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The Day

We invite you to celebrate this day by consciously focusing on love and what it means to you.  We hope that by practicing love in all areas of your life, you will find it natural to use it all year long.  Our main theme explains it best, "Love Begins With Me."

Simply be love.  And if you want to actually do something loving, we have provided several categories to help give you ideas of how you may approach the day.  See the links to the left or above.  Each page will present ideas that you can begin with.  We encourage you to come up with your own ideas (and share them with us!)

Around the World

Catching on around the world, we launched this program in December 2003 for our first celebration on May 1, 2004 and already we have connected with people in over 100 countries.  We hear daily from so many of you supporting our efforts for this event.  You have shown us that this simple idea is one whose time has come.  Plans for our fifth celebration are underway for May 1, 2008!

Over ten dozen community statements, proclamations and greetings include the governors of Maine, Connecticut, Alaska, Iowa, Utah, New Jersey, Montana, Puerto Rico and Florida, US Senators for Florida, US Congressman of NY, and mayors from Ottawa and Calgary, Canada; San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Palm Springs, Milpitas, Calabasas, Huntington Beach and Huntington Park, CA; Cincinnati, Cleveland, Canton, Dayton and Columbus, OH; Cambridge and Lowell, MA, Jackson, MS; Baltimore, MD; Rockford, IL; Michigan City, IN; New Castle, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, PA; Dallas and Houston, TX; Buffalo and New York City, NY; Petersburg, VA; Salt Lake City, UT; Milwaukee, WI; Palm Bay, FL; Minneapolis, MN; Iowa City, IA; Louisville and Middlesborough, KY; Raleigh, NC; Atlanta and Atlanta City Council, GA; and in Florida, Tampa, Sarasota, Largo, Clearwater, Plant City, New Smyrna Beach, Ormond Beach, Cooper City, Edgewater, South Daytona, the Commissioners of Hillsborough County, Pinellas County, and Sarasota County, St. Petersburg and Tampa City Councils.  

And our main flyer is now available in 22 languages. 

In conjunction with Global Love Day, we launched our fourth annual Art, Essay and Poetry Invitational.  This program encourages our youth to participate by sharing their perspective of global love in a creative fashion.  You can see how their amazing efforts turned out for our first annual presentation on the Invitational page and also find information and guidelines for this year's submissions.  

It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. This day marks our annual event calling upon all people and all nations to gather together in peace and love.  This year's theme is appropriately called, "Love Begins With Me".

As we continue to connect with people and organizations around the world, we are amazed at how much is being done in efforts to positively assist humanity.  There are so many wonderful people and associations that are actively working on behalf of a community, nation and even in global proportions.

As we often remind ourselves, what is presented by mainstream information sources is often a narrow and negative perspective of what is happening upon this planet right now.  To the contrary, we see and know that good and right is occurring everywhere.  Look for love and you will see it all around you.

This simple reminder changes the very nature of our experience.  We are what we place our attention upon.  When we allow love to be our focus of life, we expand this in our every day activities.  It is as simple as changing each perspective and allowing the negative and limiting views to be released and replaced by a higher, more loving understanding.

We appreciate and are grateful for the courage each of you express.  In a world that has historically revered the negative and fear based aspects, it takes strength to be and share love.  It is time for love to become our common vision.  

Please join us.  Be a part of this global day by choosing love, compassion, peace, and unity.  Share this information with your friends, relatives and coworkers.  Love locally and spread it globally.  

Think: Global Love Day
Feel: Love Begins With Me
Remember: May 1, 2008

The Initial Vision
(an open letter from our Founder in 2004)

The Love Foundation is delighted to announce the first annual GLOBAL LOVE DAY on May 1, 2004 with this year's theme of Love Begins With Me.  Join people from around the world as we acknowledge, celebrate and share the love we have within.  This is a special day of recalling that love is the link that binds us all.  It is also the awesome power that heals and transforms everything it contacts. 

Each of us is a potent force of love when we allow this energy to express itself.  There is nothing we have to ultimately do, rather we need only allow ourselves to feel and be love.  It is that simple.  Global Love Day is merely our way of saying let's remember love is ours to be and to share every moment of our lives.  

We understand this day is a symbol of what we can do every day of the year.  Our intent is to join together in a conscious recognition that love is always present.  For so many, love is often hidden under layers of hurt, trauma, drama, pain and suffering.  Emotional memories, unspoken doubt, fear, resentment and a multitude of old beliefs often keep us from realizing these thoughts and feelings have no real power over us.  We give them power by living in the past and being afraid of the future.  We ignore the love that is present every moment while embracing limitation.  It is time to change that.  It is time to release ourselves from our own self created bondage.

You and I have the opportunity to make a difference.  Together we can embrace our unlimited self, the part of us that knows love and expresses it naturally and simply.  It is when we accept ourselves just for who we are that we transform the moment into peace, security, joy and love.  This process begins with releasing our limiting beliefs, past mistakes, lack of self worth, pride and ego through the conscious act of forgiveness. It is up to us as individuals to undertake this journey.  We begin the transformation when we turn within and accept our self.  We change the world when we change our perspective.

As we come to know who we are and why we act and react the way we do, we start to see ourselves in the faces of humanity.  The reflection of hurt is our hurt, their pain is our pain, another's anger is our anger.  It is also seen in the face of nature.  Her destruction is our destruction.  These seemingly random expressions are our past thoughts seeking manifestation.  It is our constant reminder that love is the answer.  We build a new reality in this current moment when we let go.  When we choose love over fear, kindness over hate, integration over separation, and peace over war, we bring a new reflection to humanity... our loving selves.

So, please accept our invitation to love.  Join us hand-in-hand as we share our love on this planet once again.

Love, light, and peace, 
Harold W. Becker
Founder/President