To be healthy, we must take impeccable care of our mind, body and Spirit.
Like a three legged stool, if any one of the aspects of life is neglected the whole Self is compromised.
To care for ourselves with holistic consciousness, we must honor the highest function of each element.
In a recent Sunday School class, I was given a simply model for high level Wellness.
Spiritually, in our highest state we are filled with delight, bliss and lasting Joy and contentment.
Mentally, in its highest state the mind is open and filled with Light and loving images and words.
Physically, in its highest state, the body serves and contributes, communicating Love to All.
When all aspects of the Self are functioning well, we are alive, enthusiastic and in Love with Life.
The form in which our physical service takes is guided by the mind’s vision and inner calling.
The body is in service of the mind that serves Spirit.
Where we are inspired and mentally in agreement, everything is possible.
When we are serving with joy and love, we are at peace.
No matter the apparent limitations in the physical realm of comparison,
the mind guided by the Spirit will always find what is a blessing to ourselves and others.
And so it is, we can be assured that a life of giving our best will be blessed.
We are free to serve a life of contribution and giving or a life of scarcity and withholding.
Each yields its only unique experience for better or worse.
When I find myself not feeling up to par, I merely check in with each aspect of Self to find where I have stepped away from the Highest Good. When I realign with Joy in my Spirit and Love in my mind, then the body can serve in the ways that benefit everyone, including myself.
Life is for Giving.
You are the Gift.
It is in giving your Self that you realize the Gift that You Are.
Everyone has a healing and higher Purpose.
First we are called to discover our True Nature.
Then we take impeccable care of our Authentic Self.
In this we reclaim, confidence and inner Happiness and Peace.
With attunement and integrity, we can know our Purpose and Calling.
As we encourage and support ourselves in living the Truth for us, we are whole, happy and free.
Life works.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Work and Play
Work and Play are the same to me.
Life is a playground of opportunity to learn and grow, to serve and know we are creating our experience.
Whether I am “working” or “playing”, creating or relaxing, as the world defines it, I am a happy learner.
In my reality, I fully and freely experience all life activities as my conscious choice.
I am free to choose to work or to play.
I am free to have fun or despair.
I am free to enjoy or resent.
I am free to learn or to ignore.
I am free to be responsible or to be a victim of my circumstances.
I am free to choose the timing, the environment and the associations I want.
I am free to allow others to define me and my choices.
I am free to live in the past or in the future and forgo the opportunities right now.
This freedom stuff is a responsibility that I can only experience if I am awake and willing.
With freedom of choice I recognize that it is only fear and judgment that restrict me.
With consciousness I know that I am allowing externals to control my mind and my choices.
With the realization that no one and nothing can harm me unless I allow it, I am free to choose.
Ahhhh! So now I am aware that when people respond to my life choices—full of good stuff, some call work, they are reflecting on their own choices, duties, obligations, fears and judgments.
Others can only be able to understand at the level of awareness they have in their own life experience.
I can respond to others questions, comments and judgments answering their Real questions.
Am I as happy as I seem to be doing all that I do?
My life is an open field that I choose each day.
I use every moment in a way that is meaningful and productive to me.
By living each moment fully, I am fulfilling my purpose which keeps me happy and enthused.
I love to use the wind to teach and inspire me.
I enjoy reality TV to observe all the diverse ways human psyche’s respond and react.
I love the lessons in ACIM because it keeps me on my toes in being response-able.
I am strengthened, empowered and clear when I stay fully conscious.
Life works FOR me, when I do the work within me.
Keep my mind clean and clear to hear that which benefits All.
I am called to a life of joyful service and contribution and so it is.
Waking, sleeping, laughing or weeping, I am One with All.
Loving my life, just the way it is.
Betty Lue
Do you have the life you choose?
What have you allowed to limit you?
Are you willing to undo of past choices and choose again?
Purpose Exercise
To bring your purpose to life, you need to make a declaration of your values and describe the things, people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
List 5 answers under each set of questions.
What do I love to do?
What makes me the happiest?
What is my secret ambition?
What has given me the most satisfaction in the past?
What excites me about life?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What am I good at?
What have others told me I was good at?
In what areas of life have I excelled?
What are some of my strengths?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What is important to me?
What would I be willing to sacrifice for?
What do I stand for?
What would I commit myself for regardless of the obstacles?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What was I born to do?
Where in life can I make a difference?
What unique opportunities have been placed in my path?
What specifically does God want me to do?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
Based on the answers above, develop a short paragraph outlining your purpose.
Take the three top priorities from the four areas to which you just committed answers.
Construct a statement that explains what you are beginning to sense in your purpose.
What is important is to commit to something in writing.
Your purpose can be anything you want it to be and it can include anything that is important to you.
My Purpose Statement:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Life is a playground of opportunity to learn and grow, to serve and know we are creating our experience.
Whether I am “working” or “playing”, creating or relaxing, as the world defines it, I am a happy learner.
In my reality, I fully and freely experience all life activities as my conscious choice.
I am free to choose to work or to play.
I am free to have fun or despair.
I am free to enjoy or resent.
I am free to learn or to ignore.
I am free to be responsible or to be a victim of my circumstances.
I am free to choose the timing, the environment and the associations I want.
I am free to allow others to define me and my choices.
I am free to live in the past or in the future and forgo the opportunities right now.
This freedom stuff is a responsibility that I can only experience if I am awake and willing.
With freedom of choice I recognize that it is only fear and judgment that restrict me.
With consciousness I know that I am allowing externals to control my mind and my choices.
With the realization that no one and nothing can harm me unless I allow it, I am free to choose.
Ahhhh! So now I am aware that when people respond to my life choices—full of good stuff, some call work, they are reflecting on their own choices, duties, obligations, fears and judgments.
Others can only be able to understand at the level of awareness they have in their own life experience.
I can respond to others questions, comments and judgments answering their Real questions.
Am I as happy as I seem to be doing all that I do?
My life is an open field that I choose each day.
I use every moment in a way that is meaningful and productive to me.
By living each moment fully, I am fulfilling my purpose which keeps me happy and enthused.
I love to use the wind to teach and inspire me.
I enjoy reality TV to observe all the diverse ways human psyche’s respond and react.
I love the lessons in ACIM because it keeps me on my toes in being response-able.
I am strengthened, empowered and clear when I stay fully conscious.
Life works FOR me, when I do the work within me.
Keep my mind clean and clear to hear that which benefits All.
I am called to a life of joyful service and contribution and so it is.
Waking, sleeping, laughing or weeping, I am One with All.
Loving my life, just the way it is.
Betty Lue
Do you have the life you choose?
What have you allowed to limit you?
Are you willing to undo of past choices and choose again?
Purpose Exercise
To bring your purpose to life, you need to make a declaration of your values and describe the things, people, attitudes and objectives that are important to you. This is a quick exercise to help you uncover your purpose.
List 5 answers under each set of questions.
What do I love to do?
What makes me the happiest?
What is my secret ambition?
What has given me the most satisfaction in the past?
What excites me about life?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What am I good at?
What have others told me I was good at?
In what areas of life have I excelled?
What are some of my strengths?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What is important to me?
What would I be willing to sacrifice for?
What do I stand for?
What would I commit myself for regardless of the obstacles?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
What was I born to do?
Where in life can I make a difference?
What unique opportunities have been placed in my path?
What specifically does God want me to do?
1 _________________________________________
2 _________________________________________
3 _________________________________________
4 _________________________________________
5 _________________________________________
Based on the answers above, develop a short paragraph outlining your purpose.
Take the three top priorities from the four areas to which you just committed answers.
Construct a statement that explains what you are beginning to sense in your purpose.
What is important is to commit to something in writing.
Your purpose can be anything you want it to be and it can include anything that is important to you.
My Purpose Statement:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Created Whole
Robert and I wrote a song 20+ years ago “I am as God created me, whole and happy and free.”
Indeed the spiritual logic is the love begets itself. And perfection creates perfectly. God, the All Good, All Loving, All Present and All Powerful can create nothing less than itself. So how could we have wandered so far from this truth?
Imagine that humanity was so busy correcting perfection that it lost sight of the Perfect.
Imagine that parents so consumed with trying to make sure their child was OK, they imagined not OK.
In our imagination, our creative power, we can conceive and believe in what is wrong.
In our mind, our place of vision, we can buy into thoughts of evil and sin, and believe them into being.
If we keep looking for what is broken, we will make up brokenness.
If we keep trying to perfect what is already perfect, we will believe in imperfection.
If we tell a child they are stupid or clumsy, they will believe us and often act out those beliefs.
If we treat others in a fearful and defensive manner, we may convince them they are to be feared.
What we conceive and believe, we can achieve.
This works for the Good and for mistakes as well.
When we imagine there will be mistakes and believe it is true, it will be. (Self-fulfilling prophecy)
When we fear sickness, accident, injustice and difficulties will occur, they will surely arise.
Let’s turn it all around………
Look for miracles of Love and healing, joy and creation, beauty and Goodness.
Look for instant healing and amazing “impossible feats” of courage, adventure and limitlessness.
Look for the Good and Godliness in You and those around You.
Let’s raise our children and grandchildren by believing in their innate Goodness and Love.
Let’s model joy, appreciation and open-mindedness.
Let’s seek words and deeds that teach our world to be whole and happy and free once more.
Let’s go for a place where freedom and trust are natural again and life is fun, safe and easy.
I believe we can change our life experience and those around us one at a time.
I believe we are touching and teaching everyone everywhere when we simply remember.
I believe each one of us is a miracle of God’s Love and the Presence of unlimited Good Now.
I believe life is our time to remember and reclaim the Love and Goodness in which we are created.
I believe in You.
I believe you are whole.
I believe it is when we join in the Truth that we awaken.
I believe you are free to be All You Can Be right here and right now.
I am Loving YOU,
Betty Lue
Let’s teach everyone they are created whole and happy and free.
Indeed the spiritual logic is the love begets itself. And perfection creates perfectly. God, the All Good, All Loving, All Present and All Powerful can create nothing less than itself. So how could we have wandered so far from this truth?
Imagine that humanity was so busy correcting perfection that it lost sight of the Perfect.
Imagine that parents so consumed with trying to make sure their child was OK, they imagined not OK.
In our imagination, our creative power, we can conceive and believe in what is wrong.
In our mind, our place of vision, we can buy into thoughts of evil and sin, and believe them into being.
If we keep looking for what is broken, we will make up brokenness.
If we keep trying to perfect what is already perfect, we will believe in imperfection.
If we tell a child they are stupid or clumsy, they will believe us and often act out those beliefs.
If we treat others in a fearful and defensive manner, we may convince them they are to be feared.
What we conceive and believe, we can achieve.
This works for the Good and for mistakes as well.
When we imagine there will be mistakes and believe it is true, it will be. (Self-fulfilling prophecy)
When we fear sickness, accident, injustice and difficulties will occur, they will surely arise.
Let’s turn it all around………
Look for miracles of Love and healing, joy and creation, beauty and Goodness.
Look for instant healing and amazing “impossible feats” of courage, adventure and limitlessness.
Look for the Good and Godliness in You and those around You.
Let’s raise our children and grandchildren by believing in their innate Goodness and Love.
Let’s model joy, appreciation and open-mindedness.
Let’s seek words and deeds that teach our world to be whole and happy and free once more.
Let’s go for a place where freedom and trust are natural again and life is fun, safe and easy.
I believe we can change our life experience and those around us one at a time.
I believe we are touching and teaching everyone everywhere when we simply remember.
I believe each one of us is a miracle of God’s Love and the Presence of unlimited Good Now.
I believe life is our time to remember and reclaim the Love and Goodness in which we are created.
I believe in You.
I believe you are whole.
I believe it is when we join in the Truth that we awaken.
I believe you are free to be All You Can Be right here and right now.
I am Loving YOU,
Betty Lue
Let’s teach everyone they are created whole and happy and free.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Mistakes
I made a mistake which I can still feel in my body/mind.
Usually when we make mistakes, we feel guilty and try to fix the blame elsewhere.
I can feel that something is not right, because I keep replaying it over and over in my mind.
How I respond to the mistake I made is key to how I respond to others.
When the same thing keeps coming up on our outer screen or inner screen, it is calling for healing.
Healing is Forgiveness = Erasing it all with love and seeing the intrinsic gift or blessing underneath.
I give the whole experience to Holy Spirit, the energy of Healing and Joy, to be undone.
I release my judgments of myself, to be renewed with enthusiasm, trust and freedom.
I know when I have made a mistake because I am not at peace.
I know when I have misunderstood because I am hurting or upset.
I know when I have withheld Love because I am afraid or defensive.
I know when I have disconnected from the Joy within because I am unhappy.
When I see that I have misperceived and reacted with a lack of Love, I know there is a call for Love.
First Step is Awareness.
I am aware that something is not “right” with me.
Second Step is Acknowledgment.
I confess my imperfections and mistakes, my lack of understanding, my upset, my withhold of Love.
Third Step is Forgiveness.
I forgive myself for any place where I forgot to Love. Love me, Love others, Love All That Is.
This forgiveness process can be lengthy, because every mistake or upset is always a past similar that may have been repeated in some form many many times in a lifetime.
My work is to simply let go with Love.
Some would say, Give it to God.
Give it All to Love to be healed and revealed.
Fourth Step is Listening in the silence.
After forgiving everything and everyone, including ourselves, there is a quiet and inner peace.
It is here in the “void”, a place of openness and peace that we can here the Voice within guiding us.
Fifth Step is Affirmation.
What we affirm it for the highest Good, the will of God, responding with Love.
Sixth Step is Acceptance.
When we accept responsibility for giving Love with open-mindedness and trust, we experience Love.
Seventh Step is Appreciation.
It is here we appreciate ourselves and our willingness. We appreciate the outcome of peace and the return to Love. We appreciate our life of letting go and learning. We appreciate how awesome we can correct out mistakes without fear or reprisal to experience a renewal of Love and Joy and Peace.
In this moment I can feel how perfect it is to make mistakes in order to know who to heal ourselves and learn from all our mistakes.
Blessings to us all Perfectly Imperfect Beings with Everything Used for Our Good,
Betty Lue
A little girl and her puppy.
Usually when we make mistakes, we feel guilty and try to fix the blame elsewhere.
I can feel that something is not right, because I keep replaying it over and over in my mind.
How I respond to the mistake I made is key to how I respond to others.
When the same thing keeps coming up on our outer screen or inner screen, it is calling for healing.
Healing is Forgiveness = Erasing it all with love and seeing the intrinsic gift or blessing underneath.
I give the whole experience to Holy Spirit, the energy of Healing and Joy, to be undone.
I release my judgments of myself, to be renewed with enthusiasm, trust and freedom.
I know when I have made a mistake because I am not at peace.
I know when I have misunderstood because I am hurting or upset.
I know when I have withheld Love because I am afraid or defensive.
I know when I have disconnected from the Joy within because I am unhappy.
When I see that I have misperceived and reacted with a lack of Love, I know there is a call for Love.
First Step is Awareness.
I am aware that something is not “right” with me.
Second Step is Acknowledgment.
I confess my imperfections and mistakes, my lack of understanding, my upset, my withhold of Love.
Third Step is Forgiveness.
I forgive myself for any place where I forgot to Love. Love me, Love others, Love All That Is.
This forgiveness process can be lengthy, because every mistake or upset is always a past similar that may have been repeated in some form many many times in a lifetime.
My work is to simply let go with Love.
Some would say, Give it to God.
Give it All to Love to be healed and revealed.
Fourth Step is Listening in the silence.
After forgiving everything and everyone, including ourselves, there is a quiet and inner peace.
It is here in the “void”, a place of openness and peace that we can here the Voice within guiding us.
Fifth Step is Affirmation.
What we affirm it for the highest Good, the will of God, responding with Love.
Sixth Step is Acceptance.
When we accept responsibility for giving Love with open-mindedness and trust, we experience Love.
Seventh Step is Appreciation.
It is here we appreciate ourselves and our willingness. We appreciate the outcome of peace and the return to Love. We appreciate our life of letting go and learning. We appreciate how awesome we can correct out mistakes without fear or reprisal to experience a renewal of Love and Joy and Peace.
In this moment I can feel how perfect it is to make mistakes in order to know who to heal ourselves and learn from all our mistakes.
Blessings to us all Perfectly Imperfect Beings with Everything Used for Our Good,
Betty Lue
A little girl and her puppy.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Love Is
Love is who you are.
You were created by love for the holy purpose of loving.
When you are not loving, you have simply forgotten who you are and your purpose.
This is our purpose in being here…to remember our purpose, our true identity.
Life gives us infinite opportunities to Love.
We practice learning to forgive and love again.
We experience lots of learning about withholding our love.
We justify and defend our right to not love.
However, we feel guilty when we are not loving.
We become afraid when we are not loving.
We feel weak and vulnerable when we do not Love.
Love is our natural state and when we are not in our natural state we feel disconnected.
So what is there to do, but Love.
Love without conditions.
Love whether we want to or not.
Love no matter what.
In loving consistently, without end, we discover Love creates happiness.
Love strengthens us and fills us with enjoyment.
Love is creative and expressive.
Love is freeing and inspiring.
So why not?
Just try it for a day or an hour……Just experiment with simply loving.
Then withhold love for a day or an hour and notice how you feel.
Once you realize it is the life force and the only way to feel really good, you will choose it daily.
Loving you in your loving…..
Betty Lue
LOVE
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference
How deeply seated may be the trouble,
How hopeless the outlook,
How muddled the tangle,
How great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest
and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
You were created by love for the holy purpose of loving.
When you are not loving, you have simply forgotten who you are and your purpose.
This is our purpose in being here…to remember our purpose, our true identity.
Life gives us infinite opportunities to Love.
We practice learning to forgive and love again.
We experience lots of learning about withholding our love.
We justify and defend our right to not love.
However, we feel guilty when we are not loving.
We become afraid when we are not loving.
We feel weak and vulnerable when we do not Love.
Love is our natural state and when we are not in our natural state we feel disconnected.
So what is there to do, but Love.
Love without conditions.
Love whether we want to or not.
Love no matter what.
In loving consistently, without end, we discover Love creates happiness.
Love strengthens us and fills us with enjoyment.
Love is creative and expressive.
Love is freeing and inspiring.
So why not?
Just try it for a day or an hour……Just experiment with simply loving.
Then withhold love for a day or an hour and notice how you feel.
Once you realize it is the life force and the only way to feel really good, you will choose it daily.
Loving you in your loving…..
Betty Lue
LOVE
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference
How deeply seated may be the trouble,
How hopeless the outlook,
How muddled the tangle,
How great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest
and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Supporting One Another
Supporting is Loving.
The best support is unconditional Love.
The best support is “I love you no matter what.”
The best support is an acknowledgement that no matter what you will not quit on Loving.
If someone in your life appears to be asleep at the wheel, having difficulty with coping, unaware, obnoxious, hurting, frustrated and angry, they are neglecting to support themselves with Love.
Therefore it is the work of the most conscious one to be supportive and openly loving.
If both people are feeling unsupported and there is no one conscious enough to choose for love, it is the response-ability of both parties to support and love themselves.
Loving requires little except the realization that Love is enough.
Loving requires a genuine desire to create a safe, fun and easy environment for yourself and the other to heal and grow, to be happy and fulfilled, to succeed and prosper.
When we come to realize that the other’s peace is our peace, the other’s happiness is our happiness, the other’s fulfillment is ours, we will give up the habit of withholding love.
Withholding Love is a learned decision which endangers everyone and may be caused and create fear, anger, loss of self, guilt, blame, withdrawal, control, martyrdom, righteousness and a myriad of other emotional reactions and defensive justifications.
Withholding Love never works,
Withholding Love is hurtful to everyone and always fails in the end.
Withholding Love is an ineffective strategy.
Loving is simple.
Loving is safe, fun and easy.
Loving works.
So why not give up the games and simply give it a try.
LOVE NO MATTER WHAT.
Blessings of Love for each and everyone of us,
Betty Lue
The best support is unconditional Love.
The best support is “I love you no matter what.”
The best support is an acknowledgement that no matter what you will not quit on Loving.
If someone in your life appears to be asleep at the wheel, having difficulty with coping, unaware, obnoxious, hurting, frustrated and angry, they are neglecting to support themselves with Love.
Therefore it is the work of the most conscious one to be supportive and openly loving.
If both people are feeling unsupported and there is no one conscious enough to choose for love, it is the response-ability of both parties to support and love themselves.
Loving requires little except the realization that Love is enough.
Loving requires a genuine desire to create a safe, fun and easy environment for yourself and the other to heal and grow, to be happy and fulfilled, to succeed and prosper.
When we come to realize that the other’s peace is our peace, the other’s happiness is our happiness, the other’s fulfillment is ours, we will give up the habit of withholding love.
Withholding Love is a learned decision which endangers everyone and may be caused and create fear, anger, loss of self, guilt, blame, withdrawal, control, martyrdom, righteousness and a myriad of other emotional reactions and defensive justifications.
Withholding Love never works,
Withholding Love is hurtful to everyone and always fails in the end.
Withholding Love is an ineffective strategy.
Loving is simple.
Loving is safe, fun and easy.
Loving works.
So why not give up the games and simply give it a try.
LOVE NO MATTER WHAT.
Blessings of Love for each and everyone of us,
Betty Lue
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Believe In Your Self
Do you believe in yourself?
Do you believe you can do anything?
Do you trust your choices?
Do you count on yourself to know what is best for you?
Do you believe others know what is best for you?
Do you have more confidence in others than in yourself?
Do you doubt yourself more than you trust yourself?
Do you second guess your choices with “yes, but….”?
When we have grown up with programming from adults who doubt themselves, they doubt us.
When we live with others who question our decisions and don’t trust us, we learn to doubt ourselves.
When we live in a world that relies on outside authorities and experts, we stop listening within.
When we lack faith in ourselves and distrust our choices, we lack confidence and self esteem.
Learning to quiet outer voices is key to listening within.
Forgiving the impact of others doubt and fears is essential for trusting our inner voice.
Learning to let go of fears and guilt is needed to rely on our intuition to guide us.
Believing we can be and do and have what is highest and best for us is the way to be successful.
We can forgive our past programming.
We can forgive the limiting influences in our lives.
We can erase ways we play a part to fit in with others.
We can undo what is no longer true for us.
Life is a process of releasing what no longer serves our highest Good.
Life is a journey to recognize where we have been unfaithful to our calling.
Life is an adventure to discover what it the Highest and Best and what is not.
Life is a sacred opportunity to heal and grow into all that we are meant to be.
So let us not forget our sacred job and holy purpose is to love our whole Selves into fully Being.
Joining with all those who seek to grow and blossom in this glorious garden of unlimited Beauty,
Betty Lue
Do you believe you can do anything?
Do you trust your choices?
Do you count on yourself to know what is best for you?
Do you believe others know what is best for you?
Do you have more confidence in others than in yourself?
Do you doubt yourself more than you trust yourself?
Do you second guess your choices with “yes, but….”?
When we have grown up with programming from adults who doubt themselves, they doubt us.
When we live with others who question our decisions and don’t trust us, we learn to doubt ourselves.
When we live in a world that relies on outside authorities and experts, we stop listening within.
When we lack faith in ourselves and distrust our choices, we lack confidence and self esteem.
Learning to quiet outer voices is key to listening within.
Forgiving the impact of others doubt and fears is essential for trusting our inner voice.
Learning to let go of fears and guilt is needed to rely on our intuition to guide us.
Believing we can be and do and have what is highest and best for us is the way to be successful.
We can forgive our past programming.
We can forgive the limiting influences in our lives.
We can erase ways we play a part to fit in with others.
We can undo what is no longer true for us.
Life is a process of releasing what no longer serves our highest Good.
Life is a journey to recognize where we have been unfaithful to our calling.
Life is an adventure to discover what it the Highest and Best and what is not.
Life is a sacred opportunity to heal and grow into all that we are meant to be.
So let us not forget our sacred job and holy purpose is to love our whole Selves into fully Being.
Joining with all those who seek to grow and blossom in this glorious garden of unlimited Beauty,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Freedom and Trust
We will trust freedom when we are able and willing to be responsible.
We will trust our own freedom to choose when we are willing to be responsible for our choices.
We will trust others’ freedom to choose when we stop taking responsibility for others’ choices.
We all learn best by experiencing the natural consequences of our choices.
When we become the fixers and care-takers for others lives, we take away the opportunity to learn.
When we meddle, advise and interfere with another’s free will, we blur their ability to see for themselves.
When we nag, patronize and scrutinize what others choose to do, they often are distracted and give attention to us and not to what they are choosing and doing.
When we let go and let others learn (without doing harm to themselves or others), we love them by giving them freedom to choose and trust in the learning.
Protecting others (young and old) from the learning process comes from our own fear.
Protecting others from the natural exploration in life teaches them to be afraid.
Protecting others from life’s challenges thwarts freedom to grow and their own self trust.
Protecting others from the natural consequences of their action or non-action limits learning.
What we are called to do is remember love is freedom and trust.
Fear creates restriction and rules and suspicion, doubt and distrust.
We can forgive ourselves for being afraid for others and for ourselves.
We must realize where we have learned from all our mistakes without interference and distraction.
Life is for learning.
Life is for letting go of fear.
Life is for remembering.
Life is for freeing ourselves and others to be happy.
Let us let go where we were holding others dependent and hostage to our opinions and ideas.
Let us let go of our fear that others will be hurt unless they choose our way to do their lives.
Let us let go of judgments of what is right and what is wrong and focus on our own lives.
Let us let go and trust that we all are here to learn, the hard way or the easy way.
The more we focus on the outcomes of our actions and words without distraction, the faster we learn.
The more sensitive we become to the power of our thoughts, words and deeds, the better we choose.
The more honest we are with living our own truth impeccably, the more we can choose again easily.
The more forgiving we are of all seeming mistakes, the more we realize they all have learning value.
Bless us all for minding our own business first, last and always,
Betty Lue
We will trust our own freedom to choose when we are willing to be responsible for our choices.
We will trust others’ freedom to choose when we stop taking responsibility for others’ choices.
We all learn best by experiencing the natural consequences of our choices.
When we become the fixers and care-takers for others lives, we take away the opportunity to learn.
When we meddle, advise and interfere with another’s free will, we blur their ability to see for themselves.
When we nag, patronize and scrutinize what others choose to do, they often are distracted and give attention to us and not to what they are choosing and doing.
When we let go and let others learn (without doing harm to themselves or others), we love them by giving them freedom to choose and trust in the learning.
Protecting others (young and old) from the learning process comes from our own fear.
Protecting others from the natural exploration in life teaches them to be afraid.
Protecting others from life’s challenges thwarts freedom to grow and their own self trust.
Protecting others from the natural consequences of their action or non-action limits learning.
What we are called to do is remember love is freedom and trust.
Fear creates restriction and rules and suspicion, doubt and distrust.
We can forgive ourselves for being afraid for others and for ourselves.
We must realize where we have learned from all our mistakes without interference and distraction.
Life is for learning.
Life is for letting go of fear.
Life is for remembering.
Life is for freeing ourselves and others to be happy.
Let us let go where we were holding others dependent and hostage to our opinions and ideas.
Let us let go of our fear that others will be hurt unless they choose our way to do their lives.
Let us let go of judgments of what is right and what is wrong and focus on our own lives.
Let us let go and trust that we all are here to learn, the hard way or the easy way.
The more we focus on the outcomes of our actions and words without distraction, the faster we learn.
The more sensitive we become to the power of our thoughts, words and deeds, the better we choose.
The more honest we are with living our own truth impeccably, the more we can choose again easily.
The more forgiving we are of all seeming mistakes, the more we realize they all have learning value.
Bless us all for minding our own business first, last and always,
Betty Lue
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Dedication
Short and Sweet it is today.
We are off to dedicate our new sanctuary and sacred space for Unity on the Delta and the Center for Inspired Living.
Unity on the Delta is our Sunday Church Fellowship and Celebration!
Center for Inspired Living is our community outreach program which will offer counseling and coaching, educational and inspirational programs for families, couples, youth and children.
Our mission is to be Love in our world and we intend that we make our work visible and available.
Ask yourself what it is you are truly dedicated to.
What do you spend time and energy and money focused on every day?
Your health?
Your happiness.?
Your family’s well-being?
Looking Good?
Having money to spend?
The welfare of the nation?
The environment?
Your job achievements?
Getting ahead?
Serving Others?
The quality of your relationships?
Playing games and watching movies?
Keeping things clean and organized?
Paying bills and feeding your family?
Praying and spiritual practice?
Where you place your attention and intention, you yield results that feel good or feel shallow.
Take some time during this Spring of 2009 to look very closely at what you are planting in your consciousness the fertile fields of your Being. What you plant (seed ideas and visions, hope and dreams) with nurturing and nourishment (time, energy and attention) will grow into a rich harvest to last for the winter (later this year and in the years to come.)
Your Good Works will be supported by an Abundant Universe and Goodness that provides for the Good we do. Love what you do and you will feel Loved.
Joy energizes.
Peace creates rest and renewal.
Love inspires and bring nourishment for our soul.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
We are off to dedicate our new sanctuary and sacred space for Unity on the Delta and the Center for Inspired Living.
Unity on the Delta is our Sunday Church Fellowship and Celebration!
Center for Inspired Living is our community outreach program which will offer counseling and coaching, educational and inspirational programs for families, couples, youth and children.
Our mission is to be Love in our world and we intend that we make our work visible and available.
Ask yourself what it is you are truly dedicated to.
What do you spend time and energy and money focused on every day?
Your health?
Your happiness.?
Your family’s well-being?
Looking Good?
Having money to spend?
The welfare of the nation?
The environment?
Your job achievements?
Getting ahead?
Serving Others?
The quality of your relationships?
Playing games and watching movies?
Keeping things clean and organized?
Paying bills and feeding your family?
Praying and spiritual practice?
Where you place your attention and intention, you yield results that feel good or feel shallow.
Take some time during this Spring of 2009 to look very closely at what you are planting in your consciousness the fertile fields of your Being. What you plant (seed ideas and visions, hope and dreams) with nurturing and nourishment (time, energy and attention) will grow into a rich harvest to last for the winter (later this year and in the years to come.)
Your Good Works will be supported by an Abundant Universe and Goodness that provides for the Good we do. Love what you do and you will feel Loved.
Joy energizes.
Peace creates rest and renewal.
Love inspires and bring nourishment for our soul.
Loving you,
Betty Lue
Saturday, March 21, 2009
How to Pray
Everyone is a living prayer.
Every word of gratitude is a prayer.
Every act of kindness is a prayer.
Every work of generosity is a prayer.
Every creative thought is a prayer to the Universe.
Every respectful word is a prayer to humanity.
Every heartfelt service is a prayer to the Good of All.
Everything we think, say and do can be a prayerful contribution to God and all Good.
We all are loving reminders one to another.
We are all prayer partners as we look unto our spiritual family with a hope for Goodness for all.
We are all ministers of kind service as we reach out with contributions and a helping hand.
We merely wandered away from the natural life of Good Will for all life.
When we forget we are the ones doing the praying, we begin to search for someone else to do it.
When we forsake our inspired path of doing Good with miracles of love along the way, we feel alone.
When we lose our natural ways of giving thanks for each good thing we experience, we stop trusting.
When we go away from what fulfills our heart and keeps up awake to All Good, we become confused.
Life is our journey to forget or remember.
Life is a place of becoming a victim or being at choice.
Life is our way of strengthening our commitment to Love, our Natural State.
Life is our process of learning to let go of whatever is not True and is not loving.
It is all our choice.
Cursing or Praising?
Quitting or Saving?
Neglecting or contributing?
Judging or Accepting?
Demanding or Requesting?
Hating or Accepting?
Fearing or Trusting?
Doubting or Believing?
You see, humanity made up our own mad journey and now we need to forgive ourselves (through all time)
and return Home to a Path of Love and Goodness and Prayer.
So there…..
Loving you as I will always do, Ever True.
Betty Lue
That was fun!
Every word of gratitude is a prayer.
Every act of kindness is a prayer.
Every work of generosity is a prayer.
Every creative thought is a prayer to the Universe.
Every respectful word is a prayer to humanity.
Every heartfelt service is a prayer to the Good of All.
Everything we think, say and do can be a prayerful contribution to God and all Good.
We all are loving reminders one to another.
We are all prayer partners as we look unto our spiritual family with a hope for Goodness for all.
We are all ministers of kind service as we reach out with contributions and a helping hand.
We merely wandered away from the natural life of Good Will for all life.
When we forget we are the ones doing the praying, we begin to search for someone else to do it.
When we forsake our inspired path of doing Good with miracles of love along the way, we feel alone.
When we lose our natural ways of giving thanks for each good thing we experience, we stop trusting.
When we go away from what fulfills our heart and keeps up awake to All Good, we become confused.
Life is our journey to forget or remember.
Life is a place of becoming a victim or being at choice.
Life is our way of strengthening our commitment to Love, our Natural State.
Life is our process of learning to let go of whatever is not True and is not loving.
It is all our choice.
Cursing or Praising?
Quitting or Saving?
Neglecting or contributing?
Judging or Accepting?
Demanding or Requesting?
Hating or Accepting?
Fearing or Trusting?
Doubting or Believing?
You see, humanity made up our own mad journey and now we need to forgive ourselves (through all time)
and return Home to a Path of Love and Goodness and Prayer.
So there…..
Loving you as I will always do, Ever True.
Betty Lue
That was fun!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Spring is Here
What creates a fun, safe and easy life?
What inspires a life that is filled with joy, effectiveness and celebration?
What gives life meaning and a reason for being?
What encourages faith in the future and a desire to do well?
Learn quickly from everyone and everything.
Mistakes are gifts of learning and can be valued.
Risk looking foolish in order to experience novelty.
Attract people who are unique and provide different points of view.
Forgive as fast as you are able, letting go of all negative thoughts.
Foster positive thinking with association with positive people.
Give yourself and your talents generously appreciating the giving.
Feed yourself the balanced diet you require with work and play, relaxation and creativity.
Acknowledge your differences by really knowing yourself and your preferences.
Spend each day in integrity with the best in you.
Support your mission in life by giving yourself the people, positions and possibilities you need.
Own your own areas of difficulty, avoidance, ignorance and preferences.
Be able to laugh at yourself and your world in all its irony and inconsistency.
Remember life is learning how to Love and respect you and then Love and respect others as well.
Relinquish the need to criticize, blame, hold resentments and regret.
Undo all unnecessary stuff, memories and fantasies.
Expect only that you will be provided with the Good you are called to give and do.
Know the richest gift in life is the gift of living consciously.
Value your life by giving it your full attention and intention.
Know you will be known by how you live and give more than by degrees, wealth and accolades.
Acknowledge that you are fully responsible for you, your thoughts, words and actions.
Be willing to take responsibility for your relationships, your environment and your finances.
Enjoy the learning that comes from every person and every situation.
Life is good when we treat it as the valuable gift of remembering to heal, learn, grow and give.
Blessings to each one of us for being willing to begin anew today and everyday!
Loving you and me and all life as One,
Betty Lue
What inspires a life that is filled with joy, effectiveness and celebration?
What gives life meaning and a reason for being?
What encourages faith in the future and a desire to do well?
Learn quickly from everyone and everything.
Mistakes are gifts of learning and can be valued.
Risk looking foolish in order to experience novelty.
Attract people who are unique and provide different points of view.
Forgive as fast as you are able, letting go of all negative thoughts.
Foster positive thinking with association with positive people.
Give yourself and your talents generously appreciating the giving.
Feed yourself the balanced diet you require with work and play, relaxation and creativity.
Acknowledge your differences by really knowing yourself and your preferences.
Spend each day in integrity with the best in you.
Support your mission in life by giving yourself the people, positions and possibilities you need.
Own your own areas of difficulty, avoidance, ignorance and preferences.
Be able to laugh at yourself and your world in all its irony and inconsistency.
Remember life is learning how to Love and respect you and then Love and respect others as well.
Relinquish the need to criticize, blame, hold resentments and regret.
Undo all unnecessary stuff, memories and fantasies.
Expect only that you will be provided with the Good you are called to give and do.
Know the richest gift in life is the gift of living consciously.
Value your life by giving it your full attention and intention.
Know you will be known by how you live and give more than by degrees, wealth and accolades.
Acknowledge that you are fully responsible for you, your thoughts, words and actions.
Be willing to take responsibility for your relationships, your environment and your finances.
Enjoy the learning that comes from every person and every situation.
Life is good when we treat it as the valuable gift of remembering to heal, learn, grow and give.
Blessings to each one of us for being willing to begin anew today and everyday!
Loving you and me and all life as One,
Betty Lue
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Spring Is Coming
Friday, March 20 at 4:44 AM PDT, Spring officially arrives.
Our weather is certainly letting us know she is here in California.
And the buds and blossoms on the trees are speaking loud and clear.
So what does Spring mean to you and me?
Time for renewal.
To being anew requires that we let go of the old.
To hang on to the way it was slows us down.
To be attached to the positive or negative past keeps us stuck.
To remember anything that does not lift and inspire delays and distracts us.
Time to plant the new seeds of opportunity and possibility.
To plant what is beautiful, good and holy.
To enjoy our vision and bless it with inspiration.
To appreciate what we want to increase and experience.
To honestly choose what is truly highest and best for us.
Time to do Spring cleaning.
Clean out unused stuff.
Forgive old resentments, fears and failures.
Undo whatever it no longer true for us.
Flush away any hurts we have allowed to limit us.
Time to complete the winter conservation and hibernation.
Make sure you have enough rest.
Make sure you have finished the work of acknowledgement and appreciation.
Make sure you have planned and prepared for the coming year with vision and faith.
Make sure you are filled with enthusiasm and confidence as you set out on a new adventure.
All things in due time.
If you are still in winter, wait to till the soil and plant your seeds.
If you need to heal and undo last year’s stuff, then take your tie to complete each task.
If you are not clear on the vision, be patient and wait for the light to dawn.
If you are still in winter, trust Spring will come in due time and be quiet with thanksgiving.
Life is a cycle and a circle of perfection.
To push the river or effort to become will not create success.
Take your time to observe the season of your soul and respect what is.
Always loving you and your creations of Spirit,
The blessings already are, so TRUST.
Betty Lue
Our weather is certainly letting us know she is here in California.
And the buds and blossoms on the trees are speaking loud and clear.
So what does Spring mean to you and me?
Time for renewal.
To being anew requires that we let go of the old.
To hang on to the way it was slows us down.
To be attached to the positive or negative past keeps us stuck.
To remember anything that does not lift and inspire delays and distracts us.
Time to plant the new seeds of opportunity and possibility.
To plant what is beautiful, good and holy.
To enjoy our vision and bless it with inspiration.
To appreciate what we want to increase and experience.
To honestly choose what is truly highest and best for us.
Time to do Spring cleaning.
Clean out unused stuff.
Forgive old resentments, fears and failures.
Undo whatever it no longer true for us.
Flush away any hurts we have allowed to limit us.
Time to complete the winter conservation and hibernation.
Make sure you have enough rest.
Make sure you have finished the work of acknowledgement and appreciation.
Make sure you have planned and prepared for the coming year with vision and faith.
Make sure you are filled with enthusiasm and confidence as you set out on a new adventure.
All things in due time.
If you are still in winter, wait to till the soil and plant your seeds.
If you need to heal and undo last year’s stuff, then take your tie to complete each task.
If you are not clear on the vision, be patient and wait for the light to dawn.
If you are still in winter, trust Spring will come in due time and be quiet with thanksgiving.
Life is a cycle and a circle of perfection.
To push the river or effort to become will not create success.
Take your time to observe the season of your soul and respect what is.
Always loving you and your creations of Spirit,
The blessings already are, so TRUST.
Betty Lue
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Your Life Is Working for You!
Life works just fine when we appreciate how fine it is.
Have you appreciated the weather today?
Whether rain or sunshine, wind or cold, it is always just what it needs to be.
Have you enjoyed the food you have eaten today?
Whether it is fast or slow food, organic or processed food, it will nourish you better with your enjoyment.
Have you listened to the sounds around you today?
Whether noisy or silent, loud or barely perceptible, it tells you that you can hear. What a blessing!
Have you respected the electricity, water and air you breathe today?
Whether you know it or not, it is a privilege to have these resources available to us.
Have you noticed the beauty of the colors and textures of nature, the coming of spring, the change of light?
What a wonderful gift of sight!
Have you observed the flavors of music available on TV, radio, I Pod and live?
What a joy to live with variety of opportunities.
Have you watched the many skin colors of all God’s Children?
While all unique, we are one amazing family, here to Love and care for One another!
What an amazing world we live in!
What a great life when we appreciate how great it is!
How can we not be happy with being here when we fully enjoy what we have?
Life is Good, when we view it with forgiving eyes.
Loving us all, no matter what we may do, say, or forget,
Betty Lue
Haiku poem by Chinese poet Do Hyun Choe:
Stillness is what creates love.
Movement is what creates life.
To be still
And still moving-
That is everything.
Have you appreciated the weather today?
Whether rain or sunshine, wind or cold, it is always just what it needs to be.
Have you enjoyed the food you have eaten today?
Whether it is fast or slow food, organic or processed food, it will nourish you better with your enjoyment.
Have you listened to the sounds around you today?
Whether noisy or silent, loud or barely perceptible, it tells you that you can hear. What a blessing!
Have you respected the electricity, water and air you breathe today?
Whether you know it or not, it is a privilege to have these resources available to us.
Have you noticed the beauty of the colors and textures of nature, the coming of spring, the change of light?
What a wonderful gift of sight!
Have you observed the flavors of music available on TV, radio, I Pod and live?
What a joy to live with variety of opportunities.
Have you watched the many skin colors of all God’s Children?
While all unique, we are one amazing family, here to Love and care for One another!
What an amazing world we live in!
What a great life when we appreciate how great it is!
How can we not be happy with being here when we fully enjoy what we have?
Life is Good, when we view it with forgiving eyes.
Loving us all, no matter what we may do, say, or forget,
Betty Lue
Haiku poem by Chinese poet Do Hyun Choe:
Stillness is what creates love.
Movement is what creates life.
To be still
And still moving-
That is everything.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Blessings In Abundance
Your Life is a blessing.
Everyone you encounter is a blessing.
Seeing with forgiveness is a blessing.
Wishing the best for yourself and others is a blessing.
Seeing your world with gratitude is a blessing.
Offering loving kindness is a blessing.
Welcoming folks with a smile is a blessing.
Being gentle with all life is a blessing.
Eating wisely and well is a blessing.
Caring for your pets and plants is a blessing.
Being a good steward of your thing is a blessing.
Using your money wisely with respect is a blessing.
Caring for your home is a blessing.
Treating your job with good work is a blessing.
Treating others with dignity is a blessing.
Taking time to enjoy life is a blessing.
Being good to your environment is a blessing.
Paying your bills on time is a blessing.
Communicating effectively is a blessing.
Remembering to love others is a blessing.
Everything we think and say and do is a blessing.
When we remember Love is Who We Are.
When we know we make all the difference in the world, we will honor the blessings and the blessed.
You see in the end and in the beginning, it is through our blessings that the world is blessed.
May you be the blessing that you are and know life is a gift in which we realize the creative gift we give.
Blessings to one and all,
Betty Lue
Everyone you encounter is a blessing.
Seeing with forgiveness is a blessing.
Wishing the best for yourself and others is a blessing.
Seeing your world with gratitude is a blessing.
Offering loving kindness is a blessing.
Welcoming folks with a smile is a blessing.
Being gentle with all life is a blessing.
Eating wisely and well is a blessing.
Caring for your pets and plants is a blessing.
Being a good steward of your thing is a blessing.
Using your money wisely with respect is a blessing.
Caring for your home is a blessing.
Treating your job with good work is a blessing.
Treating others with dignity is a blessing.
Taking time to enjoy life is a blessing.
Being good to your environment is a blessing.
Paying your bills on time is a blessing.
Communicating effectively is a blessing.
Remembering to love others is a blessing.
Everything we think and say and do is a blessing.
When we remember Love is Who We Are.
When we know we make all the difference in the world, we will honor the blessings and the blessed.
You see in the end and in the beginning, it is through our blessings that the world is blessed.
May you be the blessing that you are and know life is a gift in which we realize the creative gift we give.
Blessings to one and all,
Betty Lue
Sunday, March 15, 2009
To Have What You Want…..
To have what you want, you must have a vision or a picture of the experience you want to have.
When you do not hold a vision in your imagination, you will be at the effect of others and your world.
To have what you want, you must really want what you want.
To desire and have passion and energy will move you and move you around all obstacles.
To have what you want, you must believe you can have what you want.
To believe is to have faith and to know it is possible and you deserve to be happy and fulfilled.
To have what you want, you must commit to go the distance to have what you want.
Those who achieve what they conceive and believe never ever quit on themselves or their vision.
To have what you want, you must have a plan or strategy of staying on course and inspired.
Those who listen within to their forgiving heart and positive mind are flexible and adapt easily.
To have what you want, you must act with confidence and assurance that the outcome is clear.
Your confident actions tell the truth on your conviction and your certainty that you can have.
To have what you want, you must be appreciative of every step of the way, including “mistakes”.
Every seeming mistake or obstacle is the opportunity to make a course correction and to keep on purpose.
To have what you want…. Stay awake and on purpose looking toward fulfillment in every way.
Vision-------------------------See it.
Faith---------------------------Believe it.
Passion------------------------Desire it.
Commitment----------------Choose it.
Strategy-----------------------Plan on it.
Action-------------------------Just Do it.
Gratitude--------------------Appreciate it.
The problem with most of those who feel unfulfilled is:
They are looking backward at their own errors and the mistakes of others.
They are busy criticizing rather than appreciating.
They get stuck worrying and strategizing rather than acting with confidence.
They are planning for failure rather than assured of success.
They are convincing or threatening those around them with negative outcomes.
They rely on others who have failed or repeat history with their constant comparisons.
They are passive and allowing the current trends or mass consciousness to lead their choices.
They forget that Goodness and Kindness, Forgiveness and Love, must lead to succeed.
Loving all of us in having what we really want for the Good of All,
Betty Lue
When you do not hold a vision in your imagination, you will be at the effect of others and your world.
To have what you want, you must really want what you want.
To desire and have passion and energy will move you and move you around all obstacles.
To have what you want, you must believe you can have what you want.
To believe is to have faith and to know it is possible and you deserve to be happy and fulfilled.
To have what you want, you must commit to go the distance to have what you want.
Those who achieve what they conceive and believe never ever quit on themselves or their vision.
To have what you want, you must have a plan or strategy of staying on course and inspired.
Those who listen within to their forgiving heart and positive mind are flexible and adapt easily.
To have what you want, you must act with confidence and assurance that the outcome is clear.
Your confident actions tell the truth on your conviction and your certainty that you can have.
To have what you want, you must be appreciative of every step of the way, including “mistakes”.
Every seeming mistake or obstacle is the opportunity to make a course correction and to keep on purpose.
To have what you want…. Stay awake and on purpose looking toward fulfillment in every way.
Vision-------------------------See it.
Faith---------------------------Believe it.
Passion------------------------Desire it.
Commitment----------------Choose it.
Strategy-----------------------Plan on it.
Action-------------------------Just Do it.
Gratitude--------------------Appreciate it.
The problem with most of those who feel unfulfilled is:
They are looking backward at their own errors and the mistakes of others.
They are busy criticizing rather than appreciating.
They get stuck worrying and strategizing rather than acting with confidence.
They are planning for failure rather than assured of success.
They are convincing or threatening those around them with negative outcomes.
They rely on others who have failed or repeat history with their constant comparisons.
They are passive and allowing the current trends or mass consciousness to lead their choices.
They forget that Goodness and Kindness, Forgiveness and Love, must lead to succeed.
Loving all of us in having what we really want for the Good of All,
Betty Lue
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Upset?
We are never upset for the reason we think. ACIM lesson from “Love is Letting Go of Fear”
What if we stopped being soooo serious about all the little things in life?
What if we stop and breathe for a moment and take responsibility for finding our inner peace.
What if we stop blaming others for our upsets and start thinking: “What do I need to heal in me?”
So when someone is upset, critical and blaming with us, how do we respond?
If their upset creates a fearful or angry reaction in us, we shut down our loving and creative response.
If we are offended or take it personally, we usually just give them back what they gave to us.
If we feel hurt and afraid, we may take on another’s upset and move away withholding compassion.
When we are upset with another or a circumstance in life, it is due to a past similar experience.
There are many unhealed places, pictures and experiences in our past history and childhood.
Life presents each one to us in different forms, so we can find a better way to respond and heal.
Each upset is an opportunity to heal our fear and blame and reactivity and open the door to love.
When faced with something that seems to push our buttons, the first correction is to say “Thank You.”
We must be grateful that the old wound was revealed to be healed.
In our appreciation, we can let go of the defensive reaction of justifying, blaming or avoiding.
We can begin to see our world as a stage in which we each give ourselves opportunities to heal.
Revealing Exercise
The Real Reason, I am upset is:
Write a page or two of responses until your mind cannot make up any more reasons.
Then immediately ask the empty mind, ”What is the “Real” reason?” See what is beneath the stuff.
Go back over all the reasons you think caused the upset.
Cross each one off if you see clearly, it is not REAL.
This work is to repair the accumulation of excuses, history of misperceptions and wounds you have used to prove you have the right to be upset. The mind works to prove itself “RIGHT” and you must choose to let all that go. CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY!
What is the most safe, fun and easy way I can release this pain?
What can I undo and return to peace and happiness?
How can I easily and quickly let go of this problem?
What is my holy and healing purpose here? Let go of Fear and return to Love!
In the end, I am responsible for everything I experience.
I can undo my fearful and painful responses.
I can let go of all that I see is dangerous, difficult and serious.
I can be whole and happy and free no matter what the world offers me.
We can as we choose.
Remember to always Love,
Betty Lue
What if we stopped being soooo serious about all the little things in life?
What if we stop and breathe for a moment and take responsibility for finding our inner peace.
What if we stop blaming others for our upsets and start thinking: “What do I need to heal in me?”
So when someone is upset, critical and blaming with us, how do we respond?
If their upset creates a fearful or angry reaction in us, we shut down our loving and creative response.
If we are offended or take it personally, we usually just give them back what they gave to us.
If we feel hurt and afraid, we may take on another’s upset and move away withholding compassion.
When we are upset with another or a circumstance in life, it is due to a past similar experience.
There are many unhealed places, pictures and experiences in our past history and childhood.
Life presents each one to us in different forms, so we can find a better way to respond and heal.
Each upset is an opportunity to heal our fear and blame and reactivity and open the door to love.
When faced with something that seems to push our buttons, the first correction is to say “Thank You.”
We must be grateful that the old wound was revealed to be healed.
In our appreciation, we can let go of the defensive reaction of justifying, blaming or avoiding.
We can begin to see our world as a stage in which we each give ourselves opportunities to heal.
Revealing Exercise
The Real Reason, I am upset is:
Write a page or two of responses until your mind cannot make up any more reasons.
Then immediately ask the empty mind, ”What is the “Real” reason?” See what is beneath the stuff.
Go back over all the reasons you think caused the upset.
Cross each one off if you see clearly, it is not REAL.
This work is to repair the accumulation of excuses, history of misperceptions and wounds you have used to prove you have the right to be upset. The mind works to prove itself “RIGHT” and you must choose to let all that go. CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY!
What is the most safe, fun and easy way I can release this pain?
What can I undo and return to peace and happiness?
How can I easily and quickly let go of this problem?
What is my holy and healing purpose here? Let go of Fear and return to Love!
In the end, I am responsible for everything I experience.
I can undo my fearful and painful responses.
I can let go of all that I see is dangerous, difficult and serious.
I can be whole and happy and free no matter what the world offers me.
We can as we choose.
Remember to always Love,
Betty Lue
Friday, March 13, 2009
It’s Your Lucky Day
Friday the 13th.
What you believe you see and experience.
On a conscious or even unconscious level, we are projecting our beliefs onto our world.
We do receive exactly what we expect, ask for and believe will be to the degree to which we believe it.
How about making everyday your lucky day!
How about expecting everything to be a blessing.
How about opening your mind to the Abundant Good
How about anticipating miracles everywhere.
We are creating our experience by what we project.
We attract our experiences by what we believe.
We select what we want to see with our unconscious choice.
We affirm what we value and deny what we don’t value.
We can place energy into what we don’t want and it demonstrates our value for it.
Negative reactions can be even more powerful in creating than bland positive responses.
Where we give our power we grow that in our experience.
What we fear or resist can become more potent with our defensiveness.
How about changing your mind?
How about choosing to receive only Good?
How about moderating your response and reactions?
How about letting go with gratitude and choosing with trust?
Life is meant to be a clear learning experience.
We are learning how to activate our creative power.
We are letting go of our judgments and fears.
We are choosing to be response-able for what is in our lives.
All of this is healthy, spirit-guided awakening to the Truth of our Being.
When we give our gifts and our love fully, we begin to see the difference we can make.
When we open our hearts to respond always and only with Love, respect and Kindness grows all around.
When we are really present with the circumstances in our lives with compassion, forgiveness and blessing, our world and our relationships are blessed.
Life is our opportunity to notice how powerful we really are when we live in Love and give with Joy.
Peace, Love , Joy and Abundance are our natural state.
When we step into humanity’s mistaken beliefs, we may forgot, but we do not change the Truth.
Life waking us up to be the change we want to see in every relationship and every place.
So enjoy the power of Loving and Letting Go,
Betty Lue
What you believe you see and experience.
On a conscious or even unconscious level, we are projecting our beliefs onto our world.
We do receive exactly what we expect, ask for and believe will be to the degree to which we believe it.
How about making everyday your lucky day!
How about expecting everything to be a blessing.
How about opening your mind to the Abundant Good
How about anticipating miracles everywhere.
We are creating our experience by what we project.
We attract our experiences by what we believe.
We select what we want to see with our unconscious choice.
We affirm what we value and deny what we don’t value.
We can place energy into what we don’t want and it demonstrates our value for it.
Negative reactions can be even more powerful in creating than bland positive responses.
Where we give our power we grow that in our experience.
What we fear or resist can become more potent with our defensiveness.
How about changing your mind?
How about choosing to receive only Good?
How about moderating your response and reactions?
How about letting go with gratitude and choosing with trust?
Life is meant to be a clear learning experience.
We are learning how to activate our creative power.
We are letting go of our judgments and fears.
We are choosing to be response-able for what is in our lives.
All of this is healthy, spirit-guided awakening to the Truth of our Being.
When we give our gifts and our love fully, we begin to see the difference we can make.
When we open our hearts to respond always and only with Love, respect and Kindness grows all around.
When we are really present with the circumstances in our lives with compassion, forgiveness and blessing, our world and our relationships are blessed.
Life is our opportunity to notice how powerful we really are when we live in Love and give with Joy.
Peace, Love , Joy and Abundance are our natural state.
When we step into humanity’s mistaken beliefs, we may forgot, but we do not change the Truth.
Life waking us up to be the change we want to see in every relationship and every place.
So enjoy the power of Loving and Letting Go,
Betty Lue
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Renewed
Are you willing to be renewed in mind, body and spirit?
Are you open to dropping away the old and familiar?
Are you able to fully embrace change and cocreate the new?
Are you available for release and blessing an exploration into the unknown?
Life offers us experiences which we can call risk or opportunity.
Life gives us the freedom to choose each day for the best way.
Life opens doors to seek and explore what is unfamiliar and unknown.
Life is the space in which we can choose freedom and trust or caution and doubt.
Which will it be?
Freedom and renewal or the familiar and comfort?
To fully let go implies the relinquishment of tradition, security and our comfort zone.
To freely embrace change indicates we can enjoy the adventure into the unknown.
Are we willing to trust?
Are we open to the possibility that We can be transformed by the renewal of our thinking.
Are we allowing the highest in us to guide us to a life which can be fun, safe and easy?
Do we believe there is something better for us if only we can let go of what is not of value?
I now easily let go of all that is not best for me.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Life works for me when I happily release the limits I have placed on myself.
I now open my mind to experience only that which supports the Truth of Who I Am.
There is value in blessing what has been and trusting what will be as we let go of the old and look forward to the new.
Blessings of renewal, Betty Lue
Today's Daily Word - Thursday, March 12, 2009
Co-creator
A new me has emerged.
Watching accomplished athletes execute their skills with perfection, I may consider their performances to be easy and effortless. I know, though, that they have dedicated years of practice toward honing their skills.
There is truth in the adage "practice makes perfect." My spiritual practices of prayer and meditation, faith and trust are more than skills. They are a way of life, a way of living in awareness of who I am and what I can accomplish as a cocreator with God.
With a dedication of my time and understanding, my heart and soul to God, I am spiritually enriched. I am renewed in spirit, mind, and body, and my life is a reflection of the new me that has emerged.
"You have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator."--Colossians 3:9-10
Are you open to dropping away the old and familiar?
Are you able to fully embrace change and cocreate the new?
Are you available for release and blessing an exploration into the unknown?
Life offers us experiences which we can call risk or opportunity.
Life gives us the freedom to choose each day for the best way.
Life opens doors to seek and explore what is unfamiliar and unknown.
Life is the space in which we can choose freedom and trust or caution and doubt.
Which will it be?
Freedom and renewal or the familiar and comfort?
To fully let go implies the relinquishment of tradition, security and our comfort zone.
To freely embrace change indicates we can enjoy the adventure into the unknown.
Are we willing to trust?
Are we open to the possibility that We can be transformed by the renewal of our thinking.
Are we allowing the highest in us to guide us to a life which can be fun, safe and easy?
Do we believe there is something better for us if only we can let go of what is not of value?
I now easily let go of all that is not best for me.
Letting go is fun, safe and easy.
Life works for me when I happily release the limits I have placed on myself.
I now open my mind to experience only that which supports the Truth of Who I Am.
There is value in blessing what has been and trusting what will be as we let go of the old and look forward to the new.
Blessings of renewal, Betty Lue
Today's Daily Word - Thursday, March 12, 2009
Co-creator
A new me has emerged.
Watching accomplished athletes execute their skills with perfection, I may consider their performances to be easy and effortless. I know, though, that they have dedicated years of practice toward honing their skills.
There is truth in the adage "practice makes perfect." My spiritual practices of prayer and meditation, faith and trust are more than skills. They are a way of life, a way of living in awareness of who I am and what I can accomplish as a cocreator with God.
With a dedication of my time and understanding, my heart and soul to God, I am spiritually enriched. I am renewed in spirit, mind, and body, and my life is a reflection of the new me that has emerged.
"You have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator."--Colossians 3:9-10
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Teach what you want to Learn
You will teach with enthusiasm and a beginner’s mind.
Live what you teach.
Set the example for others to follow.
Be obvious and public about your agreements.
Share what you know and who you are. To stay accountable.
Explore and experiment to discover what you believe.
Truth dawns on us through our life experiences.
Trust your inner knowing.
The inner voice is guiding us to life that is fun, safe and easy.
Give what you have to have more.
It is only through joyful giving that you discover the secret to being truly prosperous.
Honor the path of everyone without judgment.
As you respect and accept what appears to be, you can see the perfection of what really is.
Life is a series of connected miracles of awareness.
Our ignorance and blindness only come from being unwilling and afraid to see.
Enjoy your whole life and your life will consistently bring joy to you.
It is with inner peace and gratitude that you can fully receive the Goodness of Life.
Be patient with others as you would want them to be with you.
We cannot push, prod, demand or beg another’s process to move at our pace.
Give acknowledgement to others for the blessings they share with you.
Each thankfulness yields an exponential increase in the Good that already is.
Be willing to learn from everyone.
You will realize how we each are teachers and students together.
When meeting resistance, treat it with respect by moving around it gracefully.
Focus on the goal and be flexible in discovering a path around all obstacles.
Trust in the power of Love.
Know that love is at the core and Center of everything.
Create what is Good for all.
You creative potential is enhanced when you serve the highest Good of All concerned.
We are in this together, so pay attention.
Life is a gift from which we awaken in Love.
Always Loving, because I AM,
Betty Lue
Live what you teach.
Set the example for others to follow.
Be obvious and public about your agreements.
Share what you know and who you are. To stay accountable.
Explore and experiment to discover what you believe.
Truth dawns on us through our life experiences.
Trust your inner knowing.
The inner voice is guiding us to life that is fun, safe and easy.
Give what you have to have more.
It is only through joyful giving that you discover the secret to being truly prosperous.
Honor the path of everyone without judgment.
As you respect and accept what appears to be, you can see the perfection of what really is.
Life is a series of connected miracles of awareness.
Our ignorance and blindness only come from being unwilling and afraid to see.
Enjoy your whole life and your life will consistently bring joy to you.
It is with inner peace and gratitude that you can fully receive the Goodness of Life.
Be patient with others as you would want them to be with you.
We cannot push, prod, demand or beg another’s process to move at our pace.
Give acknowledgement to others for the blessings they share with you.
Each thankfulness yields an exponential increase in the Good that already is.
Be willing to learn from everyone.
You will realize how we each are teachers and students together.
When meeting resistance, treat it with respect by moving around it gracefully.
Focus on the goal and be flexible in discovering a path around all obstacles.
Trust in the power of Love.
Know that love is at the core and Center of everything.
Create what is Good for all.
You creative potential is enhanced when you serve the highest Good of All concerned.
We are in this together, so pay attention.
Life is a gift from which we awaken in Love.
Always Loving, because I AM,
Betty Lue
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
What Do You Want?
“Whatever” yields whatever is floating around in the Universe.
Whatever others happen to be dishing out…..
Whatever happens, happens.
Whatever means I don’t care or am afraid of wanting what I want.
“I don’t know what I want.” is saying I have forgotten how to want.
I don’t know reminds you that you don’t deserve to want.
I don’t know says you have given up on wanting.
I don’t know implies you are afraid to want what you want.
Most infants learn early to want what will make their caregivers happy.
Sometimes they learn not to want what will make their caregivers angry.
Consequently, people often want what they believe others want them to want.
In adulthood, the programming obscures any possibility of really knowing what we want.
The first step is often to affirm (written and spoken 20 x daily for 2 weeks):
It is safe to want what I really want.
I now can let go of wanting what others expect of me.
I easily see what is for my Highest Good.
I am willing to want what I want.
What is truly best for me is best for others.
Choose affirmations that you resist, because they are clearing your false beliefs and perceived limitations.
Under the pain of choosing what the world wants, is the joy of what the Good in you is calling forth.
Under the fear of being ridiculed, rejected or guilt, is the freedom of wanting your own High Way to Be.
Under the perceived limitations of the worldly myths, is the amazing life of creating the Best for you.
Under the illusion of restriction and distrust, is the Love that sets you free to fully Be.
On this full moon day, and the coming of Spring, how about going for it?
Begin to take steps to choose the way that only you can fulfill.
Begin to let go of the need to please others endlessly with their limited perception of you.
Begin to undo what is not true about the limited, lacking and little being you thought you were.
Now it the time to be free of the shackles that have bound you to ordinary and conforming living.
You can take one small step…even a few hours a week to try on your wings and truly BE.
Loving you in your natural state of Love and Joy and Trust.
Be Free.
Betty Lue
Whatever others happen to be dishing out…..
Whatever happens, happens.
Whatever means I don’t care or am afraid of wanting what I want.
“I don’t know what I want.” is saying I have forgotten how to want.
I don’t know reminds you that you don’t deserve to want.
I don’t know says you have given up on wanting.
I don’t know implies you are afraid to want what you want.
Most infants learn early to want what will make their caregivers happy.
Sometimes they learn not to want what will make their caregivers angry.
Consequently, people often want what they believe others want them to want.
In adulthood, the programming obscures any possibility of really knowing what we want.
The first step is often to affirm (written and spoken 20 x daily for 2 weeks):
It is safe to want what I really want.
I now can let go of wanting what others expect of me.
I easily see what is for my Highest Good.
I am willing to want what I want.
What is truly best for me is best for others.
Choose affirmations that you resist, because they are clearing your false beliefs and perceived limitations.
Under the pain of choosing what the world wants, is the joy of what the Good in you is calling forth.
Under the fear of being ridiculed, rejected or guilt, is the freedom of wanting your own High Way to Be.
Under the perceived limitations of the worldly myths, is the amazing life of creating the Best for you.
Under the illusion of restriction and distrust, is the Love that sets you free to fully Be.
On this full moon day, and the coming of Spring, how about going for it?
Begin to take steps to choose the way that only you can fulfill.
Begin to let go of the need to please others endlessly with their limited perception of you.
Begin to undo what is not true about the limited, lacking and little being you thought you were.
Now it the time to be free of the shackles that have bound you to ordinary and conforming living.
You can take one small step…even a few hours a week to try on your wings and truly BE.
Loving you in your natural state of Love and Joy and Trust.
Be Free.
Betty Lue
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