(Plus drumming circles all over the planet)
This is indeed a significant time for each one of us to eliminate those negative habits, addictions and limiting beliefs and behaviors that are not highest and best for ourselves and our loved ones. Each one of can and does make a significant difference. Every one is teaching by their behavior, even in secret. You see the message, the energy, the gift of our lives is either exalted and beneficial, or deleterious and detrimental to others. Each one of us is making a positive or negative difference on Planet Earth.
Now if you are egocentric and only thinking about yourself, you may feel “Who cares?”
However everything you are thinking, saying and doing will come back to you, like a boomerang.
Some call it karma. Some simply say, “What goes around, comes around.” “What we sow, we reap.”
However you look at it, your life is directly and often immediately impacted by how you treat others, yourself and your environment. If you lie, cheat and steal, others will lie, cheat and steal from you. If you are kind and helpful, others will be kind and helpful around you. If you do both, you will experience both in your life.
No matter what the world and humanity seems to do around you, your work is to forgive and always and only give the very best. Let the rest be undone with the setting sun. Release from your history and memory those experiences with deplete and deflate your energy.
Let go of thoughts that depress you. Forgive words that defeat you. Forget the experiences that deplete you. Know that your highest work is to keep yourself whole and happy and free always to live and give your very best. For some this means, we release relationships and for others it means you simply change your attitude and behavior. For some it means you move to another state with higher values and simpler lifestyle. For others it means you learn to economize and live within your means, while staying where you are. For some it means establishing a daily spiritual and inspirational practice and for others it means simply practicing the fine art of gratitude.
Remember this is your full moon to harvest what nourishes and nurtures you and your loved ones.
Remember this is your good Friday, time to bury those parts of your life that you need to plow under.
Remember this is your life, your Spring time of renewal and Resurrection to come alive to Your calling.
Remember you can and will find your path,, your joy and your freedom in being True to you!
Celebrate Easter this year as the real beginning of living Life in Higher way!
Loving the Love and grateful for every new beginning,
Betty Lue
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Messengers: What is Your Message?
Did you know that you are a messenger?
Did you know that your family and friends are blessed, benefited, distracted or cursed by your message?
Did you know that your message is sent telepathically around the globe to everyone?
Did you know that you are teaching your world to be what you are thinking, speaking and doing?
My story of these Loving Reminders:
Around Christmas 1998, having just moved back to Bay Area, CA from a y loving spiritual family and successful learning, healing counseling Center in Kalamazoo, MI, I asked Spirit what I was to do to continue my calling of inspiring people to live their potential, to be All they were created to be. What I heard was to do what I never would have done………learn to use the computer to send messages (these Loving Reminders) to everyone who asked for them. At the time I was computer phobic and computer resistant. I wanted the personal contact with hugs, eye contact and to hear the voices of everyone. However, I am a happy and willing learner and so I began to sit at my computer to listen within and share in Late December 1998. I continue to simply sit at the keyboard and write in 15-20 minutes whatever I am given without editing or correcting. I learn and am reminded just as you are. These Loving Reminders continue to be a daily part of my spiritual practice.
I have been sending Loving Reminders everyday for over nine years, except when traveling or ill. There are now three published books of reminders and another two more which have been waiting for publishing for over two years. (It is time B’Lue.) The Reminders are now being sent directly to over one thousand people and by you to many thousands more. They are a message of healing and hope. They are my message to my world. And again and again I smile as I say the same thing in many ways and many times so that I (We) do not forget. We are here to Love. In Loving we find a fun, safe and easy way to live. Whether waking, sleeping, praying, thinking, creating, speaking, writing, doing, everyday living with everyone, I am giving the same message consistently. When I forget, I immediately correct my error with forgiveness and love. This is my path, my way, my calling and my Joy.
Now the question for you is: What is your message to your world?
Look at how you behave towards those you live and work with.
Watch your thoughts when you are in traffic or in the shower.
Listen to the words you say when you think no one is listening.
Give yourself the gift of acknowledging how you spent your day.
Do you think your life is for you alone?
Have you imagined that you can lie, cheat and steal and no one knows?
Are you claiming to be loving and nice when you gossip, criticize and belittle?
Do you say and do mean things to yourself inside your own mind?
Forgiveness is the key to cleaning it all up.
Forgiveness is the way to erase the past mistakes.
Forgiveness is the spiritual tool to undo what is not true.
Forgiveness is a gift to You to begin again brand new.
You have a message to bring to your family, friends and coworkers.
You have a part to play in cleaning up the mess we have made.
You have a job to do to eliminate what is not true and not loving.
You are an essential player in the cosmic play to bring us all home.
Some of you are actively clearing your own lives to play your part.
Some are practicing self forgiveness and love everyday.
Some are making amends for the mistakes and wrong-doings.
Some are being proactive in teaching others by your example.
However you choose to live, remember you actions speak louder than your words.
How you live is what you really give.
Who you are is showing up everyday in your relationships, your inner peace and your home.
Begin with a small step each day, giving yourself kudos for the changes you are making.
Give yourself time to develop a spiritual practice which shows.
One powerful practice I am sharing below.
I suggest you do this for 30 days.
If it makes a difference, continue.
If not, stop and do something else.
Blessing you and your message,
Betty Lue
30 Days to Enlightenment or
30 Days to Waking Up
30 Days to Healing or
30 Days to Seeing things Differently!
This exercise was given to me from Spirit within over 15 years ago.
It has a profound impact on how we see and live our lives.
This daily practice will heal and transform our lives.
With continued practice, there will be a spiritual awakening.
Forgiveness heals our perception and gives us Response-Ability.
Choice empowers us to Create our Experience Consciously.
Gratitude expands what we Choose and increases our Joy.
Daily Practice:
Begin each morning with a pad of lined paper and a pen.
Write and say 30 forgivenesses as they come to mind.
Simply write “I forgive”…and let the rest just come from within.
(No need to understand or feel anything.)
I forgive you for being mean.
I forgive myself for letting anyone hurt me.
I forgive my body’s limitation.
I forgive myself for being late.
I forgive everything.
Make the sound “AAAH” for 1-2 minutes.
Imagine that you are opening your mind.
Now write and say 30 Choices.
I choose to be happy.
I choose to be free.
I choose to do what I love.
I choose to forgive….
In the Evening (before bed)
Write and say 30 Gratitudes
I appreciate the energy I have.
I love being happy.
I am grateful I have you in my life.
I thank God.
Make the sound “OM” the Universal sound for Love and God for 1-2 minutes.
PS Even a few of each is better than none.
Do what you can and trust it is working.
Loving You always,
Betty Lue
Did you know that your family and friends are blessed, benefited, distracted or cursed by your message?
Did you know that your message is sent telepathically around the globe to everyone?
Did you know that you are teaching your world to be what you are thinking, speaking and doing?
My story of these Loving Reminders:
Around Christmas 1998, having just moved back to Bay Area, CA from a y loving spiritual family and successful learning, healing counseling Center in Kalamazoo, MI, I asked Spirit what I was to do to continue my calling of inspiring people to live their potential, to be All they were created to be. What I heard was to do what I never would have done………learn to use the computer to send messages (these Loving Reminders) to everyone who asked for them. At the time I was computer phobic and computer resistant. I wanted the personal contact with hugs, eye contact and to hear the voices of everyone. However, I am a happy and willing learner and so I began to sit at my computer to listen within and share in Late December 1998. I continue to simply sit at the keyboard and write in 15-20 minutes whatever I am given without editing or correcting. I learn and am reminded just as you are. These Loving Reminders continue to be a daily part of my spiritual practice.
I have been sending Loving Reminders everyday for over nine years, except when traveling or ill. There are now three published books of reminders and another two more which have been waiting for publishing for over two years. (It is time B’Lue.) The Reminders are now being sent directly to over one thousand people and by you to many thousands more. They are a message of healing and hope. They are my message to my world. And again and again I smile as I say the same thing in many ways and many times so that I (We) do not forget. We are here to Love. In Loving we find a fun, safe and easy way to live. Whether waking, sleeping, praying, thinking, creating, speaking, writing, doing, everyday living with everyone, I am giving the same message consistently. When I forget, I immediately correct my error with forgiveness and love. This is my path, my way, my calling and my Joy.
Now the question for you is: What is your message to your world?
Look at how you behave towards those you live and work with.
Watch your thoughts when you are in traffic or in the shower.
Listen to the words you say when you think no one is listening.
Give yourself the gift of acknowledging how you spent your day.
Do you think your life is for you alone?
Have you imagined that you can lie, cheat and steal and no one knows?
Are you claiming to be loving and nice when you gossip, criticize and belittle?
Do you say and do mean things to yourself inside your own mind?
Forgiveness is the key to cleaning it all up.
Forgiveness is the way to erase the past mistakes.
Forgiveness is the spiritual tool to undo what is not true.
Forgiveness is a gift to You to begin again brand new.
You have a message to bring to your family, friends and coworkers.
You have a part to play in cleaning up the mess we have made.
You have a job to do to eliminate what is not true and not loving.
You are an essential player in the cosmic play to bring us all home.
Some of you are actively clearing your own lives to play your part.
Some are practicing self forgiveness and love everyday.
Some are making amends for the mistakes and wrong-doings.
Some are being proactive in teaching others by your example.
However you choose to live, remember you actions speak louder than your words.
How you live is what you really give.
Who you are is showing up everyday in your relationships, your inner peace and your home.
Begin with a small step each day, giving yourself kudos for the changes you are making.
Give yourself time to develop a spiritual practice which shows.
One powerful practice I am sharing below.
I suggest you do this for 30 days.
If it makes a difference, continue.
If not, stop and do something else.
Blessing you and your message,
Betty Lue
30 Days to Enlightenment or
30 Days to Waking Up
30 Days to Healing or
30 Days to Seeing things Differently!
This exercise was given to me from Spirit within over 15 years ago.
It has a profound impact on how we see and live our lives.
This daily practice will heal and transform our lives.
With continued practice, there will be a spiritual awakening.
Forgiveness heals our perception and gives us Response-Ability.
Choice empowers us to Create our Experience Consciously.
Gratitude expands what we Choose and increases our Joy.
Daily Practice:
Begin each morning with a pad of lined paper and a pen.
Write and say 30 forgivenesses as they come to mind.
Simply write “I forgive”…and let the rest just come from within.
(No need to understand or feel anything.)
I forgive you for being mean.
I forgive myself for letting anyone hurt me.
I forgive my body’s limitation.
I forgive myself for being late.
I forgive everything.
Make the sound “AAAH” for 1-2 minutes.
Imagine that you are opening your mind.
Now write and say 30 Choices.
I choose to be happy.
I choose to be free.
I choose to do what I love.
I choose to forgive….
In the Evening (before bed)
Write and say 30 Gratitudes
I appreciate the energy I have.
I love being happy.
I am grateful I have you in my life.
I thank God.
Make the sound “OM” the Universal sound for Love and God for 1-2 minutes.
PS Even a few of each is better than none.
Do what you can and trust it is working.
Loving You always,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Holy Week
From Palm Sunday until Easter, this is the basic story I know.
Jesus (spiritual teacher and healer) rode into Jerusalem on a donkey celebrating his Good works.
Mid week he shared a meal (Last Supper) with his students (12 disciples).
He announced he was done and that he would be betrayed by one of them.
He went to have quiet time and asked for them to stay awake to care for him, and they all fell asleep.
He was abandoned, rejected and sold out by his own closest friends.
He was stoned and crucified to belittle and humiliate him. (Standard punishment)
He asked for forgiveness for all of them.
They put his body in a cave (tomb).
After three days, they found tomb empty.
Later he was talked to and seen by several people.
What have you learned about this?
What can you learn now about it?
Often we accept stories just as they are told and learn nothing except to feel bad, sad, guilty and afraid.
Maybe this year, we can open our hearts and minds to see and hear it a little differently.
Every prayer Jesus of Nazareth prayed was a prayer of forgiveness.
Every word and story Jesus told was a message of forgiveness.
Every action and interaction he had was one of forgiveness.
Jesus’ singular message was to forgive all judgments of everyone and everything and remember Love.
“Love Goodness and God and Love one another.”
It is in loving that you remember the Goodness in you and All That Is.
Goodness and God are found in loving.
Healing and holiness are found in loving.
Abundance and Joy are found in loving.
Resurrection and new life are found in loving.
We are healed when we love.
We are forgiven when we love.
We are prospered when we love.
We are blessed when we love.
We behold the blessings when we love.
We find peace when we love.
We are lifted up when we love.
We are enlightened when we love.
We Know Goodness and God when we love.
We behold the wonder of life when we Love.
Maybe the message of this Easter is to let go of the heavy and dark stories of the past.
Lay them to rest in the tomb of our forgiveness.
Allow ourselves to be lifted up in the Light of Goodness and Holiness to Joy and Peace.
Through forgiveness we can ascend into Heaven here on Earth.
Listen within and let me know the message you hear,
Betty Lue
Jesus (spiritual teacher and healer) rode into Jerusalem on a donkey celebrating his Good works.
Mid week he shared a meal (Last Supper) with his students (12 disciples).
He announced he was done and that he would be betrayed by one of them.
He went to have quiet time and asked for them to stay awake to care for him, and they all fell asleep.
He was abandoned, rejected and sold out by his own closest friends.
He was stoned and crucified to belittle and humiliate him. (Standard punishment)
He asked for forgiveness for all of them.
They put his body in a cave (tomb).
After three days, they found tomb empty.
Later he was talked to and seen by several people.
What have you learned about this?
What can you learn now about it?
Often we accept stories just as they are told and learn nothing except to feel bad, sad, guilty and afraid.
Maybe this year, we can open our hearts and minds to see and hear it a little differently.
Every prayer Jesus of Nazareth prayed was a prayer of forgiveness.
Every word and story Jesus told was a message of forgiveness.
Every action and interaction he had was one of forgiveness.
Jesus’ singular message was to forgive all judgments of everyone and everything and remember Love.
“Love Goodness and God and Love one another.”
It is in loving that you remember the Goodness in you and All That Is.
Goodness and God are found in loving.
Healing and holiness are found in loving.
Abundance and Joy are found in loving.
Resurrection and new life are found in loving.
We are healed when we love.
We are forgiven when we love.
We are prospered when we love.
We are blessed when we love.
We behold the blessings when we love.
We find peace when we love.
We are lifted up when we love.
We are enlightened when we love.
We Know Goodness and God when we love.
We behold the wonder of life when we Love.
Maybe the message of this Easter is to let go of the heavy and dark stories of the past.
Lay them to rest in the tomb of our forgiveness.
Allow ourselves to be lifted up in the Light of Goodness and Holiness to Joy and Peace.
Through forgiveness we can ascend into Heaven here on Earth.
Listen within and let me know the message you hear,
Betty Lue
Monday, March 17, 2008
Intense and Important Time
During the coming of spring, it is time to be awakened.
During the coming of the full moon, it is time to pay attention.
During the coming of Easter, it is time to resurrect the Love we are.
During the coming of healing and transformation, it is time for us to be free.
Are you free to sing the songs that lift your spirits?
Are you free to speak your Highest Truth?
Are you free to heal your relationships by forgiving the past?
Are you free to change your mind and transform your attitude?
This is the time to plow under what used to be and yet never was real.
This is the time to plant your garden of love and peace and joy in your soul.
This is the time to let go of scary stuff, misguided rules and endless stories of suffering.
This is the time to undo what never was true and reveal what is real in Love and Faith.
We can each one of us…
Learn to laugh again.
Treat everyone as a friend.
Make Love be our guide.
And always know we tried to give our best in every way!
You see in the beginning and the end.
We are the Ones who are making the real difference.
When all is saide and done, it will be the little things that really count.
It is all about what we think and say and do every minute of every day.
Let’s make this Easter really count
Let’s give this full moon out full attention to what is Good for All.
Let’s plant the seeds of loving kindness again in the garden of our heart.
Let’s give our All that All will give the Truth of Who We Are.
Together in Love Forever,
Betty Lue
During the coming of the full moon, it is time to pay attention.
During the coming of Easter, it is time to resurrect the Love we are.
During the coming of healing and transformation, it is time for us to be free.
Are you free to sing the songs that lift your spirits?
Are you free to speak your Highest Truth?
Are you free to heal your relationships by forgiving the past?
Are you free to change your mind and transform your attitude?
This is the time to plow under what used to be and yet never was real.
This is the time to plant your garden of love and peace and joy in your soul.
This is the time to let go of scary stuff, misguided rules and endless stories of suffering.
This is the time to undo what never was true and reveal what is real in Love and Faith.
We can each one of us…
Learn to laugh again.
Treat everyone as a friend.
Make Love be our guide.
And always know we tried to give our best in every way!
You see in the beginning and the end.
We are the Ones who are making the real difference.
When all is saide and done, it will be the little things that really count.
It is all about what we think and say and do every minute of every day.
Let’s make this Easter really count
Let’s give this full moon out full attention to what is Good for All.
Let’s plant the seeds of loving kindness again in the garden of our heart.
Let’s give our All that All will give the Truth of Who We Are.
Together in Love Forever,
Betty Lue
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Spring is Here!
Trees budding, flowers blooming, birds nesting and lots of happy sounds, especially at dawn!
So what of spring renewal?
Seasonal changes are easy to attune ourselves to much needed changes.
And this is the time to wake up, cheer up.
Spring is a time to lighten up and to give up the darkness of closing our eyes.
To see things differently is to look for what you want to see.
You can continue to look for what is passing away or look forward to what is to come.
You can see the dead past or look for the renewal of the spring.
“Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” Romans 12
So often we let others tell us what to think and say and do.
To get along, we go along with the latest fad, worldly belief, family gossip, or even scientific theory.
With a little forgiveness, letting go, open-mindedness, quiet contemplation, we can find a better way.
To not conform to the world requires a willingness to see things differently.
To change our minds invites us to let go of needing to be right and righteous.
To drop our opinion and stubborn judgment asks that we be willing to erase what is not true.
To heal our attitude asks that we seek for a better way that yields health, happiness and harmony.
Life invokes the best, the worst or just coasting, depending on our mindset.
One person in a family system or organization can affect the outcome of the whole.
The one happy person can bring greater energy, joy and creative possibility.
The one peaceful person can be a touchstone for letting go of fear and relaxing into ease.
The one loving person can give everyone an example of how to make things better for all.
Often we see the one who is different be ostracized or condemned by the group of conforming ones.
We may fear stepping out in faith, with a positive and healing message because it seems safer to go along.
We may resist thinking for ourselves and expressing individuality because it seems easier to go along.
We may dress, speak and act like others simply because we want to have the fun of belonging.
However, the payoff is to be average, dependent, wishy-washy and easily led astray.
Spring is here! Time to clear the cobwebs and weeds of the past.
Spring is here! Time to renew our energy and our spirit!
Spring is here! We can begin anew with out own goals, hopes and dreams.
Spring is here! We can plant what we want to have and be and do in our own lives.
Spring is here! Be clear that as you can change your direction, your goals and your choices.
You will attract those who are like you.
You will be admired and appreciated.
You will have self respect and appreciation.
You will be renewed in Spirit by the renewal of your mind.
Blessing us all this Spring,
Betty Lue
So what of spring renewal?
Seasonal changes are easy to attune ourselves to much needed changes.
And this is the time to wake up, cheer up.
Spring is a time to lighten up and to give up the darkness of closing our eyes.
To see things differently is to look for what you want to see.
You can continue to look for what is passing away or look forward to what is to come.
You can see the dead past or look for the renewal of the spring.
“Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” Romans 12
So often we let others tell us what to think and say and do.
To get along, we go along with the latest fad, worldly belief, family gossip, or even scientific theory.
With a little forgiveness, letting go, open-mindedness, quiet contemplation, we can find a better way.
To not conform to the world requires a willingness to see things differently.
To change our minds invites us to let go of needing to be right and righteous.
To drop our opinion and stubborn judgment asks that we be willing to erase what is not true.
To heal our attitude asks that we seek for a better way that yields health, happiness and harmony.
Life invokes the best, the worst or just coasting, depending on our mindset.
One person in a family system or organization can affect the outcome of the whole.
The one happy person can bring greater energy, joy and creative possibility.
The one peaceful person can be a touchstone for letting go of fear and relaxing into ease.
The one loving person can give everyone an example of how to make things better for all.
Often we see the one who is different be ostracized or condemned by the group of conforming ones.
We may fear stepping out in faith, with a positive and healing message because it seems safer to go along.
We may resist thinking for ourselves and expressing individuality because it seems easier to go along.
We may dress, speak and act like others simply because we want to have the fun of belonging.
However, the payoff is to be average, dependent, wishy-washy and easily led astray.
Spring is here! Time to clear the cobwebs and weeds of the past.
Spring is here! Time to renew our energy and our spirit!
Spring is here! We can begin anew with out own goals, hopes and dreams.
Spring is here! We can plant what we want to have and be and do in our own lives.
Spring is here! Be clear that as you can change your direction, your goals and your choices.
You will attract those who are like you.
You will be admired and appreciated.
You will have self respect and appreciation.
You will be renewed in Spirit by the renewal of your mind.
Blessing us all this Spring,
Betty Lue
Saturday, March 15, 2008
We Can Forgive Ourselves
Until I “Know” I cannot judge.
Until I am “perfect”, I cannot expect perfection.
To push and punish, to demand and threaten, is foolishness.
I cannot know what is best for another, but I can forgive myself for judging another.
We assume.
We make up stories.
We demand what we want.
We cannot possibly know the individual’s path or spiritual journey.
Yes, It is time for spring renewal.
Renewing our mind by dropping the faulty ways we may have learned.
Yes, it is time to forgive and undo what is not true and not loving.
We can and will, now or later, forgive and let go of what no longer works.
Forgiveness is a song of prayer.
Forgiveness is remembering our true nature.
Forgiveness is selective Remembering.
Forgiveness is erasing the past and being left with the Blessing.
Forgiveness is a gift to and for ourselves.
Forgiveness is the first step to enlightenment.
Forgiveness is the undoing of everything not wholly true and wholly loving.
Forgiveness erases our mind and lightens our way.
Is it time to let go of the stories of suffering and pain?
Is it time to stop telling what no longer is here and now?
Is it time to stop projecting our opinions onto others?
Is it time to undo the excuses for withholding our love?
Is it time to give the best of ourselves to one another?
Is it time to suspend fear and judgment and give hope and renewal of faith?
Is it time to see everything new again, with the wonder of an innocent child?
Is it time to experience the happiness, peace and fulfillment that can be ours?
All these spiritual and inspirational gifts can be ours simply by forgiving everyone and everything.
Life, seen with forgiving eyes, is a glorious gift of beauty, goodness and kindness.
We can experience inner healing and outer faith when we truly forgive what was in our past.
When all we remember is the blessing of being the Love we are and give ourselves fully, we are free.
I am loving you in forgiving everything and everyone, including ourselves, for all time.
In this there is profound healing for our world.
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
A few more at the zoo.
Mostly three little ones with two big ones require FULL attention, so few photo opps.
Until I am “perfect”, I cannot expect perfection.
To push and punish, to demand and threaten, is foolishness.
I cannot know what is best for another, but I can forgive myself for judging another.
We assume.
We make up stories.
We demand what we want.
We cannot possibly know the individual’s path or spiritual journey.
Yes, It is time for spring renewal.
Renewing our mind by dropping the faulty ways we may have learned.
Yes, it is time to forgive and undo what is not true and not loving.
We can and will, now or later, forgive and let go of what no longer works.
Forgiveness is a song of prayer.
Forgiveness is remembering our true nature.
Forgiveness is selective Remembering.
Forgiveness is erasing the past and being left with the Blessing.
Forgiveness is a gift to and for ourselves.
Forgiveness is the first step to enlightenment.
Forgiveness is the undoing of everything not wholly true and wholly loving.
Forgiveness erases our mind and lightens our way.
Is it time to let go of the stories of suffering and pain?
Is it time to stop telling what no longer is here and now?
Is it time to stop projecting our opinions onto others?
Is it time to undo the excuses for withholding our love?
Is it time to give the best of ourselves to one another?
Is it time to suspend fear and judgment and give hope and renewal of faith?
Is it time to see everything new again, with the wonder of an innocent child?
Is it time to experience the happiness, peace and fulfillment that can be ours?
All these spiritual and inspirational gifts can be ours simply by forgiving everyone and everything.
Life, seen with forgiving eyes, is a glorious gift of beauty, goodness and kindness.
We can experience inner healing and outer faith when we truly forgive what was in our past.
When all we remember is the blessing of being the Love we are and give ourselves fully, we are free.
I am loving you in forgiving everything and everyone, including ourselves, for all time.
In this there is profound healing for our world.
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
A few more at the zoo.
Mostly three little ones with two big ones require FULL attention, so few photo opps.
Friday, March 14, 2008
What Makes You Think You Know?
How can you know what is best for another?
How can you know what is right for someone else?
How do you tell people they are wrong when you do things wrong?
How can you judge what is on purpose or place of learning for someone else?
So often we meddle in others’ live.
We tell people what they should do.
We give advice without heeding our own advice.
We give counsel without know what others can do.
We are parenting as we have been parented.
We are counseling the ways we have been counseled.
We are teaching what we have been taught.
We are preaching what has been preached before.
But how to we know what is right or wrong for anyone else?
We are just infants in learning how to distinguish what is right for ourselves.
Most of us ask for outer authority and expert advice.
We spend money and time, consulting, researching and studying.
Even then most stop and question, doubt their choices and judge themselves.
It seems foolish and illogical to assume we can advise others about their decisions.
Yes, we can speak from experience.
Yes, we can refer to books and experts.
Yes, we can go to spiritual resources.
But how do we ever really know?
The gauge for me is the quality of our lives.
Are we happy and at peace?
Are we having a fun, safe and easy life.
Does it always seem to work out for the highest Good.
Life seems to be a learning laboratory.
Life is a school in which each learns with their own Divine timing and course of study.
Lessons come in different ways depending on the student.
Some students seem to learn quickly and move on and others seem to resist and rebel.
To interfere with another’s awakening, healing and spiritual path seems foolish and even arrogant.
I cannot know what is best for you, nor judge the mistakes I may think you have made.
Perhaps everything is on purpose and in our own best interests.
Perhaps everything is a lesson in Love;
Perhaps everything is a healing and holy opportunity to learn and grow, to heal and know.
If so, Let it be.
I am appreciating you and me on our paths.
It seems easier when we know we are in it together.
It seems safer when we know we will go on loving one another.
It seems more fun when we know we will all learn to let go.
Blessings to all of us,
Betty Lue
Always learning and exploring, even with bumps and bruises.
Even the giraffe has to learn to get a drink in this awkward way.

Carefully placing my little gold bell and precious pink rock on the tortoise’s back, I still need to remember to come back and pick it up after I play awhile.   
So much wonder and mystery in each animal. “Are they real?” is the question of the day.
How can you know what is right for someone else?
How do you tell people they are wrong when you do things wrong?
How can you judge what is on purpose or place of learning for someone else?
So often we meddle in others’ live.
We tell people what they should do.
We give advice without heeding our own advice.
We give counsel without know what others can do.
We are parenting as we have been parented.
We are counseling the ways we have been counseled.
We are teaching what we have been taught.
We are preaching what has been preached before.
But how to we know what is right or wrong for anyone else?
We are just infants in learning how to distinguish what is right for ourselves.
Most of us ask for outer authority and expert advice.
We spend money and time, consulting, researching and studying.
Even then most stop and question, doubt their choices and judge themselves.
It seems foolish and illogical to assume we can advise others about their decisions.
Yes, we can speak from experience.
Yes, we can refer to books and experts.
Yes, we can go to spiritual resources.
But how do we ever really know?
The gauge for me is the quality of our lives.
Are we happy and at peace?
Are we having a fun, safe and easy life.
Does it always seem to work out for the highest Good.
Life seems to be a learning laboratory.
Life is a school in which each learns with their own Divine timing and course of study.
Lessons come in different ways depending on the student.
Some students seem to learn quickly and move on and others seem to resist and rebel.
To interfere with another’s awakening, healing and spiritual path seems foolish and even arrogant.
I cannot know what is best for you, nor judge the mistakes I may think you have made.
Perhaps everything is on purpose and in our own best interests.
Perhaps everything is a lesson in Love;
Perhaps everything is a healing and holy opportunity to learn and grow, to heal and know.
If so, Let it be.
I am appreciating you and me on our paths.
It seems easier when we know we are in it together.
It seems safer when we know we will go on loving one another.
It seems more fun when we know we will all learn to let go.
Blessings to all of us,
Betty Lue
Always learning and exploring, even with bumps and bruises.
Even the giraffe has to learn to get a drink in this awkward way.
 Carefully placing my little gold bell and precious pink rock on the tortoise’s back, I still need to remember to come back and pick it up after I play awhile.   
So much wonder and mystery in each animal. “Are they real?” is the question of the day.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Off to the Zoo
Life is a zoo.
Lots to see and always something to learn.
Needing to be flexible with possibilities every minute.
Prepared for fun, adventure and whatever might come up.
Every Thursday from 7:30AM until 6:30 PM or so, we spend with three grandchildren under the age of 3. Twin girls, Lila and Harper, who will be 3 on April 27th and Beckett, 16 months, who weighs more than they do. Lila is potty trained. Beckett is pre-verbal. Harper is the emotional barometer. Each has their own precious needs and special ways of receiving and giving Love. If the weather cooperates, today we are going to the zoo.
If we learn to cooperate, we can all have fun in the zoo of our lives and life will be fun, safe and easy.
The same is true for all of us are like children. All of us are sometimes preverbal, sometimes super-sensitive, needing special attention at times and with our own precious ways of receiving and giving Love. Yet, I watch our world teach us to treat one another with disrespect and rudeness. I watch the demanding and punitive ways we talk to one another. It seems there are few people conscious enough to be respectful and responsible for the quality of our communication and creating respectful and cooperative relationships. We have taught one another falsely and need to learn to stop the process of badgering, nagging, yelling, threatening, punishing and belittling one another and ourselves now.
A few reminders expressed simply:
If I see something that needs to be done, I need to do it or find someone who is willing to do it.
It is not mine to find someone to blame or wish it would be done differently. I can go to the manager or talk to the person responsible when they are receptive and open to listen.
If I have a criticism, it must be said constructively to the one who is most willing and able to receive it.
With every constructive criticism must come at least two appreciations and commendations and always deliver with a genuine “thank you” for hearing me at the end.
I need to express myself one time only, simply and accurately with a respectful tone of voice. More than once said becomes “nagging” and the other will turn off , resist or resent rather than be willing.
I must listen and observe others to know what their level of awareness, intention, willingness and ability really is. To wish or project onto another that they are as aware, able and willing as I am is foolish.
To teach others is to first demonstrate by our behavior, words and life choices. To teach another I must be respected for who I am and how I live. To be respected I need to live what I am teaching first.
When making a mistake in how I live or talk or treat another, I must apologize immediately, learn from my mistake and never do it again. To be a fast learner is to be a great teacher.
Always treat others as you want to be treated and better. If you are used to be taught and spoken with harshly with disrespect, you may be mistaken and inappropriate in how you treat others. Take time to calm yourself and use the words that you believe will be most motivational to the other.
Whether relating to an elder, toddler, adolescent or peer, it is advisable to listen first, before speaking. Try to understand rather than being understood. Make sure they are willing and able to be present with you first. Give each one your very best, most sensitive and kind communication.
You are teaching all the universe with your thoughts, words and deeds. It is important that you learn the world is learning from you.
If you want things to change, change within yourself. Do not become like those you want to reach and teach.
Always give your very best. Treat others like a guest.
I am loving you and me and all,
Betty Lue
Lots to see and always something to learn.
Needing to be flexible with possibilities every minute.
Prepared for fun, adventure and whatever might come up.
Every Thursday from 7:30AM until 6:30 PM or so, we spend with three grandchildren under the age of 3. Twin girls, Lila and Harper, who will be 3 on April 27th and Beckett, 16 months, who weighs more than they do. Lila is potty trained. Beckett is pre-verbal. Harper is the emotional barometer. Each has their own precious needs and special ways of receiving and giving Love. If the weather cooperates, today we are going to the zoo.
If we learn to cooperate, we can all have fun in the zoo of our lives and life will be fun, safe and easy.
The same is true for all of us are like children. All of us are sometimes preverbal, sometimes super-sensitive, needing special attention at times and with our own precious ways of receiving and giving Love. Yet, I watch our world teach us to treat one another with disrespect and rudeness. I watch the demanding and punitive ways we talk to one another. It seems there are few people conscious enough to be respectful and responsible for the quality of our communication and creating respectful and cooperative relationships. We have taught one another falsely and need to learn to stop the process of badgering, nagging, yelling, threatening, punishing and belittling one another and ourselves now.
A few reminders expressed simply:
If I see something that needs to be done, I need to do it or find someone who is willing to do it.
It is not mine to find someone to blame or wish it would be done differently. I can go to the manager or talk to the person responsible when they are receptive and open to listen.
If I have a criticism, it must be said constructively to the one who is most willing and able to receive it.
With every constructive criticism must come at least two appreciations and commendations and always deliver with a genuine “thank you” for hearing me at the end.
I need to express myself one time only, simply and accurately with a respectful tone of voice. More than once said becomes “nagging” and the other will turn off , resist or resent rather than be willing.
I must listen and observe others to know what their level of awareness, intention, willingness and ability really is. To wish or project onto another that they are as aware, able and willing as I am is foolish.
To teach others is to first demonstrate by our behavior, words and life choices. To teach another I must be respected for who I am and how I live. To be respected I need to live what I am teaching first.
When making a mistake in how I live or talk or treat another, I must apologize immediately, learn from my mistake and never do it again. To be a fast learner is to be a great teacher.
Always treat others as you want to be treated and better. If you are used to be taught and spoken with harshly with disrespect, you may be mistaken and inappropriate in how you treat others. Take time to calm yourself and use the words that you believe will be most motivational to the other.
Whether relating to an elder, toddler, adolescent or peer, it is advisable to listen first, before speaking. Try to understand rather than being understood. Make sure they are willing and able to be present with you first. Give each one your very best, most sensitive and kind communication.
You are teaching all the universe with your thoughts, words and deeds. It is important that you learn the world is learning from you.
If you want things to change, change within yourself. Do not become like those you want to reach and teach.
Always give your very best. Treat others like a guest.
I am loving you and me and all,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Can You Be the One?
What are you seeking?
Can you be the One you seek?
What are you waiting for?
Are you taking time to really be with You?
Is it possible that you have been asking from others what you need to give yourself?
When we seek for love, it is because we are denying love to ourselves.
When we try to get approval, it is because we are not approving of ourselves.
When we are wanting listening and encouragement, we have not been listening to ourselves.
Take time to love yourself first, deeply and profoundly.
Where there is needed healing of the past mistakes, spend time forgiving your errors.
Where there are judgments that you are not good enough, give yourself messages of affirmation.
Where there is seeming lack, give attention to your essential needs and be generous with you.
Fill yourself to overflowing, so the joy and goodness pour out of you onto others.
Plug up the holes of self judgment, hurt, fear and discontent, so you can be full of self appreciation.
Clear away the debris of the past, so you can see the beauty that surrounds and fills you now.
Undo the limiting beliefs that are not true, to reveal the freedom you have in your heart and mind.
Know that our main function here is to find and connect with the blessing of our Essential Self.
We are here to connect with the Love within, the Being that was created solely to Love.
We are here to remember our inheritance of the Joy and Peace.
Forgiving and erasing, the worldly teachings of lack, littleness and limitation is the work.
Cleaning up our lives requires daily work.
This work is clearing up negative thinking with affirmation and positive visualization.
The work is cleaning up our emotional attachments and places of self-victimization.
And then there is cleaning up our lack of physical and environmental care in our bodies and homes.
This clean up work is truly with every breath, every word, and every activity.
To keep on covering up with more of everything just delays and distracts us from the real clean up job. Adding more sex, more drugs, more food, more work, is endless and ineffective in the long run.
Temporary numbing and forgetting creates more misery and self alienation.
To let it all go and find the True Beauty and Goodness within is where we must begin.
Devote yourself to letting go.
And remember with forgiveness and Love, Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Can you be the One you seek?
What are you waiting for?
Are you taking time to really be with You?
Is it possible that you have been asking from others what you need to give yourself?
When we seek for love, it is because we are denying love to ourselves.
When we try to get approval, it is because we are not approving of ourselves.
When we are wanting listening and encouragement, we have not been listening to ourselves.
Take time to love yourself first, deeply and profoundly.
Where there is needed healing of the past mistakes, spend time forgiving your errors.
Where there are judgments that you are not good enough, give yourself messages of affirmation.
Where there is seeming lack, give attention to your essential needs and be generous with you.
Fill yourself to overflowing, so the joy and goodness pour out of you onto others.
Plug up the holes of self judgment, hurt, fear and discontent, so you can be full of self appreciation.
Clear away the debris of the past, so you can see the beauty that surrounds and fills you now.
Undo the limiting beliefs that are not true, to reveal the freedom you have in your heart and mind.
Know that our main function here is to find and connect with the blessing of our Essential Self.
We are here to connect with the Love within, the Being that was created solely to Love.
We are here to remember our inheritance of the Joy and Peace.
Forgiving and erasing, the worldly teachings of lack, littleness and limitation is the work.
Cleaning up our lives requires daily work.
This work is clearing up negative thinking with affirmation and positive visualization.
The work is cleaning up our emotional attachments and places of self-victimization.
And then there is cleaning up our lack of physical and environmental care in our bodies and homes.
This clean up work is truly with every breath, every word, and every activity.
To keep on covering up with more of everything just delays and distracts us from the real clean up job. Adding more sex, more drugs, more food, more work, is endless and ineffective in the long run.
Temporary numbing and forgetting creates more misery and self alienation.
To let it all go and find the True Beauty and Goodness within is where we must begin.
Devote yourself to letting go.
And remember with forgiveness and Love, Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Staying Too Long?
Loyalty or attachment or just plain foolishness?
Are you staying in a relationship because of love or fear?
Are you afraid to leave what is familiar or are you needing to stay because you are not complete?
Are you feeling stuck because of security and economic factors?
All of this leads to dis-ease or lack of freedom to choose.
And being stuck and staying too long may lead to getting sick, getting mad and making problems.
Often people who are unhappy and want to move on, make life difficult for those around them.
When we are afraid to do what is best to do, we make it look like others are to blame for our unhappiness.
Children used to leave their parents’ home, when they graduate from high school or go off to college.
People quit jobs because they are not growing and achieving what they desire and deserve.
Families leave neighborhoods when the neighborhood changes or they want something better.
Partners end relationships because they outgrow the limitations of the relationship.
Take a look at your life and see if there are areas which have become stagnant, cluttered, polluted.
See if your home is inspiring and nurturing for you.
Ask if your workplace is encouraging and supportive of your best self.
Look at your friends and acquaintances to see if they are lifting you up or bringing you down.
It is often said, we can only be as good as our habits and associations.
Know that the language and attitudes of the people in our lives influence us.
Know that the fears we have limit and keep us stuck in the comfortable and familiar.
Know that sometimes we stay in relationships which are abusive or negative because we are afraid.
As we change and grow, we may need to move more often.
As our work lives are prolonged, we may want several different careers.
As we live longer, we may have more than one deep and lasting relationship.
This is not to be judged but to be honored for the good it provides.
When we make change wrong or shameful, we block needed changes.
When we fear, changes will lead to more problems, we get stuck with out problems.
When we stay because past generations stayed a lifetime in the same place, we may limit our growth.
Ask yourself often if it is time to move on?
Invite yourself to look at options.
What else could you be doing with your time, energy and money?
Are you giving to what gives to you?
Are you in a place where you are valued and fee supported?
Is your whole life working for you?
The first step is often to know that you can choose to change for the better.
Life is an invitation to grow your best Self.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Are you staying in a relationship because of love or fear?
Are you afraid to leave what is familiar or are you needing to stay because you are not complete?
Are you feeling stuck because of security and economic factors?
All of this leads to dis-ease or lack of freedom to choose.
And being stuck and staying too long may lead to getting sick, getting mad and making problems.
Often people who are unhappy and want to move on, make life difficult for those around them.
When we are afraid to do what is best to do, we make it look like others are to blame for our unhappiness.
Children used to leave their parents’ home, when they graduate from high school or go off to college.
People quit jobs because they are not growing and achieving what they desire and deserve.
Families leave neighborhoods when the neighborhood changes or they want something better.
Partners end relationships because they outgrow the limitations of the relationship.
Take a look at your life and see if there are areas which have become stagnant, cluttered, polluted.
See if your home is inspiring and nurturing for you.
Ask if your workplace is encouraging and supportive of your best self.
Look at your friends and acquaintances to see if they are lifting you up or bringing you down.
It is often said, we can only be as good as our habits and associations.
Know that the language and attitudes of the people in our lives influence us.
Know that the fears we have limit and keep us stuck in the comfortable and familiar.
Know that sometimes we stay in relationships which are abusive or negative because we are afraid.
As we change and grow, we may need to move more often.
As our work lives are prolonged, we may want several different careers.
As we live longer, we may have more than one deep and lasting relationship.
This is not to be judged but to be honored for the good it provides.
When we make change wrong or shameful, we block needed changes.
When we fear, changes will lead to more problems, we get stuck with out problems.
When we stay because past generations stayed a lifetime in the same place, we may limit our growth.
Ask yourself often if it is time to move on?
Invite yourself to look at options.
What else could you be doing with your time, energy and money?
Are you giving to what gives to you?
Are you in a place where you are valued and fee supported?
Is your whole life working for you?
The first step is often to know that you can choose to change for the better.
Life is an invitation to grow your best Self.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Time
Time to spring forward.
What are you waiting for?
What can motivate you to do that which you are called to do?
What will it take to live the life you desire and deserve?
It is our choice to use our time wisely or wastefully.
It is our doing to forget what is important and remember what is unimportant.
It is up to us to let go of meaningless living and return to meaningful giving.
It only requires that we value ourselves and our lives enough to choose.
Make today the beginning.
Make everyday the day which you dedicate to what really matters to you.
When you live with purpose and with passion, you will know great joy.
There is no better time than now to begin to LIVE,
I am loving you in loving you.
I am believing you can do what is TRUE for you.
I am trusting to you give that which inspires you.
I am counting on you to join those who seek to Be and Live and Love and Give for the Good of All.
Spring is coming.
You have the seeds at hand.
Now plant what you want to grow in your life.
And Know you need to remember them with nurturing, and valuing that which you have planted.
Here with You and for You,
Betty Lue
What are you waiting for?
What can motivate you to do that which you are called to do?
What will it take to live the life you desire and deserve?
It is our choice to use our time wisely or wastefully.
It is our doing to forget what is important and remember what is unimportant.
It is up to us to let go of meaningless living and return to meaningful giving.
It only requires that we value ourselves and our lives enough to choose.
Make today the beginning.
Make everyday the day which you dedicate to what really matters to you.
When you live with purpose and with passion, you will know great joy.
There is no better time than now to begin to LIVE,
I am loving you in loving you.
I am believing you can do what is TRUE for you.
I am trusting to you give that which inspires you.
I am counting on you to join those who seek to Be and Live and Love and Give for the Good of All.
Spring is coming.
You have the seeds at hand.
Now plant what you want to grow in your life.
And Know you need to remember them with nurturing, and valuing that which you have planted.
Here with You and for You,
Betty Lue
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Healer's Prayer
Healer’s Prayer from A Course in Miracles.
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent the Love that sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or do because the Love that sent me will direct me.
I am content to be where Love wishes knowing that Love goes there with me.
I will be healed when I let Love teach me to heal.
Are you present always and only to be able and willing to be truly helpful?
Are you aware that Love (God) called you to be exactly where you are?
Are you willing to drop fear and worry and listen within to the guidance of Love Itself?
Are you at peace in being everywhere you go knowing that there is always a healing and holy purpose?
Do you experience healing and holiness in giving others the Love within you, knowing they are holy, too?
Is it possible that everyone you meet is a lesson in love?
Is it likely that there is always the Love of God in you?
Are you willing to give your very best, most respectful kindness to one and all?
Are you open for the healing of forgiving all fear and judgment?
Can you imagine a world in which everyone is truly helpful to everyone?
Life is a gift of Love to be shared.
Love is a gift of healing to be extended to all.
Healing is the remembrance of our natural state of Holiness.
Holiness is the Re Union with Self Source and All That Is.
Let us go together in peace.
Let us laugh as we forgive our errors.
Let us sing a song of Love.
Let us celebrate the wonder of creation.
Life is Good when we remember the Goodness We Are.
Loving is fun, safe and easy when we forgive all that has forgotten Love.
Healing is our Holy work as we live our lives in Love.
Our vocation is to forgive the lack of Love and remember the Holiness in EveryOne.
Loving you, loving one and all as One,
Betty Lue
Begin with the one that you are remembering right now.
Give that block to God and ask that you forgive your separation and fear.
Let Go and trust that in the release of fear, healing is offered.
The time is now to open the door to Love, only Love.
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent the Love that sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or do because the Love that sent me will direct me.
I am content to be where Love wishes knowing that Love goes there with me.
I will be healed when I let Love teach me to heal.
Are you present always and only to be able and willing to be truly helpful?
Are you aware that Love (God) called you to be exactly where you are?
Are you willing to drop fear and worry and listen within to the guidance of Love Itself?
Are you at peace in being everywhere you go knowing that there is always a healing and holy purpose?
Do you experience healing and holiness in giving others the Love within you, knowing they are holy, too?
Is it possible that everyone you meet is a lesson in love?
Is it likely that there is always the Love of God in you?
Are you willing to give your very best, most respectful kindness to one and all?
Are you open for the healing of forgiving all fear and judgment?
Can you imagine a world in which everyone is truly helpful to everyone?
Life is a gift of Love to be shared.
Love is a gift of healing to be extended to all.
Healing is the remembrance of our natural state of Holiness.
Holiness is the Re Union with Self Source and All That Is.
Let us go together in peace.
Let us laugh as we forgive our errors.
Let us sing a song of Love.
Let us celebrate the wonder of creation.
Life is Good when we remember the Goodness We Are.
Loving is fun, safe and easy when we forgive all that has forgotten Love.
Healing is our Holy work as we live our lives in Love.
Our vocation is to forgive the lack of Love and remember the Holiness in EveryOne.
Loving you, loving one and all as One,
Betty Lue
Begin with the one that you are remembering right now.
Give that block to God and ask that you forgive your separation and fear.
Let Go and trust that in the release of fear, healing is offered.
The time is now to open the door to Love, only Love.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Keep on Loving!
Yes, we are here to learn.
We are here to practice.
We are here to remember.
We are here to forgive ourselves and others for forgetting.
Yes, it is simple.
We are here to Love.
We are here to forgive lack of love.
We are here to extend Love no matter what.
Yes, we can do it.
With practice, we strengthen our trust in the healing power of Love.
With practice, we can forgive anything and everything.
With practice, we can forgive ourselves and others for making mistakes.
Yes, it can be challenging.
As we move on in every school, the lessons become more difficult.
We can learn only with total willingness to practice what we know.
When we get confused or disappointed, it is because we do not remember what we know.
Yes, the world is complex.
The historical archives can be confusing.
We can get caught in the blame game, trying to change someone or something.
We can lose patience, wish it were done, and try to avoid ever being upset again.
Yes, we can heal everything with enough Love.
We can remember the beauty beneath the ugliness.
We can erase the craziness with enough laughter.
We can outshine the sun with our willingness to forgive.
In life our paths are circular, often like a spiral, leading upwards but reviewing past learning as we grow.
When we come to a place we have been before, it is to remember to practice the healing principles.
When we have done our best and someone yells or doesn’t “get it”, we need to simply forgive.
All of us make mistakes to learn.
How we respond to our mistakes and those of others determines the speed and ease with which the situation heals and the problems dissipates.
Let go and know all is well.
No need to judge.
No need to tell.
No need to fix.
Forgive and Love.
These are the tricks.
Definition of Forgiveness:
An eraser filled with Love.
Let go and Let Good.
Undo what is not true and see what Is.
The past is gone and all that is left is the blessing.
Selective Remembering of the Gifts.
Release everything that hurts and upsets you.
Letting your Love flow gives you Life.
Loving you, loving me, loving All endlessly,
Betty Lue
We are here to practice.
We are here to remember.
We are here to forgive ourselves and others for forgetting.
Yes, it is simple.
We are here to Love.
We are here to forgive lack of love.
We are here to extend Love no matter what.
Yes, we can do it.
With practice, we strengthen our trust in the healing power of Love.
With practice, we can forgive anything and everything.
With practice, we can forgive ourselves and others for making mistakes.
Yes, it can be challenging.
As we move on in every school, the lessons become more difficult.
We can learn only with total willingness to practice what we know.
When we get confused or disappointed, it is because we do not remember what we know.
Yes, the world is complex.
The historical archives can be confusing.
We can get caught in the blame game, trying to change someone or something.
We can lose patience, wish it were done, and try to avoid ever being upset again.
Yes, we can heal everything with enough Love.
We can remember the beauty beneath the ugliness.
We can erase the craziness with enough laughter.
We can outshine the sun with our willingness to forgive.
In life our paths are circular, often like a spiral, leading upwards but reviewing past learning as we grow.
When we come to a place we have been before, it is to remember to practice the healing principles.
When we have done our best and someone yells or doesn’t “get it”, we need to simply forgive.
All of us make mistakes to learn.
How we respond to our mistakes and those of others determines the speed and ease with which the situation heals and the problems dissipates.
Let go and know all is well.
No need to judge.
No need to tell.
No need to fix.
Forgive and Love.
These are the tricks.
Definition of Forgiveness:
An eraser filled with Love.
Let go and Let Good.
Undo what is not true and see what Is.
The past is gone and all that is left is the blessing.
Selective Remembering of the Gifts.
Release everything that hurts and upsets you.
Letting your Love flow gives you Life.
Loving you, loving me, loving All endlessly,
Betty Lue
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Be Willing To Be All You Can Be
Do you blend in?
Are you playing small?
Do you go along to get along?
Are you content being ordinary?
Have you ever considered being great?
Would you like to be extraordinary?
Are you willing to risk stepping up in life?
Can you handle being noticed?
Life challenges us to learn and grow into our best selves..
Life invites us to heal and know we are whole.
Life strengthens us to let love lead the way.
Life encourages us to be willing to praise and pray.
Have you taken the time to assess who you really are?
Do you give yourself moment to imagine what you really want to be and do?
Can you take this lifetime opportunity and give it to really going for it?
Are you willing to let go of small thoughts, limited beliefs, and words that lack self respect?
Everyday is a new day to begin again.
If you were willing to choose today….
Who would you befriend?
What would you do with the time?
How would you live?
What would you be learning?
How could you earn your living?
How much would you give to others and to whom?
Where would you make a difference?
What kind of person would you be?
How would you want to be remembered?
You are choosing.
Even the choice to play a victim and let life happen to you is a choice.
You are choosing to expand of shrivel up into limitation and littleness.
You are choosing to be great or play small.
You are choosing people who inspire and support you or those who drain and deny you.
You are choosing to use your time, money and energy for something important or to waste it on nothing.
You are choosing.
Respect yourself enough to choose wisely today and everyday.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Are you playing small?
Do you go along to get along?
Are you content being ordinary?
Have you ever considered being great?
Would you like to be extraordinary?
Are you willing to risk stepping up in life?
Can you handle being noticed?
Life challenges us to learn and grow into our best selves..
Life invites us to heal and know we are whole.
Life strengthens us to let love lead the way.
Life encourages us to be willing to praise and pray.
Have you taken the time to assess who you really are?
Do you give yourself moment to imagine what you really want to be and do?
Can you take this lifetime opportunity and give it to really going for it?
Are you willing to let go of small thoughts, limited beliefs, and words that lack self respect?
Everyday is a new day to begin again.
If you were willing to choose today….
Who would you befriend?
What would you do with the time?
How would you live?
What would you be learning?
How could you earn your living?
How much would you give to others and to whom?
Where would you make a difference?
What kind of person would you be?
How would you want to be remembered?
You are choosing.
Even the choice to play a victim and let life happen to you is a choice.
You are choosing to expand of shrivel up into limitation and littleness.
You are choosing to be great or play small.
You are choosing people who inspire and support you or those who drain and deny you.
You are choosing to use your time, money and energy for something important or to waste it on nothing.
You are choosing.
Respect yourself enough to choose wisely today and everyday.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Let the Light Shine In
As long as your mind is filled with useless trivia, judgments, opinions and past history, there is little room for inspiration, insight and enlightenment.
Enlightenment is letting go of the clutter and debris of the past.
Enlightenment is allowing your mind to be filled with Light.
Forgive all your mistakes and those of others.
Forgiveness is an eraser filled with light and Love.
Forgiveness dissolves all the fear, judgment, resentment and hurt into nothingness.
When Light enters your mind, you SEE what works, what is valuable and what life can be.
Let go and know!
No one can know, when they are filled with judgment.
When you do not understand, do not make it up.
When you do not understand, ask and listen with an open mind.
When you do not understand, forgive your judgments and opinions and history.
When you do not understand, let go and let Light in.
Life is simple.
In its attempt to understand, your mind often makes things complicated.
There is no wrong here, only the ego’s attempt to be right by figuring out what is wrong.
There is no competition here, only the ego’s attempt to be the best.
There are no preferences here, only the ego’s attempt to be especially different.
There is no special formula for joy, only the ego’s attempt to try everything.
There is no magical cure for disease, only the ego’s desire to find the right one.
There is no key to enlightenment, only the ego’s belief it comes to special ones.
There is no need for time and effort, only the ego’s decision to compete with God.
Let the past go.
Fill your mind with Light.
Open your Heart to Love.
And know the Goodness that is You and Yours.
Such is the Truth.
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
Enlightenment is letting go of the clutter and debris of the past.
Enlightenment is allowing your mind to be filled with Light.
Forgive all your mistakes and those of others.
Forgiveness is an eraser filled with light and Love.
Forgiveness dissolves all the fear, judgment, resentment and hurt into nothingness.
When Light enters your mind, you SEE what works, what is valuable and what life can be.
Let go and know!
No one can know, when they are filled with judgment.
When you do not understand, do not make it up.
When you do not understand, ask and listen with an open mind.
When you do not understand, forgive your judgments and opinions and history.
When you do not understand, let go and let Light in.
Life is simple.
In its attempt to understand, your mind often makes things complicated.
There is no wrong here, only the ego’s attempt to be right by figuring out what is wrong.
There is no competition here, only the ego’s attempt to be the best.
There are no preferences here, only the ego’s attempt to be especially different.
There is no special formula for joy, only the ego’s attempt to try everything.
There is no magical cure for disease, only the ego’s desire to find the right one.
There is no key to enlightenment, only the ego’s belief it comes to special ones.
There is no need for time and effort, only the ego’s decision to compete with God.
Let the past go.
Fill your mind with Light.
Open your Heart to Love.
And know the Goodness that is You and Yours.
Such is the Truth.
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The Highway of Life
When you see someone in trouble by the side of the road,
Do you stop and offer help?
Do you say a prayer of comfort?
Do you hope someone else comes to help them?
Do you ignore the whole thing focusing on yourself?
Do you spend the day worrying and feeling guilty about not stopping?
When you hit a bump or pothole in the road,
Do you slow down and pay attention?
Do you get mad at the officials in charge of highway repair?
Do you call the road repair crew and ask that it be fixed or warn drivers?
Do you keep on going, without thinking twice?
Do you feel grateful for the blessing of having paved highways?
When there is an obstacle or vehicle in the roadway,
Do you get mad and blame someone?
Do you get help for the other drivers behind you?
Do you honk and make a fuss?
Do you get scared and become hyper-vigilant?
Do you seek help to remove the obstacle to provide safety for others?
When there is a detour for repairs or highway improvements,
Do you judge the way it is being done?
Do you speed on by as usual?
Do you give thanks we are in process of making our roads better?
Do you wish it had been done before?
Do you think about the “good old days” when it was easier?
When you get a warning from police, yellow light or traffic slow down,
Do you give thanks and slow down with ease?
Do you get angry and worry about your schedule?
Do you feel impatient and want to press through to get by it all?
Do you ask, ”Why does this always happen to me?”
Do you set the example for other good drivers and obey?
On the highway of life,
Do you drive the way you want your children to drive?
Do you talk as though all other drivers could hear you?
Do you behave in a manner that you would appreciate from others?
Do you imagine the highest and best for everyone who is journeying with you?
Do you wish you were somewhere else and space out?
Do you distract yourself with phone, TV, radio, music, conversation?
The behavior you see in yourself on the highway of life represents your behavior in your whole life.
If there are problems in your life, you might ask simply,
“What can I change that will have the greatest impact on improving the quality of my life?”
Everyday with our thoughts, words and behavior, we are teaching our world what we want it to be.
Loving you, as we all grow in our willingness to take responsibility for our life experiences.
Betty Lue
Do you stop and offer help?
Do you say a prayer of comfort?
Do you hope someone else comes to help them?
Do you ignore the whole thing focusing on yourself?
Do you spend the day worrying and feeling guilty about not stopping?
When you hit a bump or pothole in the road,
Do you slow down and pay attention?
Do you get mad at the officials in charge of highway repair?
Do you call the road repair crew and ask that it be fixed or warn drivers?
Do you keep on going, without thinking twice?
Do you feel grateful for the blessing of having paved highways?
When there is an obstacle or vehicle in the roadway,
Do you get mad and blame someone?
Do you get help for the other drivers behind you?
Do you honk and make a fuss?
Do you get scared and become hyper-vigilant?
Do you seek help to remove the obstacle to provide safety for others?
When there is a detour for repairs or highway improvements,
Do you judge the way it is being done?
Do you speed on by as usual?
Do you give thanks we are in process of making our roads better?
Do you wish it had been done before?
Do you think about the “good old days” when it was easier?
When you get a warning from police, yellow light or traffic slow down,
Do you give thanks and slow down with ease?
Do you get angry and worry about your schedule?
Do you feel impatient and want to press through to get by it all?
Do you ask, ”Why does this always happen to me?”
Do you set the example for other good drivers and obey?
On the highway of life,
Do you drive the way you want your children to drive?
Do you talk as though all other drivers could hear you?
Do you behave in a manner that you would appreciate from others?
Do you imagine the highest and best for everyone who is journeying with you?
Do you wish you were somewhere else and space out?
Do you distract yourself with phone, TV, radio, music, conversation?
The behavior you see in yourself on the highway of life represents your behavior in your whole life.
If there are problems in your life, you might ask simply,
“What can I change that will have the greatest impact on improving the quality of my life?”
Everyday with our thoughts, words and behavior, we are teaching our world what we want it to be.
Loving you, as we all grow in our willingness to take responsibility for our life experiences.
Betty Lue
Monday, March 03, 2008
This is Your Life
You are the artist creating each day as it is.
When you take responsibility for the colors on your canvas, you are empowered.
You can choose to learn from a master.
You can start over with a new canvas.
You can paint over what is already there.
You can live with what you don’t like.
You can ask someone else to tell you what to paint.
You can throw whatever is in hand on your canvas.
You can appreciate what you live with.
Many choices and they are all yours to choose.
No one else is at the helm of your life.
You can listen to the Master Navigator and get your bearings.
You can call on board someone who knows the channels better than yourself.
You can let go of all responsibility and let the currents and tides take you where they will.
You can do it all your way no matter what level of knowledge skill, confidence or attunement you have.
Life really is like a masterpiece that you keep working on or a series of paintings on which you put your individual stamp of approval or criticism.
And when we are open and willing to learn, we can choose each day brand new and play it as we feel it or want it to be.
We can allow the current external conditions and critics to determine the picture we paint…..
Or we can in solitude listen to our heart and create within the image we want to show up.
What is your worst nightmare?
What is your highest vision?
You choose what is in your imagination.
You can forgive and erase what you don’t want.
You can affirm and stay true to what you do want.
It is all our choice.
The Universe says, “YES”.
Everything is a lesson in Love.
Love yourself well and you learn easily and quickly.
Criticize yourself and contract and you may forget what you have learned.
Loving us all to learn in confidence and forgiveness, in willingness and gratitude,
Betty Lue
When you take responsibility for the colors on your canvas, you are empowered.
You can choose to learn from a master.
You can start over with a new canvas.
You can paint over what is already there.
You can live with what you don’t like.
You can ask someone else to tell you what to paint.
You can throw whatever is in hand on your canvas.
You can appreciate what you live with.
Many choices and they are all yours to choose.
No one else is at the helm of your life.
You can listen to the Master Navigator and get your bearings.
You can call on board someone who knows the channels better than yourself.
You can let go of all responsibility and let the currents and tides take you where they will.
You can do it all your way no matter what level of knowledge skill, confidence or attunement you have.
Life really is like a masterpiece that you keep working on or a series of paintings on which you put your individual stamp of approval or criticism.
And when we are open and willing to learn, we can choose each day brand new and play it as we feel it or want it to be.
We can allow the current external conditions and critics to determine the picture we paint…..
Or we can in solitude listen to our heart and create within the image we want to show up.
What is your worst nightmare?
What is your highest vision?
You choose what is in your imagination.
You can forgive and erase what you don’t want.
You can affirm and stay true to what you do want.
It is all our choice.
The Universe says, “YES”.
Everything is a lesson in Love.
Love yourself well and you learn easily and quickly.
Criticize yourself and contract and you may forget what you have learned.
Loving us all to learn in confidence and forgiveness, in willingness and gratitude,
Betty Lue
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Make Your Own Bed
This morning, as I made my bed (which I do the first thing I arise), I realized the learning value of that simple daily act.
Everyday, no matter what our bed gets made.
Making the bed with loving care and gratitude and enjoyment sets the tone for the day.
Since I begin with appreciation and joy, I appreciate and enjoy my shower, my breakfast and everything I “get” to do each day.
I make my day and my life in the way I make my bed.
Think of your life as a canvas on which you have the privilege of painting beauty and goodness, lightness and wisdom or letting life happen to you.
Bed= rest and renewal and sleep
Our bedroom and our bed have good energy and restful reminders.
My bedroom and bed feel beautiful, loving and happy to me.
I have created the colors I like, the quality of sheets that I enjoy and the exact pillows and covers that work best.
There is only appreciation and enjoyment when I climb into bed and I easily rest.
When sleep time is done, I wake up naturally after 7-8 hours and make my bed with ease and gratitude.
I choose clothing that supports how I want to feel for the day.
It reflects to others the way I want to be see and treated.
It is the first impression people have of how I feel about myself.
I wear the face of someone who sees the world with love and wonder.
Usually wide-eyed, with a smile, I welcome the day and look forward to all the Good that is to come.
With a happy face and welcoming words of gratitude (no complaints), quiet listening inside and out,
I receive my life as a place of healing and creating goodness and Love for myself and others.
The breakfast I prepare is also beginning my day “right” with love and appreciation for exactly what is best for me. I eat the same daily because it restores my energy and fuels me for high level activity for 5-6 hours. Cooked organic brown rice cereal with applesauce, blueberries, cinnamon and honey (sometimes a few walnuts.) Again I begin my day creating the good energy I enjoy and use with appreciation.
When I look out my windows I see the redwood treetops and the large old oak tree in the early morning sky. I hear the birds enjoying the dawn. I watch the color come effortlessly across the panorama. I wave at the man who deliver papers and he honks softly in acknowledgment. And I listen within as I sit at my desk and wirte these loving reminders for me and for you. I am creating my day right now.
How we begin determines our attitude and our experience.
How we visualize the end determines the outcome.
Setting the goal of appreciation, fulfillment and joy for my day always yields success.
No one else creates my attitude. No one else sets the goals. No one else evaluates my success. I do.
Make Your Own Bed and Enjoy Lying In It!
Experiment with making your bed happily everyday for 30 days.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
Everyday, no matter what our bed gets made.
Making the bed with loving care and gratitude and enjoyment sets the tone for the day.
Since I begin with appreciation and joy, I appreciate and enjoy my shower, my breakfast and everything I “get” to do each day.
I make my day and my life in the way I make my bed.
Think of your life as a canvas on which you have the privilege of painting beauty and goodness, lightness and wisdom or letting life happen to you.
Bed= rest and renewal and sleep
Our bedroom and our bed have good energy and restful reminders.
My bedroom and bed feel beautiful, loving and happy to me.
I have created the colors I like, the quality of sheets that I enjoy and the exact pillows and covers that work best.
There is only appreciation and enjoyment when I climb into bed and I easily rest.
When sleep time is done, I wake up naturally after 7-8 hours and make my bed with ease and gratitude.
I choose clothing that supports how I want to feel for the day.
It reflects to others the way I want to be see and treated.
It is the first impression people have of how I feel about myself.
I wear the face of someone who sees the world with love and wonder.
Usually wide-eyed, with a smile, I welcome the day and look forward to all the Good that is to come.
With a happy face and welcoming words of gratitude (no complaints), quiet listening inside and out,
I receive my life as a place of healing and creating goodness and Love for myself and others.
The breakfast I prepare is also beginning my day “right” with love and appreciation for exactly what is best for me. I eat the same daily because it restores my energy and fuels me for high level activity for 5-6 hours. Cooked organic brown rice cereal with applesauce, blueberries, cinnamon and honey (sometimes a few walnuts.) Again I begin my day creating the good energy I enjoy and use with appreciation.
When I look out my windows I see the redwood treetops and the large old oak tree in the early morning sky. I hear the birds enjoying the dawn. I watch the color come effortlessly across the panorama. I wave at the man who deliver papers and he honks softly in acknowledgment. And I listen within as I sit at my desk and wirte these loving reminders for me and for you. I am creating my day right now.
How we begin determines our attitude and our experience.
How we visualize the end determines the outcome.
Setting the goal of appreciation, fulfillment and joy for my day always yields success.
No one else creates my attitude. No one else sets the goals. No one else evaluates my success. I do.
Make Your Own Bed and Enjoy Lying In It!
Experiment with making your bed happily everyday for 30 days.
Loving You,
Betty Lue
Saturday, March 01, 2008
It’s All about Attitude!
It is not what you do but the attitude with which you do it!
When you make choices with joy, the experience is expansive and joyful.
When you make choices from fear, the energy is restricted and fatiguing.
When you choose with love, you feel delighted and positive.
When you choose with anger, you feel uptight, negative and drained.
When you feel resentful or hateful about work, the work will deplete you and cause stress.
When you work because you “Have to”, the work feels more tiring.
When you work because you “choose to”, You feel capable and productive.
When you work because you “want to”, you feel positive, energized and powerful.
When you say “no”, you will notice your heart and mind close.
When you say “Yes” you will feel you heart and mind open.
When you say “no” for the purpose of loving and giving more, express how you are saying “Yes”!
“It would be better for me to follow through another way.”
Thanks for asking me. I am called to spend my day taking care of myself, so will say “Not this time.”
To always “Give Your Best” means to develop a positive grateful attitude, before responding.
To develop an “attitude of gratitude”, look at what is working FOR you not what is AGAINST you.
To “Be Positive” means to look where you want to go, not in the shadows of where you have been.
To “Stay on the Bright Side” means to look up at the Sunlight, not down in the dumps.
Before we answer the phone, smile and think the best about the caller. I use; “God is calling.”
Before you write a note or letter, change any negativity into what you want the outcome to be.
Before you bring up new changes or choices in a relationship, ask what will be received with love.
Before you discipline a child, remember how much you love, respect and value this person.
Before you get in your car for work, appt. or errand, imagine how you want to experience the drive.
Before you do a project, develop goals, priorities and the experience you want to have.
Before you pay your bills, take time to pray for peace, patience, trust and gratitude.
Before you go to sleep, imagine how restful and renewing you want your rest to be.
Before you eat a meal, speak silently or aloud how grateful you are for the nurturing nutrition.
Before you get out of bed, give yourself some loving affirmation for the Goodness of the day.
You have time to remember your attitude creates your experience.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
When you make choices with joy, the experience is expansive and joyful.
When you make choices from fear, the energy is restricted and fatiguing.
When you choose with love, you feel delighted and positive.
When you choose with anger, you feel uptight, negative and drained.
When you feel resentful or hateful about work, the work will deplete you and cause stress.
When you work because you “Have to”, the work feels more tiring.
When you work because you “choose to”, You feel capable and productive.
When you work because you “want to”, you feel positive, energized and powerful.
When you say “no”, you will notice your heart and mind close.
When you say “Yes” you will feel you heart and mind open.
When you say “no” for the purpose of loving and giving more, express how you are saying “Yes”!
“It would be better for me to follow through another way.”
Thanks for asking me. I am called to spend my day taking care of myself, so will say “Not this time.”
To always “Give Your Best” means to develop a positive grateful attitude, before responding.
To develop an “attitude of gratitude”, look at what is working FOR you not what is AGAINST you.
To “Be Positive” means to look where you want to go, not in the shadows of where you have been.
To “Stay on the Bright Side” means to look up at the Sunlight, not down in the dumps.
Before we answer the phone, smile and think the best about the caller. I use; “God is calling.”
Before you write a note or letter, change any negativity into what you want the outcome to be.
Before you bring up new changes or choices in a relationship, ask what will be received with love.
Before you discipline a child, remember how much you love, respect and value this person.
Before you get in your car for work, appt. or errand, imagine how you want to experience the drive.
Before you do a project, develop goals, priorities and the experience you want to have.
Before you pay your bills, take time to pray for peace, patience, trust and gratitude.
Before you go to sleep, imagine how restful and renewing you want your rest to be.
Before you eat a meal, speak silently or aloud how grateful you are for the nurturing nutrition.
Before you get out of bed, give yourself some loving affirmation for the Goodness of the day.
You have time to remember your attitude creates your experience.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Friday, February 29, 2008
Always There is Abundance!
No matter what the appearance, there is enough.
No matter what we fear, help is at hand.
No matter where we go, we are not alone.
No matter how much we lose, we are always rich.
No matter how small we feel, we are essentially magnificent.
No matter how restricted we are, the mind is free.
No matter how big the mistake, forgiveness heals it all.
No matter what, we are loved.
We live in a physical world which appears to be limited, lacking and little.
In the world beyond the one we see, there is the true creation of freedom, abundance and magnificence.
When we are connected with our Essence, the place from which we have come and return we trust.
So today, the extra day every four years, is a gift of time to be celebrated and enjoyed.
How you utilize this Feb. 29th of the leap year, demonstrates how you are choosing to use what is yours.
Watch and listen to yourself.
Is this day filled with joy or sorrow, freedom of choice or limitation, love or fear, trust or worry?
This is our day to use as we wish.
Make it Good and filled with Gratitude and you will see what life can be everyday, when you make it yours.
Loving you, abundantly true,
Betty Lue
No matter what we fear, help is at hand.
No matter where we go, we are not alone.
No matter how much we lose, we are always rich.
No matter how small we feel, we are essentially magnificent.
No matter how restricted we are, the mind is free.
No matter how big the mistake, forgiveness heals it all.
No matter what, we are loved.
We live in a physical world which appears to be limited, lacking and little.
In the world beyond the one we see, there is the true creation of freedom, abundance and magnificence.
When we are connected with our Essence, the place from which we have come and return we trust.
So today, the extra day every four years, is a gift of time to be celebrated and enjoyed.
How you utilize this Feb. 29th of the leap year, demonstrates how you are choosing to use what is yours.
Watch and listen to yourself.
Is this day filled with joy or sorrow, freedom of choice or limitation, love or fear, trust or worry?
This is our day to use as we wish.
Make it Good and filled with Gratitude and you will see what life can be everyday, when you make it yours.
Loving you, abundantly true,
Betty Lue
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Change
Times change.
People change.
Weather changes.
Economics change.
Seen without fear, all things work together for Good.
“Where we judge, we see what we judge.”
Where we are at peace and observe with trust, we see the Good and the blessings.
Where we resist change, we can only see what it is we are resisting or imagine it will come with change.
When we let go and trust Goodness and God, we perceive what is highest and best for All concerned.
“Everything is in our own best interests.” (ACIM) reminds us we are here to heal and awaken ourselves.
When we set all things FREE to BE what they are meant to BE, we can TRUST the GOOD will be revealed.
With non resistance, Life unfolds allowing us to return to our natural state of innocence and freedom with trust.
With gratitude for what it, we can see the intrinsic Good in the grand undoing.
Bless the changes.
Look for the opening to healing, growth and more happiness.
Be willing to go with the flow and let go of attachments.
Trust forgiveness of all fear and judgment, opinions and worries.
Believe that God, Source, Love Itself wants us all to be whole and happy and free/
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
Remember the blessings already are.
We are simply unwrapping the package to find the Beauty and Goodness inside.
People change.
Weather changes.
Economics change.
Seen without fear, all things work together for Good.
“Where we judge, we see what we judge.”
Where we are at peace and observe with trust, we see the Good and the blessings.
Where we resist change, we can only see what it is we are resisting or imagine it will come with change.
When we let go and trust Goodness and God, we perceive what is highest and best for All concerned.
“Everything is in our own best interests.” (ACIM) reminds us we are here to heal and awaken ourselves.
When we set all things FREE to BE what they are meant to BE, we can TRUST the GOOD will be revealed.
With non resistance, Life unfolds allowing us to return to our natural state of innocence and freedom with trust.
With gratitude for what it, we can see the intrinsic Good in the grand undoing.
Bless the changes.
Look for the opening to healing, growth and more happiness.
Be willing to go with the flow and let go of attachments.
Trust forgiveness of all fear and judgment, opinions and worries.
Believe that God, Source, Love Itself wants us all to be whole and happy and free/
Blessed be,
Betty Lue
Remember the blessings already are.
We are simply unwrapping the package to find the Beauty and Goodness inside.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
No Right Way
There are a myriad of perspectives on every situation and issue.
No one person knows what is best for all concerned.
Because circumstances, attitudes and priorities change rapidly, today’s answer may be faulty tomorrow.
The best we can do in each moment is listen with forgiveness and the intention of finding peace.
The best we can do is give the love we have and trust in the highest outcome.
The best we can do is show up, pay attention, tell the highest and most healing truth and let go.
To let go and let God is to be aware, forgive all judgments and trust that Good will be made apparent.
To let go and let God is to trust that everything happens in our own best interests.
To let go and let God is to know that everything always works more exquisitely than we can plan.
Life is a play of giving our best and letting the rest unfold.
Be aware that where we judge, we block the flow of goodness and healing.
Be aware that where we need to be right, we will work to win and make someone else lose.
Be aware that wherever anyone loses, no one really benefits.
Be aware that healing comes from awareness with non judgment and inner peace.
The “right” way does not exist.
The mind wants to grab onto a righteous path which is unchanging.
The only unchanging Truth is the Goodness and Love that underlies everything.
The surface experiences in this world are always changing.
The best we can do is be open and willing to see things differently, from all perspectives.
The best we can do is to forgive our pettiness and selfishness and limited and fear-based options.
The best we can do it to trust that through our willingness to heal our separation, we come to know God.
The best we can do it to set aside our separate interests and look for the most Healing outcome.
We are here together to learn from one another.
When our minds are closed with restrictive and righteous beliefs, we limit our learning.
When our hearts are closed with fear and hurt, we limit our forgiveness and loving.
We are here to forgive our defensive positions and learn to love again.
Life gives us pop quizzes and midterm exams over and over until we learn enough to pass.
If we begin to see ourselves as lifetime students in a course in healing our fear and separation,
we will be willing to accept our function of forgiveness to learn to unconditionally Love no matter what.
The Loving way is demonstrated in our willingness to trust the Voice within
and to free ourselves of fear to always give the Highest and Best we hear and know in our heart.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
I would rather choose the Happy Way!
One way that seems to make everyone happy is to go on retreat with us to Hawaii.
(See information in menu bar on left.)
We will be going again in Summer 2009.
NEW! We will also be taking a group on retreat to the Monterey Coast this fall and again next spring.
Less cost, less time and just as much fun and learning and spiritual renewal.
No one person knows what is best for all concerned.
Because circumstances, attitudes and priorities change rapidly, today’s answer may be faulty tomorrow.
The best we can do in each moment is listen with forgiveness and the intention of finding peace.
The best we can do is give the love we have and trust in the highest outcome.
The best we can do is show up, pay attention, tell the highest and most healing truth and let go.
To let go and let God is to be aware, forgive all judgments and trust that Good will be made apparent.
To let go and let God is to trust that everything happens in our own best interests.
To let go and let God is to know that everything always works more exquisitely than we can plan.
Life is a play of giving our best and letting the rest unfold.
Be aware that where we judge, we block the flow of goodness and healing.
Be aware that where we need to be right, we will work to win and make someone else lose.
Be aware that wherever anyone loses, no one really benefits.
Be aware that healing comes from awareness with non judgment and inner peace.
The “right” way does not exist.
The mind wants to grab onto a righteous path which is unchanging.
The only unchanging Truth is the Goodness and Love that underlies everything.
The surface experiences in this world are always changing.
The best we can do is be open and willing to see things differently, from all perspectives.
The best we can do is to forgive our pettiness and selfishness and limited and fear-based options.
The best we can do it to trust that through our willingness to heal our separation, we come to know God.
The best we can do it to set aside our separate interests and look for the most Healing outcome.
We are here together to learn from one another.
When our minds are closed with restrictive and righteous beliefs, we limit our learning.
When our hearts are closed with fear and hurt, we limit our forgiveness and loving.
We are here to forgive our defensive positions and learn to love again.
Life gives us pop quizzes and midterm exams over and over until we learn enough to pass.
If we begin to see ourselves as lifetime students in a course in healing our fear and separation,
we will be willing to accept our function of forgiveness to learn to unconditionally Love no matter what.
The Loving way is demonstrated in our willingness to trust the Voice within
and to free ourselves of fear to always give the Highest and Best we hear and know in our heart.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
I would rather choose the Happy Way!
One way that seems to make everyone happy is to go on retreat with us to Hawaii.
(See information in menu bar on left.)
We will be going again in Summer 2009.
NEW! We will also be taking a group on retreat to the Monterey Coast this fall and again next spring.
Less cost, less time and just as much fun and learning and spiritual renewal.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
“It’s Not Working!”
What do you do when your communication isn’t working?
What do you do when you parenting skills fail you?
What do you do when your body is not up to par?
What do you do when your life sucks and you are spiritually lost?
When life is no longer working for you, it is time to start working on life.
I have some basic tips for how to get back on track.
GET CONSCIOUS!
Wake up and see what’s really happening.
When we fall asleep into comfort, lethargy or just plain forgetfulness, upsets are wakeup calls.
We humans seem to like to complain and feel comfortable having problems to work on.
We often are simply in the habit of feeling sorry, getting special attention or making excuses for our fear.
STOP all mind altering drugs, habits and addictions.
Stop numbing yourself with alcohol, sugar, binging, TV, talking on the phone, watching TV, etc.
Give yourself 30 days to stop all unhealthy habits which render you less than fully awake and aware.
Begin only healthy and healing habits that are Highest and Best for you.
QUIT making excuses and stop blaming anything or anyone.
Give up the bad habit of judging yourself and others.
Let yourself really take a look at what you can do.
Stop looking outside yourself for answers.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for your life.
The most effective change agent is always ourselves.
We are the one who really can make a difference in our lives.
We have total control over what we think and feel, say and do.
STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS NOT WORKING!
Forgive the mistakes you see you have made.
Choose again for better behaviors in thought, words and activities.
The more we judge what has been true, the more likely we will try it again.
The more we can see and forgive what was not best, the easier it is to choose something better.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR LIFE, WHITE IT OUT AND BEGIN AGAIN.
Imagine the life you really want..
Begin to paint is on a blank canvas.
Talk and act and think like you already are living your idea.
EXPRESS GRATITUDE!
Take some time to recognize the good that is already in your life.
Appreciate abundantly everyday everyone nd every thing for which you are grateful.
Be willing to stop blaming and stant thanking each moment for its Goodness.
Everyone and the Universe responds to praise.
Your praise is your prayer.
Words and thoughts and deeds of Gladness and Goodness create more of the same.
Be unafraid to affirm and celebrate all the Good News and watch it grow.
When you want to change something, be gentle.
When you want to create a different relationship, be kind.
When you are ready to make a new commitment, be thoughtful.
Always look for the highest and best way to communicate your new choices, changes and commitments.
When you Love Life, Life loves you back.
Such is the Truth.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
What do you do when you parenting skills fail you?
What do you do when your body is not up to par?
What do you do when your life sucks and you are spiritually lost?
When life is no longer working for you, it is time to start working on life.
I have some basic tips for how to get back on track.
GET CONSCIOUS!
Wake up and see what’s really happening.
When we fall asleep into comfort, lethargy or just plain forgetfulness, upsets are wakeup calls.
We humans seem to like to complain and feel comfortable having problems to work on.
We often are simply in the habit of feeling sorry, getting special attention or making excuses for our fear.
STOP all mind altering drugs, habits and addictions.
Stop numbing yourself with alcohol, sugar, binging, TV, talking on the phone, watching TV, etc.
Give yourself 30 days to stop all unhealthy habits which render you less than fully awake and aware.
Begin only healthy and healing habits that are Highest and Best for you.
QUIT making excuses and stop blaming anything or anyone.
Give up the bad habit of judging yourself and others.
Let yourself really take a look at what you can do.
Stop looking outside yourself for answers.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for your life.
The most effective change agent is always ourselves.
We are the one who really can make a difference in our lives.
We have total control over what we think and feel, say and do.
STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS NOT WORKING!
Forgive the mistakes you see you have made.
Choose again for better behaviors in thought, words and activities.
The more we judge what has been true, the more likely we will try it again.
The more we can see and forgive what was not best, the easier it is to choose something better.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR LIFE, WHITE IT OUT AND BEGIN AGAIN.
Imagine the life you really want..
Begin to paint is on a blank canvas.
Talk and act and think like you already are living your idea.
EXPRESS GRATITUDE!
Take some time to recognize the good that is already in your life.
Appreciate abundantly everyday everyone nd every thing for which you are grateful.
Be willing to stop blaming and stant thanking each moment for its Goodness.
Everyone and the Universe responds to praise.
Your praise is your prayer.
Words and thoughts and deeds of Gladness and Goodness create more of the same.
Be unafraid to affirm and celebrate all the Good News and watch it grow.
When you want to change something, be gentle.
When you want to create a different relationship, be kind.
When you are ready to make a new commitment, be thoughtful.
Always look for the highest and best way to communicate your new choices, changes and commitments.
When you Love Life, Life loves you back.
Such is the Truth.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Monday, February 25, 2008
Are You Waking Up?
Who is directing your life?
How are you doing with living each day?
Who I responsible for your happiness?
Who sets the values you live by?
You are making the choices to be happy or unhappy.
You decide how to use your time, energy and money.
You make up what is most important to do each day.
You think, believe and act the way you choose.
If you don’t like the life you have, choose again
If you are unhappy with the emotions you feel, forgive yourself.
If your relationships are not satisfying, look at what you can do differently.
If you are living someone else’s life and not your heart’s desire, you can change it all.
Life is ours to choose or lose.
Life is a place of experimentation and exploration.
Life is not engraved in indelible ink, never to be erased.
Pick up the hand eraser of forgiveness and conscious choice and begin again.
Wherever things have gone wrong, all we need do is say, “Not this” and choose a better way.
There are an infinite number of roads to happiness, and we get to choose the “right” one for us.
Life is a series of choices, all of them designed to wake us up to our inherited right to choose.
Let go of guilt and blame which get you stuck in the same old rut and choose to learn from it all.
Life is letting go of fear.
Let go of the fear to choose.
Let go of the fear to change.
Let go of the fear to commit.
Life is about letting go of whatever is not the High Way and the Free Way and the Happy Way for us.
Let’s wake up happy together!
Betty Lue
How are you doing with living each day?
Who I responsible for your happiness?
Who sets the values you live by?
You are making the choices to be happy or unhappy.
You decide how to use your time, energy and money.
You make up what is most important to do each day.
You think, believe and act the way you choose.
If you don’t like the life you have, choose again
If you are unhappy with the emotions you feel, forgive yourself.
If your relationships are not satisfying, look at what you can do differently.
If you are living someone else’s life and not your heart’s desire, you can change it all.
Life is ours to choose or lose.
Life is a place of experimentation and exploration.
Life is not engraved in indelible ink, never to be erased.
Pick up the hand eraser of forgiveness and conscious choice and begin again.
Wherever things have gone wrong, all we need do is say, “Not this” and choose a better way.
There are an infinite number of roads to happiness, and we get to choose the “right” one for us.
Life is a series of choices, all of them designed to wake us up to our inherited right to choose.
Let go of guilt and blame which get you stuck in the same old rut and choose to learn from it all.
Life is letting go of fear.
Let go of the fear to choose.
Let go of the fear to change.
Let go of the fear to commit.
Life is about letting go of whatever is not the High Way and the Free Way and the Happy Way for us.
Let’s wake up happy together!
Betty Lue
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Love is Healing
Healing is Loving.
When we are loving, we are all healers one to another.
When we are extending love and peace we are healing ourselves and our world.
When we are withholding love and peace, we are blocking healing ourselves and others.
When love flows through us without condition, judgment or fear, we open the flow of healing Love to all.
When Love is blocked, made special, or offered to get something, we deny Love to ourselves and others.
Love is freedom, freely given, without exclusion to all we encounter.
Love is trust, trusting the process of each one and everyone, trusting in their unique healing needs.
Healing is the relinquishment of attack and judgment.
Healing is the absence of fear.
Healing is inner peace.
Healing is being happy.
Healing is true and lasting forgiveness.
Healing is open-mindedness.
Healing is giving Love without conditions.
Healing is creating.
Healing is living on purpose.
Healing is reconnection with source.
Healing is knowing all is well.
Healing is innocent.
Healing is perceiving only wholeness and holiness.
Healing is trusting God and Good in All things.
Healing is living in the Present.
Healing is Gratitude and Enjoyment.
Healing is natural to those who Love.
Healing is effortless to those who simply Love.
Healing is joyful to those who extend Love to All.
Healing is reciprocal for those who offer healing, receive healing.
We can treat symptoms of depression and disease, with endless remedies or cures.
To address the underlying healing needs is to recognize it is always in all ways a call for Love.
This healing Love is not emotional but Eternal. This healing Love is all powerful.
This healing Love is Holy.
This healing Love is a gift to everyone equally at all times.
This healing Love never ends or fades or is saved for one over another.
This healing Love is available to all who are open and willing to receive it.
This healing Love is shared by us all.
Whenever anyone asks for mental, emotional, spiritual or relationship healing,
we are simply calling for a reconnection with the Love, the Presence of all God and all Good within.
We simply see to remember the Love that created us as the Love we are.
We want to realize we are loved now and always no matter what.
I call upon us all to bring forth the Love We Are and to share the Love we have with One another
with a smile, a touch, a word, a prayer, a kind deed, a trust, a forgiveness, a laugh, a shared moment of Truth.
Thanks for being my healing partners on this journey through life,
Betty Lue
When we are loving, we are all healers one to another.
When we are extending love and peace we are healing ourselves and our world.
When we are withholding love and peace, we are blocking healing ourselves and others.
When love flows through us without condition, judgment or fear, we open the flow of healing Love to all.
When Love is blocked, made special, or offered to get something, we deny Love to ourselves and others.
Love is freedom, freely given, without exclusion to all we encounter.
Love is trust, trusting the process of each one and everyone, trusting in their unique healing needs.
Healing is the relinquishment of attack and judgment.
Healing is the absence of fear.
Healing is inner peace.
Healing is being happy.
Healing is true and lasting forgiveness.
Healing is open-mindedness.
Healing is giving Love without conditions.
Healing is creating.
Healing is living on purpose.
Healing is reconnection with source.
Healing is knowing all is well.
Healing is innocent.
Healing is perceiving only wholeness and holiness.
Healing is trusting God and Good in All things.
Healing is living in the Present.
Healing is Gratitude and Enjoyment.
Healing is natural to those who Love.
Healing is effortless to those who simply Love.
Healing is joyful to those who extend Love to All.
Healing is reciprocal for those who offer healing, receive healing.
We can treat symptoms of depression and disease, with endless remedies or cures.
To address the underlying healing needs is to recognize it is always in all ways a call for Love.
This healing Love is not emotional but Eternal. This healing Love is all powerful.
This healing Love is Holy.
This healing Love is a gift to everyone equally at all times.
This healing Love never ends or fades or is saved for one over another.
This healing Love is available to all who are open and willing to receive it.
This healing Love is shared by us all.
Whenever anyone asks for mental, emotional, spiritual or relationship healing,
we are simply calling for a reconnection with the Love, the Presence of all God and all Good within.
We simply see to remember the Love that created us as the Love we are.
We want to realize we are loved now and always no matter what.
I call upon us all to bring forth the Love We Are and to share the Love we have with One another
with a smile, a touch, a word, a prayer, a kind deed, a trust, a forgiveness, a laugh, a shared moment of Truth.
Thanks for being my healing partners on this journey through life,
Betty Lue
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Love Notes to You Everyday
Do you know I sit down and write a Love note to you everyday?
Do you know that my Loving Reminders are a gift of God to you through me?
Do you know that I am Loving God, when I am loving you?
Do you know that God is loving me, as I write these Loving Reminders?
You tell me that often the reminders are exactly right for you.
That is because they are truly for You.
Yes, you matter to me and to God.
Yes, you deserve to be deeply and profoundly loved everyday.
Love comes in many ways.
Love comes with special messages.
Love comes with music.
Love comes to us with wakeup calls.
You are being loved, right now.
Are you willing to receive it?
Are you willing to receive the reminders just for you?
Are you willing to live the Good life that is available for you?
Love is big.
Love is unlimited. There is nothing Love cannot do.
Love is an experience.
When you let in that experience, you feel free and happy and safe.
We need not Do anything to be loved.
Love simply is our natural state.
You can be loved for doing nothing.
Simply receive all the Love that is there for you right now.
When I am in love, I am open to receiving Love.
When I am out of Love , I am closed to receiving Love.
When I am giving the Love I Am, I am willing to receive all the Love flowing through me.
When I am withholding the Love in me, I am closed and will not receive the Love being given to me.
So the conditions of receiving the Infinite, healing miraculous and creative Love available are:
Be willing to share the Love you have.
Trust Love is unconditional and not special.
Be open to receiving what is yours by birthright.
Always loving you with every Loving Reminder,
Thank you for receiving. It makes me very happy!
Betty Lue
Do you know that my Loving Reminders are a gift of God to you through me?
Do you know that I am Loving God, when I am loving you?
Do you know that God is loving me, as I write these Loving Reminders?
You tell me that often the reminders are exactly right for you.
That is because they are truly for You.
Yes, you matter to me and to God.
Yes, you deserve to be deeply and profoundly loved everyday.
Love comes in many ways.
Love comes with special messages.
Love comes with music.
Love comes to us with wakeup calls.
You are being loved, right now.
Are you willing to receive it?
Are you willing to receive the reminders just for you?
Are you willing to live the Good life that is available for you?
Love is big.
Love is unlimited. There is nothing Love cannot do.
Love is an experience.
When you let in that experience, you feel free and happy and safe.
We need not Do anything to be loved.
Love simply is our natural state.
You can be loved for doing nothing.
Simply receive all the Love that is there for you right now.
When I am in love, I am open to receiving Love.
When I am out of Love , I am closed to receiving Love.
When I am giving the Love I Am, I am willing to receive all the Love flowing through me.
When I am withholding the Love in me, I am closed and will not receive the Love being given to me.
So the conditions of receiving the Infinite, healing miraculous and creative Love available are:
Be willing to share the Love you have.
Trust Love is unconditional and not special.
Be open to receiving what is yours by birthright.
Always loving you with every Loving Reminder,
Thank you for receiving. It makes me very happy!
Betty Lue
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Love Begins at Home
What is Love but Freedom and Trust.
Are you free within yourself?
Do you trust yourself?
Is there freedom to be and do and think and create in your home?
Is there trust of one another within your home environment?
Whether you live alone, with a partner, roommates or children, Love begins in the home.
When our basic needs of food, shelter, warmth, sleep and air are met, we need to feel safe.
Safety and security come with no threat of our survival.
To feel safe in our home, we need to be free to take care of our survival and safety needs.
To threaten in anyway blocks love.
To tease or allude to kicking out, getting a divorce, running away from home all threatens security.
When anyone feels uncertain about meeting survival and safety needs, they will have difficulty loving.
Trusting your basic needs will be met and feeling free to care for oneself is essential to belonging.
After meeting the needs of Survival and Safety come belonging and family and relationship needs.
Within a group, home or family is the need to feel included, valued and respected.
It is important that each person has a place where they know they are wanted and appreciated.
When there is criticism, scape-goating or ostracizing one person, these needs for love cannot be met.
To trust ourselves and our worth, we must belong, be needed and wanted and know how we fit.
Make sure you and your loved ones all know their “special” place in the home.
Often we need a special chore to take pride in or have role that benefits the family.
To belong is the next need to fill after survival and safety.
We each have esteem needs to be capable and responsible, to have status through our accomplishments. When we can see and feel “I can do it.”, we feel confident and worthy.
When we are criticized, nagged or over cared for, we feel weak, inadequate and unworthy of Love.
It is essential that everyone in our home feel they can be supported and appreciated in achieving.
There is more to this (Maslow’s) hierarchy of needs for all individuals.
Cognitive needs for meaning, wisdom and awareness.
Aesthetic needs for beauty and creativity.
Self actuaization needs for personal growth and fulfillment.
Transcendent needs to help others.
Within our homes we have the opportunity to either foster or thwart the satisfying of basic needs.
This the trust and freedom account on which Love is based and grows.
Begin with you and your loved ones.
Give your best with gratitude and let the rest go with forgiveness.
Loving you always in my heart and home.
Betty Lue
This is a good example of how to do it.
If you would grow to be your best self
Be patient, not demanding
Accepting, not condemning
Nurturing, not withholding
Self-marveling, not belittling
Gently guiding, not pushing & punishing
For you are more sensitive than you know
Mankind is tough as war
Yet delicate as flowers
We can endure agonies
But we open fully only to warmth & light
And our need to grow is fragile as a fragrance
Dispersed by storms of will
To return only when those storms are still
So accept, respect,
Attend your sensitivity
A flower
Cannot be opened
With a hammer
Are you free within yourself?
Do you trust yourself?
Is there freedom to be and do and think and create in your home?
Is there trust of one another within your home environment?
Whether you live alone, with a partner, roommates or children, Love begins in the home.
When our basic needs of food, shelter, warmth, sleep and air are met, we need to feel safe.
Safety and security come with no threat of our survival.
To feel safe in our home, we need to be free to take care of our survival and safety needs.
To threaten in anyway blocks love.
To tease or allude to kicking out, getting a divorce, running away from home all threatens security.
When anyone feels uncertain about meeting survival and safety needs, they will have difficulty loving.
Trusting your basic needs will be met and feeling free to care for oneself is essential to belonging.
After meeting the needs of Survival and Safety come belonging and family and relationship needs.
Within a group, home or family is the need to feel included, valued and respected.
It is important that each person has a place where they know they are wanted and appreciated.
When there is criticism, scape-goating or ostracizing one person, these needs for love cannot be met.
To trust ourselves and our worth, we must belong, be needed and wanted and know how we fit.
Make sure you and your loved ones all know their “special” place in the home.
Often we need a special chore to take pride in or have role that benefits the family.
To belong is the next need to fill after survival and safety.
We each have esteem needs to be capable and responsible, to have status through our accomplishments. When we can see and feel “I can do it.”, we feel confident and worthy.
When we are criticized, nagged or over cared for, we feel weak, inadequate and unworthy of Love.
It is essential that everyone in our home feel they can be supported and appreciated in achieving.
There is more to this (Maslow’s) hierarchy of needs for all individuals.
Cognitive needs for meaning, wisdom and awareness.
Aesthetic needs for beauty and creativity.
Self actuaization needs for personal growth and fulfillment.
Transcendent needs to help others.
Within our homes we have the opportunity to either foster or thwart the satisfying of basic needs.
This the trust and freedom account on which Love is based and grows.
Begin with you and your loved ones.
Give your best with gratitude and let the rest go with forgiveness.
Loving you always in my heart and home.
Betty Lue
This is a good example of how to do it.
If you would grow to be your best self
Be patient, not demanding
Accepting, not condemning
Nurturing, not withholding
Self-marveling, not belittling
Gently guiding, not pushing & punishing
For you are more sensitive than you know
Mankind is tough as war
Yet delicate as flowers
We can endure agonies
But we open fully only to warmth & light
And our need to grow is fragile as a fragrance
Dispersed by storms of will
To return only when those storms are still
So accept, respect,
Attend your sensitivity
A flower
Cannot be opened
With a hammer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Life is for Learning
Life is a learning laboratory.
When we think we already know, we close the possibility of discovering something we don’t know.
When we pretend we know, we often convince ourselves and others that we are no longer learning.
When we make one person, place or source the only one who knows, we give close our openness.
To learn we must be happy and willing to learn.
To discover, we must be curious and open to the unknown.
To explore, we must be willing to try, to practice, and to experiment.
To be conscious, we must be willing to relinquish our attachments, myths, fantasies and opinions.
When I do not like what I know or think or feel or experience, I am willing to see things differently.
When I do not like the world I have created for myself, I am open to returning to the Source for Vision.
When I am judging a relationship, a project, an outcome, I can easily forgive, let go and choose again.
When I feel victimized or stuck with a choice I have made, I can ask for answers and inner guidance.
There are many myths, projections, wishes and expectations we carry around without even considering they may be faulty.
Every person is different.
Every person is changing constantly.
Every person is a newly re- integrating being with each experience.
Sometimes busting old stereotypes with new generalizations is helpful to stir the pot to let go.
Below you will find some of the notes I gave in understanding the personality, motivational and perception differences in the sexes. I would value hearing your feedback. Do not attempt asking men to describe their vulnerability, because that would expose their vulnerability to themselves as well as to those they cannot trust. If Men and women could drop their objectification and utilization of one another (“Women are an Love object for Men to make happy and Men are a tool to be utilized by women to get what they want”), they would find that our only real purpose is to heal ourselves and support (don’t inter-fear) the other in healing themselves.
I often speak of the highest realm of living, being fully awake, conscious of our choices, open and willing to practice forgiveness and love and yet the vast majority 99% of people live their lives in survival with some moving into security, belonging and achievement. However, very few spend any time in spiritual seeking, self-actualization or the transcendent state of helping others. Where are you in your process. Are you filling the needs you have where you are or pretending to be further along and missing the needed healing of wounds along the way.
I am learning from you and with you,
I am willing and happy to grow in wisdom and in love.
I trust my inner source and easily allow myself to be guided in helping and awakening others.
I bless my life, your life and our lives together as we learn and grow our willingness to LOVE,
Loving you,
Betty Lue
When we think we already know, we close the possibility of discovering something we don’t know.
When we pretend we know, we often convince ourselves and others that we are no longer learning.
When we make one person, place or source the only one who knows, we give close our openness.
To learn we must be happy and willing to learn.
To discover, we must be curious and open to the unknown.
To explore, we must be willing to try, to practice, and to experiment.
To be conscious, we must be willing to relinquish our attachments, myths, fantasies and opinions.
When I do not like what I know or think or feel or experience, I am willing to see things differently.
When I do not like the world I have created for myself, I am open to returning to the Source for Vision.
When I am judging a relationship, a project, an outcome, I can easily forgive, let go and choose again.
When I feel victimized or stuck with a choice I have made, I can ask for answers and inner guidance.
There are many myths, projections, wishes and expectations we carry around without even considering they may be faulty.
Every person is different.
Every person is changing constantly.
Every person is a newly re- integrating being with each experience.
Sometimes busting old stereotypes with new generalizations is helpful to stir the pot to let go.
Below you will find some of the notes I gave in understanding the personality, motivational and perception differences in the sexes. I would value hearing your feedback. Do not attempt asking men to describe their vulnerability, because that would expose their vulnerability to themselves as well as to those they cannot trust. If Men and women could drop their objectification and utilization of one another (“Women are an Love object for Men to make happy and Men are a tool to be utilized by women to get what they want”), they would find that our only real purpose is to heal ourselves and support (don’t inter-fear) the other in healing themselves.
I often speak of the highest realm of living, being fully awake, conscious of our choices, open and willing to practice forgiveness and love and yet the vast majority 99% of people live their lives in survival with some moving into security, belonging and achievement. However, very few spend any time in spiritual seeking, self-actualization or the transcendent state of helping others. Where are you in your process. Are you filling the needs you have where you are or pretending to be further along and missing the needed healing of wounds along the way.
I am learning from you and with you,
I am willing and happy to grow in wisdom and in love.
I trust my inner source and easily allow myself to be guided in helping and awakening others.
I bless my life, your life and our lives together as we learn and grow our willingness to LOVE,
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Caring For One Another
Everyone Matters.
Every mother is our mother.
Every child is our child.
Every person deserves the same care I would want for my most cherished friend.
Giving to any one is giving to everyone.
When we practice treating others as we would want to be treated, we learn the value of community.
In loving trusting community, every lays a valuable part.
Each individual has a healing and holy purpose.
Everyone has something to offer, to teach, to demonstrate.
And everyone has wounds to heal and places to learn and grow.
Once we know the value of each cherished life, we begin to respect life and value ourselves.
Once we realize our life matters, we treat ourselves with respect for every moment.
We have time, energy and money to be well utilized to serve the good of all. And there is so much to do right here and right now. No time or money or energy to waste. Learn to give your best and live yur best with each precious moment.
Recently My 86 year old Mom was injured in a car accident and sent home from the emergency room with no broken bones, but in extreme pain, no pain meds and no one to care for her. She had some visits from friends, but no one really understood the extent of her situation. I was unable to travel or even communicate with her for the first week to my own flu stuff, but prayed and trusted her needs were being met by visiting friends. Only a few of my friends really got the extreme need and responded with dishes, laundry, setting up a Dr. visit, a back massage for the bruised ribs, helping her with pain meds and adequate reassurance and comfort. What was said to me is “I treated her like she was my Mom.”
Our young people seem to be without mentoring, financial and emotional support to get into schools and specialized training, to expand their horizons and give them direction and guidance about how to live life at the highest level without wasting time and money on TV, drugs, wasteful spending and feeling scared and sorry for the difficulties in life.
What can we do to be a spiritual community that takes responsibility for our youth and our elders?
How can we open our hearts to those who don’t even know how to ask, but desperately want help they can trust?
It is learning how to mentor and coach others, how to listen and respond, how to be available, how to understand before trying to be understood.
Asking, “Do you want help?” is to difficult for those who are not familiar with receiving.
We must listen within for spiritual guidance about what help to give and how to give it respectfully.
Let’s give to others in the way we would be most open and willing to receive…with respect for the individual, with genuine compassion and faith that the recipient is doing the best they know at all times.
Every life is precious. Everyone is important.
Our gifts are blessing everyone everywhere.
Take the risk and love someone today in a giving way.
Loving you in loving.
Betty Lue
Every mother is our mother.
Every child is our child.
Every person deserves the same care I would want for my most cherished friend.
Giving to any one is giving to everyone.
When we practice treating others as we would want to be treated, we learn the value of community.
In loving trusting community, every lays a valuable part.
Each individual has a healing and holy purpose.
Everyone has something to offer, to teach, to demonstrate.
And everyone has wounds to heal and places to learn and grow.
Once we know the value of each cherished life, we begin to respect life and value ourselves.
Once we realize our life matters, we treat ourselves with respect for every moment.
We have time, energy and money to be well utilized to serve the good of all. And there is so much to do right here and right now. No time or money or energy to waste. Learn to give your best and live yur best with each precious moment.
Recently My 86 year old Mom was injured in a car accident and sent home from the emergency room with no broken bones, but in extreme pain, no pain meds and no one to care for her. She had some visits from friends, but no one really understood the extent of her situation. I was unable to travel or even communicate with her for the first week to my own flu stuff, but prayed and trusted her needs were being met by visiting friends. Only a few of my friends really got the extreme need and responded with dishes, laundry, setting up a Dr. visit, a back massage for the bruised ribs, helping her with pain meds and adequate reassurance and comfort. What was said to me is “I treated her like she was my Mom.”
Our young people seem to be without mentoring, financial and emotional support to get into schools and specialized training, to expand their horizons and give them direction and guidance about how to live life at the highest level without wasting time and money on TV, drugs, wasteful spending and feeling scared and sorry for the difficulties in life.
What can we do to be a spiritual community that takes responsibility for our youth and our elders?
How can we open our hearts to those who don’t even know how to ask, but desperately want help they can trust?
It is learning how to mentor and coach others, how to listen and respond, how to be available, how to understand before trying to be understood.
Asking, “Do you want help?” is to difficult for those who are not familiar with receiving.
We must listen within for spiritual guidance about what help to give and how to give it respectfully.
Let’s give to others in the way we would be most open and willing to receive…with respect for the individual, with genuine compassion and faith that the recipient is doing the best they know at all times.
Every life is precious. Everyone is important.
Our gifts are blessing everyone everywhere.
Take the risk and love someone today in a giving way.
Loving you in loving.
Betty Lue
Monday, February 18, 2008
Love Heals All
Love heals relationships.
Love heals finances.
Love heals creativity.
Love heals the earth.
Love heals disease.
Love heals war.
Love heals all things.
What is this Love?
God is Love.
Love is God.
Love is Happiness.
Love is Inner Peace.
Love is Gratitude.
Love is Joy.
Love is Power.
Love is Now.
Love is Intention.
Love is Holiness.
Love is Beauty.
Love is Wisdom.
Love is Truth.
Love is Life.
Love is Giving.
Love is Kindness.
Love is Infinite.
Love is Abundance.
Love is Freedom.
Love is You.
Love is Me.
Love is fun, safe and easy.
So why not choose it?
The only way to lose the game is to quit playing.
Life works when we Love.
Begin today to simply say, “ I al open and willing to love all things as they are.”
Watch the pain, problems, fears, obsessions, craziness, emotionality, confusion and difficulties melt away.
Love what is everyday and what isn’t will leave you alone.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Love heals finances.
Love heals creativity.
Love heals the earth.
Love heals disease.
Love heals war.
Love heals all things.
What is this Love?
God is Love.
Love is God.
Love is Happiness.
Love is Inner Peace.
Love is Gratitude.
Love is Joy.
Love is Power.
Love is Now.
Love is Intention.
Love is Holiness.
Love is Beauty.
Love is Wisdom.
Love is Truth.
Love is Life.
Love is Giving.
Love is Kindness.
Love is Infinite.
Love is Abundance.
Love is Freedom.
Love is You.
Love is Me.
Love is fun, safe and easy.
So why not choose it?
The only way to lose the game is to quit playing.
Life works when we Love.
Begin today to simply say, “ I al open and willing to love all things as they are.”
Watch the pain, problems, fears, obsessions, craziness, emotionality, confusion and difficulties melt away.
Love what is everyday and what isn’t will leave you alone.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Practice, Practice, Practice
Life is a game.
To learn the game of life requires practice.
To play with ease requires patience, consistency and practice.
To play with excellence requires forgiving the fears, judgments and quitting.
When we learned to wash our own hair, we became better with practice.
To learn to cook we needed to practice.
When we learn to play the piano, we become proficient with practice.
To learn to play golf well requires practice.
To learn to be in relationship skills asks that we practice.
To learn to become a good parent invites practice.
To learn to Love demand that we practice.
LIFE ITSELF IS CONSTANT PRACTICE.
Look for how you learn the best.
How did you learn to cook, to play music or a sport?
How did you learn to communicate well with your partner?
What do you need in order to do well what you choose for yourself.
Managing money, making love, writing a letter, cleaning your house and driving a car?
I learn well with observation and experimentation.
I enjoy learning through exploration without comment or criticism.
I learn most quickly when others trust that I can learn and practice effectively.
I need very little instruction verbally and want help only when asked.
To be as proficient as God, to develop our divinity and Godly nature we need practice.
So open up to life as offering experiences that allow us to practice.
When I need direction, I go within.
When I want reassurance, I go within.
When I want to learn to be a good person, I look for the “Goodest person I know.
I watch how they live.
I observe how they think and relate, emote and tend to their physical, financial needs.
When I want to learn, I go to the best I can find for telepathic connection.
And then I practice practice, practice.
Life can be fun, safe and easy when I practice what works to play the game.
1) Clarify the game you want to play well.
2) Observe the best players you know.
3) Listen to those who play well.
4) Appreciate and admire someone who plays well.
5) Practice what you can do in all kinds of circumstances.
6) Never criticize others’ mistakes.
7) Encourage yourself to keep practicing.
8) Enjoy the learning process.
9) Give yourself credit for willingness to learn.
10) Never quit.
Remember to keep up the practice.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
#1 Play to perfect. Use criticism and reform all mistakes.
#2 Play to help others play. Use manipulation and helpfulness to win.
#3 Play to achieve and be the best. Look good even when they aren’t winning.
#4 Play to be unique and be noticed. Complain and have excuses when they don’t get their way.
#5 Play to gather information in private, to learn as much as they can before engaging.
#6 Play to belong and fit and add to the group. Fear being excluded.
#7 Play to be excited and delighted through diversity and novelty. Always want to play more.
#8 Play to be in control, commanding and need to lead with power and given authority.
#9 Play to find a way to maintain peace and balance and morph into what is needed.
Those who learn with happy willingness to try again, enjoy the game of life more and grow most easily.
Those who are stuck with the way it needs to be, find fault and get stuck in the problems or mistakes.
To learn the game of life requires practice.
To play with ease requires patience, consistency and practice.
To play with excellence requires forgiving the fears, judgments and quitting.
When we learned to wash our own hair, we became better with practice.
To learn to cook we needed to practice.
When we learn to play the piano, we become proficient with practice.
To learn to play golf well requires practice.
To learn to be in relationship skills asks that we practice.
To learn to become a good parent invites practice.
To learn to Love demand that we practice.
LIFE ITSELF IS CONSTANT PRACTICE.
Look for how you learn the best.
How did you learn to cook, to play music or a sport?
How did you learn to communicate well with your partner?
What do you need in order to do well what you choose for yourself.
Managing money, making love, writing a letter, cleaning your house and driving a car?
I learn well with observation and experimentation.
I enjoy learning through exploration without comment or criticism.
I learn most quickly when others trust that I can learn and practice effectively.
I need very little instruction verbally and want help only when asked.
To be as proficient as God, to develop our divinity and Godly nature we need practice.
So open up to life as offering experiences that allow us to practice.
When I need direction, I go within.
When I want reassurance, I go within.
When I want to learn to be a good person, I look for the “Goodest person I know.
I watch how they live.
I observe how they think and relate, emote and tend to their physical, financial needs.
When I want to learn, I go to the best I can find for telepathic connection.
And then I practice practice, practice.
Life can be fun, safe and easy when I practice what works to play the game.
1) Clarify the game you want to play well.
2) Observe the best players you know.
3) Listen to those who play well.
4) Appreciate and admire someone who plays well.
5) Practice what you can do in all kinds of circumstances.
6) Never criticize others’ mistakes.
7) Encourage yourself to keep practicing.
8) Enjoy the learning process.
9) Give yourself credit for willingness to learn.
10) Never quit.
Remember to keep up the practice.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
#1 Play to perfect. Use criticism and reform all mistakes.
#2 Play to help others play. Use manipulation and helpfulness to win.
#3 Play to achieve and be the best. Look good even when they aren’t winning.
#4 Play to be unique and be noticed. Complain and have excuses when they don’t get their way.
#5 Play to gather information in private, to learn as much as they can before engaging.
#6 Play to belong and fit and add to the group. Fear being excluded.
#7 Play to be excited and delighted through diversity and novelty. Always want to play more.
#8 Play to be in control, commanding and need to lead with power and given authority.
#9 Play to find a way to maintain peace and balance and morph into what is needed.
Those who learn with happy willingness to try again, enjoy the game of life more and grow most easily.
Those who are stuck with the way it needs to be, find fault and get stuck in the problems or mistakes.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Why Not Stories of the Past?
God is growing us.
We outgrow the old pots and need to be transplanted into bigger pots and more expansive ways.
Once we have outgrown high school, we don’t need to talk about high school stories of glory.
Once we have moved on from days of hardship, we simply don’t need to recall how difficult it was.
When we focus on the past, we recreate it in our present.
We outgrow childhood things and move on into living as an adult.
We let go of immature reactions and activities and step into mature responsible choices.
We release mistakes when we correct our perception and see all things as working together for good.
We regress when we have not finished with what was and are holding fear and judgment.
We get stuck when we are attached to people, places and things.
We move on when we follow the Inner Light and live in Love.
It is the spiritual certainty that comes from trusting in the perfection of all things and gathering Wisdom with Love and Peace with Gratitude that gives us the confidence and strength to simply move on.
Yes, all that is left of the past is its beauty and its bountiful blessings.
The rest is undone by completing what was for forgiveness and gratitude.
The next moment is a Gift of Wonder and Enjoyment right Now.
And when we are willing to be peaceful and present, we receive inspiration and guidance now.
As we grow in faith, we give up childish things.
No more need to sell ourselves or accomplishments.
No more desire to compare our journey with another.
We simply live the Truth we know and share the Best we have.
Life becomes more simple, with less to do and say.
Be present in Love. I love Life and life loves me.
Our greatest Joy lies in the freedom to express, extend and contribute the Love We Are.
Let us simply enjoy the Good that Is, the Good God that lives in you and me.
Remember:
By letting go of what was, we make room to appreciate what is and to experience whatever will be with confidence and peace.
Loving you, loving us all endlessly,
Betty Lue
Love never ends.
It simply changes form as we grow in understanding of what Love really Is!
Know I am loving You!
http://www.hasanyonetoldyou.com
We outgrow the old pots and need to be transplanted into bigger pots and more expansive ways.
Once we have outgrown high school, we don’t need to talk about high school stories of glory.
Once we have moved on from days of hardship, we simply don’t need to recall how difficult it was.
When we focus on the past, we recreate it in our present.
We outgrow childhood things and move on into living as an adult.
We let go of immature reactions and activities and step into mature responsible choices.
We release mistakes when we correct our perception and see all things as working together for good.
We regress when we have not finished with what was and are holding fear and judgment.
We get stuck when we are attached to people, places and things.
We move on when we follow the Inner Light and live in Love.
It is the spiritual certainty that comes from trusting in the perfection of all things and gathering Wisdom with Love and Peace with Gratitude that gives us the confidence and strength to simply move on.
Yes, all that is left of the past is its beauty and its bountiful blessings.
The rest is undone by completing what was for forgiveness and gratitude.
The next moment is a Gift of Wonder and Enjoyment right Now.
And when we are willing to be peaceful and present, we receive inspiration and guidance now.
As we grow in faith, we give up childish things.
No more need to sell ourselves or accomplishments.
No more desire to compare our journey with another.
We simply live the Truth we know and share the Best we have.
Life becomes more simple, with less to do and say.
Be present in Love. I love Life and life loves me.
Our greatest Joy lies in the freedom to express, extend and contribute the Love We Are.
Let us simply enjoy the Good that Is, the Good God that lives in you and me.
Remember:
By letting go of what was, we make room to appreciate what is and to experience whatever will be with confidence and peace.
Loving you, loving us all endlessly,
Betty Lue
Love never ends.
It simply changes form as we grow in understanding of what Love really Is!
Know I am loving You!
http://www.hasanyonetoldyou.com
Friday, February 15, 2008
In Times of Challenge and Change
We can seek to find fault, fix blame or feel guilt.
We can make up causes outside ourselves.
We can fight to make this comfortable and the same.
We can contract and conserve energies in protection.
This is a common human reaction to what seems wrong, difficult and disturbing.
We also could build emotional defenses, cast spells and buy more insurance.
Or perhaps commiserate about “how bad it is”.
We have built many ways to victimize ourselves and many reasons to feel afraid.
We are good at making up reasons for “stuff happening” to us.
We can be equally good at making up ways to respond with the Highest we know.
Whether we perceive this world is a learning laboratory for us to heal and grow or the time to receive what we have sown, we still see that “stuff happens”.
Because I like to be happy and optimistic, I prefer to make up positive causes and effects.
Because I prefer looking forward than trying to figure out “why?” in the past, I simply move on.
Because I know there is an All Loving Presence and Power that sustains our Essence, I trust in the Outcome.
Because I am called to encourage Hope, strength Faith and give Love, I can only live the Highest Truths I know.
Some Made up stuff for our current human condition:
Mercury is in retrograde until the 19th.
When we declare a higher intention, everything unlike it shows up for healing.
Astrologically and according to spiritual channels, this time can be most distressing as the shift occurs.
Some Truths I know to be so, when I listen to the Voice of God’s Goodness within:
Everything unlike Love is a call for Love.
Everything that is in conflict is seeking peaceful resolution.
Every source of sorrow and pain is lacking in a joyful and grateful heart.
Now is the time for each one of us to take up the Highest Calling…..
Love more purely
Listen more clearly.
Follow the Voice within more nearly.
Day by Day.
Remember Love is Who You Are.
No matter the challenge, do not forsake your Self and Your Essence.
No matter how great the conflict or the mistake, never forget to Love.
No matter how the apparent problems, pain and disturbances seem to present themselves, remember always and only to Extend Peace, Give Love and Be Happy with Gratitude.
Be the attitude you want to see in your world.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
We can make up causes outside ourselves.
We can fight to make this comfortable and the same.
We can contract and conserve energies in protection.
This is a common human reaction to what seems wrong, difficult and disturbing.
We also could build emotional defenses, cast spells and buy more insurance.
Or perhaps commiserate about “how bad it is”.
We have built many ways to victimize ourselves and many reasons to feel afraid.
We are good at making up reasons for “stuff happening” to us.
We can be equally good at making up ways to respond with the Highest we know.
Whether we perceive this world is a learning laboratory for us to heal and grow or the time to receive what we have sown, we still see that “stuff happens”.
Because I like to be happy and optimistic, I prefer to make up positive causes and effects.
Because I prefer looking forward than trying to figure out “why?” in the past, I simply move on.
Because I know there is an All Loving Presence and Power that sustains our Essence, I trust in the Outcome.
Because I am called to encourage Hope, strength Faith and give Love, I can only live the Highest Truths I know.
Some Made up stuff for our current human condition:
Mercury is in retrograde until the 19th.
When we declare a higher intention, everything unlike it shows up for healing.
Astrologically and according to spiritual channels, this time can be most distressing as the shift occurs.
Some Truths I know to be so, when I listen to the Voice of God’s Goodness within:
Everything unlike Love is a call for Love.
Everything that is in conflict is seeking peaceful resolution.
Every source of sorrow and pain is lacking in a joyful and grateful heart.
Now is the time for each one of us to take up the Highest Calling…..
Love more purely
Listen more clearly.
Follow the Voice within more nearly.
Day by Day.
Remember Love is Who You Are.
No matter the challenge, do not forsake your Self and Your Essence.
No matter how great the conflict or the mistake, never forget to Love.
No matter how the apparent problems, pain and disturbances seem to present themselves, remember always and only to Extend Peace, Give Love and Be Happy with Gratitude.
Be the attitude you want to see in your world.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Have You Missed Me?
I have missed being with you in this written form.
Down with the yucky flue stuff for over a week.
Up today for the time I have energy.
I am open and willing to receive your love for sure.
But mostly, would like for you to send affirming prayers and love to my 86 yr. old Mom in
Asheville, NC. and totalled her car on Friday.
No broken bones, but lots of pain in the healing process.
She is needing healing energy and love.
Robert will be there on March 1-5, but in the meantime not being given pain relief.
Thank you for seeing her healing, whole and holy.
Now onto the most important part of this email…
Dear One,
I want you to know I love, appreciate and value you.
I consider you each one, important in my world.
I honor and respect who you are.
I am inspired by how you live the very best you know.
I am encouraged by how we each are giving the best we have.
I thank you and bless you in all you are and do.
Know my love and Spirit goes with you,
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Betty Lue
Down with the yucky flue stuff for over a week.
Up today for the time I have energy.
I am open and willing to receive your love for sure.
But mostly, would like for you to send affirming prayers and love to my 86 yr. old Mom in
Asheville, NC. and totalled her car on Friday.
No broken bones, but lots of pain in the healing process.
She is needing healing energy and love.
Robert will be there on March 1-5, but in the meantime not being given pain relief.
Thank you for seeing her healing, whole and holy.
Now onto the most important part of this email…
Dear One,
I want you to know I love, appreciate and value you.
I consider you each one, important in my world.
I honor and respect who you are.
I am inspired by how you live the very best you know.
I am encouraged by how we each are giving the best we have.
I thank you and bless you in all you are and do.
Know my love and Spirit goes with you,
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Betty Lue
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Loving Your Self is Loving Others
Happy New Year! This is the year of the earth rat.
(See "Year of the Rat" in menu bar under Numerology.)
When we have not taken impeccable care of ourselves, we are not giving our best to others.
It is a gift of Love to do what we need to honor our own needs first, so that we are our best.
Loving others well is loving myself well, so that I have the best to give others.
Selfishness is the focus on what can I get from loving others.
“I expect you to do for me as much as I have done for you.”
Selflessness is giving away, everything I have to others.
“You are more important than me.”
Martyrdom is a part of old time religion and usually make the recipient of our love feel guilty.
When we give at the cost of ourselves, we teach others to feel guilty for our loss, pain and suffering.
Subtly we are sending the message:” Look at how much I have done for you.”
When we are aligned spiritually, we recognize that giving to others is giving to ourselves.
Giving to others becomes the gift we receive, when we have no conditions on the giving.
Our giving enhances what we have so that we have more to give.
There is no loss or lack in the giving.
Thus, to Have, give All to All.
Without specialness, our natural instinct is to share and care fairly and equitably.
It is in our nature to share with love that which we have and are.
Love is our natural state and loving is our way of expressing our nature.
When we make someone more special than others, we give more to get more.
When we make someone less special than others, we give less believing we get less.
Giving everyone our appreciation and open-mindedness opens the way to realize God’s Nature.
Giving everyone our love equally sets the standard for loving all Beings simply for Being.
Life is seen and experienced differently when we love ourselves equally to loving all others.
Love is see and experienced differently when we give to ourselves the same as to others.
The Golden Rule is lived when we treat others as we want to be treated.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself, (when you love yourself well!).
Loving you well, as I am reminded to love myself well.
Betty Lue
PS
Imagine if your most beloved friend were giving you their inspired guidance, What would they suggest for you to do to take care of yourself well?
(See "Year of the Rat" in menu bar under Numerology.)
When we have not taken impeccable care of ourselves, we are not giving our best to others.
It is a gift of Love to do what we need to honor our own needs first, so that we are our best.
Loving others well is loving myself well, so that I have the best to give others.
Selfishness is the focus on what can I get from loving others.
“I expect you to do for me as much as I have done for you.”
Selflessness is giving away, everything I have to others.
“You are more important than me.”
Martyrdom is a part of old time religion and usually make the recipient of our love feel guilty.
When we give at the cost of ourselves, we teach others to feel guilty for our loss, pain and suffering.
Subtly we are sending the message:” Look at how much I have done for you.”
When we are aligned spiritually, we recognize that giving to others is giving to ourselves.
Giving to others becomes the gift we receive, when we have no conditions on the giving.
Our giving enhances what we have so that we have more to give.
There is no loss or lack in the giving.
Thus, to Have, give All to All.
Without specialness, our natural instinct is to share and care fairly and equitably.
It is in our nature to share with love that which we have and are.
Love is our natural state and loving is our way of expressing our nature.
When we make someone more special than others, we give more to get more.
When we make someone less special than others, we give less believing we get less.
Giving everyone our appreciation and open-mindedness opens the way to realize God’s Nature.
Giving everyone our love equally sets the standard for loving all Beings simply for Being.
Life is seen and experienced differently when we love ourselves equally to loving all others.
Love is see and experienced differently when we give to ourselves the same as to others.
The Golden Rule is lived when we treat others as we want to be treated.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself, (when you love yourself well!).
Loving you well, as I am reminded to love myself well.
Betty Lue
PS
Imagine if your most beloved friend were giving you their inspired guidance, What would they suggest for you to do to take care of yourself well?
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Cranky and Impatient
Mad Hatter’s wild ride anyone?
Mercury in Retrograde Jan. 29 for 3 weeks plus some?
Every “gazoobie” showing up for healing?
Opportunities to heal the “yucky” stuff and grow the Goodness!
For me “IMPATIENCE” is my area of needed work.
I am patient with my impatience.
I can use my impatience to show me where I am attached.
I can value the insights I get from being impatient.
I forgive the judgments that create my impatience.
I can acknowledge the unseen and withheld communications of the past.
I am willing to see how fast I choose to move and change, conceive and achieve.
I am aware when I need to rest and nurture myself by the impatience I feel.
“My patience with my brother is my patience with myself.” From ACIM
And I would never let myself get away with the stuff I perceive from others. Ha, Ha!
All is all I am patient with my impatience.
I recognize God, the Spirit of Goodness, within me will use everything for Good at my request.
And so it is that I request this day to be one of rest and renewal, forgiveness and trust.
I appreciate my willingness to let go and let Goodness prevail in the Love We Are as One.
Let it be what it is, recognizing only Love is real.
All else is temporary illusion.
My consistent willingness to love and forgive, trusting the Goodness That Is, is unfailing.
I am loving you and me,
Betty Lue
PS
Yesterday was a business success meeting for the Center!
At the beginning of the meeting, I asked to be patient.
So everything that makes me impatient showed up for healing!
Mercury in Retrograde Jan. 29 for 3 weeks plus some?
Every “gazoobie” showing up for healing?
Opportunities to heal the “yucky” stuff and grow the Goodness!
For me “IMPATIENCE” is my area of needed work.
I am patient with my impatience.
I can use my impatience to show me where I am attached.
I can value the insights I get from being impatient.
I forgive the judgments that create my impatience.
I can acknowledge the unseen and withheld communications of the past.
I am willing to see how fast I choose to move and change, conceive and achieve.
I am aware when I need to rest and nurture myself by the impatience I feel.
“My patience with my brother is my patience with myself.” From ACIM
And I would never let myself get away with the stuff I perceive from others. Ha, Ha!
All is all I am patient with my impatience.
I recognize God, the Spirit of Goodness, within me will use everything for Good at my request.
And so it is that I request this day to be one of rest and renewal, forgiveness and trust.
I appreciate my willingness to let go and let Goodness prevail in the Love We Are as One.
Let it be what it is, recognizing only Love is real.
All else is temporary illusion.
My consistent willingness to love and forgive, trusting the Goodness That Is, is unfailing.
I am loving you and me,
Betty Lue
PS
Yesterday was a business success meeting for the Center!
At the beginning of the meeting, I asked to be patient.
So everything that makes me impatient showed up for healing!
- Where are you learning and growing, healing and forgiving?
- What can you do to be more gentle and kind, taking impeccable care of you?
- What works for you when you get stuck in an emotional pit or mental block or physical pain?
- Where to you turn when you forget Who You Are and Why You Are Here?
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Keys to Successful Partnerships
At home and in the workplace, as volunteers and paid employees, we have invitations and opportunities to partner with others.
When you have positive experiences, you can build on your successes.
With negative or failed experiences, we we may quit.
Remember: Wherever two or more are joined, there all things can work together for the Good of All.
What do you experience when you prepare a beautiful and bountiful meal with someone?
What do you experience when you share a living space with one or more people?
What have you experience when you work on a project with a team of volunteers?
What have you successfully completed with the cooperation of others/
Successes build greater success.
Failure often leads to doubt and reluctance in future partnered endeavors.
For future success, after forgiveness of past experiences, here are some keys for you.
Remember, these partnerships include, marriage, families, volunteering, working together and more.
Five Keys for Successful Relationships
Joining:
Find a common vision or goal. The higher the desired outcome, the more likely you will find joining.
Honesty:
Be willing to be open and hold no judgments. Secrets block energy and engage suspicion and act of trust.
Equality:
Give and receive the best you have at all times. Teach and learn from one another.
Commitment:
Be committed to the highest and best for each of the partners. Make only win-win decisions.
Responsibility:
Take impeccable care of yourself, so you are able to respond every need. Be able to respond.
Partnerships work to uncover the doubt, resistance, fears and failures.
The blocks to trust and freedom are overcome with a willingness to forgive the past and be present.
Trust and Freedom are the spiritual ingredients to keep the partnership moving toward success for all.
Loving you as my partner in life with trust and freedom,
Betty Lue
When you have positive experiences, you can build on your successes.
With negative or failed experiences, we we may quit.
Remember: Wherever two or more are joined, there all things can work together for the Good of All.
What do you experience when you prepare a beautiful and bountiful meal with someone?
What do you experience when you share a living space with one or more people?
What have you experience when you work on a project with a team of volunteers?
What have you successfully completed with the cooperation of others/
Successes build greater success.
Failure often leads to doubt and reluctance in future partnered endeavors.
For future success, after forgiveness of past experiences, here are some keys for you.
Remember, these partnerships include, marriage, families, volunteering, working together and more.
Five Keys for Successful Relationships
Joining:
Find a common vision or goal. The higher the desired outcome, the more likely you will find joining.
Honesty:
Be willing to be open and hold no judgments. Secrets block energy and engage suspicion and act of trust.
Equality:
Give and receive the best you have at all times. Teach and learn from one another.
Commitment:
Be committed to the highest and best for each of the partners. Make only win-win decisions.
Responsibility:
Take impeccable care of yourself, so you are able to respond every need. Be able to respond.
Partnerships work to uncover the doubt, resistance, fears and failures.
The blocks to trust and freedom are overcome with a willingness to forgive the past and be present.
Trust and Freedom are the spiritual ingredients to keep the partnership moving toward success for all.
Loving you as my partner in life with trust and freedom,
Betty Lue
Friday, February 01, 2008
Adversity or Prosperity?
The ancient ones have said, “In times of adversity, cultivate yourself.
In times of prosperity, help the world.”
And so it is, that we commit to do our work.
There are changing seasons and situations and all require consciousness and clarity to respond rightly.
When we are committed to learn form life and contribute to life, we look forward to our response.
When we are open and willing, we are strengthened by the challenges and blessed by the gifts.
To be with life is flow with no attachment or complaint.
To act on life is active manipulation with controlled achievement and often disappointment.
To be acted on by life is passive entertainment, procrastination, laziness and reactive victimization.
Are we teaching our children and society to sit and be entertained, to be passive observers?
Are we learning from TV, video and the media that life is a game which matters only on a flat screen?
Are we ready to face life as though all life and every response and interaction matters?
Life is a gift of education and inspiration when we show up, pay attention and express our Truth.
I enjoy and bless all of life,
It is that which I Am.
I am here to clear the fear and celebrate what really Is,
Betty Lue
In times of prosperity, help the world.”
And so it is, that we commit to do our work.
There are changing seasons and situations and all require consciousness and clarity to respond rightly.
When we are committed to learn form life and contribute to life, we look forward to our response.
When we are open and willing, we are strengthened by the challenges and blessed by the gifts.
To be with life is flow with no attachment or complaint.
To act on life is active manipulation with controlled achievement and often disappointment.
To be acted on by life is passive entertainment, procrastination, laziness and reactive victimization.
Are we teaching our children and society to sit and be entertained, to be passive observers?
Are we learning from TV, video and the media that life is a game which matters only on a flat screen?
Are we ready to face life as though all life and every response and interaction matters?
Life is a gift of education and inspiration when we show up, pay attention and express our Truth.
I enjoy and bless all of life,
It is that which I Am.
I am here to clear the fear and celebrate what really Is,
Betty Lue
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