This book was written for everyone who could benefit from more love in their lives. Isn’t that all of us? When we turn on the news, we hear about anger, hate, and division. The drama and pain that accompanies it is all around us. The good news is that there is an answer.
It may sound simplistic and cliché to say that love is the answer, but real, authentic, unconditional love
is the answer to alleviating the pressure of vitriol and lessening the weight of depression. Even if you doubt love’s extraordinary power to make things better, I hope that we can all agree that love won’t make things worse.
It is because of this conviction—that we can all benefit from love—that the Love Is Action Community Initiative was created. Love Is Action’s mission is to connect community stakeholders, including businesses, the faith community, government services, non-profit social service organizations, justice and law enforcement, education, mental health, civic groups and clubs, and concerned individuals, to help prevent child sex trafficking, child abuse, suicide, substance abuse, homelessness, and other societal ills. This is a grassroots effort that we hope will grow into a groundswell of community stakeholders reducing the societal ills in their neighborhoods by putting their love into action.
With or without the structure of a community initiative, each one of us can do things that are no big deal to us, but which can make an enormous difference in the lives of others. This book will show you how and why this is important to you and to everyone around you.
I challenge you to put your love into action for thirty days and to see what happens. The quickest way to begin is to put down the electronics and give the simple respect and dignity of eye contact and authentic human connection. This first step, followed by the suggestions included at the end of each chapter, will enrich your life in ways you may never have thought possible. I’d love to hear your story on the Love Is Action Community Initiative Facebook page. Look us up and join the conversation.
—Excerpt from the Introduction by Rhonda Sciortino
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