Dear Friends,

How can I love myself?  How can I NOT love myself?

Remember the song, “What the World Needs Now, is Love, Sweet Love..…”sung by Dionne Warwick

YES, what this world needs now is LOVE sweet love. Love for ourselves and Love for others, even those we do not know or even like. We are always wanting “PEACE,” and that will come only when we love ourselves enough so injuring another person whether in thought, word or deed (military included) is inconceivable.

I have been on zoom webinars where the topic is PEACE and everyone says we must develop Peace within ourselves first, and YES that is true. How can we do that if we are putting ourselves down, not feeling worthy, holding grudges or not forgiving ourselves due to past mistakes. When we are critical of ourselves we cannot offer peace or love to another person. Criticism just gets in the way, makes us ineffective, and delays real love and peace for ourselves and others.

Every day we must make a choice to either love, honor and respect ourselves or to judge ourselves for every little thing we do. God is and gives unconditional LOVE to us which means there are no conditions, no ‘quid pro quo.’ Sometimes in our human mind that is hard to believe because we ask ourselves: What about this, what about that and we mentally bring up all our mistakes and reasons to not love ourselves or others.

“No mistakes or missteps can change the nature of God’s love. It is always flowing.” (Rev. Michelle Medrano)

How can we not love ourselves when each breath we take is a breath from the All Loving Creator of Who We Are: God.

LOVE FOOD for Thought

• “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
• -Oscar Wilde.
• “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness”
• -Robert Morley
• “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess shall spill over into the lives of the people you love. But you must fill it first.”
• -Beau Taplin

(Quotes from the August Science of Mind magazine.)