Welcome
We are inviting you to a challenge to all who want to join in.....a challenge to Love! Want to join? OK then, just begin to think loving thoughts, treat others with love, respect, kindness and compassion. Practice loving allowance for all. And, for those of you who would choose to also show your love financially, donate to your favorite charity or give a dollar, a meal or a pair of shoes to those less fortunate.
How different our personal world would be if we focused on love and loving. How different our families would be if we focus on love and loving. And how different our world would be if we focused on love and loving.
I Vote For Love came about during the 2016 Presidential Elections. With all the negative political rhetoric that was going on, it seemed like a good idea to add some Love into the arena. Now that we have gone through other elections, we have seen that this message is timeless.
The message and Love Challenge from "I Vote For Love" is a reminder about the power and focus that Love can do in our lives, for our country and for our world. Just imagine Love being triumphant over the bullying, the terrorism fears and the violence. That Love is triumphant over the negativity that pours out so easily and permeates our country, our neighborhoods, our homes and, most importantly, our lives. We see and hear about the heartbreaking stories through social media, the television news, the internet and our cell phones.
Instead of hate, let's use the language of LOVE, COMPASSION and ACCEPTANCE.
Love is the language of the heart. Love is the action of the heart. I Vote For Love is about a daily choice towards Love and Loving. Let's put a little Love into our lives and share that towards everyone we see, if not in our actions, then in our thoughts and hearts.
THE LOVE CHALLENGE.........
Ready for the Love Challenge? Once you begin to practice conscious love and loving, you have joined the Love Challenge....how simple is that......now go out and LOVE and ENJOY!
A Little Update
It's been many years since this website was created and I have thought about how I wanted to update this. These last years have been filled with an unhealthy division in our country. It breaks my heart because the United States of America is a magnificent country. There has been so hurtful language, reactions and treatment of others. When I see this lack of love for others that is hurtful or intolerant, I know this comes from woundedness. It boggles my mind that we are not all seen as one human race, equal in all ways and loved and always by our creator . It breaks my heart that people with different skin color or religious beliefs or gender or who they choose to love is judged in any way as less than . We are all ONE in the eyes of God. All loved and accepted for just who we are.
The choice of Love is so simple.
We teach a lot about toxic shame, that feeling in the pit of your gut that says you are either better than or less than the person next to you. The feeling that drives our low self-esteem and low self-worth. We develop toxic shame through experiencing or witnessing abuse, abandonment, neglect, or enmeshment in our human development Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually, Intellectually or Sexually. Always, the results of toxic shame are the feeling of either Less Than or its extreme of feeling Superior. We have so much woundedness in our society, in the world. And the FEAR of being re-wounded is great. That fear of being re-wounded drives much of what is dysfunctional and harmful in our world. Love can always conquer fear if we allow it. We can help each other to heal, to Love.
We can choose Love.
We believe in God and we believe that God is pure unconditional love. And we believe that God’s love is more powerful than hate and fear. That God is more powerful than hate and fear. And, most importantly, that God is more powerful than any human. Toxic Shame keeps us judging, blaming or shaming ourselves, others and situations. Fear keeps us in survival. We choose not to live in survival or in fear or in toxic shame. Today we choose love over and over and over, again and again.
Love and Loving is so simple.
Ken and I continually send love to all and pray for the healing and loving of all who are wounded, including ourselves. We are all beautiful, messy, fallible humans. Will you join us?
I Vote For Love encourages each and every person to be loving and mindful as your vote in our current elections and in all future elections. Keep remembering that we are all in this together, one human race, equal in all ways.
And, as in 2016, our Love Challenge is still available to each and every person who would like to join….How about you?
I Vote For Love Challenge:
So this is a challenge to all who want to join in.....a challenge to Love! Want to join? OK then, just begin to think loving thoughts, treat others with love, respect, kindness and compassion. Practice loving allowance for all. Vote with Love, Empathy, Compassion and Mindfulness. And, for those of you who would choose to also show your love financially, donate to your favorite charity or give a dollar, a meal or a pair of shoes to those less fortunate. Once you begin to practice conscious love and loving, you have joined the Love Challenge....how simple is that...now go out and LOVE and ENJOY!
Who We Are
We are two people who have dedicated most of our lives to the practice of love and loving. We were married December 31, 1983, combined our four amazing children into a blended family that has since grown into four amazing in-law children and 7 amazing grandchildren. We live in Mesa, Arizona and work in Scottsdale. Our journey to today has included a day at a time recovery from addictions, trauma and codependence that started in 1976 for Ken and 1982 for Mary. We have a belief in a Loving God that lives in our hearts, minds and spirits and guides and directs our lives everyday. We were taught that fear and love do not co-exist at the same time, that we are either in one consciousness or the other. We do our best to live in a love consciousness, but as we are human beings and imperfect by design, we make mistakes. Always those mistakes create a pain of some kind. Love has always healed that pain. We are not unlike anyone else that has experienced challenges in their lives and have worked to overcome those challenges. The practice of love and loving has aided us in overcoming the challenges that we faced and we believe that love and loving can aid any of us, our country and our world in overcoming any challenge that comes our way.
We hope that this website helps to carry the message of hope and love and we thank you for visiting.
In Love,
Ken and Mary Richardson
Contact Us
You can contact Ken and Mary at kmrc@kmrcaz.com
Ken and Mary Richardson Consulting, LLC
Artwork by Mary Richardson