Yes, decide to make a change or two or three or more! After all this is a time of rapid and sometimes radical changes here on earth. We need to be willing to change as well. While it is true that change is not always easy, for now and the foreseeable future, change and adaptation will be the way of our lives. Realize we all need to learn to flow with change and adapt.
We have all watched as global business fell, those pillars of our economy that we believed would stand forever. We have seen weather sweep in and demolish much that had seemed strong and permanent causing great loss of life. Even personal relationships we had forged with love were dissolved over something as small as a difference of opinion.
We wonder at the seeming chaos everywhere. What could be bringing all of this confusion into our lives? Where is this restlessness coming from?
Here is the truth as I see it. We have been far too complacent too long. We have felt that acting from our individual interests was good enough. We further assumed that if things did not work out according to our personal plan and intentions, there was always a structure in place, government or otherwise, that would take care of us.
Now is the time to wake up. It is the time to realize that we are intimately and irrevocably connected to every human on earth. We do not exist or act in a vacuum. Furthermore we arrived on this planet to serve. It does not matter what our talents are, a carpenter, a typist or a philosopher, it holds true that we are here to serve! The way we pursue our personal life path, everything we individually do, affects everyone else in a small or large way.
Why should we personally bother to make a change or a series of changes? To thrive and enjoy abundant life, or even to merely survive, we must move forward with new business models; new personal behavior models. It is time to look at our lives with an intensity we may never have used before. We need to measure every planned action of our own with the yardstick of unconditional love. Is this loving? How will it affect others? Is it kind? Is it needful? Otherwise we simply fall into the backwaters of indifference, affecting nothing in any positive way, just drifting through life, eating and sleeping wherever we find food and rest.
Yes, we know the earth is reinventing herself, trying to ascend. Are we going to be part of the solution or part of the problem? Can we analyze our lives and see where we need to change, where perhaps we need to “grow up” and take responsibility for those acts which add or subtract from the whole?
There is no other time which is more appropriate for committing to the practice of unconditional love than this time in which we are living. Separation between people or nations is not working. It never has. Wider rifts and more wars solve nothing. Additionally, selfishly taking all of the resources of the earth in greater and greater amounts is not working and leaves our mother earth with no chance to recoup.
Let us look now and see how our lives are affecting the whole of life. What can we individually and mutually do to make the best changes, to create the most positive and gracious impact from the way we live our daily lives?
I have faith in all of you and in the future. Come along with me and find dynamic solutions to our current challenges. Together we can be the very best of change.
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