Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!
Is there a higher purpose in life than to love? Isn’t love the thing that every human being is hard-wired to desire the most? Think of a baby. Don’t they thrive on love and wither in its absence? Don’t they bring out the love in everyone they contact? This is such an obvious and universal trait of humanity that it is immediately obvious to everyone. Yet when we look at the world do we see the majority of the population being constantly bathed in love?
It seems as a culture we have gotten sidetracked from this central purpose of love. Instead of enjoying loving relationships with everyone we contact we try to compare and compete with each other. We seem to be very selective about with whom we choose to share love, and everything becomes based on ownership. I love my child, my dog, my car but I hate yours. We have closed our hearts to 99.99% of the living beings on the planet and soon we forget how to love even ourselves. We feel separated from the universal love of the cosmos and create lives of loneliness punctuated by brief glimpses of what we call love.
What would happen if we truly embraced the understanding of the energetic connection between all parts of the world? If we saw everyone as being part of the same loving essence that created everything, wouldn’t our attitude change? Loving the creator (by whatever name) is a natural tendency in all cultures. Why don’t we recognize that all of creation is loveable and that it is love that connects us all to the creator and the entire creation? There is nothing else that will fulfill our deepest desires than loving constantly, completely and unconditionally.
--Ted Murray
~ JOIN HUMANITY'S TEAM
I saw this on Facebook, and I decided to post it here to show you guys how a little love can go a long way...
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Published on May 6, 2012
Johnny Barnes born John James Adolphus Mills on June 23, 1924, is a Bermuda native found waving to passing traffic at the Foot of the Lane roundabout in Hamilton, Bermuda, from roughly 3:45 am to 10 am, every workday, rain or shine. A Bermuda institution mentioned in several guidebooks and profiled in a documentary film, he is known for waving and saying "I love you, God loves you," to passing commuters during the morning rush hour into Hamilton. Due to the unique layout of the island and its roads, nearly all drivers at rush hour coming from the western and southern areas of the island pass Barnes at the roundabout.
Barnes, now an elderly pensioner, was an electrician by trade and worked on the Bermuda Railroad as an electrician until the railroad closed in 1948. He then became a bus driver. Barnes was fond of waving to people while driving the bus, and would occasionally sit and wave to people on his breaks or when coming to work.
One day in approximately 1986, Barnes stopped at the Crow Lane roundabout took up waving to traffic. He has been there almost every day since, and local radio stations report receiving frantic calls when Barnes is not at his unofficial post. He is occasionally joined by people, sometimes costumed, waving signs to promote a charity, event, or business.
In the 2011 short-subject documentary, Mr. Happy Man, Barnes identifies himself as a religious man, a Seventh-Day Adventist who is motivated to share God's love for everyone. Though Barnes will pray with visitors to his post if requested, he is not known as a religious proselytizer.
In November 1998, a group of local businessmen unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Barnes blowing kisses in the air. The statue is located on Crow Lane just up from the roundabout. Although there were objections to spending $70,000 to build a statue to a man still living, Barnes said in Mr. Happy Man that he appreciated the gesture while he was still alive, saying he wouldn't be able to enjoy it if he were dead.
Barnes was married in 1949 and still lives with his wife. His wife has a cheery disposition because he (Johnny) has "covered her with honey" since they were married.
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“Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.” ― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
O.K., now let's start the day with HOTEL CALIFORNIA, by the Eagles...
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If you go into the dream and start challenging your beliefs, you will find that most of the beliefs that guided you into the wounded mind are not even true.
~don Miguel Ruiz
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