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Start off your week with a new post from Spark America every Sunday to get you informed and energized, and to give you meaningful, thought provoking information and inspirational dialog to share with your friends for the entire week. I welcome your comments.

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Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

Unconditional Love--The Bridge To Peace


Have you ever felt like you have lost your way in life, and can't seem to get on the right path to find peace and happiness? I would like to say to you, give love unconditionally and you will create a love path right back at you. That love path will enable you to, if you choose, to build a bridge of love everlasting. When you listen to the mindless chatter and meaningless drivel, coming out of the mouths of the media talking heads, all you hear is doom and gloom and too many really big words they use to describe the bad things that are going on all around us every day. We are extremely aware of all the negative stories and I say enough is enough. We need to change all of this and we can, yes we can, and please don't listen to anyone who will  tell you that you can't! Recognize them as being a participant in perpetuating the problem.

Enter two powerful words, when put together spell unconditional love. Both words by themselves have their own special  meaning, put them together you get life. Two words that are the essence of the driving force that we all must possess in order to bring peace to our species. The debate worldwide has come down to this one question; why are we here? If it is to love one another, from where does this unconditional love come from, and if we find that source, will it encapsulate the spark to ignite us to deliver this love to one-another? This is a question you must ask yourself right now, today.

The secret is to discover the path that will lead  us to the understanding of why this is even necessary. To coin a phrase from long ago, the answer could be as close as the nose on your face. It could also be buried deep within your heart.

The time to face it is now.
Unconditional love will build a bridge between your heart and mine.
The time is upon us now to build our own bridges of love.
Then and only then will we know peace.
Love is life.
Life is love.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Boston State of Mindfullness

Bringing ones attention to the tragic event that took place on the streets of our great city of Boston, should be an eye-opening realization of the difficulties that lie ahead in our processing of this horrific event.  We must help our fellow man begin to navigate from the traumatic pictures of this horrific event stored in our minds eye, to become mindful pictures of the needs of others in our own daily lives. We need to make a conscious effort to turn this tragedy into a vigilant and cognizant mind parade of love, hope and compassion, not a parade of retaining pain, suffering, and revenge.

When tragedies like this one happens in America, a process begins in our heads as to find ways to cope with and understand the one numbing question; why? What could possibly drive someone to commit such a crime? We may never find out the answer to that question , nor fully understand the answer even if we someday find it. What are we to do?

boston marathon
(AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

The answer to this question lies within all who seek it, and we must seek it in order to have any hope of working through this process of understanding and coping.  Love is the only possible answer and we must begin right now, before it is too late, to understand that the essence of life is love, and we must deposit that love within the hearts of others.

We need to do this now, today, if not for ourselves, for the innocent Americans who upon awakening on Monday to cheer on their loved ones, not knowing that this day would be their last. Let us also pray  for the survivors and their families, whose lives have been tragically changed forever. Let us honor the dead by sanctifying our values, by affirming life and all those things that make us stronger and bring us closer together. These things we must remember to remember.

Love in Boston. 12" x 12"  City Fusion Paintographic Fine Art Print


Life is short and what matters most is how we choose to live it. Dig into your heart today and find God's love, build a bridge, and deposit that love where you already know it belongs. This is not something you can deposit in the bank. Let not this act of violence and cowardliness keep us from running to the finish line.

Isolation is a bad destination. Life makes more sense when we're connected.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Love Worth Finding

Love is not just another four letter word, nor is it just observed and given in the words in a Valentine Card on Valentines day. Love is what sustains us through the most difficult of times, and love is the essence of God, thus God being the essence of love. The only hope we have to begin to heal the wounds from the tragic events taking  place all over America to our children every day and to sustain order and peace in our great nation, lies in the hearts of  it's people. That hope is called love, and that love must be deposited deep into their tender hearts from us from the moment they are born. This love is a love worth finding, but first we must find this love within ourselves.

To deny our children of this love is not an option anymore, it is an urgent necessity, and it has to begin right now, today. We must move closer to God and the child in us so we can begin to understand the true meaning and the power of this love. Only then can we lovingly infuse this love into the life blood of our children. Do we owe them any less?

Perhaps if we look at in a very simple way. Picture each one of us as a love seed. If we were to be swept up by the wind of love maybe we would be lucky enough to land in the arms of a loving God. From the arms of God it will find its way into the hearts of our children.

We cannot allow the media and other evil perpetrators to suck them into a world that they consider the new way of life in the United States of America. The idea that anything goes here is unacceptable and we must insist our children will grow up in a safe America, and through our commitment to love them unconditionally as God loves us, they will grow up  living in a loving family called "America".

We have no choice and we have very little time for lip service, the time has come to show the love.