Are You Respectful?

Do you treat everyone as an honored guest? Do your wait for acknowledgement before interrupting/ Do you go to be next to the other instead of yelling? Do you seek to listen and understand, before expressing your point of view?

How would things change if we learned how to treat everyone with respect? People would remember how to be respectful. People would realize they deserve to be respected. People would respect themselves and others more.

When we respect ourselves, we teach others by our example. When we respect ourselves, we treat ourselves well. When we respect ourselves, we treat others better. When we respect ourselves, our world grows with respect.

To respect means to look again, to look deeper, to see things differently. To look again means we don’t pass judgment of the surface behavior. To look deeper means we are willing to take the time to listen for the underlying cause. To see things differently means forgive our immediate reaction and seek to respond with Love.

When we respect our children and youth, they respond differently. When we respect our elders, they respond with love and appreciation. When we respect our neighbors, the appreciate us prioritizing their best interest as well as our own. When we respect the earth, the earth provides bountifully with provision and protection.

Respect initiates Responsibility which invites Cooperation. These three qualities are integral to peace and harmony, good will to all humanity. When any one remembers to live with Respect, Responsibility,and Cooperation, we are a blessing. It is our time to make the change we want to see! Respect, Respond and Cooperate.

Do you understand how belief works? When you believe it will do no good, it seems to do no good, so you can be right! When you pretend to be respectful, your thoughts will cancel your words. When you deceive others by doing what they want with a disrespectful attitude, they get the message.

Take time to clean up your disrespect. Forgive all prejudices, belittling judgments, negative attitudes, disrespectful behaviors and languaging. Begin by treating everyone with courtesy, simple etiquette, dropping the need to be right. Explore what is your intention before you speak and act out in a negative or disrespectful way.

Associate with highly respectful people. Put yourself in positions where you will remember to be respectful: Stay sober and sane. Remember that even a little slip makes a different, so clean up your own act first. You are the change you want to see.

Loving you with respect and gratitude, Betty Lue

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