Author: Anne

"Love Can Build A Bridge"I'd gladly walk across the desertWith no shoes upon my feetTo share with you the last biteOf bread I had to eatI would swim out to save youIn your sea of broken dreamsWhen all your hopes are sinkin'Let me show you what love meansLove can build a bridgeBetween your heart and mineLove can build a bridgeDon't you think it's time?Don't you think it's time?I would whisper love so loudlyEvery heart could understandThat love and only loveCan join the tribes of manI would give my heart's desireSo that you might seeThe first step is to realizeThat it all begins with you and meWhen we stand togetherIt's our finest hourWe can do anything, anythingKeep believin' in the powerLove and only loveLove and only loveWords to: Love Can Build A Bridge sung by The Judds 1990 Songwriters: John Barlow Jarvis / Naomi Ellen Judd / Paul OverstreetLove Can Build A Bridge lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Mike Curb Music REFLECTION:How do you show love?Is there someone you are in relationship with whom there is a divide?What if you could build a bridge?  Are you willing to try? How can you build a bridge?  Don't you think it's time?  Don't you think it's time?  Start today because you can do anything, anything... with love and only love!

You must constantly ask yourself these questions:  Who am I around?  What are they doing to me?  What have they got me reading?  What have they got me saying?  Where do they have me going?  What do they have me thinking?  And most important, who do they have me becoming?  Then ask yourself the big question:  Is that okay?  Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.Quote by Jim RohmREFLECTION:As we begin to turn the page on 2020, reflecting on your life and the people in it, who have you become?Is that okay?What changes do you want to commit to in 2021?

"The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation, speaking our fears, listening to the fears of others, and in that sharing of vulnerabilities, discovering a genesis of hope."It extraordinary how a simple act of sitting around a table and speaking and listening can actually solve issues that have proven previously unsolvable. Quote from:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks  - Rabbi Sacks was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author, and politician. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013.  He died November 7th, 2020 at the age of 72.REFLECTION:What is a conversation that is needing to be had?How can you sit around the table (physically or metaphorically) to solve an issue that has alluded you?As we approach the holidays, begin to give thought to the conversations you want to have with loved ones?How can you speak to your fears and vulnerabilities?How can you use this time for healing and mending relationships through conversation?