HEAVEN LETTERS

Heavenletter #4243 The Next Pair of Eyes You Look Into, July 7, 2012
God said:
Are you feeling blue? Are you feeling down? Then this is the time to look up. Look up at the blue sky. Look for Me, and you will find Me. You can find Me in the next pair of eyes you look into. You can find Me anywhere and everywhere. Start with the sky and look up. Look Heavenward, and you will begin to feel chipper. Even the idea of looking up will nourish your waning heart. What is feeling blue but looking down? Of course, look up. Look high. Look at something worthwhile to look at.

Raise your sights. Hearten yourself. Climb by your bootstraps, or soar right up to great heights. No props are really needed. If you think you need props, grab a hold of a golden ladder I hand to you. Start climbing. Raise your arms and legs. Raise your heart. Let your heart be your heart. You can't keep a good man down, not for long can you. Even boxers get up before the count of ten. Imagine what your heart can do. Your heart can revolutionize your life.

Attune yourself. Don't wait. Moods are like shifting sand. Come stand with Me. As you reach higher, I lift you. Come over here to the Heart of God and claim Our Alliance. Do not forfeit your heart of gold to odds and ends of feelings of despondency. There is no reason to. Whatever led you to feeling blue, dismiss it. It is a trifle. It is nothing. Next to the world of love, it is nothing. Join Me in love.

When you are feeling down, don't stay there. Don't justify it. Get out of it. Get up, little dogie, get up.

Join a march of hearts to Heaven. Be the leader of the band. You can do it. You must do it. Why would anyone squander life on blue moods? Why would you? Look at the blue moon instead, or the white moon, or the yellow sun, or the sky blue or the ocean blue or eyes of blue or eyes of brown or green leaves of grass. Look at yourself wide-eyed in the mirror and smile. Show your teeth. Open your smile wide. Show those dimples. Get that smile out there where it belongs. Don't submerge it.

When you feel down-hearted, lift your heart. Don't stay glum. Whatever for?

Come into a garden with Me where you will change your mind from glum to plum of joy. Hum a happy tune. Glumness doesn't have to get a hold on you. Get glumness behind you and leave it there.

If you are feeling weak-kneed, start standing tall. I mean literally, stand tall. Shoulders back. Eyes forward. Pose if you have to, and I will take a picture. If you could only see the picture I have of you, you would never feel down. You would be a-glow. You would be ignited. You would see yourself as the Light of the World, and you would cast light before you, and you would be the light before you. You would know that you are My light before you.

You would know that your feeling down doesn't make sense. It is senseless. Feeling down does not reflect Truth. You hold semblance of despondency as Truth. You claim it. Claim something else instead.

Get out from the shadows. You don't have to stay there.

You have sunshine to give, and sunshine is for you to give today, so give it. Give it for all the world to see. You are the foreteller of the world. You set the tone. You sing the tune.
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Heavenletter #4242 God Bless You, July 6, 2012
God said:
Every time you make an error, congratulate yourself, for you are seeing progress in the making. Chalk one up for yourself. This is wonderful news. Your perception has already changed. It has changed right before your eyes. You have wanted to grow. Oh, how you have wanted to grow. And now you see your growth in accelerated photographs. Splendid. You learned something. You are really charging ahead.

Congratulating yourself applies to all arenas of error, from copying a phone number incorrectly to turning your back on love. No longer clap your hand to your head and say: "What a dummy I am. How could I have been so stupid."

Now smack the palm of your hand with a kiss. Bless the hand that made a typo. The fingers of that hand have been typing tirelessly for you. Applaud them.

And if you have made a misconduct with your heart and regretted it, put your hand over your heart and tell your heart you will give better service to it next time. If your heart wants to take a leap, tell it you will give it free rein. Tell your heart if it has an impulse to greet a stranger, you will do it. Tell your heart you will no longer stop yourself. Tell your heart you will know better than to be shy any more. Tell your heart you will follow it even though you don't know where it will take you. Tell your heart: "Even if I should fall flat on my face in the terms of the reaction of the world, I am glad I followed you. I am glad I got out of the rut I have been in, and have been in for so long, I thank you, my heart, for opening yourself, and I am grateful to myself for allowing you to pull me along."

And when you don't follow your heart, clap yourself on the back just the same. Say to yourself: "Well, Joe, I am proud of you now. Now you wish you had followed your heart. You wish you had done otherwise. Now you wish you would have gone to the right instead of to the left. Now you wish you had been bold. You are wonderful for this! You are splendid for this. You have made a big leap in awareness. By golly, you are doing GREAT!"

Is there another way that's good for you to talk to your heart and to yourself?

If you fall down and break your leg, say, "Whoopee! I broke my leg! I was going somewhere, doing something, and I broke my leg! I am a wonderful person who goes forward. And so I fell. Now I am a wonderful person who will sit in a chair with my leg up for a while, and I will walk with crutches. How fortunate I am. I only broke my leg. I could have broken my neck. And my leg is mending, and it will be as good as new."

And if your leg is not going to be as good as new, congratulate yourself on that too. There is a blessing to come from this, even when you don't know what it is. Keep your eye on the hidden blessing.

Remember the tale of the lame boy who had to have great courage and face everything because he couldn't run like the other boys?

Do you think it is corny to think this way? Tell Me, please, how do you think you should be thinking? Complaining? Protesting? Blaming the curb or Me?

Come now, you fell. Now you get up. Congratulate yourself, and bless your leg, and bless your life, and bless yourself, and say: "God bless you."
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Heavenletter #4241 The Art of Seeing, July 5, 2012
God said:

The Garden of Eden is a metaphor, as all words are metaphors, as everything on Earth is a metaphor. Metaphors hold Truth, and there are great metaphors that hold Great Truth. And you are a metaphor, and you are a great holder of Truth.

That's it! You are a human metaphor. Metaphors in poetry say that two seemingly dissimilar things are alike. Metaphors speak of opposites. And yet there is also likeness. And equality. There is something true. The Truth is that all the people in the world are One. No matter how unique, no matter how opposite, everyone is One, One with you, and One with Me. Oneness, Oneness, Oneness. The Truth of Life is Oneness.

Disparity is not Truth. Untruth is that One is many. One is One, and, yet, in form, many battle this out.

When you read a metaphor in poetry, you look for the Truth. The Truth may be like a seed. Now as you see each human being you see, you look for Truth, you look for similarity, you look for Oneness. Find the metaphor.

It can be said that the world, as it is seen, is a poser. I am liking to say today that the world, as it is seen, is a metaphor. It is a beautiful metaphor for what is beautiful. It is a hut that is truthfully a mansion, and it is My mansion. Pain is a metaphor. Colors are metaphors. All words are vibrations, and words are metaphors for vibrations. I am taking you into the unreality of life on Earth, the fiction of life on Earth, the semblance of life on Earth. I am taking you into the center of the Earth and the peaks of Heaven.

Poets take words that are not seen as of similar meaning, and they put the two words together, and, click, there is a deeper look, and a deeper insight, and dross becomes gold.

I am a poet, and you are a poet. You may be a poet of mixed metaphors. Indeed, you have mixed up a lot. Now I am offering you the opportunity to become a greater poet of life. I am offering you the opportunity to gain connectedness to what are called opposites. I am offering you an opportunity to turn tin into gold. I am offering you an opportunity to cast light before yourself and, therefore, the world.

I give you My eyes to see. I give you a poet's eyes. Poets see what most do not see. I am giving you the vision to see. I am giving you the apparatus of love. I am giving you a workout in love. I am giving you metaphors that will stir your heart and will bring love to the Earth like falling snowflakes.

I am giving you a frame of reference.

What shall I not give you? What have I not given you? What is it that you lack except the art of seeing?

Notice that you are a poem, made by a Great Poet. You are made of many metaphors. Seen from the world view, you are made of opposites. You contain opposites within you. All these many vibrations vibrate within you and outside of you. Which are within you, and which are outside you?

I will tell you. There is no outside you. There is no outside. All is within. I am within you. You are having this dream of opposites, and you are waking up. There are no alarm clocks. There are birds singing, yet, even so, it is you who has to awaken yourself.

It is time to get up, beloveds, and recognize metaphors and the Truth of you.

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Heavenletter #4240 The Garden of Eden, July 4, 2012
God said:
Superlatives are not actually so. When you say something is the best or the most wonderful, you are expressing your joy in whatever it may be and, yet, what you express is not a fact. Not a fact even for you.

Today you may have a fabulous meal, and you say: "This is the best food I've ever had." You are expressing the truth of your emotion at the moment. Another time, you probably will say that again. Probably you already have - several times!

If you travel around this beautiful world, you may have said more than once: "This is the most beautiful place in the world." And then there is another most beautiful place, and another, and another.

I am talking about Infinity, beloveds. There is always more and more.

The Garden of Eden had beautiful flowers and trees, one after the other. There was no end to the beauty. Imagine the birds who sang in the Garden of Eden and the songs they sang. There was a whole range of sweetness and song. Imagine all the beautiful animals who played together. Imagine the sky! The sky in the Garden of Eden was high above, and it was beautiful and blue, and it revealed Vastness.

You know what I am getting to. You live in the Garden of Eden. You have the same sky. You have the same growing things. You have the same animals to adore. You have everything to adore.

Adam and Eve left the garden when ego appeared, when the idea of sin cropped up, when innocence was lost, and seeming sophistication took over. That was the leaving of the Garden of Eden. Their consciousness left the Garden of Eden. No one was evicted from the Garden of Eden. If We can say they were evicted, they evicted themselves. No longer did My children think they were good enough.

Today, it seems like, My children continue to think they are not good enough, and, subsequently, they think they no longer live in the Garden of Eden, and they think the world, as it occurs to them, cannot possibly be the Garden of Eden.

In one sense, the world has become a Garden of Ego, and you tend to overlook the fruit of the vine that filled the Original Garden.

Your perception comes from your consciousness. It is not really for Me to return the Garden of Eden to you. It is for you to return it to yourself, and in so doing, find Me waiting for you. In the sense of your perception and consciousness, you also bring My Presence back to the Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden is a certain consciousness. I created the Garden, and I created you of the same consciousness.

The world you live in is the Garden of Eden. It is the Garden of Eden misperceived.

The snake is ego, and the snake hissed at My Beautiful Garden.

When you go out in nature, in nature untrammeled, you do see the beautiful Garden of Eden. You have a glimpse, and you say as Eve said when Adam named every tree and flower. Eve said, "Ah." Say, "Ah."

And say, as I say, "It is good."

Have the idea that your consciousness, your perception and your thoughts viewed through the eyes of new perception will restore the Garden of Eden to everyone everywhere and thus make the world an oasis of good will and beauty in all aspects.

You may think I am trying to psych you out. Beloveds, what do you think you have been doing to yourselves? You have psyched yourself out to the degree that you are convinced that you cannot possibly be living in the Garden of Eden and that the world cannot possibly ever be The Garden of Eden. I say that you can live on Earth in the Garden of Eden, and I say the world is the Garden of Eden, and I say that you can restore it to its natural state. I say that you are restoring it now.

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God said:
You already know that another name for Me is Love. And Love is your true name as well. And you know you have experienced love by other names - by joy, happiness, good luck, reunions, eyes meeting yours and so on. I am introducing Myself to you in many ways. When you come to think of it, you come to feel it, experience it, know what you are already experiencing of Me as your Very Self.

Yet some keep plodding along without the awareness of the blessing of knowing Me. They may be contrary to Me, and yet they are receiving My blessings just the same.

There is no one and nothing in the Universe that is without My love. That is an impossibility.

The thing is that some or many hold a list of what I must be like, what I must do before I can win their favor, how the world they dream must change. They must think they hold the cards in their hands. Of course, to a point they do, and you do. Your thoughts can call the shots. Your thoughts can change Destiny.

Yet I am not to be proven. I am to be known. Let Me say that again. I am not to be proven. I am to be known. You cannot prove Me. You can only know Me. Despite everything, you can know Me.

Santa Claus, who is admittedly fiction, has come to be known. Characters in novels can be known, perhaps better than many people you interact with. Someone doesn't have to appear physically before you in order for you to connect. And, so, I am unseen, and, yet, you can connect to Me. I don't have to have a beard or drive a sleigh or appear like the cow jumping over the moon for you to know Me.

The fact is that your heart knows Me. You just have to wake up to what your heart knows. It's not that you must wake up really. It's that you come to know your heart. All in your good time is fine. I know you will wake up to your heart, and that is good enough for Me.

Believe it or not, I am much easier to please than you are. Actually, I do not know displeasure. I know love. And My love is constant. My love is ongoing. My love never dims no matter how it may seem to to your beleaguered mind. My love is a lit candle that never flickers. You have My love. It is already yours. You are fully established in My love. It is your love that you may not have yet imbibed. In the midst of whatever you see as tragedy, I am still here. Under all circumstances, you can pick up My love.

My love is set on the table for you, perhaps like a glass of lemonade. All you have to do is pick it up. Someone served you lemonade, yet it is you who has to pick up the glass to drink it. Lemonade is in a glass you can see through. When it comes to My love, you are already drinking it, or you would not exist. For you to have conscious awareness of My love, you have to serve yourself. You have to get up from the bench you sit on and come over closer to Me. I can't move closer to you. Come over here to Me in your awareness. You can do it. You are the only one who can do it when it comes to you.

You can help others come closer to Me, but only so far. And that is also so far as anyone can help you. You are your own deliverer, do you understand Me? And yet, at the moment when you do find Me dwelling within you, it may seem that you were be-knighted by a Godly Being, yet you are a Godly Being Who be-knighted yourself.

You and I are One. There is only One God by whatever name He or She is known. Is there anyone to look to, beloveds, for you and I are One.


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Heavenletter #4238 God Awaits You, July 2, 2012
God said:

You have heard that life is not about you at the same time that life is all about you. Everything is as you think it is. You are all-important. And yet you are to serve. In that sense, life is not about you.

Life is a reflection of you, and yet life is not about you. It is about service. It is about love. It is not about love to you. It is about love from you.

You can only respond or venture in life according to how you perceive.

If life is not satisfactory to you at present, your perception will have to change. It cannot change just because you say to. It requires a change in how you see. Be open. Be open to seeing in a new way. Be open, and you will start seeing in a new way. Your perception is bound to change. It is bound to grow. It is a fact that you will see from a different perspective. You will see from a wider lens.

In order to do this, however, be willing to let go of how you have seen life in the past. When you hold on to the old, it's difficult to open up to the new. Even if you have always seen life as beautiful, still seek yet higher perception. There is always greater. And you are meant to be greater. Go for it. As a mountain climber climbs one mountain, he then desires to climb another.

In the case of higher perception, a basis for higher consciousness, it's not that you have to climb the next mountain hand over fist. It is more like you have to be willing to leave one elevator for another. You have to get off from where you were and let yourself be lifted. It is not a deliberate act by which you keep climbing, but by a willingness, an openness. There is always more, and there is always more for you to open to. You want to get to the top, yet there is no one top. There is always something more. This is enrichment. There is an abundance of consciousness awaiting you.

Be open-minded and open-hearted. Desire. Be willing. Even take being willing further, and will strongly to rise higher. Keep your desire in front of you. There is a caution here, however. Will can hold you in good stead, yet there is a balance. You have to let go at the same time as you hold on. We're talking about a delicate balance here. You cannot push too much or force too strongly because then you are holding on to change too much. Release.

You know there is something you want. You know you want to grow. At the same time, you can't crack a whip over your wants. You are the desirer, the willing, the willer, and yet you are not the commander. The strong personality side of you is not the commander. The Universe is at your service, but not by force. By force of evolution, yet not by your force. By your prompting, yes. Yes, in due time.

For some, it is faster than others. For some it is slow, and, then, bang, some start whizzing along, while others slow down. You will climb higher, yet you cannot always say when the time is right. The time is right when it happens.

No reason to be discouraged. You are going to grow. That is established. When, how, by what means and so on, you do not know.

In any case, don't try to fathom the stage you're at very much, because your purpose is to grow and not to give your growth a name or a number. Grow, My children. Simply grow, and I will greet you with wide-open arms.

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Heavenletter #4237 What to Do in Life , July 1, 2012
God said:

Be of good cheer is My main message for you today. Such a simple thing, it hardly seems necessary to mention. Why wouldn't someone be of good cheer on a sunny day like this - or a rainy day like this? Grumpiness arises regardless of the weather. The weather is not responsible for your frame of mind. You are.

Grumpy days will descend uninvited. When they descend, let go of them. Instead of being grumpy, why not enjoy yourself? Even grumpiness doesn't have to deter you from good cheer.

Look, if you slip and fall in the mud, what is there to do but laugh at yourself? Maybe you slipped in the mud so you would laugh at yourself.

Notice I said to laugh at yourself. I did not say to laugh at anyone else. A good sport does not laugh at someone else, only himself, unless, of course, the other person is laughing, and then you can join in.

What else is there to do in life but develop a sense of humor? What else in there to do in life but enjoy it?

If you want joy in life, take on the intent to enjoy it. This does not mean to be false. This means to say: "Okay, I fell down in the mud. Shall I stay down in it? Shall I spend my whole day groveling in the mud, even after I've climbed out of it? I will have to wash my muddied clothes as soon as I get home, yet I can clear my mind right now on the spot. I'm not going to let a little mud accumulate in my mind and spoil my day. No sirree."

And if you don't slip in the mud today, and you find that your boss is displeased, do you have to be displeased too? Does someone else's surliness have to sully your mind? Perhaps you have thought it must. Perhaps you have thought that you have to copy someone else's bad mood. Perhaps you have thought your mood has to match someone else's.

Be of good cheer. Be serious in response to everyone. In response to yourself, move on. If your boss or your wife or anyone is displeased with you, be courteous and carry on. They will get over it by and by. As for yourself, get over it now.

The key word today is now.

You have gotten over much worse. If you're going to get over something sooner or later, get over it sooner. There is no good reason to ruin your day. There is every good reason to have a good day.

We are talking common sense.

When you are in a slump, your mind has suggested that you must be in a slump because your mind says that B must follow A. Change your mind then. Change it now.

You are under no obligation to stay in what is called a bad mood. Moods are temporary things. Moods are going to change anyway. If your mood is dark, change it now. You are not to be at the mercy of your moods. Moods are not the master over you. You owe no loyalty to your moods. You don't have to honor them. You don't have to keep them. Let them go. Step out of one mood into another. Unless you favor dark moods, step out of them.

You can change your sweater. You can change anything. Maintain light moods. Abandon yucky moods. Make light of yourself. Respect others' moods, but not your moods unless your moods are already of good cheer.

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Heavenletter #4236 The Crown of Good Will, June 30, 2012
God said:

Be grateful to yourself. Give yourself a well-earned pat on your back. What did you do today that you can be glad about, or grateful to yourself for? Instead of picking on yourself, chalk one up for you.

Do this often. Then you won't need so much input from those around you.

Whom did you smile at today? Whom did you give a kindness to? What doors did you hold open for others? Whom did you give a minute to? Whose eyes did you look straight into? To whom did you say, "Thank you?” Whom did you greet today? Whom did you cross the street to say hello to?

These may seem like small acts, yet they mean a lot, and you can like yourself for them.

Bless someone today, and bless yourself.

Above all, get out of the habit of pointing out inadequacies, yours or others. Whatever you think about another, you compound. Whatever you think about yourself, you compound. If you have generally seen yourself as inept, start thinking about the wondrousness of you. The same for the people around you. Okay, they are not perfect. So what? They are still a gift to you, and they also have their wondrousness. This must be so because I made them, and I made them as I made you.

When you fault another or yourself, you are faulting Me. It's better all way around for you to see the Good God in Me. This advice is to your benefit, beloveds. If you gripe about Me, what are you doing? When you gripe about anyone, what are you doing? When you gripe about yourself, what are you doing?

There are some things not to be casual about.

You are a powerful force in the Universe. Be a powerful force that sweeps up the Universe in your arms and blesses it. I sweep you up in My arms and bless you and bless you and bless you. See with My eyes, and speak with My lips. What is there really for you to complain about, beloveds?

How quickly you are ready to think of something, or a list of somethings! To what avail? With every complaint you voice or think of, you are nailing yourself to the wall. You are hammering negativity into your head. Today, say not one word that is not worthy of being pinned to your lapel. Even if you cannot stop your thoughts so easily, you can stop your mouth. Stop your mouth, and your mind is more likely to follow.

Look, for every bit of negativity you extend, there is whiplash, and you get it. You may think you are throwing just criticism at someone else, but it hits you in the face. It hits you in your heart. It damages you. For how you deal with others, that is how you deal with yourself. The surface may seem otherwise. You may feel you put yourself in a high place, yet if you have to raise yourself by negating others, you have already lowered yourself.

Exonerate yourselves, beloveds. Enter your own Hall of Fame. In your own heart, wear the Crown of Good Will. Be My Ambassador of Love. Reveal to yourself and to the world what a human being can be. Be what I desire you to be. Be what you truly desire to be. Live in the image of Whom you were made. It is the Truth of you. Heretofore, you have been a dissembler. Now you become the Real Thing.

You don't want to be a lump of clay. You want to be a work of art. Why not? Why not accept yourself and accept others as I made them? Why not exalt yourself, not in words but in vision, and then in deed. Be good to yourself, and you will be good to all.


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Heavenletter #4235 Your Best Interest, June 29, 2012
God said:

Be grateful for what you have. Gratitude is a great tool in life. It carries you far. Ingratitude drops you right where you are. Kerplunk.

Complaining keeps you mired in what you complain about. Furthermore, complaining brings you more to complain about. Complaining is ingratitude. Ingratitude is a lack of gratitude. You may have just escaped an auto accident, let's say, and, instead of appreciating, you may be irate that I let you come close and you may further be sore about your flat tire, and even hold Me responsible for it. You do have some say in your life, you know. In any case, whatever occurs in your life that you think I inflicted on you, think again. That is so off-track for you. Sometimes I have the impression that you are smug about what I am supposed to be doing in your life! You really do want to tell Me what to do!

Gratitude serves well. Ingratitude serves you not at all. Ingratitude serves no one, not you, not the world, not Me.

I am not saying that you have nothing to complain about. In world terms, there is always plenty to complain about. Complaining isn't to your advantage. It is not to your advantage unless you want to increase your long list of what you presently see as necessary to complain about.

If you have a pile of dirt, and you keep adding more dirt to the pile, you will have a bigger pile of dirt. Your complaints are like a pile of dirt. Why on earth would you seek to refresh your complaints?

I am going to say something you may not like to hear. You are responsible for your life and how you look at it. Don't blame Me for your life. Don't blame anyone. Don't blame yourself, and yet you will do well to take responsibility for how you respond to what occurs in your life. There is a higher platform from the one which you may be responding from now. More than once have I heard My children tell Me that I have let them down because I did not intervene. You are the traveler of your own path. If you don't like the path you are on, choose another. At least, choose another way to look at your life.

A victim mode is not in your best interest. When you blame, you are making yourself a victim. A victim isn't a hero. A victim is put upon. When you feel put upon, you are a victim. When you complain that I or someone has not done right by you, you are making others a villain and yourself a victim. When you make a villain of Me or anyone, you make yourself a victim. If you perceive someone as a villain, then you are, by default, making yourself a victim. Is that what you want? Do you want to make yourself downtrodden? Does it make you superior?

Don't blame yourself either. Don't blame. When you blame, you put yourself into a weak position, and you lose. By and large, you are responsible. If not directly, indirectly. If there is a mess, beloveds, regardless of who made the mess, when it is in your yard, you're the one who has to clean it up.

Sometimes I wonder what you think is owed you? Sometimes I wonder what you think I owe you? You do think that I owe you and that I should pay up. You can pout if you choose, but don't blame Me because you choose to pout. Free will is yours. To pout or not to pout is your choice.
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Heavenletter #4234 Heartbeats , June 28, 2012
God said:

When you want to show love, you may want to show it one way while the one you want to give love to wants to receive love in another way.

Some people make it easy for you to know what they would most like, and some don't. Some might like cash for a gift, for instance, and some never. Some might like cut flowers, and others like a potted plant. Some may like gifts more than anything. Some may care about another form of love much more. The combinations are countless.

It is not that you are to reinvent yourself to suit another person. Nevertheless, what means most to another? This is how it is with love and those you love.

And you might as well know yourself when it comes to how you like to receive love. That is probably how you like to give it. You may not be able to figure someone else out, yet you have many clues to yourself. Know thyself. You will be way ahead.

Love is a common ground, yet, as with artists, composers, books and so forth, everyone has his preferences and not everyone likes the same artists, composers, or books. Having different tastes is not an offense.

Make life easier for yourself. No one is going to be exactly like you. Differences are simply differences. The word differences is often used to mean disagreements, yet there is no disagreement here. Everyone is entitled to be who he or she is. You accommodate each other when you can, when you notice, when you understand.

There is no one who thinks exactly as you do, or sees the same, or has the same wants. Every single person on Earth is unto himself. Fraternal twins are two different people. How can you expect someone to be just like you?

You and everyone are alike in that you are entitled to be who you are. You are entitled to this freedom. At the same time, preferences are preferences, and all preferences are not yours to put above another's preferences. This is a fine line. You know what I'm talking about. Harmony is not dependent upon agreement.

I like the word accommodate. I like the word compromise less. I see accommodate as serving, two people serving each other as best they can. I see compromise as giving in, perhaps two people giving in or giving away, and neither coming away exactly happy. What a world of difference between serving and giving in. Well, what can you do but do the best you can. In any case, you can be aware. And sometimes you can take turns. Sometimes you can. Sometimes that works. Sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes it's a matter of degree.

Sometimes you can budge. Sometimes you can't seem to budge at all.

Each case is different. Each set of people. The timing. The setting. Who knows all the externals that affect My children in the world.

Love comes from the heart. Love exists, and sometimes the mind can help you. It is a helpful thought to choose to love. It is a helpful thought to know yourself well and come closer to understanding others well too and what makes them tick. The clocks of some go faster or slower. The beats of hearts beat different tunes. Love makes for Oneness, and that does not always mean agreement, nor does it have to.


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Heavenletter #4233 Beat a New Drum, June 27, 2012
God said:

What prevents you from having peace in your heart?

One way to look at this is that uncertainty prevents you. Here's the thing. Turmoil in your heart doesn't change uncertainty one whit. Perhaps it cultivates it.

If you can have either peace in your heart or anxiety, which would you choose?

Have peace even with uncertainty. Change comes with the territory, beloveds. Alive on Earth does not mean certainty. Uncertainty is a given in human life. Uncertainty is certain. That's how it is.

Be uncertain about turmoil then. Don't compound uncertainty.

Everyone would like certain guarantees. What you can be certain about is that you have freedom of choice. With or without guarantees about the course of your life, you are guaranteed freedom of choice. You have every right and every choice as to how you are going to react to the course of your life. Better to be an initiator than a reactor. Initiate peace in your life and peace in the hearts and lives of those around you.

On any given morning, particularly in a cold winter, you can't be sure that your car will start, and yet you turn on your motor anyway. Come from a place of confidence. If your car doesn't start, you find that out. You are ahead of the game. You can lament, or you can check to see that you have gas and the battery is charged. You can take it in your stride or you can kick your tires.

Consternation doesn't become you.

As much as you can, have the idea that whatever happens to you happens for you, not against you.

It is easy to find fault and obstacles. Make it just as easy to find blessing and good fortune.

You have, perhaps, fallen into a habit of enforcing the negative rather than the more uplifting. In the name of being realistic, you may cut yourself off from what you desire. You accept a piece of coal, and you overlook the gold.

It is great to be satisfied. It is. It definitely is. At the same time, it is good to look beyond the past. It is the past that tells you that you can't do better. It is the past that tells you that nobody can, that nobody has. Involved in the past, you miss getting beyond it.

In one way I am saying to make the best of what you have. Certainly, that's a good idea. Count your blessings. At the same time, you can bless yourself more. Good idea.

Begin with letting go of defeatism. Beat a new drum. Gain a new perspective. Open doors. Sometimes, even when you don't have a great poker hand, you can still win. That also happens. It is happening to someone. Can it not happen to you?

It is not for you to decide that you can only go so far and no further. It is for you to leap over boundaries. It is not for you to be stopped by them. If you own a racing horse, don't be so sure to think he's going to lose before he's even come out of the starting gate.

You know, if you desire something, go for it. Certainly, don't be the one who doesn't give you a chance. Stay away from people who consider you already defeated. Surprise yourself. Most of all, surprise yourself.

Magical things happen in the world. I know of no reason why miracles can't happen to you. Maybe they have, and you've been so busy declaring that something can't happen that you haven't seen it when it does.

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Heavenletter #4232 The Stirrings of Enlightenment, June 26, 2012
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You may be feeling zapped, run ragged, overwhelmed, yet what you are experiencing may be the stirrings of enlightenment. Of course, to become enlightened, to be aware of it, naturally the dark that blocks it has to go. You have all the light in Heaven in you right now, only the dark has to go. And what is the dark that hovers over you, beloveds? It is the past. It is residuals of the past, conclusions from the past, pictures of the past that you hold onto. The past is begging you to let go of it. It has had its day. You are to live in this day, this day right here.

When you are caught up in the past, consciously or unconsciously, it is like you are hanging onto a cliff, holding on with your fingertips. You are waiting for an axe to fall. A dark shadow from the past, even when you are unaware of it, cries out that you are in danger, and so you feel endangered, and so you hang onto the cliff of the past as though it were a safety net or a friend who is raising an alarm and shouts, "Fire, fire!"

It is not necessary to recall past heartache and so feel fear. Draw charm to your life instead. Draw good will. Draw love. Embrace life instead of fearing it, dreading it, waiting for an unknown unseen axe to fall. Make an end to this.

Take a deep breath and be revitalized by life. Engage with life. You may have been clutching at straws, beloveds, when, all the while, you have the whole Universe surrounding you.

Loved ones will leave their bodies, and you, too, will one day, by and by. Have no fear of it. It is good to come Home. It is a blessing.

By the same token, it is a blessing to be alive on Earth. Be a greeter of life rather than a fearer or postponer of life.

Your great imagination causes fear in you. Let the same imagination cause joy in you. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. The food you have before you right now is the food for you. Do not imagine its absence. Do not sacrifice what is before you with a meal that has not yet arrived. Your mother told you to eat the food before you. And I tell you to engage with the life that is before you right now.

You do not have to wrestle with life. You are bigger than life, and you don't have to grapple with it. Be a welcomer rather than a grappler. Do not await problems and do not go over past difficulties. There is nothing out there that is out to get you.

You are paddling in a canoe. Just keep paddling. There is no need for you to have wary thoughts. You are not paddling toward a huge Niagara Falls where you and your canoe will fall off. You are paddling down a stream. Paddle, paddle. See what is here and not all the possibilities of what might be down the bend.

Today the sun is shining. Why worry today about whether the sun will shine tomorrow? Why worry at all? What does it gain you? You may think worry keeps you safe from danger, yet worry keeps you from joy today. Be a joy-monger and not a trouble-monger. Your thoughts have a vibration. What vibration do you want? Call that vibration to you. Your thoughts are vibrations. There is much less risk in choosing high vibrations than low ones.

Put aside your fears. Enter life. Deliver it.

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Heavenletter #4231 The Cure, June 25, 2012
God said:

All external fighting and discordance are within you. It is always yourself you are fighting with. You have been your own opponent. No matter what the apparent cause of the disagreement, you fight with yourself. This may not be obvious because someone that you perceive as across from you seems to have offended you or argued with you. Nevertheless, it is truly something within yourself you argue with.

There is something you're not letting go of. That something is within you. You are the arguer. You are arguing. You are the argument. It all lies within you. You are the holder of the argument, and you won't let it go. The circumstances, the people involved, may all be quite different, and yet the argument is a revival of an argument within you.

If I were to choose the words for the argument you pursue, if I were to choose the question you put before yourself and find it wanting, if We were to get down to the quest of every bit of anger you have ever had, it would be this: "Am I loved enough? Have I been loved enough? I have to be loved enough. I demand to be loved enough."

Is this not true? Is this not true for you?

What is the cure, beloveds? The cure is to know that you are loved and loved enough. There is nothing for you to demand. Simply, whoever you are upset with hasn't shown you the deference you crave and deserve.

The good thing here is that you know you deserve. Yes, you deserve. Yes, of course, you deserve. Now, take yourself in hand, and accept that you have all the love in Heaven. It is all yours. Get away from the idea that others are to give you the deference you seek. Truly, when you give yourself the deference you seek and deserve, what would you take offense about? Think a moment. Understand that you do have all the love that exists. You have My love and all the love in Heaven. You have eternal and infinite love, and you are that. Now, be that.

As you rise in your awareness, so will all the ones who argue with you. They are crying out for same proof of love you have cried for. Love those who oppose you. Love them silently, and there will be nothing to argue. The price of not feeling loved or loved enough is too high. Give in. Concede, and get on with life. Find it in your heart to remove less than love from your heart. Do not hold on to the latent idea that you are not loved enough.

In terms of the world, need for love is ego's need for love. Ego has a small circumference. You who art My beautiful child on Earth, right this minute, become as you are in Heaven where you have all the love in Heaven and know you do. There is not a question.

The great Spiritual Beings on Earth, named and unnamed, did not spend their hearts and souls on riff-raff thoughts. They ennobled themselves by their thoughts. They were human beings. They were not loftier that you, except, in their thoughts they were. They did not demand love. They loved. They did not need to be attended to, and yet they were attended to. They spoke, and they were listened to. Their thoughts were not the common thoughts of the world. Nor must your thoughts be the common thoughts of the world.

The common thought of common men on Earth is "Me, me, me." Because many do not yet love themselves, they must protest that they are not given recognition and so they demand proof of love, and, so, they stamp their foot and raise their voices, demanding that the person across from them give them their required dose of love.

Offer your love first. Silently offer it, and no longer will there be the concept of opponent. It will not exist.

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Heavenletter #4231 The Cure, June 25, 2012
God said:

All external fighting and discordance are within you. It is always yourself you are fighting with. You have been your own opponent. No matter what the apparent cause of the disagreement, you fight with yourself. This may not be obvious because someone that you perceive as across from you seems to have offended you or argued with you. Nevertheless, it is truly something within yourself you argue with.

There is something you're not letting go of. That something is within you. You are the arguer. You are arguing. You are the argument. It all lies within you. You are the holder of the argument, and you won't let it go. The circumstances, the people involved, may all be quite different, and yet the argument is a revival of an argument within you.

If I were to chose the words for the argument you pursue, if I were to chose the question you put before yourself and find it wanting, if We were to get down to the quest of every bit of anger you have ever had, it would be this: "Am I loved enough? Have I been loved enough? I have to be loved enough. I demand to be loved enough."

Is this not true? Is this not true for you?

What is the cure, beloveds? The cure is to know that you are loved and loved enough. There is nothing for you to demand. Simply, whoever you are upset with hasn't shown you the deference you crave and deserve.

The good thing here is that you know you deserve. Yes, you deserve. Yes, of course, you deserve. Now, take yourself in hand, and accept that you have all the love in Heaven. It is all yours. Get away from the idea that others are to give you the deference you seek. Truly, when you give yourself the deference you seek and deserve, what would you take offense about? Think a moment. Understand that you do have all the love that exists. You have My love and all the love in Heaven. You have eternal and infinite love, and you are that. Now, be that.

As you rise in your awareness, so will all the ones who argue with you. They are crying out for same proof of love you have cried for. Love those who oppose you. Love them silently, and there will be nothing to argue. The price of not feeling loved or loved enough is too high. Give in. Concede, and get on with life. Find it in your heart to remove less than love from your heart. Do not hold on to the latent idea that you are not loved enough.

In terms of the world, need for love is ego's need for love. Ego has a small circumference. You who art My beautiful child on Earth, right this minute, become as you are in Heaven where you have all the love in Heaven and know you do. There is not a question.

The great Spiritual Beings on Earth, named and unnamed, did not spend their hearts and souls on riff-raff thoughts. They ennobled themselves by their thoughts. They were human beings. They were not loftier that you, except, in their thoughts they were. They did not demand love. They loved. They did not need to be attended to, and yet they were attended to. They spoke, and they were listened to. Their thoughts were not the common thoughts of the world. Nor must your thoughts be the common thoughts of the world.

The common thought of common men on Earth is "Me, me, me." Because many do not yet love themselves, they must protest that they are not given recognition and so they demand proof of love, and, so, they stamp their foot and raise their voices, demanding that the person across from them give them their required dose of love.

Offer your love first. Silently offer it, and no longer will there be the concept of opponent. It will not exist.

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Heavenletter #4229 A Journey of Imagination, June 23, 2012
God said:

You often ask yourself, "What is it all for? What is this rugged path in life for?"

You have heard Me say that life is for love. Yes, it is, for your heart to expand, and for you to hand out love as a matter of course. It is for exploration and adventure and for a romp in the park. It is for you. You are the pathway you take. You are the hero, and you are the one who finds his way in the forest. Just as a forest has growth, so do you.

Would you really have chosen to miss out on the green forest, its trees, its leaves, its messages to you? Would you regret that you were handed life to find yourself in? Would you really? Would you regret that you could learn, or begin to relearn, Eternity and Infinity, and all they entail?

You may say that you haven't learned them. You may say that you have avoided them, and that that has been the extent of your life.

Yet you have had life. You took your turn at the bat. Whatever you may think, you have made a home run. You went somewhere. You did something. You took a shot at life. You mustered your way through it. You walked in the woods. You took off, and one day you return to where you came from and never left which is right here with Me.

You had a Journey of Imagination, for the Journey in Life is all fantasy. It is a painting, or it is a movie, and you play your part tooth and nail. The hero in a drama grows. He does not stay the same. He grows. Whatever you may grumble about, you have grown.

You have painted this picture of yourself as a chapter in your book. And all of your book is fiction. It feels like it happened. Everyone believes it happened. Only everyone is fooled or, more accurately, fools himself as to what is real and what is not real. In most cases, you have it backwards.

Today, embrace your life. It is a good one. You have made a good try. You took a chance, and you lived it. You got on board a Boat of Life, and you set sail. You sailed on the waves. You are the waves furling and unfurling. How active the waves. How in and out they are. Waves are visitors to the surface of the Ocean. Waves come up from the depths of the Ocean to visit the surface, and then dive back in to the fullness of the depths. Heigh ho.

And you ask, "What is the journey for?" It is for the journey. It is for the rowing of the oars. It is for the oars splashing in the Waters from which you came. It is for experience. It is for the love of it or to get the hang of it. It is for life. It is for the exuberance. Waves go up and down, in and out, and you, who ride on the waves, go up and down with them, and yet you are not really at the mercy of the waves. You are the waves, so you are at the mercy of yourself.

There is no out there except as you see it. There is really only in here, in your heart and in Mine. All the rest is a story enacted. Your story is the fairy tale, and you make it up as you along, or you follow it, or you plan it. You certainly think about it. You are writing your own autobiography. You scribble it. You agonize over it. Now jump for joy for your story that you dash off to while you are on the go.

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Heavenletter #4228 A Chorus of Angels, June 22, 2012
God said:

I like you. Will you like Me? You don't have to adore Me. Liking Me is good enough. Be relieved from the idea of having to love Me as though I were a grand vizier. I am no one, and I am Everyone. Consider Me more like someone you bump into every now and then and are happy to see. Don't make a mystique of Me. I am simply God.

I have said that in life in the world, you are to let love issue from your heart, and, yet, at the same time, it is not like you have to fall in love with anyone. That includes Me. You don't have to fall in love with Me. The time will come when you do because you will recognize Our Oneness. I want to make it clear that it is not like you owe Me or anyone anything. You do owe yourself to let love flow from your heart. When you sow love, what do you think you reap? Actually, the reaping of love is in the sowing of love.

The sowing of anything is also the reaping of it. You are the sower, you are the act of sowing, and you are the sown. You are the lover, you are the act of loving, and you are the love. You enact love. From your blessed heart, you create love in the world, and you are the love created as well. You are Oneness. You are the Giver. And you are the Receiver.

In fact, there is no one in the world but you, but I, but the One of Us. The world exists with your awareness of it. You and the world are one. You live in the world you have sown. You planted a crop called the world. It is your farm. It is your plantation. It is your creation.

Did you create Me, or did I create you? In fact, We (I) were always. There never was a time that We arose, well, perhaps from sleeping, if you want to call Silence sleeping. And so We (I) arose from Silence and ventured into sound, and so We (I) made all kinds of music. The world burst out from a flute, or from a tuba, or from a vibration sounded, from energy vortexed, from love spun like silk or cotton candy. There is only variation of what is Oneness, Oneness on every level. The song is singing still, and you are the song, the act of singing, and the singer. And, yet, there is One Song, and the song is love, and you are love, and I am love, and love is all.

And, yet, love is not on command. Your awareness of love is not on command. Left to your own devices, you are simply love from every angle. So, no, you do not owe Me love. You don't owe anything, yet you have doors to open, and your heart to open, for your heart is a gate that opens onto a beautiful garden, a beautiful garden that is within you and which can be seen as the Earth, the world, the globe, the galaxies, the sun, moon, stars and everything.

Every being on Earth is your creation. You created the beautiful garden. If you don't see it, you, as a finite being on Earth, created something else. If you see weeds, you created them, and yet even weeds can be beautiful.

I did not create Paradise by Myself. I had a chorus with Me. We are Oneness, and yet We sing a duet, or so, it seems.

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Heavenletter #4227 The Waves and the Ocean, June 21, 2012

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How different life seems when you are with Me. What a difference it makes to you when you know you are with Me. When you do not know that you are with Me and do not know I am with you, it is like you are in a dark marsh. Life with conscious awareness of Me, however, is like being in a sunshine-filled glen. There is a world of difference between life in a marsh or in a sun-filled glen. There is a world of difference between emptiness and fullness. Of course, you are always living in fullness yet you also want to know you are. You want to experience it. Theory and experience are two different things. Come, stay with Me in My heart as I abide in yours.

There is no need to live without Me. There is blessing to knowingly live with Me. We share the same heart. We are like roommates. We co-habit. We do not depart. We are not apart from each other. We swing and sway. We go along hand in hand.

Please do not think you are unworthy of My Presence. Accept that I am with you right now. Don't go at life alone. Yes, you are the waves of the Ocean, yet you are also the Ocean Deep.

Earth is a great creation, and so are you. Look at all I put before you. Look at the variety of trees and seashells. Look at the variety of animals. Incredible, isn't it? And the lion and the lamb will lie down together. Look at the variety of human beings. Limitless variety, and limitless human beings. No two alike. How can that be? How can it be that there are no two alike in the history of the world, and yet I maintain that there is Oneness.

Of course, there is Oneness. Within the variety is Oneness. Variety is form. Oneness is Oneness. You are My Oneness, beloveds. Everyone is your soul mate. Everyone. Souls rub elbows. Your soul knows whereof I speak. Souls gather in Oneness. There is a gathering of souls even as there is Oneness. One meets himself and finds himself within Me.

We are joined. We are joined in joy. There is nothing else to be joined in. Well, yes, We can call joy love and love joy, and We can be so happy together on Earth as We can be in Heaven. This is the absolute Truth. All it takes is a change in your perception. Perceive Truth, perceive Oneness, and the whole configuration of life on Earth changes before your very eyes. Once you saw life one way. Now you see life another way.

Perhaps you saw life as a trial, and now you see life as an adventure and an adventure that no one before you has ever experienced and an adventure that no one after you will ever experience either, and yet you are Oneness, and Oneness is One. How can this be? Variety and Oneness. It depends upon which window you look through. Look through the windows of My eyes. See what I see. See in bright light. See for the first time in your life. See what has always been that you had not seen, for you were looking elsewhere. You cannot see the Ocean when your back is to it until you turn around. When you turn around, all you can see is the Ocean. Perception means view, and now you are changing your view. Change your view, and you see differently.

In Truth, you are the See-er. You are the one who sees. You can see desert, jungle, or Paradise. It depends on where you are looking. You can see Me in Our combined heart, or you can see something else. See Me. I want to be seen. I want to be known. I want you to know Me. And I want you to know Me through yourself. I already know you. I know you more than skin deep. I know you as Myself.

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Heavenletter #4226 Already You Are, June 20, 2012

God said:

Hello! What is going on with you today? Surely, something is going on with you. You are one way or another. As it happens, there is a tendency for something to weigh heavily on your heart. Too often in the morning, your heart feels leaden. If you did not think so much, would you carry that weight in your heart? Your heart is meant to be light-hearted and not weighed down. So, now, uplift your heart. Help it to soar. You do, indeed, have a heart that is meant to soar and take you with it. Let your heart fly, and you along fly with it.

You can wake up in the morning jumping for joy. You would like to, wouldn't you? Unharbor those thoughts you carry around with you day and night, and you will leap from bed, raring to discover the day and what it holds for you. Anticipate joy. Get out there and be joyful, and more joy will come to you. Joy breeds joy. Reluctance breeds reluctance. Be glad for this day that has come to you and is for you. Be happy to get up in the morning to this new day the sun ushers in.

You are a Lighted Being, and you are destined to shine. Shine now, beloveds. The sun is shining today, and so must you. Shine for all you are worth. Shine like the golden light you are. If you are what I say you are, and, of course, you are, then get in gear.

Light up the world. Start today. Not as a fire engine to put out fires but as a light from God to reveal happiness and all that happiness brings with it. Happiness brings intelligence. It brings love, and it lifts the world higher. You have an important role to play in the world. Play your part today. Be a light-giver, and so enlighten yourself. This is so simple. Why hasn't this role been noted before? It has. It has. Only you didn't note it at the time. Or you noted it and forgot. You had too many other things to do. Like what, beloveds, like what?

Do you follow along, or do you initiate?

Initiate a new song in your heart today. Strike up the band! Remember a song from childhood, and whip it up in your heart. The gang's all here, and you are the prompter of all. Sing a merry song. Row, row, row your boat.

Get out of the boat you are in and leap into a sailboat. Fluff those sails. A stream is not big enough for you. Now you sail on the High Seas, and now you inspire, and now you uplift the world as it is your destiny to. I do not speak to one individual here. I speak to the Collective One. I speak to Oneness.

What can prevent you from lighting the world except disbelief in the actualized possibility? Perhaps you think I am just a story-teller who likes to entertain you with fairy tales. No, beloveds, it is true. Every word from My mouth is true. You have the capacity to be everything I say. Furthermore, I say you already are everything I say you are. Now, get going.

All you have to do is to leap out of bed and carry the incentive with you that I give you today. Keep it. Hold it high. See for yourself what a joy-giver and light-sharer you already are.


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Heavenletter #4225 Born to Love, June 19, 2012

God said:

You can afford to love. You cannot afford not to love. You have to give love. It is a necessity. Otherwise, your heart will be stuck with hot tar and cut off from itself. Your heart is meant to love, so let it love. Encourage love. Give your heart ample room to love. Your heart is not meant to be held back, crushed, discounted, denied, delayed, endangered, fretted, fractured, guarded, hampered, hidden, impaled, jammed, kept, lied to, monitored, mishandled, negated, overridden, put aside, quarantined, restrained, stepped on, tied, undervalued, victimized, wrestled, or zipped closed.

Your heart is meant for freedom, the freedom to be, and the freedom to lead not only yourself but the world. Your heart is meant to set the pace for the Universe rather than keep the hearts of My children under wraps.

It is summer now in the heart of the world, and all winter coats are to be removed. Your heart is not to carry strictures within it any longer. The summer of hearts is here. Your heart has been on the rack. Your heart is not meant to be confined. Your heart is not meant to be held down. Not you or anything is to bind your heart and make it small. Undo the boundaries in your heart. Be done with restraints. For Heaven's sake, free your heart from all the conditions you have made. Love. Just love. Love is to be given, never squelched.

You were born to love. You were not born to trespass against your heart. You were born to love the wisdom of your heart. Your heart has your best interests at heart. Your heart knows you want it to love, only you have put love under wraps as if love were deformed and not quite honorable. No, beloveds, your restrictions damage your heart, your beautiful heart that simply wants to love and make you and the world happy.

Open your heart to everyone and everything. Make room in your heart for love to be its song, free to sing under all circumstances, never to close down.

In your misguided attempt to guard your heart, you have imprisoned it. You tied it tight. You might as well have shot bullet holes into it.

But then was then. Never mind then. Now open your heart. Open the doors of your heart. Set your heart free to be a lover of life, mankind, the world, and God.

Do you feel the relaxation your heart feels when you even contemplate freeing it? A whole lot of inhibition will leave. You will not be reckless. You just won't heckle your heart. You will have set your heart free to love. To love is a good thing. Your heart is filled with boundless love, and now you are going to give your heart permission to do what it has always wanted, and that is to love with all its heart, not some, not a little, not censored, not derailed, but just to love as a heart is meant to love. Give your heart opportunity to love, not just here and there, but everywhere.

Love from a big place in your heart. Love given without thought of gain will not be taken advantage of. When you give your heart, you do not give it for a price. You are not even thinking of a return. You are not thinking in terms of something due you or something that you owe. You are simply letting your heart breathe. How happy your heart will be. It will alight, and it will fly and love some more. All hearts simply want to love. Your heart wants to love. You can love the ugly and the beautiful. As you love, you will no longer see what now appears to you as ugly, for your heart will begin to see Me in everyone, in everything, everywhere.


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Heavenletter #4224 Welcome Love, June 18, 2012

God said:

Oh, My, all that you are involved in. So much you are involved in. You are involved in details of life, in so many details of life. There is so much of so many things that your attention is pulled to, and, often, in your estimation, pulled to for naught. You have disappointment, lack of appreciation, and you wonder why you give your whole heart to so much, and when you look back, or even during holding back, you wonder why you are exerting so much of your time, being, effort onto so little of consequence. You wonder about the daily chores and their pre-eminence. What is all the excitement and energy for, and what is all the lag for and all the future for, and yet, you are swept up in activities of one kind of another.

And your mind works overtime. Your mind chews the bone of your life, gnaws at it, can't seem to let go of it. Your mind is so crowded with every manner of thing. In effect, your mind scuttles you.

Make room for love, beloveds. Make room for your heart to feel. Let your heart heal your vagrant mind.

Your mind needs solace. It has been working overtime. Give your mind a needed rest. Tell it that it can take a break, go off-duty, put its feet up, take a recess. Tell your mind that it can let thoughts go for a while.

Most thoughts are unnecessary. You know that, and, yet, you trigger your mind to have so many thoughts. Who is the leader - you or your mind? Your mind is not meant to lead you by the nose. Let your heart be the leader, for your heart knows what your mind does not. Your mind is more like a computer, and you provide the fodder. Let your heart take over, but, oh, you are afraid of your heart, and so your mind takes the wheel and steers you into busy traffic.

Hail to that beating heart of yours. Let it come to the fore.

Truly, the mind and heart are not meant to be in competition. They are meant to be equal yet each has its instructions. The mind is meant to be claptrap jaws that clamp down. The heart is meant to be open so all can enter. The mind is meant to be more like a valet. A valet serves. He works for you. He is not the boss. You are. And the love in your heart is meant to be like a river that flows or, perhaps, like a cop who beckons traffic to come forward.

In most cases, the mind has been overworked. Your mind is not to make all your decisions. If you cannot make up your mind, give decision duty to your heart, for your heart knows what your mind does not. Your heart knows where your happiness lies.

Remember, your heart is not your emotions. Your heart is love, and love, the direction your heart pulls you to. Your heart is not careless. Your heart is caring. Heart and soul. Heart and soul. Mind and logic, mind and logic.

Logic can go only so far. The heart can go everywhere. The heart's captain is love. The captain of your heart knows the direction to sail in.

Whenever I speak of the heart's leadership, I remind you that the heart is more than just what you want to do this moment. You may want to do something damaging to you or another at a particular moment, but that is a story your mind has told you. Tell your mind otherwise.

Follow your love, beloveds, the love that issues from you and brings you closer to Me.

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Heavenletter #4223 Frequenting Heaven, June 17, 2012
God said:

Stay with Me, beloveds. When you don't know what to do or where to go, stay with Me. I am your Haven. Yes, your Haven, or Heaven, if you prefer. You are always welcome with Me. Welcome is not a strong enough word. The fact is that I will not be away from you. I come to you. I am already with you. Acknowledge this, and be happy. My love for you is great, and My love for you is constant.

I know you want more than you presently surmise. I know you want to see more love coming to you in the world. Dear Ones, you know, all the love in the world is not enough. No matter how much you are loved, you want more. I am the More. My love is yours. You were born with Original Love, and Original Love has stayed with you. You may have submerged your awareness of joy. Nevertheless, joy is yours. You cannot delete it, nor can you run away from it. Well, yes, you can run away from it, but not forever.

When life in the world seems to become too much for you, come back to Me, and, so, you come back to love which is exactly where you started from and to which there is no departing. Only in fantasy, you and I, can We be separate. I do not live in fantasy, however. I live in Truth, and I invite you to join Me in the One Self that We truly are. Any seeming difference between Us comes from your not knowing Who You Really Are. I know Oneness, and I know Oneness as your Identity. There is one Identity, and it is Oneness. Oneness by any other name is Oneness. We can call Oneness Wholeness, Vastness, Totality, Love, Joy, Beauty. All of Oneness is Ours. All the variations in the world fall under the umbrella of Oneness. There is only One, and yet We can say an umbrella. We do, after all, have to give some credence to the fictitious world.

And I would also ask you to give some credence to the Real World of which I tell you about from time to time or often.

Love is real. Anything else is not. All the matters that hang heavily on you are not real. You have some clues of this.

You shake your head at what the world calls death. You can't believe it. That's just right. It is unbelievable because death is not. That the body is emptied of the soul that used to be in it is real. That is very real. You do know that the body was not the extent of your loved one. Not by a long shot. Then, why, My beloveds, would you accept that the death of the body is an ending? The most it can be is a transfer from the physical world to the world of spirit AND YET, there is no transfer, you understand because always you are alive in the world of spirit. Temporarily, you live in the world of the body. Permanently, you live in spirit, and you know this, even though your logical mind cannot quite digest it. And, yet, you know the Truth of it. You are no stranger to the World of Spirit, the world often referred to as Heaven. You are all about Heaven, beloveds, and so am I.

Yes, indeed, your feet are in two boats. What I mean to say is that your feet are on Earth while your soul frequents Heaven.

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Heavenletter #4222 How to Work Wonders, June 16, 2012
God said:

Be true to love. Be a supporter of love. Back love. Love rules. If you want to command the Universe, then love, for love is the way. Love is the only way. Love is vast. Power and control are not the strong arms the world sees them as. Next to love, power and control wither away. You may protest that you have not seen this or even heard of it, and yet I tell you that power and force wither before love. There are no two ways about it.

If you have not seen what I say, you have not been looking. Actually, you have seen it. You have read it. The grouchiest nastiest man will melt when a baby smiles at him. The baby's smile, the baby's generic love, the baby's happiness at seeing him wins him over.

If enough people, if enough people loved enough, armies would stop midstream. Love outweighs everything. It vanquishes everything. Love will vanquish hunger and poverty. Love will make the rain to come, the sun to shine, crops to grow. There is nothing that love cannot do. Love can counterbalance everything.

Enough love will heal every illness. The Universe will bow to love. The Universe does not bow to a shaking fist, bullets, harsh words.

Furthermore, I will tell you that when enough of My children love enough, and love enough of My children, true world peace, not a truce, not a temporary suspension, but true world peace and joy and laughter will be inevitable, and their arrival will be instant.

Keep seeing evidence of love, and the love in your own heart will swell. Become an artist of love. You have your favorite paintbrush which is your open heart, and with your open heart, you paint beautiful scenes in beautiful colors. You more than paint these beautiful scenes. You create them. You make them happen.

Love is mightier than the sword. Love is the mightiest weapon in your arsenal. Love will undercut meanness and cruelty. Love will make the slow to fly. Love works wonders. Love is the magic wand you have in your possession. With one arrow of love, you can change the world.

Start to love even those who pull the world down, and the world will rise and the hurters of the world will rise to love. Consider the world like water. When the waters of the world rise, everyone who floats on the water will float higher. That is not a surprise. The waters of the world are meant to rise to Heaven. Consider it done. Keep the paddles of your love moving right along.

When something offends you, instead of spouting angry words, stop your tongue and find that place of love within you, and bless. In so doing, you will bless everyone who offended you. You will bless yourself, and you will bless everyone in the world.

When you are angry, you strengthen what angered you. You strengthen it for yourself, everyone else, and the world.

Are you just waking up to this? What works negatively also works positively, yet you may resist this. You may think: "Well, let this person who offended me start loving first then."

Then, beloved, you have been a follower, not a leader. I am telling you to be a leader. I am telling you that you are meant to be a leader. You are being given every opportunity to be a leader. A leader goes first. I am asking you to go first. I am telling you to take initiative, and to take it now, and to take initiative from now on. Do it.
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Heavenletter #4221 Sustaining Love, June 15, 2012
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It is so easy for you to feel loving when you are loved back the way you believe you must be loved back, absolutely must be loved back. Even as you know that people can only love as they love, you crave to be the Adored. To have once been enthroned on the pedestal only to be thrown off the pedestal you were put on or seemed to be put on feels to you like the greatest betrayal. You were given the brass ring, and then it was taken away from you. This leaves your heart raw. What you once counted on cannot be counted on anymore, and so you are distraught, and so you are bereft. But what really has happened, beloveds? A picture has been taken away from you. A pretty picture it was indeed, and it has been removed, taken away, and yet the love from another was never yours to own. It is not owed to you. Love simply does not work that way.

You feel that everything has changed, yet what has changed? The way someone feels about you, and, therefore, how you feel about yourself, as though you have flubbed another relationship and life itself once again. It comes back to you and how you feel about yourself. Be beloved of yourself. Thank God for love as it has been given to you. Love was wonderful. You had the illusion of owning it.

Your worth cannot be proved by the love given to you nor can your worth be disproved by love withdrawn. The fault in you is that you looked outside you for your sense of self-worth. No one but you is responsible for your sense of self-worth. I give it to you, and I do not withdraw My love and appreciation from you. But, even with Me, beloveds, as you know, you cannot look to Me to give you everything you want. I stay the same. My love for you stays the same, and yet, no matter how much I bless you, I do not give you everything you want. Life in the world is not always on your terms. You may do well to withdraw your terms.

You equate so much with love. You may put all your eggs of self-worth in one basket.

Love means a lot, and, yet, love from another human being, is not everything. It was everything to you, and then you were let down. Love from another is a great shawl around your shoulders, and, yet, a shawl is just a shawl. Love from another is a great thing, and, yet, the love in your own heart is better than love affixed on you from another. If you want to be starry-eyed, look at the stars.

Ah, the sustenance of love. How do you maintain love? How do you maintain the love in your own heart? Do not let the love in your own heart become a turncoat. Your heart is meant to be warm, soft and viable. Your heart is never meant to be hardened. Massage your heart now with your thoughts of how love flows and flows through you. Soften your heart. Make it beat. Make it pliable. Help your heart to engage in love over heartache any day. Do not regret for even another five minutes more. Keep your love lively. Love always.

No one betrayed you. No one wanted to. Is it betrayal for another's heart to fluctuate? How quickly your own heart has fluctuated. Forgive yourself now so that your own heart can be restored to its rightful state. Your own heart is at the heart of the matter.

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Heavenletter #4220 Expressing Gratitude to God , June 14, 2012
God said:

It is in your best interest to express your gratitude to Me. For some of My children, this is a necessity.

It is an absolute necessity if you are someone who pours an overflowing amount of gratefulness on people, and the people you pour your gratitude on begin to believe what you say to them and seemingly drop you by the wayside. Frosting on a cake is good. Too much frosting on a cake isn't so good.

Because someone does a favor for you, be glad. Say thank you, and be done. Because someone is nice to you, be glad. Say thank you, and be done.

A little courtesy from someone to you can go a long way. Let it, and yet do not be overly grateful as though you were a beggar whom they anointed with jewels.

Some of My children are so grateful for attention given to them that they egregiously make themselves inconsequential, and then their feelings are hurt. Where they were once grateful, they may now become resentful. They have been discounted. They have been discounted according to how they discounted themselves. Be as considerate to yourself as you are to others.

Tell Me more about your gratitude. Thank Me, and cool it with others. If you must get down on your knees, get down to Me and no other.

The question is: Why should you, one of God's children, be overwhelmingly grateful for that which you merit from life? It is meant for you to be listened to, to have eyes look into yours, to be noticed and noted, and to be treated with utmost kindness. This is your apportioned share.

Being overwhelmingly grateful is not humble, beloveds. It is self-serving. In effect, you are saying: "Hey, look at me. I'm outstandingly grateful to you because you gave me the time of day. I am more grateful than most everybody else, aren't I? I really know how to be grateful."

Be grateful then. And then you and the granter of wonderful consideration are even. Balance, beloveds. Balance.

Cinderella's eyes lit up when the Prince chose her and rescued her from the ashes. She became the Prince's equal. She did not become his scullery maid.

Appreciate all that people give unto you for they give unto Me. Extend your appreciation. Just do not overdo it. You can keep some of your gratitude to yourself. Pour all your gratitude at My feet.

With everything, be grateful and know from Whom blessings flow.

Know that it is as blessed to receive as it is to give. When you are a receiver, you have blessed someone to be a giver. You did not ask for it. You did not expect it, and yet a blessing was given to you. It was not owed. It was given. It was given freely, and so must you accept freely. When someone has saved your life, figuratively or literally, you gave them the opportunity to be a hero, and, yet, you are not to be a hero-worshipper. Do not make someone into an idol.

Nor do you owe your life. Have gratitude all your life long to one who saves your life, yet do not owe. No one likes to be owed. Gratitude cannot be obligation, for then it is obligation and not gratitude.

When you are overly outwardly grateful, you may be tying a knot around another. Because someone once saved your life, they are not responsible to you forevermore. Set them free. There is no debt incurred, not from them to you, or you to them. Such debts have to be written off. Be not a debtor or one who owes, for those are trespasses.

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Heavenletter #4219 What You Are Learning, June 13, 2012
God said:
You may think you have a long list of difficulties. I do not usually categorize, yet today I will categorize your difficulties into two hang-ups you have: Ego and attachment.

Ego is no more than your identity crisis, and attachment is holding onto everything that you perceive as due you.

Actually, ego and attachment are one. You are caught up in what you believe is "supposed to be." And you are attached to what you believe, have been taught to believe that you are supposed to have. For instance, you are supposed to be given credit for everything you have done or given. When you do not have the credit that is rightfully yours, you feel denied, and, let's face it, you don't do well with being denied. Beloveds, you have not been denied. You have been given any and every opportunity to grow. Opportunities to grow have been strewn before you.

Your identity crisis is a more honorable name for what is ego crisis. Ego is always having a crisis or two. Ego is the least of you, beloveds. Your identity is not all the palaver that ego gives a song and dance about. Not at all. Ego tells you all the credit you are supposed to have and are not getting, and ego says, "There, there," and pats you on the head.

Credit is not what you are supposed to have. Unselfishness is what you are supposed to have. You are learning unselfishness. You are learning that unselfishness is far more than sharing the last piece of pie. Unselfishness is nothing more than giving up ego. It is about time for ego to be booted out.

Ego tells you that you are not loved or you are not loved enough, that you should be loved more, that you must be loved more. Give up all musts. You do not have to be King of the Mountain. You don't have to be anything at all. You just have to be. You ARE. You are Being. Being doesn't own. Being IS. Being is already everything. And Being doesn't have to think twice about letting go. Beyond ego-identity and attachment lie the service of love. It is not that you present love. It is that you ARE love. You don't DO love. You are love. That is your identity. You have no other. And, so, you rise above your little self and spread your wings. I will help you. I am helping you. I am giving you every opportunity to rise above whatever you have allowed to keep you back from graciousness and all that you want to be and are destined to be.

Your sensitivity, unless it is sensitivity to someone else and not to the proclivity of you in the body you live in, well, then, that sensitivity is also ego, the twin of attachment.

The picture you have had of yourself is much too small. You live in a particular house with particular people and you do a particular job, and you forget that you live in a Universe. You are not your house. You are not your family. You are not your job. You are not your physical attractiveness. You are not the amount of paper money that you bank. You are not any of these things. You are a citizen of the cosmos, and you are not here on Earth for your personal identity. You have a far vaster identity than the one ego hands you.

Identity-lessness is your identity. Divinity is your identity. Come from your identity then, this identity-less identity. This does not mean you are a cipher. It just means you know what is important and what is not, and most of what concerns you doesn't hold great importance. You are important, not because of attributes the world gives, but because of Who you already are, not what you have, not what you do, but what you give, and what you give is service to the Universe, to Heaven, to Me, and therefore to all. You are much bigger than you thought.


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Heavenletter #4218 Looking into the Mirror of a Fairy Tale, June 12, 2012
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When your heart is sagging, you are lagging in that you are not keeping up with your heart. You are putting it down. You are depressing it.

Your heart is always raring to go. Unleash it. Stop pressing it down.

You have been afraid to let your heart take off. You keep gauging the food given to your heart, and you find it is not enough. Let your heart forage for itself. Instead of telling your heart, "Giddyap," what it wants to hear, you have been telling your heart: "Better to hold back. Better to pace yourself. You never want to give out more love than you are given. Never. Hold on to what you have. Be sparing with it."

But what if your heart is a steed who rides up the mountains and across the seas? What if your heart is a bridge so that others can cross any distance? What if your heart is meant to be a spender and not a withholder? Why would you harden a softened heart? Why would you do this under the false colors of protecting your heart?

Beloveds, you are protecting your ego.

Yes, your identity is love but not the love coming to you. Your identity is the love you give. Sometimes keeping silent is the love you give. Sometimes you don't have to be on the stage. You can be the stagehand who quietly lights the stage. You can even be the backdrop. You certainly don't have to be the star. Yet, you have thought so. You have thought you have to be the center of the stage. Don't foist onto your beautiful heart what belongs to ego. It's not your heart that wants all the attention. It is your little self whose name is ego.

You allow yourself to be the wicked stepmother who looks into her mirror and asks herself daily, "Who is the fairest of all in all the land?" In your case, you ask, "Who is the fairest in my little world?"

When there is not enough attention on you, you may pout. You pout because you feel something is amiss that you don't have all the attention you deserve. I am not disputing your merit. Yes, you do deserve all the attention in the world, and, yet, that is not the game in play. The game is not Solitaire. The name of the game is Love, and love is not a competition.

You haven't thought of yourself as competitive, yet what would you call it now that you take a good look in the mirror of yourself? You have been competing with everyone, and you have been competing with yourself. You certainly never thought of yourself as the wicked stepmother in the fairy tale. That was someone else, and, yet, you were the one looking into the mirror of a fairy tale.

The wicked stepmother was very needy, wasn't she? She was so needy that she needs to be the fairest of all. She was so needy that she had to be admired. She equated admiration with love, and, so, it appears, do you. Beloveds, being the center of attention is a poor substitute for love. You deserve to be a quiet giver of love by not having to be the fairest or the best of anything in the world. You are a bearer of love. That means you carry it. You are a means of love. Be a shining star that is happy simply to shine wherever you are and whatever number in the list of attractions you happen to be. Do not think this is sacrifice unless you believe giving up ego is sacrifice. You don't have to be the candle. It's fine to be the candle-holder.

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Heavenletter #4217 How You Love Being Dazzled , June 11, 2012

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Let the fires in your heart settle down. Let the embers cool. Be at peace. Fires have to burn out. Peace and love stay cool. Peace and love witness themselves quietly. Peace and love do not work up a storm. It is something else besides peace and love that work up a storm.

If you saw peace as better than conflagration, you would have peace. You don't have to be fired up. When you do not feel a need to be fired up, then you would know peace. Peace would become a cooling stream for you. You would no longer be hot under the collar. You would sit on a lounge chair in front of a cooling stream. Peace would wipe your brow. Love would stir you and cool you down.

Peace and love put out fires. With peace and love, fires wouldn't start. There would be calm. You would be calm, and your calmness would reach far, and you would be a peace-giver.

Love and peace are not overshadowing. Infatuation is overshadowing. The thing with overshadowing is that it cannot last. Love can.

Peace and love are not steaming pots that rattle their lids. Love, like peace, is cooling. Love is not unsettled, nor is love unsettling. We are speaking of love and not crushes. Unless love is love, it is a crush. If you feel beside yourself with love, then that is a crush. Love lasts. Crushes don't, so I hear and so I see.

In crushes, everything is more wonderful than you dreamed of. Everything goes your way. Of course, you love being the subject of intense attention. Of course, you love being the object of love. Of course, you love being dazzled. Dazzlement doesn't last. Love does. Dazzlement always needs more fuel. Love carries its own self.

Love is much more like the still waters. Still waters run deep. Mad splashing on the surface is not love, not as I know love. Love is cream and milk. Love isn't boiling water too hot to pick up. Love is just right. Its temperature is medium.

It is wonderful when someone pours you cream and milk. It is also wonderful when you pour the milk and cream. Let milk and cream flow from your heart. You don't really want to be just a pretty object. You want more. You want to give more. You are not sitting in front of a camera. You are not posing. You are not having your picture taken. You are often behind the scenes where you serve.

You deserve all the appreciation in the world. You also deserve to give that same appreciation.

Being in love is not the same as love. Being in love is tremulous and tends to burn itself out. Love is tremendous. Being in love is fly by night. Love sticks around. Love is not lightning fire. It is not drama. It is a quiet walk down a road.

Love is appreciation. If today love cannot quite appreciate, then love can be grateful for all the love that it gave and all the love received, and so you ride over bumps because that is what love does. This is what your love does. Love is in it for the long haul. Love is not starry-eyed, and yet love comes to the fore, and you share the love from your heart the way you would share a spoon.

You are grown-up now, and you are a giver of love in perfection and in imperfection. You are a Divine Being. You do know love and how to give it.

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Heavenletter #4216 This Is the Way of Flowers, June 10, 2012

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There is a flower out there that we could say represents you. This flower grows in a field of unsurpassed beauty, perhaps a field of daisies, or it may grow in a woodlands all by itself, a surprise of color popping out behind a tree, or it may grow in a pot outside someone's kitchen window, or it may grow in a pot inside the house. It may be watered daily, or it may be neglected. In any case, the flower that could represent you, no matter what, in sunlight or in shadow, grows. You are growing, and, like all flowers, you are growing toward the sun. It is inevitable. This is the way of flowers.

They live their lives rising higher. They lift their heads. They drink the rain. They blossom rapidly, or they blossom once in a lifetime. How common are flowers, and how rare are flowers. And all flowers grow to the magnet of the sun, the same way you grow to Me.

Fish swim to the same shore year after year in order to spawn. The magnet of a certain ocean side pulls them.

Where does this pull come from? It doesn't come from the outside. There is an outside, so to speak, that the little fishies and flowers bow to, yet where does the pull come from? Flowers, fish, and you have such pulls and urges from within. There is something within you that pulls you to Me. Of course, I desire you, as the sun desires flowers, and the sea its fish, and, yet, the common desire lies within you. It is built-in. It is natural.

Some would say it is in your DNA. Some would say it is in a little empty place in your heart. Some would say it is a little echo from the past. What would you say?

Where does your urge for Me and more of Me, and, therefore, more of your Self come from? What oars propel you? What boat do you sail on? From where do you come, and to where do you go? What is now, and what is thence, and so forth? Who are you? What are you? What is this life that you are so embroiled in, and who is it who is so embroiled, and what, after all, are you embroiled in?

You are the teller of a story, and the writer of it, and the reader of it, and the actor of it. You are the star of it, and, yet, you, the individual do not quite exist. You seemingly exist but more as an idea, for you, yourself, don't really know the tales of your existence or what they mean or how the imagined you came into existence, or if you came into existence at all or always existed or never existed.

Were you once a flower who practiced growing to the Sun, a fish who swam to a shore he knew not why but only that he must, and are you a human being or are you a Divine Being temporarily stationed in a human body? When all is said and done, what are you made of? Surely you are not the muscle and sinew you appear to be, nor are you the vitamins and minerals your body is made of. Somewhere within you is the Real You that is not physical unless you call a spark of light physical. You are more than electrical as well, and yet you are light, brilliant light, far-shining light, monumental light, not fractal but light itself, My light, in fact, My light in a prism of light, colorful light, the same way flowers looking up at Me and fish swimming to Me are My beautiful creations.

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Heavenletter #4215 Clinging to the Past, June 9, 2012
God said:

What is it that leads to your clinging to the past? What leads you to cry for someone who was once alive and dear to you and is still dear to you? It would make more sense to celebrate the one you love than to water your great love with tears.

It is time you are mourning for. Once upon a time, there was someone you loved dearly. Almost half your life, the loved one has vacated Earth, and still you weep. What is it you weep for, beloved, but a time in your life when you were someone else and your loved one was true to you? Your loved one is true to you now. He is truer than ever. His love is greater now. What if your love is greater now, and you could rejoice that you yourself know how to love and how to love without attachment?

You do not have to keep your deceased loved one close to you. You do not have to tie him to you. He is as close to you now as I am, for your loved one and I stand right next to you, beside you, across from you, as close to you as close itself.

Love has not departed. A body left, that's all. Love remains. Do you think your loved one wants you to weep for him? He wants you to smile for him. He is smiling at you now and calling you by name.

It is true that he meant a great deal to you when he was alive on Earth, and he means a lot to you now. You are happy for the love he showered on you. The love was there in his heart. What could he do but pour it on you? That was his joy. You and he had a mutual joy. Is that to cry for?

He never left your heart, and you never left his. What more could you ask?

You know it is not possible to return to those days, to have him return in a body. If it were possible, it would not be the same. You are not the same. In Infinity, you had a special moment, and you have it still. The love you held your beloved in, and the love he held you in continue as strong as ever. There never was a break in it. It always was. It always is. Your love for one another is sealed. It cannot be broken. This is love. Whether the beloved one you weep for is father, mother, son or daughter, husband or wife, the love you gave and are giving still and the love you received and are receiving still, has not changed. The object of your love hasn't changed except in form. He cannot physically occupy your present life as once he did. Just think, before you even knew about soul and Eternity and Infinity as you know them now, you knew love. You knew love simply requited. He smiled, you smiled. He laughed, you laughed. You made each other happy. That is a great thing.

Must you be sad for the glory that your life held in a certain time and place on Earth?

You know how effortless love is when you have it. It simply is there. You could not detract from it if you tried.

Love is not less because the physical embodiment is no longer on Earth.

Where can love be located anyway? Where does your love live? It lives in your heart. It lives in the Universe. Love lives. And love lives forever. You can be glad now that on Earth, you once had a great love, and you have that love still.

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Heavenletter #4214 God's Love for You, June 8, 2012
God said:

You cannot dictate what others must do or ought to do. That is not your province. It is for you to dictate only what you will do.

Your values are for you to uphold. Uphold your values, and allow others to live their lives as they see fit. Your values are not to be foisted on others. No one has to come up to your standards. Half the time you don't even come up to your own standards. Half the time you don't really know what your standards are, yet it is easy for you to pick at what someone else does or doesn't do. When you do, beloveds, it is like you are gossiping. And so you become involved in small matters that are not really your business. Because you see a failing in another does not mean that your value is heightened. Not at all.

Watch out for being self-righteous, self-pleased, self-honoring, for then you are full of judgment.

Judgment is to be avoided like the plague. Why? Because it is not good for you, and it is not good for the object of your tut-tutting. Judgment is like having a gavel in your hand and bopping another child of God on the head. Whether the ones you criticize are within hearing distance or not is irrelevant. Your negativity reaches them. Your thoughts are heard. They are heard around the world, and, yes, one way or another, they come back to haunt you.

How many times have you said with satisfaction: "I would never do that." And, then, at some point, you find yourself doing that very thing.

You will not find Me gossiping. You will not find Me judgmental. Do you think I am judgmental now? When do you express judgment, and when love? Take a look. You may think that judgment is in the interests of the person you judge, and I am saying to take your hands off others' lives and take care of your own.

I do not talk behind your back, beloveds. I judge you not. Judgment is a condemnation. It matters that you uplift the world. Nothing interferes with My love for you. My love for you is My love for you. In summer and in winter, My love for you is intact. My love for you is My love for you. I do not withhold it.

I gave you free will. That is not the same as to say: "Anything goes." I do not say that anything goes. I am telling you now squarely that negativity in all its shapes and sizes is to leave your consciousness. You are not to keep negativity. You are not to harbor it in any way, not by a glance, not by any way.

You make a mistake, and I love you just the same. I do not whisper about you behind My hand. Because you make a mistake, I don't decide you are scandalous.

I talk to you. I seat you on My lap, and I speak to you. I ask you to be a lover rather than a census-taker, for it is not for you to censure others.

Lead by example. There is nothing else for you to do. Come from love and not from self-aggrandizement. Be wary of your ego that you do not inflate it at someone else's expense. Care for others more than your own ego. Be a person of consideration. Be considerate. Take care of what you say and how you say it. Be greater and not lesser. Be great. Be the Greatness I made you. Be it.


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