CARE

This is a country you can only love with a broken heart.   #Frank-WalterSteinmeier

Every time our heart is broken, a doorway cracks opens to a world of new beginnings and opportunity. 

We’re hard-wired for happiness. We are born to care.  Appreciate things and people that matter most and gratitude will sweep you off your feet. 

Practice kindness and love and your heart will sing. Keep your eyes and mind open, alert. This is a time of looking back and looking forward. Tomorrow’s going to be a better day.

No matter who you are, your heart is pumping and your lungs are sucking O_2. Don’t undervalue the gift and power of being alive. Problems facing us are solvable when we think from the seat of our soul. Notice what you sense. Be on fire.

CARE is a commitment with purpose. It's courage. Change driven by compassion, awareness, reason and purpose comes from the heart. Caring is logic, experience and heart working together. It takes energy and humility to care. It takes energy to sense what’s right. Do it your way. Some choose prayer, meditation, conversation or collaboration. Together we can:

Create with compassion.

Alter with awareness.

Revolutionize with reason and

Explore to evolve.

Germany has a joint government and corporate reparations fund for education called, “Memory, Responsibility and Future”. Labor rights, medical care, education and paid vacations are human rights in Europe and Scandinavia.  We can do this.

Dignity, courage and humility are our intuitive hot-line.   Power and money need to be balanced by kindness and generosity to mend a broken country, to mend the broken hearts. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together. 

Address problems at their root. Feeding someone and questioning why they are hungry are not the same. Have conversations about ideas and values. Dignity is everyone’s birthright. There are no trade-offs or short-cuts for caring. Be smart.

Maintain your highest standards. Honor, courage and dignity are our intuitive voice. We can respect, love, hope and forgive without being naïve. Question everything. Only you are responsible for your personal development. Happiness is hard-wired into us but our soul is not naïve.

Live with as much love as you can. It is the force inside. If love is respect, then every relationship is about love. A broken heart is just growing pains until the real thing comes along. Don’t allow anyone or anything to rob your peace of mind.

We are the ones who are going to make America live up to its ideals. Our culture is contaminated. It’s time to clean-up. Let’s take an honest view of our country’s strengths and weaknesses. What has been callous and tragic must be faced. The truth is always alive.  Leaders we want and need are ourselves. We have to care.

Apathy is ignorance that happens when we take stuff for granted. Dignity is the antidote. Dignity is caring. When we clean-up who we are, we change the world.

Practice kindness. Live fully and love deeply. Don't stop dreaming. Never stop caring. #janebernard

River of Dreams, Billy Joel

photo by Josh Hild