SURRENDER TO LOVE:

Sub-minimum Wage

“Where there is hate, let me sow love”  From the prayer of Saint Frances.  I would add, “Where there is ignorance, disprespect and fear, may I remember to sow love.
 

For the last few days, there has been a discussion on a facebook page of whether or not sub-minimum wage should be outlawed.  Self advocates with disabilities argue that the ability of an employer to pay a person according to his or her productivity devalues his or her work.  They don’t recognize the need for such a system for the benefit of people whose abilities are so low that they could not be employed if they won their case with the City Council.  It just now occurs to me that they also don’t realize that they, themselves, might also be out of their jobs if, in the eyes of their employers, their  productivity did not warrant the minimum wage.
 

It’s been very seductive for me to get caught up in arguing about this, actually making an effort to educate people and help them broaden their perspecitves to  think in terms of “both/and” instead of “either/or” or “me vs you.”    Now, I realize that while on some level that could be helpful, on another level, I’ve simply been adding fuel to a fire when I could have been quietly sending loving thoughts into it.  I’ll start now.  It may not quench the fire, but it has already begun to change how I feel, which I am trusting can do as much or more to help the situation than continuing to try to answer comments by people not interested in any other point of view. 

May I remember, today, to continuously bring myself back to my goal of living from love, immersing myself and others in it.  Fortunately, one doesn’t have to, in fact, can’t deserve love.  Love is.  If I send it, I can’t really know if it will help the others, but I know from experience it will help me; and then, how I am changed by it will impact how I am, feel, act and how others feel as a result of my ripple effect.
 

I surrender to love.  I surrender to love.  I surrender to love.