{"id":4979,"date":"2014-12-28T05:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T05:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2014-12-28T05:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T05:09:53","slug":"day-95-mels-love-land-next100-dawn-of-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2014\/12\/day-95-mels-love-land-next100-dawn-of-a-new-day.html","title":{"rendered":"DAY 95 MEL\u2019S LOVE LAND #NEXT100 | 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Everyone can be great<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Because everyone can serve<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>You don\u2019t have to have a degree to serve<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>You don\u2019t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>You only need a heart full of grace<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A soul generated by love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">These 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 to\u00a0transform someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Make today a day where you brighten someone&#8217;s day. Be great in your actions and your efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1801 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wholelottaloveland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"Be great\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With Infinite Love and Gratitude<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">As an interesting side note on the influences of Love. Martin Luther King, Jr. was influenced directly by the work of Mahatma Gandhi. \u00a0Check out Gandhi&#8217;s originating thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1802 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wholelottaloveland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/service2-e1401445565364.jpg\" alt=\"Gandhi lose yourself in service\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Here&#8217;s how MLK, Jr. gave life to this thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1803 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wholelottaloveland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/mlk-jr-quote-e1419742243540.jpg?w=425\" alt=\"mlk-jr-quote\" width=\"425\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today is DAY 95 MEL\u2019S LOVE LAND #NEXT100 | Dawn of a New Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Take Mel\u2019s Love Land Pledge!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Repeat after Me)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>For the #Next100 Days I am going to consider the possibility there is another way\u2026.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(add whatever \u2018feels right\u2019 allow it to be your reality evenif it is just for one moment, revel in the idea that there is another way to look at it and allow yourself the privilege of true sightbeyond your perceptions because whatever follows \u2018I will consider the possibility there is another way\u2019 will be the direction that you set \u2013 make it count)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For the next 100 days I am going to consider the possibility there is another way, I won&#8217;t worry about what I don&#8217;t have, I will allow myself to be in service to what my heart full of love requests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For more information check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanielutz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.melanielutz.com<\/a>\u00a0all systems love AND \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B00PX8QUVC\" target=\"_blank\">the Kindle edition of Mel\u2019s Love Land it is available for NOW<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Mels Love Land is not a place you can go to on a map. It is an experience of yourself within, an experience of deep and abiding peace of mind, body and spirit, a place where you can wake up in full joy of your being and fully participate in every process of<br \/>\nyour life enraptured in the sacredness of your truest home, that space\u00a0<strong>where love and forgiveness meets an open heart becoming a soulful force of nature.<\/strong>\u00a0 Get out there and be loving. \u00a0SUPER LOVING. RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For more information check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanielutz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.melanielutz.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/amzn.com\/B00PX8QUVC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1787\" src=\"https:\/\/wholelottaloveland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/img_4423.jpg?w=113\" alt=\"Mels Love Land Melanie Lutz Baskets of Love\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/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":[66,212,7,4],"tags":[323,48,38,16,28,32,31,21],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-of-love-and-inspiration","category-all-systems-love","category-inspiration","category-love-you","tag-inspiration","tag-intuition","tag-love-you-for-life","tag-melanie-lutz","tag-nourishment","tag-peace","tag-possibility","tag-soul-mates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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