LET'S SHIFT ATTENTION TO LOVE, HOPE, AND UPLIFTMENT
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho
So let's love. Let's hope. Let's uplift ourselves and reach for the best within us and around us. Let’s envision better ways ahead and strive toward them.
We face challenges, but are things as bad as the doomsday, constant fault-finders are proclaiming?
And how do we best respond to the divisiveness and hostility we see? To mean-spirited rhetoric, disrespect, and violence?
My heart is encouraging me to take the high road and stay on it. If I am going to walk my talk, I've got to make room in my heart for extra loving prayers for everyone who seems misguided. For all who have lost healthy perspectives, a value for harmony, a willingness to find common ground, and a caring for the good of all. For all who are angry, afraid, and hurting.
More than ever, I’m feeling urged to write about the power and potential within each of us to make a difference in these uncertain times. Even to preach about it. We really can promote healing, harmony, and well-being among us by being loving and kind, by holding hope, by being real, by listening to understand, and by spreading joy.
Yes, it sometimes looks as if the challenges we face are too big and complicated for us to play a part in resolving and correcting them. But I believe the seemingly small "high road" choices we make every day can positively influence every aspect in our personal lives, our communities, and the world.
When we notice the negatives, when we see forces that seem to want to make us afraid and weaken us, instead of dwelling on them, let's shift our attention and intentions to bringing “good things to life."
We really can do that. So let’s notice the goodness and beauty inside and outside of us. Let’s be life-affirming nurturers who are generous with smiles, praise, and gratitude.
And let’s keep all those who seem to be low on love and hope in our prayers and best wishes for health, well-being, and the happiness that comes from loving.
Always,
Charlene
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” - Paulo Coelho
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