Let me explain why I am starting this blog and what I mean by Start A Love Train.
Lately I've been very discouraged by the big step backward this country seems to be taking. Politicians targeting women's reproductive rights, cutting funding for social services, turning their backs on the poor and the elderly. The unemployed are viewed by many as lazy and looking for a handout. It was proposed that children receiving free or reduced lunches be required to clean up at school and or better yet, let's just stop that program all together. A blame the victim mentality sure appears prevalent. "If you're poor, stop being poor." a Fox business commentator said recently on camera. Gee! Now why didn't I think of that? If only it were that easy, everybody would do it and then who would Papa John's pay minimum wage to deliver our pizzas?
Reading the comments on Huffington Post articles, always a big mistake, I was sickened by some of the things being said about Michael Sam, the college football player that bravely came out prior to the NFL draft. The NFL "isn't ready for a gay player" but they welcome racists, murderers and animal abusers with open arms because those are manly things? Just today I read that in some NFL stadiums, fans can order not only a beer at the concession stand but a cheerleader to visit them in their seats because of course men will pay to have a scantly clad woman fulfill their adolescent cheerleader fantasies in front of an audience. What if the cheerleader refuses? You can bet your sweet pon poms she won't be dancing on those sidelines much longer.
And then there are the people full of bigotry and hate pushing Jim Crow-like laws in the name of religious freedom. How in God's name, and I mean literally IN GOD'S NAME is that okay? Did they stop to think that the same laws can be used against them as well? Wait until a Muslim restaurant owner denies a hungry Christian service. What about religious freedom then?
It all makes me weep. I just want to give up. I truly thought there was a growing movement in the world towards love and acceptance. People were performing random acts of kindness, paying for the coffee the person behind them ordered, covering the cost of a stranger's Christmas gifts on lay-away, holding doors and waving drivers on at stop signs. What happened? Where did the love go?
I have to believe it is still there.
Actor Norman Reedus said, "The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones most afraid." It is absolutely true that more and more people are living lives of love and compassion but the quiet roar of our voices is being drowned out by the frantic barking of the scared, old dogs fighting to hold on to every shred of their waning power. According to A Course in Miracles, there are only two emotions, love and fear. What is love cannot be fear and what is not love must be fear. The presence of one keeps out the other. The absence of one creates a space for the other.
In his book, I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne Dyer writes, "Get a large number of people in a population to shift their awareness to a more God-realized place, and regardless of any external forces - such as political issues, economic status, unemployment figures, educational practices, weather patterns, wars, conflicts, and on and on - the entire population will ultimately be brought into a more spiritual alignment."
He adds, "I have always felt that big-time radical changes will not come about because of the efforts of political leaders to make changes in the system, but because enough individuals within the system opt to shift their own consciousness. This is what will impact the entire collective consciousness, independent of what anyone might attempt to impose on the majority."
Those of us with love in our hearts need to steadfastly continue in our efforts to spread our message of compassion both in our thoughts and in our actions. All thought is energy and we need to be constantly mindful that we are emitting positive energy into the world. My goal in writing this blog is to give my readers simple and quick ways to increase the positive energy in their lives and in the collective consciousness. I call them "quickies" and will post one daily to my Twitter account @AmieRMT which also posts to my Facebook page and will explore the ideas further here at Start A Love Train.
Won't you join me? All aboard!
Lately I've been very discouraged by the big step backward this country seems to be taking. Politicians targeting women's reproductive rights, cutting funding for social services, turning their backs on the poor and the elderly. The unemployed are viewed by many as lazy and looking for a handout. It was proposed that children receiving free or reduced lunches be required to clean up at school and or better yet, let's just stop that program all together. A blame the victim mentality sure appears prevalent. "If you're poor, stop being poor." a Fox business commentator said recently on camera. Gee! Now why didn't I think of that? If only it were that easy, everybody would do it and then who would Papa John's pay minimum wage to deliver our pizzas?
Reading the comments on Huffington Post articles, always a big mistake, I was sickened by some of the things being said about Michael Sam, the college football player that bravely came out prior to the NFL draft. The NFL "isn't ready for a gay player" but they welcome racists, murderers and animal abusers with open arms because those are manly things? Just today I read that in some NFL stadiums, fans can order not only a beer at the concession stand but a cheerleader to visit them in their seats because of course men will pay to have a scantly clad woman fulfill their adolescent cheerleader fantasies in front of an audience. What if the cheerleader refuses? You can bet your sweet pon poms she won't be dancing on those sidelines much longer.
And then there are the people full of bigotry and hate pushing Jim Crow-like laws in the name of religious freedom. How in God's name, and I mean literally IN GOD'S NAME is that okay? Did they stop to think that the same laws can be used against them as well? Wait until a Muslim restaurant owner denies a hungry Christian service. What about religious freedom then?
It all makes me weep. I just want to give up. I truly thought there was a growing movement in the world towards love and acceptance. People were performing random acts of kindness, paying for the coffee the person behind them ordered, covering the cost of a stranger's Christmas gifts on lay-away, holding doors and waving drivers on at stop signs. What happened? Where did the love go?
I have to believe it is still there.
Actor Norman Reedus said, "The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones most afraid." It is absolutely true that more and more people are living lives of love and compassion but the quiet roar of our voices is being drowned out by the frantic barking of the scared, old dogs fighting to hold on to every shred of their waning power. According to A Course in Miracles, there are only two emotions, love and fear. What is love cannot be fear and what is not love must be fear. The presence of one keeps out the other. The absence of one creates a space for the other.
In his book, I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne Dyer writes, "Get a large number of people in a population to shift their awareness to a more God-realized place, and regardless of any external forces - such as political issues, economic status, unemployment figures, educational practices, weather patterns, wars, conflicts, and on and on - the entire population will ultimately be brought into a more spiritual alignment."
He adds, "I have always felt that big-time radical changes will not come about because of the efforts of political leaders to make changes in the system, but because enough individuals within the system opt to shift their own consciousness. This is what will impact the entire collective consciousness, independent of what anyone might attempt to impose on the majority."
Those of us with love in our hearts need to steadfastly continue in our efforts to spread our message of compassion both in our thoughts and in our actions. All thought is energy and we need to be constantly mindful that we are emitting positive energy into the world. My goal in writing this blog is to give my readers simple and quick ways to increase the positive energy in their lives and in the collective consciousness. I call them "quickies" and will post one daily to my Twitter account @AmieRMT which also posts to my Facebook page and will explore the ideas further here at Start A Love Train.
Won't you join me? All aboard!
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