I challenge you to become better

I challenge you to become better 

Yesterday morning while I was getting dressed I heard Marvin Gaye's song What's going on…

It goes on to say:

"Father, father

We don't need to escalate

You see, war is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way to bring some lovin' here today, oh oh oh 

Picket lines and picket signs

Don't punish me with brutality

Talk to me, so you can see

Oh, what's going on"

I started to cry, because I remember this song in the late 60s and here we are in 2020 still dealing with these same issues. This weekend after watching all the riots and name calling on TV and seeing everyone pointing the finger at each other on social media, I had to shut everything down. 

I am so sad, I am sad for the world we are living in, for a world that I will be leaving for my girls.

I am sad that we haven't learned anything in 50 years. 

I am sad because why can't we see that we are all human beings and we all should have the same rights.

I am sad because we all bleed the same, we all want a better life for our children and that we are all God's children.

But I realized that I can only change my part in this, that I am only in control of what I say and what I post. So I asked myself what do I want my girls to hear me say, what do I want my readers to hear from me? 

I don't want to be part of the problem, I want to be part of the solution. So how can I do that? I prayed because I needed to find the answer and it came to me, I realized that, the song is it…. Only love can conquer hate… 

Only love can conquer hate…

So I have decided from here on out I will only post about the good stuff, acts of kindness, compassion and love.

And I challenge all of you… 

I know so many of you have done stupid challenges in the past but this one can change the world.

Let's flood social media with this, people helping people, all races united, random acts of kindness.

Let's put out there pictures of people standing together, police officers taking a knee, children of all races playing together just like in Martin Luther King's dream.

I will no longer be part of the problem, I will not keep pushing hatred on to one another. I will no longer finger point instead I will love. I will not delete the bigots and racists I've realized I know, some of which are my own family members. No, I will keep them on my social media pages so that they can see what love looks like, what true compassion for another human being feels like. 

I will not argue when others call me names, I will just keep flooding my pages with love.

Now some of you might laugh and say what's that going to change… your one person, that's nothing. So I will kindly remind you that Rosa Parks was one person, that Martin Luther King was one person and the countless others that were alone in the fight for righteousness and yet they changed the world. 

So today my friends I challenge you to make a difference, to change, to love not hate. 

I will leave you with this, these amazing words of change from people who have done it.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.– the Dalai Lama 

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.– Mahatma Gandhi

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.– Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world.

– Malala Yousafzai

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead

And like I always tell you at the end of every blog..."Be the change you want to see"

 

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