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What changes do you want to see in our world?
Seriously… what do you wish was different?
What can you do to create them?
A lot of times we feel helpless to make changes but the truth is we’re more powerful than we believe. Sometimes all it takes is one person to lead the way.
SFPNN is one example of that. We started out with my decision to e-mail one good thing a day to thirty people to counteract negativity with positive information. The idea caught on like crazy and now we have at least eight featured authors and global distribution, not to mention all the folks who submit their material to share with the world.
Another example I may have shared already has to do with my sister Terry. Forgive me if you’ve heard this story before but I just love telling it because Terry was one of those people who was convinced things were “just the way they are” and she’d couldn’t really do anything about them.
It all began when she came to visit us while we were living
in
Terry was quiet for a few minutes and then said, “That would never happen where we live.”
“Why not?” I asked, somewhat surprised.
“Nobody says hello.” (Strong emphasis on NO-body.)
“So be the first one to start.”
“I couldn’t do that. They’d think I was weird or something,” Terry said uncomfortably.
“Maybe to start with. But then after a while, they’d get used to it and they’d expect you to say hello.”
Terry was still hesitant. Despite being quite vocal with each other at home, our family tends to be a little shy around ‘strangers.’
I encouraged her, stating that she lived in a newly developing subdivision and she could set the tone for all the new people who moved in and didn’t know anyone yet. In fact, they’d welcome someone being friendly and she could meet her neighbors and get to know them in the process.
Terry still wasn’t sure and I knew better than to keep pushing her.
Fast forward about a year later. Mark and I are now in
She calls the kids and the dog. The girls get their shoes on, Bingo gets put on a leash and out the door we go. Terry explains that whenever the power goes out, they go for a walk so the kids can use up some of their energy.
Two houses down a neighbor is working on his car… “Hi Terry!” he yells out, enthusiastically waving a wrench in the air. “How’s it going?”
“Good! How are you?”
Terry has a big smile on her face. She sees the next neighbor watering her flowers… “Hi” she says and her smile grows bigger as the neighbor greets Terry with a friendly “Hey y’all!”
The scene repeats itself up and down their neighborhood. I knew exactly what Terry had wanted to show me. Finally she looked at me and said something my sister NEVER says to me… “You were right! It worked!”
Terry said the first time she tried to say hello the neighbors DID look at her like she was weird. No one else had greeted them before. But after about a week, folks began to greet Terry without her even being the first to say hi. Within a month it really began to change things.
And with all the recent power outages in their neighborhood, a lot of folks took to walking and talking to their neighbors just like Terry and her family did.
In some ways it was a very small change… just saying hello!
In other ways it was HUGE.
For Terry, it took a lot of courage. She was really nervous about doing it and wasn’t sure how people would react. She’d never done anything like that before. But she kept at it and she became the change she wanted to see in the world.
And in fact, it DID change her world.
What changes would you like to see? Are you willing to become them?
Who knows, maybe you could be the one to set the trend in your neighborhood… or school, workplace, home, committee, family, or group of friends, etc.
All it takes is one. Be the one.
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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1.
PROGRAM YOUR
A little positive
pro-active programming can go a long way in creating the kind of day you truly
desire. Take a few seconds to fill in
the blanks of your life.
Today, I desire
and experience…
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I affirm the following positive reality:
“Gratitude and Thanksgiving are a way of
life for me. They are as easy as
breathing.”
— © Louise Hay
2.
“A visit or a call from a friend
can heal you. You can heal a friend in
this same way. Is there someone you’ve been wanting to contact but haven’t made time for? Today, make the time.”
— © Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso in Everyday Positive Thinking by Louise Hay
3.
recipe for Enchantment:
In a little book, A Kindness A Day, I found the following quote:
“Don't honk your horn unnecessarily while driving.”
Now at first you might not think this is a Recipe for Enchantment. But it really is. Can you imagine a world with less loud harsh, unexpected noises?
Your own emotions and thoughts would not be suddenly jarred. Your adrenalin wouldn't start to flow for now reason. The day could continue its lovely melody and even the birds along your way would be able to sing without needless interruption. Everything and everyone would be happier.
Remember, every improvement we make creates more harmony in the world and inside of ourselves. So the above certainly deserves to be a Recipe for Enchantment.
Happy Driving!
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice
since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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4.
“If you’re nervous about going
somewhere alone, stop and say to yourself: WHEREVER I GO THERE WILL BE FRIENDS THERE.”
— © Power
of the Soul by John Holland
5.
ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO OPIE
An open letter to Sheriff Andy Taylor,
You may not remember me. I wrote to you about 28 years ago when your TV program, “The Andy Griffith Show,” was popular to tell you why your son Opie’s back pockets used to always smell kind of fishy. And then I wrote again about a year later to ask how there got to be so many people in Mayberry if nobody in the whole town – so far as I could tell – was married.
Yeah, that was me. And I’m back.
But don’t worry. I’m not really concerned about those things any more. I’ve got a more pressing question in mind right now, and I think you’re just the person to answer it.
What in heaven’s name is going on?
It’s not like I hold you responsible or anything. As near as I can tell, everything was OK back when you were in charge. That’s the problem. You left (I hear you became a lawyer – say it ain’t so!) and now look at us. It’s like the Gubers and Gomers of the world have taken over, only they’re not just running the filling stations – you know what I mean?
You want specifics?
OK – but you’re not going to believe some of this stuff.
Like, for example, religion. You know how you used to be a little suspicious of anyone who didn’t go to church every week? Well, these days it’s the other way around. If you happen to mention to someone that you’re a regular church-goer, they figure there’s something wrong with you or that you’re up to something – usually no good.
There are probably a lot of reasons for the change in attitude. We’ve had more than our share of wolves in shepherd’s clothing. And the media, which almost never reports the good things churches are doing in the world, almost never misses a chance to tell people when active church members go bad (even though you never read that a crime was committed by “John Doe, who hasn’t stepped inside a church in 30 years”).
The American family has also changed quite a bit – and not just because the kids are wearing their baseball caps sideways. The change here has less to do with appearances and more to do with how the family itself works – or doesn’t work, as the case may be. Many parents have abdicated their responsibilities in the home. They lay the blame for drug abuse on society’s doorstep. Teen pregnancy, they say, can be traced to deficiencies in the educational system. And if a teenager is overweight, it’s television’s fault.
All of which reminds me of how you handled it when Opie killed that mamma bird. Remember? You didn’t blame Howard Sprague or Helen Krump or even Barney Fife, who got blamed for just about everything. You just took it upon yourself to teach Opie right and wrong even though you were a single parent and a busy working professional. And look how well little Opie turned out, and what a positive influence he was on that Fonzie fellow later on in his life.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some terrific parents who are doing some great work. But the hectic pace of modern life, and the varied (and yes, sometimes selfish) interests of some parents have resulted in a de-emphasis of the family as an influential, causative American institution. In your day everyone pretty much agreed that the family was the basic unit of society. Today that distinction probably goes to the movie rental store.
And I haven’t even mentioned the plague of drug abuse. Or AIDS. Or what’s been going on in the entertainment industry. On the bright side, has anyone told you that Communism is dead and the Berlin Wall came down slicker than if it had been put up with Velcro?
Uh . . . I’ll have to explain Velcro to you some other time.
It’s a new world, one that takes some getting used to even for those of us who have been here living in it all along. While some things have become easier with time, others have become much more difficult. But we’re gong to keep trying. That’s what you’d tell Opie. You’d say, “Don’t give up! Be true to yourself! Be a good neighbor!” And then you’d go fishing.
So even though it sounds like a pretty simplistic approach to complicated problems and social issues, I’m going to follow your advice – fictional though you may be. I’m not going to give up. I’m going to be true to myself and to what I believe. And I’m going to try to be a good neighbor. The way I see it, what’s good enough for Opie is good enough for me.
Except for one thing: can I carry my fish someplace else besides my back pocket?
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