SPREAD LOVE
Make it a personal mission – not just today on the Hallmark day of love – everyday and towards everybody!
See how it changes your life, when you consciously act from a loving place. Begin to see how it can change the world. The ripple is huge…
Remind yourself – when someone cut’s you off in traffic, when someone rolls into your parking space that you have been waiting for, when the clerk at the store is rude, or makes a mistake and gives you the wrong change, when someone disagrees with your way of thinking…you know those times, you’ve got the picture … and frankly only YOU have the power to change the course at that point in time – only you have the power to alter your reactions to situations that might usually make you an irate lunatic, but from here on in – your going to think about first….take a deep breath, and act with love….
Maybe that person who cut you off has a sick child in the car that needs to go to the hospital, maybe the grocery clerk just got into a fight with their boyfriend, and it really has nothing to do with you – maybe the person who just stole your parking space just lost their job and needs to stop driving and park for awhile to prevent an accident.
If we remember to think first and then react, and then react with love in our hearts and with all the empathy we can muster, well, then it turns out to be a win win situation, and it just doesn’t get better than that. It is a constant challenge for all of us, but it get easier, and it becomes a habit.
So next time when your driving in your car and you see someone on the street, silently wish them peace and love. When you see that mother in the store yelling at her crying child with exasperation – wish her patience, peace, and love, maybe ask her if you can be of any assistance instead of passing judgement. We have all had momentary lapses of reason, and we all have behaved poorly countless times throughout our lives. (God, that is when we do our best learning!) When we react to those occasions with love and understanding, towards ourselves as well as others, it can make more difference then we may ever know.
So this is my mission – it doesn’t always happen perfectly, but I keep trying because I believe in the ripple.