You can only change yourself

A few days ago, things went beyond what I imagined. The scene, the people's reaction were even better, the vibe in the room. Everything. The goal was to create harmony in our family and it was pretty bad. I'm talking violence, verbal emotional abuse, manipulation, pressure all that jazz. The day of us getting together to talk it out was planned about 20 days before so I had that time to plant the seed and believe that about 10 people have changed for the better. So how I did that. 1st of all yes I was scared the whole time but my faith and belief won on this one.

1. I forgave everybody including myself and surrendered completely to the God in me. There is no way I can know how, what, when people must change. No way.
2. I went to the very end. All of us apologizing and hugging each other. It took me a few days of meditation for that scene to come up naturally. The feeling was overwhelming to say the least.
3. Everyday I invested my time imagining and inner talking as if things are well when thoughts about it came (and they were not always positive but I stayed aware and shifted pretty quickly)
4. Everyday I was writting down all great things about the members of my family. Things that were actually already 3D true and focused on that instead of the issues we had in the past.
5. When people came to gossip and complain I made clear I do not want to be part of it nor do I want to talk about anyone in a negative way. I was called delusional but it was so worth it.

During the meeting even though it still started hot, I kept my faith and was telling myself everything is working out. Believe you me, never have I ever seen the men in my family show that much emotion to tears in front of me in my very arms. Never have I heard either of us apologizing so genuinely. Like when I heard those words "I'm sorry" from their mouth I was flabbergasted. The main character even told us that he was going to get really violent but the way everyone was changed his mind. like WHAT? I expected it but man, when your creation comes to pass and has touched so many people at once it's overwhelming to witness the power of God.

I couldn't give up on my people so this was my new year's gift to them. So honestly if I can do it with this family, everyone can do it with anybody.