WHAT CAN YOU DO

WHAT CAN YOU DO
These are a few suggestions to help you to create new ideas for how you and your community might respond to new ideas of presenting the power of Love, forgiveness and non violence.
1.   Commit yourself to make forgiveness as natural and as important as breathing and eating in your life as well as your community’s life.
2.   Create Forgiveness Garden or Parks in your church and in your own neighborhoods.
a.    Encourage schools and children groups of different racial composition to create Forgiveness Gardens.
b.    Reach out to Muslim individuals and
Organizations and join with them to create Forgiveness Gardens to remind us to forgive our misperceptions of each other.
3.   Create a Forgiveness Community Evening or Weekend for your community.
a.    This could be an evening or a day where people share their stories how forgiveness works in their lives. Have Children and adults involved in the story telling. Share stories on how forgiveness and be an important stepping stone to bring about non violence in our communites.
b.    A panel could talk about the benefits of forgiveness and the deficits when we do not forgive.
4.   Children’s Art Contest for your community.
a.    Children drawing pictures of what forgiveness means to them
b.    A mural on some wall in the community
c.     A bill board that would show this mural
5.   Begin to volunteer at schools and help create the possibility of motivating teachers to take the first fives minutes of each school day to help children with their grievances and anger and how they might use forgiveness in their lives.
6.   Read the book, Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All and pass it around to others.
7.   Do your best when having conversations with others to share a forgiveness story of your own or of someone else.
8.   Help us create a Book titled ForgivenessWorks.. Stories that can change your life. Send in your story to ForgivenessWorks.org or send it to Jampolsky/Cirincioone 98 Main Street, #777 , Tiburon, California
9.   If you wish to pass out the shoe inserts that heals one soul that state: May Every Step You Take Be One Of Forgiveness, you can order them by phoning Jonathan at 510-570-0666.
10. Think of new ideas of spreading forgiveness. For example you can make a your own Forgiveness Tool Chest: Put the Forgiveness book in it. Where there was a hammer, put an x and state we are no longer going to hammer people, the same thing for the chisel in that we will not chisel any one; the same thing for screwdriver in that we won’t screw people any more. And put a mirror in to remind you to forgive yourself. Pass on this idea and encourage adults and children to create their onwn forgiveness tool chest.
11. Go to your local Public Television Station or local Access Television Station and encourage them to put television programs on the air that are related to forgiveness and non violence. Be willing to help them create such a program.
12. Remind yourself and others that forgiveness is a choice which will get you out of feeling a victim and will empower you live in the present and release the past
13. Remember that Forgiveness means giving up all hopes for a better past.
14. Interface with existing group…Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, YWCa, etc.
15. Ask yourself and others to buy a sack of potatoes. Put the names of people you have not forgiven on the potatoes, one potato at a time. Get a plastic bag and commit yourself to carry the potatoes with you wherever you.
      The next day repeat the exercise adding potatoes to new people you have not forgiven.
      Feel the heavy load you are carrying around with you because of your unforgiving thoughts. Consider the possibility that it might be to your advantage to forgive those people so you have no potatoes to carry around with you any more.