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Founder’s Global Love Day Address
May 1, 2006
Welcome Dear Friends to Global Love Day 2006,
Today we stand as one humanity sharing the vision, wisdom and knowing that unconditional love is the way to universal peace, health, abundance, and joy. Across the face of this planet, countless people are joining us in this celebration of humanity – the recognition that we are all united in love.
What began as a flicker of potential is rapidly becoming a beautiful flame in the hearts of humanity. You and I are fanning this flame of love into a living reality by using it in our everyday life. By our individual and collective courage, we are becoming the example of a new era filled with love. Through forgiveness and self acceptance, tolerance and compassion, we are embracing one another and the very life essence that weaves throughout our existence.
We see now with open eyes that we are in fact interconnected and interdependent. Love is not constrained by borders or classes, riches or poverty, intellect or ignorance. Love is far grander than any limit we have ever placed upon it in our minds. When we view the earth from afar, it is wondrous and alive, filled with unlimited potential to become even more. It is by harmony and unity that we discover and manifest this potential.
We now understand that we do make a difference through love. Our heart pulses to the same beat everywhere and we hear the call to love one another as we love ourselves. This is practical, this is simple and this is our journey. By accepting our strength and ability to transform our own lives we become a beacon and a way shower of potential to those around us. One by one we come together. Heart to heart we link and in an instant the world has become one filled with universal peace, health, abundance, and joy.
Miles, moments, languages and limitations dissolve this day as we share in our unique gatherings around the world. We come together as a symbol this May 1st to share the love that is ever present to us everyday.
Love, light and peace,
Harold W. Becker
Founder and President
The
Love Foundation, Inc
Founder’s Global Love Day Address
Today tens of thousands around the world are sharing in this experience and are placing their attention upon the wisdom of unconditional love. Connecting heart to heart, we hear the call to accept one another and walk boldly forth arm in arm. By expressing tolerance and compassion we dissolve the old memories of pain and struggle, hatred and doubt, and in return we dance with diversity.
Global Love Day is a symbol and a recalling that love is the natural order of life every moment. It is a remembrance that only love heals and only love is permanent. All else is but the ever shifting sands of time and experience.
Love begins with me this day as I accept and forgive the mistakes of the past. Only when I seek this resolve within can I know how to accept and love those around me. We leave our mark upon this wondrous journey not through our possessions, rather through our integrity and dignity, wisdom and understanding. When we honor our path, we honor those around us and life responds in joy.
Let us dance to a new song this day and let history record this moment as a new dawn of love upon the planet. This is the moment we set aside our fear and begin sharing love. Simply be love this day and every day.
Love, light and
peace,
Harold W. Becker
Founder and President
The Love Foundation, Inc.
Founder's Global Love
Day Address
May 1, 2004
Welcome to the First Annual Global Love Day.
As we gather in our hearts in every nation and in every land, we come together as a beautiful reflection of love. This day is a symbol that love unites us all.
Today, we join hands and hearts as we begin to listen to the rhythm of life and the song of love. We turn our attention to the love within and watch as it quietly restores balance and presents the solutions to the problems we seem to face.
We honor this day as we acknowledge we are one humanity upon this planet. We realize once again we are interconnected and interdependent and that we all share in the Universal bond of love. We remind ourselves love must begin with self acceptance and forgiveness and that when we share our tolerance and compassion we embrace diversity. On this day and every day we make a difference through love.
We dwell in the present moment, accept our past and let our future unfold. We gaze upon each other and see ourselves. We open our hearts and allow love to flow. We look around and see beauty instead of shame, wisdom instead of ignorance, grace where there once was fear. We set aside our differences and accept our oneness. On this day and every day we make a difference through love.
Now is the time for us to heal, to forgive and to love. It is our moment to recall we are all in it together and there is no real separation between us. We all laugh, we all cry and we all love. Our thoughts, feelings, words and actions are felt by everyone. Our real strength and power is when we come from unconditional love. This may be the first Global Love Day, yet in our hearts we can live this way every day.
Perhaps we begin a new day upon this wondrous planet, a day that history will record as the return of love… the day we remembered each other as a global family.
Love,
light and peace,
Harold W.
Becker
Founder and President
The Love Foundation, Inc.
Global
Love Day Message from Raphael Oko
Nigeria Volunteer Coordinator for May 1, 2004
Distinguished
ladies and gentlemen, my dear brothers and sisters in love gathered here
today to observe the first Global Love Day event holding across the
globe including our country
As
you are already aware, this is the first of this kind of event and this
year's theme is "Love Begins With Me". You have decided to
participate in this global event in
I
will like to share further but let me pause to take this song of love.
Please, rise and join me and let us all together sing this song of love:
"Today,
is the day of love, a day of love, a day of love
I say, today is the day of love, a day of love, a day of love.
Come and join me, today is the day of love, a day of love, a day of love
I say, today is a day of love, a day of love, a day of love"
Beloved
brothers and sisters, I want to thank you for your interest and support
for The Love Foundation initiative of Global Love Day, especially for
joining us in
As
observers of the GLD in
In
Nigeria, we have began with the mobilization for this event and shall
continue to create a strong public awareness among young people,
teachers, government officials, community leaders, and all Nigerians on
the importance of love in re-shaping this world that has seen more
hatred for self, others and all things and have prevented us from loving
others as we should love ourselves. We have gathered here today to
facilitate a movement toward the realization of the "Re-birth of a
Loving Nigeria Nation." We shall continue to be actively involved
in mobilizing Nigerians from diverse backgrounds and encouraging them to
work together in love for the betterment of all people. The key message
today is that "Love Begins With Me". This is the lesson we
should teach others all through the day and hereafter. Let us be willing
to give love before asking for love from others. This is the path of an
Ambassador of Love. The Holy Book puts, "For God so loved the
world...". Let us also begin to love and share the love all around
our nation.
This
gathering would not have been possible, if Founder of the Love
Foundation did not initiate it. Let us all remember him and others
working with him as we observe this day, let us celebrate and remember
the many of us who have been killed because of hatred and resentments.
Let us really "Love Without Borders".
After
today's observation, we will be continuing a very busy and fruitful
schedule of programs all geared towards the GLD 2005. Our efforts, we
hope will expand to the level that in every household, Nigerians will be
living in love with one another. WE shall recognize and confer
"Ambassadors of Love" award on distinguished Nigerians, whose
love live in 2004 embody the ideals of love. We hope to get the teaching
of love into our school system as well as establish Community Teaching
and Learning Centres in
Furthermore,
we shall hold an All Nigerians Conference on Love, where we shall
convene a National Assembly of Nigerian Ambassadors of Love. We shall
continue to keep the flag of love flying everyday from this day forward.
What else shall I say than to welcome you in love to this year's GLD in
I
wish you a memorable celebration and pray that you too can become an
"Ambassador of Love" by spreading the good news of GLD to your
family, tribe, state and all you meet in your activities. May the Love
of the Most High be with you all. Thank you.
In
Love and Peace,
Raphael Ogar Oko