Dear Friends,

 

Very often you get messages from me about attraction,

purpose and commitment. More often than not they're

about growing your business or some other part of your life.

 

The one most important part of being human...really the 

only important part...is the capacity to love. To give and

receive love.

 

Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut

is about 45 minutes from where I live.  The grief made its

way to us as if it were carried on a lightning bolt.

 

Yes, there are issues around gun control mental illness.

They will have to be dealt with, and the sooner the better.

 

And it would be extremely disrespectful for anyone on any

side of the debate to forget the human faces, the human spirits

that go along with this tragedy.

 

Because as I said, the one most important part of being human...

really the only important part...is the capacity to love. To give

and receive love.

 

Ultimately, this will come down to a sad, sick person, so far

removed from the human experience that he lost the ability

to feel empathy for another human being. He went down a

dark road that ended in unspeakable horror.

 

The answer to this won't be in any legislation. It won't be in

any movement. It won't be in any religion or spiritual mass

movement.

 

The answer will be in you. And me. And how we treat each

other. Our capacity to listen. To offer compassion. And if need

be, to protect those we love, and even those we don't know.

 

We all want to express our grief. Or our outrage. In times of

tragedy we want to do something to make it better.

 

We want to attract good stuff to us, because there's been so

much bad.

 

So rather than contribute more anger, more isolation, more

of the kind of blind hatred that contributed to the events of

December 14, try some of these instead.

 

1. Make a donation to the American Red Cross.

 

2. Give blood. No amount of money will substitute for

blood when that is what's needed.

 

3. Reach out to one or two people in your life who seem to

be lonely, awkward, looking for a connection. Listen to them.

Help them to feel relevant.

 

4. Join the debates about gun control, or mental health treatment

or any other discussions that come out of this. And no matter

what your position is, treat someone with an opposing viewpoint

with dignity and respect. Those who disagree with you are more

than the sum of the label you put on them. And you are more

than the sum of the label you choose to wear for yourself.

 

Violence happens when reason breaks down. 

 

Lead. Be the force of comfort, safety and reason in your world.

 

Honor the memory of those who lost their lives by living yours

with the full capacity to love.

 

Much Love,

Larry