{"id":2516,"date":"2013-01-02T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2013-01-02T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:03:30","slug":"day-sixty-dawn-of-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2013\/01\/day-sixty-dawn-of-a-new-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Day Sixty &#8211; Dawn of a New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this quote in an office of a Social Worker who day in and day out faces those, who are at the end of their financial line, at the end of their hope in working to provide for their families, at the end of their faith that a different possibility was available to them, meeting each story and person with a smile in her heart.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone can be great<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/files\/2013\/01\/morning-light-at-bats-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2517 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2013\/01\/morning-light-at-bats-head-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><em> Because everyone can serve<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to have a degree to serve<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve<br \/>\nYou only need a heart full of grace<br \/>\nA soul generated by love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words by Martin Luther King Jr. on a faded piece of copy paper hanging blue thumbtacked to the office cubicle wall permeate the day in and day out efforts that unfold as these Angels work within the boundaries of a system pushed to its limits stretching where they can and living in a practice of humanity where everyone is treated with respect. Where the difficulties of circumstance continue to grow but who never stop believing a kind word, a practice of service and an action of love can transform someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Make today a day where you brighten someone&#8217;s day.\u00a0 Be great in your actions and your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of Love,<\/p>\n<p>Melanie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Day Sixty of\u00a0 Melanie Lutz\u2019s 100 days of Love and Inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter, author, and poet<em>\u00a0living in Los Angeles.\u00a0 Follow her on Twitter\u2026.<\/em><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mobilemel\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by @mobilemel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this quote in an office of a Social Worker who day in and day out faces those, who are at the end of their financial line, at the end of their hope in working to provide for their families, at the end of their faith that a different possibility was available to them,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,5,44,7],"tags":[52,41,58,323,48,39,38,35,16,28,31,53],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-of-love-and-inspiration","category-getting-bare","category-i-am","category-inspiration","tag-coming-home","tag-flight-of-the-soul","tag-handle-with-love","tag-inspiration","tag-intuition","tag-love-land-tips","tag-love-you-for-life","tag-meditation","tag-melanie-lutz","tag-nourishment","tag-possibility","tag-self-reliance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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