So much of what occurs in the world depends upon your view of the world. There, I have said it.

There is a tendency for the children of My heart to feel that they are inconsequential. I understand that the world may overlook you. The world can and too often does, but that’s the world for you, and so feel overlooked, unnoticed, unimportant if you must. However, I AM your Creator. The world is not to recreate you. I created you, and now you create your own view of the world and your place in it.

I tell you that you have a prominent place in the world. I am not feeding your ego. I would not feed your ego. What am I saying has nothing to do with ego. It has to do with your Spirit, and it has to do with your responsibility. Don’t feel burdened by the thought that you play an important part in the world. You can hold the world up instead of putting it down.

Certainly, the world has a trail of errors. Anyone can see them. Anyone can point out the errors of the world, for they are yours as well. You may cry out for more love in the world, yet, what are you giving to the world but your impression of it?

The world that you see reflects your view. The world does dance to your tune. You are not meant to reflect a humdrum world, nor are you meant to reflect a scary world. You have to hold your shoulders high. You are to minister to the world, not point out its faults. This is not the first time that you will do well to treat the world as though you are the parent of it.

Your child may have broken a dish. He may have spilled ink. He may have thrown toys everywhere. A parent who is building his child cannot only comment on the broken dish, the spilled ink, the disarray of toys, not to the child and not in a parent’s own thoughts. Give your child a hug. Help him pick up his toys without harping on him. It is essential that you point out the beauty and goodness of your child to him.

And so must you uplift and inspire the world. It is for you to remark on what you want more of from the world. What is the tenor of your thoughts, and what is the tenor of your speech that you convey to the world to encourage it to blossom into the fullness of its splendor? I know you want splendor. If you are going for splendor, you can’t keep swirling the muddy waters. And so, keep the pure fresh water of your thoughts and your words coming along.

If you want peace and prosperity, think peaceful and prosperous thoughts. If you prefer to protest and provoke, you likely will create more protest and provocation. Which is smarter, beloveds? Some of My children tend to prefer excitement to peace. Some of My children may prefer complaint to pleasure.

Now that you know the way to progress, progress. Let your thoughts lead the world to green pastures.

What if you cheered the world on today? All you would have to do is to think and talk about some of the great things that you have seen or remembered or desired. Picture what freedom looks like. Picture what happiness looks like. Today has held glory for you and will hold more glory in it, and you are here, present in the world, to point its glory to a world that looks to you to show it where you want it to go.

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What is your will? What do you really want, do you know? Sometimes you don’t know, and life will swing you around. Sometimes you do know what you truly desire, and life will still swing you around. All of life does not always go according to your will, to your conscious will. Somewhere, somehow along the way, you may have raised the ante. And sometimes you aren’t sure. You are partly sure. You want, and you don’t want. You don’t dare to want, and you don’t dare not to want. You want life to do your bidding, and yet you are uncertain to what your bidding really is.

Somewhere along the way, the idea came that life was supposed to suit you. When all is said and done, sometimes, beloved, you have to fit the suit that turns up. You do not always have your pick of the crop. Somewhere along the line, you learn to graciously accept what races to you or ambles to you, wrapped the way you like or not even wrapped at all. You want life to come up roses. You may protest and pout when it does not.

Yes, there is the sense wherein the world is your oyster. And, yes, there is the sense wherein you take what comes and help life work out so far as it can go. Yes, life can lead you around by the nose. You might as well not drag your feet. You might as well get on with it.

Sometimes life seems like the big bad wolf who huffs and puffs and blows your door down. The wolf is seen as an enemy. He’s simply a wolf, trying to make his way in the world. You can change your mind about a wolf, and you can change your mind about what your life has to look like.

You can batten down the hatches, and, still, life has its way with you. And so you go along for the ride, and the next thing you know, life has switched to another gear. Life seems to be pushing or pulling you and whipping you back and forth. It teases and tantalizes you. Sometimes it takes you forward a great leap, and sometimes it seems to wrap its arms around you and holds you back and makes you stay right where you are.

You know that life takes you by the hand, and sometimes it force-feeds you, and sometimes it takes you to a fine restaurant, and tells you to pick what you want from the menu.

Yes, sometimes life whips you back and forth. Sometimes life gives you all you want. Whatever comes, life has you in the palm of its hand. Life has its say. Life can trump you, and life can support you. Life can be a lady or a gentleman, and then become a bounder, a ruffian, a teaser, a yes-man, or rascal who spins you around and flips you over.

Sometimes you are graciousness yourself. And sometimes you are indignant, and sometimes you can’t catch your breath, and sometimes you falter, and sometimes you rise to the occasion even when you can’t fathom what is going on, and sometimes you clutch at straws and find yourself in the middle of a cyclone.

And, yet, even so, what you think and what you say and what you do, play a big part in your life. Engage with your life. Be gentle, and be okay with it. Treasure this moment of Eternity known as your life. Life is calling to you, and you answer.

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Do you have to suffer? Because there is a storm, must you tremble? What is this so-called suffering but a label? Call it suffering, loss, pain, fear and call it no more. It is you who comes to the conclusion that your lot is to suffer. In life, the world and you have tied a lot of things together. You made decisions. You link two or more occurrences together. Oh, yes, you link cause and effect.

Because one thing is so, you have drawn a conclusion that another thing must also tag along with it and be so. Your mind says: “This or that happened. Therefore, I have to linger over the thought of it and call this suffering or anguish or tragedy.” Why must you? Because the world has been doing it ever since you remember or have heard of? Does that make sense to you?

You can look at life in two ways: 1. Here today, gone tomorrow. 2. Life is eternal, and never stops.

The first way you see evidence with your own eyes. It is fact. “Annie doesn’t live here any more.” It is physical fact, that is. Nevertheless, physical fact belies the Truth. On one hand, there is fact. On the other hand, there is Truth. Truth and fact often are far apart.

No matter how much you are attached to what your eyes can see and what you can touch, one reason why, for instance, you find death, so unbelievable, is because you do know better. When a loved one merges with Me, every mourner is stunned. “It can’t be. My loved one couldn’t have left me. It’s not possible. They would not do that.”

You have a taste of the Truth. Your loved one would not leave. Beloveds, your loved one has not left you. Your loved ones are still with you. They are beside you. Their bodies have taken a journey. Their hearts, their souls have never left you. They are right here with Me, and I am right with you, and they are too.

You have lost their hand to hold. And you have further thought: “I cannot live without them. I cannot possibly live without them.” Even as you think this, even as you gulp back tears, you know this isn’t true. It feels true, yet it is far from a fact. The fact is you will continue to live. The fact is that you will keep on living. The fact is that when your loved ones still had the covering of their bodies, you did not think of them and only them every minute. You had other thoughts as well. It will be the same again. Have thoughts like blessings. Bless yourself with new thoughts.

You will eat and you will think. You will enjoy the sun once again. You will look up at the sky, and you will laugh and you will smile again. How happy your loved ones will be.

Let your life from now on then be a testament to their love. They loved you. Continue loving your life for them. If your loved ones meant something to you when they were alive in their bodies, serve your life and serve your loved ones who have gone onto another plane of life. They moved to another house. That’s all. They moved to another mansion in their Father’s house, one day where you will also follow.

Beloveds, when will you be done with the sadness of loss? You have Me, and you have love, and you have your loved ones. They are with you now. They are more with you now.

Their love is simpler and greater. They no longer have daily life on Earth to distract their attention. They are more with you than ever before. They do not take their eyes off you. They see more of your truth now too.

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This isn’t the twilight of your life. You may think so, yet this is the dawning. Greatness is about to dawn on you. The sun is rising, and the sun is getting ready to shine on you. You are going to be splendor walking into splendor. You are just beginning. You are just awaking from a deep sleep. You will rub your eyes, and you will look around you, and you will be astonished at what has always been visible and, yet, you did not see.

You are waking up to the majesty of life and the great opportunity before you. What have you been thinking, beloveds? Have you been thinking that life is a hardship? Have you wondered what you are doing here? Have you considered it a bother to be alive on Earth? It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be here. There is no other life in the world quite like it. You have been blessed to receive this gift of life. It is a great gift. Know this gift of life as a privilege that has been bestowed upon you.

You won the prize. You, only you, were chosen for this very life before you. You headed the list.

You say you are not satisfied with your life as it is? You say it is not the life you had hoped for? Well, then, make your life the way you want it. Make your life come closer to your dream. Keep going. If you don’t like the ferry boat you’re on, catch an ocean liner or catch a canoe or swim across the channel. Set your own course.

No one is to fulfill your dreams for you. You are the only one. Start now. You may discover that, when all is said and done, you are living your dream now as it is. There is more preciousness in this life as it is. You are beginning to learn appreciation for the gifts you have been given. Sing your blessings. This life before you is a precious moment in Eternity. This moment blessings are upon you, and more are to come.

Right now, be My blessing to the world that craves blessings. The one who blesses is blessed.

Who raised you to be dissatisfied with life? You have been given a plum, and you have thought otherwise. You may have thought that life is all too much work, too troublesome, too involved, too out of your hands. The life you desire is already in your hands. Don’t forget, your life is as you see it. Perhaps you haven’t been looking. Perhaps you haven’t been looking in the right places. Perhaps you have been looking too hard. Perhaps you have been looking for obstacles, as if something stands in your way.

You yourself may get in your way. In any case, you are the course you set. You are the race you are running. How marvelous! You are an entrepreneur of life. Perhaps you want to hover less over your life and enjoy it more. Enjoy these moments that will never come again.

Paint beautiful brush strokes. Admire your handiwork. Admire your handicraft. You are the artist of your life. It is your creation. You are not helpless. You are the master chef. You are the one who cooks the soup, brews the tea, and you are the one who spoons the soup and sips the tea. Relish your work. You are the consummate artist of your life.

Where did you get that dim view of your life? Life is not a hazard. Life is spread before you. You are not only a receiver of life. You are also a giver of it. Love and give. Love and give.

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It may seem to you as if your life – everyone’s life – is a roll of the dice. In some ways, it certainly seems so. At the same time, your very own thoughts are motivators of your life. The beautiful and the tragic may both seem as though they dropped from the sky, and, truly, miracles do happen. By and large, the tenor of your thoughts brings much of what may seem to you to be tricks of fate.

Sometimes, life is like your bank statement. Your bank statement may amaze or startle you. You wonder how you got such a great balance, or you wonder what happened to all you had. Most of the time you weren’t keeping track. It usually turns out that you forgot a transaction or two you made.

Now, this isn’t to say that you necessarily desired a certain event to happen. You certainly may not have. Who would deliberately desire a serious accident to happen? Who would desire to have their sincere wishes not come true? No one would. And, yet, when you sit on one end of a see-saw, the other end goes up. It is not that you caused an accident, let’s say, yet you played a part.

There is the expression that you were in the right place at the wrong time, or you were in the wrong place at the right time, or you were at the right place at the right time and so on.

I have said there are no coincidences, so we can say there are no accidents. Like it or not, you are somewhere, and not everywhere is to your liking. It is unlikely that you are a dropped-stitch, beloveds, or that you are a bolt out of the blue. Who can say that a cyclone that picked you up and landed you in a tree a mile away was a reprisal to you for one thing or another or a blessing given to you? Who can trace it? More importantly, why should anyone? Why should you?

All you know is that you landed in a certain tree, and you can take it as good fortune or bad fortune. You can take it as anything you want. In any case – in every case – how you take it and how you go on from there has a say in what follows. You have all the say! Do you see this?

Credit is not a feather in your cap nor is blame a black mark. We can say that life has you in its spell. We can better say that you are caught up in life. You go in many directions all at once. What may seem like chance may not be so at all. Yet what is the point in trying to figure it all out? Why try to accrue credit or blame? Better just to live life.

If you are in a pickle, you want to get to another place. And if you are in the midst of an outright blessing, hey, enjoy it. What does it matter how or why something happened? Something that happened took you by surprise, or you anticipated something that happened. All the rest is history, as is said.

Come back on stage, beloveds. Start from now. Climb the next rung up the ladder. In every case, life moves on. Life does not always follow your prescription. What can be said with certainty is that you are living your life, and you live it as best you can, and you are gaining in love and wisdom. You can be glad for that.

Be glad for something. Be glad that you have life. Be glad.

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You ask Me questions often, and you ask a lot of questions. Unending are your questions, question after question, desire after desire. It is your desire that I provide you with the way and means to go.

Nevertheless, often you don’t go along with Me. It would seem that you want the advice you have in mind. It would seem that sometimes, if not often, you have an answer in mind, and that’s the answer you want. It has been known to happen that when I do not give your hoped-for answer, you think a mistake has been made, that My answer to you can’t be right and that I’ve made a mistake, or I am uncaring. Your hopes are not to be dashed. You are certain your heart’s desire has got to show up.

What happened to openness, beloveds? What happened to listening? What happened to not having your mind made up? Open-minded and open-hearted hold you in good stead. It is not essential that answers to your life be the ones you have in mind. Desire with all your might, and yet bend with life. Accept. Know that life has something else in store for you. Naturally, you want to win the jackpot, only you may be misinformed. You are winning, only not the jackpot you had in mind.

A deck of cards breaks out the way it breaks. Life cavorts the way it cavorts. You are not luckless. You are lucky. You know, it’s better when you are not resistant to life as it shows up. Determination is a good thing. Easing up is also a good thing.

If your car can’t make it up the hill, are you going to walk and push the car up the hill because you were set on getting to the top right now? You can make up your mind all you like, yet you can’t always determine the course of your life. Whatever occurs, make it good, beloveds. The sun rises every morning, and so must you. Whatever the circumstances, it is for you to rise. It is for you to greet life. You simply may have to change the direction you’re going in.

You wanted your true love, and your true love had someone else in mind. You craved a certain job, or you craved a certain promotion. You weren’t chosen. You are crestfallen or distraught. Sooner or later, with or without your dream coming true, life levels off, and you are left at another stretch of the road.

Beloveds, life changes. Not all your dreams may come true. At some point, what is the difference if they do or they don’t? You are the same person. You are a growing person, and this is how you grow. You roll with the punches, and, often enough, the punches are blessings, and life is for you to take as it comes. Love life anyway.

Life doesn’t have to be the picture you painted. You don’t have to hold on so tight. You can bend to life. Life has its course to take, and it takes it. Sometimes you just have to take your hands off and give service with a smile.

A big disappointment is never the end of the world. It may seem so, and yet you mend, and you keep going. Happiness does not have to elude you. You can go right up to happiness and shake its hand. Life does not have to take orders from you. You may simply have to salute life and do its bidding.

You have seen that sometimes life knows better than you do. You are not always sorry later as you are now that life did not appear the way you had so desired.

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Whatever person you may feel superior to at any given moment, you may be sure that there is an area where that offending person exceeds you. If you happen to think the person is not so smart, there is an area where he is smarter than you. This is always the case. This can take many forms. The other may be superior to you in that he doesn’t look for fault. He may be superior to you in that he likes you.

Facts are facts, of course. Nevertheless, what are you doing spending your time and energy on perceiving lesser areas in another. There are better uses of your time, your mind, your heart and so forth. Certainly, you have something worth putting your attention on. How little you may think of another is not one of them.

Indeed, someone may indeed have weaknesses you see, of course, and so do you have weaknesses that you may not see. In this case, arrogance may be a weakness within you that you don’t want to look at.

What are you doing comparing yourself with another anyway? Are you needing to build yourself up? What weakness do you reluctantly see in yourself that you must counteract by putting another down? Why eliminate some people from your list? Why are you keeping a list if only in your mind? You consider some of My children acceptable and others unacceptable. Who are you, dear ones, to dismiss another?

You do not have to accept everyone into your entourage of close friends, yet you do not have to erase them from your view. There is not to be an admittance fee to your heart. All are passersby’s anyway. The personality that is you and the personality that is another are here one moment and gone the next anyway. What are you thinking when you pause in front of this person to affix him with your critical eye?

Enough of affixing fault to another child of Mine. If you want to add light to the world, pin up Christmas lights rather than make targets of people who are not in your favor right now.

Consider for a moment if I were to ask you to introduce people to Me. How would you introduce people to Me? How would you introduce this particular person to Me? Would you say: “Here is the most idiotic child of Yours I have ever met?” You wouldn’t, would you? You wouldn’t even think of it in My Presence. Hey, dear one, I am always in your presence. You would wither in front of Me at your description of this person whose fault is that he doesn’t come up to your standards. What about Mine? What about Mine?

I tell you frankly that you can learn something from this person you lack regard for. For one thing, he may be humbler. He may be right here in your life to make you bigger than you allow yourself to be right now.

Sometimes life does give you second chances. You do admit that you have not always taken the high road in the past. How can you be so sure now that you are right? Right now you just think you are right and you stop there.

I give you second chances galore and a hundred chances and a thousand chances. Your whole life is made of chances, and now I ask you to give another one chance to be free of your indictment and to free yourself from calumny and a shadow you cast over yourself. Even when your assessment is correct, it is not right of you.

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It has been said that most of what annoys you comes from ego. Another way of saying this is to say that irritation and its big brother, anger, come from a need you have to control.

By no means do I take away from you how it seems that your negative feelings are based on something outside you. It well may be. Certainly, you don’t ask for any semblance of negativity. It certainly seems to come uninvited. So, yes, I will give you that you would much rather have equanimity even in a world of irritating people and situations. I know you are a good guy. I know without doubt that you are on the side of good. Of course, I know, and you know, and everyone who knows you knows.

And yet, every now and then, something upsets you.

Now, this issue of wanting to control, or needing control, where does that come from? Where would it come from? Where would it come from through you when, in life, you very well have had to take your fingers, one by one, off control? That’s the point.

Because control seems to have been wrested from you, about the only control you feel you have is to be annoyed. Lots of things don’t go on in life as you desire.

So now you consider your ability to control as non-existent. You are obliged to follow this rule or that rule, this law or that law. You have to earn a living, and you may have a partner who rules you. No wonder you long for control of something, even when it is a question of something not important at all.

If you felt that you have more say in your life, you wouldn’t yearn to have control so much. You really want self-direction and the freedom it offers.

Begin self-directedness with your thoughts, beloved. This is a good place to begin. Someone can take away your freedom of action, even your freedom of speech, yet you are King over your thoughts.

Whatsoever words or expressions of manners or actions disturb you, your thoughts are yours and no one can rule your thoughts and, thus, your emotions. Not only are your thoughts where you can begin, this is the only place where you can begin.

You protest that others, the world etc., rule the roost, while you let others' manner of speech and their ways of thinking make you lose your inner cool, even when you don't let it show. Oh, yes, others are ruling over you all right. You line yourself right up to dance to their tune all in the name of control.

Whether We call it ego or control, it is short-sighted of you.

You say that something or another bothers you, and you continue to let it bother you, as if you had no choice but to keep its bother. What would happen if you let go of your irritation? What would happen if you got beyond it?

Why would you rage about nose-rings or tattoos or whatever it is that sets you on a tirade?

I begin to think that you like to get steamed up about something, even when it has nothing to do with you! Nobody is making you do anything. The girl with purple hair or whatever it may be that gets your back up, the last I knew no one was making you dye your hair purple or shave it

Let go of trying to control other people. Let go of forced control. You don’t like it. Oh, My, judgment is one fierce control. It is the mother of all controls. Judgment sure is controlling you.

You can stop judging. You really can do it. Sense of annoyance can leave you. You will be fine without it. Free yourself. Let go of the ego and control and judgment right now. Begin happiness.

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What are these, the cares of the world that hang over you? What does not hang over you in your day to day life. You have said that you are not made for this demanding life, that you are made for better things, that you are better than this, better than at the mercy of the details and obligations of life. You are quite right.

Pass through these many disturbances. Do not collect them. They are not collectibles. Not at all. Why are you collecting them then? Why inhale every little thing that would like to stick to you?

If you have attached one-hundred decals to you, peel them off now. And don’t paste them on to you again, not even for one moment. Whatever accrues to you, you are the accruer.

If you feel that life is too much and that you are shot daily, hourly, with barbed darts about small matters, who smolders there and allows himself to be shot at?

You have matters to take care of. You don’t walk off into the sunset leaving your obligations behind. At the same time, you don’t have an obligation to maintain the stress that working on the job and living at home seem to entail. All that is an add-on, an unfortunate add-on. You can take care of daily occupations, and still be as free as a bird. Yes, you really can.

It is your choice to enjoy what you may call the daily grind. It is as much your choice to make the details of life light and easy, just as much as it is your choice to drag the little aggravations around with you. Who is it that tells you to suffer each detail? Nobody but you. Certainly, not I.

Have I not told you to have fun? Have I not told you to enjoy and to enjoy again and to enjoy more? Change your script, beloveds. Perhaps you can even enjoy that which you presently do not enjoy.

Decide to take delight in your daily life. You can do it. Nothing has to take precedence over your joy. You are the umpire of your life. What you say, goes. You may have to be somewhere certain hours, yet you call the shots. Call them then. Do not be blown around by the winds of annoyance. You are not obligated to be under tension. If you don’t like it, don’t have it. Replace annoyance and aggravation with balance and good will, and a sense of humor will help.

Have you not been a cartoon character leading a cartoon life with the same plaints over and over again? Revise your script. Take care of the details of life. Really, are they so bad that you have to let them keep you from your share of joy?

Be the Prodigal Son who returns to his rightful home. The Prodigal Son of yourself does not live in a mire. He does not get bogged down by life. He makes a change. He returns to where he came from. And you, beloveds, I certify that you came from joy, and to joy you will return.

Now you can take a step by letting go of aggravation. It doesn’t belong to you, not by a whisker. Aggravation is a false bill of goods. It does not hold you in good stead. You are its fall guy. What are you doing anyway, keeping aggravation to you. Drop it like a hot potato. It is a hot potato. If you don’t like feeling aggravated, and you don’t want to feel aggravated, don’t take it on. Take the responsibility for it, and toss out the aggravation. It was never yours to take in the first place. Why would you have aggravation accompany you when you can take lightness of heart?

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Memories of the past, especially sad memories, are a luxury, beloveds. Your bewildered heart turns back to the past, to another time, perhaps a time long forgotten, perhaps about a minor, very minor character in the play of your life, and then, out of the blue, you remember the remembered one now with such sadness, such yearning, such yearning to reconnect and perhaps say:

“You know, you did mean something to me. You played a part in my life. It may have been small, but, you know, it was mighty. See, I am thinking of you now. It is not that I need to make amends. It’s not that. It’s just that I so want to say hello to you and tell you that somehow you did mean something to me. You must have meant a lot because I am mourning you now. I wonder if you, a bit player in my life, I wonder if you ever thought of me. Honestly, I don’t know why thoughts of you popped up, and I really don’t know your significance in my life other than that we met for a short time and I had no idea that I would ever think about you again, and think of you with such longing.”

Do you see what I mean when I say remembering the little known past is a luxury, I suppose, an indulgence, and, yet, something within you presses you to go there.

You did not know this remembered person meant anything to you at all. I will tell you that everyone you meet has a significance, as if each person is a piano key you press, even a minor key. There were no big crescendos. Just a key pressed lightly and now, apparently, indelibly.

Of course you wish you had paid better attention then. You wish you had consciously swung everyone in your heart, but, alas, at the time, they were scenery perhaps, just something in the background. Now you would look into their eyes. Now you would complete whatever it was you were to complete. It is not even that you left it in the middle. It’s just that you didn’t quite tie it up. Or perhaps you did, and you wish you had tied the bow tighter.

Well, okay, have your luxury for a while. Mourn for your life hardly lived. Mourn for the past that is like a folded fan, only brought out once in a while, seemingly brought out by stealth. It’s okay that the past leads to your weeping now. It’s okay. And now you will make new memories, and they too will become precious. Why wait? Let them be precious now. Let the people in your life, big and little, be known as enterers of your heart. Everyone in the world is to have a place in your heart. Make room.

In one sense, everyone embedded in your heart is as important as another, even if you spent years with one person, and minutes with another. Every knock on the door of your heart is significant. There is no one in your heart by accident. No one stumbled in, even though it may seem that way. Everyone who has visited your heart had a mission there, perhaps to give, perhaps to take, perhaps for you and perhaps for him, yet what is for one is also for another.

Know this as well. You will meet again. You will say hello again, in thought or deed. In fact, your hearts have met again. Otherwise, your thoughts of this person would not have come again and lingered with you as they have today. Bless all from the past, and all from today, and know that all that ever takes place takes place today.

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Consider that I nudge your elbow. Or perhaps I adjust your stance or turn your head. I do many things to gain your attention. Most of all, what I do is to love you, for you are the love of My life. My love for you is mighty, and My love for you is uninterrupted. What is there for you to know about Me but My love for you?

What explanation do you require? What is it that you think you have to know? Just know Me, beloveds. Know Me. I am knowable. Know My love for you. Your awareness alone of My love will do you very well.

There is no gap between Us. If there somehow were a gap between us – impossible, but if there were – My love would bridge it in an instant. There is nowhere that love cannot travel. Love travels everywhere. Not only My love, yet I am a Master of Love.

Never do I sulk. I know what matters, and I know where life leads, and I know My love that radiates like the Sun. And I know you. I know you very well. Certainly, I know you far more than you know yourself. What possibly makes you think you know yourself better than I do? You are a novice at self-love. You are just beginning to scratch the surface. The further you scratch, the deeper you go. We have infinite depth today. Never will We tire of Our delight in one another. There is no end to Our love, and there is no end to Our joy in love.

Regard this Oneness between Us right now. You can never get too much.

The fact is that We are inundated in love.

Love is an amazing thing, yet you and I, We have never ever been without it. Will you believe Me? Will you believe in My love for you? My love is here for you. It’s here whether you accept it or not. Do not be difficult now.

Never do I leave you. I comprehend that sometimes you feel abandoned, left on your own. You think that what you feel must be what is. I am telling you what is.

When I say I never forsake you, you protest. You ask: “What about when this and when that? Why this travesty and that travesty? Where were You, God, when inhumanity surfaced? Where were You then, God, and where are You now? I don’t care for your explanations.”

Yes, I do understand where you are coming from. I also know that this line of questions doesn’t get you anywhere.

Of course, you don’t understand. We’ve gone over this before. Explanations cannot explain. They are too much for you to understand. You have to let go of your knowing better than I. You don’t have to know everything with your intellect. You cannot know everything with your intellect. Of course, you may say: “Hey, God, how come you didn’t give me a greater intellect than you did?”

What is hard for you to let go of is your need to control. Now, I do not stand on ceremony. I don’t require salutes and all that. It’s hard for you to go forward when you put Me on the carpet. Are you really saying you know better than I? Do you think so? You know your perception very well. Knowing your own perception isn’t knowing everything, dear ones.

You may still not have forgiven Me that what is called death, and pain and illness and all manner of things that you may not yet have forgiven Me for.

It is not Myself that you have to make peace with. It is within yourself that you must arise to a new footing. Never was I an avenue of punishment for you. Your objections to Me punish you.

What if you can concede the possibility that I know what I’m doing? You can. And when you do, a whole lot of weight is lifted from you.

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Will you remember that you are a Holy Being? This one thought will embolden your life on Earth. By dint of will or by chance, you are here, and it matters that you are here on Earth at this time. You are a Holy Being who happens to be in a physical body. Your physical body has its restrictions, and it has its fallacies. Yet you are not your body. You are not your physical presence.

Your physical presence exists, yet you are beyond physical. You are realms beyond. You are eons beyond. You are a miracle worker.

It may not seem so to you. You may see yourself as a drudge. You may see yourself as wanting. However, you are far more than your eye can see. Isn’t that the Truth, beloveds? Haven’t you always known that? Why would you be dissatisfied unless you were greater than whatever anyone in the world thinks of you? Public opinion isn’t much. It is fly by night.

Go by your own recognition now. Go by your own suppositions now. Go by My appraisal.

You are a miracle that I created. You keep waiting for miracles when you, yourself, are one of the great miracles visited upon Earth. The stars have nothing on you. The stars are amazing, beautiful, and bountiful, and so are you.

Know yourself as an unlimited miracle. You can change the face of the Earth.

You are on an unmapped journey. You have all the choices in the world and in Heaven. Never mind the past. You have a present, and you have what you perceive as future. You are all one ball of wax. You are incomparable. You are Vastness encompassed in a body. This in itself is a miracle. You are a wonder of wonders. You are not a minor miracle. Do not sell yourself short.

Every minute of the day, you are embarking on a new journey. You are not locked in. Don’t let yourself be. You are unlimited. You can reach the rainbows, and you can ride on them. You are greater right now than your present thinking may allow. You surpass your present thinking. You are here on Earth for wonders to perform.

You are a Great Light on Earth. You may have turned on a dimmer switch in your awareness, yet regardless of what disguise you take on, you are My Greatness on Earth. You are My coin, so to speak. You are more than a token Being of God.

We have a contract, you and I, and Our contract is inviolable. Take My word for it that you have a great purpose on Earth to fulfill, and your purpose is greater than whatever you can imagine. You are Columbus sailing to an unknown land. Columbus thought he knew his destination, yet he wound up somewhere else. You don’t even have an inkling of your destination, yet you are sailing there. You are on your way. You are on an illustrious journey. You are full of promise, beloveds.

Follow the waves where they take you. Honor your holiness. Bob along on the High Seas, and know that you are far deeper than you let on. Know that you carry Greatness. Know that you deliver it. As yet, you have no idea how great life is, even your life that you consider mundane. Your life is out of this world. Your life is a mystery, and your life is a miracle.

It is time for you to recognize your miracle-dom. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, yes, you! All the power of God is invested within you. I, God, am within you. I may appear to be outside you, even at a distance from you, yet I am deep in your heart, and your soul is deep. We are journeying together, and, now, let Us create miracles and know that the perceived you, no matter how you perceive yourself, is one of My Greatest Miracles. So be it.

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When you think: “What is to become of me?” know that the answer is: “All good.” All good is to become of you.

Whatever your life has been, whatever you think your life has been, you are beyond your life that has been as you perceive it. These are not just words I give you, dear ones, it is God’s Truth.

You are here on Earth, not for nothing, but for something, for something wondrous that you are not able, at the present moment, to conceive of.

You have been a hero of your life story. Never mind what the world may say. You have been a valiant hero in the imagined story of your life. There is much that you don’t see, much that you don’t even hear a rumble about. Winner takes all is partly true. Loser also takes all as well.

Even if you could be the most conceited person in the world, you don’t know how to begin to know enough about the good in you.

Excuse Me for using words like good and not so good. Language confines Me. I do not separate good and bad as the world does, yet I want you to know what I am trying to say in this mirage of language. With that being said, now I continue.

Beloveds, you come through your story with flying colors. I understand that you see drab and bleeding hearts and sorrow in a sorrowful land. Truthfully, you are a bright light.

You may not have claimed the bright light you offer to the world, yet, despite everything – and I mean everything – you play your role well. You play it to the hilt. Victim or assailer, famous or unknown, you play your part. No matter if your role is tragic, you play it to the hilt. No matter if you are martyr, you play it magnificently. No matter if you are criminal, big time or small time, you enter into your role. And, when, in life, you change your role, you do a good job of it.

Perhaps you were a criminal who reformed, now you are deeply into your new part. If you are someone who is guilt-ridden, you are very good at it. And if you are someone seemingly without conscience, you are very good at that as well. Whatever role you play – and it is play-acting -- you do play it -- there is more going on than you know or anyone knows. Even if you credit yourself too much, the credits still belong to you.

Could you have played your role differently? Yes, you could have. Just the same, the role you played served and served well.

You are not yet aware of all that went on backstage. You have only seen what goes on when the curtains go up. Even if you have a bit part, it is yours to play. The whole configuration would not have been the same without you in it.

If the panorama of life is a knitted hat, you are a stitch in it. If the panorama of life is a human hand, you are one finger on the hand. Each finger serves a function. If life is all the flowers that grow, which flower can be eliminated and the garden still keep its design? Even weeds serve a purpose that supports the garden’s growth. Everything serves a purpose even when it may not be the casually desired purpose.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You are part of the whole. Everyone is part of the joyride of life.

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At what point do you surrender to a Greater Horizon? The answer is: When you do. When you’re ripe on the vine, it happens to you. It comes over you. It’s where you are, and there is nothing that you can do about it. When you stand in a New York, you stand in New York. That is where you are. It is no big deal.

You stand on a higher step, you see what you see. It would seem you are changed. You were always the Truth of you, whatever the semblance of whatever else you may have appeared to be. The thing is that you see a grander view from where you stand. Anyone would see the same view as you from the step where you stand. You reflect the height from where you see. The higher you go, the greater the view. The higher you stand, the greater the view, the more you are revealed to the world and to yourself.

There is nothing new under the Sun, and yet you are new every day. You are new with every breath, yet you may not as yet take in your newness.

There never was a time when you were not rising. Now you are beginning to stand in your own two shoes. Well, you began long ago. Now you are making headway.

What a gift is the life I gave to you and continue to give to you. Right now I speak of the gift of life on Earth. What a spectacle! What a plot! What scenery! What scenes! What characters! What suspense! What developments! What a story your life is! The denouement is always the same. Full-blown, you come back to Me. You walk in the door, and you have arrived. Why, yes, you are the Prodigal Son who returns.

In this development, all welcome you. All are happy for you. All are happy for Me to have you back Home. I always knew you would come back, even as, in one perspective, you had never left. Your return was foretold long ago. It will come to pass that you and I shall fully reunite in that place in your heart called Heaven. In Truth, there is no place else. Meanwhile, the movie reel of your life rolls.

Meanwhile, you seek yourself, or you seek Me. Same difference. You have the idea for a while that you are someone else, this someone else that you identify with, someone you see in a mirror and that you do not quite recognize. You may not know what that person in your mirror is doing. You may also not grasp what that person is doing in your mirror at all.

You are aware and aware more and more that it is your Inner Being that exists and continues to exist when your fulsome body departs or when your fulsome body returns to the Earth from which it rose.

You have an open invitation to have your soul join Me today, or day or night as you like. Indeed, We have a destiny together. And We desire to be united once again, to be united in your conscious Reality and to be united in Our thinking right now. We are on the same page, beloveds. Never were We off the page.

And so your life, so full, so filled with all manner of things, is the same as everyone’s. Only the details vary. Only the stories vary, and yet all stories are the same.

Everyone’s story is your story. You are everyone. You are a voyager into inner space.

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What shall We do about your hurt feelings. You wish your feelings wouldn’t get hurt. You know better, and, yet, again and again, your feelings get hurt. Your feelings may get hurt even from a recollection from the past, even from years ago when someone rebuffed you. How do We get you out of that mode? It is a mode you know well. It isn’t a mode that you have to keep.

When someone rebuffs you, you simply have to let it roll off you. Certainly, it’s not a feather in your cap to be hurt by someone’s rudeness. Yes, some people are unbelievable in their insensitivity. Yes, people take the cake. Should you also allow them to take away your good-heartedness? It is their rudeness, not yours. Why would you allow someone else’s poor manners impact you and repeat and repeat hurt in your heart?

You might as well flail against a leaf that falls on your head. Sure, a leaf landed on your head. It did. You don’t berate it. You don’t try to relive the scene differently. You flick the leaf off. That’s it, and you’re done with it. The leaf is not a leech that must stick to you. Why would you allow someone’s words to stick in your heart?

The day will come when everyone in the world will love and love everyone. Until then, not everyone will love you. It is not right, yet some people will put you aside. They may not even put you at the bottom of their list. You may not even exist for them. That’s okay. What is it to you? What do you think of them? In this way, be more like them. Be more uncaring. Be more uncaring about what they think or don’t think of you.

Life in the world cannot be based upon hurt feelings. Your life cannot be based upon your hurt feelings. Your life cannot be based upon others’ regard for you. It’s a losing game, beloveds. When you’ve got it, high regard from everyone, what have you got? If everyone in the world adored you, thought highly of you, valued you, put you at the top of their list, what have you got? After a while, this would no longer be uplifting to you. You might even prefer to go along unnoticed. You might relish the days when everyone did not seek you out!

It is not even that you have to give everyone who offends you the benefit of the doubt. Whether they meant to cut you off or were simply too involved in themselves, it’s irrelevant. It is your feelings that get hurt. You are responsible. Beloveds, when your feelings are hurt, you are pouting. You don’t want to waste your life away in pouting. I know you don’t.

Is your day ruined because the sun isn’t out? Must your good spirits be based upon the weather or someone else’s mood or lack of consideration or even downright hostility? Of course, you know the answer to that. So when will you abide by it? When will you cut off from being so susceptible to others’ lack of courtesy? You know, they may not be courteous at a given time. They may be courteous never! They have other qualities.

When someone is wonderful to you, it is their wonderfulness. Of course, you like it. Of course, you feel good from it. Even so, it is their wonderfulness. It is not yours anymore than someone’s rudeness belongs to you.

So what are We going to do with you? Hurt feelings aren’t good for you. They aren’t good for anybody. What can We do so that you don’t keep your hurt feelings in your heart? I am not asking you to pretend that your feelings aren’t hurt. I am asking that you don’t have to have hurt feelings in the first place. Slings and arrows do not have to enter your heart so deeply. And, if they do, take them out.

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You are not an owl whose head turns all the way around. You cannot see everything that is coming, and sometimes you are taken unawares. It is life I’m talking about that you cannot always see coming. You may even see a preponderance of being taken unawares in your life. You may see a pattern. You may wake up, and then you fall asleep again and have an uncomfortable awakening.

Now, when you look back, you may see how you set yourself up for a great disappointment that was bewildering to you. But now you have an inkling of how you set yourself up. Because you loved a situation or a person, because the situation or person made you feel so good, you gave away some of your own sense of value and your own common sense. You believed in another more than you believed in yourself. You gave something of yourself away too lavishly. It may have been your integrity you gave away, beloveds. If only you had realized the extent to which you were giving away the Truth of you. You may have given away too big a piece of yourself.

There is a common element in many of your major disappointments. And it is that, somewhere along the line, you sold yourself short. You paved the way to disappointment by, ultimately, not being true to yourself. You gave away too much of yourself. In a desire for once in your life to compromise, to get along, to keep someone or something valuable near to you, you gave away some of your self-value. Somewhere in a hidden crevice of your mind you said about whatever it was:

“This means so much to me. This means everything to me. This situation or person means everything to me. Therefore, I will concede too much of myself and call it compromise. I make a trade, and give away too big a hunk of my self-regard in order to keep someone or something so important to me, so utterly valuable to me, so essential to me. So has my perception been with my eyes half-closed at the time.”

And, then, one day, you notice that you have given away too much of yourself, and now you are disappointed in the situation or the person. Most of all, you are disappointed in yourself. You think you were not thinking. You did not see. And now you see.

Of course, it is difficult in ordinary life to know what to hold onto and what to let go of, and when and where and how much.

It isn’t that you sold your soul. It is more like you gave it away, or a good portion of it away. In any case, you gave away too much, and you see it now, and you rue it now. If only, if only, you had set things up right.

It all comes back to self-value. It all comes back to love of yourself. Instead your love fastens on someone or something. It could be your career. It could be money in the bank. It could be the big love of your life.

This is the sort of occasion that makes people wary of their hearts and refuse to give in to love because eventually love fails.

Begin with love of yourself. There is no need to sacrifice your own value for the sake of keeping something to you. Your heart is not wayward. It is your mind that sacrificed you all along. You believe you were not thinking. You were thinking. You were thinking that you had to give up on a portion of your self, your reliance on yourself, and what you really gave away was what you really wanted to keep.

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You choose in life what is important to you and what is not. Your mind keeps a list of high importance and a list of lower importance underneath. You live that list, beloveds. You tag some activities and thoughts as priorities and you tag some as less than priority.

It’s good to take a look, to look at your priorities straight in the face. You have your lists, yet you may never have consciously noted your list. You could surprise yourself.

Many would say God, family, and country in that order. I wonder.

Where is money on the true list? And where is family and where is survival and where is love and where is amusement?

Now, don’t feel bad. Just know that your priorities lie with you.

Foremost, you are a soul, and that means your priority lies with Me. You don’t have to be in a special place to have Me star in your life. Obviously, I am everywhere. Ultimately, so are you everywhere. This has to be so. We are One. Let your thoughts bounce off that recognition every now and then or often. We are One.

Remind yourself: “God and I are One. We are on the same mission. And God tells us that not only are He and I One, but that He is One with All, and, therefore, it must be so that I am One with All. All are Sisters and Brothers. So what is the hullaballoo in life all about?”

With Me or with family or with strangers, love belongs right up there. Can it be otherwise? Sometimes love in your heart is hard to attain. There must be some conflict there between love and gain.

When you look at it My way, the only thing to gain is love, and giving love comes before anything else that could get in the way.

Love is not intended to be a bargaining process. Love is not meant to be a barter. Never does love carry the theme: “Winner takes all.” In the art of giving love, all are winners. There are no losers. Nothing but love has to be. Love is the Fairy Godmother, and love is the Prince and the Princess and the Palace and the Kingdom. The carpet of love is so welcoming. It is so lovely. It is green grass and dark green moss. Love reclines on a hammock in a tree. Let every step you take be love.

Love was never meant to be a predicament or a contest. Love itself is first prize. There is no other prize. Nothing equals the benefit of love. Nothing comes near. What is there that compares to love in your heart?

Not a spectacular ship that sails the ocean. Not a private plane. Not a limousine. Not a bank account. Not fame. Not fortune. Do you dispute this?

It seems corny to say, but love is free. In fact, you have it all right now in your heart. And all you have to do is to let your love come to the surface. Open the gates to love. Be like the Statue of Liberty and open your heart to all.

Is not love like a beacon light that welcomes all to its borders? In fact, love has no borders. Borders are contrary to love.

Rules are not more important than love. What is the use of laws without love? Admit love into your heart and establish love as your very Being.

You do not slobber love. You do not think of love all the time. You go forth in love. You go forth in love because you are love. And that’s the whole story.

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The Truth of your heart is what counts. What else can compare?

Appearances are like curtains. They do not necessarily indicate what is going on behind the curtain. There is something greater than appearances, and, sometimes often, something greater than words and, sometimes often, something greater than actions.

Others may be fooled, but do not fool yourself.

It has been said not to judge. What do you have to judge by anyway? Foregone conclusions, I suppose.

When it is your coin, you spend it as you will. Where does guilt come from but from judgment? Guilt is an aspect of ego. It is a time-delay mechanism. Although guilt makes you a shade of a villain, it also makes you a focal point. Instead of love for yourself, you beat yourself up, and you keep the past. Walk away from the past now.

So you messed up.

I will judge guilt as erroneous. I will judge sense of guilt as a kind of badge you wear. It might seem that half the world is riddled with guilt, and the other half has none. Half the world seems to have high standards and mighty conscience, and the other half’s conscience may have dwindled.

Guilt is a circle that you almost can’t get out of. Better not to have it. Better to go on in life and be courteous and considerate of others and of yourself. Dispense with carrying guilt around. Absolve yourself of guilt. Guilt lives in the past. Just be responsible now.

You are responsible to be good to yourself. Do not tie yourself in knots. Do not let your conscience be overbearing. Clear your conscience now. You hold yourself back when you weigh yourself down with conscience. It is time that you forgive yourself. Repair your heart.

As a child, you may have told a lie that hurt another. Bless the one you hurt. You are sorry. You have been sorry for a long time. Get up and out of the Sorry Chair and rescue yourself from the past. You will be freeing the one you hurt as well.

You can escape the past. You must. The past does not serve you now. Catch up to your life. You are someone else now. In fact, you never were the person you thought you were. Believe in yourself. Because you fell down once doesn’t mean you have to stay down. You have beaten up yourself enough. Hands off now.

It is like you are driving a car. You can choose the direction you go in. May I suggest that you go forward. See new sights. Stop going into reverse. Look ahead.

Be of good cheer. Look forward. Do not look back. You have done enough looking back. Give yourself a new lease on life. Let go of the leash you have kept binding you. There is a better picture you can paint of yourself. Make it true. Let the past pictures go. They’re all illusion anyway.

What if you stumble again, you ask. You know the answer. If you stumble, you pick yourself up, wipe yourself off, and keep going forward, one step after the other.

Leave off the kind of self-consciousness that grouses at yourself. And if you stumble, say:

“Well, God bless me. I messed up. I’m not going to stay in this spot longer. I’m up and out. I free myself from the past, the far past and the recent past. I am going to be forgiving of others and forgiving to myself. Let me put it another way. I am simply going to be giving, giving to others, and giving to myself, and most of all, giving myself to God Who has the eyes to see and the power and glory to open mine.”

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I crown you with My love. So I can crown you with My love is the reason why you bow your head. Of course, in Reality, no matter how tall you might be, I can reach.

So, if you are inclined to bow down to Me, realize that you are bowing down to your Self, that which you might call your Higher Self. The expression Higher Self seems to pall next to the word God or whatever I am called in your language. Of course, I am beyond language, and so are you. Language, as beautiful and as wonderful as it is, cannot say enough. Words just cannot express Oneness enough, fully enough, marvelously enough. Nor can a gasp express the depth and height of Love in a Universe of Love.

What We are worth to the seeming Each Other is beyond description. It is near and far. What We are to Each Other is emblazoned in the Sun, and it is reflected in the Moon. Of course, when you come down to it, We cast no shadow. There is no shadow to fall on Our Light.

I pick you up in My arms of love, and We abscond to where Light is and nothing else but Light is. And that’s where We are. Love is Our Territory. Love is Our Being. In Love We Are.

Despite your little fits of temper on Earth, you, that which you call you, are I. We, the illusion of you and the Reality of Love, are mingled. I, God as you say, know My Greatness. You do not yet know yours.

Let’s have it out. You are an incredible Being Who hides under a mask of his own making. You transfer roles. You transferred your Heritage to Me. I am a projection of you – or, are you a projection of Me? It does get confusing, talking about Our Oneness in terms of two.

Why is the word I capitalized? There is One I, and yet a fringe of the One I babbles on the periphery.

Well, don’t worry about it. It’s all for a good cause. But know that I am the Godhead, and you reign supreme with Me, only you blink such supreme Vastness away. Yes, you do have a veil over your eyes.

I would like to do away with the word you, yet, at this time, the self-imagined you seems to still need it.

It is like one of those plots where the King’s child is kidnapped and grows up thinking he is a pauper. He was proclaimed the King, but the child doesn’t remember. When the heir to the throne is found and declared His Majesty before all once again, he cannot believe it. It is like a fairy tale.

In truth, it is the Prince’s life away from his Princedom that is the fairy tale. The Truth is a singular story without a plot. Once upon a time, there was a King, and there is no more to say. That is the whole story. A King came into Being. Many seeming Kings came into Being. There was no other, and yet stories were told, and a Kingdom called Earth was constructed, and there became roads and journeys and such matters as history, and it was all a Tale Told.

There were so many versions of the tale, you can hardly believe. Yet no tale proclaimed the Vastness in which the tale was told.

Scheherazade told stories every night, and the stories were circulated and never finished and not one of the stories was real. The characters in the stories thought they were real, yet the characters were made up as the stories were made up when all the while there was the King, and the King was all.

Finally, the commoners woke up, and everyone became the King Who Crowned Himself.

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Forget your alliance with Me? How could that happen, for nothing can interfere with Our Alliance. Only your thoughts can take you away from Our Oneness. However, you have many thoughts, and rarely are your thoughts still. Your heart seems to keep up with your thoughts, and so your thoughts race and your heart follows, getting past itself.

The Greatest Relationship in your life, and you let it slip your mind. You are seemingly unaware of your own Being. You see life as a dance, and, yet, you forget with Whom you dance. You forget Whose arms hold you and lead you around the dance floor. I am never a Silent Partner. However, you may not hear Me. As it is, I whisper, yet, it is not a matter of My volume that you do not hear. I could thunder My Voice while you would hear your thoughts over My Voice. You would listen to a nickelodeon over the sound of My Voice. Ironic, isn’t it?

You may well listen to a clerk in the store giving you advice on what to purchase over what I say in My Eminent Domain.

I am the Great Exponent of Life and you may not hear Me. You misplace Our private earphone, or you turn it to a different channel or station. Perhaps you are listening to the news or watching a comedy on TV where life is a canned laugh a minute. You blare trivia, and you mute My Voice. You forget altogether that I am a loving communicative God. For some reason, you don’t read Me between the lines.

You stand in line somewhere, waiting for something and forgetting Me. If not forgetting the concept of Me, forgetting My Presence in your heart. Then you may think that I am ignoring you. No, dears, it is you who skip past Me.

Not for one moment am I ever at a distance from you. I am stationed deeply in your heart, and I am a full-time advisor to your mind. Your mind goes on a tangent, and, in the fray, you forget Me. You have a tendency to find other matters more exciting than the One Who gave you life and stays at your side through it all – through the imagined all of thick and thin. I am right with you, at the so-called beginning and finishing lines and all in between without cease. There is no such thing as My being absent from you.

However, you may prefer to ignore the whole subject of God for fear that I might be too big a subject for you or, worse, a disappointment. Actually, you may have vanquished the idea that there is a road to God that is pleasant and available.

Something has seemed to dissuade you from coming to My side in your awareness. Oh, that awareness of yours, so far behind the times, your unawareness from so long ago, and new awareness kept so far at bay.

You keep getting glimpses of Me, however, and these glimpses of Me you seem to see out of the corner of your eye, or, perhaps, as floaters in your vision, a kind of fragmentary inner seeing, an almost seeing while you are on your way to an old story.

You may ignore the fact that you are lonely for Me. You may never have considered that I am lonely, not for you because I have you right smack in My awareness, yet I do long for your awareness. O, how I look forward to that moment when I see that instant recognition in your eyes, when you cast your beating heart in My direction which is, indeed, inner to you, solidly inner, solidly current and active.

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You may think that the part of the world you live in is small. You live on a block in a town. You know a few people. Daily you travel a short distance. Your world seems to be as big as the place where you work, where the boss is king. You don’t see how you possibly impact the world at large.

First of all, despite appearances, you do not live in a separate part of the world. The world is a whole, and you live in the whole of it. You are not a speck in the Universe. You impact ten thousand miles away as much as you impact your next-door neighbor. Of course, depending where you live, you may not know your next-door neighbor’s name, and you don’t see how you can possibly impact your neighbor anymore than you can impact a stranger ten thousand miles away.

In Reality, beloveds, there is no distance, not in time or in space. There is Infinity and Eternity which, on Earth, you experience in a time-frame bolstered by science on Earth. All this is scientific and beautiful, yet scientific only so far as it goes on Earth.

You are much more than your appearance on Earth. You are Infinite and Eternal. You live in a Vastness beyond your reckoning. There is only Vastness. Only, you do not quite glimpse the Vastness. Your vision is near-sighted. Because you cannot presently see far enough doesn’t mean that what you presently don’t see is absent. Vastness is a greater aspect of your life than you can touch with your physical senses. The day is coming, however, when you will grasp your participation in the Whole of Vastness.

If Totality were a pie, you would be an equal-sized piece with every other piece of the pie. There would not be different-flavored pies. There would be no better pies nor less valuable pies. If each piece of pie were a gong, each gong would knell the same. Each sound would reach everywhere. Do not think that you are merely a worker ant in a particular ant-pile. No, no, indeed, you are as vast as the furthest star. You are not a separated being, unnoticed. You are not a mere blip on a screen. You are Everything. What do you think Oneness means!

You perceive that you are in a dense world, yet density is the illusion you live in. Density and gravity hold you up on Earth at the same time as they hold you down. Remember, you look from various directions. Of course, I engage with you and the game on Earth when I tell you to keep looking up, for I am everywhere, and directions do not exist in time or in space except as precise measurements in the world of illusion. There is nothing truly to measure Vastness with. What can Vastness be compared to? There is nothing greater than Vastness, and there is nothing less.

Only in the play of life on Earth is there such diversion. Of course, you start from where you are, where you believe you are, and while you are on Earth, you do believe it, and, certainly, you take heed of it. You don’t pretend illusion away. When illusion is, it is. Mirages are real to those who see them. And you see them. You definitely see them. You touch them. You hear them etc. Immersed in fiction, you are a fiction-reader.

Live your life. Do not will it away. Do not think you waste your time on Earth. No, it is time well-spent. In any case, what can you do while you are on Earth except to lead your life? So lead it. Lead it well. Just know that life on Earth is not the only game in town. Regardless of density and gravity, you are a Traveler in the Light.

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Where are you today, do you think? Wherever you may be sitting or standing, you are nowhere but with Me. That’s a fact.

Your mind may be elsewhere. Let Me put it this way: I am always with you. I, God, AM always.

Your conscious awareness may be absent from Me. Your conscious awareness may be far away from Me. You are not always the most aware person on the block, will you admit this? Will you admit this with a smile?

Come rescue yourself from absence from Me. Come, join Me. Come here. Sit down right here beside Me. Look at Me, and know I am God.

Be you the proof of Me. If you need proof, prove Me by your mighty Self. I am Self-evident, beloveds.

Yes, of course, I am responsible for you. That does not take you off the hook, however. You are God-endowed. You are Self-willing. You are the Real You, and you are your little feet that run around and make-believe. You play games on Earth. You pretend your Self away. Helpless, hapless, you call your Self. Majesty denies his majesty. Do not blame Me for what occurs.

You are a Runaway King. You have abandoned your throne. You cast it aside. You chose the role of a penitent instead. You wanted to see what it was like to be a commoner on the street. From commoner, you became complainer, as if you had little or nothing to do with your purveyance on Earth.

Now you are wising up. Becoming aware of Me, you begin to better know your Self. You begin to take off the heavy lid of ignorance. Now you put on a crown, crown of roses, a crown of gold, a crown of God. Deny your crown or halo no longer. You are a Lighted Being, and your Light holds fast.

Sometimes, you are the last to accept what I tell you.

You may confuse awareness with ego, as if you are a better person to blink your eyes and be coy about your value. You may have chosen modesty over awareness. You may have chosen wiles over wisdom. Let’s face it, you are a kidder. In the semblance of unawareness, you have kidded yourself. You have fooled most everyone. A few have seen through your guises. A few do see the hidden treasure that lies beneath the rags you wear.

Perhaps you see your role with Me as beggar, as though the more you beg and the poorer you are, the more I will give. You hold out your hand and wait for Me to put a penny in it. Better you stand tall and partner with Me. You have not believed in your own Free Will. Therefore, you have not really believed in My Majesty.

My Majestic Hand gave you everything. Instead, you see poverty. You see poverty of love. Instead of Greatness, you have been looking for pennies on the street, a handout here and a handout there.

You may protest what I am saying now. Beloveds, I am shaking you awake. “Wake up,” I say. I say: “This day is up to you. Make of it what you will.”

You may have preferred to be helpless. I am telling you that you are powerful. You dismiss that idea. Perhaps you have been engaging in powerlessness.

I give you the freedom to act on My behalf. It is on My behalf that you wend your way through life as a stalwart impresario of life. Take hold.

Life is not for waiting, beloveds. Call life to you. Go to the bank. Find your treasure. You are My gift to Me. No longer stand around in life. Get up. You are your own seeker and fulfiller of good fortune.

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In the world, suffering is justified, and yet suffering is not justifiable. It seems like suffering is handed to you, yet suffering is an interpretation you make. You consider suffering a consequence of something or another. Something happens or doesn’t happen, and you call it a cause for suffering. Such and such happens, and you are to respond appropriately with suffering. In Truth, there is no time. Therefore, there is no sequence. There is no consequence. There is nothing that happens because of one thing or another. Different things happen in a lifetime on Earth.

You look for explanations. You like to describe causes. You like to delineate reasons why something occurred or did not occur. You like to say, “Because of this or that, this or that happened.” Assigning cause is assigning blame. Whatever has occurred has occurred, and where you go from here is your responsibility. Beloveds, perfect reasoning doesn’t alleviate. The questions you ask cannot be answered.

My children may even hold Me responsible. You say that I did it. Or you say I wasn’t paying attention. Or you say I cannot exist. What you say cannot exist obviously exists.

Beloveds, life is what it is. Whatever life has handed you, it is now yours to do with. It landed in your lap. Accident or destiny, faulty or faultless, your life is the car you drive. You have to steer it. The question to ask is:

“Where do I go from here? How do I carry on? My position in life has shifted. Components of my life have changed. It is my life. It is mine. My life is a journey I have taken on, and so I journey. Sometimes I travel green valleys. Sometimes I mountain-climb. Sometimes I have to take another turn. Whatever the conditions, I venture forward. Who am I to protest the weather? By what right would I give up loving my life because of something that happened? I still have my life, and my life is for me to live. I have great resources within me, and I find them and journey on.”

The world has bought the idea of terrible, frightful, desultory, hopeless, unforgivable. Are you to forgive life for being life? By what divine right are you? If there is a cause, it is because you divide life into loss and gain.

Sometimes life pampers you, and sometimes it takes your shirt. You are a prince or princess who does not have to be pampered. You don’t have to get your own way. You are not less nor are you more depending upon what life hands you. You are the handler of your own life. To be human is a wonderful thing, and you are very human, and yet being human is not an excuse for anything.

You are a Divine Being as well. Then be it. Divinity rises above. You are a Divine Being. You have a soul. So what if you are housed in a human body and referred to as a human being? Be a noble human being. Be a soldier in the army of love, and love yourself and love life and be a friend to yourself.

You may think you are wounded. Well, then, kiss your wound and get up. In the act of getting up, you heal your wound. Licking your wounds is not the action for you, for you are meant to be the hero of your own life. Who is going to be the hero if not you?

Come to your own rescue. Pick yourself up. Put your shoulders back and stand up tall. You are not a victim. You are a valiant hero. You don’t just lie there. You get up, and you go forward.

Such have I told you to do.

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Whatever difficulties you may find in life, they lodge in your heart. What you have to do is extrude difficulties from your heart. Whatever may go on in the surface of life, so long as you see them as difficulties, the thoughts of difficulties disturb your heart, your innocent heart. So when your heart is immersed in suffering of one kind or another, no matter how big or how little, your heart carries the burden of it.

You realize, the burden is a result of a thought of yours. The burden is not in the situation. It is in your thoughts about the situation. The burden is in what your thoughts make of the situation. It may seem that your thoughts have walked in uninvited, yet you have ventured something like this: “What am I to make of this?” This question opens the door to your suffering.

The true answer is: “You are to make nothing of this.”

Are you truly to make something of a passing thing?

You see degrees, however. “This situation is serious,” you say. The situation is, indeed, what you say it is.

What if I were to tell you that you don’t have to take suffering upon yourself? It is not cool, beloveds. It is not necessary nor is it cool.

Even what are called tragedies do not have to be looked at tragically. It has been as if you have been given a book to follow. It is a book of suffering. This book lists categories of offense and their accepted responses. You think the lists of acceptable responses are to be followed. And so your suffering has been prescribed to you.

Do not think I make little of your emotional pain. I do not dismiss it. Your suffering is real. Whether your loss is of income or a loved one, its impact upon you is real. You didn’t make it up, yet you may take it as a given. It feels to you that your whole world has dropped out from under you. Seems like, yet seeming and what is real are not always the same. Whatever has occurred, it is not the end of the world, and it is not the end of your life. It may well be the end of your life as you know it. Whatever occurred is also a part of life. What occurs in life is not meant to trample you. It is not to stomp on you. Whatever has occurred, you will weather it. You will survive it. You will move on.

You are dependent upon so many things because you believe you are. You believe you must be. You correlate too many things. You name your job as your lifeline. You name your loved ones as essential to your well-being.

You have decided that some things are not to happen, even though you know very well that they do happen. Jobs are lost. Accidents happen. Living and life in the world are impermanent. It has always been so. And, yet, nevertheless, you insist that it be permanent. You are permanent. Your life force, if We may call it that, is permanent. Your soul is permanent. Love is permanent. Otherwise, everything is impermanent. Even so you fight change even as it cannot be fought.

Time exists only in the world. You live by it, and yet you protest it. You insist that your life and the characters and situations in your life stay the same, unless it happens that you want to change some aspects of what life hands you.

You wanted something, and you didn’t get it. You had something, and it was taken away from you in one way or another. You didn’t want something, and it visited you.

There are no surprises in life, and yet you are shocked. Then you indict life and accuse it of criminality. Then your mind sacrifices your beautiful heart, and your mind calls itself justified.

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You have opinions about life, and some of your opinions are bright and sparkling, and some are not so bright and sparkling. You may say that the dark aspects of life are true. They are true as you see them, and it’s true that dark elements of life, as you see them, pull you down.

It is equally true that the bright elements lift you up, and you become light as a feather. Which would you rather be? Heavy as a boulder, or light as a feather? Which would you choose? Which choice will more easily lift you to Heaven? Every day, perhaps many times a day, you are choosing a rock or a feather. Upon what do you base your choice? You say it is reality.

You may say there are more rocks in the world than feathers.

I wonder why you feel duty-bound to stick up for the heaviness and make light of the lightness of feathers. You may say, “True, feathers exist, but rocks are more grounded. Rocks are more solid. Feathers aren’t quite as substantial. They won’t hold you up.”

And so your opinions become weighted down in what you call reality.

Facts and True Reality are not one and the same. Collect factuality, if you like, and where does it get you? Let’s be factual then. Rocks keep you down. That which you call reality holds you down, keeps you down, keeps you immersed where you may well not want to be. In choosing what you may call reality, you do a good job of keeping yourself where you are. Would it be a good test of Reality to leave off where you are and start anew somewhere else?

When you are in a jam, don’t you want to get out of it?

If you prefer to stay in a jam, that’s your free choice. If you do prefer to move out of the spot where you are now, there are other thoughts to embrace that will take you on a journey. Not a flight of fancy, beloveds, but a journey.

Let Me ask you: If you are given a choice of being immobile or going on a journey to visit a new land, what would keep you making the same choice as you have been, and what would keep you from making a new choice? Do you really, for the sake of some obscure reality, want to run the same course again?

Here is your chance to sail on the High Seas. Would you refuse it?

It’s true. You are not given a map. You are not given a guarantee. You are given a choice.

If you complain about the present route you are taking and you choose the same route again, what are you doing? What are you choosing?

True, all that glitters is not gold. By the same token, what makes you think that you are indentured to iron? Gold is as real as iron.

True, there is no safe bet.

Has it possibly occurred to you that safety may not be the issue? Keeping yourself as you have been may be familiar, but familiarity and safety are not necessarily the same. There are no guarantees as you would like guarantees to be. There is opportunity, however. Staying at home in a rocking chair in a corner is not always your best choice.

What I am saying is to give life a chance to take other courses. Like a river, allow life to flow. Swim in the waters of life and don’t be afraid to. Swimmers learn to swim. They learn to give up their fear so that they can swim. Standing on shore offers its joy. Swimming in the ocean offers unrealized joys.

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Beloved beloveds, it is very tempting for you to ask Me to rescue you. Of course, there may be situations that call for rescuing, and, sometimes, it is built in that I will lift you up and whisk you away from what you fear. On these occasions, you don’t have to ask, you understand.

And, if you call out, and I do not rush over, you are not to feel you are forgotten. I do not forget you. I do not turn away from you. It is not from whim that I do not rush right over. There are many factors unknown to you. There may be something for you to turn to within yourself. There may be something within yourself that is to save the day or re-position your perspective toward it, or have to go through it.

Too often you see tragedy. It is a given that the world sees tragedy. Yet, in Heaven, what can a tragedy be? What would it look like? To you, what seems like the worst may not be tragic at all. Death of the body, for example. What plagues you may not be what it seems. To your mind, whatever it is that you find tragic will contain a perceived loss. Of that, We can be certain.

Sometimes situations seem to change by themselves. Sometimes, for there to be change, you have to be the one who make the change or rises above it. It never was My intention that you feel powerless. Because I AM does not mean that you are not. Because I AM powerful means that you are as well. I am your strength, and self-reliance is your strength as well.

What is fear but a projection? Fear is not a reflection of holy waters. Fear blocks fulfillment. It is a shim put under a door, and you are puzzled why the door won’t do as you want. When the shim of fear is gone, your hand will move the door without obstruction.

You ask: “God, getting right down to it, how on Earth do I remove fear? When fear has got me, I don’t know how to get out from under. Help me.”

Beloved, get into action, even if the action is to think a different thought. If you sit there, not getting anywhere, you probably will go round and round, play the same recording over and over again. Get up, beloveds, and play a different tune. This is so simple and, at the same time, not easy for you to do. Not easy for you to do so long as you sit stuck in the same place.

Beloveds, when you want Me to intervene, let a thought of Mine reach you. Find a place where you like to be and go there. Nature is good. Go where water is, or go where trees are, or where animals are. Note the take on life that animals have. When you are with animals, you will learn something about yourself.

We are ultimately talking about you, aren’t We? You are the subject of this dissertation, aren’t you?

What are you going to do to make some kind of change in a situation that hangs heavily on you?

Sometimes the action you are to take is to do nothing. Sometimes it is for you to stop agitating over it and let it take its course. Sometimes you have to let things lie.

You are not always the decision-maker.

Can you take the heavy package off your shoulders and leave it by the wayside? Later, perhaps, there may be something for you to make a decision about, yet not now, not yet, maybe never.

Sometimes you have to wait and see. That may be your decision. That may be what you have to do about what you see amiss.

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How you wish you could love, really love, love without attachment to love itself which can only survive without attachment. Attachment is like handcuffs that bind. Attachment is a having to have. Love isn’t had. It isn’t purchased. It isn’t taken. It isn’t forfeited. Love belongs, yet it is not a belonging.

Love is like a bird that must be free to fly. Love is poised. It comes from a high place that cannot be enchained. Love, by its very nature, must be free to soar! Love does not like to make itself small or dehydrated or fast-frozen. Love likes to be wave and wave of itself. Love must be a bird that flies high. Flying birds are not to capture one another. They are to free one another in order to accompany each other. Neither is the chattel of the other. Love cannot be owned. Love isn’t like that.

Love is not to be stolen. Love from another heart is to stay in his or her own heart and not be bound by even the one loved. Love is not to be insisted on. You have seen love calculated. Love is not meant to be a matter of your hand played right as in a card game. Look not to be the winner of love, the capturer of love. Be not the capturer of love nor the prisoner.

Love, true love, is something different. Love is not meant to be blind. Even a seducer or siren of love fools himself or herself. Everyone in love wants his love to be wonderful, and so both lovers’ eyes paint fictitious pictures. Each paints pictures according to illusion. False premises lead to false conclusions. Disillusion comes later.

It has been thought, as the world is, that it is the heart that falls in love -- that Cupid shoots an unaimed arrow, yet it is the mind that pulls the wool over your eyes. The heart looks to the mind. You have a dream, and you want it to come true, so your mind does some patching here and there, and you proclaim love.

Love cannot be an obligation. It is not a debt. Love is not something to have. Love is to be. Love can best be when it is left to itself. Love does not have to be won. It does not have to be assigned. Love is not meant to capitulate.

Ah, to love, to be loved, love unattached, undemanding, and unpremeditated.

Often, in the world, love is a world sport, coveted, indulged in, a game of sorts, yes, a dart game of sorts.

Cupid shoots his arrow with his eyes closed. Love that is long-lasting has to be clear-eyed. Without illusion, there will no aftermath of disillusion.

Let there be love-lasting without ownership. Love belongs to itself, love unregimented, love that doesn’t win, and love that can’t lose.

Full-blown romantic love as it has often been seen in the world, possessive, tumultuous, overwhelming, is settling down in the world. Love will rise in everyone’s heart. Giving will be the order of the day. Giving but not giving up nor giving away, not a barter, not a trade, not compensation, simply a freeing of hearts to culture love, love, less than a specialty, more of a proclivity, love born and love borne in all hearts, love good-hearted, love established as if from its native land, love from an arbor, love from the temple of the heart, love simple without flourishes and mandates.

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Let Us just sit down together today for the pleasure of Our company. We don’t have to accomplish anything but to be together, sitting on Our chairs, loving each moment with One another, as if there were anything else than Oneness.

Let Us have all of Eternity to sit together. We don’t even have to talk. We can just pull up chairs and rock in them, or We can sit in a big recliner. We can pull up any kind of chair We like. All We want is to sit together. No big deal. Typically, We do sit together. I am always aware of your presence in My life. You are not always aware of My Presence and Our Friendship.

Sometimes You think I’m out of town or somehow preoccupied with more important things when there is nothing closer to Me than you. It is as if We hitchhike together. We are complete buddies Who backpack together or ride a bike or swim in the river of life. Our mode of transportation doesn’t matter. All that matters is that We are together.

Where exactly We’re going doesn’t matter, for We wind up together. This is what counts to Us. Our friendship, Our love. Our love is intact. In truth, We know nothing else.

You may have forgotten Our Closeness. I never forget. I accompany you everywhere. You come with Me, and I go with you. I am either ahead of you or trailing behind you, ready to catch you at any moment.

You are in My care. You are ever with Me, and I with you. We are staunch Friends. We are in Life for the long haul. Nevertheless, in Our Friendship, time does not enter in. We are well aware of the illusion of time. There is no long haul. There is no short haul. We amble. We coast. We climb. We dance. We sing. We sing of Our joy. We sing of what it is to be together, hand in hand. We dance across the Universe. We swirl in the sky. We lift rainbows like ribbon. We toss the sun back and forth. We hold the moon like a cup, and the stars dance at Our toes.

Hark, We hear the music of the stars. You discover that We play the musical instrument of the stars. We cannot contain OurSelves from playing it. It is Ours to play! And We play great music of all kinds for the joy of it. We are music to the stars! The Whole Universe pauses a moment to enjoy the music We make so delightfully.

We have a whole orchestra. We are many-handed, and We play music not even invented yet.

We play. We love, and We dance Our love as well. Joy has to be expressed, and We express it. How light on Our feet are We.

And We never tire. We can dance and sing and play for all of Eternity. That’s what We do. In this moment of Eternity, We play all night, and We play all day, even though there is no such as thing as time. So We can say that We just play, and We don’t know how to stop. We play the music, and We dance the dance, and, yet, all of it goes on as if by itself.

We are in the thrall of love. There is nothing for Us to do but to love. We don’t know how not to love. We are love on the move. We are a marching band of love. Our feet dance intricately, and Our feet never tire. We are perpetual love. We love, and that’s it.

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If only you could feel love in your heart for everyone, you would. You would gladly, only you can’t seem to get to that place. You try, and just can’t seem to. It isn’t simple for you. Somehow, sometimes, you dig a hole for yourself where your heart can only be buried, stiffened, a stranger to itself. You would come back to love, and, yet, you can’t seem to bring yourself to do it. Something underlies your sense of disparity.

There is some kind of proof of another’s unworthiness that you can’t seem to remove. You wish you could. You wish you had good feelings for this person. If only you could dismiss your opposition to this person instead of the person himself. You do ask yourself: “Why oh why do I object so much to this person? When will this dislike leave me? When will it get out of my mind?”

To you, it feels that accepting this person is against your nature when, in truth, it is against your nature not to love. What has come between you and this person? What is it that blocks your ease in accepting the person just as he is? You don’t have to personally adore him, yet, why the fierce dislike, dislike to the extent that your heart curdles within your chest? You would rather not think of this person at all, and yet, you keep thinking of this person. As much as you would like to rid yourself of all thoughts about this person, thoughts keep coming up. What are you angry at, beloved?

You say you can’t be honest with this person. It is too hard for you and against your nature, you say, even when it is your true nature to love? Somehow, this person has triggered something in you and has become an anathema to you.

I have to tell you that this person who occupies your mind is innocent. He would have you like him. He would like you to be sunlight upon him. He asks nothing of you but to be thought of kindly. This person wants something from you that you cannot seem to give. You try to get out of this unloving place you find yourself in. You tell yourself to bless this person, and you try to say, “God bless you, God bless you” to him within the confines of your mind.

In your mind, you ask this person who seems to consume your mind to forgive you. Still, you find yourself in the throes of negativity to the extent that you despair. Somehow this person seems to have become a thorn in your side. It seems to you, if this person did not exist in your thoughts and your life, the sun would shine more brightly on you.

The fact is that this person has nothing to do with you and your negativity. He has become a symbol of something that you do not even know the name of.

I am trying to tell you that the negativity you feel is not true. It is not true and it is of no benefit to you. There is some stubbornness going on here. You have clamped your jaw shut.

You are stumped. What can this person do to get out of your dim view of him? Is there anything he can do? What would you have him do? You seek an answer, and you do not find it. Somehow this person has become an insignia of what you don’t like. Where does this animosity come from? This person has done nothing to you but to exist as best he can. He is not your enemy. Where does enemy exist except within you, My beloved?

This is a big one for you, to let go of the animosity you carry and accept good will.

Let go, let go is the message to you today. I know you want to. You want animosity to be at an end. This is a big crossroads for you, and you must cross it. You must leave hard feelings behind. You must find a way to step over hard feelings and come back into your true heart.

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Be easy on others. Don’t be so hard on them. Yes, you see their errors so easily. It’s true, they don’t see their own. They see yours.

One of your errors has been to dismiss others as of no consequence to you or to the world. They are not your cup of tea. In your mind, it may be you can’t abide them, for they rub you the wrong way.

That is your error, not theirs. You are the one rubbed the wrong way. You are the one irritated.

You may have tried everything you know to unruffle your feathers, and you are not doing so well.

I have a question to ask you, ruffled one. What is there that you can’t let go of? If you keep the rufflement, there is something that you are holding dear to you. Is it that you are right? Let Us grant that. You are right. Your perception is right. Must you hold it against others or another that your assessment is correct? Okay, they are flawed human beings, and so are you.

You may think you are a forgiving person, and yet your position in regard to someone who is not easy for you to tolerate has become vital to you. Dear child, so what if you are right? Small comfort in that. To your dying day, you may be right.

Adhere yourself to your own standards, beloved.

Another person is one thing, and you are another. I am talking to you right now and what is best for you. I am representing you and not the other. This other person is not what you would wish him or her to be. Nor, so far, are you able to be what would bring peace to you and the seeming other. Okay, the other person has no common sense. He makes no sense to you . He is all the things you do not tolerate well. He is guilty of seeing life differently from you. Not only that, he thinks he knows all the answers. So?

Yet your ego says in one way or another: “Off with his head.”

Does the punishment fit the crime? Does a hardened heart mean more to you than letting go of judgment? What else is there for you to let go of?

Now don’t you start feeling guilty.

Let’s get to the heart of the matter. You don’t know how to deal with your feelings about this person. You don’t want to fake, and you don’t know how to be honest with this person either.

Sometimes life brings you these very people so you can overcome what is, after all, your own prejudice.

Beloved, people not as bright as you are people too! They don’t know they’re not so bright as you. They are equally as certain that they are smarter than you!

And, yet, this person may well seek to be in your good graces, and you can’t seem to admit him.

What you can do is to let go of the surliness you feel. You don’t have to take this person to your bosom, yet you can let go of your objections. Please remember, the objections are yours. They belong to you, not the other.

Life has conspired, has it not?

Think differently for a moment. You are not cellmates in prison. You are not sequestered with this person day and night.

Now, in contrast, does it still seem like such a big deal that you are sometimes in the same room!

Which one of you is dimmer than the other? The one who wants you to like him, or you, the one who is rankled?

Come, can you not smile at yourself and your pomposity? Come, get off your high horse. You do not have to like what you don’t like, and, yet, can you not rise in your own estimation?

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I am not a fly-by-night God. I am not a sometimes God. I am a forever God. It’s My joy to be God. From My joy, I created you. You belong to joy. Let go of all that is not joy for you and keep only joy. That which is not joy for you is not because of a person or situation. You think it is. Whatever the persons or situations may be, they stir something in you that finds something outside of you intolerable. You may even say: “I can’t stand this or that. It drives me up the wall.”

Without your abeyances, no one, no situation has that kind of power over you. What is the offender to you really? Oh, yes, the person and/or situation has triggered something in you. In you, beloveds.

When I say to let go of all that is not joy and to keep only joy, I am saying to let go of the discomfort. Let go of the trap that says you have to be uncomfortable. There is some tie, albeit a reverse tie, between you and what beckons discomfort to you. Because discomfort knocks on your door doesn’t mean you have to open the door. You don’t have to bang the door closed either.

You are not a rope held in another’s hand. You are not putty in another’s hand. You are not a gong that another’s hand beats. You are your own determiner.

You are not obliged to like everyone. It is not an obligation. Obligation doesn’t seem to work. Yet you can relieve yourself of negativity. You don’t have to have it. If you do have it, you don’t have to keep it. You have the say over your own heart and mind.

Why does someone or something affect you so adversely? Whatever it may be, it is for you to get beyond. It is you who has to change. Not someone else. You can change your hold on what you see as another’s flaws. Someone may indeed have those flaws, yet you don’t have to be distraught about others’ flaws. You don’t have to be ravaged by them. You don’t have to give away your soul because you find someone or something less than you want and less than you deserve. In one sense, dear ones, no one has anything to do with your emotions. You were not born to be a puppet in someone else’s hands. You were born to be your own person.

Must the one who riles you have so much power over you? Why would you give your God-given power away? Keep your power and let the vise of the other person go. You are the one who has held on and clamped yourself. You are the one so conscious of your objections to how another makes his way in the world.

Nor am I saying you have to make excuses for another. Whatever their offense, it is their offense. It does not belong to you.

If another is manipulative, that is their problem. Don’t make it yours. That you don’t like it is your problem for you to deal with. Where is it written that you can only be a blessing to those who are easy for you to understand? Who said that you have to get up on your high horse because of the way another walks in the world? Must you let another or a situation mandate how you walk in the world?

Let go of your self-imposed hold onto weaknesses in others. Turn them over to Me. Give yourself over to Me as well. Let go. Let go.

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I hold you in My heart, and you have no escape. You are a permanent occupant of My heart. This is My Will, and My Will is done.

Now My Will is that you know in Whose Heart you are.

Now My Will is that you know the Essence of Yourself. Now My Will is that you know where you are and why you are and what you mean to Me and what, one day, you will mean to yourself. You will see.

You are a blessing to Me. I bless you, and you bless Me. You are My blessing any way you shout it. You are My Own True Love. My heart swells with you encased in it. And your heart swells with Me encased in it.

We love, and there is nothing more to be said. There is nothing more to be done. We Who are Love, love. How We love! You swirl in My Love. We are the same Love, only you know it not. You hear Me not. You believe Me not. So far away are you from My recognition of you as My Beloved Self. So far away are you from knowing your Self. Now, come closer to your Holy Self. Come swoon with Me in love. We proliferate love. We are spenders of love. We are exponents of love. We are love unbounded.

You opened a book once, and you got only as far as the first page. This is like you on Earth. You have a lot further to go. And as you read the book of Yourself, your mind extends further, and your heart encompasses the Universe and all the Galaxies, and you expand and expand until the Universe is filled with you, and you are filled with the very Universe you carry within you. All is contained within you. I am contained within you. We are contained in love.

You think you see someone else when you see Me. I mean, you have a God sense, and when you sense Me, you are sensing yourself. You haven’t fathomed this yet. Your experience of Me may well go like this:

A most beautiful perfume surrounds you. It is so lovely, so desirable. You perk up. Where is this amazing perfume coming from? You look everywhere. After some time you realize that the supreme perfume comes from you. You are the bearer of this most amazing perfume. The perfume emanated from you. The God you seek was inside you all along.

The Bluebird of Happiness is singing in your backyard all along.

And I sing in your heart night and day without cease.

Beloveds, do you really think I am a more powerful God far away from you in a beautiful sky? I am beautiful anywhere and everywhere. I am beautiful in your heart. Familiarity with Me breeds love and more love. You are opening a treasure chest that has no bottom. More and more keeps coming from your heart. There is no end to it. And you, regardless of your opinion of yourself, are the treasure that keeps spiraling into your waiting arms. You are a spinner of love, and, on Earth, you also spin tales. You Who are Love, are also a spinner of tales.

The love you spin is true. The stories you tell are only stories. Get swept up in Our Love, and you a different tale will weave.

The tale you weave is the story of your life, filled with other spinners who spin their tales and intertwine them with yours.

I am the denouement of all stories. Come to Me now. You are going to wind up with Me anyway. Come, fly to Me now.

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Let’s take a little jaunt today. Let’s go over the horizon and see what it’s like to walk on air and see the stars from a different angle as if there were no distance between you and the stars and the light and the Maker of the Stars and all your heart’s desires.

What if, in your eyes, it could really be true that distance does not exist. If distance does not exist, then, in a way, closeness does not. However, Oneness is Oneness. There is nothing whatsoever to distance, and no gaps to close. Words are words, you know. Words do the best they can, yet words are substitutes for Reality. Words are approximations. Words do a good job. Words aspire to find the right approximation. Words aspire to put themselves together so they reveal the wonder they wish to express. And yet words cannot say it all. The word Vastness is not quite Vastness Itself.

Words aren’t guesses, yet they are approximations.

What is the word love next to the depth and breadth of love itself? See, there are no words to express the love that only your heart can express.

You can put all the words on a package of spaghetti, yet the words on the package of spaghetti are not the spaghetti. They are not the spaghetti raw or cooked, nor are the words and the pleasure you gain from eating the spaghetti dredged with olive oil and garlic and salt and pepper or tomato sauce and basil and Parmesan cheese. Nor are the words on a label on a can of Spaghetti-O’s the Spaghetti-O’s themselves. Nor is the name given to you anywhere near representing you and the Glory of your Being.

Nevertheless, words matter. There are words for everything, and, yet, the words are not everything. Digestion is word, and yet it is a sum of words. Charts of digestion can be made, yet your digestion is far more than any words or charts can portray.

Beautiful are the stars above from where you came. I appointed you the Light of the Stars. Starlight is in your heart. You might consider your heart a cave. Nevertheless then, your heart is a cave that shines light, and your heart shines light more effectively than the finest words can do. All applause to the stars and the light of the stars in your heart and to the streetlights that words are. Words can point you in a direction that exists on Earth yet not in Heaven where Oneness does not need to be pointed out.

In my Father’s house are many mansions. You are many-mansioned. You are a phenomenal Being. You are a diamond with many facets. There are levels within levels in life in the world. And you are the elevator that can take you to all the floors. You are the elevator that can take you to the Penthouse where you can see Who You Really Are and where you have been and what you were really doing there. You have had many thoughts otherwise. You may have never come near to the Reality, yet you sought to. You always knew that Reality existed. I say you knew because you always sought it. You sought for more than the details of life on Earth. You knew there was an apex, and you knew you wanted to reach it. You knew it was yours, and you knew you came from that not-quite-grasped place that wasn’t a place yet was within your reach.

It was you, beloveds. What you were trying to reach was within you, in that cave within your heart where starlight always shone. You looked everywhere else.

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Love you? It is impossible for Me not to love. I love with every fiber of My Being. Love is the center of My Existence. And of yours too. The thing is that I know only love while you are involved in much ado about nothing.

This is the human condition. Involvement. Entrainment. You work at resolving the human condition. Through your being in a physical form, you come to freedom.

The Being of yourself is already free. From the physical basis, you discern the Truth of you. You discern and ennoble. Although there is truly no distance to travel, you travel it. And who greets you when you arrive? Why, you do. You meet yourself.

What a journey you are on. You have a map in your hand, yet you think you are a buoy on the sea. In a way, you are. You bobble on the sea, and yet it is an incredible sea that you bobble on. You learn to swim, and you learn to dive, and you learn the true nature of your Being.

You were thrown into the sea.

You are a beautiful sunrise on the shimmering sea. You are the sunrise looking for yourself. “Where is it?” you plea. “Where is the sunrise?” You may be too close to see yourself. You may look everywhere except within yourself. You miss the point.

Don’t feel bad about this. This is how it is. This is how you grow.

You, a guiding light, look for direction.

This is the humorous intent of the Universe.

You set sail to find Zanzibar, only to discover that you are Zanzibar seeking yourself.

You are Love seeking Love.

You are the answer to a riddle that seeks its own answer.

Who are you, and where have you been. You have been playing Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Hello, why it’s you! You knock on the door. You open the door. You find yourself on the other side of the door. Who else can it be but you? Beautiful you. The Truth of you waiting for yourself to come through the portal of awareness.

There is no other side. There is you.

The entrance is through your heart and through your mind. In Infinity and Eternity, heart and mind become One. Oneness of heart and mind are translated into Love of which there is nothing but.

Enjoy the world while you are in it. This is the path for you to follow. Enjoy being on Earth and catch a sight of the Reality you carry with you. You don’t really carry it. It carries you. It is the mover and shaker of you.

It is your destiny to find your Self right where you are. The travel is inside you. It is the course in life you take. You can only pass with flying colors, for you wind up with Me. Of course, I am from where you started. And now you pass the finish line. Of course, there is no finish to Our beautiful existence, and, so, We can say that you come to the starting line where you are seated with Me.

Starting line or finish line – what’s the difference? There is no line to follow or leave from. There is sequence, and there really is no consequence. Nevertheless, reintroducing yourself to yourself is enlightening, bright eyes. You love it. You love gazing at the sunrise. You love gazing at the one who opens the blinds that once blocked the sun. Now, you, the sunrise gaze at yourself, and you see and you say, “Good. Beautiful. Awesome.”

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You are vaster than the Universe. The Universe is included within you. Everything is included within you. I am included within you! How vast can you be? And what can you possibly be lacking?

You have perpetrated a hoax on yourself! You try to make yourself a Mighty Mouse! You who are far mightier than a giant would like to dance around as Mighty Mouse. If that isn’t a hoax you’ve perpetrated on yourself, what is?

Deep within you is all the power of the Universe, all the power of Heaven, and all the power assigned to Me, God.

Meanwhile, you belie yourself. You huff and puff around building your muscles at the gym and you cover your neck and arms with gems, when you are a shining light greater than the Sun that lights the world. Of course, you would consider yourself lucky to shine one ray of the Sun, and so you putter around looking to put light on your existence when you are the Light. I do not say cavalierly that you are the Light of the World. Light of the World is actually a drop in the bucket compared to the Fullness of Light that you are. Meanwhile, seeing yourself as Mighty Mouse or Superman doesn’t even hit the mark.

You are so much greater than you seem to think you are.

You are a car with great horsepower, and you go around the block at ten miles an hour.

You are a huge fancy car disguised as a golf cart. You are a powerful engine of the Universe, and more than that, much more than that, far more than that.

Now, if you please, hold your head up high, your shoulders back, and get to know Who you are. Beloveds, you have by-passed yourself.

This Heavenletter is not to make you high and mighty. It is to get you to be more accurate in your estimation of yourself and the others around you who also fall short in your estimation. That’s how it works. How you see yourself is how you see others.

You see yourself as limited, and that’s what you notice in everyone else. You Who reflect Me, shine tiny LED flashlights on each other, and so you take a dim view of just about everything and everyone.

Of course, a new baby brightens your eyesight for a while. Of course, We are not really talking about eyesight. We can call the sight I speak of as a sense. We could call it a God Sense. Let’s open up your God Sense which is the same as to say your Self Sense. Good, come to your Sense of God Self now.

The Power and the Glory are not somewhere outside you. They are within you. All the power and beauty and wonderment lie within you. Why hidden, beloveds? Why hidden from view and why hidden from you?

You are My Creation, and you see yourself as a bumbler. You, Who house the God of Infinity and Eternity, scurry around, trying to gather a few crumbs from the surface of life. You are Little Jack Horner who sat in the corner eating a piece of pie, and you pull out your thumb and say, “What a good boy am I.”

Or, We could say you are like oxen pulling a heavy cart you are yoked to, your eyes on the ground beneath your feet, looking neither left nor right not above, your head down. No wonder you would be glad to become a Mighty Mouse.

Never mind now, just become the Son of God, for so are you designated. Look up and begin to see yourself in the Light of My Eyes. So be it.

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When you feel negativity in your heart in the presence of someone or in the presence of a thought of someone, know that negativity you feel comes from your mind. Your mind has judged and drawn a conclusion.

When you feel negativity toward someone, your mind has established that the person is not the way you think he should be. You have judged him wanting, and you close your heart down.

When you feel positivity toward someone, your mind sees that person as being what you think he ought to be. Therefore, your mind thinks highly of him and signals you to like him.

When your heart takes signals from your mind, pro, your heart warms up to the person or, con, your heart distances itself.

What it comes down to is that you feel good about yourself when you think of someone you like. And when you think of someone you don’t like so much, you don’t feel quite so good about yourself. You blame the other person. In order to feel better, you look down on the person who doesn’t come up to snuff, and, therefore, for a little while, you raise yourself in your own estimation. You tip the scale in your favor. You like yourself a bit more. You feel better about yourself, and life seems better.

This is what is meant by conditional love. It depends upon something. It depends upon how another appears to you. According to the state he appears to be in, you apply a status to him, and you put a stamp on him: “Excellent. So-so. Doesn’t pass. Not to my standards.” And so you sink your heart or you lift your heart. You, who know better than to judge, judge right and left. Judgment does not feel good, beloveds, not to you, the judger, nor to the judged.

How you feel about yourself pretty much determines your stance toward another. One who judges lacks good judgment.

Unconditional love is a term bandied about, as if you can instruct yourself to love without making requirements. Awareness of love isn’t an Act of Will. Yet judgment is.

The real question is how to get away from judgment. The real question is how to get away from ego. Without ego, what would be the necessity for judging anyone up or down?

And, so, the real question to ask yourself is: How can I love myself at all times? How can I be less influenced by the conditioning of my own mind?

When the Great Spiritual Ones met someone, they met the person in freedom from past impressions. They did not condemn nor did they extol. The Great Ones did not appraise. They met with their heart of understanding intact. Their minds did not say: “This person is great. That last one was not.”

Their minds went more along the line of: “How can I best serve God through this person?” Of course, they did not really think this for this was natural to them. They didn’t have to think anything.

The Great Ones served God on all occasions. The question never arose in their minds: “What is this person worth?”

No, their question, if We can call it a question, was: “How do I bless this person in God’s Name?”

Look, they simply blessed. This is what they did. And what they did, so can you. With a full heart of love toward yourself, you will bless all who come before you. Know that all who have come before you, have come to receive your blessing. Give it.

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You are a nomad, you know. Even on Earth, you are traveling in space, in what is called space. I say you are a nomad because you are a traveler. As a matter of fact, you hop from pillar to post. We can call the pillar Heaven and the post, Earth, even as space and place do not truly exist.

And, yet, for all practical purposes, that is, Earth purposes, you are somewhere, always somewhere, hither and yon, Heaven and Earth. You are on the rebound from one to the other. You are more constantly aware of Earth. It is like a bird’s nest in a tree. You call it home when your True Home is seemingly farther away from you even as Heaven is as close to you as I am, and that is very close indeed.

The joke is on you, for I am you, and We, the One of Us, cannot be closer. You tend to think that I am in a faraway land when I am a local. I couldn’t be more local. Even as I cannot be located as you deem located, I am part and parcel of you, My beloved you, My Creation in Infinity and Eternity. No one, nothing, can separate Us. Only in your awareness does the impossible exist.

It is more than possible that We exist as One. It is more than probable. It is much more than likely. It is a certainty. We can’t even say “odds are.” There are no odds at play. This is a sure bet. We are One. Always are, always have been, always will be. We are infinitely and eternally One Gorgeous Being. From the beginning, We have known Our Oneness. From the beginning I have never lost sight of My existence. My existence is yours, yet you, this spark of Me, you see Me, you, Us, the One of Us, as far away as far can be. Therefore, you are far apart from your recognition of your lovely Being. Therefore, you are a stranger to yourself. Nevertheless, you are never estranged from Me and, therefore, your Self.

You find yourself in the dark. You have forgotten to open your eyes. You stand in the Bright Sunshine of My Love. You do not stand opposite to Me, beloveds. You are in My Bright Light, and you are My Bright Light. Bright in the Sunlight, you do not see Me. Get used to the Bright Light, and you will know Me as your Very Self.

What is so difficult about this? Do you make it unattainable? Look at it this way.

The Earth was always the Earth. Once upon a time, it was seen as a smaller place. Not until the Ocean was sailed upon was it seen as bigger than at first thought. Those who lived on one shore of the sea thought that was all there was. And then lands that always existed were discovered, and so the physical world became vaster. What had changed but awareness? Nothing new was discovered. It’s just that it was all new to the discoverers.

And so you discover Me. Your horizons are widened. Darkness grows dim, and Sunlight grows bright and brighter until Sunlight is All. Your eyes adjust. The pupils of your eyes adjust. And, so, your consciousness adjusts to the Brilliance of Me which, as it so happens, is the Brilliance of You, this so-called you or the You Who Is Called God. The fiction of multiplicity has been sown in the world. Even as it is fiction, the crop was reaped. And you settled for it.

No longer do you. You are becoming wise to the ways of the world. You are coming closer to your realization of Who You Really Are. And, so, you come closer to Me until the Grand Moment when you know what has always been, that you and I are One.

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Divine is your heart. Let’s face it. You are My divine holy child. You are the Being of My heart. You are true love, although you do not know it yet. Every fiber of your Being is love. And you do not believe this as yet. You are a wanton from your beautiful self.

Humility is not self-depreciating. Humility is realizing from where you come and where you belong. You are not a mere scrap of Me. You are all of Me. Will you come to conceive that? When you can conceive that, how the world will rejoice. How the world will spin and spin and your heart spin and your DNA spin in great rejoicing. This is the day you are to look in My mirror and see your Self. You are My beloved, and beloved you are.

It is said that you need to have faith in Me. Beloveds, it is your Self you are to have faith in. Have faith in My child. That is having faith in Me. That is having faith that I created well when I conceived you.

You have to know that something greater is going on than daily life made of particulars and such. There is a whole grander celebration going on than any daily grind or even great grind on Earth. There is something remarkable going on, and it is you. You are a remarkable creation. You are full-blown. You are not incomplete. You were not a creation that I stopped in the middle of. From Wholeness, you are Wholeness. You are all of Me. You are not a cheap imitation.

When you can believe in yourself, the world will become a vivid vortex of love. The One Sun in the Sky will have met its match. There will be light blazing such as the world has never seen, or, rather, light blazing that the inhabitants of the world have forgotten. You have forgotten what you are the epitome of. You have dimmed your light out of some kind of mistaken appraisal.

Look at the real picture of yourself. It is not lopsided. Your thinking has been lopsided. You have misperceived. I did not mis-conceive. I conceived a beautiful creation with you foremost in it. As soon as I conceived of the idea of you, it was done. I do well, and I did well.

Come back to Truth now. Erase that cartoon picture of yourself. Restart yourself with a master painting of yourself. Am I not a Master Artist? If I am not, who is?

I painted Creation with special oils available to Me, and I applied the oils to you. My picture remains true. You were never otherwise except as you thought. You kept looking at particulars, such as bodies, and you forgot to look at the essential oils and Special Hands from which you came. You investigated finger nails, and forgot greater. You kept your eyes on the details, and you saw flaws. You saw flaws when you could have seen the ultimate of My Great Art.

Woe to you who does not see as I see, for you see fiction, and I see Truth. You see what you boldly call fact, and I see the Truth of you. I know the Truth of you, and you are going to accept the Truth of you. You will no longer be able to deny it.

You are beginning to introduce Your Self to yourself. You are going to say, “Howdy.” You are going to see the Essence of you, and you are going to see the Essence of every individual on Earth. The Essence is Love. You will no longer see all these imaginings that you have held onto as if they were some kind of life vest in the middle of the ocean. You are your own life vest, and you are the Ocean you surround yourself with.

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What is going on with that heart of yours today? That heart of yours bounces up and down, up and down. Yes, you want your heart to be moved, yet maybe not so much as your heart does. Your heart, which is boundless, nevertheless, must not spread itself too thin. Your heart, unlike Mine, can’t be everywhere all at once. Your heart has to take a measured pace. It cannot speed everywhere.

Love and love yourself. Care and care for your heart. Your heart is unlimited, and yet it cannot be at the beck and call of everyone and everything. Yes, your heart cannot spend itself every day on everything everyone might wish. Seeming others are not to pull the strings of your heart. Do you get what I am saying? I do say that your heart is go to everyone everywhere, and I also tell you to refrain from over-spending your heart.

Yes, you are to be a friend of all, yet, that does not mean that when your friend is suffering, that you are to suffer as well. That is over-extending your heart. You have gone to the bank and taken out all your funds. You have exceeded your balance. Do you see what I mean? Sometimes, in the name of friend, in the name of love, you over-extend your heart. You allow others to take too much of your heart. Your heart has no bottom to it, and, at the same time, you can’t let your heart go every which way as if your own heart doesn’t count.

The Great Spiritual Ones loved with all their hearts, yet they did not overspend. They did not give all their energy away. They loved, and they were loved, and, yet, their heart was not a free-for-all. They did not cut their hearts too thin.

The Great Ones felt the suffering that others had, and, yet, they did not suffer. What good would that have been to anyone? They cared, and, yet, they did not take on the suffering. But you may well. You may tend to take on other’s suffering.

The Great Ones did not get weighed down in the suffering of others.

Buddha is known for his happiness. How could he have been Buddha if he cried with everyone who came to him.

When a man came to Christ for healing, Christ did not take on the man’s illness. How could Christ have beckoned healing from weakness? No, only from strength.

And you, even as a friend to all, must maintain your strength. You simply can’t give it all away. You do not put yourself up for grabs.

It is such a balance We are speaking of. You are heartful. You are not heartless, not at all. It is a more universal heart that you give and not overdo the giving of your own personal heart.

So, it must seem to you that I am giving you a mixed message. I say: “Give your heart to all.” And, then, it must seem to you that I say at the same time: “Conserve your heart.”

Perhaps, I should say: “Give your heart, and then move on. Don’t stay in one place. Do not get bogged down.” As I remember it, Christ was always walking along. He kept moving.

He was always a constant, and yet he moved forward. His light would remain as he moved along. He could give more because he moved along. He could give more because he did not overspend himself.

He did not consider himself a Savior. He was the Messenger. Above all, he knew from where all blessings come. He never forgot the Source, and it was from My pocket that he gave. Do you understand Me now?

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Well, dear Children of Mine, what are you thinking of today? Where is your heart, and where is your mind? What are your thoughts on? What myriad of things are you thinking about?

Your heart and your mind are often in tandem. When you think of bills, for example, your heart may sink. And when you think of Me, your heart may rise. In Heaven, nothing is known as heart-sinking. In Heaven, only heart-singing is known.

In the same vein, in Heaven, in this Eternity of Heaven, death is not even thought of, and yet it is said that angels greet you when you leave your body and you come here, heart and soul. Angels do greet you, yet it is more like this: An angel sees you and says: “Happy to see you! Where have you been?”

Of course, to angels, you have been gone for only a moment. Not really gone, and, yet, angels had an eye out for you.

There are angels called guardian angels who are said to fly to Earth with you. Their attention is on you. In that sense, they have been following you. They have been desiring goodness and mercy for you and urging you forward. Rather than calling your attentive angels guardian angels, let’s call them Guiding Angels. The word guardian implies the existence of danger to watch out for. I would like you to get out of that mindset.

Yes, of course, the angels and I want to lead you to green pastures, yet the Truth is that no matter what, no matter how you might flounder and falter, you will wind up on your feet. And who is to say, beloveds, that every action you take, regardless of world judgment, is not the right action for you at a particular time and place on Earth. What the Earth may call a great sinner may turn out to be a great saint. Who really knows? Who on Earth really knows.

True, you might fall into a pit, and angelic beings in My service will catch you and keep you from being injured. In any case, you can know that you will get out of the pit and who knows how far you will go. I think you will go far.

Nothing is lost. A detour is but a detour, yet, on Earth, it seems to many that life on Earth itself is a pitfall. It has even been called A Fall from Grace. That is not a representative name. How can you be out of grace when I am with you? Where can you possibly go where I am not? I am as much yours as I am anyone’s. Regardless of what role you may play, you are Mine, and I am yours. How far away from Me do you really believe you can get?

You are welcome to Heaven. You are blessed whatever you may think is happening. You are not exclusively a struggling person on Earth. No matter your constraints, you are free to break them. You are free to free yourself from all your past convictions, You are free to embrace yourself with love.

You are free to move forward. No one can stop you from looking back, yet, at any moment you choose, you can leap over the boundaries that tie you to the past. The past that never was is gone, and you are My beloved Child no matter what. Our bond is unbreakable no matter what is going on or you think is going on.

Eternity is going on. It neither moves nor does it stay. If Eternity were a vehicle, We could call it an escalator you ride on, and yet an escalator that isn’t moving as you understand moving, and, yet, just the same, you are rising. You are rising even as, if there were a top, you are tantamount to being at the top now. Come see.

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Rest in Me. How many ways can I say this? Certainly, wherever your body is, come rest in Me. Be you in a recliner, a bed, a futon on the floor, a field of grass on a hill, rest in Me. Enjoy where you happen to be, and rest in Me.

Wherein lies your comfort, beloveds? Wherein lies your security? Whose arms are wide enough to encompass the whole Universe and beyond?

Don’t wait for Me to be a last resort. Let Me be your first port of call. Go where the money is, says an expression in the world. Following that train of thought, I am the Currency. I am where everything issues from.

This does not mean you are to curry My favor. Your intention is not to butter Me up. Your intention is not to show Me what a good boy or good girl you are or will be. Your intention is to come close to Me, come close, come closer, come closer to Me and come closer to your Self, your Holy Self.

Do not let the word holy scare you off. Consider that the word holy means clear-cut, no razzle-dazzle. Come close to Me, and you come close to the Heart of the Matter. You come more than close. You enter the Inner Chamber of Life Itself.

If life is a movie about you, you sit right next to the Director. As you sit right next to the Director, as the Director calls out: “Lights, Camera, Action,” it begins to sink into you that the Director and you seem to have become One. It is you who calls out. It is you who moves your arms. It is you who sets the stage. It is you who has become the Director and you see now that you were the Director long before the realization dawned on you.

It is your Self you seek. What you seek, you shall find. What you seek in your innermost heart is a glimpse of yourself without all the clutter and glitter around you.

Do not think that you will be alarmed when you find out that you are running the show. It feels right. It feels natural. It feels right to be in the thick of things. You have risen to Truth. You have risen to the simplicity of Truth. There ain’t no one here but us chickens.

This is an enviable state to be in. Rely on Me, and you will turn the steering wheel. How clear you become.

How many times have I told you that you are far far more than you credit yourself with? You may not have seen yourself as a chip off the old block. You may have seen yourself as a ragged interloper, perhaps a beggar in life. Life gives you hand-outs, and you are glad and grateful. Life withholds from you, and you resent. All the while, you are the Whole Show. You are the Director, the actors, the audience, the stage manager, the gofer, the lights, the actions.

All the time you have been the star and the whole gamut. You are the Writer! You are the story you tell yourself and enact before you. You are the credits. You have been the hero all along, and you have been the fumbler as well. You have been the Asker, and you have been the Answerer. You have played all the roles and thought you were the observer and the one who paid a lot for admission to this theater called Life, subtitled, The Way It Seems to Be When You are a Resident on Earth.

Now you know you are also the Landlord and not merely a tenant.

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Of what is life made if not of you? You are a prerequisite of life and a proponent of life. It is you who makes My dreams come true, or it is you who runs away from My dreams. You play, not only a part, but an important part of the play and display of life on Earth no matter how you dissemble or resemble.

Your existence is like a battery that charges up life, or you are like the moon that moves silently and lights the world whether it is noticed or not.

Certainly, you cannot deny that you have energy, a vibration of energy, and you mount the stage of life, and you sing a song and you dance a dance. You may even be off-stage, quiet in the background, and, just the same, in the background, you stir the actors spotlighted on the stage.

Even if you are the person who pulls the curtains back stage or supplies the props, you are not a bit player. Everyone stars in this performance on Earth. No one is obscured. All affect all. All make a difference. All contribute. Whether you see your contribution or not, you are a contributor. You may never know the whole story. Nevertheless, you are crucial to it. No one is left out of the drama of life and its importance. You have top billing regardless of what the world may say.

The world as it is known may be imagined and not really occur, but this imagined scenario is for something. It is not for nothing. It is for good reason, and all grow from it. The lights go on, and all are rapt in the imagined interplay. Be you a tumbler, a player of the flute, be you the one who cleans up after the stage lights go off and everyone seems to go home, you are significant to the theme of the play that continues to run through everyone’s mind.

In this drama or comedy called life, there are no amateurs. No one is turned away. All participate, and all have their part to play.

Your part is not iron-clad. You can take a different role any time you want to. You can be the villain one day, and the hero the next. There is nothing in life in the world that cannot be overturned.

I want to tell you that there are no bad guys. All are actors, and all do their best to play the role they play even when they do not have to play it, even when they can switch midstream, even if they are mute, even anything. A swimmer of the English Channel today can lie on the sunny beach tomorrow. A runner can crawl. A crawler can run. It makes no difference what part you play, yet, at the same time, it makes all the difference in the world.

Regardless of what you present and represent, you are My beloved child, and I lift you up to greater heights from which you see a vaster perspective.

In the world, it is all about change, and you change before your very eyes. Once you were a baby, then a toddler, then a schoolchild, then and then and then, always growing, churning, changing the manifestation of your appearance in a multitude of ways. You create and recreate yourself, and you grow closer and closer to clearly representing in Whose image you were made. You come closer and closer to Me. Whatever role you play, you are coming closer to Me, and this is how the world goes round.

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How lovely it is to awaken to Me. However and whenever it comes, when you wake up to Me, you are delighted, for you have rejoined Paradise. This is the light that awakening to Me shines. Bright Light in Paradise could be the title of a book I write.

Now, I must qualify a little. Awakening to Me in the Bright Light of Paradise does not mean that everything stays still. You are on Earth where everything is still moving, seeming to move, pretending to move, moving off-center. Because you have seen the Light does not mean that everything in the world is stable. Life in the world still plays its tricks. The carpet may be pulled out from under you. The Earth can quake. Timbers can shake.

What is stable then, you might ask. Well, beloveds, you are stable. You are not rocked by the inconsistencies of life in the world. At least, you are not so rocked. You are not rocked so much. You may not be rocked at all, or, it may be that being rocked doesn’t turn your life up-side-down. Even if your life is turned up-side-down, you stay right-side-up. In any case, any shaking up doesn’t seem to be as momentous as it used to.

The key words here are seem to be. What seemed to be never was! It only seemed to be. You thought so. Life in the world and your transit out of it called death are apparitions. They are mirages. Goodness knows, it seems you are on Earth. It seems that your feet are on Earth. Oh, yes, it seems. Yet life in the world is a movie you are seeing, and you really really get into it.

For a while, you forget your Self, so caught up in the movie are you.

As your eyes awaken to the Light of God, you become accustomed to the rhythm of the honky-tonk song playing in the movie, and you begin to see that you and the rhythm are not one and the same.

Even so, you have an inkling of where you are and you know Whom you are with. You are One with Me and not one with the movie on the screen. The movie is a little detour, some recreation, shall We say, some spiraling activity, something like riding on the roller coaster.

Now, whatever movie you see, whatever amusement car you ride on at the Amusement Park, you keep your equilibrium.

You know where you really are. You know what is real and what is not. You know the Essence of Yourself and Myself. You know that We hold hands and that Our Hearts are not two but One. Furthermore, you know that all the characters in the movie you are presently in are also holding hands. You know that We, the so-called We, also hold hands with everyone else. All of life is as paradoxical as one hand clapping, as it is said.

Now, awakened to Me, you are you as you always were except now your eyes are open, and you have a better view of the movie. You have a higher seat and, thus, a vaster view, a more objective view, yet your whole heart is still in it, only you stand on sturdier legs.

We can say that nothing is different yet everything is different because your blindfold has been removed.

Actually, you were never really wearing a blindfold. Actually, your eyes were never closed, yet your eyes were unseeing. You see with your minds, beloveds. You see what you interpret you are seeing.

It is like, in life, that you are looking for your car keys. You simply can’t find them. You were looking everywhere and didn’t see them. Then you happened to look up, and there they were. Your keys were on top of the refrigerator or on their hook where you always put them. In effect, they were in your hand all the time, and, so, have you Paradise right before you now.

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You have been carrying the weight of the world, it seems to you, does it not? You feel that the weight of the world is on your shoulders. You feel a heaviness.

You may have misheard Me earlier for I have been saying that the Reality is that you are carrying the Light of the World. You are the Light of the World. Light is weightless. The Light You Are is beyond world measurements.

Come to Me and take a load off your shoulders.

Burden is a thing of the past. No longer are there concepts such as heavy-handed or heavy-hearted. No longer are there heavy-weights. You are not one. You are more like a paper-white bulb potted inside in winter. Even in winter, now your life is springtime. Now springtime year-round. Now, springtime is the season earmarked for you.

Spring is the springtime of love. Love is going to grow voluminously. Love is going to tap you on the shoulder. Love is going to pick you up and carry you on its shoulder. Love is going to kidnap you and never let you go, for love is your natural State of Being.

Now love is going to be sung from the rooftops, from the rafters, from every heart in town. No longer is love reserved for certain occasions. No longer is love on the backburner. Now love is the leader of the pack. Love has come into its ascendancy. It is not that time is at hand. This is the moment all have been waiting for. It is cataclysmic. The time is no longer at hand. The time is here. No longer does spring hover and not make up its mind. Spring is here, regardless of what your calendar says or your weatherman predicts. The winter of your perception is over. Christmas has arrived.

The spell you have been under has lifted. The sun has burst through the fog. No longer do you remember how to cry. You cannot make tears even if you try. You wonder how anyone can weep when they could smile instead. When there is rain on your face, you smile and laugh. Back to love. Back to merriment.

But, no, you don’t go back any longer. You go forward to love and merriment and new wonders. You skip ahead to what is next, and what is next is joy and more joy until the only thing you know is joy. Cowabunga! Not only are you the Light of the World, you are also Joy to the World. You are the King who has come. If I am King, which I AM, then so must you also be. The throne I sit on shall be your throne. You shall sit beside Me. You will be My right arm. We shall enjoy and make decisions worthy for all. We shall give, and We shall reap, and We will wonders prove.

This is not to be deferred. This is immediate. No more fooling around. Now get to it.

The dawn has come, and spring is here, and it is for the taking. All that has been heralded has arrived. Glory has been heralded, and glory has arrived.

Even in silence, the arrival of glory is announced. You are announcing it. You are introducing it. You are proclaiming it. You are living it. This is not the first time. And there is never a last time. This age of love has been revived, and it is not going to leave. All else may leave, but love has claimed its spot, and it is inside Our Communal Heart.

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Sometimes, do you feel your life amounts to your being wrung out and hung out on the line to dry. Wrung and hung. Something has happened, and your thoughts bring up your ditty: “Wrung out and hung out, am I.”

Beloveds, will you sing another ditty?

How about: “Under God’s sky am I.”

Or, “Instead of tears I weep, blessings I reap.”

Or, “The Whole Universe sings a verse of love to me.”

Or, “Instead of ‘woe is me,’ love is me.“

Or, “God sends me love from above.”

Or, “ Love from God’s heart to my heart.”

Or, “Love is my name, and love is my claim.”

Oh, yes, you want to think different thoughts. You want to break out in new song. You want to sing and dance to a different beat.

Will you kindly stop saying that life is hard? Life is easy. All you have to do is put one foot before the other.

Life is not a monster who chases you.

Have you been yelling before you are hit?

If you are writing a preamble to your life, what do you want your preamble to be?

What do you want written, if you will excuse Me, on your tombstone? Certainly not: “My life was hard.”

What rhythm is your foot tapping to now?

If you feel your life is in a rut, your thoughts may be in a rut. You may well have a pattern of thought and a pattern of speech to redo.

No longer do you say:

“If there’s bad luck to go around, I get the biggest piece.”

No longer do you say:

‘Of all the rotten luck.”

No longer do you say:

“Wouldn’t you know?” Unless it is a turn of events that is wonderful and you welcome it with all your heart.

This is not frivolous what I am saying now. Your thoughts may indeed need an overhaul.

There is no shop you can take yourself into and leave for a remake. Oh, yes, you can do something uplifting. You can go to church. You can go to an opera or a jazz concert. You can read a book, watch a movie. Not just any book or movie. You can associate with high-minded people. One way or another, it is you who has to uplift yourself. And if you cannot go anywhere, then you can uplift yourself with your own thoughts and actions all on their own.

But, of course, I am here to tell you that you are never on your own. Never do I stray from you. If you have not been aware of My Presence, any lack of awareness is not from My neglect. If you have felt lonely, whatever loneliness you have felt, it’s not because I haven’t been right there with you, right here with you. I am right here with you right now. There is no other place I can be. My heart is doggedly with yours. Perhaps you haven’t been looking or listening or feeling. Come, come sit with Me for a while. We’ll put Our feet up and commune a little. We may even talk without a word. Perhaps We will just hold hands to gaze at one another and be glad.

How do you foresee your greeting Me? What would you say to Me, or would you be speechless? Would you stand up? Fall over? Collapse?

Why, beloveds, it’s an every day thing for Us to be together. Never have I been elsewhere than with you. And never have you been elsewhere than with Me. Hallelujah!

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Loved ones are never parted. There is a reunion of hearts. There is no parting forever or a day. There is a reunion of joy, and happiness regained.

On one level, you receive a final answer. Someone has died. On another level, there is an entirely different answer, and the answer is: There is no finality. Never, ever.

Eternity means no finality.

You are engaged in an ongoing saga. Nothing ends. There is no ending. What is huge now is a blip on a screen. It seemed forever to you. Although there is Eternity, there is no forever, for a dot in Eternity is hardly a dot. What is seen as horrendous is a mere dot. We can say that everything in Eternity is a dot. We can also say there are no dots in Eternity, for where can a dot stick onto Eternity?

We can say there is no suffering, for where can it be said that wars and heartache are armed? Not in Eternity. There is no armament there.

Beloveds, the life you live is not linear, although it certainly seems so. One event seems to follow another. Certainly, your life is a journey you take, and you take journeys on a road or a jet flight or a train that rides on tracks, or a ship that follows a course, or you walk on land or you swim, and, with your eyes, you can follow the flight of an eagle. You can follow the flight of an eagle.

Even so, life on Earth is not linear. It is multi-level. It is multi-dimensional. However, dimension does not exist in Eternity. The Ship of Eternity does not have anything follow in its wake.

There are no marks made. There is no preface or epilogue. Even as there is a story told, there is no before or after or even during. There certainly is no record kept of all the stories. There is no remembering, and there is no forgetting, for what can stay in place where there is neither dimension nor time? There is nothingness. There is Everythingness, and Fullness is of Nothingness. There is Love Everywhere, and, yet, Love cannot be pinned down either.

Presently, you are a human being who walks and talks on Earth.

Uppermost, you are a Being. Beingness exists. Holiness exists. God exists. Everything and nothing co-exist. Being resides in Eternity. Human beings reside on Earth.

Life on Earth is a mixed bag. Although place does not exist, you exist in two places all at once. You exist in more than two places at once, and yet there is no place. You are considered a multi-dimensional Being when, ultimately, there are no dimensions.

In Heaven, in that true state of existence, in that state that is not a place but a concept, Heaven is a true symbol of Beingness. Heaven is where souls gather, so to speak, even as souls gather now on Earth even as soulness is witnessed yet unseen. On Earth, light is seen, and light recalls Oneness.

So what can be said when all is said and done? All that transpires is imagined, as dreams in sleep are imagined. You wake from dreams. As you wake up from the dream state, you wake to dreams greater than you imagined. Sleeping dreams and the dreams fulfilled when you are awake are not even in the same ballpark.

I am having a dream, and you are in My dream. You fulfill My dream, and I fulfill yours, and, all the while, which of the seeming Us can tell whose dream is Whose, yours or Mine?

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To everything, there is an answer. It may not be an answer you want, yet it is the answer you get. You may not want to hear that answer, yet it is your answer. You wanted a different answer. And you yearn to know why that answer. Why a no to a sweet desire of your heart, and you want to know why, as if God has to answer you the way you would like as well.

When your heart’s desire is not fulfilled, all is not lost. Consider for a moment, no matter how heartbreaking the answer is to you, the answer you receive is the right one. How can it be, you ask and ask again and again.

It positively absolutely is the right answer. Sure, you don’t understand it. How can you understand why on earth that your true love did not come to you?

I ask: How on earth can you understand? It makes no sense.

But what if everything that occurs in life or does not occur is right? Impossible for you to understand how that can be true. But what if this is true? If this is true, and you can accept the possibility, your suffering would be less. Your suffering would be a lot less. Your suffering would be non-existent. How can this be, you wonder, yet what if this is true?

It could well be that you are being spared what could have meant greater unhappiness. Right now you may be sure that a particular person is your true love and, yet, later you may see (or not) that you and he were not meant for each other, and there are other tears you would have shed mightily. How many times a day on Earth does a dream come true, and it is not the dream you thought it would be.

And then you ask again: How can such a good worthy dream held high not come true? You ask how can this be. You ask why. You ask for an explanation.

Further, how can it be right that your beloved one may leave his body and you never even have the opportunity to see what might have been?

Harder yet, how can a child be born to you, and your child leaves the world, and you are left bereft. And you ask further: Why, me? Why my baby? And the questioning goes on.

I will ask you: From the human perspective, how can any of this make sense to you? From the human perspective, what good can you possibly see coming from such heartbreak?

The perceived death may be for your evolution. It may be for the child’s evolution. It may be for the world’s evolution. It may be that you are an innocent bystander. All this is just about impossible for you to grasp. But get this far, beloveds. Get this far: What occurs is not intended as a punishment.

Surely, you don’t picture Me up here in Heaven plotting ways to hurt your heart. Surely, you don’t picture Me up in Heaven, rubbing My hands with delight, twirling My moustache like a villain in an old movie?

Surely, I am looking at a vaster picture than you can see. From My vantage, the pieces do fall into place.

You cannot understand, and this is what you may have to understand to the point that you can accept that it is beyond your understanding and you will not fight against it any longer.

How can it be that you are such a good worker, for instance, and good to everyone, and then you have a rough day at work. There’s that expression: All in a day’s work. Or maybe the expression is sometimes: All in a hard day’s work.

And there is the French expression: C’est la vie. This is life. Such is life.

Wherever your heartache may be, come to the point where you shake your head and get up and keep going and let the past be past and find out what life holds for you now and live it.

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There is much that you accept in others in the world. There is also much you do not accept.

You accept that others can be taller or shorter than you. You do not hold it against them. You accept that someone across from you may be a man or a woman. You do not start a war over it, large or small. You accept that someone is young or someone is old. You accept that, in the world you live in, there is age, regardless of your preference.

Yet, when someone may vote for another president, you are in an uproar. If someone may be in another religion from you, you cluck your tongue. Wars have been started. As soon as you think one way is the best, then you eliminate a lot of other ways. You become exclusive in your thinking. You purse your lips.

Hey, it’s fine to have your favorites. You can love the color green and not like red. You do not abolish from your sight those who may wear a red sweater today. You can love dessert over green beans, and yet you can love the person who favors green beans. What difference is it to you really?

It seems hard, however, on many occasions, for you, a mortal being, to accept, to accept divergence in another.

It is always fine for you to prefer in theory, yet when it comes to how you treat living beings, you do well to treat equally, and that means to treat with kindness, deference, and love. I am talking to you. It is not for you to line up people in two lines, allowing one line to go first, and the other line to go last if you allow it to enter at all.

You may favor pedigrees, and, yet, you are to treat pedigrees and mutts the same.

Give courtesy wherever you are and with whom. Give a chance to all who come before you. Open rather than close. It is your heart I am talking about. Open your heart. Open your mind. Open your life. Do not be deceived by appearances.

There is another aspect here. As you see a person, he may become. When you see a child as brilliant, he has a much better chance to be bright. When you see a child as stupid, he will make mistakes right and left. How you see another is a blessing or punishment. You have a responsibility to everyone.

This may carry over to how you see nations. They may become as you see them. Have no enemies in your heart, and you will create friends. Why would you ever want to create enemies?

You may have old belongings in your attic. You may see them as junk. Someone else may see the old belongings in your attic as artifacts or objects of beauty. The same items are seen differently.

Many treasures in the world have been overlooked.

Do not overlook people. Do not overlook animals. Do not overlook nations. Is it so hard to let old ideas go and love all? If not love, welcome all, consider all, give all a chance?

This includes Me, all Names of Me. I know there is One God. What do I care what picture you draw of Me or whether you pray kneeling or standing or follow this ritual or that? Oneness is, and what someone else thinks Oneness looks like, what is it to you? God is, and God loves. God is not privy to a particular culture. God is everywhere in all cultures and in all Beings. What do you care what hat someone wears or doesn’t wear? What does it matter what color hair or color anything? What do any of these details in life matter, and why should they matter to you who are My Emissary of Love?

Love. Just love. And if someone doesn’t like you, love him anyway. This doesn’t mean you are to put up again and again with negativity. It is not your due. When it comes to those who would abase you, bless them from a distance. It’s okay to love yourself too.

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Geef een Eerlijke Kans aan Iedereen Die Je Tegenkomt

God zei :

Er is veel waar jij mee akkoord gaat aangaande anderen in de wereld. Er is ook veel waar je niet mee akkoord gaat.

Jij accepteert dat anderen langer of korter kunnen zijn dan jij. Jij neemt het hun niet kwalijk. Jij accepteert dat iemand tegenover je een man of een vrouw kan zijn. Jij begint geen oorlog over groot of klein. Jij aanvaardt dat iemand jong is of iemand oud is. Jij accepteert dat, in de wereld waarin je leeft, er leeftijd is, ongeacht jouw voorkeur.

Maar toch, als iemand zou stemmen voor een andere president, ben jij in rep en roer. Als iemand een andere religie aanhangt dan jij, dan klak je met je tong. Oorlogen zijn begonnen. Zodra je denkt dat een manier de beste is, dan elimineer je veel andere manieren. Je wordt exclusief in jouw denken. Je knijpt je lippen op elkaar.

Hé, het is prima om je favorieten te hebben. Jij kunt de kleur groen prachtig vinden en niet van rood houden. Je hoeft niet degenen die vandaag een rode trui dragen uit je zicht te laten verdwijnen. Je kunt een dessert prefereren boven groene bonen en toch kun jij houden van de persoon die groene bonen lekker vindt. Wat maakt het jou echt uit?

Het lijkt echter moeilijk, bij vele gelegenheden, voor jou, om een sterfelijk zijnswezen te aanvaarden, om verschillen in een ander te accepteren.

In theorie neem jij niemand iets kwalijk, maar toch als het gaat om hoe je levende zijnswezens behandelt, doe je er goed aan om hen gelijk te behandelen en dat betekent behandelen met vriendelijkheid, respect en liefde. Ik praat tegen jou. Het is niet aan jou om mensen in twee rijen op te stellen, één rij toestemming te geven om als eerste te gaan en de andere rij als laatste te laten gaan, als je haar überhaupt al naar binnen laat gaan.

Je mag de voorkeur geven aan stambomen en nochtans moet je rashonden met stamboom en vuilnisbakkenras hetzelfde behandelen.

Wees hoffelijk waar en met wie je ook bent. Geef een kans aan allen die je tegenkomt. Doe een plek eerder open in plaats van dicht. Het is je hart waar Ik het over heb. Open je hart. Open je denkgeest. Open je leven. Laat je niet misleiden door schone schijn.

Er is nog een aspect hier. Zoals je een persoon ziet, kan hij worden. Als jij een kind als briljant ziet, heeft hij een veel betere kans om te schitteren. Als jij een kind als dom ziet, zal hij rechts en links fouten maken. Hoe je de andere ziet is een zegen of straf. Je hebt een verantwoordelijkheid jegens iedereen.

Dit kan overdraagbaar zijn naar hoe jij landen ziet. Ze kunnen worden zoals jij ze ziet. Heb geen vijanden in je hart en je zult vrienden creëren. Waarom zou je ooit vijanden willen creëren?

Het kan zijn dat je oude spullen op jouw zolder hebt liggen. Jij kunt hen zien als afval. Iemand anders kan de oude bezittingen op jouw zolder zien als kunstvoorwerpen of voorwerpen van schoonheid. Dezelfde producten worden verschillend gezien.

Veel schatten in de wereld zijn over het hoofd gezien.

Zie mensen niet over het hoofd. Zie dieren niet over het hoofd. Zie naties niet over het hoofd. Is het zo moeilijk om oude ideeën te laten gaan en iedereen lief te hebben? Misschien niet liefhebben, dan toch allen welkom heten, met allen rekening houden, allen een kans geven?

Dit geldt ook voor Mij, alle Namen van Mij. Ik weet dat er Eén God is. Wat kan het Mij schelen welke tekening jij van Mij maakt of dat je geknield of staand bidt of dat je dit of dat ritueel volgt? Eenheid is en hoe iemand anders denkt over hoe Eenheid eruit ziet, wat maakt het jou uit? God is en God heeft lief. God is niet ingewijd in een bepaalde cultuur. God is overal in alle culturen en in alle Zijnswezens. Wat kan het jou schelen welke hoed iemand draagt of niet draagt? Wat maakt het uit welke kleur haar of welke kleur wat dan ook heeft? Wat doet een van deze details in het leven ter zake en waarom zouden ze relevant zijn voor jou die Mijn Afgezant van Liefde bent?

Heb lief. Heb gewoon lief. En als iemand jou niet aardig vindt, houd dan toch van hem. Dit betekent niet dat je keer op keer met negativiteit genoegen moet nemen. Het is niet jouw schuld. Als het gaat om degenen die jou vernederen, zegen hen van een afstand. Dat is ook prima voor jezelf.

Vertaald door: Anneke

This is the moment of Truth, when you sit down to hear what I have to say. This applies whether you are the one hearing what I say or reading what is written that I say. You hear or read My love translated into words. There is no distance in between. Distance does not exist. In any case, My words, My thinking, My love enter your cells. Beloveds, We are working on the cellular level. This is not a pastime that We engage in. We are beyond the realm of imagined time.

Thought is not separate from your atoms. You didn’t think I was just another Speaker or Writer, did you? The difference is that I am not watered down. The difference is that I am bare-boned honesty. I am not clever. I do not deliberate. Every word from My breath is forthright and spontaneous. I do not prepare My thoughts to present to you in words.

It is like when I created the world. I did not belabor Myself. Creation was easy and simple. There was nothing to it. The created world was My desire. In the same moment that My desire bubbled up, Creation arose.

It is as though I am a Jazz Pianist. You might say I improvise. My fingers choose the tune as they travel the keys and play the tune. Not really improvised because what can My tune be but on key and of the essence? In the case of My words here, the one who types follows My notes on the piano. She keeps up. Sometimes she misses a note, but that’s all right because I am the One playing the piano, and the whole world hears My music even when you don’t know you are hearing Me. My river runs deep. What I speak to one, I speak to all. I call to all. I call to you.

There is a pause between notes that is like the pause between heartbeats. The pause is as powerful as the beat. Pause is not absence. I am fully in the pause as well as the beat. I am making music, beloveds, and you hear the beat, and your foot taps.

In the same breath, as I say to you that you know nothing, I also say you know Everything. You are not a stranger to Truth, the Truth of Me, and the Truth of you which are One and the Same.

Only, you are in a trance. You sleepwalk, although you hear faintly, almost imperceptibly My Voice calling to you, whispering to you to wake up, to hear My call to you. “Wake up,” I say. “Hear Me. Open your eyes. Rise from your sleeping state.”

You can stay where you are, and yet, at the same time, you can come Home. You can know where I am and where you are and where our hearts dwell as One.

If I am a Marvel, what are you? Is it not marvelous that you are on Earth? Isn’t it marvelous that you are, at the same time, in Heaven? Isn’t it marvelous that We are One, and you playact as though We were two? Isn’t it marvelous that life is and is not really and that really All That Is is Oneness? Whose Oneness can it be when it is Oneness? To whom can it belong when All is One? Who writes the story and who reads it? What is the difference? To you, this replication of Me as an individual on Earth, it seems like a world of difference, but there is no world really, is there? There is the Unity of Heart that I know as One and, deep down, that the seeming you knows as One as well.

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You can love someone even when the person doesn’t love you, or doesn’t love you any longer or love you enough. You can love. Of course, loving someone doesn’t mean hounding or stalking. Loving someone may mean leaving him or her alone even when you want to be together. You can love someone and let him go his way and you go yours. Boundaries are not the governance of love.

This is the case with your children, is it not? You are constantly with your baby. As the child grows, you are with him less. He is off somewhere. He may even move far away. Your love is intact, only it isn’t full time any longer. Your child is ever your child, and yet he belongs more to himself now than he belongs to you. It is not farewell. It is the child’s leave-taking, however. He has miles to go. And you have to wave goodbye with a smile.

Sometimes friends seem to be at a distance even in the same room. So be it. You can love someone enough to grant him freedom even in the same room. You can love and free at the same time. You must.

Love is not meant to be a hold you have on someone. Love is not a vise. Let’s call it a key. You can unlock the door of love. You can give the one you love his key back. Truly he has the key to his own heart. His heart was not yours to hold. His heart was yours to behold and to shine your love upon.

There are no laws that say what love must look like and how it must perform. You may set such rules for yourself but not for others. You don’t like someone else laying down the law for you. What has to be, beloveds, is what is. You have to allow everyone his own free-wheeling space. You take no captives.

You see the sun every day, and you let the sun do what suns do. You don’t tell the sun that it has to stay where it is and keep shining through your window. You look up at the night stars, and you let them be. You don’t lock the stars in. You don’t demand. You love, and you let them go. In Reality, there is no near and there is no far. Closeness does not mean tied. The sun and stars and the moon are always in your heart. They are an intimate part of you, and they belong to themselves, and they belong everywhere they are.

You do not say that the beautiful sun, moon, and stars stray. They have their own paths, and they travel them. You would not control them. Your eyes may not be able to follow them everywhere. Consider everyone you love as his or her own planet, and each has his own revolving to do. In the case of people, you would say their own evolving to do. It is great love to let someone take the oars of his own life. You cannot hold against him that he goes somewhere where you cannot follow.

It is not for you to throw someone out of your heart because he goes in a direction different from yours. Who can say it is right or wrong the direction someone else goes in? If you love, you bless. You don’t resent. If you love, you don’t own. You have your freedom to love and to free a beloved one at the same time. Your love need not be dependent upon concession. Concede your own love, and take no prisoners.

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Loneliness is from the past. You were in a big city and thought you were on a deserted island. All sense of desolation is an idea. You adopted the idea of loneliness, and you have supported it ever since. You have held loneliness on your lap for too long. You have squeezed loneliness tight. Loneliness has been like a steam kettle on the stove when you forget to turn the gas off. You have kept loneliness lit long and often. Loneliness is something you snatched onto. You caught it.

The idea of loneliness is something like a virus that you carry in your bloodstream. Any time you get run down, the loneliness virus starts up. It can be a thought, a word, a look, any kind of slight, and the loneliness virus has you in its grip.

Your destiny is not loneliness. Oneness is not lonely. Oneness is not only-ness. It is fullness. A full heart doesn’t hang on to loneliness. Put loneliness behind you. Put it out like a cigarette butt. Look loneliness straight in the eye, stop it, and tell it to be gone.

We could say that you feel lonely when you swallow your heart, when you put it aside, when you isolate it. You may isolate your heart because you feel it needs to be protected from any roughness, and so you isolate your heart. Loneliness is a decision you make. It is a winter coat you buy and then complain about it as if it had been thrust on you.

Of course, you well know that you can be in a crowded room, at a gala event, at a masquerade ball and feel alone. Loneliness is not a question of where you happen to be located. You can be alone by the sea and feel the thralldom of good company. Let your thoughts be good company. Warm your heart by the fire of love. Let your mind and heart have the pleasure of good company. Invite welcome guests to your heart. Always am I in your heart. Never do I forget you or your heart. Consider Me the Companion of your heart. Your heart and I go hand in hand. Let your heart go walking with Me.

I will show you the sights. I will point out the beauty of life and the beauty of your life. I will give you a royal tour. I will take you to green pastures. I will take you to a still sea. I will take you everywhere. I will whisper love to you. Your eyes will light up and your back straighten. What great posture you will have. How your step will quicken.

There is no need for you to be stricken with loneliness.

When you feel that virus coming on, hold someone else’s hand. My hand stays in yours no matter what. What have you got to lose but loneliness? Shake it off, beloveds. Shake it off. Start today where you want to be.

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Yes, you have come to the conclusion as to what ails everyone. You have come to the realization of the one issue in life next to which all else palls. There is one subject in life, and there is one issue. The subject is love, and your issue is love. There is no issue except the issue of love. You don’t quite believe in love. You see it as a sometime thing. You don’t quite believe in My love. You don’t quite trust in love. You do not trust in what you do not perceive. You look around, and you may not see love. You see its absence. You don’t see what you don’t see.

Does love have an opposite? You see many flavors opposite to love. Beloveds, there is no opposite to love because love is all, and love is One. You are Love, and I am Love.

So what can the matter be, I ask you.

As a human being, you have a familiarity with the seeming absence of love. You take attendance of love as a schoolteacher would. Is love here today? Am I loved? Does the world love me? Does God love me really? And you despair at being all this love I say you are. You sure don’t see it often enough or see enough of it when you do see some. You are better at not seeing.

You may feel that you have to be happy in order to love. Do you feel that? If only you were happy, you would love everyone and everything. But, until you are happy, you don’t know how you can love freely. You see your love tied to what’s coming in to you right this minute. You want to be lavished with love, then you can be happy. You have seen love as a poor bet. You have put the cart before the horse. Love first, and happiness wins.

It is how you see yourself that is the crux. As it is, My dear One, you can hardly love yourself let alone your reflection in others.

Raise yourself from the ashes, and you will love and, as surely as the sun follows the day, you will have happiness and you will sow love.

Let Me ask you this in another way. Why not love, and why not be happy? Where is it that you cannot be happy? You may give lip service to the idea that happiness comes from within you, yet you are still waiting for it to come from outside. You are waiting for intercession. Intercede for yourself. Know My Presence within you. You are not the least of all. You are not the least of anything.

Do you still think you created yourself not knowing what you were doing? Do you think you threw lumps of clay against a wall, and, however it landed, it was you? Have you forgotten about soul, that you are a soul, and you are God-made? Let’s put a stamp on you. Made by God. Made by God’s hand. Human being made by God. Made in Heaven. From Heaven to Earth. Earth-bound but not bounded to Earth. Not bounded at all. You are God-bound. There is nowhere you are going but to Me Whom you have never left despite your song and dance.

Your crucial difficulty is your sense of abandonment from Me. You are not certain I am around. Your cry is: “O God, where are You?” Your cry is: “O God, why have You forsaken me?”

I have not abandoned you, nor did Christ cry out those words. How could he who knew Me as his own Heart? I am that which he knew most of all. Ludicrous it would have been for him to ask such a question when I am all he knew. I was embedded in him. He and I were One Indivisible, and so We are today. And so are We, you and I. Hear what I say. You abide in the oasis of My Heart.

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What more do you want, beloveds? You always want something you don’t have or feel that you don’t have. It’s a good idea to give your attention to what you do have. Recognize the blessings you do have, for I have given them to you. Accept them, and attract more to you. There is always more and more and more aspiring and more to come.

As it is, you may not always feel that life in the world is a great blessing. This is because life in the world challenges you. That you are challenged is a great blessing. Challenges help you to grow. Whether you like it or not, challenges help you to grow. Challenges stretch you, don’t they? Consider challenges like good exercise at the gym.

You may say that it is your choice to go to the gym whereas challenges tend to visit you uninvited. What would happen if you were the one who pushes the button that pops out challenges? Challenges might be far and few between, you are sure. And, yet, the irony is that, in the far-back recesses of your heart and mind, you are the one who chooses your challenges, and you aren’t timid about it. Not at all.

Challenges are like this: You are in the army now! You may not always like what the army makes you do, yet, you are the one who did sign up for it.

You may say that you never signed up for your present stream of life, but, yes, you did.

You may say that no one in his or her right mind would sign up for the challenges you face, but, yes, you were in your right mind, and you did offer yourself into the arena you now find yourself in. The thing with the arena of life is that it is always changing.

You’re not going to tell Me that you haven’t grown in this lifetime. You have had to grow, and grow you have. Beloveds, you are not exactly even the same person you were yesterday.

Let’s face it: You are someone who has grown leaps and bounds. You may have been forced into it, and, yet, you have grown. You have lived through situations that you would have thought you couldn’t, and yet you have lived through them and grown through them.

You have grown in understanding. One way or another, you have furthered your own growth. You have grown and grown, yet, still, you wonder what is the purpose of this growing when all this will pass away.

Beloveds, you are learning what matters. When all is said and done, what matters? What has been your contribution to the world? There is only one contribution you can make, and that is love. That is the only thing to give. Every challenge teaches you that. As much as you may not want to learn that love is what counts and nothing else does, you are learning that. Willy-nilly, you are learning that.

You were born of love. Somewhere along the line, you aspired to other things that seemed more charming – for a while. What matters anything without love? Diamonds are symbols of love. Love is their value. Not their carats. Carats are only an approximation. Oh, yes, a gift of a diamond can warm your heart, yet without love accompanying the diamond, the diamond loses its shine. Not even the greatest diamond in the world is worth an inch of that dandelion that a loving heart gives you.

Cultivate your own love, and the whole world will be a symbol of a great diamond of love.

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You were not made from a crucible nor a cauldron. You were not made of coal. You were made from light. The Light I AM, you ARE. The Breath of Life is the Light of My Love, and you are secured in My Light. You are My Light, only you don’t bank on it. You may think it’s a story and that you are supposed to believe this story that seems far-fetched to you. Why don’t you want to hear this true story I tell? Why do you insist in believing that this is a fairy tale I tell?

You believe in anything and everything. You believe in advertisements, as if something you buy will be the answer to your dreams. You believe in false promises. You believe in anything and everything except what I tell you. I, Who can only speak Truth, you deny the Truth of which I speak. You allow perhaps 10% of Truth in and 90% of fallacy.

What would you lose by believing in the Truth of you? You would lose suffering. What would you gain by believing in the Truth of you? You would gain the whole world and so erase misery from the face of the Earth.

Now, of course, you cannot believe what you don’t believe. At the same time you don’t have to dismiss Truth. You don’t have to scoff at it. You don’t have to grind yourself into the ground.

You can look up. You can find Me. And you can find yourself reflected in Me. If you want to see yourself, see Me. True, I am the Creator of you, and I have say in your life, yet, even so, you create your life, and you create your life in the image you have made of yourself.

Free your image. Take it from limited to unlimited. You say you want freedom. I am giving it to you. Free Will is not license, beloveds. Yes, of course, you do have the Free Will to deny. Where does denial lead you to? To negation of the Truth that I speak day and night, morning, noon, and night, denial leads you. Hear Me now.

You are a Beautiful Unbounded Being, only you have tied yourself up in knots. Untie yourself. Wait no longer. Wait not for someone else to come untie you. Wait no longer for proof of your Magnificence. I am the Proof. And you are My Messenger.

The Great Ones took Me at My word. Will you not take Me at My word? Are you too good to take Me at My Word? Are you of all I have created too unworthy to take Me at My Word? Believe a little more in Truth until you believe fully in Me and fully in yourself.

Humility is not negation. Negativity is like false pride. It is some kind of ego that says you know more than I do. I am speaking of your Greatness, and you speak of your assumed littleness, and you go the extra mile to prove your littleness and the inconsequence of your worth. You lay down a false carpet of yourself, and you walk on it. You tromp on it. Somehow you think your making yourself small extols yourself and that putting yourself down for the count of ten makes you noteworthy.

Make this the day that you stand up to your full height and let go of those false measurements you have made. Go by My measuring tape. Stand tall. I created you, and I created you in My image. Do not flatter yourself that you are less than I say. Acknowledge that you are all I say, and know that you are Greatness created by the Greatness of Love. Begin to fit into the size I made you, yes, you.

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The road is winding, the road you take to Me. You may speed down it. You may stroll down it. You may turn your face from it. You may walk backwards down it. You may run away from it, yet this road is what you are here for. It may seem like a lot of trouble to go to.

You might ask: “Why, God, don’t you make the path straight and get it done and over with? Why a whole lifetime or more to take for my shoe to fit?”

I understand what you are asking. You see the distance as too great. “Why can’t You make it shorter or straighter? Why all the getting lost and off-target? Why all the detours? Why not a straight line?”

Beloveds, would you have electric fences to keep you on the straight and narrow? The straight and narrow, of which there is no such thing. Perhaps you have been given directions, or you pulled them out from a shelf on the wall, or you made them up as you go along. Why is a long question, and the answer, as well as the path, is winding.

Of course, you might even ask, “Why make us humans have to go through this initiation at all? God, haven’t You said that each one of us is made of the same cloth as You? Why, then, the occasion for a roundabout way to You? God, please, just give us You. Avenge ignorance. Give us, each of us, not just me, a practice map or a map we can go by. Let’s get right to it. Make us happy now, will You?”

You may merit all the gold in Heaven, yet there is something about earning your gold. Like any challenge, the denouement is wonderful, yet the path to the conclusion is worth its weight in gold. When all is said and done, a life sitting with your feet up, eating bon-bons doesn’t compare to a life of adventure and twists and turns and your gaining the hidden chalice.

Of course, however you gain your exquisite awareness with Me, you will love it. At the same time, there is something underlying in you that craves challenge. As with a game of solitaire, if you win every hand, the joy is no longer there, so why bother? Beloveds, there is something in your nature that values the bare bones of life. There is something in you that requires that you make your way yourself. The words Open Sesame are not so wonderful as you might think. Nope, too easy is not the way.

In any case, the obstacles are there, and all the obstacles are not traps set for you. They are obstacles within you that you are making short work of. There is a monkey-wrench in the works, and you are clearing your own path that you walk on. This is a task you best do by your own hand and your heart. If you have to climb the trellis to the princess’s tower, then so you must, and you find the climb well worth the trip.

There is a golden path to all that you seek, and you get there by the love in your heart.

You may say: “But, still, God, why not our trip expedited? Why not air mail? Why not first class, express? Why must we go by pony express when a blessing from Your hand will do it nicely?”

Beloveds, I bless you with My own hand. I do it non-stop. There has to be you who receives it. Beloveds, you may want the fruit of the vine to ripen in a week instead of the ripening season, and, yet, I ask you with all love: “What is amiss with a perfect ripening season?”

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Confusion is simply what you notice when you walk through a forest. You might say that the forest is too congested with trees. A forest is good. A prairie is good. Even confusion is good. It shows that you are going somewhere.

You can get lost in a forest, yet a forest is also where you can be found. You do find yourself in a forest of thoughts.

While walking in a forest, it’s good to be looking up at the sky and the sun that peeks through the branches and leaves of the trees of the forest. I made the forest of the world and said it was good.

You may have thought you have to come to some conclusion about the forest. You may have thought you have to allocate orderly places for the trees and sort them through, yet, all you have to do is to keep walking through the forest. The forest does not have to be orderly. Forests are not landscaped. They are not weeded. They are not uniform. Forests are unplanned. They grow as they grow, and they are enchanted places, how the sun plays off the tops of the trees, how all the birds and such live there, and how you make your way through the forest. A forest is a forest, yet no two are alike, nor are they supposed to be.

Who said that a forest has to be trim? No, a forest has to be what it is. A forest has to grow as it grows. And you grow in the forest you find yourself in. And so, you can compare a forest to the world in which you live.

Who said you are supposed to know a world and have a clear map of it in your mind and walk through it straightforwardly knowing exactly what is what? Who says that confusion is not a good thing? Because there is confusion, you have to find your way. You have to explore. Embrace confusion. Allow it. One who knows everything and everything in its place in the relative world is missing out on the essence of life. Life in the world is not set up in perfect formation. No longer think that the world is incorrect. You may be incorrect in your summation of the world.

Enjoy your walk through the woods. Pick berries. Hug a tree. Listen to the sounds as you step on dry branches.

Commune in this forest that God has given you. Oh, yes, there are also glades you will come to, and you will love both the glades and the forest. Consider confusion your lucky card. Confusion does not have to be obliterated from your awareness. Better confusion and find your way than to close your eyes.

There is a purpose in your walk in the woods. The woods is something you walk through. It is not a gauntlet. It is a woods. It is for you to walk through. It may be a jungle, and a jungle is also beautiful and deserves merit. It has its own sounds and its own beauty.

Allow whatever you walk through to be noted and valued for what it is.

Shadow and sunlight are like two beautiful colors. You may have your preference for blue, yet that does not mean green is less.

You live in a beautiful world, and you have marked it down. You would redecorate the whole world. That is fine to have crusades but not to denigrate the world. Grow flowers and love what already is.

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Each sound contains its own vibration. What distance is there between sound and meaning? Does the sound of a word come first, or does the meaning come first, or do they come simultaneously? Can there be meaning without vibration? Even thoughts have vibration. Even light has a vibration.

We can say that life began with a jiggling of a vibration. We can say that life began with a twang.

There are a lot of things We can say. We can say that life began with a bang. We can say that life always was, yet, nevertheless, it would appear that there was a moment before the match of life was lit, a moment on the verge, the way there is a moment when the conductor holds up the baton.

On an airplane, there is just the moment before take-off. A moment exists, and that moment is Eternity, and, yet, in the world, a clock strikes. And what does it matter? What does it matter after all what anything is called when all is in readiness?

And yet it matters. A moment matters to you very much. A moment is almost like a match you strike. There is the match. There is a fireplace on a cold snowy night. And then there is a spark. The fire is lit, and the light grows.

And there is a light within the mind, and light within the heart, that lights up everything. A light goes on. Now your light is staying on. It may well be that you no longer locate dark. Dark will have vanished from the face of the Earth. Darkness itself is a thought, a sound, a vibration. How many vibrations are dancing on the head of a pin?

Are all vibrations twanging at this moment? Even as a thought may not yet have been thought, is the twanging on call? Is the sound already ready? Is the church bell about to peal?

Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. You are about to take off on a new chapter of your life. No holds barred. We can say that your life which always was is just beginning.

It is like you are vibrating on an exercise machine, and when you get off, all your blubber will have vanished. You will be streamlined. You will have taken a great weight off you. You will have taken off the weight of the past. You will not only be tremendous light, gravity will be less, and you will weigh less. You will not be, however, what is called a lightweight. In service to the Universe, you will be a heavyweight. You will matter. You may be the lighter of all the sparks that are going to go off all at once, and nothing will be the same.

You will be a light-striker, a light enthusiast, and you will be the Light of God, and you will be known as the Light of God, for, truly, there is no other light to be known, resurrected, beheld, ventured, arisen. The light of a new world is being lit right now. It is lit in your heart, and it is lit in your mind. A sparkler is ready to go off, and everyone will look up, and you will see the heralder of a new Light of Love coursing through the sky and wrapping you around its little finger. No one can resist this light that is dawning in your heart and mind right now.

The world has always been waiting for this comet of love to cross the horizon. And here you are, just ready to step over the threshold. This is the moment. This is the moment you have been waiting for. You have been waiting, haven’t you? You have been waiting for the splendor. Well, it is here. Lights are going to go on all over the world.

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When I created the cosmos I created all manner of wondrous things, not the least of which is you. And, do you want to know one of the great things about you that I created? Of all the marvels I created when I created you, I created a sense of humor. Now how is that for thinking of everything! What a God am I! And what a human being I created. One who can even laugh at himself. Congratulations. You have a sense of humor to pull out when you can most use it, and you will do well to use it often. Keep your sense of humor at the ready. Keep it out where you can grab it. Grab your sense of humor over a gun. Grab your sense of humor over everything but love.

A sense of humor restores your good nature. O to be good-natured. O to be in good humor. O to be a delight.

Sense of humor comes in very handy.

Life, as you see life, requires a sense of humor. And what does it mean to have a sense of humor? It doesn’t mean you have to be a wit. It means that you accept that life as perceived is the theater of the absurd. When you come to think of it, what is not to laugh about or to laugh along with. A sense of humor holds you in good stead. A sense of humor is refreshing. A sense of humor tells you that seriousness and taking life literally is not always the best policy.

What would you recommend doing if you step in a puddle? Would you curse? Would you cry? No, beloveds, laugh at yourself. Take delight in yourself and a world where you can fall in a puddle and get up! Mud will wash off, and with it, the sanctity of your ego, your fragile ego.

You may think the world will think you a fool for falling in a puddle. How much more foolish would it be for you take plopping down in the mud seriously. Yes, of course, how can you speak before a group sodden in mud?

You may think your life became unhinged. Certainly, it means a change for you. Certainly, it means something unexpected. What do you expect of life but the unexpected? Where was it written that you are to be above slipping in mud?

Be glad you fell in soft mud and not on ice. Be glad you had a chance to have a good laugh at your expense. Hurray for having occasion to let go of ceremony and let go of your officiousness. Falling in mud is not your downfall. Ego is. It is ego that trips you up. Cast ego behind you. Cast joy in front of you. Embarrassment is nothing. It seems big. All eyes on you. Laugh, and your laughter will allow others to laugh as well. A good laugh will be had by all. For a few moments, you are a star, and many hands will be offered to help you get up. Maybe someone who helps you will also slip in the mud with you, and you will have more to laugh over.

It’s all in a day’s work, beloveds. Work on not minding so much. There is no need for you to be crestfallen.

The day you slip in the mud is a day to remind yourself of rejoicing. Enjoy that you are able to walk and slip in the mud and get up. Rejoice, and have a new spring in your step. Rejoice that you are someone who can laugh. Let the corners of your mouth turn up. Go right ahead and laugh.

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You do know that you live life on Earth on many levels. Your thoughts visit many places, and you go through many things, and all on varying levels. There can be joy and sorrow at the same moment. You need not choose one or the other. And, all of it, the depth of sorrow and the heights of joy, they are all fleeting, and, when all is said and done, no matter how deep and important to you, they won’t always be.

It may be hard for you to acknowledge that you won’t always feel as you do, for you might feel that you are slighting major participants in your life. How can you, for instance, you might say to yourself, how can you give up caring about this one or that one? You may feel: “How can I give up my special memories?” You may feel that you are throwing out all the love the memories represent.

Whether in memory or not, what has been impressed upon you stays at the same time as it will no longer leave its mark on you.

There is nothing you have to keep. Written on your heart, that is enough. There is something more to your life and the people in it than what you accumulate. You can perhaps better understand that your value is not based on what occurs in life. In the sense that you understand that you can be fired from work and you are not less because of it, you do still hold to the people who were mainstays in your life. It is as if you were to let go of them, that you would feel you are less.

There is no more, and there is no less. You are not more nor less. That is only seen from one lens, beloveds, while your life itself comes from many directions.

You don’t need building. You don’t need to hold on to the past. You are far more than your past. You are far more than your future. You are far more than anything you do.

Once upon a time, you played hop-scotch. You let go of hop-scotch. It was lovely. It was not a deprivation to let go of hop-scotch. It is not a deprivation to let go of anything or of anyone. No one in your life is meant to stay in a holding cell.

A painting was painted, and in the sun of the day, the painting fades. Make new paintings, beloveds. As day becomes night, there is also always another dawn, and you rise with it.

There is no calamity. Despite what you make of life, there are no ups and downs. Ups and downs are only one way to look at life. On another level, life just streams along. There is nothing to trip you up or slow you down, nor is there anything to speed it up. Life is always just rising over the mountain top the way the sun comes up. It is a routine that does not seem routine, and, yet, life is always just going over the mountain.

It is like you turn a handle on life, the way you might have wound a victrola or a hand nut-grinder. Now you push a button. Now you may think a thought. Life just keeps moseying along. You are not disloyal to life to park the past where it lies. Nor are you loyal to keep going over the past as though the past were worry beads to count.

There is nothing you have to count ceremoniously, not from the past, not from now, and not later.

You run breathless through a children’s storybook, or you are the engine who could, or you are a translator of fiction into truth, and the same story is told and retold, and one day you let go of the stories the way a bird may flush out from the leaves of shrubs and goes farther than your eyes can follow.

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If I were to ask you this minute what you most want in the world right now, would you hesitate to ask? Would you be wanting to be sure you were asking for what you wanted most and not something less than optimum? Of course, you wouldn’t want to waste this wish.

I have a feeling that if I were to ask you this right now, you wouldn’t be so sure what to ask. Much of the time, you are so certain, yet, when put to the test, you might be more cautious.

If I gave you three choices, that would be easier, yet not necessarily a shoe-in.

Of course, if you had a sick child, you might well know without hesitation.

Of course, you would love one wish that would take care of everyone and everything. You think of world peace. You think of freedom for the world. You think of good health for all. And you think of good will for everyone and everything.

Whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, know that it is possible. As a matter of fact, in some cases, it is a certainty. I am not speaking of whim. I am speaking of deep desire. Perhaps you wish for the fountain of youth. That may not be your deepest desire, yet it may not be a superficial desire either. It may not be altogether an ego desire.

Of course, your desire to live forever is a fact. That desire is not in question. It is a certainty that you live forever, only that doesn’t mean in the same body in the same situation forever. Just the same, you never pass away. You are eternal, and you are infinite. We could say that all the details are not up to you, and, yet maybe they are. Maybe they are.

Decisions are not always the easiest thing for you to make, and, yet, you make decisions all the time. You have hope, for instance, and then you decide to give up hope. You desire something deeply until you get it, and then you’re not so sure any longer. Another desire has risen to the ranks, and you might substitute the newer desire for the one you already had. Desires are not always hard and fast. They can slip from your grasp.

Desires are something worth thinking about. We could say that desires are like the lantern a miner wears as he seeks treasures in a dark mine. What do you seek, beloveds? You might as well know what means a lot to you. Perhaps for a moment you want a firefly in your hand. Perhaps you want to learn to dance. Perhaps you want to paint a beautiful picture. Perhaps you want elusive happiness and to capture it forever. Perhaps you want to be a source of happiness for others. Perhaps you want to want.

Ah, beloveds, such a difference from coveting and truly desiring.

Wherein lies your happiness, and wherein lies another’s? Wherein lies the course of your life, and wherein lies another’s?

Life is not always as you think it is, nor is life always as you think it ought to be.

There are aspects of life that are sure things. You will live until you die. While you live, there most likely will be times you will feel like you are whirling within a maelstrom and other times when you will feel like you are sitting on a large rock overseeing a beautiful valley, and other times you will be swimming in the ocean with the dolphins.

Here’s what I want to tell you. All the aspects of life are life and are a treasure. Every moment of sentient life is a diamond in your hand, and every moment you cannot be guaranteed what the next moment will be.

Here is what you can know, beloveds. There is something wonderful waiting for you, perhaps rushing to you. You haven’t made all the discoveries yet. You don’t know the whole story yet. Yet you can truly know without qualification that the best is yet to come.

This has to be so because you are someone who is growing in consciousness, and so, new music is about to begin.

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A little honesty goes a long way. It is such a relief to be honest. You must be honest. The big thing is not to kid or beguile yourself.

Stretching the truth doesn’t work out well anyway. Sooner or later, the Truth is seen, and the Truth is known. Your heart is not something to fake. Being good doesn’t mean that you go along with what your heart does not go along with. You know what, beloveds, this just doesn’t work.

Because you are honest doesn’t mean you are rude. It just means you don’t pretend that your heart is somewhere when it isn’t. O! to be true to your heart.

You may ask then: “God, how do we humans love everyone and yet turn them away?”

Beloveds, I have to ask you: “What kind of love pretends itself? What do you live by? Truth or false testimony?”

Your view does not have to change to suit someone else better. It’s like this: When you move away from a town where you live, it’s all right. You don’t have to stay in one town or another. By the same token, if you choose to take one apartment over another, you are not obliged to live in another one because you want to be someone who loves all. You don’t have to choose every apartment in the cause of loving. You don’t have to adore everyone and everything. In life, there are choices, and they have to be made.

The Great Spiritual Ones loved as you desire to love. They followed their hearts. Because they loved didn’t mean they spent their time and lives with everyone. They spent their time and lives where it was meaningful to them. They did not let others make their decisions for them.

Look, I know that in human life sometimes you have coffee with someone who is not your cup of tea. You are not being dishonest to sit down and have a cup of coffee. At the same time, when you have somewhere else to be and something else to do, because you want to love everyone, doesn’t mean that you forego your destiny or give up your life for the sake of a pretense. The Great Ones could enjoy anyone they sat down with, and yet they did not sit down with everyone.

This is your life We are talking about. It is no service to others to go along with others when your heart is calling you somewhere else.

We can put it this way: You have your Father’s business to go about. Go where your heart is. Your major purpose in life is not to be accommodating. Your purpose in life is not to put aside what matters to you.

It is not for you to be diverted from your life or your Truth. You are not heartless, and yet you are not everything to everyone. There is much more to life than dissembling. There is much more to life than trying to please.

The Great Ones gave happiness. They gave Truth, and they lived their Truth. They were not thinking of pleasing others. That was not utmost in their thinking. Of course, they did please others. Truth is strong. Less than Truth is not strong nor does it please in the long run. There is a difference between great coffee and ersatz coffee. There is a difference between dissembling and Truth.

There is more to life than putting yourself on the back burner. When it comes to the point where you perceive Oneness, you serve where you are to serve, and you serve naturally with purpose and from Truth and nothing else.

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Life is coming up roses! Do you feel it? Do you feel roses rife in life right around the corner? This thought makes you happy, doesn’t it? Well, then, keep thinking it. Who can feel down-hearted thinking of life coming up roses? And love coming up roses, too! The whole world, personal and universal, is coming up roses! A special delivery is on its way to you and to the person next to you and across from you. This is a universal special delivery.

Get ready! Get your arms ready to enfold all the blessings coming your way. All the roses are well on their way. Pay attention to where you’re walking so that you don’t trip over the roses. Actually, it would be fine to trip over all the roses that are ready to cascade on you. You will love lying down among the roses. As you would make angel wings in the snow, so will you make angel wings on the roses, or you will look just like an angel. You will have the fullness of heart of an angel and, so, be an angel.

Is not the scent of the roses already wafting its way to you? Do you see how powerful your thoughts are? Look, beloveds, thoughts can make you well, and thoughts can make you ill, do you agree? Or do you feel that your life is apart from your thoughts? Perhaps you feel that life is like a swaggering pirate that takes your thoughts from you and compounds them from you. Yet, if life were a swaggering pirate, at least admit that your thoughts have some connection to the unruliness of such a pirate.

Better to think of life as an interpreter of your thoughts and feelings. Life means to be beneficent and give you back the tenor of your own thoughts. Life is not trying to get you. Life feels bound to give you what you cry for. Not that life doesn’t want to give you all roses. Before you get petulant with life, remember that life also gives you miracles. Life always wants to. Life wants to be Superman who lifts you up and carries you over tall buildings. By your thoughts, beloved, you have also attracted miracles to you. By your heart and by the grace of God.

Now, this brings up a point. I have suggested that you not be tied to results of your thoughts and actions. You cannot keep count, beloveds. Life may be a wanderer, yet you cannot keep tabs on life and ask for an accounting.

Now, here’s the difference how We may see things. You see catastrophe. You see good, yet you also see bad. You believe that time is of the essence. Therefore, you protest. Therefore, you think life is obliged to give you something right now, that life is obliged to return a loved one to you, for example. You are sure that life had no right to take someone or something or an opportunity away from you. You think it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you must have it, and you must have it this minute.

But, never mind all this now, for life has a happy turn of events for you. Life has been growing gardens of roses just for you. Life is quite an enricher of the soil. Life looks for great seeds and finds them and plants them. Life has the ribbons ready. You are going to be surrounded by roses, and everyone else is too. You will be quick to leave old thoughts behind you. You will be quick to leap up and give so many roses to others who may have been as uncertain as you that a world of roses would ever be delivered to their door in this world.

Do you hear the sounds of the wagons full of roses as angels just like you wheel them down the road? Do you hear the wheels coming closer? Why, beloveds, you will see the roses reflected in the yellow sun and blue sky. Roses will be everywhere. Rosiness will be everywhere, and the lame will dance, and the voiceless will sing, and the world will rejoice.

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I have assigned My heart to you. I have assigned My Will to you. What else is left for Me to assign to you?

I assigned Heaven to you, and I assigned Earth. Do you struggle against your God-given assignments? Truly, would you refuse Me? Truly, would you say to Me: “Well, God, perhaps another time.” Would you say, “God, I’m not quite ready. This isn’t the most convenient time for me.” Would you say to Me: “God, it’s too hard to be alive on Earth. There are things like difficulties, and I would prefer to be in pure bliss.”

I would smile at you and laugh. I would say: “Beloved, you are in mid-stream. Would you quit in the middle? Look at how far you have come. Look at all the people you know. Look at how you have grown. Look at how much you have learned and how much you have accomplished.”

And then I would tell you: “You have almost reached all you want to reach. You are almost at the top of the mountain. Beloveds, you are so close. Now it is for you to smile and laugh and tell Me that all is okay, maybe even fine when you think about it. Even if you can’t say that all is wonderful, can you not stay the mile? Will you finish your contract with Me and not back out? Will you see it through? Have joy rather than discouragement. You have just about reached the shore of Heaven. Rest in the sure knowledge that you are ready to leap over all that you imagine holds you back. Sing a happy tune, beloveds. Do a little dance. Swing your arms and say Hurray to life.

“You are not at the end of your rope, not by a long shot. You are flying higher than you know. It just doesn’t feel all golden to you – not yet. Hang on, and you will see wonders that befall. You don’t want to miss it. This is not a time to give up. This is a time to move forward as though your feet had wings. Certainly, your heart has wings. Certainly, your heart can take you anywhere. There isn’t anything you can’t be or do or fulfill.

“In any case, the job is about done. From then on, smooth sailing. Wonder of wonders, you are that culmination of all you desire. Of course, now, at this point, you may desire different things from what you once desired, that’s okay, isn’t it?

“In some ways now, you seek less. You are not so avid to seek when you realize all you have received. You begin to realize that you have everything! That is the joker! You are already fulfilled. You are already at the apex which you had once seen as so far away. Now it is in your hands. Now you can kiss life and love it, for it never was a stranger to you. Life has always been a marvelous array of shapes and colors and beautiful undertakings. You have no burden to carry. It has dawned on you that you carry nothing but love, and love is something. Love to give and love to receive is what your heart cries for.

“A few more lazy steps, and you reap the crop you so long ago planted, so is it in the land of time and space. Your perspective is gaining. You used to say quite often: ‘Oh, where did time go?’ And now when you say those words, they have an entirely different meaning. You may still be able to read your watch and tell time, yet time will not be telling. Time was always fleeting, and now you will see that it has gone, gone, gone. No more time to lead you around by the nose. No more space to get stuck in.

“Wow, you are almost a freewheeling God Being that knows no boundaries and knows no attachments, for, of course, when all is love, what on Earth or in Heaven is there to attach to?”

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If your heart were the ocean, what kind of ocean would you like it to be? Rough, tumultuous? Easy-going, serene?

You would consciously choose the easy-going ocean, an ocean ideal for a sailboat, gentle, blown by a breeze. You would not choose a stormy ocean, a hurricane, a typhoon, a cyclone, a whirlwind. You know very well that you would choose a calm ocean.

And, yet, beloveds, what have you often chosen? A rowdy heart. How many times a week do you clutch your heart? How many times a week have you had your heart drop out from under you? Who is it that chooses the way your heart will go? Even in rough seas, you would maintain your balance. Somehow with your heart, your one heart, you let anything go. Up, down, far to the left, far to the right, back and forth, this way or that way. You make your heart a storm even when your heart is safe in port.

Your heart doesn’t have to be wild. Your heart does not have to be a soap opera. Your heart doesn’t have to be any ship in the storm. Have a heart with your heart, and let it take life in its stride. There is no need for you to play havoc with your heart.

You may say you want peace, yet what have you been living?

Even when there is a storm in life, you don’t have to beat your heart up. Hearts are made for love not disturbance. Hearts are meant to sail through life. Hearts are not meant to be rocked, so overridden that they seize up. Make peace with your heart.

If your heart were a ship, you would not always sail it full-steam ahead. You would be a kinder owner than that. You would allow your heart rest-time. You would let go of the pliers that squeeze it. Be a gentle master of your heart. Don’t make it go through conniptions. Make nice to your heart.

Say:

“There, there, heart. You don’t have to be in a squall. Be in calm waters. Heart, I will see that you rest from horrendous activity. I am grateful to you. You beat for me so many times a minute, yet between each beat, take a breather. I will let go of the reins and let you go at an even pulse. That is the least I can do for you. I will not work you so hard from now on.

" I will lead you to the still waters. I will show you how to paddle along in life as if you were a canoe on beautiful lilting water. I will soothe you and anoint you. I will allow you peace and quiet. No longer will I upset you. Whatever may come, I will let go of whipping you. I will not make you heated, not with speed nor upset. I will let you be the heart that God gave me. No longer will I allow you agitation.

"I apologize to you, my heart, for all the disruption I have given you. You have been a good loyal hard-working heart, and no longer will I work you so hard. From now on, I am going to be a blessing to you. We, you and I, dear heart, shall sail up and down the High Seas of Love, and that is what will occupy us. I hear the beat of you, my heart, and it is steady and even.

"Thank you for standing by me and showing me how to smooth the waves of life.”

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Troubles come in different sizes, and yet your response is often more dire than the size of the trouble. When you are fit-to-be-tied, you are fit-to-be-tied in an extra large size! Is this not true? The tiny upsets seemingly upset you as much as the big upsets. Upset is upset. What are We going to do about your having One Size Fits All?

So many of your upsets are about tiny things that don’t matter a hoot, and yet your being upset has made a little thing into a catastrophe. It is as if you have one slot to insert any-sized trouble. This is a form of smallness, beloveds, when you make a little thing big. Sometimes it seems that you have an annoyance quotient that you feel you must fill. What would you do, beloveds, without your flare-ups? What would you do with all your energy if nothing got to you? Yet annoyances, big or small, get to you. They rub you the wrong way. Annoyances are intolerable to you, even when they are about nothing at all.

Cut your annoyances down to size now. Someone else has another way to do mundane things, and they try to impose their way on you. You must admit that the littlest thing can set you off. The fact is you don’t want anyone telling you what to do or how to do it. You don’t unless you ask, and even then, sometimes you don’t really want to hear.

Ah, beloveds, no longer can you expect everyone to dance to your tune, even when others seem to expect you to dance to theirs. How important are details anyway? People are going to see as they are going to see. Let them. You are not going to change them. They, however, may think they are going to change you. And if they succeed, what have they got? What do they think they got? An admission that they are right and you are mistaken?

The real question is: What is important to you? And its corollary is: What is important to another? What heads your list, and what heads others’ lists. Is this not the issue?

One person is obliged to neatness, and another is obliged to function. Neither is right, and neither is wrong. There is no one right way, and there is no one wrong way. Nevertheless, even on little matters, judgment pushes its way to the fore. A little of everything may be a good thing, but not judgment. Judgment has to be thrown out. Judgment does not belong. Judgment has no right to impose itself. Let Hands Off be your motto even when it appears not to be another’s.

What is not someone else’s business isn’t your business either, yet you become haughty when someone minds your business, and then you take that as a reason to mind theirs. You want your own free-wheeling space, and someone has stepped on your territory. They overstepped their bounds. And then your mind becomes involved in boundaries.

The sum of many annoyances is like this: You want to paint your fence red, let’s say. It is your fence. You’ll paint it any color you like. You will buy the paint, and you will do the painting. Then someone tells you that you should paint your fence green or white. You let someone else’s comment – and that is all it is – a comment – you let their comment throw you in a tizzy. Do they have to agree with you? Do you have to agree with them? No, you don’t. They may not know that, but you know that. Give yourself free choice then, and give others their free choice to express their opinion too. It is a given that you will paint your fence as you please. You don’t have to make a big announcement about it.

You so want to live and not be bothered. So, then, beloveds, live and not be bothered! Try smiling instead.

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When you are working through turmoil, don’t stir the pot with your attention. As much as you can, let go of the turmoil. You don’t have to have it. You certainly don’t want to moil your situation, going over it again and again in your harried mind. Let it go, beloveds. What is, is. What is not, is not. That you thunder the situation in your mind over and over again is not in your best interest. Let it go. Let your attachment to your rightness go. And if you should feel that you made an error, let that go too. Let your recollections of your turmoil go.

You may feel overwrought. You feel more than disappointment, yet you feel disappointment. How could this, whatever it is, happen? And, yet, you well know there are much greater disappointments you could be experiencing. Look at it this way. This may be a predicament you are facing, yet it is not fatal. You may just find yourself moseying along on a different road from the road you had thought. Perhaps a road you never wanted to go on, perhaps a road you never saw coming.

There has been a glitch, a glitch in your grasp on the course you had been on. Maybe this was the course for you for a while, or even for a long time, and yet it may well not be the course for you now. Maybe it is your marriage. It was oh so good, or it never was good, or you thought it was good and you were astonished when what you thought was going to be forever dropped through the floor. Change happened. You came to grips with something you didn’t want to come to grips with. You may see yourself standing at the edge of a cliff in your life. You can’t go back, and you don’t know how to go forward. You are afraid to jump, and you can’t stay where you are.

Then you may go into a song and dance about what you should have done way back and what you shouldn’t have done, and you have dismay, and you have regret. You do know the folly of regret, yet that doesn’t seem to stop you from having it.

Okay, so you regret some choices you made. And now you may be forced to make a choice that you don’t want to. Sometimes there is no choice you want to make. Sometimes you can’t even see alternatives. You seem to face a blank wall.

When the leaves fall from a tree, they are fallen. Humpty-Dumpty cannot be put back together again. Or perhaps Humpty-Dumpty can be glued back together again. It is even possible that Humpty-Dumpty can be glued back together and, although with scars, be stronger than ever. And you may be taller.

Here you are at a crossroads. You find you cannot sit on your laurels. And you don’t know which way to go. At this point, you have to know that there is always a way to go. You may not want it, and, yet, it is well possible that you will find it leads you somewhere that feels right to you. A choice you didn’t favor may turn out to be favorable.

Beloveds, you don’t know what life holds for you until you go out and take life by the arm. The door you open may turn out to be wonderful. Instead of being disappointed again, you may be delighted. You would sure welcome being delighted at this time. Be eager for what’s next.

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What is there to wake up to if not love? If love seems lacking, then who is going to put it there? What it may take for you to wake up to love is your recognition of love and your willingness to expand on it. You expand on love by recognizing it. You may have had your spotlight set on less than love.

Here’s the story, beloveds: You will find what you set out to look for.

You may argue this that I say. You may see yourself as an innocent bystander. You may see yourself as a victim. You may even like to justify your accounts of victimhood.

I do not say it is easy to find your place in the world. I do say: “Look for your welcome. Look for you to welcome. Be on the look-out.”

Of course, there is innocence. There is also your not looking. I am telling you to look for that which you say you desire. This is how you will find it. Beloveds, have you not found many needles in the haystack?

When you are sure that love is hard to find, or love is hard to give, what are you expecting? You may say that you used to expect the sun to shine on you, and it did not. You were disappointed. Once upon a time, you thought that all love is true, and life, this very life you live, let you down. Let’s erase the word expect then. Let’s say instead of expect to look forward to. Yes, that’s the ticket. Look forward to goodness and mercy following you all the days of your life so you see more of the sun’s shining on you.

Of course, it can happen. You are digging for worms, and you find a diamond. That can happen. Of course, it can. I am telling you to keep an eye out for diamonds of love, most especially within your own heart. The bluebird of happiness or sun-gold bird of love exists in the backyard of your own heart. I planted My heart within the garden of your heart. What I plant grows. I suggest you water it. I suggest you look forward to the watering and to the blossoming of love on Earth as it is meant to be.

You know the kind of black and white pictures where, when you look at it one way, you see a vase. When you look at the same picture another way, you see two people. The actuality is the same. The picture itself didn’t change. Your vision changed. There was change. You didn’t really make the change happen. You were open to it. You looked for it, and change appeared.

In your life, look for that different angle of perspective. It is there. It is always there in black and white. It helps to know this. Look from the perspective that there is more to see than you presently see. Be open to seeing differently. You are not banging on the door of love. You are simply ready to open it. You are ready to turn the knob.

I do not speak of illusion. I speak of the end of denying yourself. It is hardly a blessing for you to be what the world may often call realistic. Even in the world of realism, there are diamonds. They exist. Diamonds of love exist. Enough of looking at the negative masked as reality. There is a truer Reality. This Reality is My desire for you. This Reality is My desire for all. Cast your bets with Me and go out to seek your fortune. You have had enough misfortune. Now love is before you. Pull love from your heart, and, here, you have it.

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What if you would jump into My arms right now! My arms are open for you. I await you. I wait for you to come to Me so that you may know how enveloped in My love you are, for you are My love, and I have a lot of love to give, and a lot of love for you to accept on My behalf. I have love to give you, and more love to give you. Turn toward Me and take My love for you. It is yours to take. Take it now. My love is your due. It belongs to you.

My love can only belong to you. Surely, you don’t think My love is for others and somehow not for you? If My love is anyone’s, it is yours. There is no one who has more right to My love than you. The fact is that you cannot be absent from My love. You exist on Earth because of Our love. You would not be on Earth were it otherwise.

Great love brought you to the planet Earth. This is something that only Great Love can do. Not sacrifice, beloveds. Do not mix up sacrifice with love. Love is giving, not sacrifice. Love is – well, loving. There is no cost to loving, the loving I speak of. There is nothing to tally. There is only love to give, and what a pleasure it is to give love and more love. Love is not going out of style. Love is the whole shebang. This has always been so. You, beloveds, are the nature of love. Only, it would appear, that you don’t know what you have. You think you are something else. You are really something to imagine that you are outside of love or a stranger to it.

There is no misplacing love. Love cannot be lost. You cannot escape it. You would not even have bitterness unless you had love. Is not bitterness a kind of thwarted love? There would be no bitterness without love. A sour taste could not exist unless there was also sweet taste. You have tasted love, and you have given love, and love given and love received are the same love. There really are not two sides to love. Love is one motion seemingly in two parts, yet love is not like that. Love is One beautiful expression. Love is not really an exchange. What could love be exchanged for. There is nothing but love worth love. Love for all you are worth. Love is for now, not later. Love is immediate. Love is a necessity. Your life depends on it.

Everything depends on love. Everything depends on your spending love, even though it can’t be spent. It can’t be given away either. Love can only be, and love is, and you are love. You are My love, and you are an expression of My love. My love rushes to you, and it has ever been so. You are My love in motion. My love and your love are more than a notion. Love is all there is, and you have it.

You may see love as a risk. Let it be then. It is definitely risky not to love. It is unthinkable not to love. Love is your element. Turn your love on. Don’t wait for anything. Breathe love. Breathing contains inhale and exhale. There is not one without the other. There is nothing but love. Love is My Majesty, and love is Your Majesty as well. Love alone exists.

The whole Universe hangs together in love. Love unites. Nothing else does. There is nothing else but love that unites. In love We are One. And that’s it.

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My words are like apple blossoms I shower on you. My words are like stars that I shine on you. My words are My love strewn on you. Everything from Me is love. Everything of Mine is love, and you are Mine. You can only be Mine. You can’t be less than I say, and I say I see you before Me, and I see that you are good. No one else made you. I made you. And I made you good. Anything less than good is nothing but delusion. It is something you made up. You fantasized that you were less than what God made. You had an idea that you were not made well. You had an idea that you were an exception, that you were made imperfect. I made you perfectly. I made you perfectly, yet you have perhaps carried the idea that I made you dross. No, never. Whatever errors you have made are made up. They are fiction. You went down a road that does not really exist.

Love exists, and if you have exerted less than love, you can change on a dime right now. Old ways of perceiving are fictional. If your life seeks a remedy, you are the remedy. Once upon a time, you saw something amiss. You saw yourself amiss. Now you can see in a new way. How you see is of the utmost importance to how you feel about yourself. You may be a diamond in the rough. Even so, you are a diamond. You are a diamond of My heart. You are the crystallization of My heart. My heart on Earth is not glass. I did not put sand in your heart. I put a clear diamond, and now I suggest that it is time for you to mine the diamond that you are.

What matters now is now. You are as infinite and eternal as anyone. You are as infinite and eternal as all the Great Ones. Everything they were, you are. The difference is that you have hidden the Truth from yourself. You have downplayed it. You may have said to yourself: “I cannot be great in love. If I cannot be great in love, I will be great in fury.” Then you made a lesser choice. You may have thought you were taking the easy way out, and yet you chose the hardest way of all, and you exerted yourself in order to take yourself seriously and to be sought after in the world, even to be caught up in the world.

Give it up now. Plant the God-given seeds of love, and from the seeds you plant, a new garden will grow. You are a living Being. You are My love. All that is required is that you accept My avowal of you. You are golden in My eyes. Let the light of My love planted in you reflect from your eyes onto yourself and, from you to the whole world. There is no one in Creation Who is not a Light-bringer. Turn on your light so that you may see it burning brightly. There is no dark side. You have deluded yourself. You have estranged yourself, yet you will never make a stranger of Me. I am your True Self, and you are the most loved of all. Every single one is the most loved of all, yet to the Ones Who need My love the most, I pound it in. I knock on the door of your heart, and I say:

“Beloved, open your heart. Let Me in. I am your entrance to the world. Previously, you drew a picture of a wide-open door, and you thought you walked through it, yet you had a dream that you were not love. You had a dream that you were left out. You had a poor dream, and now you awake from that dream, and you find yourself in the Splendor of My Heart. Know now where you are. You are here with Me.”

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God said:

I am One God. I am the same God I ever was, only I am seen in different ways. It does matter what you see. I am more than a question of belief. Belief is what is in your mind. I ask: What is in your heart? What is in your vision? According to you, what kind of a God am I?
 
I know the God I AM. I am the simplest, purest, loving living God. I am the Great Emancipator. I do not hold you down or back or anything at all. I am the Great Freer of Mankind. I am the Great Lover of Mankind. I am the Great Creator, and what I create is more wonderful than you have given credence to.
 
And where do you think I am? Who do you think I am? What kind of a God do you think I am? Do you think I am stern and unremitting? Do you draw conclusions? Tell Me truthfully, beloveds, do you think I, God, am a Wrongdoer? Do you feel I have done wrong by you? Do you hold things against Me? Do you blame what you don’t like on Me? Yes, some may believe that I wrong man. You rail at what you see as the ravage I have committed. A prime example is that I built death of the body into Earth life. That certainly doesn’t seem merciful to you. It downright offends you.
 
You dream of a different kind of God, One Who lets go of laws. You want a God Who grants you everything you want the way you want it. Dear Ones, this is because you see only so far, and it is hard for you to get beyond what you presently see and accept as true.
 
A God of Mercy, you scoff. A God Who allows death of the bodies of loved ones? A God Who gives you love, and then pulls it away? You come to an impasse that is hard for you to get past.
 
It is hard for you to forgive Me the passage called death or -- Death. You see this inalterable travesty as most unjust. You would leave human beings on Earth forever. You would take away a great rejuvenation for all. Besides, you haven’t perceived life on Earth as such a wonderful state, yet you would authorize it forever, or you would authorize forever that your loved ones always be around for you.
 
I do understand that it is hard for you to forgive Me for returning you and your loved ones to Me body-less in the place in My heart called Heaven.
 
You see life as good and bad. You are fine with the good you see, and not so fine with what you see as bad.
 
What if you could see the good in everything? You don’t want to. You want to see all that you see as bad and you want it remedied. Beloveds, you have looked for what you want and thrown out that which does not look glorious to you. I do not ask you to compromise. I ask you to get beyond your judgments. Because of your judgments, you have seen Me as a God of Judgment. You know I call Myself a God of Love, yet  that seems radical or even irreverent to you.
 
What if you did believe in Me as a God of Love? What if you did forgive Me for setting up the world as you see it set up? What if We could start fresh and you would grant that you see only a part of the whole, that you are missing a whole lot, and that what you are missing is awareness of the Greatness of Yourself. I may be referred to as the Great I AM, yet it is your own Greatness you have deferred.
 
There is more to life than you have seen. There is more to life than you have acknowledged. Look at Creation with My eyes. See its beauty and splendor. Put your protests aside. You don’t need them. See the splendor. Be the Splendor. Be merciful unto yourself.

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No longer will you allow something or anything to upset you. Heretofore, you have found occurrences in life upsetting. Your connection to the internet is down. You are frazzled. Traffic on the freeway is slow. You are impatient.

Beloveds, traffic will get going. The internet will be connected. Is upset so valuable to you that you insist on having it?

Put upset away. It is not a heyday to be upset. It is not something wonderful to be upset. It is no great accomplishment. Anyone can do it. And you have done it. You have done it many times. Haven’t you had enough of upset yet?

You may ask Me to be realistic and down to earth. I am asking the same of you. In the relative world, everything comes to an end. There is a rainbow around the corner. Have confidence in the unfolding of life and your ability to wait for the light to turn green.

Heretofore, you have had confidence in being stalemated.

When did something not end? Depending upon the situation, you are upset about that too. You never want the party to be over. You never want traffic to be thick. You never want the internet to be down.

Life is made of interims. There are breaths taken, and breaths exhaled. Take every pause in life as a good thing. Stalled in traffic? Unwind rather than wind. What do you gain by banging the horn? Is banging the horn expressing yourself, or is it adding fuel to the fire?

Turn on the radio or the CD player or pull out your Kindle. Hum a different tune. Traffic will resume, with or without your impatience.

When your internet goes off, consider this an occasion for a change of pace. Is the internet your life line? Is it really? Go outside and pick a flower. Lie on the grass and look up at the sky. Look for Me. Find Me within yourself, and you won’t mind what is connected or what is not connected because you will be consciously connected to Me. We can have a field day together. We can approach the sun, or we can approach the stars. We can knowingly be together. Here’s Our chance. Avail yourself of all the chances that We can be together, you and I. When is a better time than when in the midst of traffic or when the internet of the extant world is disconnected?

Connect to Me. Give Me a spot of your time. Give Me what I crave for. Give Me you. Come right up to Me, and We will spin the wheel of life together. Yes, We can. Yes, We will.

Do you hide yourself behind upset? Is upset a mask you wear? Love instead. Love the break from routine. Love the routine, that’s fine, and also love the break from it. What is not to love? Seriously, what is not to love?

What can possibly be more important than love? Certainly not impatience. Certainly not havoc. Certainly not interruption of love. Turn on your love all the time, even as time does not exist. You exist as I exist. There is no time, and We have all of Infinity and Eternity to love in. Infinite are the ways of love. Upset is not one of them. Upset interrupts the expression of love.

Is there anything worth interrupting love for?

You say that death interrupts your love. All the love you have, you say, turns into sorrow. Sorrow is not love. Sorrow is suffering, even as sorrow may be sweet to you. Unalloyed love is better. Choose love every time. Get out of upset. Be the steady waters. Stay in love.

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Beloveds, once you lived in the shallows. Now you sail on the ocean. Growing is your name. Moving forward is your name. You are growing and moving into the entirety of love.

Imagine your life when you love and nothing but love. Imagine the joy. No curtailing your love. No cutting it off. No downplaying it. No restrictions. Just living love day by day all the time. Nothing but love far and wide and deep. Imagine love. Imagine your life surrounded with love. Imagine your life a center of love radiating everywhere. Everywhere. No place where love is not. Love is all, and love is all that is, and you, My beloveds, are in the midst of it.

Love to the rescue. Love the healer. Love the core of your life. Love the core of life altogether. No exceptions. Love on the range. Love free to pasture. Love the occasion. No more love in the deep freeze. Love melting hearts right and left. All hearts enjoying. What else is there to enjoy but love, love growing like trees, an oasis of love on Earth, the Garden of Eden reborn when innocence roamed the range.

What is love but innocence? What else can love be? Love contrived is not love. Love as a commodity is not love. Love of money is not love. Love is love. Love loves. Be love. Be love no matter what. How powerful is love. Nothing equals it. For Heaven’s sakes, just love.

There is nothing better you can be than love. There is nothing better than love. On mountain or in valley, love reigns supreme. Let love be your calling, your career, your purpose, your joy, your honesty, your preference. There is nothing, not one thing, that can take the place of love. Let love dance before your eyes. Let your eyes tell the story of love. There is no other story. Be a good story-teller and revealer of love, the essence of love, the beauty of love, love, the overtaker, love, the grand master, love, the chorus, love natural, love always new, unguarded, perpetual.

Let love be your life, for there is naught else but love. Near and far, let yourself be love. Let love shine. Let love be the subject of your life. Be love. Be the ultimate love.

Let love flow through your veins. Who would have illness when love fills you? There would be no room for illness. Cutting off love attracts illness. With love, there is no place for illness. There would not be names for illnesses, for where love is, illness cannot flourish. Love is clean and clear. Illness is murky. Love and let illness fly out the window.

I am not speaking of words. I am speaking of Truth. The truth is that you are love. The truth is that you may have flown away from love, fearing that love might hurt, fearing that you are not adequate to it, fearing that you are not love, not really.

But, yes, you really are. Don’t buy the propaganda that you must recant love or be at risk. When you love from the center of your heart, when your heart is like the sun emitting its golden rays, where can fear and hurt and danger lie? Danger lies in not loving. Running away from love is running away from life. Running away from love is running away from the saving grace of life and teaching others to go off track the same. Claim love as your own. Do not save love for a rainy day. Give love now, right and left. How about it? Never be without it. Is this not a good idea?

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To be original means to live the Truth of who you are. It means no more imitating. It means that you rise higher. If you want to feel good, rise higher. Rising higher is what feels good. You are fast approaching the days you have sought all your life. You are entering a new stratosphere of your life where you are closer to the beat of your own heart.

To thine own self be true. This is when, right now. It is not comfortable to be false to your self. It doesn’t feel good at all to be less than your True Self. First, find out who you really are. Discover the underlying you. In service to others does not mean erasing your self and your self-worth.

In life, you do not always put yourself first. At the same time, this doesn’t mean that you deny your inner heart. What does not seem truthful to you is not your Truth. There is nothing for you to be but what you are. Where does your heart lie?

Life is not to be wasted. Become acquainted with yourself.

Be part of a crowd that is true to your heart. To join a crowd because you don’t want to be outside it is not enough reason. Listen to your heart, and you will know what is true for you and what is not true for you. It may be true for the whole world, and, still, it may not be true for you.

You are meant to be your own representation of Me. If I am your Highest Self, you cannot be less. What do you want is the question. What is meaningful to you is the question. What means the most to you? Do not pretend otherwise. If you are not yourself, who are you then? Made in My image, then be the image of Me that in truth you are. When you come down to it, when you are at a juncture, what matters? What matters to you?

Maybe you like hiking more than you like all-night parties. Go hiking then. Maybe being popular isn’t so important to you as you used to think it was. Maybe you don’t need anyone’s vote, only your own, and Mine, for I vote for you to be the Real You.

The Real You exists. Bring the Real You to the fore. Come along with your heart. Go along the path that is yours.

You are here on Earth for a purpose. Yes, to serve Me. And how do you do that? You serve Me by following your own heart of Mine. You have your own special heart for a reason. You certainly don’t serve anyone being other than your True Self. Yes, I understand, it often takes a while before you become acquainted with yourself and Your Self. Sometimes you get on the wrong train, and that’s how sometimes you find out who you are by finding out who are not.

Set the beat of your own heart. What do you like? What do you want? Certainly you want more than to be in demand in a crowd. Be popular with yourself. Don’t go against your grain. Be true to yourself.

Acknowledge yourself.

Of course, you understand that I am not telling you to always get your way. You can accommodate others, yet you keep to your own honor. Maybe everyone in your fraternity is making fun of others. In so doing, they are adhering to less than their own hearts. Even if you are the only one, don’t go along with that which you know in your heart is not who you are. Of course, you have to look up to your self. To thine own self be true.

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This is the day to stop finding fault with yourself. Yes, please stop finding all this endless fault with yourself. If you clap your hand against your head because of something you said or did, or did or didn’t, if you feel remorse every day, this Heavenletter is definitely for you.

It is time for you to give yourself a break.

Of course, you make mistakes. Of course, you wish you would have done or said differently, yet, haven’t you had enough of that?

Just as you must point out to your children all the good they do, so must you point out to yourself all the good you do. You have a good heart. You care about others. Now care about yourself as well.

You would not tear someone else down the way you tear yourself down. Pick, pick, pick. You are an expert at catching your flaws. Forget the flaws. Finding so much fault with yourself is finding fault with Me. You know you wouldn’t tear yourself down to fault Me. I ask you, please, to love yourself. Think of how I look at you. I look at you with eyes of love. Now is time for you to love yourself the same. If I can love you with all My heart, can you not love yourself the same?

It is not humility to put yourself down. Humility is not putting yourself down. Love yourself enough, and you will be humble. To love is a great gift, and I insist that you love yourself. Love yourself through thick and thin.

You are learning. You are here on Earth to learn to see yourself as I do see you. If you have a fault, it is that you are a growing learning Human Being. You are learning how to return to yourself. Who are you? You are love. So be it. Foremost, love yourself because then you will love all.

You would love to love all, wouldn’t you? You would love to stop faulting others, wouldn’t you? Well, there are no others. Everyone you fault is yourself. Leave off faulting yourself, and you won’t have to try to stop faulting others. Faulting others will leave you the way leaves fall off a tree. There is nothing to it. It is always you that you are criticizing. You are the critic, the critiqued, and the whole process of criticizing. It has become a way of life, and that has got to stop.

Because you see flaws does not make you smarter. It makes you a nit-picker. I did not create you as My beloved to turn into a fault-finder. Be the first not to see flaws rampantly over the Universe, near and far. And if you must see flaws, then forgive yourself and see flaws no more. Off with the flaws! On with the blessings!

And if you still see flaws, for every one flaw you see, see ten wonderful things about you. Here, I will tell you some. Even your sightings of flaws tell you these -- you are someone who cares, you are someone who wants to be more than you presently see yourself as. I am telling you flat out that you are seeing amiss. You are My wonderful Created Being. Do not put asunder what I have created.

Now it is for you to create. Create a loving bond with yourself. Be beloved of yourself. If you want to love others, love yourself first. This is a must. There is no other way. It is not your prerogative to judge others. Nor is it your prerogative to judge yourself. Throw away judgment altogether. Judgment is not needed. Judgment is a fallacy. Judgment is putting your heart into the deep-freeze. Unh-uh. Put your heart into the warming oven. Warm to yourself, beloveds, and warm to all.

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I would like to talk to you about your heart. Your heart may feel wounded right now, and you don’t even know why. You think of this and that, yet you really don’t know why your heart is aching. It aches because it aches. Maybe you have put all your eggs in one basket of your heart. You know, your heart wouldn’t feel heavy if you didn’t let your heart be a repository for everything in the world. It is better that your heart becomes a repository for all the happy things that come before you. Since when did your heart have to become a repository for ill winds that blow?

You heart is meant to be a safe place for happiness. What are you burdening your heart for? Your heart is meant for love, not scrapes and bruises. Your heart is not meant to be a wastebasket. Your heart is meant to be a heart, and everyone knows that a heart is meant for love. You know it, and yet you may have made your heart a dumping ground.

Your heart is a beautiful treasure chest. Would you put torn rags into a silk-lined treasure chest? You would put jewels and love notes and emblems of love. In your heart, which is the greatest treasure chest in creation, you have put dregs and shards of glass. You have put them there and kept them there. You have kept them warm there. Out, out, anything that does not belong in your heart. You have too much stuffed in your heart. Let’s clear out your heart.

It is not that you have to develop a thick skin. You don’t have to be hard-hearted. You just don’t have to store everything in your heart. When something enters your heart that does not belong there, take it out. Take it out right away. Have another receptacle to put it in, a pretty trash can perhaps, or a hole dug in the back yard or a dumpster anywhere. The dumpster will be emptied soon enough. It is your heart that must be emptied of all riff-raff right this minute.

You have seen how when you delete a whole list of things on the computer, there is an image of one folder after another flying away. Let your heart empty itself just like that. The computer doesn’t ponder over each item. It doesn’t reread it and make two piles. No, a decision is made, and the computer deletes away. No looking back.

Make your decision now. Enough of the old ragged hurts. Off with their heads! Out the door! If you insist, one kiss goodbye, but that’s it. No great ceremony. No tears. Wounds go off to a better place and your heart is left with room to spare. Empty your heart of what never was entitled to be there. Your heart, I repeat, is not a repository for that which would scratch your heart. Talons of hurt do not, do not, do not belong in your heart.

Your heart is for giving. You don’t want to keep hurt in your heart or give even one of those hurtful things to another. It would be a mistake. Under any circumstances, it is a mistake to give away any of your hurt to another. It is a mistake for you to be wounded. It is a mistake to take pain in. Somehow you got the idea that your heart was to take all the punches. Not at all. Dispense with hurt. Come, find some joy to put in your heart. Love your heart.

Really, if you knew I resided within your heart, would you let anything come in that you don’t want Me to receive? Would you really allow in that which should not have been allowed in the first place? Would you let in stress and irritation to keep Me company within your heart?

You simply haven’t thought of what you have been accumulating in your heart. From this day forward, no longer do you accept anything unwanted that pushes its way into your heart. No, you say from firm ground:

“Sorry, you can’t come into this heart. This heart is for treasures. This heart is for love, love only. If you aren’t love, you can’t come in. So scat. Get out of here, and don’t come back.”

Beloveds, you don’t have to be hospitable to everything.

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Holy is the heart of you wherein I abide. Holy holy is the heart deep within you where I sit and where I gaze into the deepest part of your Being which happens to be Myself. How complete We are together, and We are never apart. We are holy in Our Oneness. There is nothing at all but Oneness.

We have captivated each other. Our hearts beat in love, and love is swung around the world and meets itself. We don’t meet on My doorstep, beloveds, though it often seems like that. The fact is that We meet in Oneness. There is no place where We do not meet. There is no better place to meet than in the depth and breath of Our One Heart, One in love, and One in an embrace like no other.

Our love is a busy street, as it were. It is a main artery. Our love goes everywhere and stays everywhere, and it is Our love that overtakes the world. What a power Our love is. Nothing compares to it. Nothing. Furthermore, there is nothing but Our love. Love is what the world is made of and nothing but love.

How immersed you are in other things, sometimes so immersed that you don’t know which way to turn. I am telling you. Turn inward. Come to the unbroken seal between Us. It is love and nothing but love. We are on a runaway train of love, as it were. We are Love Unbounded. We are Love. That’s Our story. It is the story of Life on Earth. It is as if Our hearts have eloped, and We are eloping still. How beautiful is this heart and love of Ours that is Love Excalibur. Our love story is a great love story of great fortune. Our story does not have to be told, yet Our story sings of itself in a melodious voice. It is sung in Heaven and on Earth. What a song it is. What a love song. What love We bring to the Table of Life.

There is never a pause in Our Love. You may have thought so. You may think so now, even as We embrace. Our love does not wander. Your mind does. Your thoughts do. Even so, your thoughts are a minstrel band that marches, marches throughout the Universe. There is not a spark of light or a grain of sand that is not lit by Our One Love. Drink deeply, beloveds. Breathe deeply, and as you exhale, more love spins around Our One Heart and throughout the One World, the One Universe, the One Heart that embraces all even as there is nothing else to embrace. This is It. We are It. We are Love indelible sailing across the Vast Universe which exists solely in Our One Heart.

We are a big ad campaign for love. Love is the soldier come Home to roost, and Love, the Soldier, never leaves.

All the corny things said about Love are true. There is One Love even as it appears in multiple forms. Love is love, regardless of its form. The essence of love is Love. The essence is enlarged to Oneness, and all is contained within this Oneness. There is a Oneness of Neutrality. There is a Oneness of Vastness. There is the Vastness of Oneness. There is a Field of Oneness where Oneness meets itself, a Group of Oneness, a Tower of Oneness that rises straight to Heaven and takes the world with it. Profound is Our Love. Vast is Our love. Vast is the Heart of Love as it plies its tune for all to hear.

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I must ask you, in all due respect, beloveds, who are you to forgive another? What has another done to warrant your forgiveness? Perhaps you are imposing standards?

Perhaps someone or a group just isn’t what you think they ought to be. Perhaps you think they ought to dress the way you dress or speak as you believe they should speak. How, may I ask, are you supposed to be?

Are you the decider of what another ought to be like? I ask you, did someone declare you the World’s Foremost Authority?! Not I! Then, in this case, it must be that you appointed yourself. Beloved, how many asked you for your sense of what is du jour and how many did not ask you?

Personal ways of approaching life are personal ways of approaching life. Each is doing the best he can. As much as possible, others have to be the making of themselves. Allow others to be free to be who they are. This is how they learned to deal with the world. You may be asking too much. Sometimes you have to leave well enough alone.

The majority of My children have enough to do to counsel themselves. Just about everyone thinks he knows better than just about everyone else, yet you and everyone else know only what you know. You don’t know what others know. Sometimes you have a hard call to make because, truly, from the goodness of your heart, you want to help another. Sometimes you have to save your breath. When is it felt as charity when you point out the error of others’ ways?

Where is the charity in pointing out the error of others’ ways? You have your standards, and others have their own. If you must hold others to different standards, what about asking yourself to choose to hold yourself to a more easy-going standard. If you must have a voice, then have a voice that understands that others have learned their own ways. Life will teach. If you are to teach others, you teach best by example and not by fault.

Sometimes it is a hard call because you are coming from love, and in all love, you want to bless the person you counsel. Remember that everyone has Me as well as you have Me. Learn more than you instruct.

Life is teaching you and everyone else the blessing of humility. Humility is embracing. Humility in you says:

“I love my brothers and sisters, and I wish to embrace them. I wish to join them in this human endeavor called life. If there is something I wish to change in another, I will see its counterpart in myself and look to change my view first. I have come to see that I am not someone who has all say or any say over another. Whatever I think that others must learn, may I learn it. May I be the first to learn all that I want others to learn. Let me be more than I was yesterday. Let me without any sense of all-knowingness. Such all-knowingness can be a mask for my own sense of not being good enough. Would I spend my life criticizing others so that I would not have to criticize myself? No longer will I separate myself from my Oneness with humanity and my Oneness with God. If I set myself above another, I set myself under false premises. I belie myself. I relinquish my past impositions upon the world. Let me start over today and learn the wisdom of love. Let me be me, and let me let everyone be as he is. Let me come to see through God’s eyes and act through God’s heart.”

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How engaged Our hearts are with each other. How We embrace. How steeped in love are We as We sit on the balance wheel of life. How much love do Our eyes tell. How much love spins in the orbit of the moon. How much is granted on Earth, and how much do you, My lovelies, take for granted?

We have quite a relationship. We have quite a relationship with everyone and everything. We have a love relationship with the stars, for instance. This is a given. Everyone knows that the stars are something and that Our relationship with the stars is quite an event. Long live the stars!

Now I will speak of you. When I speak of you, I am referring to Me as well, for We, you and I, We share much in common. Now We will speak in common parlance, so I will say to you, One of My Children which means the many of My children seen strewn across the Universe yet which are, in Totality, One. Let’s get that out of the way.

You are My heart dispersed to the world. I asked Myself, “How much light can be lighted in the world?” To take care of this matter, I created you, and so you came to light this world with the light of love from your heart.

You are the Light Bringer, the Lantern of Love, and I hold you high in the Universe right along with the stars. “Stars in the Night Sky, light up the world,” I said. And I said to My Greatest Beings on Earth, the Human Beings, I said: “Light up the entire Universe day and night. Let there not be a moment that the world is in darkness. I commission you to light up the world and never let it dim.”

And you, you said: “Yes. Yes, God. Yes, God, I will do this. I will keep the Torch of Love lit for all time, in all seasons, in all events no matter how humble. God, this I will surely do.”

And I asked, as any parent would do, “You won’t forget, will you?”

And, you said, “Beloved God, I shall surely never forget. This is my pledge to you, God. I will always remember the mission on Earth that you gave to me. I will always enact it. In whatever darkness of ignorance the world may be in, I will light it. Yes, God, I will be the Light of the World.”

Then what happened is that you seemed to, not so much forget, as to leave the lighting up of the Universe to one of your many brothers or sisters to take care of. You thought, “There are enough of us to do it. It doesn’t have to be me.”

You thought you had the world covered, yet the perceived others in the world, were thinking much the same as you. Every one was depending upon others. And so you may have left your responsibility unfulfilled.

There were those mighty souls who came to Earth and took their responsibility, and how bright were the night stars and how bright was the Light of Love that issued from their hearts. They became the Great Ones, and you well know their names, though some have been forgotten. There were also those who shone their light, and their names were never known. They were just as great as the Great Ones, only they were not well-known. This is just how it is sometimes. And that is fine too. Great is great, known or unknown.

Today there are Great Ones just as well. Perhaps you are One. Just keep holding your light high, and My Will be done.

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When you think about it, what could be more delicious than life itself, that which human life endows you with? When you think about it, you have a whole range of delights before you. We can begin with the yellow of the sun and the blue of the sky and the white of clouds sketched on the sky. We can begin with the warmth of the sun and such a thing as a breeze. We can begin with your eyes and your ears and all your senses, and what they bring you to experience. Just think of it! There is such a thing as taste and touch and the wonders they do perform. Just think of silence, and of noise, of leaves rustling, birds singing and lions roaring and the bark of a dog and the mew of a cat.

Think of babies. Baby anythings, from a warthog to a panda, the cutest things you have ever seen or heard. Here they are, new to Earth, and sure of themselves in the awareness that they have a place here. They are supposed to be here. Of course, they enjoy the world that enjoys them.

Glorious is a day on Earth and all that a day on Earth is filled with.

How full is a day on Earth.

There are trees and flowers and garden paths. There are fields and forests and oceans deep. There are so many wonders on Earth, how can anyone tire of life on Earth? What has happened that some of My children are jaded with life on Earth? It must be that their hearts stopped opening. Something happened or didn’t happen that inured them to their adventure on Earth.

No two days are the same. No two minutes are the same. No two people. No two paths. Earth is a diamond mine.

There are hands not yet held, kisses withheld, love to be discovered. There are hills yet unclimbed. There is a taste you have not yet had. There is a sight you haven’t seen. A cry you have not yet heard. There is a new perfume. And there is always without fail the dew of the dawn.

Tell Me, how can one get tired of this miraculous world I provided for you? Is there some kind of new entertainment you need? What is it that you need that you cannot find here on this Earth that I blessed and handed over to you?

If you cannot find something more to relish, then the alternative is for you to give something more. Forget about yourself for a while, and serve someone else. Show another a good time. Open someone else’s eyes, and yours will again begin to see the beauty in the world before you.

You will begin to notice sunrise and sunset. You will begin to seize the treasures before you. You will seize them in your heart as part of the Greatest Show on Earth, and you will point the way to others. Point the way to others’ happiness, and you are guaranteed to find generosity in your heart and toss it to the world as you would toss a kiss, a flower, or a thought. You follow happiness. You follow the flight of birds. You follow yourself to where you take yourself and the whole world with you.

Tired of life on Earth? Forget that. Instead, start to behold. Behold My love. Behold your own love. Behold the love on an Earth that means to fill you with joy unending. There is no end to joy on this Earth, and all the joy is yours for the taking. Take it. Further joy. Love the world, and make the world happy. The world does not owe you a living. The world spins in joy, and all the joy is here for you to engage in.

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Speak to Me with your eyes. Beautiful Beings, look up at where you think I am. Look up at where you think I’m not. Wherever you look, I AM. I am not hidden from you. Of course, I am not physically visible unless you come to see Me through the images of other human beings before you. In fact, all the physical others also happen to be you.

The physical is a mere drop in the bucket, and you do recognize more than the physical. I am Eternal as you are Eternal. Your body is not eternal. Your body is a trifle that fills in for a while, for an interlude in which you see That Which you already know intimately. You do know Me. You do know yourself only you think I am across from you.

A human body is a beautiful thing and, yet, it is a passing thing. The Reality of you is eternal. In that, Our Spirit is the same. If souls were eagles, then We are eagles. In any case, souls fly. There is nowhere that human souls cannot reach, even though there is no such thing as space to reach in. Nevertheless, if you wish to think of Me as a soul, Our souls do move. We are touched by each other. Our souls love, and love means Oneness. Not the illusion of Oneness. Oneness is true. Multiplicity is an illusion. The expression One God takes on a new meaning.

But what do We care about illusion? Why consider illusion a diversion when illusion is also loved? Let Us simply be aware of love, and We can be aware of illusion and love illusion too.

You are a comfort to Me. It comforts Me to think of you. Thinking of Me is a comfort to you when you are comforted by thinking of Me. I give you solace. And what is it that I give you solace about? Your acquaintance with Me reminds you that there is more to you than the human covering that encapsulates you. My presence within you and your awareness of Me remind you that you are far more than what the eye can see. This awareness reminds you of Our Solidarity. This is the very reminder that there exists a field beyond the physical where the living is easy. This is the real field of life. That which you see is a hasty sketch. That which you truly live in is not hastily drawn.

You can consider, if you like, that your life on Earth, in the guise of a human being, is like an escapade in a dream. The dream seems so real. It seems real, and yet it is a fraction of a dream when you are Allness Altogether.

In the dream of life that I speak of, you wake up slowly. It takes a while, yet, little by little, you wake up to the immutable evidence of life beyond the physical. There is a heart beyond the heart that knows Reality, and this heart lives Reality wholly.

You have a soul. Your soul is your true radar. Everything in human life simply signals the often overlooked Reality of your soul and its travels to Heaven where the soul truly abides.

You are a Heaven Being. However, the physical occupies your attention. It takes your attention off the essence of your soul. The life of your soul more than matters. The life of your soul is far more than matter. The life of your soul is your life. Your soul is the essence of you. I grasp the soul of you deep in My heart. We are inseparable. Our souls meet, and Our Oneness loves. This is the story of your life. Our souls hold hands, as it were, and We love to hold hands.

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Say, “Thank You, God,” even for the annoyances in your life. Why not? This is a good way to help annoyance leave.

The annoyance you experience is teaching you something. It could be teaching you that you pay too much attention to what gets in your way, whether it is a person or a computer or your car that won’t start. Is it possible that you give too much power to annoyances, as if they have some say over you?

When thorns prick you, perhaps you are too sensitive and make too much of them. In any case, the thing to do with annoyances is to let them go. Why keep them around in your mind to fester? Why go over them again and again in your mind? Soon enough, another appears. The last one recedes and a new one takes its place. It rankles you.

Beloveds, you reduce annoyances to size when you let go of them.

You may think of all kinds of retorts and all the unfairness of it. How fair are you to yourself when you let an annoyance rankle you?

Oh, to be free of annoyance. How lovely that would be! You would not go around being disturbed or perturbed. This is a choice that is yours. Perhaps, unwittingly, you have been a collector of annoyances. Other people have been misguided, you are sure, and they may well have been. Nevertheless, you have allowed yourself to be guided to annoyances. Who truly puts the reflections of annoyances before you? You do, beloveds, you do.

If a speck of dirt gets on your shirt-front, you flick it off. This is what you can do with all the pesky annoyances, all the things people should never have said. Flick them off. Really and truly, what do they have to do with you except as you say so? Of course, they may say so, too, yet that is their game, not yours. You don’t have to play. If you play, you must have chosen to play. Just as others, in their remarks, may not be so aware of what they are doing, so may you also be unaware of your collusion with them. How can it be that you are a co-conspirator, and, yet, what else can you be when you instantly turn over your thoughts to them and find yourself annoyed, so annoyed, so annoyed over someone else’s foolishness. This is what it comes down to, isn’t it?

There are those people from whom you want nothing but to be left alone. You don’t want their opinions of you. You don’t want their approval anymore than you want their disapproval. Who are they to set themselves up in judgment of you? That is your question, isn’t it? How dare they? They may think they are the judge and jury over you. And so you feel that they are sticking pins in you. Well, just pull those pins out, and set yourself free. After those who annoy you so much have let their remarks leave their mouth or their pen, it is you who carries it with you. It is you who gets it under your skin. It is you who keeps it going.

Find some other thoughts. Think of remarks people who love you make. This is turning the other cheek, beloveds. Think of the people who nourish you with their love and their Being.

When there is a song you don’t like, you take that one off the record player, and you put another one on. How hard is that to do?

Now that you have the idea, this is what you do. Do not accept annoyance into your life. And, if, you do, then replace annoyance with something more identifiable -- like love.

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Relationships are a bit like Godwriting itself. You never know what I’m going to say, and so you never know until I say it. You never know how a relationship is going to go straight, or swerve, or go back around again. Relationships are always moving. There is no staying still in a relationship. There are surprises ahead, and, sometimes, astonishments. Relationships may bask in the sun for a while, and yet, relationships get up and move along. Relationships are like ships that sail the seas. Relationships are sea-going adventures. They don’t stop at port forever.

I speak of all kinds of relationships, family relationships, teacher relationships, good friends, romances. They all take their winding turns. They all take their own flight. Some grow closer. Some grow apart. Some grow and grow and fulfill dreams. Some begin, and some end. Alas, some relationships spit fire at each other. All relationships are in process. Matches are made on Earth, beloveds. In life, relationships are always worked out on the ground. A match may have been thought of in Heaven, yet it is on Earth that it is clinched.

Relationships do not seem to soar without the couple’s participation. Pretty much relationships grow together on Earth or break up on Earth. And who is to say whether that is right or not right. Perhaps whatever is is right right now.

Nor is it true that the path of true love is steep. It’s just that it winds and curls around in various ways.

Is love only spontaneous, or does love grow and come to be? Everyone knows that falling in love is not the whole story.

Human lives are quite some novels, wouldn’t you say?

A baby is born. What a nice connotation the word baby has. The baby grows and becomes a young boy or a young girl. Then a teen-ager. Then an adult. Then the baby has babies. Then the parent, like the parent before, becomes gray-haired, and, then, before you know it, the grandparents are on their way back Home. And so it goes, one wave of life after another, all on a voyage on the Ocean of Life. One page turning after the other, and nothing the same. All is being altered as We go along. Yet, remember, I go with you.

Because of the illusion of time, all this occurs. It is repeated how many times and never the same and you always want to read more stories. You think you live them, yet it is more like you read them or see them as a movie occurring before your eyes.

How little in the world is there to hold onto, and, yet, how tightly you hold. And how you won’t let go, even when you know whatever it is has already gone. It has slipped by. It has gone somewhere somehow. Unbelievably, a fish has swum away. A chapter has closed. Nevertheless, The Book of Life never closes, nor do you ever really exit. The physical drops away and the Radiant One rises.

What is the harm in this, beloveds? What makes any of this tragedy or storm? Why does the world diagnose this as something the matter? It has always been so. It is not a new development. This is how life goes, and this is how life goes on. When all is said and done, the stage play is the same. Minor deviations, yet the same plot. Must this be a shock to you, beloveds? Enjoy your chance on stage.

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Let the good times begin! Why enjoin anything else? Make a decision that today will be a good time. You will make it so. You will make today refreshing. You will look for something wonderful to happen. You will make something wonderful happen by choosing this kind of day.

You have beautiful days. You have had days that seemed to just flow from the pen of God. You dance here, and you dance there, and loveliness reaches you. Look forward to more.

Look, believe that you deserve all the happiness that the shores of the world hold. There is nothing wrong with being happy. You are not obliged to be less than happy. There is not a price on your head. You are welcome here on Earth. You have come here for joy, to give and receive it. What are you waiting for?

What do you really need to be happy? Perhaps just a change of mind. Have you perhaps carried the heavy burden of not being happy, as if you had to carry it so life would be wary of you and not take you lightly? Beloveds, you, you are to take life lightly, and you will be happy. Life does not have to be wearisome in order to be worthwhile. Levity is good. Perhaps the long and the short of it is that you may have held the thought that life really is not to enjoy.

If your life has not been so much fun, give yourself a vacation from seriousness and have fun now. If you cannot have fun all day, have fun now in this moment. Have fun with your seriousness. Slap your seriousness around, and pinch the cheeks of happiness.

Come on, enjoy with Me today. This is My invitation to happiness. This is My plea for your happiness. I have long been awaiting your happiness. Put on your bangles and beat your drums. Today is the long-awaited day for the celebration of life to begin. Let Jericho blow his horn. Let the leaves in the trees be chimes. Let the wind blow a flute.

Everyone is here. The children are here. They will lead the way for you. They will show you how to enjoy today. They will take you by the hand and show you the diamond light that shines wherever you are. It shines in everyone. Look out through new eyes, and you will see, and you will know.

Rain glistens, and icicles glisten. Eyes glisten. Smiles glisten. Let your mood glisten. This is the holiday of holidays. It is called Life. Life does not require a separate day for holidays. Every day is a specious gift I have given you. I ask you to enjoy it, appreciate it, live in it, love in it, this day, this very holy day of Life.

And if this is a ten-hour work day, enjoy that too. Play is not always more fun than work. It is good to get your teeth into something and come shining through.

Where did this popular belief in discomfort come from? Let’s get the idea of discomfort out of here. Out! Out! Out!

Let Our lives be accompanied with piano music or an accordion or the tap of sticks on a dishpan. What does it matter? You are accompanying life. Life is your accompaniment. Enjoy life for all it is worth, and it is worth millions. It is worth you and your heart and soul. Just drop the idea of struggle and uphill and all that. Embrace the light and warmth of love. Right now, you hear?

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Faith in Me is something you deserve. Faith is something that, if you owe, you owe to yourself, not to Me. Yes, you are obliging Me when it comes to trust, yet that is not the reason to pledge your fealty to Me. The reason is for your own well-being.

Just think of the difference between feeling trust and feeling distrust. With trust, you are secure. With trust, you can relax. With distrust, you feel insecure. With distrust, you are tense. With distrust, you fight. You may think that fighting is strength. Maybe. Maybe once in a while. Seldom. Beloveds, reacting is not generally a sign of strength. Fighting is often a sign of weakness. Your fists go up at the first inkling of some umbrage given to you.

What is putting your dukes up, ready to fight, but reactionary? Reacting is weakness, beloveds. Love, on the other hand, is strength. Anyone can make a fuss. Not everyone yet can love and love in all situations. Nevertheless, love is your greatest strength. There may be no other.

Persistence and determination have their place, yet love outshines everything.

Fighting is a shield put up, and fighting eats your energy and raises toxins while love purifies. Oh, what a difference when you are fret with anger or when you are love itself. With love, you swing high. With anger, you swing low.

If you truly want the world to be a better place, it is up to you to make it so. If you really really want a better world, what is your contribution? Fighting is a complaint. Love is restitution.

Of course, you cannot simply turn on love. Nevertheless, you can turn in that direction. What other direction is there to go in?

Nor can you turn on your faith in Me, yet you can look up, and you can lift yourself to greater heights. I know you want to. I know you want to be peace and love. You would much rather focus on love than on skirmishes. Then why is it so hard to do? What is there that keeps love in your heart at bay?

There is something to be said about empty space. One way of looking at this is that it's better that your heart be vacant than filled with self-righteousness or anger. Love is not meant to be left out in the cold. Your heart is meant to be full of love. How good you feel when your heart is full of love. You can only feel good when your heart is full. Let your heart be full of Me. Let your heart be full of love and all the strength that love incurs.

Your heart of love is waiting for you to turn it on. Just as you turn on the heat in winter, turn on your heart now. Give your heart what it wants. It wants to be filled with the warmth of love. Your heart wants to get on with its mission. Your heart is so tired of waiting for its love to burst forth. Keep your beautiful heart waiting no longer. There is only one direction for your heart to go in, and that is forward. Your heart is not a soldier who goes to do battle, yet, your heart marches onward. Onward, beautiful heart.

Your heart is your own jurisdiction. Your heart does not wait for signals from someone else. All the love in the world from outside is not enough for your heart. Your heart is eager to start its own engine. Rev up your heart. Rev up your beautiful blossoming heart. Open up your heart to the world who so yearns for it.

If you want to find love, give it. This is fulfillment of My dream.

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Steeped in silence, love stands supreme. Steeped in silence, there is nothing to disrupt the love that you are filled with. In silence, your heart is strong. Your heart beats in the rhythm of the silence of My heart.

In silence, there is no entanglement. In silence there is no ego to tear your heart. In the silence of the heart, peace reigns. Peace is absence of ego turmoil.

In less than silence, you feel you go solo in the world. In less than silence, you rush to be a star in the seclusion of your world. Ego is so far from the Truth. You already are a star in the Universe. You strain to capture a prize when you already shine like the stars. You get out of breath from all your struggle to attain what is already attained. You wear yourself out running, running, running.

You are not meant to run out of breath in the world. You don’t need to run. Recline a while. Recline into silence. Absolve yourself from strain and incompleteness. You are already complete. What are you racing for? What carrot are you chasing?

Pause, and come sit with Me. We shall recline and look straight into the reflection of Our eyes. We shall just sit and look into Our eyes. We take a rest from formality and endeavor. We sit on a veranda. We look out at the Heavens. We enjoy the sky, and we enjoy the sights. We enjoy everything. Being is everything. We enjoy Being. We have nothing to hustle for. We have Being to enjoy. There is nothing to do but to enjoy. Let Us enjoy our closeness. Let Us enjoy doing simply as Being. Let Us enjoy the canopy of life in the world as We sit contained in the ever-shining light that We emanate. All that We see is an emanation of light from Our hearts of joy, rich in the silence of sweet enduring love. We are complete. We are It.

You can get up and return to work but not to the hurly-burly. Our hearts beat slowly and graciously.

Time does not exist except as a mythical playground. And so We play whatever games We play, yet full knowing that Our hearts enjoin in peace.

Peace is a beautiful green pasture. Wherever We may roam, it is a green pasture. All Our surroundings are within Us. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow all the days of Our lives, yet, in the world of peace We live in, what possible need of mercy is there? We stay in peace. Where Our hearts are, therein lies peace.

You are the presence of peace on Earth. You are the entranceway to peace on Earth. If there were a doorkeeper, you are the doorkeeper. As it stands, there is no door to keep. There are no doors. There is only the silence stirring in the stillness of love. That love is Ours. It is always Ours. We do not just hold hands. We do hold hands, yet it is Our hearts that hold allegiance to beauty, love, peace and all the adornments in the world that contain them in order to reveal the Kingdom of Heaven Which is on Earth.

What are you doing is no longer your question. What you are being already is done. You are My blessing on Earth. You are My infinite blessing. You are My Name on Earth. You are My silence covering the world with silent light, silent as love, silent as light, not night at all.

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What do you feel when you feel Me near you? Do you feel Me holding you, stroking your hair perhaps, My hand wiping your tears, smoothing your face, letting you know in the simplest ways possible that I am always with you? How simple it is that I am near you, as close to you as close can be. I can only be your Friend. Feel My Presence now. Feel the warmth of My love waft over you right now. Feel the touch of My hand and the warmth of My heart. Beloveds, you are anointed with My love. It is love that smooths your brow. It is love that makes Us One. Simple simple is Our love. As I embrace All I embrace you, so does your heart embrace All. All becomes One United One. Love is Our bond, and yet there are no reins. Love is free to embrace the All of One.

No one escapes My love. There is no one outside of My love. I am the Totality of Love, and so are you, My beloved. So are you. You are the love of My heart Who loves and entwines love across the stars and beyond the stars and beyond anything you ever dreamed of. The Vast Universe that you are acquainted with is a drop in the bucket. Ah, the love We share, the love there is, the Vastness of Love that sweeps you up and carries you right to My heart and therefore the Universe beyond the Universe that you know.

Even within your present awareness, you do not yet have a full acquaintance with Vastness. Everything is vaster than you can conceive. I tell you that Vastness alone is. Infinity is the Vast of the Vast. Eternity is the Vast of the Vast, and, yet, Infinity and Eternity are not long, not long at all. In Eternity and Infinity, there is no long or short, and that is the short of it, beloveds. There are no measures in that which We name as Eternity and Infinity, Infinity and Eternity. There are no markers. The same as Myself, they are unbounded and therefore cannot be defined. What words could possibly hold the wonder of Vastness beyond Vastness? What hand can possibly hold them?

When I speak of Vastness, I mean Vastness. Vastness is greater than without borders. Without borders doesn't say much when it comes to Vastness.

We cannot even call Vastness a Pool of Love. Well, of course, We can call it anything We want, yet no pool can encompass Vastness. We can call Vastness an ocean, yet an ocean, as vast as it is, is but a spoonful. Of course, there are no spoons in Vastness. There are no rules, no gallons, no kegs.

Vastness is Fullness yet, there is no fullness to Vastness. If Vastness could be filled, it would not be Vastness. What can possibly contain Vastness but a vessel, a chalice perhaps, a grail. No, not even a Holy Grail can hold Vastness. All you can do is swim in Vastness. There is no shore to swim to. There is only Vastness to be immersed in.

Here's the story. You have always been immersed in Vastness. There is nothing else for you to be immersed in. You cannot be contained any more than Vastness can be contained. Your light is vaster than the light of the sun, and the light of the sun is vast, yet you are Vastness Itself imploding and exploding in the light of itself.

You have thought you were a forty-watt light bulb. Think again. No, stop thinking. Embrace Being. I cannot say it is the Vastest of All because Vastness can only be Vastness.

Vastness is bigger than a mountain. Vastness is even bigger than love so far as you deign to accept love. Vastness has no limits whatsoever. Nor do you.

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Indeed, circumstances may not be what you like, yet that doesn’t mean they are wrong. That you don’t like the circumstances is valid. To get into the wrongness is a pitfall that you want to stay away from.

Debating the wrongness takes you down a winding street that turns out to be a dead-end. You may consider certain circumstances wrong, and by everything you know, the circumstances are wrong to the nth degree, yet where does it get you to review the circumstances again and again or even once? You are not a policeman of life who is to collect evidence of wrongdoing. You are to let wrongdoing go from your mind. There is no point in your refreshing whatever troubles you.

I do not say or mean to imply that unkindness, inconsiderateness, cruelty are okay. Kindness, consideration, and friendliness are much better. Small-heartedness and big-heartedness are quite different from one another They are worlds apart, yet there is no benefit to you in going over a sad and rocky tale.

You are moving to a higher plane now. Now you lift your heart. You do not carry your heart over the coals of yesterday. It is not for you to rake over the ashes. It is for you to get up from them. There is no gain to anyone in going over renditions of what has already occurred. You are not a policeman who must gather all the evidence. You are not a trouble-monger nor are you to point a finger. You are someone who commits errors too.

You cannot even right your own wrongs let alone someone else’s.

Each day you must start anew. Don’t restart the old car. Start a new one. Regurgitating is not for you. It never was.

You are not a collector of bad days. You do not mark them on the calendar. The wrongs done to you are not part of your shopping list. Wherever you have let the hurts of the past accumulate, now you toss them out. You have carried too much baggage as it is. Sweep it all away. What do you need it for? Is this the luggage you want to take with you? Absolutely not! It doesn’t matter how right bad acts might make you. It matters that you let them go.

You don’t hang up post-it notes in your mind.

It is good to grind grains but not to grind thoughts over and over again.

Sweep out the thoughts from your mind that don’t serve. There are some rooms you have to walk out of. You don’t track mud into your house. Keep your mind ready with upliftment and free of bad news. There simply is no percentage in it. You throw out the dregs of coffee. Now throw out the dregs of your thoughts from yesterday and yesteryear. Tidy up your thoughts. Begin anew.

This is as much as there is to say about wrongs. You don’t want to have much to do with them. You have had enough of them. There is no point in carrying on about wrongs. They are nothing to harbor in your heart. They are to walk away from. Just as you have to throw out old food sometimes, you have to throw out old thoughts. They’re not good anymore, if they ever were. Maybe they should have been thrown out from the beginning.

Mondays used to be wash days. You would wash clothes and hang them on the line. Don’t bother washing old thoughts. They have to be thrown out and good riddance. Thoughts about wrongs are never right. Don’t wash them. Don’t mend them. Toss them out.

If you want a clear mind, this is the way to clear your mind.

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Life is not a sacrifice you make. You do not sacrifice Heaven in order to be deployed in the extant world. You may think you made a great sacrifice to come to Earth. You think many things. You can think anything you like. It never has had to be true for you to think something is true. I am telling you the Truth. You are far more than you have thought.

There is no sacrificing your Divinity. You can disbelieve your Divinity, yet you cannot give it up. No matter how hidden from you, the Divinity within you will needle you, pester you, get under your skin until you recognize it. Divinity lives in you. It is not something you can get up from and leave, nor can you displace it. Sooner or later, you will look. You will have to look because Divinity will make itself known to you. It will unbury Itself. It will not let you rest. It will come to the fore in your life.

A seed of a flower called Divinity will burst its bounds, and a bud like a suspicion will begin to appear, and then there will bloom a flower that cannot be glossed over any longer. Divinity is wild and woolly and wonderful, and it is yours.

You can look at Divinity as My hand on your shoulder. You can look at it as the sunshine bursting through clouds. You can look at it.

You never sacrificed Heaven. No longer possibly think that you gave up light for darkness. Beloveds, you are the Voice in the wilderness. You are the Voice, and there never was a wilderness. There is forgetfulness, and, yet, Divinity will not be forgotten or overridden no matter how you look away.

Give up fear of the Bright Sunshine, and give up ignorance. You are a Lighted Being on Earth. You cannot get away from Divinity. You play an imaginary poker game with yourself. You have already won. You are established in Divinity and the Rays of the Sun. Born of Light, you can only be light. So be it! Take yourself by your hand and take yourself where you are. You are a Heavenly Being. You took a journey to Earth, and now you live on Earth, yet there is no escaping Heaven. You brought it right along with you.

The seed of Heaven within you will turn up. It will make its way through the subterfuges of your mind and will burst from your heart, and you will know the Divinity that you are and have always been. You carry it with you. Graced by God, you are graced. What can you be graced with but your true Divine nature as I gave it to you?

It is as if you fooled around, trying to choose colors for your house when your house was already made of solid gold. Through unopened eyes, you saw dinginess. Lift your eyes, and you will begin to see the Light of the Sun surrounding you, and will recognize that you, this human being you discredited, that you are the Light, and you can no longer convince yourself otherwise. And why would you want to? Why wouldn’t you want to unmask yourself in the glory in which you stand?

Never mind what you have thought. Never mind what the world has thought. It is not presumptuous of you to stand in the Light that is yours. It is presumptuous of you to deny the God-given Light that you are. Come out from under the toadstool. Lift up your downcast eyes and let your light be seen. You are not raiment you have put on. You are the True Gold of God. Reclaim your Divinity and hold it high. No one has to see the Divinity that is clearly you but you. You have to see. And I have never not seen.

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Beknighted are you who stand in the world unafraid. You know that you are One, and you know you are alone never. You more than know in Whose arms you are. It is your experience. You know there is a God of Love, not in abstract, but firmly within you. You are no longer under the illusion of terror. Now you live in the Truth of Love. Now there are no impediments to the free-flowing river of love. There are no impediments.

The impediments that exist in life in the world are named emotions such as fear, anger, panic, grief, one triggering another, emotions projected, and their contractual occurrences of fighting, hurting, and damage. Such emotions and their consequences bury your heart. Love, the love which is beyond emotion, brings peace, understanding, resiliency, trust, fun, joy, and union.

Negative thoughts and emotions disrupt love. The truth of you is love. And yet the flow of your love, in and out, you allow it to be disrupted. You invent your own disruptions from your belief in consequences. Consequences would not exist except for your erstwhile belief in time. How would anger follow an affront if there were no time and, therefore, nothing to follow affront in? How could wars be fought except in the arena of time? Time is an illusion, and all the emotions that spring from allegiance to time are illusions as well. Invariably, beloveds, you have been tilting at windmills.

Recapture your own love. Aggression, retaliation, hurt feelings are reactions to illusion. In battles of war, hostility, and fear, you have gone along with the idea that your Inner Being must have suffered injury. Your Inner Being is not dependent about what happens. Your responding to threat from what occurs comes from the idea you have that you are vulnerable and must defend yourself. What you have to defend yourself from are your thoughts and the conclusions you draw.

In the world you carry the illusion that there is danger. You believe in danger. You live by the thought: “All is not well.”

And when I tell you that, no matter what, all is well, you turn up your nose. You sweep your arm across the sea of life, and you say, “God, you call that well?”

Your belief in time gives credence to outrage. Your recognition of Eternity will wipe the tears from your eyes and the images before you.

Beliefs are not necessary. Love is. You don’t require a belief in love in order to love. You have acquired beliefs in illness, accumulation, dissolution, the fragmentation of time and all it accrues -- past, present, and future. Illness and accumulation are belief systems. They are systems of illusion, and illusion is false. Systems of illusion do require dissolution.

Soon, very soon, if not already (yes, I, too, speak in the misguided language of time) your illusions will dissolve, and you will stand free of them. You will stand in the world unafraid. There will be no pretense. There will be a different kind of theater on stage. The timed consequences you have watched will no longer be there. If you cry, you will cry tears of joy.

I want to tell you now that any weeping you have done, no matter how fraught with tragedy, how desperate you have felt, is an expression of joy. You thought that your joy in love had gone away in one way or another. In the presence and essence of Eternity, you will know there are no bounds to love, no beginning to it, no end to it. And that is all you need to know.

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The idea of justice or injustice is counting on the past to affect the present. To your mind, the past and the present are to correlate. However, your experience is that, for no known reason, something uncalled for occurs.

From as far as you can see, the world is not fair. From what you can see, there is hardly justice. Why does one gain and another lose? Disparity seems to be a piece of life in the world.

It has been said that you write your own script, that you wrote it long ago and signed it. It is easy to sign ahead of time for something to happen later. The future is always long off.

Here is what I want to tell you. Fair and just – that’s a theory. Save your breath and stop looking for what is fair or just or even-steven, whatever you may call this elusive equation. If what you are seeking is a victory of some kind, it is not your province. Seeking justice is an entanglement that keeps you bound. Wars come from seeking justice, only what is justice is not agreed upon.

Is it fair that Florida is warm and Alaska is cold? What does fairness have to do with it?

There is little victory in berating every injustice. There is little victory in fighting and fighting. Fight once, fight twice, and then make a truce with life. Somehow in life it may behoove you to take what life hands you as your fair share, even if it can’t be, and go on from there. Life does not have to be fair. You cannot commandeer life. You are simply here to live your life, come what may.

Righting wrongs is attention on the past. If you put too much of your attention on how unfair the world is, where does that take you? If much of your attention and energy go into redressing wrongs, you are in the wrong arena. If redress of wrongs is the mainstay of your existence, you wrong yourself. You hold yourself back from moving forward.

What you see as tragedy is not fair. From your perception, death of the body is not fair. Fair or wrong or right are not the questions to ask.

Death happens right and left, yet not according to your perception of justice, and not according to your will. Just the same, yet you might as well make peace with death, and make peace with life. More than might as well. Must.

The question Why is often a detour. A better question is: “How do I move on from here?” The question Why takes you in circles. There is no end to it. There is more to life than pondering over it and trying to make your interpretation of what makes sense in what happens in life.

The answer to what happens in life is always, “Keep going. Keep going forward.” The question is not: “How did I deserve this?” Before you can move forward, you have to let go. Deserved or undeserved is not the question. It is not the question at all.

You cannot measure life. When life knocks you down, get up. Seek not justification, beloveds. Perhaps this is what forgiveness is. You do not keep the past to you. You do not hold it tight. You do not shake it. You do not lay too much importance to it, nor do you lie down and give up and say, “Uncle.” You get up and you keep going.

Your purpose is not to commiserate over the disparity of life. You don’t have to love every detail. You don’t have to understand it. You live it. Life is a great proposition posed to you. You are alive on Earth, and you live it, and you are far greater than what happens in life as seen from the outside.

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Who on Earth can understand why some of My children seem to be unkind, or are unkind without doubt. Who can understand why others do as they do? In personal terms, you are unable to. In personal terms, too often you just go around in circles trying to understand another who is not understandable to you. Even when you can understand someone's insecurity and inadequacy, still, you can't see as an excuse for rudeness or worse.

If someone deliberately wants to insult you, odds are he feels an insult has been given to him. He misunderstood you or he heard your voice as a voice from the past, and he passes on his resentment to you. He saw someone else's face in yours. Invariably, he feels justified. You do not have to justify him. It is not necessary for you to make excuses for others.

The question for you to ask yourself is not: "Why was he deliberately offensive?" The question for you to ask yourself is: "Why do I let this person get under my skin?"

When someone is quite rude or outright insulting, calling you names, for instance, it is his ego holding the reins. And if you feel to retaliate, it is your ego holding the reins. Perhaps the best you can do is to release yourself from the rudeness. You are not really the causer of it. There is more at play than you.

You are not responsible for changing someone else's mind. You are not responsible for changing someone else's behavior. Some people will not listen to you. If they could listen, they would not be unkind. On the other hand, you are responsible to everyone for everything. Yet this does not mean that you are to carry another's burdens on your shoulders. You are not here to carry heavy loads on your shoulders. Sometimes, often, you really have to let your cares go.

You may well have kindly tried to make amends with whoever it may be. If the person could have heard you, the situation would not have gone so far, isn't that true?

So how do you take responsibility and then how do you let it go? How you do it is not a how but a why. It is a must. You do know that you do not serve others by upholding their rudeness in your heart. You don't have to feel insulted any longer. Look at insult the way you might look at a pimple on someone's nose. It is there. It has nothing to do with you, and you keep your eyes off it as best you can. Sometimes you just can't keep your eyes off what you don't want to see, and you leave the room.

In the case of insult, you remove the insult from your heart and you leave it behind you. You don't have to deal with it. It is your own feelings that are yours to deal with. Make quick work of your feelings. What feels good, keep close to you. What does not feel good, remove it. If you cannot remove it, then let it go. Do not keep ragged thoughts in your heart. Do not be guilty of hanging on to what has to be let go of. What does not belong in your heart has to be let go of.

Consider insults to you like tainted food you have bitten into. What do you do? You spit it out. You don't keep figuring what is the best thing to do. You quickly are done with the tainted food.

The ability to not hang on is a great gift. Would that the other person had let go, and there no problem would be. Would that you let go right now.

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Have some mercy on yourself. You have been merciless when it comes to you. Even if you are one who boasts, you are trying to boost your spirits with a pretense. Your boasting is bravado. Better to admit your true evaluation of yourself. To be honest is merciful. It is good to know which floor you live on in the apartment of your self-evaluation. You have to get on the elevator from the floor you are on now.

Maybe there is no elevator. Maybe there are no floors. Maybe there is only one place you can be, and that is with Me. Yet, in terms of life on Earth, We can talk about floors and up and down and elevators and escalators.

You can exaggerate yourself in terms of the world. In terms of Who you really are, there is no exaggeration. You are a Child of God, and you are My beloved child, so, be it. Why not accept yourself as you really really are?

No more of this camouflage and subterfuge. Be straight out. Let yourself know Who you are. Let yourself know Who everyone is. Be yourself and no longer an imposter. You may have fooled everyone, and, yet, there is a part of you that knows. A part of you knows that you have been a charlatan on a stage that doesn't exist. The existence you see does not exist -- unless you are seeing beauty within and without. Of course, you do not fool Me for one minute, and, certainly not for a lifetime. Who are you kidding anyway?

You have been sent to Earth from Heaven. What does that make you? It makes you a messenger. Messengers from God are named angels, yet you hide your wings and you hide your halo when, all the while you are a wing-ed and haloed hallowed child. Whose child are you if not Mine?

No longer bind yourself to the bounds of Earth life. Free yourself of bounds. You are My boundless child, and you are to reflect Me. Reflect Me clearly. Wipe off the mirror you see yourself in, and you will begin to see clearly that you are Bright Light. Your eyes have been dimmed, not your light. Pull up the shades and reveal your One Self. Be the first to reveal your True Identity. Enough humbug. Enough misrepresentation. Stand in the True Light that is yours to stand in. You are a reflection of God. There you are. You are My good right arm. You reflect Me, and you represent Me. You are not at all the kind of person you thought you were. You are a Person with all the rights and privileges of a Child of God.

Get out of the playpen you put yourself in. Be the sun that shines everywhere. Hold up the Golden Light of yourself. No more costumes. You have had enough of costumes. Now you reveal yourself in your true colors. It is yourself that you are to reveal yourself to. You are the One Who has to know. It is yourself that you have deceived. Be a deceiver no longer. You have kept yourself in the dark long enough. Through you will I be known.

One day the world will notice Who you really are. Today is the day. I have waited long enough. Today is the day that the Sun of you casts its light. You are the One chosen to speak for Me on Earth, to live for Me, to light up the Earth with Me. You are a practitioner of love, so practice. Try on the shoes that are yours. Walk in them. Dance in them. Leap high in them.

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I would like to speak to you this morning about you, the wondrousness of you. No matter how much I say on this subject, it is hard for you to let it in. You, who will buy any trinket sold on the street, have a hard time buying the gold I set before you.

You are the gold. It is you your Self that I would like to sell you on. I would like to sell you on what already is. You will believe anything a hawker at a State Fair is telling and selling you, and, yet, it is hard for you to buy what God in Heaven is trying to give you. Is this not so? I hand out pamphlets entitled: "YOU ARE WONDERFUL!" and you turn away or pretend not to notice. You will not accept from Me what is meant for you and is yours to accept. I am a dealer in Truth.

Perhaps I would do well to go to a State Fair and put on an apron and cook up some food and charge you for it. Perhaps I should set up tables and use a loud voice in My demonstrations.

I have sent you quiet voices, as it happens. These quiet voices have been heard for thousands of years, and, yet, you do not quite hear them as they proclaim in My service that you are a Most Wonderful Created Being.

At best, you respond embarrassedly, "Aw, shucks."

The Truth you will not believe. Fantasy you will believe hook, line, and sinker. It is pure fantasy that you are less than what I say. You think it is fantasy when I say you are a Special Being Created by God. You may not even hear what I am saying to even disbelieve it. You may be thinking that you are a dime a dozen when you are unique, vast, and worthy. You are Something, beloveds. You have your mundane side, and, yet, you are far greater than mundane. Mundane is not to be scoffed at either.

I tell you quite frankly that you are a Miracle. You are My Miracle. You are My Blessed Angel delivered to Earth, yet, angel nevertheless. No, not a Fallen Angel, an angel who has forgotten his or her Angeldom. I ask you to remember. I ask you to open your eyes and begin to see the marvel I made when I made you. Stubborn as you are, will you open yourself to your Self? Will you take a peek at what I have made? Will you admit the possibility that you are here on Earth to do Great Deeds, to be a Great Being, a Great Angel housed as a human being? You are a star from Heaven. Your travels on Earth are to be celebrated because once an angel, always an angel. Once a soul, always a soul. Once a created Being by God, always a Created Being by God.

What have you been thinking? Have you thought you are a waif on Earth, perhaps a wastrel, perhaps a convict? Perhaps you have convicted yourself to a life sentence on Earth without the possibility of parole from the sentence you convinced yourself of. You, who at the very least are a troubadour of love, have looked at yourself askew, and you have seen My Greatest Creation as a nomad in no man's land.

Harken unto Me. Open your ears and your heart to the Solved Mystery of Life, that you are a Wonderful Beautiful Blessed Being sent from God to be a Great Light on Earth to brighten Earth and all the forgetful angels on Earth of their true value, and so that you, yourself, know what God made when He made you.

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Lovely is the light I shine on you. Lovely are you to receive it and to reflect it. The only thing to reflect is light, beloveds. What else matters a whit? Yes, it is for you to shine the light of love. All else fades. All else is for naught. The light of love lasts. What else do you imagine fills Eternity? What else is worth the salt of Eternity?

Your soul is worth Eternity. What else would you want to keep? The little disturbances that you bump into? The big arguments you have with yourself? The trials and hurts of the world seen from the outside?

Beloveds, put down your squabbles. Squabbles aren't worth your while. Disagreements, phooey. What are disagreements worth that you would want to keep them in your heart or anywhere?

If you must harbor things in your heart, harbor love and engagement of love and light and all the beauty that is yours right now. What are beauty and elegance for if not for you? Who is worth all the beauty and goodness conceived in the world if not you?

You were made for wondrousness. You were not made for anything else. Don't two-time yourself with folly. Let go of the folly of aggravations and choose the light of love. What else is attractive? Anyway, haven't you had enough of all that which does a number on you?

Come along. I will take you the wonders to see. And, you, My beloveds, are the greatest wonder of all. Isn't it a wonder that you can displease yourself when you live in a world where flowers grow, where snow falls and sun lights the world, trees blossom, and leaves change color, where there are mountains to climb and oceans to swim in and gaze at? What can possibly be missing from the world? The only thing I can think of is your happiness. You have laid it down somewhere, forsaking it for minor matters. Confess.

Confess, and lay aside whatever remnants of hurt and distaste you may harbor. Lay down your thoughts of enmity and think of friendliness and the love in your heart that begs to be ignited. Come. Come to the shores of My heart and dive in. I am here for you, and you for Me. Let it be so. Let there be no strangers in any heart. Now We start with your heart. We empty it of foolishness, and We fill it to overflowing with the light of love that burnishes there.

There has been enough of discontent. Have you not had enough of it? Drop it then. Drop off discontent. Throw it off the edge of the world. Dissatisfaction has had its day. Boot it out. It is love's turn now. This is the year of the fulmination of love. Welcome it. There is nothing but love to keep in your heart. There is nothing else that truly wants to be in your heart but love. I say your heart is Mine, and that hearts are to be filled with love and nothing but love from this day forth.

What makes you think that this is something hard to do? Bail out from your heart anything that is not love. Get a dump truck if you have to and empty your heart of the past and fill it with the light of love. No longer cover up the light of love. No longer sully your heart with less than love. Everything is less than love. Jewels are less than love. Nothing equals love. Nothing but love is to occupy your mind and heart. Nothing but love deserves your heart. You deserve love, and you are to fill your heart with it. Do not hold your heart for ransom. Do not hold your heart in waiting for some day. Some day is now. Now is the Year of Heart. Make My dreams come true.

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When I accept you and accept you as My own, My own beautiful blossoming Own, you are Mine, and what is Mine is not to be shaken by what transpires in the world. You are not to be dejected by it nor rejected by it.

By everything you know, something occurred that is not right, not kind, not uplifting. It is not right, and it is not necessary for someone to demean you. Nor is it necessary for you to become unhappy because of someone else's view. When you were a child, you reacted as a child. When you were a child, there may have been someone who didn't want to play with you, and you were crushed. How could it be that someone didn't want to play with you?

Here's what's beautiful: Even in your sense of desolation, you knew that it was not right for you to be turned away. Even in your reaction, you revealed your awareness of your significance in this Universe.

Secure in My love, let not the little slings and arrows of the world pierce you. Let that kind of thing bounce off you.

Someone else's peeve is theirs. It is not meant to become yours. You must not let it become yours.

You know by now that I welcome all into the world. I more than welcome. I bring you here. I do not bring you here to be dismissed. Nor do I bring you here to have your heart worn down. Do not make another's lack of awareness and littleness become yours. Come from a higher place, beloveds. Any dishevelment is not for you to take to heart. It's okay if someone doesn't want to play with you. You have other things to do. You have other things to think about. Do not give a thought to what is, after all, only someone else's thoughts.

Hurt feelings do not belong to you. You are not here to be sensitive about whatever is directed to you. If you are in the path of someone's disparagement, move out of the way. This is how you move up. Certainly, you are not to let someone mow you down.

Would that everyone would regard you as you deserve to be regarded. Best of all is for you to regard yourself as you deserve to be regarded. Hold yourself in My light. I shine My light upon you. Look at Me. Look at My light. Don't see yourself as less because of someone else's lack of sight.

What bothers someone else isn't you. You are not the cause. They may think it's you who bothers them, yet you don't have to think so. Do not measure yourself by someone else's eyesight. All the more reason for you to see from a vaster view. You do not have to be unhappy because someone else is short-sighted. Apparently, you have thought it was.

Now is time for you to leave hurts behind you. Let them lie where they lie. Do not wear a V for victim on your cape.

Someone else's opinion is no more than someone else's opinion. It certainly is not the mark of you. It certainly seems to you like what they may say to you is a mark against them, yet you are not to take it that way either. You have better things to do with your heart and mind.

Do you understand Me? Ignorance is ignorance. Rise above ignorance. Because another is ignorant is no reason for you to embrace ignorance. In the big things you may know better. It seems to be the little things that you get caught up in. Let the little pricks and arrows fall from your heart. Take only Greatness into your heart.

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You are My treasure. I turn you over in My hand every day. I look at you. I gaze at you, and I say: "Beautiful." You may argue this for the sake of what? For the sake of argument? I am saying that you are a beautiful hard-at-work soul. Yes, you aspire to greater. Well, then, you shall have it. Keep looking up. Keep looking in My direction. Hold yourself up to Me so that I may see you face to face.

One day, one day soon, you shall recognize the Truth about you, the truth that you are a Shining Diamond, that you are My Shining Diamond. Every day I take you out and hold you up to the sun, and I breathe on you as you would on a pair of glasses. I have a cloth of love that I polish you with. I also polish you with My eyes. And every day I smile on you. Every day My bless-ed smile falls on you.

Meanwhile, you get frazzled. Meanwhile, you are discontent with the Shining Diamond of Myself that I hold in My hand that bears your name.

I gain inexpressible joy from the so-called you. I gain inexpressible joy from that which you look down upon or even scorn. You point out some little thing that you find unworthy in yourself, and you make it big. Begin now to adore what I adore. Begin now to value what I value. You are a simple seeking human being, and you are the Majesty of My Heart. Concede, beloveds. Concede to My love, and know that you are My Love, and that you are My Joy, and will you, too, please, be your own joy?

Who are you to underplay the wondrousness of you? You are a wonderful human being who faces the world every day. You get up and go out and you deal in the world, in the traffic, in all the possibilities. You are My hero, yes, you. You face a thousand deaths a day, and still you arise. Now, arise to Me. Get out of the caterwauling and ensconce yourself in your own heart as well. You are a Florence Nightingale of your own heart. Bless yourself and bless all the souls you cohabit with. Bless your own courage. Bless your own self. This is what it means to be true to yourself. Give yourself a hand up. Pull yourself up to Me and look Me in the eye and know Who you are. Raise yourself higher simply by reflecting yourself back to Me. Our vision becomes as One. Who is looking at Whom, beloveds? Look into the mirror of yourself, your True Self, that which the world may presently not see. But I see, and you can see, and so We are seen, and so We are beloved and We love. There is nothing to it.

Keep Me before you like a diamond you look through and so see the world. You are My Shining Diamond that I look at and through. Let Me be your Shining Diamond that you look at and through. See through My eyes, and how happy you will be. How happy you make Me. How happy I am to have you in My heart, and how happy I am to be in your heart. How happy We are to be One with each other. How happy We are. How happy We can be as We further the love you are made of and need only to be. This is My Truth I proclaim.

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The success of your life does not go up and down according to your wishes fulfilled. This is an important understanding to accept. If the harmony and beauty of your life depend upon the fulfillment of your will, your happiness will be peremptory. Your happiness requires a basis more solid than your perception of gain or loss.

Yet this is what so many of My children base their happiness on, as if you can't be happy unless your will is followed. Alas, this is not the road to happiness. This is a road to unhappiness.

I agree it feels wonderful when what you desire is fulfilled, yet that wonderfulness may sometimes even turn around and bite you. Your desire may have been right at the time, yet the joy of its fulfillment may have been short-lasted. You might later even wish that your desire had not been fulfilled. It didn't work out, or it worked out to your seeming disadvantage. Fulfilled desires are not always what they are cracked up to be. Do you agree with this?

By the same token, not getting your desires fulfilled can be a good thing. That must be so. So why is your happiness so much in the balance depending upon what desires of yours are fulfilled or not?

Sometimes you fight tooth and nail to get something you want, and, then, when you have it, what have you got? So why is your happiness so dependent upon your level of achievement? Why would you do that to yourself?

Oh, yes, it's nice to get all A's in school, and, yet, even if you don't get an A, A is not the measure of your success. It is too risky to have your sense of well-being dependent upon occurrences and events in your life.

A better measure, although measure need not be, is what you have given to your life, not in stress and strain, but in joy. What are you happy for, glad for, grateful for? There is a limitless list. Maybe you need only one item on your list and that is your love of life. Yet, maybe not even that item is needed. Maybe simply your living is enough.

You are an angel on Earth who is living life. You are alive in a human form on Earth. This day you live and breathe. This day you surface in the world. Maybe this is enough. Today you are like a deep-sea diver who comes up from the depths to the surface, and you take another breath, and you dive down to where the pearls are, and you bring them up. You are the pearl you bring up. You are your gift to the world.

The surface of the sea may be rough or smooth, and yet how much does the surface have to do with you? How paramount is the surface when you enjoy diving in and out?

The world is transitory. Your Being is not. In what water you swim is one thing. You, the swimmer, are another. You and the world do interface, and yet you are the key to the world. The world is not the key to you. The world is a wrapping. You are far more than a wrapping. You are the point. You are the point of it all. The chair you sit in is not more worthy than you. What you can count is not more worthy than you. You are the most worthy brush in My paint box. You are the one who lies at the end of the rainbow. It is you, and it is I. So great are We, there is no measure but Our Existence.

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The force of love is a power to be reckoned with. Love is a power. It is a power for good. Who would want less than a power for good? Who would want to keep all the odds and ends of life that you may have kept to pour over and perhaps collect more of?

Another name for love is Good Will. Good Will is good enough. Have one department in your life, and let it be Good Will. Then you will have Vast Good Will.

Be a Being of Good Will. No more stand-offs in life. Now Good Will. Let Good Will be your reason for Being. Be good-hearted and good-willed. What more can you ask for from life than that? Anything else is less. Be one who wants more and gives more. Let all that you will be Good Will and nothing but Good Will. Of course, it is My Will that you take the High Road.

No more inclusions of animosity or anything less than Good Will. This is how you have no enemies. This is how you have no one you call enemy. This is how you have no one that you sweep under the carpet. All are welcome to the warmth of your heart of love.

Consider that you have a heart. All are welcome to come by the fire of your hearth and get warmed up.

This is how you become a benefactor of mankind. What other use on Earth can you equal? Rich man, poor man, Good Will is Good Will. You stand not higher nor lower than any other. You are My tribute to the Universe, and so you do tribute. You give tribute to Me as you love others, even the seeming unlovable. Even the people who drag you down, you can love them. It’s okay to love them from afar. The thing is to love them. The thing is to love.

And, if you cannot find the love in your heart, then, at least, think of someone you do love. One day the love you think of today will wend itself to the one you find it hard to think of with love. Soon enough, your heart will be drawn to him or her with the energy of Good Will. You will be glad. The rough edges of your heart will smooth out. No more rough edges for you. Grace for you now, grace that you give, and grace that you receive. Today your name is Grace.

You are the One I call to Me to grace the world, to bless the world with your thoughts. Make your thoughts gracious. Make graciousness true.

You are an emperor. I have chosen you to rule the world with grace, and, so, you find the grace within you. You find your own ruling grace. The world turns over in joy to be graced with your presence. The joy to live in a world where you give benediction to everyone becomes yours. You exclude no one. Not even one thought. Not even one thought of yours is graceless. You string your thoughts all in the same color. Your thoughts are also beads of the same size. The closer your thoughts are to the Truth of Love, the bigger the beads of your thoughts grow until all your thoughts fulfill love. What more is there to ask for than this?

What more is there than a heart of love? Squeeze your heart with love, not possession but love. Be a love of the Universe and everyone who lives in the Universe with you. Everyone, past and present. Everyone. Wear a banner that says: “I welcome all Mankind.”

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Even as time does not exist, now is time for you to cease being disappointed in yourself. You know exactly what I mean. You are hard to please. There is no end to the fault you find in yourself. Often you ask yourself: "Why did I do that? Why did I say that? Why didn't I this and why didn't I that?" Your list is endless. It may begin with: "Why is my nose shaped this way?" to "Where has the love in my heart gone?"

Or you may project your plaints with yourself upon others: "What is the matter with those people? Look what so and so said." You may not like the sound of someone's voice, and you hold it against him or her.

Like yourself more. Be content more with yourself, and you will perceive life, and your life, quite differently.

What you really complain about, what your axe is to grind, stems from your attitude toward yourself.

You have picked on yourself enough. You have picked on the world enough. Desist piling on your plaints on yourself and on others. It has been so easy for you to find fault. You can pick at anything.

You do know the cure, beloveds. Count your blessings. Make a different kind of assessment.

You may like to think that you are being noble to acknowledge what you would like to change about yourself. Stop acknowledging, and change then.

You are not a terrible person. You are a good person only you cast dispersions too much, on yourself and all around you. Turn in all your complaints. Like your looks. Like, for like breeds like. Fault-finders breed fault. Love yourself. Love the Universe. Love even those you like to think you don't like. The truth is that you are fond of them. They may drive you up the wall. The truth is that you drive yourself up the wall of yourself you have fabricated.

Build yourself up instead of pulling yourself down. Become a friend to yourself. Be your own best booster. And when you have a complaint about another (yourself,) you don't have to voice it.

When you want to criticize your child, substitute what you like about your child. Reinforce your child. Beloveds, this is the only way to make your way in the world. Become a rose who bursts forth and forget the thorns, the sharp thorns of your own thoughts. Choose the round edges of life. Choose the blessings to see and the blessings to grow. What you want yourself to be more of is something to like in yourself. How wonderful that you aspire to be greater. Yes, that is good. And now be it.

If you want to be less critical, then be less critical. If you want to be more open-hearted, then be more open-hearted. If you want to know a great love, then be love. Love is opposed to criticism. Love says to another: "You are wonderful right now. This is what I like about you." Love says the same to yourself. Love lifts you up. It certainly doesn't pull you down.

Beloveds, what if you were I? What if you were God? Would you then sit around bemoaning the past? If you were I, would you yell error?

If you were I, how you would love. Your attention would be so turned to love that you wouldn't even have the notion to think of anything less. Love thyself. And if you are an imperfect human being, still love yourself. You have come far. You are a stellar being. Now, enlighten yourself to your own worth, and you enlighten the world.

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