Many things struck me yesterday at Dunedin Causeway besides the beauty of the sunset – the zillions of little crabs that will be snuffed out when the oil slick arrives, the people who irreverently pulled their truck up and blocked our view of the sunset. Wtf? What will be left to our children? For the most part, there is an increasing lack of respect for our environment and each other.
Three basics I think could change the course of our world back to a “better day” are 1) Respect (for self, others and our environment) 2) Hope 3) Belief. For out of these three, true caring and love is born.
Violence, mistakes based on the need for “love” instead of the decision to love, hurt, sadness, depression, deterioration of communities and lives, suicide, obesity – think of all of the ways that these three guiding principles could help mend our lives, our relationships, our communities and our world. Start today with mending your own inner person. Think for a minute of the way you rush and hurry through this world, setting aside your own need for fun, laughter, and some quiet time between the “gotta do’s”. Start with your own life and look for ways to respect yourself and your needs better. Once you’ve done this for a week or so until you have identified at least 3-4 ways, then look to your family, your spouse, your children and what can you do to better respect them? Work on this for another week or two while you continue to maintain the respect for yourself, while learning to better respect those closest around you. Beyond your family, expand to friends, and learn to be the person that connects rather than communicates. Then to your community and the lives around you, then to the world. If you spend a week or two on each area, a month or two on others,w ithin a year, you, one lone soul in the universe, can change the course of the world FOREVER.
-Amen
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