POWER: Over lives, our children, feels good.
PRESSURE: Force our ideas through our power.
PERSUASION: Coaching, suggestions lead – not push.
PARENTING: Tradition. Do it for me, punish myself, seeing myself in my children, including my mistakes.
POSSESION: Owning. No free will, no true love.
PRIDE: “Make me proud,” regardless o f the price to my children.

The above leads to:

1. A machine, without feelings of their own.
2. Guild in not being a family follower.
3. Spending a lifetime “getting even”
4. Never experiencing true happiness or love.
5. Victimizing your children with your problems caused by the above.

THE CURE:

1. Must change society’s idea of what true love is: Freedom.
2. Society must apologize to its your and mean it.
3. Family must lead, not push.
4. Must not teach tradition as a lifestyle, but as a reference of respect.
5. Must allow one to be one’s self, to develop and grow at one’s own pace, one’s own understanding and coping with life.

A note about Love All People: It is a society – a community – that does exactly what President Reagan said when he signed the $1.7 billion drug law into force. “Society,” he said, “must identify those who use drugs, reach out to them, help them quit, and give them the support they need to live right.”

Love All People does that. We seek out our trouble youth, offering them help through a new lifestyle. We help them quit; then we support their decision to remain drug-free.

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A. “Boring” leads to boredom:

1. Activities
2. Conversations
3. Not doing what you want or what makes you feel good
4. Not being entertained
5. Resisting quietness
6. Resisting being alone
7. Finding people around you boring

B. Boredom leads to suicidal tendencies:

1. Depression
2. Chemical Abuse
3. Final ending – suicide

C. There are three areas that can be used positively or negatively In between these is boredom. They are:

1. Your time
2. Your mind
3. Your energy

If you waste your time, you also waste your mind and your energy. You cannot contain your energy. It must be released in some manner. You can control your energy. get rid of the negative energy.

D. Medicine: Pain, Forgiveness and Love:

1. Learn to face the pain of knowing yourself.
*2. Be willing to forgive. Honest forgiveness can only come with divine help.
3. Be ready to accept love, unconditionally.

E. The Solution:

1. Admit who you are.
2. Accept change, regardless how difficult.
3. Adjust your attitudes.
*4. Adjust your moods, without using chemicals that alter.
*5. Divert your negative energy.
6. Release anger in a positive way.
7. Accept love for what it really is.
*8. Share yourself, your talent, your ideas. Be concerned about others.
9. Do something for someone without returned favors.
10.Listen to relaxing music.
11. Become involved with a needy project.
*12. Love.

NOTE: Most bored people are seeking their past. Bored people are cowards or chickens because they can’t face themselves.
What you do with your time helps your mind and energy.

*If you STUDY this lecture really hard, you will never, ever be BORED!

Copyright ©1990, 2003, 2013

From the time we are born and can recall our feelings, our needs can be traced back to wanting to be loved. We need to feel that we are worthwhile and that our life has a purpose.

We begin a search for “love” and fulfillment that we call happiness when we are babies. We want to be accepted for who and what we are, the way we look, the way we talk, walk and feel.

Can we express our true feelings and ourselves and know without a doubt that we will still be loved? I doubt it. We have been victims of conditional love all of our lives.

So we set out looking for the perfect someone or something that will accepts us without excuses of “why” we are a certain way, but will love us just as we are.

A certain kind of freedom is in this kind of love for which we are searching. We long for it. We seek this love in money, only to find that money cannot fulfill us or love us. We try looking for it in fame, only to learn that fame brings with it another set of rules and restrictions.

We hear that we can be happy and fulfilled with good health, yet that is not necessarily true because most of us are already healthy and yet we take drugs. So that’s not the answer.

We are looking for the main element it takes to survive. That element is unconditional love. Very seldom do we find someone who will love us in this manner. In fact, there is only one person who can truly love us in this way, and that person is our Creator, the creator of love – our God.

Did you know that God, in all His wisdom, glory and power, created us from nothing, formed this world in perfect order and wants and loves for “love” – true love – free love.

In fact, he tells us in His word that we do not have any other God before Him to love. It is one of His requirements for salvation: Love Him, be grateful, respect Him, for without His love, we are aimless humans with nothing to offer, with no real meaning in life.

It is not enough to offer our talents or money or knowledge we need to offer our love. God knew that He could have us all love Him with nothing to say about it, but that would have been a useless and pretentious, powerless love.

So He gave us a free will – a choice. He then allowed negative forces to exist in His world. He loved us with a free, unattached love. If you will just love Him, He will love you back. Even if you don’t love Him, He will not demand or ask questions. He patiently waits for you, and loves you are you are.

You are never too bad, never too dirty or too low that His love cannot reach you. Nobody can love you like that. Not Mom, Dad, wife or best friend. No one can love you with such compassion and forgiveness and such freedom.

We have never really loved before. We have possessed, controlled, mojoed, pretended, used, faked, been selfish, secured, demanded. These are all misguided feelings of “love,” of what we were taught was “love.”

We were little babies and Mom “loved us” so much that she wanted to live our lives for us, possess us. All those things felt like love until one day we realized that something was wrong with that feeling. It was not free. It felt like we were being smothered. Love was conditional – it exacted a price.

If I was good, I was loved and treated kindly. If I was different, wanted attention or was naughty, I was told I was bad and did not deserve Mom and Dad’s love until I could show them I was worthy.

So I set out to find a free love. Someone who would love me when I was naughty and different, even foolish. Someone who, even if I made mistakes in growing up and experiencing life, would love me anyway.

When I could not find this love in pills, pot, permissiveness, profanity, prostitution or pimping, I began to love as I was taught, never feeling a freedom to love, never feeling I could ever become worthy of anybody’s love.

If I became the person they wanted me to be, then I would be loved. That just was not enough to fulfill me. I needed a different kind of love. I found the only source of that kind of love is God, the One Who created love.

Only God can give unconditional love, which can turn my taking pills and pot into pride and prosperity, my promiscuity into promise, my profanity into purpose, my pimping into protection and my prostitution into prestige.

God’s love is a changer and a charger. We will never be happy until we truly have God’s love taking charge of our lives. It is the only love that can truly fulfill.

You may find all those other facts and feelings in loves between Mom, Dad, girl, boy – those whose love we have to earn most of the time – yet you cannot earn God’s love.

No matter how hard you try, it is simply there for the asking we all need this love of God to be truly happy. There’s no way around it. People have lived and died a lonely life, never knowing the reality of God’s love, never really feeling “loved.”

You must learn to love freely without attachments that would control another’s life. Do not attach your love to a commitment. Commit your love freely, unattached. There is a difference; one is wrong, the other is right.

It is such a great feeling to know when someone loves you for your sake, not for love’s sake. When someone loves you, it is for the worst, not the better; it is forever, not just for awhile.

When someone loves you, it is for your freedom to choose not necessarily that person, but life itself. Somebody will always love you. Lift up your heads. Take notice this day that you are loved by somebody. That somebody is God, which makes you somebody, too.

Copyright ©1990, 2003, 2013

This is used in the various workshops to explain how we can honor Christ more effectively in our music or our art. We begin by asking ourselves what business are we in? Are we basically an artist or do we use our art to communicate? There is a big difference.

First, let’s see what Scripture says about communication from the greatest Communicator who ever lived.

Matthew’s 28:19: “therefore, go and make disciples in all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; then teach them to obey all the commandments I have given you, and be sure of this: I am with you always, even until the end of the world.”

Mark 16:15: “You are to go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone.”

This is known as “the great communicator” from Jesus to His disciples.

II Corinthians 5:20 “We are Christ’s ambassadors.”

II Corinthians 5:21 “God made Him who had no sin (Christ) to be sin for us (poured into Him our sins) so that in Him we might become the righteous of God” (in exchange, He poured God’s goodness into us.)

God’s goodness means God’s spirit; His love is poured into us because He knew that Jesus made it very clear that no one is good except our Father in Heaven.

We must be great communicators for Christ with whatever talent God has blessed us. A good example of those who could have been great communicators, but found that they were just great artist could be Mozart.

Mozart was a child prodigy, the pride of Salzburg. He was a performer par excellence. At the age of five, he wrote an advanced concerto for the harpsichord. Before he was ten, he composed and published several violin sonatas, and played from memory the best of Bach and Handel.

He composed numerous opera cantatas, hymns and oratorios, as well as 48 symphonies, 47 arias, duets and quartets with orchestral accompaniments, and over a dozen operas. In fact, he had accomplished some 600 works by the time he died at age 35.

At the time he died, he was living in poverty and died in obscurity. His sick widow was indifferent at his burial. A few friends went as far as the church for his funeral but found it impossible to find his unmarked grave. Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer of all time, became lost forever.

The tragedy of his life was that it was empty and unfulfilled. Why? Mozart’s life ended in tragedy because he never lived in accordance with God’s purpose. Mozart didn’t know God as Lord of his life. He didn’t know what business he was in; therefore, he limited his life and development of his talents because he because he rejected God’s rule or reign. His premature and tragic death was a great loss to all mankind.

How many of us are like Mozart? Are we going to be great performers or great communicators? There are other great performers that did not follow God’s plan for their lives:

(A) Bias
(B) Rogers
(C) Perhaps even Teddy Pendergras.

We should know the business we are in. For example, the railroad industry is struggling today because through the years it has seen itself as being in the railroad business rather than the transportation business.

Similarly, the churches are struggling today because they are in the sheep-tending business rather than the sheep-herding business. In other words, they only take care of those who are in their midst, instead of getting out and involved in the community.

You should know what business you are in. If you are in the performance business, you sometimes are limited to a certain kind of music. As a result, abilities are limited.

When an artist sees their ability as gifts from God, they use those abilities to communicate the truth and the light’ the realness of Jesus whenever the opportunity arises. They will discover new ways of using their talents for God.

A great communicator will always have a vision and will go for that vision. He will strategically organize the steps to reach his dreams and accomplish his goals and his mission for God.

Know this: A Christian artist’s business is communication, not performance. Society’s definition of success is based on accumulation of wealth, power and prestige. For instance, success means doing music, making a living from gaining a reputation, an album, an art show, etc.

The Bible’s view of success is a person who identifies himself as a servant, a person who communicates, a person who is able to fulfill the void with a positive attitude.

“You can perform without communicating, but it is difficult to communicate without giving a good performance.” Focus on being a servant, a communicator, and God will honor your performance.

God will be able to work in our hearts and will turn us into servant-communicators. All along the way, we will be available for God to use us even more in accomplishing His plans in our lives by spreading the Good News of the Gospel through the talent He gave us. At the same time, He will give you the desires of your heart!

Copyright ©1990, 2003, 2013

God created this world. Before God moved with His spirit upon the earth, it was void, without form. There was darkness everywhere. Then God’s spirit moved, and wondrous beauty emerged upon the scene.

His indescribable beauty has been captured somewhat by artists, but of all the colors the artists use, they cannot paint the depth and life of God’s creation, the beauty of nature.

How do we express our feelings to God for His magnificent beauty and creations? Man travels to the moon and sends back pictures of the stars and planets with their awesome beauty yet cannot capture the unlimited power of God, who controls the very movement of the system with precision and perfection.

We want to share God’s beauty with others. We want to try and transmit God’s love through getting a glimpse of His beauty. The painter tries to let the eye conceive His beauty. The psalmist tries to let the ear hear His wonderful melodies in song. The poet tries with rhythm and rhyme; and dancer with movements to silently convey His beauty.

Yet none can truly describe the wonder, the mystery or the depth of God’s creation. He is the greatest of all artists. He created art. Ours are like cheap imitations compared to the real thing.

If you are an artist, what a privilege it is to be an instrument through which to convey God’s creation in voice, dance or brush. We attempt to share God’s love for all. Remember his beauty reveals silently the secrets which man tries time and time again to discover. He reveals the truth of which we are in constant pursuit.

You are a true artist of God. You are not just an entertainer, but an artist. There is a difference between and artist and an entertainer. An entertainer will sometimes compromise, but an artist will never betray his art.

Today, as always, art, plays, movies and music have the greatest influence upon our lifestyle, trends and attitudes. They change the course of time; they influence all cultures. They have great power to convince the eyes, ears and emotions.

The world needs good Christian artists, true to God, displaying God’s wonderful love through His creation of us and with the beauty in which He surrounds us.

If the arts and today’s negative music can so influence man to be negative, to revel, to commit suicide, then so can the Christian artist move man to choose life, to love His Creator, and to be positive, productive children of God.

The power of music is demonstrated in the Old Testament: When Solomon had finished building the temple, … “All the Levites who were musicians… stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the Lord… then the temple was filled with a cloud and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God” (2 Chr. 5:11-14.)

Love All People produces redirected Christian artists. We are committed through our music, our body movements, our poetry and our plays to convince men to turn to God, the Creator, and to find their real purpose in life.

We are dedicated to bring joy and comfort, hope and happiness, peace and perseverance. We are most dedicated to bring them the “gospel” – the good news – to present the choice of Jesus and life. I am proud to be a Christian, an artist and a pastor.

Copyright ©1990, 2003, 2013

Congratulations! We are all on our way to mending broken hearts, broken lives, broken dreams and broken spirits. We are on our way to mending these broken pieces back to completeness.

What will it take to mend a broken heart? It will take giving your heart! What will it take to mend a broken life? It will take giving of your life. What will it take to mend a broken dream? It will take the sharing of your own dreams and vision.

It is easy to say, but difficult to do. How can we just give so much of ourselves unselfishly, and get nothing in return? I don’t understand how it works, but all of a sudden, in giving, I find that There is a mending taking place in my own life too!

My broken dreams are coming true; my broken heart is mending. My broken life is coming together better than ever before. What is happening? Could it be that the more I mend other people’s lives, the more I mend myself? Could it be the more I give to others, the more it comes back to me? The more I seek to help others, the more I help myself?

In other words, I have to lose my life to find life. (Find it in the Bible – it’s there!) I have read that saying over and over and been confused about its meaning. Now I have a better idea of what it’s all about.

What is music without life and heart and soul put into it? It is just a beautiful piece of art. It cannot have life until someone gives it life; and in the very act of giving it life, I find life. How simple to understand yet how difficult it is to achieve this concept.

In Love All People, I have found that there is a better way for my life than the way it was before. I have learned that when I am feeling down, I can always look up. When I am up, I can always look down to help others.

Use me, Lord, to life people up, to mend broken lives. Only then will I be lifted up with a life that I have never known, a feeling that I have never felt, an understanding I have never had before. I will know a love that I have never before received or shared.

I know now that it is in giving that I find joy, and in joy can also be suffering. Through the tears, I can smile; and in smiling, I can cry. It is simple to see, yet difficult to understand.

When I see myself, I sometimes see someone else, and when I see someone else, I sometimes see myself. So I do understand that when I help that someone else, I am helping the “me” I see through that person.

When I love myself, I can truly love that other person, since I can see myself in them. I am mending broken hearts, for my heart is broken for others.

Copyright ©1990, 2002, 2008, 2013

I have heard time and again in my years of dealing with young people that “I didn’t want to do it; they made me do it.”

How powerless are we that we allow someone to dictate what action we will take to solve a problem, of how we will react to a problem, or what method we will use to reach a goal?

We react in different ways, some negative, some positive. Usually a negative response is the first reaction because we feel threatened, unprotected, overpowered or weak. We want to prove that we aren’t any of those things, yet in the action of proving ourselves, we could be destroyed. We lose sight of our vision, lose control of ourselves, in wanting to hurt and gain control of others.

No one can “make” us do anything we do not wish to do. In many cases, others simply give us the “excuse” we needed so we could do that wrong act anyway, since we knew all along it wasn’t right.

Sometimes we go through our entire life time waiting to “get even” with someone. The mere act of getting even makes you the loser. It puts you on the same low level as the person who originally “did you wrong.” Holding grudges only makes you feel worse about yourself.

Some people need to be motivated in whatever they are doing. A little encouragement and they will do the wrong thing. Likewise, they need to be pushed into a positive direction, like getting the job done. If a person is self-motivated, he is usually in control of the situation.

The person who motivates others can be in a dangerous position. He will get blamed for all that goes wrong, and rarely credited for success. Those who are being motivated rarely want to take responsibility for their own actions.

Why is it that you do certain things I ask and not others? The answer is simple. You only do that which you wish to do. You don’t ever do what you don’t really want to do, unless it means saving your life; and some people would rather die than be made to do anything.

Eventually the choice must be made – submit yourself to authorities and rules or remain miserable and fight for what you want, even when you know it’s not in your best interest. That stubborn nature will lead to nowhere. To survive and become successful, you must learn to react totally differently than before.

The talents you and I have an the careers we choose requires us to make decisions about how we will use our talents and how we will help others. I have to realize that God gave me the power to choose and to act upon my decision in a positive way.

Sometimes I choose the right way, and then react in a negative manner concerning the decision. I must be willing to pay the price for wherever I choose to go an how high I choose to climb.

The power in me will take me to great heights. I must first realize that I have more problems than the average person my age due to decisions I made in the past. I am now paying the price for those decisions.

I will correct myself, renew my strength and redirect my energy. I will take the responsibility to be somebody, with hopes, dreams and ideals. I will do this not only for myself, but for others whom I can help.

I must realize that not everyone will love me or respect me. Not everyone will forgive me, pray for me and support me. Not everyone will encourage me or need me. When I accept this fact, I am starting on the road to success.

I must take special care to watch out for the enemies of my new life. There will be pressures, including the pressures of success, competition and loneliness. This could lead to drinking, smoking, drugs, affairs and false pride.

I know that to win the battle, I will need to make and keep a commitment to my dreams and goals. I will need to take responsibility for my own actions. I will use the power within me, and I will succeed.

Copyright ©1990, 2002, 2008, 2013

Why are we afraid of success? Why do we strive to be successful and then, when we get close, tend to run in the opposite direction?

We are afraid because we know that in order to succeed we must be disciplined and committed to our career. Most of us don’t want to be disciplined. Even when we were children and our parents or teachers tried to teach us discipline, we fought it. We wanted to do what we wanted, when we wanted to do it. We did not want to make any commitments because that takes responsibility.

It’s not easy to be a responsible person. It means that we can’t lay the blame on anyone but ourselves for our success or for the messes we get into. It’s always easier to blame someone of something else for our problems, our mistakes, our shortcomings. As a culture, we are taught to look for the easier, softer way.

We are afraid to succeed. Being successful demands a great deal of us. It dictates our lifestyles, our family and friends and our social life.

We can choose to succeed or we can choose to fail. It is our choice. We are in control. It is easier to choose failure because we know how that feels. We are afraid of success; it is an unknown. But there are new exciting challenges and ideas ready and waiting for us if we go after them.

Change is a new beginning. We don’t like changes because we don’t know what’s going to happen. But everyone and everything changes, just as the seasons do. We change from childhood to adulthood, from foolish to wise and from failure to success.

We have a free will. It is our choice. The changes will occur whether we like them or not. The secret is learning to cope with each stage of change in order to grow.

Sometimes we do not cope well with the ongoing changes, and we act spoiled. We need to make up our minds right now that we are ready to cope with the changes without help from “friends” who turn out to be enemies as they try to control and lead us to failure.

There are no magic formulas to success. We can’t wave a imagine wand and poof, we are successful. Here are some ideas of what it takes to become successful:

S: Sacrifice. You must be willing to sacrifice your personal desires, sometimes time with friends, family and fun, and discipline yourself. Control those desires which lead you away from success and work hard.

U: Utilize everything in your possession to “make it happen.” Know your assets and use them; know your capabilities and be ready to expand your potential.

C: Commitment. Be committed to yourself. Get your priorities in order; know what it takes to come out ahead.

C: Challenges. Don’t be afraid to accept new challenges and do things you’ve never done before. Welcome new ideas and suggestions and step out on faith.

E: Enjoy yourself. You must train your body and emotions to enjoy different pleasures and not follow those things which will distract you from your course. Accept and enjoy your lifestyle and your career and the demands that go with it.

S: Select something that you know is you, a career and lifestyle that you love doing. Do not change or compromise for anything less.

S: Savior. You cannot make it without a “savior.” You will need Jesus in your life, your career and your family. You must have His Spirit of love and faith to make it. You must have someone that you can totally trust and depend upon. You cannot leave Him out and become completely successful.

“Success” becomes a “mess” when you are:

S: Scared to succeed because of change, challenges or for whatever reason.

U: unsure of yourself, your plans, your talents, you potential.

C: Committed to the wrong career – a career you have chosen that is really not for you, one which you don’t enjoy and pursue it to failure.

C: Copeless. You can’t cope with change, but stay in the same old rut.

E: Envy. Jealousy and envy of your friends that are headed for success.

S: Succumb. To yield, to submit to force, to give in. Giving up generally leads to failure.

S: Sad. All the sad people who go to their graves, unfulfilled, unloved, unsure, unsuccessful.

You choose today. Which will it be: success – or mess?

Copyright ©1990, 2002, 2008, 2013

We need to set short-term goals in order to reach our long-term goals. Move, step-by-step, toward your long-term goals. Plan each step carefully and make each one count. We do this for several reasons:

(1) It gives us a firm foundation;

(2) It prepares us for our long-term goal; and

(3) It helps us learn patience in reaching our long-term goals.

We will be constantly reminded of our long-term goals, and won’t give up so quickly. As long as we keep them in front of us, we won’t cop out on ourselves by making lame excuses as to why we couldn’t make it.

When we are planning for and reaching toward our goals, always plan to take someone along with you on your climb. Help someone along the way. This keeps you climbing and pushing onward and upward.

You won’t let yourself down, nor will you let down the person who has faith in you. Don’t forget all the people and friends you needed when you were on the way up. Make use of their services and help, but don’t step on them.

Impatience is your greatest enemy. Doubt is to patience and hope as water is to fire. It will put it out every time. Be patient. Your time will come. Be ready for the break when it arrives. Always reach for the top; don’t settle for less. Do your best at all times.

Know exactly what you want. Dream about it; visualize it. Act as if it has already happened! Somehow it all comes together as you have planned.

Never yield to pressure. Don’t let the words “I can’t” enter your mind. If you know you are right and know you can do it, then stick to it until it’s done. This is your life. You must do what is good for you, not for anyone else.

Always seek God’s wisdom and grace in your plans. He will give you both. Be watchful and pray. Learn from experience, and you will find out what is good for you. If you make mistakes, forgive yourself and go on.

Copyright ©1990, 2002, 2008, 2013

To change is a challenge, a dare. When a new member comes into Love All People, we employ certain ideas, goals and challenges to help that new member adjust to a new, positive lifestyle. We begin with a “dare.”

“Dare” spells success when applied to daily life while in and after leaving Love All People. Spell it out and see for yourself.

D: Stands for a desire to change and be happy, to enjoy life. It’s a desire to “be somebody,” to be successful. It’s a desire to fill an empty void, to know who you really are – to love and be loved.

It’s a desire to follow a lifelong dream, to achieve your goals and discover your potential. It’s a desire to live and change your old lifestyle plagued with drugs and alcohol.

This desire comes for some of us after we have hit rock bottom and can go no further and survive. It comes from a positive influence of another person who has proven that change can happen. (What God has done for others, He will do for you.)

The desire to change must be greater than the desire to continue the old lifestyle. This is the bottom line for the motivation for change. A person who does not desire change or is not willing to expose him/herself to change will never change.

A: Stands for admit, accept, apply and adjust. If you desire to change enough, you will admit you have a problem, not society, not your parents. You are responsible for your own actions. Admit you need help, and then be willing to accept the help you ask for. Do not be too proud. Seek a balance (center) for your life. Don’t be too proud, but don’t be too humble, either. In other words, seek help, but don’t go overboard and be weak and helpless, seeking instant results. You will end up feeling inferior.

Accept the change, new ideas and new lifestyle. Give yourself a chance to see if you really want this change. If you really want this change, the desire will become greater than staying in the same rut.

Allow new ideas to sink into your subconscious mind – positive ideas about yourself. Accept yourself just as you are. You are unique; you have characteristics, personality traits and talents that make you special.

Apply the new ideas and lifestyles to yourself. Feel the deference. Decide whether you like the “new” you. Adjust to your new lifestyle with Love All People.

Adjust you actions and your attitude to meet the Love All People’s standards and guidelines. They have been proven to work in gaining self-esteem, becoming successful and living a new and positive lifestyle.

R: Stands for reality. Life is real, not fantasy. We must learn to live in reality and stop trying to escape. Learn to walk through the pain, and you will learn to appreciate the lessons you learn and the ultimate joy on the other end.

Remove the old and bring on the new. Take off your old negative influences – get rid of them – and replace them – with attire that has a positive influence in your life. Your inner feelings are revealed through your outer appearance.

If you feel good inside, you look good on the outside. Smiling on the inside shows through your beaming face; you can’t hide your feelings. They will always show through.

Replace old ideas with new ones. Replace old friends with new, true friends. Remove guild, hate and fear, and receive in its place truth and God’s forgiveness.

Rededicate your life to constructive living and actions. It is a fact that you will act one of two ways – either constructively or destructively. There’s no in-between. Everything you do has its effect on you and your recipient in either a positive or a negative way.

Repent (turn away) from the old ways and be willing to change. Receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Let Him direct your path. He will give you the desires of your heart.

Let His Spirit consume your old spirit, allowing you to love and be loved, to forgive and ask for forgiveness, to be kind and patient and understanding.

E: Stands for enjoyment and excitement. You will become so excited and full of joy that you will want to share this new feeling with others. You must give it away to keep it.

The feeling is never lost once truly found. Sometimes it seems blocked by confusion, but it is always there. Enjoy the newness – new discoveries, new attitudes, new friends and a new life.

This new life teaches us how to love, how to forgive. The formulas we share we have found as a family who has been there and found our way back. We want to tell others that you can come with us – to freedom – to show others and point the way!

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