*My thoughts create a ripple throughout the universe. What am I thinking?
*Transformation is an inside job.
*I accept my wonderfulness and life becomes magic.
*I always accept the unexpected that comes from beyond the personality.
*I choose to love myself just the way I am. When I love myself, I forgive my flaws and can love others.
Love is a power that when used coming from the heart, transcends any evil. Moaning and groaning about how bad whatever the challenge is only adds more power to the challenge. I remember a story of an event that happened over twenty years ago. A woman living on the East Coast had a brilliant daughter who was also beautiful. The daughter was attending a university and living away from home. As the mother relates the story, her daughter was caught walking across campus one evening and two men accosted her and raped her brutally and killed her.
The men eventually were apprehended, tried and sentenced to life in prison. The mother became a member of a study group of A Course in Miracles. What she learned changed her from being bitter and filled with hatred to an attitude of forgiveness. She shared this with other members in the group. One day, she and several other women went to the prison and asked to visit the men.
Using the tools they had acquired from A Course in Miracles, the women began teaching the two men and it changed all of their lives. This act of love and forgiveness was a healing for the mother, her friends and the two men.
Perhaps as we continue in this year of 2010, we can let down our defenses and allow love to be expressed from within us. Random acts of kindness is one kind of love. To observe and not judge is another. When we only observe, we are noting the action, but not taking part in it.
For this year, during times of upheaval if each of us can think a kind thought, say a kind word or do a kind deed, we have added to the greatness of what can be. Love is the power that changes all. When we love instead of condemn, we change the world.
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