HEAVEN LETTERS

Heavenletter #5916 Speaking Up, February 4, 2017

God said:
The way you see it on Earth is that you put up with too much. A habit of yours could be that you don't speak up enough.
Of course, there are many who also stick up for themselves very well.
There are, indeed, many who think later of what they ought to have said and likely could have saved themselves future difficulties down the road if only they had said.
There are so many habits of life and so many varied kinds of upbringing that impinge on your lives now.
It is even possible that you may think that to represent yourself is impolite, and yet you are aware that not speaking up for yourself contributes considerably to repeated unhappiness.
It's like you got on a certain track and somehow, no matter how you desire to get off that track, time and again you ride the same track no matter how much you rue your path of least resistance.
And then, when you do speak up, you seem to be programmed to feel you overdid it, or you did it in anger which now adds to your difficulties with yourself.
What fear is it that keeps you back from asserting yourself? Lack of practice you suppose? Your voice doesn't even think of it until too late. This is some kind of trap you set for yourself.
And, then, when you do rise to represent yourself, another kind of guilt sets in.
Somewhere along the line, you learned to put other people's feelings before your own. Perhaps you were taught or somehow picked up the idea that you were worth less than others, and, therefore, had to appease others. "Forgive me for living," may have been your unwitting stance.
Then, there were those few occasions, where you did pipe up, and it was so successful. You didn't demean anyone, yet you spoke for yourself, and it had a wonderful resolution – on both sides. How happy you were.
At these times, you fully believed in full honesty, and then you find yourself undercutting yourself again. At these times, you may tell yourself that there are worse things than being a fool, yet you don't really believe this. This is another false front you put on. You don't love yourself for it.
There is something here for you to master. Self-control isn't the answer. Self-hiding isn't the answer either. Why is speaking up effortlessly the answer for you? Do you really have to wait another lifetime to solve this crimping that many others don't have to battle with?
The worst thing about this is that you prop yourself up like a ready-made failure.
Maybe you just don't know when it's your right to speak up. On the other hand, you don't want this to be your big lesson in Life. And what is the lesson anyway? To know you have rights to be direct without fearing…fearing… what?
You don't want to sell yourself short. Maybe the crux of it is that you don’t want to sell yourself at all. Dear Ones, if you are on Earth, and you are, you are rightfully on Earth. You are supposed to be here. You have every right to let your needs be known. It's okay for you to need, and it's okay for you not to need, yet you happen to need, and you feel like such an amateur at this Game of Life.
Not that you want to be some super kind of professional either.
You are aware that there is much in Life you have surmounted. This area of speaking up you may think of as self-defense, and you object to that.
You may feel that when I handed out free will, I forgot you. You will somehow got cowed. It could be that you just don't give yourself credit.
I ask you now to speak a little louder. That's all you have to do. Project your voice. Represent yourself as you would represent someone else.
And if you miss here or there every now and then, so you missed, and you just keep walking on. You have progressed so much, and now you can like yourself more.
You never had to be perfection in the world's eyes. We are talking about your eyes, beloveds.

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Heavenletter #5914 If the Concept of Suffering Did Not Exist, Would You Suffer?, February 2, 2017

God said:
There is something so deep and precious within you that you hardly dare to fathom. Beloveds, what do you think would happen if you dared to drink deeply of Love Abounding?
To sink deeply within – which you may fear -- is to fly! To sink deeply into Love is to soar high above suffering. It is to discover yourself where you are and have been all along. Heretofore, you may have trembled at what seemed to be a dismal Fate that, you were sure, had convoluted itself before you.
Beloveds, you yourself are the topic I dwell on. Come drink healing waters with Me. We will talk about love for the Enhancement of the World. Sometimes, a world filled with love is held at a distance, barely in sight -- this is suffering. Never think that suffering is somehow an honor. Make suffering not paramount or the honor of the day in the attention of a world sodden in grief.
Suffering has nothing to offer you that you want. And never do I want you to promote suffering as if it were an exalted status. Because suffering comes free doesn't mean that you don't pay too a high price for it. There is nothing desirable about suffering until it leaves.
Do you have the idea that suffering is admirable? Is illness admirable? Is heartache admirable? Suffering isn't even packaged well. Suffering is not a hero's journey. Let Us abolish suffering from the face of Earth. Let Us abandon suffering. Who said suffering is a worthy activity?
Suffering is not a requirement for Life. Don’t romanticize it. Don't give suffering any amount of applause. If suffering has come to pay you a visit, now tell suffering to be on its way and leave you and the world in peace. Suffering is absolutely not to be proliferated. Escort suffering to the door and graciously bow iself out, never to return. You don't have to have it. There is nothing noble about suffering, not at all.
Suffering is not your due. Suffering is not worthy. Of course, you may have a hidden notebook that says that, under certain conditions, there are rules for suffering, as if you are ordained to suffer. Erase those conditions. What power would suffering have on you then?
Have no belief in suffering. Suffering is not okay. Suffering is out of sync. Suffering is wayward. Who in his right mind would endorse suffering? And, yet, who has not experienced it?
A baby drops his rattle, and then the baby cries.
A loved one's Life ends, and grief walks in the door as an important guest, as if love without suffering could be downright insulting and heartless, as if being away from suffering would be a great act of selfishness and irresponsibility and unheard of. How craven of you, the world might say, not to suffer in a world of suffering, how base.
In this life, it would seem that there is no substitute for suffering. Why major in it? Why spread Old Wives’ tales about it? Why make yourself an expert in suffering? Now make suffering an exception to the rule. Be free of it.
Ah, suffering must be a tradition. There is much suffering passed on from one generation to another. Once upon a time, women’s feet were bound, and this suffering was accepted as necessary and virtuous. Once upon a time, scalps were collected. Once upon a time, children cried every night before they fell asleep. Too many matters were entwined and considered part of Life.
Let's define suffering differently. Now ask, what is suffering the absence of? Is it possible that possession and inheritance of suffering mean more to you than its absence?
Are you possibly more loyal to suffering than to freedom from it?


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Heavenletter #5913 On the Wings of Angels, February 1, 2017

God said:
There is no decree that says you absolutely must finish everything you start. There are things that you can drop. You don't have to prove your good character. There are times you can stop in the middle, or, perhaps, momentum will be so strong that it continues to carry you forward no matter what, and you just can't get off.
In any case, don't dally in Life. Make a decision. Dear Ones, don't keep the world waiting. One way or another, you are to move on. You are on the Forefront of the Universe, and you move right along. The purpose of Life is not to delay it.
Slow and Steady is not always wisdom. Nor is Haste Makes Waste always so veritable. Instead of the idea that Haste makes Waste, have the idea that haste gets the job done.
Now, have We gone full circle with Momentum? Not yet.
Momentum is the fuel you run on, and momentum is the fuel the world runs on.
Momentum is momentous.
It is not necessary to whip momentum into a froth. Keep up with it. Run along with it.
Look to the inside. Listen to the puppy that you hear barking. What does your Heart say? Regard your Heart. Believe in your Heart.
Sometimes when you don't dare believe in your heart, dare to follow it anyway. Your heart may well be better qualified than your suspicious mind.
Ultimately, your heart and My Heart are One. My Heart, My Consciousness, and My Mind are One. At present, your mind tends to be a wayfarer, a wanderer. Your personal mind is more like a butterfly that flits here, and flits there. It's not so hard to catch your mind's attention, but to keep your mind's attention is a horse of another color.
At the same time, who takes a dim view of letting your mind be free to go where it has to go? The mind does not have to be a captive. Who said it did? You never know where your mind will zoom to. It will zoom. And you may zoom with it. Hold on to your hat, your head, your heart, your mind. Your Consciousness will go along with you anyway.
How do you, in the Midst of Life, or on the rim, how do you know what's what, and what do you care? It is Life you are leading, and Life is leading you. You may think you are leading cows to the barn, yet you may be whirling around the Center of the Universe in a yet unnamed Galaxy. Or, it could even be that you are asked to give names to as yet unknown Galaxies. When it comes to this, who cares what the pay is? Accept the position.
Who knows with certainty your True Name? And what does it matter when you yourself are True?
Life on Earth is not intended to be a false front, yet sometimes it might. Sometimes, instead of paddling your own canoe, you are paddling or peddling a fragile ego. This is for no one's benefit, yet, even so, this uphill ride could be worth a ditty. Certainly, you are worth more than a song. There is no song worth more than you. You yourself could be worth the Song of the Universe, and you do not know this. It would be good for you to know this.
How do you know that when you dream you are flying that it is no more than a dream? How do you know that you are dreaming you are flying or whether you are actually flying, and, I ask, what does it matter whether it's actual or assumed? Either way, you gain Great Joy.
Anyway, if your unseen wings should falter, here I am to catch you.

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Heavenletter #5913 On the Wings of Angels, February 1, 2017

God said:
There is no decree that says you absolutely must finish everything you start. There are things that you can drop. You don't have to prove your good character. There are times you can stop in the middle, or, perhaps, momentum will be so strong that it continues to carry you forward no matter what, and you just can't get off.
In any case, don't dally in Life. Make a decision. Dear Ones, don't keep the world waiting. One way or another, you are to move on. You are on the Forefront of the Universe, and you move right along. The purpose of Life is not to delay it.
Slow and Steady is not always wisdom. Nor is Haste Makes Waste always so veritable. Instead of the idea that Haste makes Waste, have the idea that haste gets the job done.
Now, have We gone full circle with Momentum? Not yet.
Momentum is the fuel you run on, and momentum is the fuel the world runs on.
Momentum is momentous.
It is not necessary to whip momentum into a froth. Keep up with it. Run along with it.
Look to the inside. Listen to the puppy that you hear barking. What does your Heart say? Regard your Heart. Believe in your Heart.
Sometimes when you don't dare believe in your heart, dare to follow it anyway. Your heart may well be better qualified than your suspicious mind.
Ultimately, your heart and My Heart are One. My Heart, My Consciousness, and My Mind are One. At present, your mind tends to be a wayfarer, a wanderer. Your personal mind is more like a butterfly that flits here, and flits there. It's not so hard to catch your mind's attention, but to keep your mind's attention is a horse of another color.
At the same time, who takes a dim view of letting your mind be free to go where it has to go? The mind does not have to be a captive. Who said it did? You never know where your mind will zoom to. It will zoom. And you may zoom with it. Hold on to your hat, your head, your heart, your mind. Your Consciousness will go along with you anyway.
How do you, in the Midst of Life, or on the rim, how do you know what's what, and what do you care? It is Life you are leading, and Life is leading you. You may think you are leading cows to the barn, yet you may be whirling around the Center of the Universe in a yet unnamed Galaxy. Or, it could even be that you are asked to give names to as yet unknown Galaxies. When it comes to this, who cares what the pay is? Accept the position.
Who knows with certainty your True Name? And what does it matter when you yourself are True?
Life on Earth is not intended to be a false front, yet sometimes it might. Sometimes, instead of paddling your own canoe, you are paddling or peddling a fragile ego. This is for no one's benefit, yet, even so, this uphill ride could be worth a ditty. Certainly, you are worth more than a song. There is no song worth more than you. You yourself could be worth the Song of the Universe, and you do not know this. It would be good for you to know this.
How do you know that when you dream you are flying that it is no more than a dream? How do you know that you are dreaming you are flying or whether you are actually flying, and, I ask, what does it matter whether it's actual or assumed? Either way, you gain Great Joy.
Anyway, if your unseen wings should falter, here I am to catch you.

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Heavenletter #5912 Momentum Is Your Life’s Bread, January 31, 2017

God said:
You know what it's like when you procrastinate. It's not pretty. You pay a price for every day you dally. Do you put your Life aside, as if ignoring the furtherance of your life is the best you can do at this time? Oh, well, it is the waning moon, and you excuse yourself.
There is a momentum in Life. It is like a fire you build, and it behooves you to keep the fires burning. The fire you add to is yourself. Either you go forward, or you allow your project to die on the vine.
If you have passion and you want to enrich your life, then keep moving. Momentum is your Life's Bread. Keep that momentum churning. It is self-limiting to let your passion die by the wayside. There is no waiting time. This is a slow decline. A slow decline is a decline, and as fatal as a fast one.
It's true, in the deeper Regions of Life on Earth, time does not exist. Only Infinity exists. There is no hurry, and there is no late.
In the grips of daily Life on Earth, however, seize the day. Unless you seize the day, you have thrown the day out the window.
Let Us call this what it is. It is dropping the ball. You sure aren't making a touchdown. You guarantee yourself withdrawal of energy, and energy means heart. Better to throw away millions of dollars in one fell swoop than to dribble your energy away. Use your Creative Energy. Use it, and you have more and more energy replacing itself. When you have been letting your creative energy dry up, it is gone, and you have been selling yourself short.
Here We have a reclamation project. We are reclaiming your dwindling energy. If you have a project you are not giving your all to, pull it out and restore it to life. Start sorting. Give the project your undivided attention for until your eyes light up and you start thriving in the midst of the project. The solution is so easy, it is amazing.
The cure for loss of energy is respect for yourself and your project and – Lights! Camera! Action!
The time for thinking about your project is past-due. Now you roll up your sleeves, and get something in front of you. Wait for no man! Wait not for yourself. Plunge. Dive into the water. Get wet. This is how you restore your Creative Energy. It is 100% renewable. You are renewable.
Do not relegate yourself to doodling.
Consider your project a beautiful plant you chose. Water the plant. This is what you do so the plant can thrive. Water, give it sunshine.
In terms of growing your creative project, you cannot overwater nor can you provide too much sunshine. You cannot splurge too much on your creative project. It will flourish under all you give it. It will flourish only with your attention and hands on it.
A creative project is alive. It relies on you to bring it to Life. The idea of this project is not to let it lie fallow. If you have put it by the wayside, pull it out now. Wake it up. Get it going. This could be your most fruitful project to date. Wake it up. No more preview. Now make it happen.
When you want a cup of tea, you make it. You have to get up and boil the water. Get out a cup. Warm the cup up. Toss out the hot water. Drop in the teabag. Let it steep. Then you drink the tea.
When you want to make your Creative Project happen, you have to get up and bring it to Life.
Hut, hut, hut.

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Heavenletter #5911 The Key Is How You Look at Yourself, January 30, 2017

God said:
It is up to you to open your heart and your mind. Ultimately, it is your job. You are the key. Expand your heart. Expand your mind. Expand the world you live in.
Wait for no one. It is you who has the key to fit the lock that allows you entrance to freedom, and freedom means expansion. Freedom can't mean confinement. Freedom can't mean the freedom to make yourself smaller and less noticeable. Freedom has to mean to untie bounds and to break yourself free from the bonds that bind you. What is lack of freedom but imprisonment? There are many kinds of imprisonment. The mind can be imprisoned. The spirit too. The mind can be in lock-up. You can be the imprisoner of yourself.
My desire for you is your freedom within so that you soar above the world. Accept the freedom to take off, to free yourself from inhibiting yourself from your God-given self-expression. Self-expression beats self-repression any day of the week. I speak of your unlimiting your own Self-Awareness. Wake up, darlings.
Note the thought you wake up with in the morning. You may wake up with a thought from a sleep dream that pushes through. You may wake up with a random thought. There are thoughts that pursue you. Wake up to your thoughts. The way the sun breaks through to the dawn, the way, when you crack open an egg shell, a whole bright orange egg yolk appears. Your thoughts are lining up for you to take care of them. You can't push back these thoughts forever. Recognizing your thoughts is how you take care of them. You allow thoughts you have repressed to take their place in the world.
One thought after another is waiting for you to address. Most often it is you who has infringed upon your thoughts. You may wait to address thoughts until you feel stronger. Look, a thought is waiting for you to address it. This thought is no longer to be put aside as if it does not exist. No thought of yours is to be kicked aside or told to wait for another day. When you just take an honest look at a troubling thought you don't want to look at, you can whisk away the troublesome aspect of the thought, and be freed from it.
Otherwise, the thought, no matter how much you try to submerge it, will persist in being addressed, rather like a virus that will make itself known. If the thought is there, it is there for you to nod to. Sometimes that is all you have to do, and then you are done. Face your thoughts. Wake up your thoughts. Tell them it's okay for them to speak.
You may not have noticed thoughts that seek to wake you up. They are not the plague. They are your friends. Listen to your thoughts. Once listened to, your thought is heard, and it is reduced to size, and then there is another once submerged thought that can make its way through. Acknowledge your recurring thoughts. They have a message for you.
The message could be: "I am not well thought-of. I am disrespected in this world. I am not given my full value or value at all."
Dear Ones, it is you who is not respecting yourself enough. Acknowledgment may be all it takes so you put your shoulders back and stand straight. And your whole demeanor to the world is changed. Treat yourself differently, and now, somehow, without effort, the world starts to look at you and give you your due. The key is how you look at yourself.
This works.
It is not your ego I am referring to. It is not vanity We are dallying with. Not at all. It is you who has to stand up and respect yourself. There is no other music you have to face. Now, finally, address yourself and give you your due.

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Heavenletter #5909 Sing a New Tune, January 28, 2017

God said:
I ask you:
What emotion are you going through right now? Irritation? Outright anger? Are you kicking yourself because you didn't speak up for yourself, or kicking yourself because you spoke up too much?
Either way, you may feel you are in a sorrowful shape. Whatever you're upset about now, walk through to the present and correct it. What you accomplish is tantamount to reliving anguish and reliving it again. You're good at reliving it, yet not good at all at getting rid of it once and for all.
You would give a lot not to be the fool you have been. Kicking yourself doesn't express the weight of the burden you carry. Beating yourself up doesn't say enough.
What is it exactly that you are trying to undo?
It has been said that whatever it may be you are upset at, it is really something else. Perhaps, if you knew what the cause of this anguish really is, you could throw it away once and for all. Well, not so much throw it away as to rise above its slings and arrows.
What is this guilt you carry that is unbearable to the point that you suffer for it again and again? It is not cut and dried. For some it is what you are guilty of letting slide, perhaps under the mask of not hurting someone's feelings yet masterfully hurting your own. And for some, it is putting your feelings before someone else's feeling, and then regretting this. Your theme may be: "With rue, my heart is laden."
One way or another, you rue and rue again, and what the whole basis for this really is, no one seems to know.
You are beginning to get a clue as to what all this ruing amounts to – and that is more ruing.
"You sat down by the waters of Babylon, and you wept…"
You would give a lot to release all this ruing that has made you its slave. You rue rue. If you knew how, you would give up rue.
It feels like a spell that you crave to wake up from. It seems like some kind of acne you can't get rid of, some kind of chronic torment you live with.
You are more powerful than you allow yourself to know. Instead of badmouthing yourself, do some good-mouthing yourself. It's like you have been under a spell by a bad witch, yet the bad witch who set the spell is no one but you. Of course, you can say that someone far back in your life caused it, and this is also true, yet it is you who has been continuing to play the message back. Turn off that recorder. Record something else in your mind. Say to yourself now:
"Whatever I have drummed into myself, I change it now. Now I am free from undue influence from the past. The past’s tenure is ending. I am a Being of God. As a Being of God, I am free to sing a new song. In fact, it is my responsibility to do so. I announce to myself that I am replacing this old troublesome recording with a new truthful recording.
"I ask You, God, to put Your words into my mouth so that I can think, speak, write, and live the Words You say. Put these thoughts in my heart so I am of a new Heart and Mind. No longer do I wish to go down the Road of Redemption. If I know You at all, God, I know that You have already redeemed me, or You state I never did need redemption. If somehow I did, You already redeemed me, and that is the end of that. Now I reclaim myself. The past has ended, and I am now in my Truth under You, God."
Dear Ones, according to Our Joint Will, the Holy You and the Wholly Perceived God Who I AM, you are now free of all the past that has held you back, and, now, here, I provide a good lunch for you to replace all negativity. Beginning now, any negativity stored within you cannot stay.
Consider yourself newly washed in the Waters of Babylon. This is a new day, and it is yours for the asking. Give it to yourself.

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Heavenletter #5910 "You Can't Catch Me!", January 29, 2017

God said:
Sometimes you feel that your Life has a Life of its own, that your Life is a runaway like the Little Gingerbread Boy in the folk tale where a little old woman baked gingerbread men. Gingerbread was her husband's favorite food. One day, a newly- baked gingerbread boy, born with a Sense of Self, hopped out of the oven and ran off. The old man and woman chased the Little Gingerbread Boy who called back over his shoulder:
"Run, run as fast as you can.
You can't catch me.
I'm the gingerbread man."
Later, a cow and a horse and a chicken started chasing the Gingerbread Boy, and he called out over his shoulder:
"I've run away from a little old woman,
A little old man,
And I can run away from you, I can!"
And so the story goes. And so, it may seem to you that you can't catch up with Life that is always hanging around the corner. To this day, and perhaps more and more, you haven’t caught up with the Little Gingerbread Boy. Life keeps whizzing along. You are still ready for a day off from life, a day where you are not chasing it, yet such a day never comes. You still wait for Life to slow down so you can catch up with it.
You wonder: "Where in Life is the pause that refreshes?"
Dear Children, how can it be that you need a day off from Life? This is your Life. Of course, it must be that you and your Life are close together. What does it mean that you feel Life must slow down so you can catch your breath? Life doesn't go anywhere without you. You are precious to Life. Do you mean that it is your awareness of life that can't draw a breath and get your hat on straight?
Can it be you who runs as fast as you can away from Life?
Do you see Life as, well, sort of, fly by night? Do you mean you are so caught up in drama, you don't have a minute to think about even what journey you are on? Often you may feel jolted by life, sort of like your main connection with Life is out of joint, that you are ambling around while Life is flying past you, as if Life is like some kind of electric alarm system going off. Out of breath, you may notice all you can do is to hang onto Life Itself as you barely clasp it.
"Is this then Life?" is a question posed for a composition or oratory in the past when Life gave time to be thought about.
You say to Me within yourself:
"How would I know what Life is? I could be the last to know -- I am holding on to dear Life with all I've got. How could I have a clue about what I'm doing? I'm giving all my might to trying to live a Life and come out unscathed. How would I have a chance to know who or what I am, dear God? More and more I feel that I may not even exist. I'm kind of a hanger-on, pretending I fit in, when I don’t even know what it is I am trying to fit into. Sometimes I feel I have been miscast, God. I don't even know how I got here let alone who I am. God, yes, it feels like I'm a trespasser in my own so-called Life."
Dear One, is this so bad? You have slowed down enough to ask yourself some questions. You have slowed down enough to know that you are crossing Unknown Seas.


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Heavenletter #5908 You Can’t Keep Life on a Leash, January 27, 2017

God said:
You know, Life does not have to stay the same, nor does Life have to change directly according to your will. Did you think that Life must suit you? Is it a novel idea that Life also has Free Will?
There are changes you can make. Even one little change you make can make a long-range difference. If you tend to reproach Life, make a tiny conscious change and don’t reproach Life.
Let's say you complain about being tired all the time. Of your own initiative, change something. Go to bed earlier. Exercise more. Your choice. Walk to work. Or walk part way to work before you hop on the bus. Stop saying you are tired, for your words may compound your tiredness.
I do not speak of a momentous New Year's resolution, not at all. You do not commit yourself from now until forever. You don't have to take a big bite. If there is a tiny aspect of your life that you might see to benefit you, do it. You do not have to make a lifetime commitment. Choose anew today and tomorrow and tomorrow, a simple tiny change of your own choosing.
You are not in total charge of your Life, yet there are little changes that you can make in your favor. For one thing, let go of demanding results from a change you make. It may not seem to you that it is a little change to go to bed earlier or to drink only one cup of coffee a day or to give a nice greeting when you walk into your house, yet these steps could make a difference. You do not have to have the say over what changes may accrue from your change. You allow Life to unfold. You do not insist on specific changes to occur. You are open to changes, yet you do not boss Life around. Life is not under your thumb.
One change you decide on is to no longer insist or demand that Life must announce itself in a certain way. How your Life goes is of the utmost importance to you. You can insist all you want, yet it is Life itself that calls the shots. Life is not always about your bidding. Be gracious to Life.
Be determined about, let's say, going to bed earlier. Don't get mad at Life for any lack of anticipated results. You do not crack the whip. Give Life a break. Admit to the independence of the course Life is free to take. There are changes you can take only so far. Don't get perturbed with Life when it gives you bread instead of cake.
On the other hand, perhaps you want to lose weight and you stop eating bread. This doesn’t mean you can tell Life definitely how much weight Life is obligated to take off from you. Don't just love Life when you lose five pounds and be put out with Life when you lose only one pound or none or gain a pound. Don't obligate Life. Be unconditional with Life. Don't be the judge and jury of Life. Don't be an adversary of Life. This way, you give yourself a break.
From your side, I do not speak of vows here. You do not vow to go to bed earlier. A night at a time, you go to bed earlier. You aim at it. It is a target you have in mind but not a vow. It is not an obligation. It is a choice you make. In the same way, you free Life from what you think Life must or must not do. Vive la vie! Hurray for Life!
Of course, you want freedom. And so, you must give freedom as well. Dear Ones, value Life. Respect Life, yet you can't keep Life on a leash. You don't know everything. In some ways, pardon Me, you may not know much at all.
Life does serve you, yet you also serve Life. It is not for you to make a case against Life.

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Heavenletter #5907 An Academy Award for a Role Well-Played, January 26, 2017

God said:
You have no idea of what it means to Me to love you, My child, My One Child who appears in many forms. The forms you appear in are like old clothes hanging up in a closet. At one time, these clothes were precious to you. Now their value to you may well have faded.
This is the way of the world. The world enchants you today. Your remembered thought cannot substitute for the actuality it once represented. You may remember a beautiful blue taffeta-print dress from forty years ago. The blue taffeta was a treasure at the time. Now the representative treasure was given away long ago you know not where. All it is now is just another thought reconstituted. Even if the once dream of a dress were to somehow reappear, the glow it once had is gone, and it has become just a dress.
You may remember occasions in your children's lives from when they were little. You cannot return to the days of those long ago photographs. Your once young children may have wisps of gray in their hair now. Yet all of these recollections are only recollections. Not one remembered thought is reality now. In fact, even when these remembered thoughts were happening, that wasn't Reality then either.
The Love was the only Reality then as now. What you come to realize with certainty is that Reality cuts deeper than what you observe in the world. The world serves greater purpose, yet the world is considered Reality. What is called Realty in the world had the appearance of Reality, yet, like the dress stored in the closet, it is no more than a snapshot of what was never really real anyway.
Infinity is Real. Infinity is Whole. Infinity is Reality. Wardrobe is not. The Life you see presented before you is a brief thought you imagine you are living. Reality reaches further than a moment. In Infinity, there is no heaviness. Infinity is Real. All the dramatization is nothing but theatrics.
Oh, My, how real-seeming the drama seemed to be. You could swear you are submerged in Reality and are going through it. You could swear you are suffering, or you are being rewarded, yet Reality has a different ambiance. True Reality is as light as air, and it is as brilliant as the Sun. Nevertheless, you are dancing on the stage of Life, a Great Actor on a Great Stage. Or, you are painting a portrait of what Life might look like, this great production you have often dressed up for.
Put away the props, the costumes, all the rigmarole. Underneath lies the Reality of perceived drama. Beyond the represented dramatization lies more Beauty than you can imagine. The supposed reality of Life is hype that you bought.
You enact a dream from which you will awaken. All the while you see the dream as true. You take part in a movie that goes on and on. What an actor you are. You deserve an Academy Award. You don't just play a part. You think you really are the part, and you think all the bit players are as real as you. You pull the wool over everybody's eyes. Of course, you play the part with all your heart and soul, so you think.
When you do wake up, which, of course, you will, you will laugh at what you thought Life was. How could you have looked at a rose and thought it was withering and no more? How could you think you are a player on the stage when you are very Existence Itself!
You have some great Great Realizations coming. You are eager and ready to dive into the Fulsome Waters, and you will leap up as a Knower of Reality. You will live in sync with Me. Your individual identity will go off stage, and you will be immersed in True Reality once and for all.

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Heavenletter #5903 A Tale of God’s Glory on Earth, January 22, 2017

God said:
If you could see the Bright Light of Your Heart without all the trumped-up charges you and others have made against it, how happy you would be. Remove all the propaganda, and you would no longer refute your Heart or anyone else's heart. You would see the Light of My Heart wherever your eyes alit. No matter whose heart you looked into, without exception, you would be surrounded by Great Light far beyond your present reckoning.
This is not a wild-goose chase I send you on. This not an exaggeration. This is fantastic, yet not any kind of fantasy. This is not fiction meant to cheer you on. This is the God-given Truth, and it is for you to know the Radiance you are made of and that you are to spread around the world like mist.
How you see presently is a fictionalized story. It is an overdone fear-filled story that is so suspenseful you cannot put it down. You might call your story: What Happens Next? Or, The Way You See It, or, you could call your story: Footsteps in the Dark, or, you could call it: Dark Clouds and Ominous Shadows, or Lost at Sea, or even Pursued by Fear of One Kind or Another…
How you see presently is the wild-goose chase. Too often how you see presently is contrary to your dreams, yet it is a dream you have with your eyes open while you are in the waking state. Of course, the true name of this waking state could be The Unawakened State.
What new title might you give to life if you weren't so frightened of it?
How about:
A Tale of God's Glory on Earth. This is My favorite. Yes, I like this one best.
Yet, here are a few other farseeing titles:
Paradise on Earth
Paradise Revisited
Paradise from Another Angle
Earth Populated with Angels
Finding Beauty in Life as It Resonates on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Earth as a Beautiful Flower
Living in an Oasis
God Is Everywhere
However many souls there are on Earth, there is that exact number of versions and perspectives of Life on Earth, even as there is One True Story of Oneness. Oneness is supreme. The fact is We are All One. There is no all. There is not only One, there is One Spectacular. Of course, you can count noses, yet Oneness, not multitudes, exists. In fact, Oneness stars. There are angels on Earth. Beyond doubt, there is Angelness on Earth.
Now, what are We going to do with you? If you are down in the mouth about Life, whatever are We to do with you?
Let Us teach you new songs with new refrains. Let Us make it clear to you that you are as loved as all those you may think are ahead of you, and who may think so themselves. Even if you consider yourself as primarily unloved and unloving, you will begin to see that that is all a myth, for, in My Kingdom, no one is left out. Not one, and certainly not you.
Anyone you may think of as unable to get into Heaven, you are mistaken.
No one has to wait. Where does it make the most sense for your evolution to be? Where will you learn more? With all those you might haughtily reject from Heaven, or, of course, with all the Great Ones in Heaven that can only be with Me.
I affirm your place reserved in Heaven, for there is also Greatness to come from you. I cast no one out. Everyone in this imagined world is aligned with Me. You came from Me, and so will you return to Me, for We are One Beautiful Self, and I will not be without you. This is a foregone conclusion, and there is no power on Earth anywhere that can depart from the fact that, no matter how you may think you depart from Me, never will I ever depart from you, for you are My Beloved.

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Heavenletter #5901 How About Today?, January 20, 2017 :
God said:
What if you would see the world from love?
What would you see?
What if you could see into hearts from your own heart?
What if you could really see as I do see?
You would favor all.
You would bless all.
You would make a difference in everyone’s life.
You would shine light like a thousand stars.
You would pick everyone up and brush them off.
Heavenletter #5258 Like a Thousand Stars
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Today you see I have begun this Heavenletter with a quotatation of Mine. Every Heavenletter, every sentence, every word plants a seed. It could be said that every Heavenletter contains seeds of every other Heavenletter.
In the same way, it can be said that every plaint a child of Mine makes is a seed of the same plaint from all My children.
Here is one plaint:
"Beloved God, I want to be beyond having to come crying to you about a momentary difficulty that repeats and repeats itself in varied forms. I want to be free of difficulties. I want to be free. Grant me freedom, God.
"I hesitate to ask you for freedom from the past. I want to keep my memory and yet see in a new light. God, give me new ways of seeing. Give me, please, Bright Light, and the Gift of Permanence. May I once and for all see through Your eyes.
"There are dozens of talents and skills and also material things in the world that it feels urgent to me to change. For one, I want to talk less and listen more. I used to be so quiet. I don't want to ever be so quiet again nor do I want to ever again be a Chatty Cathy who babbles endlessly.
"Sometimes I think that energy is the Secret of Life. Please grant me more energy. To think of leaping out of bed, raring to go. To think of never being exhausted, yet going to sleep at night gladly and easily.
"I could go on and on.
"What I really really want to be is a different person from what I am right now. I want to be easy-going in life at the same as I am ambitious and focused and hardworking.
"God, I get that You see higher than I do. Do You also desire the same desires for me and all Your children that we desire for ourselves?"
Dear Ones, We desire the same big picture. Not necessarily the same details.
Change is good, yet you don’t have to be a different person. You are still you yet ever-growing. Of course, from a deeper Reality, you and I are One.
In the world as it appears to be, you are to love yourself before you can love your neighbor as you were born to. You see it that you have a long road to go, and you fear that you may never get there.
You may find that you spent this whole lifetime wanting to love yourself more, and you haven't made it. Is this true that you do not wholly love yourself yet let alone others?
In attachment you may excel. In love for all, you struggle. You may well have been brought up with selfishness as your model. You may feel that all the time in the world will not be enough. You forget that time does not really exist, not one second of it.
You forget you live in Infinity where you are already Self-Realized.
I remind you again that the Enlightenedness that you desire is not something you do. You already ARE. A light-bulb will go on, and you will see what has been true all along. You may be the last to know, yet you will come to know that you are Bright Shining Love along with everyone else. It's like you have been chasing your own tail all along.
You have always been enlightened. Enlightenment is not an achievement. It is given to you. One day you will know this for a certainty. How about today?

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Heavenletter #5902 What Gives You Even a Little Happiness?, January 21, 2017

God said:
I say: "Peace unto you," yet you have not peace.
You may have turmoil instead. Something has to give. Perhaps your holding onto your being right has to give.
What is so marvelous about being right? Do you really have to be acknowledged as the winner? How does being right serve? Much of the time, being right serves your ego. Hmm, egos have been well-served enough to last a lifetime.
When you claim you are right, what are you doing? Now, hear Me, you may indeed be right. And there are times you have a responsibility to claim this. This is understood. You do not have to deny Truth. Say your Truth, and be done.
When you get entangled in a dispute over who is right and who is mistaken, you are jousting. Really, you are in a tug of war, and you want vindication. At such times, you can know that your siren of ego has gone off full-blast. Pause, beloveds. Stay at the side of the road until the emergency is over. Stay away from redemption, revenge, and reliving dire deeds of the past.
No one, no one, has the right, to injure your child, for example. Defend your child with all your might with My Blessings.
Before the die is cast is one thing. After a deed is done is another.
When someone has already injured your child, whether by accident or malice, now you have to unwrap yourself from the offender. When you, yourself, hold a lower vibration, you perpetuate hardness of heart which you pass on to the world.
Let go of injustice, beloveds. You can't hold on to it. You do a disservice for all concerned and even to all who are not concerned when you do not let injustice go.
Forgiveness is a word often misunderstood. To forgive means you have further understanding to gain so that you can remove your mental hands from the one who committed a grave offense. More power to you when you can let go of even the one who, innocently or deliberately, committed a grave offense or, even a smaller offense against your ego. Any sense of offense has to be let go of. Immeasurable is a sense of offense. In Truth, you own nothing and cannot lose what you do not own. You have no right to hold another accountable. You have to let go of your sense of blame. You have to forgive yourself for holding on tight to what another human being may have inflicted.
It is folly to engage in mental leger demain activities with someone you declare is your foe. It is not wise for you to simmer. Never will you forget the loss, yet you must let the marauder go rather than to continually suffer under his misdeed. Neither he nor you can undo it. What you can do is unwind the coils of the past that have become your constant reminder and let go of the weight and drop the reins. Unless you move on, you are on a perpetual water wheel that you not must leave.
What can you do today that will give you even a modicum of joy? Perhaps a walk. Perhaps pick some apples. Make a pie for someone and deliver it.
Smile at someone so he or she will have had a smile from someone on this day.
The little joys are for you. Maybe there is something you used to like to do, maybe paint, take photos, knit or crochet, polish your car. It doesn't matter what. Just try your hand at retrieving some joy so your thoughts can move to the present. Think of something. Think of anything you might like to do even a little bit, and then do it.
Know I brace and embrace you.

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Heavenletter #5900 Herein Lies the Major Key to Happiness, January 19, 2017

God said:
If there were only One Key to Life, what might it be?
Aha, fortunately, there is more than One Key to Life. Whatever is important to you as an individual belongs on your list. Little by little, you may choose to cross off some suggestions from your list and add a few others.
It is understandable how money would feature on your list. Everyone knows that Life on the surface is easier when you have money in your pocket. At the same time, everyone knows – at least in theory – that money doesn't buy happiness or True Love.
Good health – everyone wants it and deserves to have it. On the surface, no one would ever desire poor health. I say on the surface because, deep down, sometimes, consciously unaware, someone carrying an illness may need this illness for one hidden reason or another. He may hang on to it, and, still, he is innocent.
It is also true that good health doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Plenty of people in excellent health are not appreciative of their excellent health while they have it.
Individual Love also has brought pain and sorrow, for attachment often masquerades as Love. Attachment disappoints all right.
Creativity is great happiness, yet even the most accomplished creative human Beings who have great joy in creating may often be great sufferers as well.
Is there no One Key that lasts a lifetime for everyone?
We know that expectation and interpretation can be deal-breakers. You do your best, yet one bug-a-boo is expectation, and another is interpretation.
You are wise to anticipate what you want and not be so quick to disapprove of what you get. At the same time, even all the Good Will in the world does not necesssarily bear the sweet fruit you seek.
How can it be that love and joy of life are so elusive? What kind of Boot Camp is Life anyway?
Yet happiness is always possible. Love is always possible. Health is always possible, and, I, God, am far more than a someday once-in-a-while possibility.
Wisdom and awareness of happiness are always available. If available, why, then, isn't everyone perfectly happy every moment?
Why aren't you, My dear friends, open to receiving happiness at every turn? Why would your happiness depend so much upon the outer twists and turns in life? Even Princes and Princesses are not happy all the time. The fact that Life on Earth is built in with opposites adds to the mix.
You would claim Eternal Happiness right now if only you knew how.
The Reality of Soul is happiness even as you seek it. Of course, you desire Peaks of Happiness.
When a young child and a great Old Master paint, both know happiness yet are not thinking of their happiness while they are in the state of happiness. You experience happiness. When you start to observe your happiness, it's not quite the same. What was once great happiness, now in retrospect, may hurt, for now peak happiness is no longer to be found
Pockets of happiness come to you from the outside, yet these pockets arrive in spurts. Something within you knows that happiness in Life goes far deeper than what occurs on the surface of Life. Here's the thing – happiness is found within you.
The Major Key to Life is you. Within you is the Key. Within you is Everything. And, of course, I too am within you, and I offer Myself to you. Find Me. Find Me now. Inevitably, hand in hand, We are Joy to the World.

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Heavenletter #5901 How About Today?, January 20, 2017

God said:
What if you would see the world from love?
What would you see?
What if you could see into hearts from your own heart?
What if you could really see as I do see?
You would favor all.
You would bless all.
You would make a difference in everyone’s life.
You would shine light like a thousand stars.
You would pick everyone up and brush them off.
Heavenletter #5258 Like a Thousand Stars
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Today you see I have begun this Heavenletter with a quotatation of Mine. Every Heavenletter, every sentence, every word plants a seed. It could be said that every Heavenletter contains seeds of every other Heavenletter.
In the same way, it can be said that every plaint a child of Mine makes is a seed of the same plaint from all My children.
Here is one plaint:
"Beloved God, I want to be beyond having to come crying to you about a momentary difficulty that repeats and repeats itself in varied forms. I want to be free of difficulties. I want to be free. Grant me freedom, God.
"I hesitate to ask you for freedom from the past. I want to keep my memory and yet see in a new light. God, give me new ways of seeing. Give me, please, Bright Light, and the Gift of Permanence. May I once and for all see through Your eyes.
"There are dozens of talents and skills and also material things in the world that it feels urgent to me to change. For one, I want to talk less and listen more. I used to be so quiet. I don't want to ever be so quiet again nor do I want to ever again be a Chatty Cathy who babbles endlessly.
"Sometimes I think that energy is the Secret of Life. Please grant me more energy. To think of leaping out of bed, raring to go. To think of never being exhausted, yet going to sleep at night gladly and easily.
"I could go on and on.
"What I really really want to be is a different person from what I am right now. I want to be easy-going in life at the same as I am ambitious and focused and hardworking.
"God, I get that You see higher than I do. Do You also desire the same desires for me and all Your children that we desire for ourselves?"
Dear Ones, We desire the same big picture. Not necessarily the same details.
Change is good, yet you don’t have to be a different person. You are still you yet ever-growing. Of course, from a deeper Reality, you and I are One.
In the world as it appears to be, you are to love yourself before you can love your neighbor as you were born to. You see it that you have a long road to go, and you fear that you may never get there.
You may find that you spent this whole lifetime wanting to love yourself more, and you haven't made it. Is this true that you do not wholly love yourself yet let alone others?
In attachment you may excel. In love for all, you struggle. You may well have been brought up with selfishness as your model. You may feel that all the time in the world will not be enough. You forget that time does not really exist, not one second of it.
You forget you live in Infinity where you are already Self-Realized.
I remind you again that the Enlightenedness that you desire is not something you do. You already ARE. A light-bulb will go on, and you will see what has been true all along. You may be the last to know, yet you will come to know that you are Bright Shining Love along with everyone else. It's like you have been chasing your own tail all along.
You have always been enlightened. Enlightenment is not an achievement. It is given to you. One day you will know this for a certainty. How about today?

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Heavenletter #5899 The Need to Be Heard and the Art of Listening, January 18, 2017

God said:
In terms of the world, there are at least two parties who communicate. One is called the speaker, and the other is called the listener. True conversation is a beautiful tango. One leads, one follows. They both lead. They both follow. The listener really listens, doesn't interrupt, listens deeply until it’s his turn. Then there is role-reversal. Good speaker becomes good listener. There is no infringing. Each role is priceless.
It is hard for some people to express what they really want to express. For others, it is easier to speak than to listen. Speaker and listener are both essential. Without speaking and listening, where can communion lie?
If you are the listener at a particular moment, you may just be waiting for your turn to talk. Waiting eagerly to speak your heart isn't listening. It is counting the seconds until it is your turn.
For the want of listening, friendships have been given up.
One or the other, or both parties, shrug their shoulders and think: "He doesn't give a hoot. Why should I care?"
Friendships are broken. Wars start. All from an inability to listen. Sides are taken. There becomes a need not to listen as if listening were weakness.
Listening is a great skill. It is necessary for survival.
Goodness knows, you don't want someone to butter you up, nor do you want to pretend any more than you want to be pretended to. You want to understand, and you want to be understood. How important it is to be heard, and how important it is to hear.
To listen is not weakness. We could more wisely say that listening is strength too often unused whereas the need to be heard is Gargantuan and as deep as hunger. Somehow a need to be in charge too often surfaces and takes over. There is some kind of weak-kneed requirement to be right, even at all costs.
Beloveds, is it hard to understand and say: "I understand what you are saying.”
What's so hard about saying you're sorry? And what is so wonderful about being right? What is so wonderful about winning an argument? What have you won? You and your so-called opponent both win when an argument has cleared itself!
When there is honest talk right along, where would an opponent come from? False agreement later plays a part in resentment. Maybe you say nothing in order to acquiesce. Maybe you have not represented yourself right along. Maybe you gave your rights away, and, so, you have affronted yourself. Maybe you had such a need to be loved, a voice within you whispered inside yourself: "I will be the most giving person in the world. I will build our friendship at my own expense."
You want to be seen as a good guy and thus, perhaps, the fairest of all.
It is possible that you pay too much for too little, and you begin to see that you have been overpaying for favors. You made yourself small rather than great. Perhaps you started off from pretense. The false position is that you are not worth much. I say otherwise.
Dear Ones, you exist, and it is not a favor to the world or to anyone including you or your friend to negate your own self-worth.
Remember My request. My request is that you represent Me in all interactions. I am strong, dear ones. That I am humble does not mean I am an appeaser. That I am without ego doesn't mean I am a push-over.
I have nothing to prove. Nor do you. You are made in My Image. I am forthright. I don't make bargains. I do not trade. I do not give up Truth in order to gain something else. I certainly don't downplay Myself.
That I suggest you say Yes readily and more often doesn't mean you are a pawn who erases himself.
Remember, you represent Me. You are not to give your birthright away. I am the Way.

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Heavenletter #5900 Herein Lies the Major Key to Happiness, January 19, 2017

God said:
If there were only One Key to Life, what might it be?
Aha, fortunately, there is more than One Key to Life. Whatever is important to you as an individual belongs on your list. Little by little, you may choose to cross off some suggestions from your list and add a few others.
It is understandable how money would feature on your list. Everyone knows that Life on the surface is easier when you have money in your pocket. At the same time, everyone knows – at least in theory – that money doesn't buy happiness or True Love.
Good health – everyone wants it and deserves to have it. On the surface, no one would ever desire poor health. I say on the surface because, deep down, sometimes, consciously unaware, someone carrying an illness may need this illness for one hidden reason or another. He may hang on to it, and, still, he is innocent.
It is also true that good health doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Plenty of people in excellent health are not appreciative of their excellent health while they have it.
Individual Love also has brought pain and sorrow, for attachment often masquerades as Love. Attachment disappoints all right.
Creativity is great happiness, yet even the most accomplished creative human Beings who have great joy in creating may often be great sufferers as well.
Is there no One Key that lasts a lifetime for everyone?
We know that expectation and interpretation can be deal-breakers. You do your best, yet one bug-a-boo is expectation, and another is interpretation.
You are wise to anticipate what you want and not be so quick to disapprove of what you get. At the same time, even all the Good Will in the world does not necesssarily bear the sweet fruit you seek.
How can it be that love and joy of life are so elusive? What kind of Boot Camp is Life anyway?
Yet happiness is always possible. Love is always possible. Health is always possible, and, I, God, am far more than a someday once-in-a-while possibility.
Wisdom and awareness of happiness are always available. If available, why, then, isn't everyone perfectly happy every moment?
Why aren't you, My dear friends, open to receiving happiness at every turn? Why would your happiness depend so much upon the outer twists and turns in life? Even Princes and Princesses are not happy all the time. The fact that Life on Earth is built in with opposites adds to the mix.
You would claim Eternal Happiness right now if only you knew how.
The Reality of Soul is happiness even as you seek it. Of course, you desire Peaks of Happiness.
When a young child and a great Old Master paint, both know happiness yet are not thinking of their happiness while they are in the state of happiness. You experience happiness. When you start to observe your happiness, it's not quite the same. What was once great happiness, now in retrospect, may hurt, for now peak happiness is no longer to be found
Pockets of happiness come to you from the outside, yet these pockets arrive in spurts. Something within you knows that happiness in Life goes far deeper than what occurs on the surface of Life. Here's the thing – happiness is found within you.
The Major Key to Life is you. Within you is the Key. Within you is Everything. And, of course, I too am within you, and I offer Myself to you. Find Me. Find Me now. Inevitably, hand in hand, We are Joy to the World.

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Heavenletter #5897 You Don’t Know What Lies Before You or When, January 16, 2017

God said:
Just what is it that you fear you are missing from life? What perceived lack of Love of Life plagues you? What seems to keep happiness at a standstill from you?
How you wish you were one of those happy people who get along with life and their wives. Some people really seem to love. They know how to continue to love the same person with all their heart year after year. They love for the long haul whereas your heart seems to sink and let you down. Your heart just can't seem to sustain itself.
All the love that Earth hands to you, sooner or later, fizzles out. Maybe it is that some people have a knack for keeping love warm while others simply don't know how to keep the home fires burning. The flame goes out. Love goes downhill.
You don't want love to cool down, yet, your love life let you down, or it's you that lets love down. Surely, so far, every time, you strike out when it comes to love. You once were sure each time that your love this time would last forever.
Some people's love stays steady. It is everything to them to give happiness, and their hearts go full steam ahead whereas your feelings of love go kaput. Your love turns sour, and bitterness becomes what's left of your once great love. You are unable to rekindle it.
You have observed some people whose love was not a grand flame, and yet their love grew. They learned to love. Their love grew, and, in old age, they hold hands and are precious to each other. They never became spitfires.
You would give a lot to know how to sustain love. What do others have that you don't? Of course, many over the years belong in your ranks. This is no comfort to you at all.
Stay or leave, you come to another slim chance with your eyes downcast.
Life should not be so hard.
You would love to share unwavering love, yet this has not been your fortune. You wonder why.
Not so far have you continued love. Love dwindles and then dies right in front of you.
If you had been different, or the other had been different, your life would have been different. Sustained love was not yours to be. Sweet milk turned sour. Now you cannot even blind yourself for one moment.
Whatever chances you may have had for True Love went out the window.
Your heart knew love as no more than false promise.
Anyway, had you had a love that lasted, the death of one of you would have rendered one of you bereft. In the end, what does it matter? Life always comes out in the wash. Sorry to say, what once was is no longer.
Who would have believed that the idealist you once were would become such a pessimist? You would not have believed it, yet here you are with a bitter taste in your mouth.
Now you ask for so little but to see a sunset that buoys your heart. You don't ask for more any longer. You know that the most beautiful sunset does not last, yet you will keep your eyes on this momentary sunset for as long as it lasts. In terms of this juncture in life, a sunset serves.
Nevertheless, you don't know what the next sunrise will hold for you. Yet first you must be awake in order to see the sunrise and walk toward it.
Let Us mend your heart, and let bygones be bygones. Disappointments don’t have to be a blight on your life. Life does indeed offer you life. It does not have to be the life you once predicted. What you can say for yourself is that you took your chances, and you lived your life, and there is more to come. You may not know yet what you are made of and what beauty lies before you or when.

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Heavenletter #5898 Congratulations!, January 17, 2017

God said:
Optimism is not superficial. It is not pie in the sky. It is one of the most supportive tools in life you have.
Optimism is success-oriented. It is the opposite of pessimism. Pessimism is denial of what life could offer you if you were open to it.
Pessimism, upheld as realism, is definitely playing the odds that you see for yourself as not so hotsy-totsy. Odds are often not good, yet where is it written that life must be made up of playing only fabulous odds? In this way, you may well keep great opportunity away from you. Don't count yourself out so easily.
You may think you are super-intelligent to point out to yourself and to others how unlikely the chances may be of hitting your target. What do you care if you have a one in a thousand chances to win when you win? For sure, if you don't go for it, you won't win.
Let's consider for a moment that in having the courage to go for what you want regardless of the odds in or out of your favor, you are stirring nature. You give life an opportunity.
If you give up on yourself beforehand, you set a low vibration for achieving. If you have an idea to start a business, let's say, and everyone in the world says your idea will never work, and you give up on your idea, what are the odds of achieving your dream? They are nil.
This happens every day. Someone listens to someone else, and gives up his dream.
It also happens that someone who doesn't listen to what other knowledgeable people say may succeed amazingly. The dreamer proved true, and the critic, no matter how good his advice was, was mistaken.
A safe bet is not all there is. Nor do safe bets always win.
A defeated attitude isn't likely to make dreams come true. There is much in the world to substantiate what I am saying to you. There are myriads of people whose dreams proved true. Alas, to think of all the good dreams that never were given a chance to grow.
Does this mean you must always invest everything into your every dream? Of course not. Yet I want to tell you that a lot depends upon your dream and your mettle over what other people say.
Did everyone believe in flight and believe the Wright Brothers could do it? Not at all. And if these two brothers had not brought airplanes to the world, someone else would have, yet they played their part, and it can be said that they won. Look what happened because they followed their dream.
Who believed in Einstein? He didn't even talk until he was six. Fortunately for him and for the world, Einstein stuck to his guns. He never consulted with others for permission to go ahead and think as he did think.
Careers, as well as businesses, put together by skilled people, can also show that success odds do not always win. Beginners also do not always win. You've heard, for instances, about Abraham Lincoln who lost many elections before he won one.
Whoever discovered how to get a fire going from scratch -- we don’t know how many times he tried before he made fire. This is the same as to say, he didn’t give up too soon.
Dare once in a while. Yes, We are speaking of possibilities. How much does an idea mean to you, really mean to your heart? It doesn’t have to mean everything to you, yet, when it does, why not give your idea a chance to be born? Not from ego-gratification but from the insistence of the idea itself.
So what if you don’t succeed? You took a stand. You gave it all you could give. Congratulations!
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Heavenletter #5896 Awaken to Your Own Glory, January 15, 2017

God said:
Know your own significance. You are valuable. You are entitled.
You don't have to tiptoe around yourself. Have no worries about disturbing world beliefs for others. Who has the right to take away even 1/8th inch of what is meaningful to you? You are the decider of what is worthwhile to you. No one is to repress what is vital to you.
Next week, you may find yourself drawn to something else. Who says you must stay with something all your life? If you are drawn to something all your life, you are drawn to it. If something new pulls you, then something new pulls you. Your heart is your enabler. No one has the right to decide your path or paths for you. Only you. You are the one who leads your life.
You may not always feel self-propelling. Sometimes, Life itself seems to pick you up, toss you up in the air, and where you land – there you are -- perhaps a great surprise to you!
One way or another, your destiny will find you. Or it will not. If not, be your own self-mover. Do hand-stands if you have to find your way in the mist.
Your life belongs to you, and your life belongs to Me. The long and the short of it -- in the final analysis of your life – I am your Destiny. You will knowingly wind up with Me. We are pinned together. Our connection is secure. There is never a time Our connection is not. From a human point of view, you may resist knowing Our Connection, yet this is to no avail. We are Forever One.
It has always been a mystery to me why anyone would prefer the world to be without Me or a concept of God, as if such a state would somehow do honor to you and the world. In any case, a world without Me is never going to happen. Don't even think of it. You don't want to parade around with that idea. Why, oh, why would you want to?
Now, what is the past and no longer the present, let it be. You are coming into your own. You are rising faster and faster. Hold on to your hat.
There is a good deal in store for you. Your desires are warming up. Your desires are on their way to you lickety-split -– your desires and how you will fulfill them. Beloveds, you are going to be rich with desires. Yes, desire desires. And you are going to be rich with fulfillment of your desires. Within is the way to your desires and to the fulfillment of your desires. This is the way.
Every day starts up your life. And there is more to come. There is evermore to come.
What is there to add to the subject of this Heavenletter? Certainly, congratulations. Congratulate yourself, for you chose to come to Earth to fulfill Our desires for overwhelming Unity and the opening of Divine Life for everyone.
You are here for something, not for nothing.
If you have imagined that Earth is a wasteland, imagine differently now. Earth Life is an awakening. You are awakening to Glory. You are here to wake up. You have joined a Great Group of Oneness. You reach high. You may stand on tip-toe. Nevertheless, you reach high. Keep reaching. Keep climbing.
Believe in the Originality and Validity of your Self, and believe in the Originality and Validity of every seeming other in the world, for they are you as well. Give everyone, including yourself, a break. A break from what? A break from "having to be as the world supposes you ought to be,” as if they knew, and you didn’t.
Now breathe fresh air.

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Heavenletter #5897 You Don’t Know What Lies Before You or When, January 16, 2017

God said:
Just what is it that you fear you are missing from life? What perceived lack of Love of Life plagues you? What seems to keep happiness at a standstill from you?
How you wish you were one of those happy people who get along with life and their wives. Some people really seem to love. They know how to continue to love the same person with all their heart year after year. They love for the long haul whereas your heart seems to sink and let you down. Your heart just can't seem to sustain itself.
All the love that Earth hands to you, sooner or later, fizzles out. Maybe it is that some people have a knack for keeping love warm while others simply don't know how to keep the home fires burning. The flame goes out. Love goes downhill.
You don't want love to cool down, yet, your love life let you down, or it's you that lets love down. Surely, so far, every time, you strike out when it comes to love. You once were sure each time that your love this time would last forever.
Some people's love stays steady. It is everything to them to give happiness, and their hearts go full steam ahead whereas your feelings of love go kaput. Your love turns sour, and bitterness becomes what's left of your once great love. You are unable to rekindle it.
You have observed some people whose love was not a grand flame, and yet their love grew. They learned to love. Their love grew, and, in old age, they hold hands and are precious to each other. They never became spitfires.
You would give a lot to know how to sustain love. What do others have that you don't? Of course, many over the years belong in your ranks. This is no comfort to you at all.
Stay or leave, you come to another slim chance with your eyes downcast.
Life should not be so hard.
You would love to share unwavering love, yet this has not been your fortune. You wonder why.
Not so far have you continued love. Love dwindles and then dies right in front of you.
If you had been different, or the other had been different, your life would have been different. Sustained love was not yours to be. Sweet milk turned sour. Now you cannot even blind yourself for one moment.
Whatever chances you may have had for True Love went out the window.
Your heart knew love as no more than false promise.
Anyway, had you had a love that lasted, the death of one of you would have rendered one of you bereft. In the end, what does it matter? Life always comes out in the wash. Sorry to say, what once was is no longer.
Who would have believed that the idealist you once were would become such a pessimist? You would not have believed it, yet here you are with a bitter taste in your mouth.
Now you ask for so little but to see a sunset that buoys your heart. You don't ask for more any longer. You know that the most beautiful sunset does not last, yet you will keep your eyes on this momentary sunset for as long as it lasts. In terms of this juncture in life, a sunset serves.
Nevertheless, you don't know what the next sunrise will hold for you. Yet first you must be awake in order to see the sunrise and walk toward it.
Let Us mend your heart, and let bygones be bygones. Disappointments don’t have to be a blight on your life. Life does indeed offer you life. It does not have to be the life you once predicted. What you can say for yourself is that you took your chances, and you lived your life, and there is more to come. You may not know yet what you are made of and what beauty lies before you or when.

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Heavenletter #5896 Awaken to Your Own Glory, January 15, 2017

God said:
Know your own significance. You are valuable. You are entitled.
You don't have to tiptoe around yourself. Have no worries about disturbing world beliefs for others. Who has the right to take away even 1/8th inch of what is meaningful to you? You are the decider of what is worthwhile to you. No one is to repress what is vital to you.
Next week, you may find yourself drawn to something else. Who says you must stay with something all your life? If you are drawn to something all your life, you are drawn to it. If something new pulls you, then something new pulls you. Your heart is your enabler. No one has the right to decide your path or paths for you. Only you. You are the one who leads your life.
You may not always feel self-propelling. Sometimes, Life itself seems to pick you up, toss you up in the air, and where you land – there you are -- perhaps a great surprise to you!
One way or another, your destiny will find you. Or it will not. If not, be your own self-mover. Do hand-stands if you have to find your way in the mist.
Your life belongs to you, and your life belongs to Me. The long and the short of it -- in the final analysis of your life – I am your Destiny. You will knowingly wind up with Me. We are pinned together. Our connection is secure. There is never a time Our connection is not. From a human point of view, you may resist knowing Our Connection, yet this is to no avail. We are Forever One.
It has always been a mystery to me why anyone would prefer the world to be without Me or a concept of God, as if such a state would somehow do honor to you and the world. In any case, a world without Me is never going to happen. Don't even think of it. You don't want to parade around with that idea. Why, oh, why would you want to?
Now, what is the past and no longer the present, let it be. You are coming into your own. You are rising faster and faster. Hold on to your hat.
There is a good deal in store for you. Your desires are warming up. Your desires are on their way to you lickety-split -– your desires and how you will fulfill them. Beloveds, you are going to be rich with desires. Yes, desire desires. And you are going to be rich with fulfillment of your desires. Within is the way to your desires and to the fulfillment of your desires. This is the way.
Every day starts up your life. And there is more to come. There is evermore to come.
What is there to add to the subject of this Heavenletter? Certainly, congratulations. Congratulate yourself, for you chose to come to Earth to fulfill Our desires for overwhelming Unity and the opening of Divine Life for everyone.
You are here for something, not for nothing.
If you have imagined that Earth is a wasteland, imagine differently now. Earth Life is an awakening. You are awakening to Glory. You are here to wake up. You have joined a Great Group of Oneness. You reach high. You may stand on tip-toe. Nevertheless, you reach high. Keep reaching. Keep climbing.
Believe in the Originality and Validity of your Self, and believe in the Originality and Validity of every seeming other in the world, for they are you as well. Give everyone, including yourself, a break. A break from what? A break from "having to be as the world supposes you ought to be,” as if they knew, and you didn’t.
Now breathe fresh air.

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Heavenletter #5895 No Joy Is Too Small, January 14, 2017

God said:
When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself:
"What can I think of to do today that will bring me even a little joy?"
It's also fine to ask:
"What can I think of to do today that will bring a little joy to the world?"
Basically, the answers to two questions are the same.
Even if what will bring you joy today is a manicure, this is good. You may think a manicure is superficial and couldn't help the world. Just think what the world would be like if everyone who wanted a manicure today got one. Or a massage. Or a sauna. Joy is joy!
It is perfectly fine to find joy where you find it. Start with small-sized bites. No joy is too small. One joy will grow to another.
Let Me backtrack a bit now. If what is joy for you could cause a slight or pain to another, naturally, this does not qualify as a joy for you to take. To take advantage of another in any way, of course, does not qualify. It is not that anything goes.
At the same time, the joy that life today can give you does not have to be on the scale of saving the world. Nor does your joy for today have to be thoroughly magnanimous either. Personal joy is also joy. Start here.
Your joy could be picking a flower. An added joy could be for you to give that flower to someone whose face will light up because you offered a flower. Of course, the joy of lifting someone else's Life is great for you as well.
Of course, your gift could be the joy of mowing your neighbor's yard. It could also be the joy of hiring someone to mow your own yard! Nothing wrong with that.
So far as I know, everyone's Life can use a lift, too. Consider that, as you go, so goes the world. The happier you are, the happier is the world. There is no way that even your most infinitesimal joy overlooks its blessing to the world.
When your joy goes up even one percent, you are giving the world a boost.
It is of the utmost importance that you slide over to sit with joy.
You may have had more than enough pain to last a lifetime. Take a path of joy now. Joy has been waiting for you for a long time.
Joy is your sustenance. Be on the look-out for joy. Do this. At the same time, make your joy happen. You are not waiting for a hand-out. Joy is your birth right. You are supposed to have it.
There is no joy that is too big for you, yet it is not for you to hold out your hand only for big joy. Batches of little joy do well for you and the Universe.
Ego fulfillment, at best, is a momentary joy. Soon or late, ego leads to let-down.
Come to think of it, joy does not have to reach you in a certain dosage. Joy isn't high and mighty.
The sight of a baby's foot can give you joy.
Joy received is the same as joy given.
Do that which gives you joy.
Joy does not have to send you to the moon.
Quiet joy is good.
Note your joy. Note your joys.
Become the joy you give and receive. Be a joy-receiver. Be a joy-giver. Originate joy. Carry joy with you. Radiate joy. Blossom joy.
Never be without it. Go out into this world and have fun. You are here on Earth for joy.
When you enter a room, be joyful.
Be joyful right now as We speak.
It is your turn for joy at every turn.
Be the joy.

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Heavenletter #5894 Are You Alice Looking through the Looking-Glass?, January 13, 2017

God said:
It's really true that every day is a day of new birth. Each day is a renewal. Cells replace themselves. You may have a new thought or two. You do something differently. No human being today is the same as yesterday, and tomorrow you will grow more. You have no say about this, you understand.
No need to think of this as aging. Physical changes are more like the changing of the guard. Physical changes are an appearance, yet, of course, Earth Life itself is altogether illusory.
What an advertisement Life on Earth is. Life on Earth goes all out. You give it your everything, and all the while, it is a group fantasy, somewhat like the game of Telephone where everyone speaks hurriedly and no one hears quite the same words, and, so, conversation is garbled. It is a fact that everyone hears his own version of life.
Life is certainly an interesting matter. Life is like a run-on sentence. There is no end to Life, no matter what transition you are going through. Life is the topic that happens to be before you in all kinds of amazing colors. Indeed, Life is a piece of work. What storytelling you live amidst! Life is a Master of Tales. Life is a run-on story, a story that goes over hill and dale, reaches high in the sky, and also goes under arches and underground as well. There is nothing on TV or in the best novel that beats the Circuitry of Life. Fiction does do a good job, mind you. Fiction gets your mind off your Life that sometimes seem to you to not be quite good enough.
Wherein hangs the tale?
Life is an ongoing story. You may feel at a loss, yet you are on a precise page, and tomorrow, you will be on another page. You will be on the next page, and sometimes you seem to wake up in the middle of a new chapter.
What you do know is that Life will surprise you. It will surprise you with treasures, and the same Life will also give you jolts.
Life may skip along fast. You simply are on the page you are on. It is as if you ride an escalator, and it seems that there is no getting off. Once you are in Life, there you are, and Life takes you back and forth and around the bend.
Sometimes you don't have a clue as to where you are. You are not even sure that you are. Sometimes you feel invisible and unknown to yourself. Or did you make yourself up all together? Or were you picked up and set down somewhere in a strange world beyond your ken?
What is the deal anyway?
Perhaps you were assigned somewhere. Perhaps a clerical error was made. You cannot figure out for the life of you how you got here or what you are supposed to be doing here, or, if you are really here.
You are in a dream that some day you will wake up from.
Of course, despite your caterwauling, you do love a mystery. You think you might turn in your Life for another's, yet, if you could, you might find you are still looking at the Candy Store of Life through a window. You are Alice looking through the looking glass, and all you do is look at Life and never quite become at home in it.
You are in transit. You are not allowed to stay still, so it seems. You are ever-still and ever-moving all in the same ballgame.
What an utterly perplexing thing is Life, as you are caught up in it and also as you are so far away from it. You're not sure that Life is even a journey. Maybe you are just reading a journal. Maybe you are just assuming someone else's identity anyway, and you don't even know whose. All you can think is that Life somehow isn't your own. Perhaps borrowed for a while. Nonrefundable this time around.

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Heavenletter #5893 Time Used to Be More Intimate with the Stars, January 12, 2017

God said:
All the difficulties that would be unknown were it not for time in the world. What an impasse time is. What havoc time incurs.
Without time, what would interrupt your peace? What would hurry you? What would make you harried?
What could you be too early for or too late? Everything would be now. What a blessing that would be.
On the other hand, in terms of the relative world, time serves a purpose. Without the world as fast-paced as you know it, how could trains run on time and school get out on time?
Alas, there is a sense in which time – this fictional time – runs the world. When there is a top layer of time in the world, the world kinda has to go by it.
Yet it would be such a blessing for the world to be not in the grasp of time.
Without time, who would eat in a hurry? Who would have indigestion? Who would have to slow down or hurry up?
Who would be a slow learner or fast learner? Without time, would such a judgment call even exist?
Without the firm illusion of time, where would haste or waste exist?
If you lived way back in primitive times, the sun would nudge you awake, and when the sun set, your eyes would close. You would be so close to nature. Ah, you may find yourself longing for such days, unhampered by all the paraphernalia of modern life.
Yet, you are rather accustomed to being hooked up to electricity. Of course, cleaning your house is a lot of trouble. You have to dust and vacuum, and you might rather be doing something else.
There is a lot that can be said for having a tepee you pick up and take along with you wherever you wish to move. Today it is a sought-off pleasure for many to go camping in the woods and to fish at a stream. Now there are more decisions to be made. No longer can you just roll out of bed, and that's it.
Of course, time was nevertheless told in those days, only time was intimate with nature. The sun and the stars told time. The seasons told time. There was weather then too, including inclement weather.
There may still be a yearning for life as it once was. It's true that all the amenities hold you back at the very moment they move you forward. It seems that you are less integral to your life, that life is more out of your hands.
In those long-ago days when life was more yours, looking back, freedom was more yours. Ah, the days by the open fires and sleeping under the stars. How dependent upon forces outside of you are you now, and so many of these of these forces are man-made and imposed on you.
At the same time, what would you do without books today? And for many, what would you do without TV and computers? What once did not exist may be all-important to you now. Cars of course. Public transportation. Speed faster than the wind.
Choices are greater today.
Yet is not everything part blessing and part encumbrance?
Is the world you are born into the whole making of you?
You yourself are a great deal of the making of you, and, yes, the environment – the times – you are born to play a significant part. Time certainly seems real, and, certainly, time strongly seems to march on.
And yet I say you live in Infinity which is Timelessness.
What is a Human Being to do? What are you to think? What is the course of your life to be? How do We make you count, most especially to yourself?
When Infinity and Oneness are, and time is illusory, how can non-existent time be such a power as it is thought to be? Yet it is.

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Heavenletter #5892 Collector of Undone Deeds, January 11, 2017

God said:
There are loved ones you care about who drive you up the wall, is this not so? If you didn’t care deeply and hold a vested interest, it’s possible they wouldn't drive you up the wall. You may see their repetitive behavior as self-destructive, and yet you have heard Me say to keep your hands off. You don’t know if you are capable of being silent.
Let Us say that your husband is a master procrastinator. To almost everything you may say or request, his refrain seems to be:
"Not now," or, "Later." And later is later and later.
It is as if your husband is a collector of undone deeds. You are not talking about his mowing the yard. He could be out of work, and you may be concerned about his getting off the couch and looking for work. You are so worried.
You understand what I mean when I say to let him be. You know that reminding him that time is wasting doesn't help either you or him. That's just it – nothing seems to help.
You are not someone who can just sit on your hands. You can’t possibly smile and pretend that everything is all right. Has your husband given up? Is he wasting his life? Is he possibly ill? You have worry on top of worry.
The fact, so far as you can see, is that his joy in life lies lounging on the couch, watching TV and letting life slide.
His reactions are hard for you to take. Somehow, you and your husband have become opponents.
You are incapable of letting this go on forever. How can you step out of the fray to pretend all is well when it feels to you that his life – and, therefore yours – is collapsing?
You realize that confrontation with your husband isn't working, and yet you are incapable of sitting on your hands and doing nothing. What is to be done? You wonder if he needs to go to a counselor. You don’t know how to get him there and what to do.
My dear, if your plaints and suggestions do not work, and your husband is resenting you when you try to talk some sense into him -- you have to find another way.
I understand that you are at your wits' end. It does seem like you have to somehow remove yourself from nagging and get off his back, doesn’t it? If you agree that you must focus on other matters that are more in your domain, if you have to get your mind off his responsibilities, and you must release your husband to take care of his own life, no matter how this panics you, well, then, you must give this a shot.
It's possible, as you withdraw from emphasis on what amounts to someone else's life – with the outside pressure off him -- perhaps he can begin to raise his head and not retract so from life.
From his point of view, you have to focus more on your life, and that is what I think, too. You have facts of your own to face, dear one. You too may be stuck, not in lethargy, but in action.
With all love, I tell you that there are changes to make within yourself. Taking your hands off doesn't mean you don't care or are pretending not to care. This is a way of caring that supports your husband in a way he can handle.
When you change the way you move in the world, your husband may see himself more clearly and not balk so much.
Beloved, your releasing your husband to himself may be just what helps him now. He needs his space, and you need yours.
Your hands off can be a remarkable relief for both of you. Take this step. Look for relief soon. You will have it.
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Heavenletter #5891 There Is More to God Than a Leap of Faith., January 10, 2017

God said:
Instead of thinking: "Woe is me," begin to think in a richer way.
Think: "Joy is mine."
Think: "I am love. Love is what I am. God says so. I am here to love. May every day it become easier for me to love. It is, in fact, easy to love. What is loving but to see the Beauty of God everywhere? I understand that this is the Truth of Life. God IS everywhere. Therefore, I am the Joy of God."
Dear Children, it cannot be that I am nowhere. I exist. I have always existed. I am with you and within you. We are truthfully in Infinity together and nowhere else. No one is kept out from Infinity. Whether you are aware of this or not, this is the Truth. You have never been away from Infinity. Tell Me another story!
You are Infinity Itself! We are Infinity. We are not merely stored in Infinity, you understand. Infinity and Oneness -- what more is there to say?
Ah, but in the world, there are such words as we and them and him and her and all these precise grammatical separators in life. Strange, isn't it? Infinity isn't strange. Separateness is Great Fiction. Fiction is believed in. Belief doesn't always match with Truth. And there is much more to the Truth of Me than a Leap of Faith.
In Truth, there is no man who is a stranger to you. There is nothing you don't know. That your awareness may be submerged in a cloud of facts doesn’t mean that you are without a Great Awareness.
There are many levels you live on and within. There are many layers of awareness that are yours. If Truth were known, there is no layer of awareness that you are without.
Conscious awareness is another matter. What you already have, you don't necessarily see. That you don't see what you have doesn't mean you don't have it. We acknowledge that you don't have awareness readily handy in your change purse.
You are here on Earth to bring your deepest knowledge out into the Conscious World. You are on a Mission to Reveal to Yourself the Secrets of Life and so bless every aspect of the Universe. This is true for everyone. And everyone also holds individual purposes that may well be more down to Earth as well.
Generally speaking, you are a Divine Being on Earth given the blessing to bring the Depths up to the Surface. This is no small blessing. This is a Great Blessing. Your success is attainable. Desire to open up the Universe.
You don't achieve this by dint of Will. You invite it. This cannot be a chore or a task. It is a Realization, dear ones, and everyone, every single one of My children will reach this pinnacle. You are climbing the ladder now.
Do you believe Me when you hear Me speak this way? Do you believe me 10%? Here's the thing, dear ones. You don't have to believe Me. Believe Me or not – what you believe has no affect on the Truth. Truth is inviolable. Within Truth is where you live your Real Existence.
All the rest is no more than puttering around in life.
Somewhere within you, you are leading a very deep and fertile Life of Magnificence. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
What more would you ask for? Tell Me, would you trade the Blossoming of Your Awareness for all the diamonds and rubies on Earth, would you really?
Next to Full Awareness, everything is by no means trivial. However, in contrast, all the Treasures of the Word lack the Depth of Infinity of all that which is rising in you now.

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Heavenletter #5890 Forgiveness Is a Given. Suffering Is Not., January 9, 2017

God said:
On one hand, you don't ask enough of life. You settle for too little. On the other hand, you demand too much. You are affronted when life takes a turn you are opposed to. Every now and then, from being placid, you become ferocious and stamp your foot at life and refuse to tolerate it. You can turn on a dime, dear ones, so affected are you by what you perceive as an attack from life.
You are not always at extremes, yet at any moment, you sometimes are.
Would that you could weather storms without so much drama. If only you would.
I am not telling you that you must always placate life. You don't have to be a Yes-Man to life. On the other hand, it behooves you to know when to return to joy and let go of stamping your foot.
It really is for you to move on and to move upwards. You can leave uproar behind you. You can come to peace within yourself. You don't have to drag out emotional pain. You can have loved and lost and still go forward.
Beloveds, in the long run what choice do you have? It’s not better to profess to being long-suffering. You do better to get up from suffering sooner.
If you could cut your suffering and shorten the length of its acuteness by 10%, would this not be in everyone's best interest?
There is a misunderstanding in the world as to need for grieving and the meaning of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a given. Suffering is not. Both suffering and forgiveness are choices.
Forgiveness is not a big to-do. It is not super of you to forgive. You don't receive a medal for it. Forgiveness is something you only have to do if you have taken offense. If you did not take life so personally, so directed at you, so offensive, what would you have to forgive anyway?
With all respect for your humanness, beloveds, what good has it been for you or anyone to take life so personally? You are not here on Earth to collect offenses. If you are here on Earth to collect anything, then let's say you are to collect greater vision.
When did the Great Ones require retribution from anyone before they could love?
It is time for you to forgive yourself for making resentment yours.
Beloveds, who are you to demand the best from others and not from yourself? It is an offense toward humanity and to Me to hold anything against another. Every other is a part of you.
In a sense, everyone on Earth is a poor fool who has gone out into the world with blinders. Your saving grace is that you gain from experience. You learn where the Road to Joy is, and you take it. No longer do you stay on the the Road Where Joy Is Not.
Do you find joy in holding something against another? What crime has another committed but the crime of ignorance? And, tell Me, what is thinking that you, by a special dispensation, are a holy to forgive someone for being a human being? Do you begin to spot some arrogance here? What is arrogance anyway but a form of ego, I might ask.
When you act high and mighty, how are you blessing the world or anyone in it? Certainly you are not acting in your own best interest.
What has happened to your loving your neighbor? What has happened to loving your brothers and sisters? What has happened to loving yourself?
Forgive everyone now for everything. What else is there for you to do? C'mon, get off your high horse, and set the world free.

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Heavenletter #5888 Make Your Heart as Good as New, January 7, 2017

God said:
Your heart is your door-opener, and yet, as it is, the door of your heart also finds occasions when it closes. Please know that I understand. You have your own vision as you see it. When your heart feels trammeled, you don't know how to survive and to keep your heart stay open at the same time. It is natural and understandable for you to withdraw. It is easy to see how you feel, in effect, that you see no other choice but, perhaps on occasion, to run for your life.
Let's find a way to save your heart, your ideas, your way of being in the world, and still go forward. Where your heart gets hurt, what possibilities are there where you can get past the hurt and make your heart as good as new?
Please know I understand that there are times when you have to go a different way. Perhaps under the present circumstances, you are not heard. Your needs are not heard. If the topic at hand is your priority, of course, it is difficult for you to go on when your heart feels overlooked and indeed may be overlooked.
What does start over mean? If the people who you are currently working together with cannot hear you, maybe give these co-workers another try. If understanding opens up, this is good, and it feels good. If you still feel constrained, then you still have a choice. You have a choice to move on in fairness to all.
In this case, you are not retreating. You are not giving up. You are not going away mad. You are not making a compromise. You are making a forthright decision to move in another way. You may not yet know what the other way is, yet it is now clear to you that another way will present itself to you. It will occur to you.
It just is what it is next. You have not failed, and the others with you have not failed. Both parties have found out something. This is moving forward. Now there is a new route you will take. There is no loss and no ill-feeling.
Of course, this is what all parties truly desire. This is like getting over a cold.
Congestion is gone, and contention is also gone. This is a fine thing.
How does this feel to you? Does it seem real? Does it seem possible?
No one compromises. A compromise carries the connotation of selling yourself short -- your giving up something for a resolution and the other party also giving up something they wanted in the interests of a resolution.
The scenario We speak of now is not anyone's giving up anything. This isn't someone's saying: "Oh, well, I'll throw this into the pot in order to gain something else back."
No, this is not a halfway measure. It isn’t a compromise when it’s an example of both parties' moving on with peace and good will. This is going forward. This is the success of progress. This is much more than a compromise.
Progress is being made possible. First, there is the desire for a peaceful conclusion, and then there is one good idea or a mix of ideas that lay down an even path that is good to walk down for all concerned to walk on. No one went to court. No one continues to feel resentment.
This is one of the beauties of Life on Earth.
This is within the realm of ordinary everyday resolution. It will arise more and more. No one wins over another. No one is pinned to the mat. There are two winners who, at the very least, come out unscathed, and they shake hands.
Life merely modified its stance. What a win for the Universe! Like man's reaching the Moon, this is a gift for mankind.

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Heavenletter #5889 Kiss the Concept of Tragedy Goodbye, January 8, 2017

God said:
Of course, you do not want to pretend your feelings relative to the Existence of Life – your life -- as if it were pie in the sky and there is nothing to it. At the same time, you don't have to take life so seriously as you may presently. You don't have to point out all the flaws. You don't have to take a mistake so seriously and fatefully as you may, whether it is your error or another's, or an error you might attribute to Me.
Life is not always a lark. This is not a secret. At the same time, you are alive. You have the Gift of Life. You are alive! Life is a good thing indeed to be grateful for.
Life is not medicine. Life is not always bitter-tasting. Give life half a chance to be, at the least, pleasant. The Truth is that most of the time life supports you. Life does its best for you all the time, yet you don't always see this.
When something deeply unwanted hits you, it is a blow. It does you in. It hits you hard. Not all the good times in life can possibly seem to compensate you for what has happened that is too terrible to contemplate. You don't know how to take it on the chin.
Do your suffering. Do your cries of "How could this happen?" Life is capable of many things. We can say that Life has a special license.
You may never in your gut get over what has befallen. It is understood that you can't just snap out of it. At the same time, all your protests, all the injustice, all the happenstance do not help anyone, least of all you, the one who is suffering, perhaps, the most.
No one would make light of your tragedy. No one would say to you, for instance, if your child has died: "Hundreds of children in the world die every day."
In terms of love and the surface of love, there may be no excuse for what happened. There may be no extenuating circumstances that you can possibly see, yet at the end of the day, there is reason. As unfounded as it must seem to you, some day you will have an inkling of a good view that fueled what you could only see as a hurt. Hard to believe from where you sit that there could be goodness in all this that gives you great heartache, yet when you do see further, the cross you presently bear is erased.
In terms of the world right now, you may see a crime too ridiculous to erase, yet, in terms of the entire Universe and the Realms of Infinity, the only thing to do is to let go of it.
It is not fantasy that beyond the world at large, there is good reason for all that befalls. Even that which you judge as a glorious meeting in life may not turn out so brightly as you had thought. This is something that you too have probably seen while on your tour in the world.
If that which you saw as holding great purpose and did not live up to its promise, perhaps the reverse can happen as well and you can find the good in what at first appears as stark tragedy.
All blessings to you. Know you are good enough to lighten your heart and let go of that which now you can only see as tragedy. Dear Ones, the whole world seems to support tragedy. Let go of the concept. Don't keep it close to you. Kiss the concept of tragedy goodbye.
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Heavenletter #5888 Make Your Heart as Good as New, January 7, 2017

God said:
Your heart is your door-opener, and yet, as it is, the door of your heart also finds occasions when it closes. Please know that I understand. You have your own vision as you see it. When your heart feels trammeled, you don't know how to survive and to keep your heart stay open at the same time. It is natural and understandable for you to withdraw. It is easy to see how you feel, in effect, that you see no other choice but, perhaps on occasion, to run for your life.
Let's find a way to save your heart, your ideas, your way of being in the world, and still go forward. Where your heart gets hurt, what possibilities are there where you can get past the hurt and make your heart as good as new?
Please know I understand that there are times when you have to go a different way. Perhaps under the present circumstances, you are not heard. Your needs are not heard. If the topic at hand is your priority, of course, it is difficult for you to go on when your heart feels overlooked and indeed may be overlooked.
What does start over mean? If the people who you are currently working together with cannot hear you, maybe give these co-workers another try. If understanding opens up, this is good, and it feels good. If you still feel constrained, then you still have a choice. You have a choice to move on in fairness to all.
In this case, you are not retreating. You are not giving up. You are not going away mad. You are not making a compromise. You are making a forthright decision to move in another way. You may not yet know what the other way is, yet it is now clear to you that another way will present itself to you. It will occur to you.
It just is what it is next. You have not failed, and the others with you have not failed. Both parties have found out something. This is moving forward. Now there is a new route you will take. There is no loss and no ill-feeling.
Of course, this is what all parties truly desire. This is like getting over a cold.
Congestion is gone, and contention is also gone. This is a fine thing.
How does this feel to you? Does it seem real? Does it seem possible?
No one compromises. A compromise carries the connotation of selling yourself short -- your giving up something for a resolution and the other party also giving up something they wanted in the interests of a resolution.
The scenario We speak of now is not anyone's giving up anything. This isn't someone's saying: "Oh, well, I'll throw this into the pot in order to gain something else back."
No, this is not a halfway measure. It isn’t a compromise when it’s an example of both parties' moving on with peace and good will. This is going forward. This is the success of progress. This is much more than a compromise.
Progress is being made possible. First, there is the desire for a peaceful conclusion, and then there is one good idea or a mix of ideas that lay down an even path that is good to walk down for all concerned to walk on. No one went to court. No one continues to feel resentment.
This is one of the beauties of Life on Earth.
This is within the realm of ordinary everyday resolution. It will arise more and more. No one wins over another. No one is pinned to the mat. There are two winners who, at the very least, come out unscathed, and they shake hands.
Life merely modified its stance. What a win for the Universe! Like man's reaching the Moon, this is a gift for mankind.

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Heavenletter #5886 How Do We Name a Heavenletter That is About the Invisible?, January 5, 2017

God said:
Then, of course, you can get into non-existent space which certainly clearly, sometimes elegantly, seems to be the very ground you walk on. And you are told that space also is not Truth but fiction.
What is a body to believe? You are actually asked to not believe in what you obviously see, and, also, you are asked to believe in what seems invisible to you.
What a dilemma is all this? You are supposed to pledge yourself to the Unseen and have less allegiance to what you see so readily before you? What kind of sense does this make, you ask.
Please understand I don't ask you to jump off a cliff. There is nothing for you to prove. You don't have to prove the existence of the physical where you presently abide. No, don't do that. Just know that there is an Unseen that is lasting – it lasts forever whether you catch on or not.
Is it not obvious that the physical world you see before you and all the houses and all the physical bodies and the very ground you walk on are not all there is? Your very desire for more tells you that there is more. How would you desire greater love unless greater love exists and exists within you?
Much to your chagrin, physical bodies do not last forever. You admit that.
Moment by moment, everything in the physical is changing. This you do not always see. There is much that is True that your eyes do not see.
Think of all the chatter in the world that you do not hear, yet, on the surface of life, chatter is nevertheless going on.
So many hearts in the world are beating that you do not hear and may not feel love for. You know all right when love is missing.
Look, you were born into this imaginary world of the existent where physical senses were bestowed upon you to use. Of course, use them.
Now begin to wonder about the Unseen which I tell you is true and lasting. I talk about the Everlasting. There must be something to it.
You understand the word Everlasting. Even when you vaguely sort of understand a word, meaning exists to it.
You are good at understanding the word soul. Where do you see your soul? Can you touch it? Can you hold it in your mind or in your hand? Can you paint a picture of it? Tell Me, dear ones, if you were told you had to give up your belief in soul, how would you actually do this? Soul Reality is beyond surface reality by leaps and bounds.
In terms of surface reality, you also do not see all of the surface in front of you. There are aspects of the surface reality that also exist beyond the surface.
Do you see the wind? What you see is the evidence of the wind. You see the leaves move and fall. You may see the wind knock down branches and trees. How can you say in all honesty that wind does not exist merely because you don't literally see it? Do you see the air that you breathe? The wind is made of air. You do know that air exists. Air is physical, yet you don’t literally see it. You can hear the wind, however.
Love is evidenced. Great love is evidenced. Yet where can you put love in a box and show it to everyone? You well know what love is and can be. The eyes and mind can see evidence of love whereas the human heart well-knows love and knows the Existence of Love. At the same time, human beings will say that love is gone, that is, as they interpret their love on the surface level of life.
You, too, beloveds, play between the surface and the deeper levels of life. You traverse back and forth.
And there are deeper levels yet for you to reach by going beyond.
Know that there are human beings who walk between both worlds, and, for them, it is as easy as pie. I say you too can do it. I say you are doing it.
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Heavenletter #5887 You Have Great Purpose in Life, January 6, 2017

God said:
Beloveds, it must be apparent to you that there is more to life than meets the eye. I have heard you say to yourself, many a time: "There has to be more to life than what is in front of me." Have you not perhaps tut-tutted about this sad fact?
You do not arrive here on Earth all by yourself. Meaning exists for you to be here. There has to be a greater Purpose in Life than just spending non-existent time here from beginning to end. You are here for more than simply living out your years and getting through what is called Life.
When you take a ride on a ship or even a ferry boat, you are going somewhere. You are going from somewhere nearer and nearer to Me and nearer to the Truth of yourself. You are sailing somewhere. You are commuting somewhere. There is a reason. You have a purpose, which, in your present eyes, may appear as big or small.
On a cruise ship, there is another meaning to a cruise. Instead of walking in Life or driving a car home or taking a plane, you are on a cruise. You are going in one direction rather than another. You are going to or you are coming from. During the interim of your cruise, you are nevertheless, sailing.
Of course, you are free to enjoy the ride. I ask you to enjoy the ride. It is My Desire that you enjoy the ride. Do this. Let go of what prevents you. Do it now.
Certainly, your life on Earth this tour has to be for enrichment for you, those around you, and the world. No one is here without purpose, whatever you may think of it. This may not have sunk into your awareness as yet -- what else is new?
Are you here to learn something? Absolutely.
Are you here to leave something behind? Absolutely.
Go ahead and imagine all the blessings that are yours to bestow upon the world. This is a good idea, to keep your eye on the blessings you are to perform.
Is it likely that you will know exactly what your purpose is? This is not a sure bet. In fact, this can be unlikely. Not impossible, but unlikely. What you can know is that there is something worthy that you will leave in your wake. Certainly, you may leave more than one beautiful aspect. You may leave many. Dear Ones, you venture forth for something. Your journey isn't for nothing. It is for something.
It doesn't matter who you are. You can be rich or poor. You can be educated or illiterate. There is nothing you have to be but a human Being to add grace to this world that hungers for it. Every blessing is necessary and worthy. What you see as big or little doesn't matter for, from where I sit, all blessings are equally significant. Where I sit, size does not exist. Where I sit, all contributions are great and gratefully accepted. There is no partiality. I do not squint and take an estimate. All My children are welcome, and all My children's blessings are equally welcomed. To reflect Myself in human terms, all My children and all My children's contributions light My face up with Infinite Joy.
Currently, you likely measure yourself on a scale that is faulty. The contribution of the human heart can only be Great. From Greatness you came. To Greatness you return. Soon you will come to accept and live the Greatness you truly are and that I see clearly right in front of Me and wish with all My heart to pass onto you to see for yourself.

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