Four Inspirations to Help Ignite One of Your Superpowers
Never Underestimate the Power of Your Ideas!
Introduction
Ideas matter. Not all of them, mind you, but the ones that work out create our world. Whether the idea leads to yet another piece of visual art, music, or writing that has the power to move us and our perspectives into another dimension of awareness or an invention to make life easier – a coffee maker or one that leads humanity to a place it never before dreamed, like Elon’s dream of interstellar travel, ideas rock.
Receiving ideas from the Love field is one of your superpowers! The following examples show that applying a great idea changes the world. Let’s allow the intention of these bright ideas below to ignite our imaginations and let our best ideas take flight.
1. The Cleaning of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A few years ago, Boyan Slat devised a simple idea to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest gathering of discarded plastics in our five oceans. The Patch covers 1.6 million square kilometers.
Every year, 1.1 to 2.4 million additional tons of plastics are released. Did you know over 2,000 rivers worldwide are also cluttered with discarded plastics?
The prospect seemed daunting, but Slat stepped up to the plate with a simple idea and then got to work implementing his idea. The great news is that originally, the non-profit said it would take until 2040 to clean it up.
The most recent news, however, announced an increase in resources, thus increasing the areas cleaned at any one time. The GPGP is projected to be cleared in three to five years! Incredible news!
One person. One great idea is saving countless aquatic sea life, not to mention restoring the natural value of the planet and our waterways.
Boyan’s non-profit is also cleaning up the rivers. For more information, see the website: https://theoceancleanup.com/
2. Microloans or Micro Finance
Dr. Mohammed Yunus of Sri Lanka wanted to help impoverished people, especially women, start small businesses so that women and their communities could become self-sufficient. Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
With ten million borrowers and a 98 percent repayment rate, there are now over ten thousand microlending institutions worldwide. Seeing that Dr. Yunis’ idea has intimately touched over a hundred million people is not a stretch. The United Nations declared 2005 the International Year of Microcredit.
3. The Solar Bottle Bulb
Illac Diaz, an inventor and entrepreneur from the Philippines, created “light” from a soda bottle. The light created by the soda bottle equals the light from a 60-Watt light bulb.
The liter bottle is filled with water and a few drops of bleach to keep the water free from bacteria. The bottle is hung upside down in the middle of a home. A hole is cut in the ceiling, and a reflective protective cover stands over the hole.
The Sun hits the bottle of water and disperses light throughout the space. This method disperses more light into dark houses during the day and early evenings.
Stringing the bottles along village roads lights up an entire community at night. A couple of extra inexpensive supplies, including a long-life battery, make this a viable light alternative for those who would otherwise not have it.
700,000 impoverished people experience this idea, which has been life-changing.
See more here: https://climateheroes.org/illac-diaz-light-by-the-liter/
4. Compassionate Kitchen
Peter Dudar and Sally Marr saw a few displaced hungry people sitting on Cuenca's sidewalk in 2019. Instantly struck with the idea that they could make sandwiches for the people, they acted. Within minutes, the hungry people all had full bellies.
Today, they are in their fifth year of service, seven days a week, and tirelessly devoted to serving the growing numbers of hungry street people and starving artists in Cuenca. They and their Compassionate, mostly friends and ex-pats, dedicate themselves to ensuring no one goes hungry on the streets of our community.
Unlike the U.S., most of the homeless here in Cuenca are not on drugs or addicted. Many are physically challenged, blind, unable to walk, migrants from Venezuela etc., or young, really young mothers with babies.
Observing this Herculean effort to practice loving kindness, a hug, and a sandwich to so many low-income people has inspired and transformed everyone who lives here. The benefits Peter and Sally’s Compassionate Kitchen pay forward are unending.
Talk about having an idea and pouncing on it! Contact me (ks@gridoflight.com) if you want to support the Compassionate Kitchen.
We can all apply our best ideas to increase the Love that Heals us inside and all around us. This Truth never changes.
Conclusion
Today, we briefly explored four ideas, from cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and all our oceans and rivers to providing loans to thousands of women entrepreneurs, lighting up homes and villages where there is no electricity, to friends who, with one simple idea, feed 5,000 hearts, minds, souls, and bellies with loving compassion every month.
Ask the Source of our Being, “What more can we do to heal ourselves and others with Love or a Loving Intention, or a simple idea that can make a BIG difference?” Just for fun, pick something you would like to solve or bring into balance for the rest of us, and ask Love to gift you the idea.
Mucho Love and Intentions of Creative Genius being sent your way,
Kaye
A smile, even with a stranger, can be a creative way to "heal with love." There have been times in my life when I felt completely down and out, thinking no one cared about me or at worst, gloated because I was miserable. At those times, a smile from another person, especially a stranger, can be so healing! A stranger is not involved in the drama that might make one feel depressed, and so it can be seen as "more objective." Now the love of, an in a smile, which helped heal me, has caused me to want to heal others in that way. Love is expansive! Sometimes I pick out a person to smile at, knowing they might not react in a positive way; a smile back, less of a frown, a lighter look and stride, etc. Have no doubt! Love is Reality and Reality is God. That smile, and the love behind it is eternal, just like God. God is Love. When time ends for us, God will be there, in eternity, as He / She is now; waiting for us to drop all dreams and illusions so we can return to our Source. This installment of Love Heals has been so positive! Thank you Kaye and Larry!