Global Love Day - May 1st

The Day

It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. We honor each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and call upon all people and all nations to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love.
Global Love Day is the universal recognition of our innate oneness through love.  When we come from this limitless love we naturally and easily embrace ourselves and our fellow humanity.  Opening our heart, we allow unconditional love to be our guide and compassion to be our gift to life.

We invite you to celebrate with us by consciously focusing on love and what it means to you throughout this day.  We hope that by practicing love in all areas of your life, you will find it easy to love unconditionally all year long. 

Our main theme explains it best...

"Love Begins With Me"

What I Can Do

Simply be love.  Let the love within your heart be the focus of your awareness throughout the day.  Allow yourself to be accepting, forgiving, peaceful, joyful and in harmony with yourself and all life around you.  Just be!
Allowing unconditional love to be your primary intention is the main idea, and if you find yourself also wanting to actually "do" something loving or share the day with others, 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 suggestions that you can begin with.  We encourage you to come up with your own inspired, creative ideas and expressions. 

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 139 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 eighth celebration of humanity are underway for May 1, 2011!

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