.
We enjoy the Moment rather than compare or judge.
We seek Truth rather than opinions.
We extend Peace to chaos and give love to the fearful.
We are Messengers of Goodness and Mercy.
We are Bringers of Light and Enthusiasm.
We are Teachers of God and unconditional Love.
We are the Holy Ones, the Children of the One.
This is Our Holy Birthday and the time to remember Who Lives Within.
Listening to my heart,
Betty Lue
When we see through the filter of our mind, we judge what we see.
Our hair is too grey, our skin too pale, our food too fattening, our checking account too low, our kitchen too dirty, our friends too needy, our church too preachy, our world too violent, our government too fanatic, our schedule too busy, people too rude, etc.
When we see with our mind we evaluate, compare, perceive through past experiences, defend, have opinions and feel concern about ourselves and our lives.
When we see with our heart……….
We look at what is with Compassion and Kindness.
We are open and willing to Love and Appreciate.
We extend Love where there is lack.
We see Beauty within all creation.
We trust in the intrinsic Perfection.
We believe in the Highest Outcome.
We know we are in the right place at the right time to share the Love we are.
We see the Essence rather than the body.
We enjoy the Moment rather than compare or judge.
We seek Truth rather than opinions.
We extend Peace to chaos and give love to the fearful.
We are Messengers of Goodness and Mercy.
We are Bringers of Light and Enthusiasm.
We are Teachers of God and unconditional Love.
We are the Holy Ones, the Children of the One.
This is Our Holy Birthday and the time to remember Who Lives Within.
Listening to my heart,
Betty Lue
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Foolish to be Fearful
In times of darkness, turn on the lights.
In times of sorrow, find someone to make happy.
In times of judgment, look for what you appreciate.
In times of lack, see all you are given.
In times of fear, open your heart to love.
The human learned personality and ego has learned that it is helpful to judge and realistic to be afraid.
People have taught one another to grieve, to suffer, to see what is missing and hate what is natural.
The spirit soars when we seek what is beautiful, good and whole.
The heart sings when we see what is loving and kind and truly helpful.
The mind creates when it is clear and happy and free.
Why would I choose to live in darkness, sadness, fear and resentment when I can choose to have happiness, love and light in my life?
If I only know what I have been taught, I may not realize I can choose to change my mind.
I f I believe only what others have shown me, I might think I have no other choice.
If I let the past teach me, I might try to protect and defend myself from the mistakes of myself and others.
If I only trust in what I can see and read, I might be stuck in repeating past experiences.
I can open to the unknown.
I can believe in miracles of love.
I can forgive and erase the past.
I can focus on God and Goodness.
I can perceive the beauty and Love within all things.
I can choose again.
It is foolish to be stuck, when I am at choice.
Betty Lue
In times of sorrow, find someone to make happy.
In times of judgment, look for what you appreciate.
In times of lack, see all you are given.
In times of fear, open your heart to love.
The human learned personality and ego has learned that it is helpful to judge and realistic to be afraid.
People have taught one another to grieve, to suffer, to see what is missing and hate what is natural.
The spirit soars when we seek what is beautiful, good and whole.
The heart sings when we see what is loving and kind and truly helpful.
The mind creates when it is clear and happy and free.
Why would I choose to live in darkness, sadness, fear and resentment when I can choose to have happiness, love and light in my life?
If I only know what I have been taught, I may not realize I can choose to change my mind.
I f I believe only what others have shown me, I might think I have no other choice.
If I let the past teach me, I might try to protect and defend myself from the mistakes of myself and others.
If I only trust in what I can see and read, I might be stuck in repeating past experiences.
I can open to the unknown.
I can believe in miracles of love.
I can forgive and erase the past.
I can focus on God and Goodness.
I can perceive the beauty and Love within all things.
I can choose again.
It is foolish to be stuck, when I am at choice.
Betty Lue
Saturday, December 20, 2003
Listen Within
In your heart, you know.
When all judgments are laid aside, you can hear loud and clear the Voice of Love.
When you are at peace, you can ask and receive the clarity you request.
When you are at home, you can feel the Love within.
When you are unafraid, you will have faith in god and Good.
When the past is forgiven, you are perfectly guided in each moment.
When you rest in Love, you see all as loving You.
Life is a projection of our inner kingdom.
When our kingdom is filled with Light, we see only light.
When our kingdom is filled we Love, we extend only Love.
To clear you kingdom of the debris and clutter of the past, stop filling yourself with meaningless stuff.
Look around to see what is meaningless and let it go with blessing.
Listen within for what is real and true and lasting.
You are blessed. Your life is a blessing.
Thank you for the gift of YOU.
Betty Lue
When all judgments are laid aside, you can hear loud and clear the Voice of Love.
When you are at peace, you can ask and receive the clarity you request.
When you are at home, you can feel the Love within.
When you are unafraid, you will have faith in god and Good.
When the past is forgiven, you are perfectly guided in each moment.
When you rest in Love, you see all as loving You.
Life is a projection of our inner kingdom.
When our kingdom is filled with Light, we see only light.
When our kingdom is filled we Love, we extend only Love.
To clear you kingdom of the debris and clutter of the past, stop filling yourself with meaningless stuff.
Look around to see what is meaningless and let it go with blessing.
Listen within for what is real and true and lasting.
You are blessed. Your life is a blessing.
Thank you for the gift of YOU.
Betty Lue
Friday, December 19, 2003
Winter Solstice
This time of year, when the sunlight hours are minimal and the temperatures dip below freezing for many, it is important to increase the inner light and turn up our inner warmth. Winter Solstice celebrates the beginning of winter, a time of conservation, reflection and visioning. It is a time to hibernate, to cuddle up, to remember Love, to enjoy the hearth, to plant seeds of goodness and joy in our imagination. And so we celebrate many holidays of Light and Love, filled with miracles and joy, family times of gathering with forgiveness and Love.
No matter how small your home, you can extend a welcome to someone who needs a place to be.
No matter how meager your food, you can always add one more to the table.
No matter how cold the winter, you can always find a blanket or warm coat for the homeless to have.
No matter how meager the gifts for your children, you can always give one toy to a child who has none.
No matter how sad your life has been, you can always extend one act of kindness to someone in need.
No matter how far from family you are, you can always offer one prayer of love and gratitude.
No matter how long since you stepped into a place of devotion, you can always light one candle of faith.
No matter how lost or confused you may be, you can be grateful for what you have in your life.
There are many stories, both tragic and miraculous.
There are many prayers, both beseeching and celebratory.
There are many songs, both romantic and sacred.
Take some time to tell a story to someone who needs your company ( on phone or better in person).
Take some time to offer a thankful prayer for your willingness to remember love and faith and God.
Take some time to sing a song that moves your Spirit and inspires you to give Love.
This is the season to remember Love.
This is the season to serve from the heart.
This is the season to remember God.
Loving you with all my heart, from the heart of God.
Betty Lue
Holiday Invitations for those of you who live nearby:
Winter Solstice Open House in our new offices.
This Sunday, Dec. 21 from 2-5 PM for stories, songs and happy festivities.
Bring yourself and goodies to share, a gift for someone without home or family and/or simple finger foods to share.
Christmas Eve Caroling in a nearby nursing home.
Sharing love, hugs, joy and kindness.
Dec, 24th, 2-4 PM. Meet at our office, 140 Mayhew Way, Suite #1000, Pleasant Hill at 2PM.
New Year’s Eve Play Shop in our new home (3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Walnut Creek),
Focused Activities, Meaningful Sharing and Respectful Enjoyment. Appreciate the year gone by and bring in the New Year with Clear Vision, Committed Intention, Joyful Association and Loving Reminders!!!!
December 31, 2-5PM in our Rossmoor condo with fun, food and fellowship.
Call for more information, directions and to reserve space. 800-919-2392
No matter how small your home, you can extend a welcome to someone who needs a place to be.
No matter how meager your food, you can always add one more to the table.
No matter how cold the winter, you can always find a blanket or warm coat for the homeless to have.
No matter how meager the gifts for your children, you can always give one toy to a child who has none.
No matter how sad your life has been, you can always extend one act of kindness to someone in need.
No matter how far from family you are, you can always offer one prayer of love and gratitude.
No matter how long since you stepped into a place of devotion, you can always light one candle of faith.
No matter how lost or confused you may be, you can be grateful for what you have in your life.
There are many stories, both tragic and miraculous.
There are many prayers, both beseeching and celebratory.
There are many songs, both romantic and sacred.
Take some time to tell a story to someone who needs your company ( on phone or better in person).
Take some time to offer a thankful prayer for your willingness to remember love and faith and God.
Take some time to sing a song that moves your Spirit and inspires you to give Love.
This is the season to remember Love.
This is the season to serve from the heart.
This is the season to remember God.
Loving you with all my heart, from the heart of God.
Betty Lue
Holiday Invitations for those of you who live nearby:
Winter Solstice Open House in our new offices.
This Sunday, Dec. 21 from 2-5 PM for stories, songs and happy festivities.
Bring yourself and goodies to share, a gift for someone without home or family and/or simple finger foods to share.
Christmas Eve Caroling in a nearby nursing home.
Sharing love, hugs, joy and kindness.
Dec, 24th, 2-4 PM. Meet at our office, 140 Mayhew Way, Suite #1000, Pleasant Hill at 2PM.
New Year’s Eve Play Shop in our new home (3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Walnut Creek),
Focused Activities, Meaningful Sharing and Respectful Enjoyment. Appreciate the year gone by and bring in the New Year with Clear Vision, Committed Intention, Joyful Association and Loving Reminders!!!!
December 31, 2-5PM in our Rossmoor condo with fun, food and fellowship.
Call for more information, directions and to reserve space. 800-919-2392
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Peace On Earth
When you want only peace, you will see only peace.
When you want only peace, you will be only peace.
When you want only peace, you will extend only peace.
When Peace becomes your only goal, you will live nothing else.
How does one create peace on earth?
Peace is an inside job.
Peace begins in my mind.
Peace is experienced when I forgive all errors.
Peace is an attribute of the mind.
Peace comes when my mind serves only the purpose of living and giving peace.
I invite, encourage and request my mind to hold only thoughts of peace.
In peace I am renewed.
In peace, I am at home.
In peace, I know God.
In peace I am loving and beloved.
In peace I am happy.
In peace I am free.
I now affirm:
I forgive everyone and everything all the time.
My mind holds only thoughts which are true and loving.
My mind thinks only what I think with God.
I am at choice and I choose peace.
Peace is my single goal….. the aim of all my living here..
the end I seek, my purpose, my function and my life. (from A Course in Miracles)
At peace with All That Is,
Betty Lue
When you want only peace, you will be only peace.
When you want only peace, you will extend only peace.
When Peace becomes your only goal, you will live nothing else.
How does one create peace on earth?
Peace is an inside job.
Peace begins in my mind.
Peace is experienced when I forgive all errors.
Peace is an attribute of the mind.
Peace comes when my mind serves only the purpose of living and giving peace.
I invite, encourage and request my mind to hold only thoughts of peace.
In peace I am renewed.
In peace, I am at home.
In peace, I know God.
In peace I am loving and beloved.
In peace I am happy.
In peace I am free.
I now affirm:
I forgive everyone and everything all the time.
My mind holds only thoughts which are true and loving.
My mind thinks only what I think with God.
I am at choice and I choose peace.
Peace is my single goal….. the aim of all my living here..
the end I seek, my purpose, my function and my life. (from A Course in Miracles)
At peace with All That Is,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Light, Light and More Light
The most valuable tool I know for clearing out the old, useless, negative clutter in our minds and in our homes and in our lives is more light. Lots more light on the subject shows us what is valuable and what is valueless. Once we see, really see what is, we can easily and joyfully release what is no longer valuable. Whatever we keep in our minds or our lives takes energy. If it gives us back equal or more positive energy it may be worth keeping. If it simply drains energy, it probably is worth releasing. Turn up the lights in your home and you see the dirt, dust and clutter. Turn up the light in your mind and you see the limiting beliefs and negative programming, the fear and judgment, the resentment and disappointment.
Letting go is far, more simple, effective and easy when you can see what you are releasing.
Be appreciative of yourself for your willingness to do the work.
You will more easily release with every breath.
Shine a light on the subject and you see more.
Fear causes ignorance and fixed opinions. Fear is darkness.
Turn up the light and you will behold with eyes of gratitude and love.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
With more light, we see the beauty of the pink—multiple shads and gradations of color
Warm, cozy...like living in the heart of God.
Remember to keep the “holidays” Holy and sacred.
Listen inside for your true gifts in this season of “more light”.
Letting go is far, more simple, effective and easy when you can see what you are releasing.
Be appreciative of yourself for your willingness to do the work.
You will more easily release with every breath.
Shine a light on the subject and you see more.
Fear causes ignorance and fixed opinions. Fear is darkness.
Turn up the light and you will behold with eyes of gratitude and love.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
With more light, we see the beauty of the pink—multiple shads and gradations of color
Warm, cozy...like living in the heart of God.
Remember to keep the “holidays” Holy and sacred.
Listen inside for your true gifts in this season of “more light”.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
No Complaints
When I am honest with myself, I see how complaining grows into victimization and self pity.
I see how criticizing grows into resentment and fear.
I see how finding imperfection leads to finding myself wanting.
I see how seeking acknowledgment or appreciation sets me up for making others my source.
I see how having expectations contributes to being disappointed and discouraged.
Life is too much fun to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered.
I do not know the HIGHER PURPOSE.
I do not know the DIVINE PLAN.
I do know I AM LOVED.
I do know GOD WILLS MY HAPPINESS.
I do know I WANT INNER PEACE.
So I now easily choose to release complaining, criticizing, finding imperfection, seeking acknowledgment, and expecting.
I now choose to trust in the Highway of Peace.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
I see how criticizing grows into resentment and fear.
I see how finding imperfection leads to finding myself wanting.
I see how seeking acknowledgment or appreciation sets me up for making others my source.
I see how having expectations contributes to being disappointed and discouraged.
Life is too much fun to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered.
I do not know the HIGHER PURPOSE.
I do not know the DIVINE PLAN.
I do know I AM LOVED.
I do know GOD WILLS MY HAPPINESS.
I do know I WANT INNER PEACE.
So I now easily choose to release complaining, criticizing, finding imperfection, seeking acknowledgment, and expecting.
I now choose to trust in the Highway of Peace.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Monday, December 15, 2003
Endings and New Beginnings
Where we end one chapter of our life, we open to a new chapter.
Where one adventure is completed, another challenge may be around the corner.
Where one relationship is over, we prepare for the next.
When a part of us dies, we must allow for rebirth of a new self.
When we move on, we are to let go gracefully and move on.
When we say “goodbye” to the old, we awaken to the new.
Just as the sun sets everyday allowing for the completion of the days experiences, so we must be prepared for the sunrise in the morning after a time of respite and rest. The night (sometimes referred to as the dark night of the soul) is often seen as being a time of sorrow and grief, confusion and doubt, fear and regret. However, seen rightly, we might simply allow the void to be the time of breath, reflection, openness to the new dawn. Where we judge life’s events we tend to get stuck in the negative experiences. Or sometimes we get attached to the beautiful memories of what has been. Where we forgive and clear our judgments, we find solace and comfort as we await the birth of what is to come. When we let go with gratitude and celebration, we open not only to the blessedness of the past, but the gifts of the future.
Life cycles invite us to change and transform. Life events invite us to let go, to laugh and love again. Life’s opportunities open the way to easily release that which is decaying and to embrace that which is budding forth.
Suggestions for letting go with LOVE and moving on with JOY:
Say “good bye” with full appreciation for what has been.
Honor the ‘now’ moment for the gifts that it holds for you.
Appreciate every change in life.
Trust in the transformative process as we return to our natural state of wholeness.
Let go of everything to enter into the void. Be still and be at peace.
Acknowledge judgments and fears with true forgiveness.
Look forward to greater tomorrows.
Trust we cannot know the underlying purpose to what is given.
Be willing to accept that all things work together for Good.
We are ending the year 2003. Now is the time of great grief and a sense of dying for many.
December is a month of completion and forgiveness of where we may have erred.
Allow yourself to die to the old and await the new.
Rest when there is nothing to do.
Lay your fears aside by trusting in the Power and Presence that knows All, Loves All and Is All.
Loving and blessing us all as One.
Betty Lue
Where one adventure is completed, another challenge may be around the corner.
Where one relationship is over, we prepare for the next.
When a part of us dies, we must allow for rebirth of a new self.
When we move on, we are to let go gracefully and move on.
When we say “goodbye” to the old, we awaken to the new.
Just as the sun sets everyday allowing for the completion of the days experiences, so we must be prepared for the sunrise in the morning after a time of respite and rest. The night (sometimes referred to as the dark night of the soul) is often seen as being a time of sorrow and grief, confusion and doubt, fear and regret. However, seen rightly, we might simply allow the void to be the time of breath, reflection, openness to the new dawn. Where we judge life’s events we tend to get stuck in the negative experiences. Or sometimes we get attached to the beautiful memories of what has been. Where we forgive and clear our judgments, we find solace and comfort as we await the birth of what is to come. When we let go with gratitude and celebration, we open not only to the blessedness of the past, but the gifts of the future.
Life cycles invite us to change and transform. Life events invite us to let go, to laugh and love again. Life’s opportunities open the way to easily release that which is decaying and to embrace that which is budding forth.
Suggestions for letting go with LOVE and moving on with JOY:
Say “good bye” with full appreciation for what has been.
Honor the ‘now’ moment for the gifts that it holds for you.
Appreciate every change in life.
Trust in the transformative process as we return to our natural state of wholeness.
Let go of everything to enter into the void. Be still and be at peace.
Acknowledge judgments and fears with true forgiveness.
Look forward to greater tomorrows.
Trust we cannot know the underlying purpose to what is given.
Be willing to accept that all things work together for Good.
We are ending the year 2003. Now is the time of great grief and a sense of dying for many.
December is a month of completion and forgiveness of where we may have erred.
Allow yourself to die to the old and await the new.
Rest when there is nothing to do.
Lay your fears aside by trusting in the Power and Presence that knows All, Loves All and Is All.
Loving and blessing us all as One.
Betty Lue
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Grateful
(Grateful to be moved and unpacked.)
As I am seeing what is not, I am reminded of what is.
As I am seeing the imperfections, I perceive the perfection.
As I am feeling the physical fatigue, I experience life energy.
As I am seeing how much is left to do, I see how much has been accomplished.
As I am seeing the carelessness of hired workers, I see how much they helped.
As I am seeing the too much “pink” walls, I see the warmth of this loving cocoon.
As I am seeing the money being spent, I see how generously I am willing to give.
As I am seeing myself get discouraged with stress and fatigue, I see my persistent trust and joy.
Within all clouds, there is not only a silver lining, but the golden glow of each new sun.
We are that sun (Son) shining for and with one another.
We can awaken each morning and each moment to the blessedness of now.
Always in now there is hope and faith and love.
I am loving you and me.
I celebrate us all endlessly.
I will not quit on what is true.
Betty Lue
Note: New office and new home addresses.
Betty Lue Lieber, Ph.D. MFT
Whole Life Coach, Therapist, Spiritual Consultant, and Interfaith Minister
Reunion Ministries
3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
140 Mayhew Way Suite# 1000, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
800-919-2392 voicemail/pager
As I am seeing what is not, I am reminded of what is.
As I am seeing the imperfections, I perceive the perfection.
As I am feeling the physical fatigue, I experience life energy.
As I am seeing how much is left to do, I see how much has been accomplished.
As I am seeing the carelessness of hired workers, I see how much they helped.
As I am seeing the too much “pink” walls, I see the warmth of this loving cocoon.
As I am seeing the money being spent, I see how generously I am willing to give.
As I am seeing myself get discouraged with stress and fatigue, I see my persistent trust and joy.
Within all clouds, there is not only a silver lining, but the golden glow of each new sun.
We are that sun (Son) shining for and with one another.
We can awaken each morning and each moment to the blessedness of now.
Always in now there is hope and faith and love.
I am loving you and me.
I celebrate us all endlessly.
I will not quit on what is true.
Betty Lue
Note: New office and new home addresses.
Betty Lue Lieber, Ph.D. MFT
Whole Life Coach, Therapist, Spiritual Consultant, and Interfaith Minister
Reunion Ministries
3274 Ptarmigan Dr. #1A, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
140 Mayhew Way Suite# 1000, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
800-919-2392 voicemail/pager
Thursday, December 11, 2003
And This Is Good!
What you judge, you shall believe.
What you believe, you shall see.
What you see, you shall convince yourself is true.
What is true for you, you shall affirm until you forgive.
Whatever you create in your life, you may judge “Good” or “Bad”.
And this shall be your experience, until you cease judging and simply see what is.
I have judgments.
My judgments mean nothing.
I have beliefs. I am responsible for what I experience.
I can choose to change what I believe and I will change my experience.
Love is the way.
Betty Lue
What you believe, you shall see.
What you see, you shall convince yourself is true.
What is true for you, you shall affirm until you forgive.
Whatever you create in your life, you may judge “Good” or “Bad”.
And this shall be your experience, until you cease judging and simply see what is.
I have judgments.
My judgments mean nothing.
I have beliefs. I am responsible for what I experience.
I can choose to change what I believe and I will change my experience.
Love is the way.
Betty Lue
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Be Respectful of Your Self
Where we are is to be honored.
Each one of us is on a journey.
This journey is unique to our growth.
Our challenges, our gifts, our dilemmas are unique to us.
When another comes to rescue, to criticize, to warn us, they may be judging our way, rather than respecting our spiritual path.
When I am afraid of you, I am judging your behavior.
When I am afraid for you, I am judging your condition.
When I free you from my opinions and choices, I am loving you.
When I am trusting you, I am accepting you and your life journey.
We cannot be on another’s path, because we have our own.
Honor what is yours.
Trust in what it theirs.
And be at peace.
Betty Lue
Moving the next few days so computer will be packed.
Look for the reminders on the website.
Each one of us is on a journey.
This journey is unique to our growth.
Our challenges, our gifts, our dilemmas are unique to us.
When another comes to rescue, to criticize, to warn us, they may be judging our way, rather than respecting our spiritual path.
When I am afraid of you, I am judging your behavior.
When I am afraid for you, I am judging your condition.
When I free you from my opinions and choices, I am loving you.
When I am trusting you, I am accepting you and your life journey.
We cannot be on another’s path, because we have our own.
Honor what is yours.
Trust in what it theirs.
And be at peace.
Betty Lue
Moving the next few days so computer will be packed.
Look for the reminders on the website.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Pink Is Healing
What do you do when your life doesn’t turn out the way you expected?
The same thing you do when your life turns out the way you expect.
You breathe deeply. Smile and say “Thank You.”
You forgive the judgments in your mind.
You look for and receive the gift therein.
You appreciate the beauty of every day.
You give love and appreciation to everyone.
You live, love, laugh and be happy.
For so it is that we can fully enjoy life.
The walls in our condo turned out very pink.
(Even after adding three gallons of white paint to each 5 gallon tub)
Yes, there are other areas where we have gotten the unexpected in our new home.
What do I do?
I continue doing my life.
I use my humor to see things differently.
I appreciate having a place to live, fresh paint on my walls.
I look for the gift and blessing.
I create possibilities. (out of lemons make lemonade).
I learn how to do it differently.
I trust in the Highest Good.
I believe in miracles.
I rejoice that my life is so good.
I carry on in love and joy and peace.
In all of life, we are here to take a journey into the Self. On this journey we find areas of needed healing, areas of generosity and abundance, areas of withheld emotion, areas of unconsciousness. On our journey there are mysteries and magical moments, hopes and fears, clearing and creativity.
All is good when we are free to choose again.
All is good when we forgive our judgments.
All is good when we trust in the Divine or Spiritual Path.
All is Good.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
The same thing you do when your life turns out the way you expect.
You breathe deeply. Smile and say “Thank You.”
You forgive the judgments in your mind.
You look for and receive the gift therein.
You appreciate the beauty of every day.
You give love and appreciation to everyone.
You live, love, laugh and be happy.
For so it is that we can fully enjoy life.
The walls in our condo turned out very pink.
(Even after adding three gallons of white paint to each 5 gallon tub)
Yes, there are other areas where we have gotten the unexpected in our new home.
What do I do?
I continue doing my life.
I use my humor to see things differently.
I appreciate having a place to live, fresh paint on my walls.
I look for the gift and blessing.
I create possibilities. (out of lemons make lemonade).
I learn how to do it differently.
I trust in the Highest Good.
I believe in miracles.
I rejoice that my life is so good.
I carry on in love and joy and peace.
In all of life, we are here to take a journey into the Self. On this journey we find areas of needed healing, areas of generosity and abundance, areas of withheld emotion, areas of unconsciousness. On our journey there are mysteries and magical moments, hopes and fears, clearing and creativity.
All is good when we are free to choose again.
All is good when we forgive our judgments.
All is good when we trust in the Divine or Spiritual Path.
All is Good.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Monday, December 08, 2003
Tithing, Contribution and Giving
Give to what has heart and meaning for you.
Give to the Source of Your Good.
Give 10% or 20% or 50% of your time, money and energy to what inspires you.
Give wherever and however you are called.
Give with Joy.
Give freely and generously.
Give without conditions or expectations.
Give without needing approval or appreciation.
Give because it is your joy to give from your heart.
Give to people, organizations, concepts and inspirational resources.
Give with your energy, service and gratitude as well as money.
Give to yourself, your consciousness, your awakening, your daily spiritual connection.
The practical value of tithing is multifold.
Keep the flow going.
What inspires you needs to be inspired. Stoke the fire.
Where you put your attention grows and flourishes.
Keep the wellspring from which you receive healthy and strong.
Invest in your future.
Save for a rainy day in your inspirational bank account.
Retain seeds of inspiration for the next season of inspirational prosperity for you.
Bless what and who has blessed you.
Express your gratitude freely.
Know it all comes from source and returns to Source.
Learn the value of conscious stewardship. Contribute to what you value.
Spending 10% or more of your time inspiring you will always lead to more inspiration.
Spending 10% of your energy inspiring you will lead to more energy.
Spending 10% of your money inspiring you will lead to more productivity and creativity.
Tithing woks. It is practical and effective.
Pay attention to what prospers you and lifts you up.
Give where it counts.
Inspired by you and these Loving Reminders,
Betty Lue
Give to the Source of Your Good.
Give 10% or 20% or 50% of your time, money and energy to what inspires you.
Give wherever and however you are called.
Give with Joy.
Give freely and generously.
Give without conditions or expectations.
Give without needing approval or appreciation.
Give because it is your joy to give from your heart.
Give to people, organizations, concepts and inspirational resources.
Give with your energy, service and gratitude as well as money.
Give to yourself, your consciousness, your awakening, your daily spiritual connection.
The practical value of tithing is multifold.
Keep the flow going.
What inspires you needs to be inspired. Stoke the fire.
Where you put your attention grows and flourishes.
Keep the wellspring from which you receive healthy and strong.
Invest in your future.
Save for a rainy day in your inspirational bank account.
Retain seeds of inspiration for the next season of inspirational prosperity for you.
Bless what and who has blessed you.
Express your gratitude freely.
Know it all comes from source and returns to Source.
Learn the value of conscious stewardship. Contribute to what you value.
Spending 10% or more of your time inspiring you will always lead to more inspiration.
Spending 10% of your energy inspiring you will lead to more energy.
Spending 10% of your money inspiring you will lead to more productivity and creativity.
Tithing woks. It is practical and effective.
Pay attention to what prospers you and lifts you up.
Give where it counts.
Inspired by you and these Loving Reminders,
Betty Lue
Sunday, December 07, 2003
Moving Again
Yes, this is moving week.
Why move? Why move from one place you love to another about which you are uncertain?
Why let go of what you have and move on with less?
How can we let go with love and trust in the Good to come?
Moving can be healing.
Moving can be helpful.
Moving can be the call of Spirit of the desire of the ego.
Moving can be whatever you want it to be.
A new beginning, an opportunity, a letting go, a lightening up, a change of pace, a new community, a new identity, a warmer climate, a healthier choice.
When a plant is crowded, it needs more space.
When a plant is root bound, we transplant into a bigger pot with fresh soil.
When a plant needs more light, more rain, less cold, we respond easily.
So humans need to find the right conditions for their natural growth. Often we are born into circumstances which are limiting.
We may move into a flood pain or a desert (actually or metaphorically) and need to move to take care of our selves and our families. Our health conditions may invite us to move out of homes that have mold or other pollutants.
We may find our neighbors to be difficult and want to move into a more harmonious community.
It is important to move from our jobs, our habits, our careers, our associations, when they no longer support our full aliveness, when they endanger our health or distract us from purposeful living.
It is an act of faith to move, when there is a spiritual call.
When living in faith, we listen within and respond.
We are moving back to the Bay area, to Walnut Creek where I have lived the longest in total.
This is the place where I have spent most of my years counseling and teaching.
While living in Santa Rosa I have continued to commute to an office where I work 5-15 hours weekly.
Robert’s Mom would benefit from our presence and help with transportation,, errands and company.
It will cut our time in the car to less than half.
Our other Reunion Ministries and family commitments will be enhanced by this move.
While leaving our home here in Valley of the Moon, with vineyards, state parks and mountains all around is a letting go, we do it easily by changing our minds.
I now let go with love and appreciation.
I bless the people, the experiences and this home for the goodness and beauty they have provided us.
I fully trust in our calling to move on.
I know that all is provided for as we move in faith and hope and full appreciation.
I look forward with delight to the next place to be.
My attitude provides me with the energy and consciousness to make this move fun, safe and easy for all.
I am filled with enthusiasm, gratitude and expectancy for a future of goodness, wholeness and love for all.
Blessing our inner and outer changes for the good of All,
Betty Lue
Why move? Why move from one place you love to another about which you are uncertain?
Why let go of what you have and move on with less?
How can we let go with love and trust in the Good to come?
Moving can be healing.
Moving can be helpful.
Moving can be the call of Spirit of the desire of the ego.
Moving can be whatever you want it to be.
A new beginning, an opportunity, a letting go, a lightening up, a change of pace, a new community, a new identity, a warmer climate, a healthier choice.
When a plant is crowded, it needs more space.
When a plant is root bound, we transplant into a bigger pot with fresh soil.
When a plant needs more light, more rain, less cold, we respond easily.
So humans need to find the right conditions for their natural growth. Often we are born into circumstances which are limiting.
We may move into a flood pain or a desert (actually or metaphorically) and need to move to take care of our selves and our families. Our health conditions may invite us to move out of homes that have mold or other pollutants.
We may find our neighbors to be difficult and want to move into a more harmonious community.
It is important to move from our jobs, our habits, our careers, our associations, when they no longer support our full aliveness, when they endanger our health or distract us from purposeful living.
It is an act of faith to move, when there is a spiritual call.
When living in faith, we listen within and respond.
We are moving back to the Bay area, to Walnut Creek where I have lived the longest in total.
This is the place where I have spent most of my years counseling and teaching.
While living in Santa Rosa I have continued to commute to an office where I work 5-15 hours weekly.
Robert’s Mom would benefit from our presence and help with transportation,, errands and company.
It will cut our time in the car to less than half.
Our other Reunion Ministries and family commitments will be enhanced by this move.
While leaving our home here in Valley of the Moon, with vineyards, state parks and mountains all around is a letting go, we do it easily by changing our minds.
I now let go with love and appreciation.
I bless the people, the experiences and this home for the goodness and beauty they have provided us.
I fully trust in our calling to move on.
I know that all is provided for as we move in faith and hope and full appreciation.
I look forward with delight to the next place to be.
My attitude provides me with the energy and consciousness to make this move fun, safe and easy for all.
I am filled with enthusiasm, gratitude and expectancy for a future of goodness, wholeness and love for all.
Blessing our inner and outer changes for the good of All,
Betty Lue
Saturday, December 06, 2003
Energy Is Healing
Recently I made a quick list of all those elements that have a profound effect on one’s energy.
Exercise, T’ai Chi Chih and forms of Qi Gong, breathing, forgiveness, generosity, love, joy, humor, creativity, novelty, diet, productivity, fulfillment, choice, affirmation, appreciation, walking, nature, beauty, inner peace, stewardship, doing what you love, receiving another’s love, prayer, fulfilling a dream, giving and receiving blessing and more.
Whenever we open the flow of energy, we experience more love.
Whatever is judging and condemning constricts the flow of energy.
Whatever is forgiving and accepting opens the flow of energy.
Fatigue is caused by the use of our mind and body to defend, protect, limit and judge our lack of safety.
Energization is experienced as we open to trust in the abundance of the Beauty, Goodness and Love in our lives.
Wherever we are trusting and freeing, we open the flow.
Wherever we are suspicious and limiting, we shut down the flow.
Our mind is the governor of the flow.
We are sovereign in the use of our mind.
It may require practice to use your mind to your own benefit.
With disuse and laziness, we may allow past programming, media hysteria and mass consciousness beliefs to be at the controls of our thinking.
We now can forgive this all and choose again.
I choose to free myself from limiting and frightening beliefs.
I forgive myself for scaring myself.
I forgive myself for scaring myself.
Letting go of lack, littleness and limitation is fun, safe and easy for me.
I now choose freedom and trust.
I now choose love, forgiveness and healing.
I now choose abundant life.
I am filled with new life energy everyday.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Exercise, T’ai Chi Chih and forms of Qi Gong, breathing, forgiveness, generosity, love, joy, humor, creativity, novelty, diet, productivity, fulfillment, choice, affirmation, appreciation, walking, nature, beauty, inner peace, stewardship, doing what you love, receiving another’s love, prayer, fulfilling a dream, giving and receiving blessing and more.
Whenever we open the flow of energy, we experience more love.
Whatever is judging and condemning constricts the flow of energy.
Whatever is forgiving and accepting opens the flow of energy.
Fatigue is caused by the use of our mind and body to defend, protect, limit and judge our lack of safety.
Energization is experienced as we open to trust in the abundance of the Beauty, Goodness and Love in our lives.
Wherever we are trusting and freeing, we open the flow.
Wherever we are suspicious and limiting, we shut down the flow.
Our mind is the governor of the flow.
We are sovereign in the use of our mind.
It may require practice to use your mind to your own benefit.
With disuse and laziness, we may allow past programming, media hysteria and mass consciousness beliefs to be at the controls of our thinking.
We now can forgive this all and choose again.
I choose to free myself from limiting and frightening beliefs.
I forgive myself for scaring myself.
I forgive myself for scaring myself.
Letting go of lack, littleness and limitation is fun, safe and easy for me.
I now choose freedom and trust.
I now choose love, forgiveness and healing.
I now choose abundant life.
I am filled with new life energy everyday.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Friday, December 05, 2003
Everyone Is Your Teacher
Today is the birthday of a special young woman who came into my life 27 years ago. She brought with her the fears of the world. She carried in her being the confusion of the emerging adult, the anger of the wounded, the quiet of the ashamed, the joy of the innocent and the suspicion of a deer mortally injured and crying silently for help. She brought with her the problems, terror and desperation of the walking wounded. There are many today whom we see on the streets in our schools and hospitals and many more behind closed doors suppressed by medication, alcohol and other restraints. They too need someone to listen, someone to hear, someone to respond and reach out with love. They are our teachers. They are messengers calling us to remember to Love.
This young woman changed my life forever. As I recall how she touched my life, I weep. Tears of sorrow, joy and profound gratitude come to me. She is a hero to me, for she and I walked together courageously through difficult times as therapist and client, fearless friend with fearful friend, community server and helper, two children seeking to find a better way. We were together in the search to find Peace and Joy and Love within. We succeeded because we both committed to a healed and healthy relationship with ourselves and with each other.
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I learned more from her than I can express in words. Only my heart knows how deeply she touched me in her pain, in her need and in her call for help. I reached out to respond to a phone call from a stranger, someone who had no means of support, someone who cried out for unconditional love. I reached out in faith and was given the most precious gift of all, the rewards of loving…unconditionally loving…. in a smile, a butterfly, a daisy…. in the rainbow or sunbeam or cautious hug....in the celebration of each step in confidence.
I am encouraging all of us to reach out to those we see, those we think of, those whom we know are hungry. not just for food, but for the human touch, a smile and affirming words. Reach out and love. Reach out and remember the Love You Are, as you remind the other of the Love within them. Everyone is gift.
Yes, you, my dear friend, shall always be my Loving Reminder.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
This young woman changed my life forever. As I recall how she touched my life, I weep. Tears of sorrow, joy and profound gratitude come to me. She is a hero to me, for she and I walked together courageously through difficult times as therapist and client, fearless friend with fearful friend, community server and helper, two children seeking to find a better way. We were together in the search to find Peace and Joy and Love within. We succeeded because we both committed to a healed and healthy relationship with ourselves and with each other.
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I learned more from her than I can express in words. Only my heart knows how deeply she touched me in her pain, in her need and in her call for help. I reached out to respond to a phone call from a stranger, someone who had no means of support, someone who cried out for unconditional love. I reached out in faith and was given the most precious gift of all, the rewards of loving…unconditionally loving…. in a smile, a butterfly, a daisy…. in the rainbow or sunbeam or cautious hug....in the celebration of each step in confidence.
I am encouraging all of us to reach out to those we see, those we think of, those whom we know are hungry. not just for food, but for the human touch, a smile and affirming words. Reach out and love. Reach out and remember the Love You Are, as you remind the other of the Love within them. Everyone is gift.
Yes, you, my dear friend, shall always be my Loving Reminder.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Impeccable Self Care
To care for One Self Impeccably, there must be love and respect for our whole being.
Where we judge, we criticize, neglect, negate, abuse and accuse.
The work is to see accurately and to listen to the way we now treat ourselves.
Wherever there is an area of lack, littleness or limitation, we must acknowledge or confess.
Wherever we have self-denying and defeating programming from childhood, we must bring it all into the light.
It is in the light of awareness that we can forgive, release and erase what no longer serve our highest Good.
We were each created as Love by Love for the purpose of Loving.
Wherever we believe otherwise, we must confess, forgive, heal and transform.
How does this process of Self Healing look.
It can look like journaling, therapy, prayer, daily self care, introspection and reflection, living our lives happy and free, caring for another impeccably, affirming daily with prayer treatment or written affirmation.
When we are living with impeccable self care, any small upset is a sign we have forgotten to live on purpose.
We have forsaken following the path of our heart with deep love and appreciation for who we are.
When we are caring for ourselves impeccably we lead a balanced life, honoring mind, body and Spirit.
When we are truly honoring ourselves, we feel loved and loving no matter what.
When we are fully appreciating ourselves, we are whole, happy and free.
Let Love and Joy lead, for they are honest caretakers of our precious gift of live.
Love and Joy lead us to fulfillment, abundance and meaningful relationships.
Love and Joy lead us to care for our body vehicle, our home environment, our families and friends.
Love and Joy lead us to be constantly learning from everyone and everything.
Love and Joy support our trust, our honesty, our generosity, our patience.
Love and Joy lead us to let go of defenses and secrets, to release resentments and guilt.
Love and Joy lead us to honor the Voice within and to follow the song in our heart.
Love and Joy lead us to love ourselves no matter what and to love others as well.
Impeccable Self Care is our right and responsibility.
It gives an example for others to see.
It supports us in the stresses of life.
It keeps our minds from confusion and our bodies from strife.
Begin today to care for You.
This is your life. Cherish it,
Betty Lue
Where we judge, we criticize, neglect, negate, abuse and accuse.
The work is to see accurately and to listen to the way we now treat ourselves.
Wherever there is an area of lack, littleness or limitation, we must acknowledge or confess.
Wherever we have self-denying and defeating programming from childhood, we must bring it all into the light.
It is in the light of awareness that we can forgive, release and erase what no longer serve our highest Good.
We were each created as Love by Love for the purpose of Loving.
Wherever we believe otherwise, we must confess, forgive, heal and transform.
How does this process of Self Healing look.
It can look like journaling, therapy, prayer, daily self care, introspection and reflection, living our lives happy and free, caring for another impeccably, affirming daily with prayer treatment or written affirmation.
When we are living with impeccable self care, any small upset is a sign we have forgotten to live on purpose.
We have forsaken following the path of our heart with deep love and appreciation for who we are.
When we are caring for ourselves impeccably we lead a balanced life, honoring mind, body and Spirit.
When we are truly honoring ourselves, we feel loved and loving no matter what.
When we are fully appreciating ourselves, we are whole, happy and free.
Let Love and Joy lead, for they are honest caretakers of our precious gift of live.
Love and Joy lead us to fulfillment, abundance and meaningful relationships.
Love and Joy lead us to care for our body vehicle, our home environment, our families and friends.
Love and Joy lead us to be constantly learning from everyone and everything.
Love and Joy support our trust, our honesty, our generosity, our patience.
Love and Joy lead us to let go of defenses and secrets, to release resentments and guilt.
Love and Joy lead us to honor the Voice within and to follow the song in our heart.
Love and Joy lead us to love ourselves no matter what and to love others as well.
Impeccable Self Care is our right and responsibility.
It gives an example for others to see.
It supports us in the stresses of life.
It keeps our minds from confusion and our bodies from strife.
Begin today to care for You.
This is your life. Cherish it,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Listening and Loving the Young
Every person well-listened to and loved will blossom into the being they are called to be.
When we take the time to listen, we demonstrate we care.
We demonstrate we value the thoughts and feelings, the hopes and dreams of the one we are giving our undivided attention to.
I prefer to listen with no distractions, no TV, no phone, no other people, no outside conversation, just listening.
I prefer to set a time, to make an appointment for the other.
I prefer to give my whole being to the listening.
I prefer to listen with my heart and not my head, to listen with love rather than with judgment.
I prefer to state my boundaries, how long I have to be present.
I prefer to say and show I care with my face, with my words, with my touch.
I prefer to tell the other directly how much their happiness and well-being mean to me.
I prefer to end the conversation with an acknowledgment of feeling good about the intimacy and sharing.
If the young one knows what they want, trust and support their choices.
Our kids develop self doubt because adults (who don’t really know what they want) question and doubt their kids in struggling to find our what is best for them.
If you are fearful of their choice, state your concerns one time, then gather information from all sides and share.
Be there to listen. Invite in a consultant who is objective. And always LOVE
Our young people are often scared, lost and feeling non-supported.
Money seems to be the way they think they can get what they want.
(We taught them money comes first by our lifestyle choices.)
We as parents pass on our confusion and internal tension to our kids.
They act out our unexpressed conflicts, angers and fears.
They are mirrors for us. We must clean our own mirror.
If the young one does not know what they want, if they are confused, how can you help?
Ask helpful questions. Listen for the answers.
Does he want joy and freedom, travel and adventure, home and security, family and comfort, education and learning, experimenting and discovery, spirituality and teaching? Each path looks totally different.
Just what does he feel drawn to for his life?
Or perhaps, what does he not want?
If he is open....
Give him alternatives and choices or possibilities.
Give him hope for the future and a vision of better things to come.
Give him a trip, a class, a book, a life coach, a mentor, a good friend to help him find his feet, his future and a path on which he can successfully walk.
When we can respond with Love and respond as Christ, we are direct, clear, compassionate and show the way clearly in thought, words and behavior.
When our own lives are happy, healthy, and purposeful, we can say “Come follow me.”
Most adults have muddy, conflicted lives that are much too busy, are uncommunicative and and are living off purpose.
To be at peace, we must acknowledge how we explored with trial and error to find our way.
We must forgive our mistakes and trust that consequesnces and life experiences are great teachers.
We must be confident that with fogiveness and love, we will find our way home.
Listen and love,
Give the best you have always,
Betty Lue
When we take the time to listen, we demonstrate we care.
We demonstrate we value the thoughts and feelings, the hopes and dreams of the one we are giving our undivided attention to.
I prefer to listen with no distractions, no TV, no phone, no other people, no outside conversation, just listening.
I prefer to set a time, to make an appointment for the other.
I prefer to give my whole being to the listening.
I prefer to listen with my heart and not my head, to listen with love rather than with judgment.
I prefer to state my boundaries, how long I have to be present.
I prefer to say and show I care with my face, with my words, with my touch.
I prefer to tell the other directly how much their happiness and well-being mean to me.
I prefer to end the conversation with an acknowledgment of feeling good about the intimacy and sharing.
If the young one knows what they want, trust and support their choices.
Our kids develop self doubt because adults (who don’t really know what they want) question and doubt their kids in struggling to find our what is best for them.
If you are fearful of their choice, state your concerns one time, then gather information from all sides and share.
Be there to listen. Invite in a consultant who is objective. And always LOVE
Our young people are often scared, lost and feeling non-supported.
Money seems to be the way they think they can get what they want.
(We taught them money comes first by our lifestyle choices.)
We as parents pass on our confusion and internal tension to our kids.
They act out our unexpressed conflicts, angers and fears.
They are mirrors for us. We must clean our own mirror.
If the young one does not know what they want, if they are confused, how can you help?
Ask helpful questions. Listen for the answers.
Does he want joy and freedom, travel and adventure, home and security, family and comfort, education and learning, experimenting and discovery, spirituality and teaching? Each path looks totally different.
Just what does he feel drawn to for his life?
Or perhaps, what does he not want?
If he is open....
Give him alternatives and choices or possibilities.
Give him hope for the future and a vision of better things to come.
Give him a trip, a class, a book, a life coach, a mentor, a good friend to help him find his feet, his future and a path on which he can successfully walk.
When we can respond with Love and respond as Christ, we are direct, clear, compassionate and show the way clearly in thought, words and behavior.
When our own lives are happy, healthy, and purposeful, we can say “Come follow me.”
Most adults have muddy, conflicted lives that are much too busy, are uncommunicative and and are living off purpose.
To be at peace, we must acknowledge how we explored with trial and error to find our way.
We must forgive our mistakes and trust that consequesnces and life experiences are great teachers.
We must be confident that with fogiveness and love, we will find our way home.
Listen and love,
Give the best you have always,
Betty Lue
Monday, December 01, 2003
Never Too Busy for You
If you call me, I will be there.
If you need me, I will be there.
If you seek creative solutions, I will be there.
If you are wanting me to listen, I will be there.
Never assume those who love you will not be there for you.
Yes, I am busy.
Yes, I have moved my office. (It took one day only to move and set it up.)
Yes, we just finished and mailed the Holiday Newsletter and 2004 schedule.
Yes, I am moving our home on the 10-11th. (We will be set up with pictures hung by Dec. 15.)
Yes, I serve many people in many ways.
Yes, I am “on call for God.”
Yes, I am “on call for Goodness sake.”
Yes, I am creating new expanded ways to serve with holistic partnerships.
Yes, I am active in cleaning my home, preparing meals, caring for Gia and more.
And there is always time for you.
I never say “Darn, Why did they have to call now?”
I never feel frustrated or overwhelmed or demanded of, when someone asks for help.
I have given my life to God and to Good.
I have given my life that we all might have life more abundantly and more joyfully.
This is my purpose, my function and my life.
You are important. You are important to God, to me and to our global family.
You matter. Your health, happiness and purposeful living matter.
I receive and send these Loving Reminders for You.
I have an office and partners in wellness for you and me and All..
I take workshops and am always learning for you and me and All.
Remember You and I are in this life together.
You are part of my global family.
I am here to be with You.
So let me know whenever you have a need.
I will be honest about when I can be truly present with you.
I will trust that together with God there is nothing we cannot do.
I will take impeccable care of myself to the degree I am aware.
I will love you and me and all of us, through it all.
Never too busy for You,
Betty Lue
If you need me, I will be there.
If you seek creative solutions, I will be there.
If you are wanting me to listen, I will be there.
Never assume those who love you will not be there for you.
Yes, I am busy.
Yes, I have moved my office. (It took one day only to move and set it up.)
Yes, we just finished and mailed the Holiday Newsletter and 2004 schedule.
Yes, I am moving our home on the 10-11th. (We will be set up with pictures hung by Dec. 15.)
Yes, I serve many people in many ways.
Yes, I am “on call for God.”
Yes, I am “on call for Goodness sake.”
Yes, I am creating new expanded ways to serve with holistic partnerships.
Yes, I am active in cleaning my home, preparing meals, caring for Gia and more.
And there is always time for you.
I never say “Darn, Why did they have to call now?”
I never feel frustrated or overwhelmed or demanded of, when someone asks for help.
I have given my life to God and to Good.
I have given my life that we all might have life more abundantly and more joyfully.
This is my purpose, my function and my life.
You are important. You are important to God, to me and to our global family.
You matter. Your health, happiness and purposeful living matter.
I receive and send these Loving Reminders for You.
I have an office and partners in wellness for you and me and All..
I take workshops and am always learning for you and me and All.
Remember You and I are in this life together.
You are part of my global family.
I am here to be with You.
So let me know whenever you have a need.
I will be honest about when I can be truly present with you.
I will trust that together with God there is nothing we cannot do.
I will take impeccable care of myself to the degree I am aware.
I will love you and me and all of us, through it all.
Never too busy for You,
Betty Lue
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