{"id":3344,"date":"2014-09-22T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2014-09-22T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:57:10","slug":"day-1-of-next100-stand-up-speak-out-take-action-magnificent-women-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2014\/09\/day-1-of-next100-stand-up-speak-out-take-action-magnificent-women-make-history.html","title":{"rendered":"DAY ONE of #NEXT100 &#8211; Stand Up. Speak Out. Take Action."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Been thinking a lot about personal responsibility, as the news trumpets on, and life marches forward and as change is constant, and the ways we could complain endless. \u00a0Today is Day 1 of the #Next 100 Mel&#8217;s Love Land Challenge to take a stance in your life and quite simply, look at the world with love. \u00a0It is \u00a0the day to remember life begins again in each breath. \u00a0With this next breath it is time to make a shift in consciousness, to choose in this moment to be more loving than the last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We have the opportunity right now to assume any position we want to assume, why not choose Love?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>STAND UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">That man or woman in the mirror who needs to remember the truth of who you are and why you are here on the planet.\u00a0 There are a lot of conversations we could be having about how tricky this situation is, or how caught up I am in my feelings, but the only conversation we need to have is am I being loving.\u00a0 am I being compassionate. am I being kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">This is the stance of remembering we are powerful beyond measure and this is what we take forward as our birthright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\"><strong>SPEAK OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">We can&#8217;t keep up with everything that is taking place in the world and we do no not have time to worry about what we can do nothing about. \u00a0Our voice is important. \u00a0Exercising that voice with love is our responsibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">The focus falls to the individual.\u00a0 It falls to the places and spaces of our playing field.\u00a0 The areas of our hearts were we are in community with the world.\u00a0 Life is an ongoing exercise of love in compassionate action.\u00a0 It is all things in all ways and the essence of a people&#8217;s faith in each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\"><strong>TAKE ACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">Doing the right thing is only possible when we have been taught to practice loving thought, when we have a discipline to move through the every creating illusions of our fears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"right\">Let&#8217;s trust in love and make that the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Take the Mel&#8217;s Love Land pledge | For the #Nex100 days I am going to Consider the Possibility there is Another Way&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanielutz.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.melanielutz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/files\/2014\/09\/Mels-Love-Land-Take-the-Pledge-Next100.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4700\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2014\/09\/Mels-Love-Land-Take-the-Pledge-Next100-300x233.png\" alt=\"Mel's Love Land Take the Pledge #Next100\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May you fully cherish the Love Land of your days as a gentle but firm hand of support pushing you from behind into a deeper practice of \u00a0Loving You (for life.) May you see with your heart and be able to recognize the truth in every situation you encounter letting pure Love ignite your soul with a fierce blaze burning every unnecessary unloving thought and trauma into oblivion opening the sacred space of your inner knowing where you can experience and bring forth who you are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2013\/09\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3429\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2013\/09\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking a lot about personal responsibility, as the news trumpets on, and life marches forward and as change is constant, and the ways we could complain endless. \u00a0Today is Day 1 of the #Next 100 Mel&#8217;s Love Land Challenge to take a stance in your life and quite simply, look at the world with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,66,44,7,4,3],"tags":[52,14,41,321,58,60,323,48,33,12,324,39,38,16,61],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lloveland101","category-100-days-of-love-and-inspiration","category-i-am","category-inspiration","category-love-you","category-media","tag-coming-home","tag-faith","tag-flight-of-the-soul","tag-getting-bare","tag-handle-with-love","tag-healing-center","tag-inspiration","tag-intuition","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-love-land","tag-love-land-tips","tag-love-you-for-life","tag-melanie-lutz","tag-miracles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DAY ONE of #NEXT100 - Stand Up. 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