Founder’s Global Love Day 2013 Address
Welcome Dear Friends to Global Love Day 2013,
Just a brief ten years ago we launched a simple idea that holds profound potential – celebrating our humanity through unconditional love on this symbolic day that we call Global Love Day. Today we bear witness to the beautiful response from countless individuals like you in every nation and culture who are bringing life to this vision by embodying and sharing love each and every day.
A new world is being born that ensures the destiny of our children will be one that is filled with integrity, dignity, diversity, harmony, prosperity and compassion. One-by-one and heart-to-heart we are laying this foundation with our own love for the benefit of generations yet to come. Bridging the days of old, we understand the value of forgiveness and self acceptance as being the cornerstone of our personal effort. Love truly does begin with me.
With each successive year, we are rapidly experiencing the realization that we are interconnected and interdependent and always have been. We comprehend that this precious planet is our home and, as a collective humanity, we are its custodians. What we do for one, we do for all, including ourselves. Together, we are uniting and making a difference through love.
Traditions, obligations and beliefs are transforming into viable pathways and solutions that are inclusive and acknowledge the common good for everyone. Alas, this does not always come easy or without challenge; however with courage, wisdom, respect and perseverance, we are taking the necessary steps knowing we are the ones responsible for this unfolding journey.
I extend my personal gratitude to each of you for sharing this vision with us these many years and for consciously making this a better world for all. With deep appreciation and love, I welcome you to our tenth celebration of Global Love Day.
Love, light and peace,Harold W. Becker
Founder and President
The Love Foundation, Inc.I Love Unconditionally...
I love unconditionally... Become conscious of this simple intention and view your life from a different perspective, if even for just one day. Think about unconditional love and what it really means to you. Allow yourself to open up and actually feel the love you already have within. Accept the aspects of life that challenge you, whether from your past, present or view of the future. Decide to let love be your response to everyone and everything. See all life interconnected, joyful and safe. Choose to enjoy life no matter how difficult it may have been or how challenging you may perceive it to be. Just let love be your focus for the day and see what happens.
Some Ideas For Yourself... | Consider what it means to fully accept yourself and forgive your past choices and experiences |
| Offer genuine forgiveness either in your mind or shared verbally to another who you feel has impacted you in a negative way |
| Decide to let go of the outmoded and outdates beliefs that no longer represent who you are |
| Meditate on Love as a natural and boundless force already existing in your life |
| Express your compassion to yourself and the world around you |
| Think and feel thoughts of love to friends, family and neighbors |
| Take a deep breath |
| Send kind words to others via e-mail, text, mail or call them personally to express your gratitude of having them in your life |
| Make amends with someone you have discarded from your life for past mistakes |
| Forgive a person, place, relationship, circumstance or even an illness that has challenged you |
| Hug someone and let yourself be hugged |
| Watch a sunrise or sunset, even better if you can do both in the same day |
| Smile |
| Embrace a stranger and meet the friend they become |
| Watch children play |
| Write a poem |
| Take a walk |
| Feel grateful for everything currently in your life |
| Dance as if no one is watching |
| Sing out loud |
| Accept another person's view as their right to think that way |
| Spend the day thinking positive thoughts |
| Say a kind word to a stranger |
| Love the amazing animal kingdom |
| Forgive your childhood traumas |
| Send loving thoughts to the plants and flowers of this earth |
| Let go of fear and doubt |
| Trust yourself |
| Release the judgments you hold about life |
| Accept for a day that everything that comes your way as being right and perfect for the moment and is teaching you something |
| Visualize the world as a loving place |
| Have a picnic, breakfast, brunch/lunch, dinner in your local park, garden, home etc… to celebrate and/or meditate on “love” |
| Organize a community Global Love Day celebration in your local area or join up with others who have already organized an event (example: parades or concerts) |
| Organize other types of Global Love Day special events like block parties, candlelight celebrations, art gallery openings, musical or theater events based on love, gratitude, and forgiveness |
| Share a meal with someone less fortunate and/or volunteer to assist an organization in need |
| Promote acts of kindness during Global Love Day |
| Reach out to those in need and show them you care and that they are capable of love too |
| Volunteer to teach someone to read or read to someone who cannot see or just read to someone who might be ailing and needs to hear a soothing voice. |
| Add a few dollars/ RUPEES to a homeless person’s cup instead of a few cents or bring them food to eat. |
| Volunteer for the day to assist with or serve at your local soup kitchen for the homeless |
| Share the Global Love Day flyer as a way to connect with others about your intention to love |