HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3883 Love Is a State of Consciousness , July 13, 2011
God said:
It is love that surpasseth all understanding. Love is not explainable. Love is its own level of understanding. Love loves, and what more is there to say?
Only, what is often taken for love, bears little resemblance to love. Love does not ask: “What is in it for me?”
Love is not like customs that lets some people in and not others. Love does not pick and choose. Love admits all to its shores. The halt and the lame. The strong and hardy. Love welcomes all. This is what love loves to do, just to be what it is, immutable, irreversible, no-man-can-put-asunder-love.
Love is vast and knows not narrow shoals.
Love is not an island. Love is not isolated. It is a state. It is its own state of consciousness. Love gives no entrance exams. Love furthers itself. Love loves. It does not love in bits and pieces. Love is not particular. It serves no other purpose than loving, loving for love’s sake, loving for My sake, loving for the sake of love and love’s upliftment for all. Love has no shopping list. We are talking of love far beyond personal love. It might be called impersonal love, and yet there is nothing impersonal about it. Love is heart to heart. It travels and never leaves. There is no regulation to love. Love has no standards, and, therefore, it has the highest standards of all. It is love, and not a caption or semblance of love. Love falls on all.
Like mist, love falls on all. Love is irrespective of titles or wealth or anything at all. Rain and mist fall on all, irrespective of station in life, and so does love. Love does not dilute itself or give itself out only in certain directions. Love fills every nook and cranny. It could be said that love is its own man. It does not take orders from anywhere except from itself, and its order is: “Love everywhere. Love everything. Love everyone.”
Love knows it has the whole world and beyond to love and everyone and everything in the world and beyond. Love has no limits. Love has no considerations except its going out and loving all in its path, and everyone and everything is its path.
What reward can love have but to be itself? What is greater than love?
Certainly not ego. Ego is fussy. Love is not. Love aspires to nothing but to everything. Love puts an X on every door. Love peeks in every window, sits in every chair, blesses every corner in every house, and kisses every pebble on the street.
True love does not discriminate. True love never calls a halt to itself. True love never forages for scraps. It needs nothing. It has everything. It is everything. True love loves to spread itself everywhere without exception.
True love asks for no thanks. It is not wounded if you do not love back. True love goes everywhere but invades nowhere. It is unobtrusive. It does not require accolades. It is simply strong stalwart love that sings its song to all. It does not have a loud voice. Its voice is sweet.
True love is not an imitator. It is original and true. It camps everywhere and is happy everywhere. Love had no boundaries. Therefore, it is boundless.
If you do not see love everywhere, you are mistaken. Look again.
If you cannot at the present give out love fully to everyone everywhere, and that is likely the case, then don’t miss all the love that is flowing to you. See it, and acknowledge it, and your own outpouring of love will grow before your very eyes.

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HEAVEN #3882 You Simply Radiate Love, July 12, 2011
God said:
When your heart is full of love, you do not have a check list that you go through before you love. There are not certain standards that you impose on your heart. You let your heart be. You do not intercede on love’s behalf nor do you intercept or interrupt it. You simply radiate love, not just here or there, but everywhere.
It is not that you are intoxicated with love. You are simple unobtrusive love that knows no clock, that knows no determinant. Love loves because love loves. Nothing, not anything, vanquishes the love in a steady heart. You have adopted the world and all in it. You go steady with the world. Your heart is pinned to all. Your love does not go only to the most popular nor does your love go only to the most unpopular. Your love gives what everyone needs of it.
You do not name your love. You do not give it an identity. Your love is simply love emanating. Your aura is love, and your substance is love.
Just as your appetite for food invariably arises and needs no prodding from you, so does your love arise. It arises on its own without urging.
It is not that you are thinking about love constantly. It is just that your love is constant. I say your love. Of course, I mean My love in your heart is constant. Our love occurs without machination. Ego and its pal judgment fly out the window. It is natural to love. Any impediments to the naturalness of love are gone. It is no big to-do to love. It is so relaxing.
Whoever comes to your awareness, your heart finds joy in. You recognize My presence in everyone. And so you give your love to Me faultlessly, seamlessly. It is so easy to give love when there are no perimeters around it.
If you have built fences around your heart, and you have, admit that you have, now you dig up those fences, or you simply climb over them or go around them. In any case, they no longer exist for you. You never needed those fences. You thought you did. You thought you had to keep love out or under your command. You thought you had to love only sometimes, and only a little bit, only when you were compensated for it, or someone had earned your love by your measures.
Now you know that your love is measureless, real, evoked by itself. Your love requires not even a thank you. There are no limits to your love. There is no heartache, for your love is given silently and totally. You cannot help but give your love.
No longer are you something special because you love. It is ordinary for you to love. You are love, and your love emanates the way a rose spreads its essence. You become the attar of love. This is all because you see Me everywhere, and you know what you see.
You would not leave even one expression of Me loveless. You have become the lover of the Universe. You have expanded vision. You see that every molecule is made of My love. Every molecule of My love captures you. In one sense, you are simply responding to My love. Someone may scowl at you, and yet you see My smile.
You do not honor yourself for this growing love. You are thankful for it. You enjoy it, yet you do not pat yourself on the back for it. You know that the love you give is Mine. You know – I speak not of knowledge but of richness of heart -- you know that you are giving My love back to Me, and you think nothing of it.
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HEAVEN #3881 Enough of Requirements for Love , July 11, 2011
God said:
What is love worth? How big can love grow? True love, love that is not dependent upon the external, love that arises from your heart and alights everywhere, love that depends upon itself and itself alone. It isn’t dependent upon anyone or anything but itself. The love I speak of never runs out of itself. That is because love is the fuel to its own fire. True love is its own kindling. Love sees with the eyes of love. There are no splinters in the eyes of love. I love you young, and I love you old.
As you grow in love, not your capacity for love, for your capacity of love is utter right now, but as you grow in giving love without requiring certain attributes, then you love as I do love. Then you love because you love. Then you are love radiant that lights up any room and all the beating hearts in the room.
This is not a scholarly treatise I give. I am giving you the straight goods. The love you can give is equal to the love I give. I give without doubt. I am not mushy, yet I give love the same way you breathe. Love is Mine to give, and I give it. I give it fulsomely.
Once you countermand ego, then you too can give love without requirement. Whatever someone thinks of Me or does not think of Me does not alter My love. My love is a given. There is no way to stop the flow of My love. The little considerations that influence your love are not considerations to Me. I love because I love. Whether you are true to Me or not leaves no mark on My love. Nothing touches My love. The love I give is a given. My heartbeat cannot be stopped. It cannot be paused. My love is and it pours in sunshine or in rain. It pours in Heaven, and it pours on Earth. Love, which is never routine, never fluctuates in this heart of Mine.
My heart is full of love, and I have no ego. I do not have a speculated need to make Myself important. I do not have to have applause or even approbation or any standing at all. And you don’t either. Your heart doesn’t require the prods to love that the world holds sacred. We are not speaking of personal love here. We are not speaking of the mad dash of love that is rampant on Earth. We are not speaking of love that is dependent upon anything at all.
We are talking about your natural vision. When your eyes are clear, when judgment and ego leave, you too are left with love that soars and displaces all the riff-raff that got deposited in your heart. Enough of requirements for love.
Just love. You do not need someone to be a certain height before you can love him. He does not have to be of a certain profession. He doesn’t have to be somebody. He can be anybody. There are no illusions to your love once you get the hang of it. You simply love. You simply love, and your love covers everyone.
This is not an effort, you understand. If you have to cringe in order to exhale love, that may be noble, but it is not love. Love is not noble, you understand. Love exacts no price. There is no bargaining with love. Love is a state of consciousness, and once you see from a larger vantage, once you remove hidden and unhidden judgment, you will simply love. There will be love, and you will be it.

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HEAVEN #3880 You Are the Sunshine of God’s Life , July 10, 2011
God said:
Be still today, and know I am God. What else is it that you need to know? The word God, or any word you have for God, signifies all the love on Earth and in Heaven. It is momentous that there is a God, and that He or She is yours. I am yours. I am infinitely yours. There is always more of Me, and there is always more of you.
I cast you before Me. I liked what I saw. I like what I see. I see more than even your mother sees. I see the True You. My vision is not hobbled by the past and the eyes of the world. I see clearly. I see you clearly, and I am well-pleased. I see the True You. I see that you are made of beauty. I see that you are made of love. I see greater than your mother, and I see a greater expanse than you see. By far, I see farther than you. I see all the way to Me. I see Me in you. I also see that you don’t see far enough. Tunnel vision you have, I see.
You are a wonder of a human being. You are amazing. And sometimes you are amazing at your lack of vision. Time and time again, you put off seeing yourself as you are. You think that seeing yourself as you are is a rather shady thing. No, you are the sunshine of My life. All that there is in the world I have given you. It is not a hope chest that I have filled. It is your heart that I have filled. And I fill it again and again until you know what your heart of God contains.
There is no need for you to fill your heart with dregs from the past. Empty your heart of them. The past was only a moment in made-up time. The past was nothing at all. If you didn’t like the past, all the more reason to let it go by the wayside. And if you did like the past, then know there are wonders yet to appear, just as you appeared, seemingly from the mist. It certainly feels like you are a walk-in. You wandered in, and you haven’t yet quite figured out who you are and what you are doing here.
Why, you are here for Me. I asked you to come. You said you were glad to, and now you are not so sure. It doesn’t matter. You are here. You are here on Earth to stay for your allotted time, and then to return to My heart which you have never left anyway.
You are a mythological figure. That you exist on Earth as a body is a myth. You do exist on Earth, and yet you exist as a soul on Earth inside a human body. The body has its uses, and yet the body is the least of you, the very least, and the biggest illusion of all. Everyone falls for it and considers himself the body and little more when, the fact is, that you are much more. The body isn’t much. Nevertheless, enjoy being a body. Enter into the experiment. Relish human life.
True, you have many decisions to make. Decisions arise for you to make. Choose life. Choose life in all its colors, vibrant colors. Life is not lackluster, beloveds. Life holds great opportunity for you. If you have not yet realized who you are, then realize that you are a rose in bloom, and you bloom for all time. Infinite are you. Infinite is the truth of you. I made you, and I know what you are made of. You are the real thing. You are not tinsel or glitter, although you do shine. Indeed, you do shine.

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HEAVEN #3879 Ego Leads You down the Garden Path, July 9, 2011
God said:
“Come into my parlor,” said the spider to the fly.
Ego operates like the spider to the fly. So tempting. So coaxing. So promising.
Ego will make you important. Ego will make you the King of the World. It will dress you and flaunt you.
Ego will make you the Queen who looks in the mirror and is the fairest of all, is the fairest of all until ego drops you in favor of another.
Even if ego would deliver all the promises it makes, it gives you little. Ego needs are hard to appease. Ego leaves you wanting. Even if you win star billing, a fortune, adoration everywhere, it is little. It is not enough. Ego persuades you that happiness is yours when you are the fairest of all, or the mightiest of all, or when you gain a contract or a beautiful home or a beautiful wife or whatever ego seduces you into believing will bring you happiness.
Ego taunts you, teases you, leads you to believe that happiness is around the corner, that all you need is one more thing that only ego can provide, and then there is another thing and another that you require before happiness can be yours. And so you spend a lifetime with ego leading you down the garden path. Ego lies to you, and ego leads you by the nose. Ego is so convincing. Ego holds out its hand, and you follow ego the way a dog would follow a piece of meat.
You fall for ego time and time again. It is your ego that tells you that you have not been fully appreciated. It is your ego that tells you that you must have the latest shade of lipstick or first prize or the handsomest or richest of husbands. Ego will lead you astray at every turn, and it would seem that you never learn. Ego sets its traps, and you fall into them as if you were a novice.
It is good to be innocent with life but not with ego. Be sophisticated with ego. Be aware. Be wary. Ego does not give you a foundation.
You don’t have to be the belle of the ball. You do not have to be famous. Everyone does not have to love your dress or fulfill your fictitious needs. You do not have to be the first in line. You just have to be love. And, just as you were told as a young child, you have to share. What you really have to have is the desire to share. Sharing without your heart behind it is just a motion. Life as it has been lived has had very many motions without your full heart behind them. Otherwise, why would manners have to be taught? Who would have to be trained to give his seat on the bus to someone who needs it more? Who would have to be told to share?
It is natural to share. It is unnatural to not share. Ego would whisper in your ear that there is an advantage in selfishness, yet selfishness had to be taught. Giving love does not have to be taught. What young child does not pluck a dandelion to give to his mother? No one told him: “Pick a dandelion to give to your mother to show your love for her.”
It is natural to serve. Serving does not mean erasing yourself. Serving means knowing yourself and knowing that all service is to Me. When you serve another, you are in service to Me. When you are in service to one of Mine, you serve Me. You are also one of Mine. When you are in service to Me, you have a vaster picture of yourself in the world. You have no desire to inflate yourself. And so you zap ego’s presumed power, and you come into your own.

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HEAVEN #3878 Smile at God, July 8, 2011
God said:
You give Me great happiness. You make Me Who Knows Only Happiness happy. I am already smiling, and you make Me smile. Although I know true happiness that is beyond happiness occasioned by this or that, I will nevertheless credit you with My happiness. My happiness cannot be added unto, and, yet, you add to My happiness. My smile cannot be wider, and yet you make Me smile from ear to ear. If I were a flower, it could be said that you make Me blossom from year to year. You make Me blossom infinitely. I smile a smile that has no beginning and no end. I am One Big Smile. You make Me smile. You make Me laugh. Smile back at Me, and the Universe is happy. You, Who are made in My image, smile back at Me. Let Me see you smile now.
The way I see it, there is no occasion not to love. Not loving is not exactly putting your best foot forward, you understand. What can the merit in unhappiness be? Whom does it profit? No one I know.
No longer make excuses for holding unhappiness to you. Blast unhappiness away from the face of the Earth. Imagined unhappiness exists nowhere else. It is a surface thing that runs amok on the surface of life, and that unhappiness belies the Truth of you. Unhappiness is a lie.
And so I say that you are My happiness. And so I say that you add to My happiness. You round Me out. You make Me fulsome. Even as you cannot add a single filament of happiness to Me, I say you do. That is to say that I am grateful to you for the richness you add to the world. The world would be bereft without you. What would occupy the world if you were not here, even if you may be here grumbling? Grumble away for the last time and be done with grumbling and come over here and smile at Me and smile at the world and be a Happiness-Maker. Now is the time. I see you smiling now.
Happiness is yours. Why not? Someone is happy, why not you? Why not be happy this moment of non-existent time? Just as you would choose to dance a tango, choose happiness. You are on the dance floor of life. Enter into the dance of your choice.
Why would anyone choose unhappiness? It makes no sense. Well, perhaps you thought you were obliged to serve unhappiness, as if you owed it to the world, as if you owed it to yourself, as though unhappiness were a life sentence and you would not be paroled.
Parole yourself. You have gotten good at dancing the dance of unhappiness. Now choose another rhythm. Come, come dance with Me. I know One Dance, and I invite you to the Ballroom of Happiness. I have added you to My dance card. Accept now. Why wait?
Of course, My offer is good for all-time. Of course, My offer has no conditions. My offer never runs out. It is beyond My understanding why or how you could ever say, “No, thank You,” to Me, or, “Thanks, no thanks,” or even, unbelievable as it may be, to not even hear Me invite you to dance with Me. My arms are stretched out to you. There is no one I would rather dance with than you. Easily, I am One Dance Partner for all. I accommodate everyone.
This is not a Masquerade Ball that I invite you to. It is the furthest thing from a masquerade. It is overdue that you take off your masks. If you have not been happy, you have been wearing a mask of unhappiness. True, you believed in it. You were sincere. And you were also mistaken.

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HEAVEN #3877 Like the Budding of Crocus in Spring, July 7, 2011
God said:
If you were to come before Me today, what would you say? And what would you not say? Would you say anything at all? What would there be to say?

Perhaps you would be silent and just sit in the glow of My Presence. Perhaps you would just want to observe. Perhaps you would simply adore, and adoring would be enough for you.

You will have some idea of the adoration I hold you in.

Of God you adore. Of God I adore. You are of Me. We have mutual adoration. There is none other like it.

As you stand before Me, it is like your heart is swept into Mine. Your presence is swept into Mine. You become One with Me which you ever were, only you had previously dismissed that possibility as if it were a big come-on and not an absolute Truth. You do not sacrifice yourself to Me. You do give away your worldly identity. This is not sacrifice. You absorb yourself into My Self. You recognize Our Oneness. You merge with Me. You let go of the minnow and enjoin with the whale. The King and the Prince are One. You melt into Our love. We are like a kiss that never ends. Our kiss is infinite. We are on the same page.

In our embrace, there is no wandering. In Infinity, there is no place to wander. There is no place. We can poetize and say that no place is Our Palace. We live in a palace of golden light. We have come to this.

You have abdicated the throne of ego. You left the fancy clothes behind you, for now you have the True Gold, and need no finery. You have no need of gold embroidery to adorn you. Now you are the True Golden Light. Anything else is imitation. It is a semblance. Beloveds, you have won the pot of gold that is over the rainbow.

You are embedded in the Heart of God. You are stabilized here. In My heart is where We hold court. My heart is the court of love where Silence stands tall and love is known in its essence and where nothing else but love is known. My heart is full of love, and you are in My heart. Love is utterly still here. Our love encompasses the world. Sunlight glitters on the leaves of love. All bows to Our love, and so all grows tall. Bowing to love is rising. There is no lowering. Bowing is rising to Greatness. It is leaving the past behind, and so love rises like mist and overtakes the Universe.

There is a Universe of Love. It rests in Our heart. It is content here in the Heart of Love. The Universe is one-hearted.

How could anything so powerful as love ever have been submerged in pretense of awayness from Oneness? When was love ever not joined with love? Only in a fantasy. And yet that fantasy was believed in. Anger even arose amidst a field of flowers so vibrant and full of love that it was inexplicable that flowers so beautiful could bloom and that anything else but flowers could be noted. Thorns were an impossibility, and yet the thorn of anger arose to storm at itself.

What matters anything when We are love like the budding of a crocus in spring? What matters anything when love is in bloom, and it blooms in all hearts. Let this be a secret no longer. We are infinite love. There are no exceptions. There are stories of less than love. Such stories are fading. No one wants to read such stories any longer. Love has risen, and love is risen, and We are wholly love, and so what else can there be?

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HEAVEN #3876 Whichever Road You Choose, July 6, 2011
God said:
When you feel conflict, when the rumblings of doubt start to reach you, take a time out. Life is not so much right or wrong as you tend to think. That you take one road or the other is not so crucial as you believe. There are many good roads. You are not at an impasse. You can choose.
What you believe is not such a crucial matter either.
There is Oneness, and, yet, in the world, you do not have to be of one mind. You prefer one movie, and your friend prefers another. And you both are Mine. You are Mine, and you are also yours.
There are many choices before you. You are looking for all good. You are looking for good as if there is a finality to good.
When you have two good choices, you can’t go wrong!
If you have two worthwhile job offers, and you are looking for a job, you have to take one or the other. I don’t know that weighing all attributes gives you your answer. A good answer is to take one or the other. Follow your heart over attributes.
Perhaps you favor one job over the other, but the other pays better. There are many factors. How do you know the temperature of the water until you dip your toe in? Who can count all the factors and know beforehand what will work best? Does ego enter? Probably. Possibly. Possibly ego tells you to take the job with higher pay. Possibly ego tells you that you are better to take the job that you like better. Ego is a tremendous operative in your life. You do not always know what is ego and what is not. Maybe both choices are ego. But why complicate it? Make a choice. You succeed when you make a choice. When a choice is before you, you have a choice. You can abstain, but not forever.
How grand it would be if you could have the idea that there are no mistakes. Even if you should choose the higher-paid job and regret it, how can you say it is a mistake? Even if you should choose the job your heart is drawn to, you could regret. How can you say it is a mistake to make a choice? Beloveds, your life is not to be lived on the operative of regret.
Living your life by fear of regret is like watching out for terrorists. It is better to watch out for the good guys.
In terms of choices, sometimes you may have two not so good choices. You may find you are faced with a job you don’t want or no job. No one can make these choices for you. Be happy when you make your choice.
Be happy when you are free from the alternative of two wrong choices. Some people are faced with the choice of which bank to steal from. How fortunate are you to have amiable choices before you.
Some people feel at the brink of choosing one religion or another or no religion. I AM. Regardless of your affiliation, I AM. I am a God of Everywhere. I am not an isolate God.
In one sense, you can only choose Me. There are not variant Gods to choose from whatever the world may say.
Where your heart leans can change. Meanwhile, you make a choice.
Do not concern yourself with making a choice that aligns only with My Will. Do you know what is My Will? My Will is, when you must make a decision, that you make it. When there is a crossroad to pass, pass it. I will be down whichever road you choose.

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HEAVEN #3875 Joy Is Better Than Grief , July 5, 2011
God said:
What am I to do with you, and what are you to do with Me?
I think We have something to do with each other. I think We are in a Vast Partnership. I think We grew up together and made a pact to love each other no matter what. And even as We signed Our pact, We knew that there was no matter, and that all that existed was Our love, Our love that coursed through Eternity and right back to Our hearts. And so Our hearts surrounded the world, and We surrendered to love in humility and gratitude.
So, what is there to think about but Our love as it whirls and swirls through Eternity and never finishes? In fact, Our love never began. It always was. There never was a beginning and there can be no end. All that can be is Our love, Our love that is all-encompassing.
How blessed We are with each other. How perfect. How unassailable is Our love, although there are those who would assail it. Maybe even you. Maybe even you have assailed Our love, questioned its merit, doubted its existence. You have a tendency to have your mind made up about precluded conditions for love and you fear, even conclude, that I do not live up to your presumptive conclusions.
Sometimes you even doubt My intentions. In your bracelet of thought, it was okay for Me to create life, yet I had no right to create death of the body or to even create many of the paths along life, like meeting and parting, like love gained and love lost, like getting a job and losing it, like anything at all that justifies your plaints against life as it is. What do you think you are going to change, My beloveds? Your protests will not undo life nor will your protests undo death as you perceive it.
You see, your mind has made a small circle, like a bracelet too small to fit any wrist.
What you must do is string beads of thought that leap from one bead to another. Make a bracelet or a necklace that fits around all of Creation. Take not away even one bead from Creation. Life is not always or even often what you declare it ought to be, and, yet, it is life circular and spectacular. There is nothing like it. What can compare to life? It is perfectly life, and life is your golden opportunity.
Do not swindle yourself. Make hay while the sun shines. Drink the nectars of life. Come to this party. Come with your whole heart. You are already here, so you might as well join in. Open the keg of life and celebrate. Let’s celebrate life rather than bemoan it. Get off that track. Come to the party to enjoy and to spread joy to others.
Become a party-goer. In fact, throw parties. Invite all to this party of life.
Enjoy now. Do not delay joy. Anything that delays joy in life is there for you to step over, not to stop you. Death of a loved one is not to stop you. You owe your loved one to keep on living the life that I gave you. There is no excuse for you to abandon joy. Of course, I understand the human dilemmas, yet they are of your making. Even though you have inherited them, they are of your own making. Joy is better than grief. Anyone knows that. Do your grieving, and then catch the bus of joy again. Life is precious. Let joy be its motto. Love carries joy with it. If you did not have the concept of loss, joy would be your constant companion.
Wipe your tears. Be joyful now.

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HEAVEN #3873 In the Oneness of Love , July 3, 2011
God said:
What can We do but sit down together. Let’s put Our feet up, and talk or not talk. We can just sit together without words. We can sit together with peace filling Our hearts. We can be beside Our One Self with joy. We are positioned together. That of Me which is called you cannot make a move without My Presence close to you, next to you, or in front, or following behind. Nor can I make a move without your following Me or anticipating Me. We are Oneness.
Neither of Us is a shadow, and yet, you are a reflection of Me. Made in My image, you are the image of Me. As you become more comfortable with Me, as you breathe better and following the urgings of My heart, We merge. What We have always been to one another becomes very clear, and you stand in My shoes. You are not a stand-in. You are not a substitute. You are the spitting image of Me. We are unable to tell each other apart. You could say that We are Twin Souls, only it is really that We are One. We are one Oneness indivisible. We are God in that Our heartbeats are united, and We love the same. Melded in love, We are One Love forevermore. Distinctions fade. Oneness, as if it were possible, grows. We are merged but not submerged. We are merged, and neither of Us casts a shadow. Neither precedes nor follows. Our DNA is the same. Our purity of heart is the same. Our Oneness allows for no detours. We are One in breath and One in truth and One in love, such love is Our Oneness. We love, and there is nothing more to be said. We love as though there is nothing else, and that is the case. There is nothing else. We swoon into love, and We can never stop. We don’t want to get out of it, and We can’t. The Truth has dawned, and there is no longer falsehood. There is only Truth. No discrepancies are known. No discrepancies exist, and there is no one to know them.
We dip into the Ocean of Our One Heart, and We sail across it. We swim in love. On sea or land, Our love inculcates everything. It is as though We are inoculated with love. Edges blur. There are no edges. There are no outlines. Nothing is surrounded, and nothing is isolate. Oneness is fullness. It certainly isn’t separation. Oneness blossoms and blossoming continues. Once set in motion, Our flowering Oneness echoes itself, and We begin Creation anew, as if it were anew, for it remains a continuation of Oneness. Oneness radiating Itself all over the Cosmos of Creation. We are cosmic. We are Oneness cosmically involved.
We are a tour de force. We are the everything of nothingness, and We are firm, and We are wonderful, and We are invincible and pliant at the same time. We are Everything unto Our Oneness. We leave nothing out. All is woven together into Oneness, and Oneness alone is. Love and Oneness are inseparable. They are indistinguishable. God wears no crown. If crown there be, it is a Crown of Love that We are crowned with. All We know is love, and that is enough to know, and that is enough to be, and that is enough to live. We live in Oneness, and We live in love, and love comes everywhere with Us.
How happy We are to be One, to be the One of All, inviolate in the Oneness of Love.

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HEAVEN #3874 Be the Glory, July 4, 2011
God said:
Hear ye, hear ye. I am speaking to you. There is not a moment when I am not. There are moments when you hear. Will you kindly speak to Me? Carry Me with you. Talk to Me as you would to a high-priced consultant. Here you have Me at your fingertips, as it were, and may not avail yourself of Our consultancy.
Even if you cannot hear Me in words, you can hear Me in feeling. You feel an urge to go in this direction or that direction. Something urges you forward or something stops you. Could it be I? Could I be at your elbow?
Certainly, there are times when you don't know what direction to take, and, yet, there are more times when you do know, and, yet, a little nudge from ego takes you down a path that does not serve you, or Me or anyone at all, well, except as a warning sign of a path not to go down.
One who steals justifies his stealing, as if stealing were just a slight turn in the world, as if your perceived need warranted it. If you steal in any sense of the word, you have made yourself needy. If you take honor that is not yours, you have stolen. If you take an invention that you did not invent as yours, you have stolen. If you take credit which is not yours, you have done a disservice to yourself. You walk on hollow land.
Can you imagine that I would advise you to take that which is not yours?
And, once, you have done the deed, do you think I am no longer at your elbow? I am right with you as ever, nudging you now. I will pick you up. I will embrace you as before.
No longer are you to hide behind any mask. Theft is a mask. Cruelty is a mask. Heartache is a mask. Cleverness is a mask. Wit is a mask. Take off your masks, and you will find sincerity ready to come forth.
Sincerity is good. Sincere regret beats haughty pride, for regret shows recognition that you have passed a hurdle. Of course, let go of regret quickly. Regret is not a harbor. It is not an inn to stay in, not for even one night. Regret can also be a kind of pride. Pride at regret and pride of virtue are their own stumbling blocks, and are hard to get past. No longer rank yourself, and stop ranking others. Confide in Me. I am with you now. Tell Me your story, not someone else's. There is no delight in making comparisons.
Come out of the shadows. Put down your defenses. Do you defend yourself from Me? I know you better than you know yourself. I know in Whose image you are Made. You don't seem to believe it. You refuse to believe it, so inculcated have you been in the mirage of fault. You pick out your faults in a blink of an eye, and, sad as it is, you run away from the Wholeness that you are. Really, would you rather be a broken twig than a whole growing tree?
In Whose image do you want to be made other than in Mine? And in Whose image would I want to make you other than Mine? There is not even another image for Me to make you in. I am the only Image there is, and I am way beyond image, and you are greater than image. I am telling you that you are the real thing.
Take off your cloaks and masks, and just be the glory that I made when I made you.

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HEAVEN #3871 Logic Falls Apart , July 1, 2011
God said:
What is so terrible in the fact that you are not perfectly realized as yet? Is this a crime you have committed, that you are human?
On one hand, you may have little regard for yourself and let yourself be discouraged so easily by almost anything. On the other hand, at the same time, you may also like to consider yourself the cat’s pajamas. You alternate between extremes. You are on top of the world, or you dwell on your imperfections. Be imperfect then. Be perfectly imperfect. Honor yourself. Don’t fall into traps of your own making.
You don’t have to rest on your laurels, nor do you have to try to be perfect. You are perfect now as you are, and yet you have room to grow. It is natural to grow. You don’t have to shackle yourself in order to grow. You do not have to run a gauntlet. You certainly don’t have to set up the gauntlet you run through.
You could make yourself a welcome guest on Earth. You can be hospitable to yourself.
When someone makes a remark that does not suit you, you don’t have to be dismayed. You may well have a lot to learn from this dismaying person, and yet you don’t have to run across coals. You can be sympathetic to yourself as well as to another. You belong where you are. You have every right to be here.
Of course, the truth is that you are established in My heart. And yet, on more than one occasion, you have become dismayed at something I may have said. The case is, sometimes but not always, the more you resist, the more you need to hear. You do not want to dismiss out of hand what I say.
What do you want to teach others? What do you want others to learn from you? Perhaps you think I find fault with you. If you find fault with Me, why would you? If I tell you to stop biting your fingernails, must you be so sensitive? Must you become overwrought with what I say?
I would love to see you recognize the power of appreciation. In some circles, this is called gratitude. I would like to call it awareness. Of course, you are going to become more aware. You haven’t thought you were on top of everything, have you?
There is no need for you to agree with everything I say. There is also no need for you to refute what I say either. You, who object to fault, are not required to prove yourself right and, therefore, that I am mistaken and need to change My views. If the shoe fits, wear it. If the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t wear it. It is not for you to waste your time in arguments.
Where We abide, you and I, is not in the intellect. We are not an intellectual pursuit. We are awareness, and We are awareness in the heart. Logic falls apart. Logic cannot go all the way. Logic is based on a premise that you can argue one level on another level. In fact, you will do well to escape from logic. Logic has a narrow view and can go only so far.
You can go everywhere. Logic can only take you so far. It is better for you to be imperfect than to convince yourself that you know everything. Above all, why would you defend yourself to Me when I, most of all, love you as you are? I do not overlook you. I never take My heart off you.
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HEAVEN #3872 You Can Inspire, July 2, 2011
God said:
Consider responsibility. Remember that you represent Me. You can be real and represent Me. Just remember that you represent Me. Consider how you represent Me.
You can inspire. You can authentically inspire even when you do not feel inspired. You don’t have to let everyone know what you are thinking or feeling at any given moment. Even when you feel like whining, you don’t have to. Who are you to whine? You have other alternatives at your disposal.
What does being a responsible person mean?
Certainly it is not your responsibility to discourage the world. Certainly it is not your responsibility to point out the errors of the world. Who asked you to? Certainly not I!
I never meant you to broadcast the newspaper headlines. I never asked you to speak ill of the world. I never asked you to air its foibles.
Because you feel disappointed is no reason to foster disappointment in the world. It doesn’t take much to be good at fostering disappointment. Be good at something else.
I ask you to go higher, and I mean now, not later, not just for when you feel like it. I ask you to spread light even when you don’t feel like it. Uplift even when you do not feel like it, and you will be uplifted. It is not for you to share the doldrums. If you feel you must be in the doldrums, then at least do not invite others in. What are you trying to prove? Are you trying to prove that you are a victim? Why on Earth would you want to do that? Prove that you are a hero instead.
Is it asking too much of you that I ask you, once and for all, to stop complaining? The time for moaning and groaning is over. It is time to put a stop to it. There has been enough. The end of complaining has come. What was the purpose in complaining anyway? What kind of accomplishment is complaint anyway? Anyone can do it. There are probably some who can do it better than you, but why complain at all? It is an old song. Be tired of it.
What is so revelatory about your disappointment and your disapproval? What is it that prompts you to carry on with it? If you have been complaining, stop now. It does not become a child of God to whine. Not at all. It is not necessary. Why would you gripe and gripe again when there are so many other choices before you?
Why would you gripe if only to yourself? Do you really want to hear about it over and over again? Is it music to your ears? Are you really so in love with all the reasons why you are too straightforward to uplift the world?
Your mission in life cannot be to complain. I ask you to let go of pointing out wrongs, personal wrongs or otherwise.
Who wants to hear you moan about the rain or anything? Be edifying instead. Look, can’t you find something interesting to talk about? If there is something you have said once, don’t say it again. Well, don’t say it again unless it is far-seeing and opens the hearts of all those who hear you.
Why on Earth would you want to be a heart-closer when you have the opportunity of opening hearts and opening the whole world to itself? When you can circulate love, why aren’t you?
I ask for your help in enlightening the world. Did you not know that? If you did not know that, why didn’t you? And if you know that now, well, then, act on it. This is your responsibility. It is your responsibility to inspire the world. This is what I ask of you. If you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, then pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

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HEAVEN #3869 Leave the Sandy Shore, June 29, 2011
God said:
In one sense, your world, as you know it, is the whole world. Yet an isolated world is hardly a piece of the pie. The whole world is yours to embrace. A world limited to just yourself pales next to the entire World of Oneness.
If the world were a board game, your individual world is only the first tile you land on. The game can’t rest on it. If you stayed in your singular world and didn’t embrace Oneness, that would be like staying on the shore and never entering the Ocean that is right there. A step or two and you would be swimming in the Ocean. How the Ocean has been longing for you.
All the other little separated worlds that there are, so to speak, have also been longing for you. They didn’t know your name, and yet they knew their longing. It is for your sake and for the sake of others that you are to leave the sandy shore and enter the Ocean. Dip your toe, or dive in. No matter how you enter, timidly or boldly, you will get wet. You will splash and swim, and, soon enough, you will not even be able to imagine staying on the dry shore.
You have entered an Ocean of World Consciousness. You carry greater importance now, certainly not less. You lost yourself on the shore. In the mid of the Ocean, you find yourself. You have been longing for yourself. You have been lonely for yourself.
Isolated on the shore, you were missing the Fullness of Life. A life for yourself alone is not much of a life, sorry to say. It is like your taking one pickle from the pickle barrel all the while when you could delve deeply into the barrel and be an aggregate of the whole pickle barrel. This is a poor image, for who wants to be a pickle?
So be the sun instead and know you sustain the Creation that I made in your honor.
Honor Me with your presence. Honor all.
You cannot be a little minnow who swims in a bowl. Be a whale who swallows the whole Ocean and therefore recognizes its Oneness.
It has been said that I am All That There Is. Beloveds, so are you. You are the Heart of Life. You are the Heart of Consciousness. Must I pin a note on you that says Who You Are as though you were an orphan sent on a train?
Do you need your Identity in writing? Truly, never mind about what anyone else knows. Let’s get right down to it. It matters what you know.
Knowing the Truth of Your Identity, the Truth of Our Identity, you do not wander. You are not restless. You are not fluttery. You are as solid as the Entire Universe. As you expand, you are not spread thin. Don’t think of it that way. You are as light as air, and yet you are solid. You are a solid citizen of Creation. You and all the others who realize Oneness harness the world and pull it forward. You are glad to carry the world high and to carry the world far and to heighten the world right where it is. When all shoulders work together, how easy is life and the travels in it.
It is now that you can relax, for you are in a lineage of angels, and you carry the world high as if it were your very breath, and, so, you become the Breath of the World and a blessing to Me.
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HEAVEN #3870 Riding the Waves, June 30, 2011
God said:
We are entangled, and it is lovely, the entanglement We are in. In Our love, We are embraced. We are so embraced that We are One. We are One Lovely Entanglement. Who can say that the waves of the Ocean are separate from the Ocean? The waves cavort on the surface, and yet the waves are manifestations of the Ocean. I think the waves sport on the top of the Ocean. They sure like to have fun.
Now, you, splash on the surface of the Ocean, and have fun. No longer think for even one moment that you are here riding the waves in order to suffer. No, beloveds, you are to leap in love and show the world how to leap high. You are to cry out: “Fun, fun, fun.”
Riding the waves is meant to be fun and nothing but fun. Who invented the concept of suffering, loss, detriment etc.? Who accepted it? I never said that you, My children, flesh of My Spirit, were to suffer. Will you get away from the idea of suffering, and so suffer not? In life, you go through a deck of cards. The Jack of Spades is not to call suffering to you. Each card offers you something. Neither storm nor death is to deter you from the delight of life. No one told you that there would not be such things as loss of limb and life. The point is that you are a dolphin leaping the water. You have life. Think about that. You have the sport of Kings.
From the Ocean you leapt, and to the Ocean you return. You are forevermore in the Ocean. The depths and heights are both yours.
The seeming tide of life does not have to overwhelm you. Part the Ocean as you would part your hair. In terms of life, there is no parting. Always you swim the depths. You could not leap the heights unless you came from the depths.
You are the real thing, beloveds. What do you think it means that you were made in My image?
And yet you play peek-a-boo with yourself. You, who swim in and out of the Ocean, as it were, never leave it. You Who are the Ocean are the Ocean forever. You are not a stranger to the Ocean. You are the Ocean’s own. The Ocean wants you to splash in it. The Ocean is yours to splash in. Of course, I could say We are the Ocean to swim in. We are the Ocean, and yet, in order for you to hear Me, I say you, and I say I. I do this full well knowing that We are One, and that this is the whole story. We are one. That is the whole grammar. We can’t be other than One, and yet We say We when all the while, We are One and nothing but One, so help Me God.
We are pledged to Our Oneness. There is nothing else to pledge to. There is nothing else that amounts to a hill of beans. There is no Jack and Jill. There is no pail of water. There is nothing but the Oneness of Us which is One.
The One Who speaks is the One Who listens. Speaker and hearer are One. Author and reader are One. The Sun shines, and the Moon is the reflection of the Sun, and the Stars are a million Suns sparkling in the sky, and who enjoys the Sun more than We? And Who is more enjoyed than We?
What can compare to the Oneness of Us when We are One and there is nothing else but Our Oneness?
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HEAVEN #3868 Joy Is Right Around the Corner, June 28, 2011
God said:
What is going to give you joy today, and what joy are you going to give?
Do not go to bed tonight without having given and received joy. If you have no time to receive joy today, then give joy, and you will have killed two birds with one stone.
What if I were to tell you that there is only giving anyway? Would you be disappointed? Joy just can’t be given without being received all by itself. This is the rule of the game. Even a helpless baby is giving joy. Certainly, a baby gives the opportunity for joy.
What more can anyone ask for than opportunity for joy?
Well, opportunity for joy is all around you. Begin to think in terms of giving joy. Let your heart be a town crier who calls out his wares: “Joy today. Samples of joy. Freely given. Generous samples. Take some. Take some home. Take some home for your friends. Help yourselves. Come right up. Take all you want, and come back for more.”
Joy enjoins joy.
It is inevitable that you will give out joy. It is easier to give out joy than anything else. It is easier than grumbling. It is easier than instructing. There is nothing easier. You just haven’t been in the habit. Get into the habit now.
It is your birthright to give joy. You are here on Earth to be a deliverer of joy. You are like someone in a supermarket who passes out samples, only you are always on call. Certainly, receivers of joy can find you, yet you are also free to roam. You will discover that there is no joy like giving out joy. You can let joy slip out almost imperceptibly. Joy does not have to be announced.
How giving out joy works is that, like love, its paramour, you can’t give it out without the wind’s blowing back to you, a fabulous outlay of joy and all that goes with it. Joy is going to hit you in the face, beloveds. You are going to enjoy a whirl of joy, a cyclone of joy, more joy than you have ever known all at once. You are going to be caught up in a vortex of joy, never to return to what might be called a joyless state. You can never return there again. Once joy overtakes, it won’t leave. Joy likes to be with you. It wants you to keep it. It wants you to keep it lively.
No matter how much you give joy away, it will boomerang back to you. You have been caught in joy. Joy is a balloon that takes you with it.
Joy is joy for joy’s sake. Joy, like love, is not to be repressed, held back, made to conform to a preconceived idea. Joy is always at hand, and joy likes to be structuredless. Free-form. Joy loves to be free-form. It will fit anywhere anytime. It has only to be allowed. It’s a pity, but joy needs your permission. Permit it. Permit it now. Give joy license. Imagine a joy license in your wallet.
Look, joy will find you regardless. Even if you are a confirmed grouch, joy will find you. No matter where you hang out, joy will find its way to you. You might as well give in now. You can’t fight joy forever.
Wherever you may stand now, joy is right around the corner. Joy is ready to leap to you. Joy will bop you on the head. It will tickle your ribs. It will start you laughing. It will make you laugh. It will be hard for you to stop laughing, and why, why, would you ever want to stop laughing?

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HEAVEN #3867 The Dawn Has Come, June 27, 2011
God said:
Heigh ho, a day has begun. The dawn lifts up its eyes and glances into yours. All is well. Heigh ho, a day has begun.
The whole world wakes up to a new day. Even in the skylines of New York City, the dawn, heralded by the rosy sun, has made its appearance. The dawn and the skyline are blessed by the sun. All that shines under the sun is blessed. And all shines under the sun.
Yet the sun has no patent on light. As mighty as the sun is, you have light within you that shines as brightly or even brighter. I think We have to say brighter than the sun. The sun, as enlightened as the sun is, is like a stalwart delivery truck that follows a steady route. The sun has a schedule to follow. It is always prompt.
You, on the other hand, have no limits to your delivery. You have no schedule. Your light is simply meant to stay on. No turning it off. Night or day, you can shine your light, and your light reaches far. Your light has long fingers, fingers longer than the rosy fingers of the dawn. Your fingers of light have no end. This is the nature of the light that shines from your heart, or your eyes, or your smile, or from the evidence of your life. Plane down a board, hold a child's hand, lift up your eyes, your light pierces the world. Light from you isn't illusory. It is momentous. It is soul-brightening. It is heart-polishing. It needs no batteries. It runs on light that sustains itself. It needs no batteries, no storage, no timer, no winding like a clock, no unwinding.
The light of the sun is solar. Your light is soul light shining out just the way the sun meets the day. You are full of soul. No one is soul-less. Who on Earth would cover up his light? And yet this has occurred. And yet this has even become commonplace, as if the world were no place for light, as if Earth should have its shades pulled, as if there were no sun, no stars, no reflection on lakes and splashes of light entering the windows and makes itself at home indoors.
If My light is momentous, then yours is the same. You have great light within you. Awareness of the light you are is beginning to dawn on you. Simultaneous are the dawning of awareness and the dawning of light. They are reciprocal in any case. They let in the fresh air. Open your heart wide. Through the windows of your soul, your light will beam across the horizon and enter hearts and nourish hearts. Light will touch their hearts, and the lighted people will not even know where the light came from. They will just know that the light has come. Even from furrowed foreheads, light can come, and light can land, and all on Earth can be light. All can be like light never seen before, like light never quite dancing like this before, like light like a huge chorus line. The dancers' feet never touch the ground. Light travels at the speed of light. Light multiplies itself, and the world is drowned in love. The world swoons in love, and anything but love is knocked out.
This is heigh-ho, the dawn has come. It is not ho-hum. It is heigh-ho, and off We go. We charge across the Universe, light leaping high, light leaving love everywhere to a tune that you have hardly dared dream of and yet is yours to see with, that blinding light of your heart alighted on love and nothing but love.

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HEAVEN #3865 All That You Have Been Given, June 25, 2011
God said:
Give the thoughtful little acts. They mean so much. Visit the lonely, the sick, the poor, and give them occasion to feel better. Sometimes all it takes is a little attention. I will call this survival of the fittest, you being the fittest, beloveds. Survive by giving to others that which is yours to give.
You will find many occasions to bless someone, and so you are blessed. You are blessed twofold. You are blessed by your ability to give, and you are blessing by the deed of giving. Maybe thrice-blessed, blessed again that someone gives you the opportunity to give.
Do not overlook the power of the little things. A word. A glance. A deed.
Remember to give what someone wants more than you want to give something else that you favor to give.
Company may or may not be a gift desired. Sweets may or may not be a gift desired. Give what the receiver desires. Think of what the receiver desires. It could even be a bowl of lemons.
There are occasions where your presumed needs take a back-burner. Not what you want, but what means most to another.
When you are grateful for your own life, express your gratitude in the avenues of others’ lives. This pleases Me very much. Any kindness you give to one of My children, you give to Me. I thank you for your generosity. I thank you for taking care of My children as if they were your own. Of course, that is the case. Every child is yours. Everyone is yours, and therefore everyone is for you to care for.
In your awareness, skip no one. Just as you might total bills, tote up those who value a thought from you and can use it.
Once you had a narrow awareness. Now it has widened. Your awareness widens with your vision. Soon your vision will be all-encompassing. In passing, you will take care of everyone. You will see out of the corner of your eye. You will see even that which the eye cannot see.
You will look into My eyes, and see through them. You will see all. You will hear all. You will be All.
Responsibility is not worry. Responsibility is awareness. Your reach is long. Your step is long. Your giving does not even feel like giving. It is where you are. And so you carry out every responsibility to the world and to yourself. It is to yourself that every generous act is directed. You skip no one.
It is that your mind and heart encompass all. You are a soldier of mercy who carries everyone to the light. There is no battlefield. You succor everyone. You carry a sword of light that mutes all darkness out in the field. You are the ray of light that eager eyes look to. You light up hearts, and those hearts light up other hearts. You lead the Light Brigade.
In so doing, you put out fires. They are so easy to put out. They never should have been. They submit eagerly at your feet.
And, so, the whole world becomes at your service. You who serve the world are served. Not a day goes by that you are not served. This is true for everyone, only what you are served may not be as you desired. Give more, and desire more. Everything is for you to give, and everything is for you to receive.
As you widen your eyes, you will see all that you have been given. This makes it very easy for you to give, and give you will.

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HEAVEN #3865 All That You Have Been Given, June 25, 2011
God said:
Give the thoughtful little acts. They mean so much. Visit the lonely, the sick, the poor, and give them occasion to feel better. Sometimes all it takes is a little attention. I will call this survival of the fittest, you being the fittest, beloveds. Survive by giving to others that which is yours to give.
You will find many occasions to bless someone, and so you are blessed. You are blessed twofold. You are blessed by your ability to give, and you are blessing by the deed of giving. Maybe thrice-blessed, blessed again that someone gives you the opportunity to give.
Do not overlook the power of the little things. A word. A glance. A deed.
Remember to give what someone wants more than you want to give something else that you favor to give.
Company may or may not be a gift desired. Sweets may or may not be a gift desired. Give what the receiver desires. Think of what the receiver desires. It could even be a bowl of lemons.
There are occasions where your presumed needs take a back-burner. Not what you want, but what means most to another.
When you are grateful for your own life, express your gratitude in the avenues of others’ lives. This pleases Me very much. Any kindness you give to one of My children, you give to Me. I thank you for your generosity. I thank you for taking care of My children as if they were your own. Of course, that is the case. Every child is yours. Everyone is yours, and therefore everyone is for you to care for.
In your awareness, skip no one. Just as you might total bills, tote up those who value a thought from you and can use it.
Once you had a narrow awareness. Now it has widened. Your awareness widens with your vision. Soon your vision will be all-encompassing. In passing, you will take care of everyone. You will see out of the corner of your eye. You will see even that which the eye cannot see.
You will look into My eyes, and see through them. You will see all. You will hear all. You will be All.
Responsibility is not worry. Responsibility is awareness. Your reach is long. Your step is long. Your giving does not even feel like giving. It is where you are. And so you carry out every responsibility to the world and to yourself. It is to yourself that every generous act is directed. You skip no one.
It is that your mind and heart encompass all. You are a soldier of mercy who carries everyone to the light. There is no battlefield. You succor everyone. You carry a sword of light that mutes all darkness out in the field. You are the ray of light that eager eyes look to. You light up hearts, and those hearts light up other hearts. You lead the Light Brigade.
In so doing, you put out fires. They are so easy to put out. They never should have been. They submit eagerly at your feet.
And, so, the whole world becomes at your service. You who serve the world are served. Not a day goes by that you are not served. This is true for everyone, only what you are served may not be as you desired. Give more, and desire more. Everything is for you to give, and everything is for you to receive.
As you widen your eyes, you will see all that you have been given. This makes it very easy for you to give, and give you will.

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HEAVEN #3864 Show the Way, June 24, 2011
God said:
There is no finesse to life. No one outsmarts it. No body outlives it. Life delivers itself to you, and then it drops you off.
Temporary is this life on Earth. Everyone knows that, and yet everyone forgets it.
Life on Earth becomes so utterly serious, weighty, worth arguing about. There are fatalities of the heart. Why is that? Why cannot life on Earth be a lark? Why must life be so serious that hearts break and life becomes tenuous?
Even if life on Earth increased its span, what difference would it make in the seriousness with which life is taken?
To live life is meant to be for the good of all. Enmity isn’t to enter in. Certainly, wars are the silliest things I’ve ever heard of. Hostility is intended and seems real when, all along, everything in life is water under the bridge. What you call reality is not reality. You call strife reality. Strive for peace, not strife.
I did not present you with a battlefield. I did not present you with enmity.
I set you in green pastures with enough for all. Would that My children could let go of ownership and all the matters that they consider crucial.
Come, enjoy the allotted time you have on Earth. Make it wonderful. Life on Earth is not meant to be endured. Whereas life is everlasting, your time on Earth is short. It is a minute, and, then, poof, it is gone. There is little time for hard feelings. There is little time to make so serious bills and mistakes and all those matters that My children do take so seriously. It has become the end of the world when you flunk a test. What insignificance do My children take so seriously, as if it were the end of the world.
While you have life, make hay while the sun shines. What else is there to do? Let go of your grip on life. Don’t hold on tight. Let go and create a life worthy of painting. Be an artist of life. Let your art be seen.
For such a short time, make your life worth noting. Give and take some happiness. Increase it. Layer joy upon joy on Earth. Why not? What have you been doing? Sometimes you have heaped layers of grief one on top of the other. You have held onto tragedy, as if tragedy is what life is for. Oh, what a waste.
The world was not created for tragedy. Yet tragedies have been piled up. Tragedies have become a known quantity and handed out generously.
Someone has to stop this attention on grief and sickness and palpitations of the heart. You wait for Me, and I wait for you. It is not an impasse. It really is not. Just get a different handle on life and know that it is for joy, joy expected and joy unexpected. Let go of your hold on life and roll with it. Tragedy is what you say it is.
What if death were honored? Death of the body is inevitably the outcome. You don’t want to live forever in the same body anyway. How associated you are with your body when it is such a nebulous thing, not worth keeping as if your body were the purpose of your life. Why keep an antique car in your garage? Sooner or later, you will trade it in.
If you had no possessions, how easy life would be. The Truth is that you have no possessions. You have no ownership. Life is something you spend time on. It is something you give to make others’ lives a little better, a little easier, a little more forgiving.
Wherein does your life exist if it is not given in trust for all the lives that follow? Show the way. Show the way.

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HEAVEN #3863 The Stars of Earth, June 23, 2011
God said:
Without a preamble, let Us say that you are the bounty of the Ocean. You are what the seas are for. It is for you that Earth was discovered. It is for you that the stars come out. It is for you that you make your debut in the world.
It is for you that life on Earth was granted. Life is always. Life on Earth is once in a lifetime. This is a spectacular opportunity you have. There is nothing humdrum about it.
Stars are the stars of Earth. My children are the stars of Earth. All are My children, yet, now, I speak of the human beings to whom the Earth was entrusted and to whom all the innocent animals and surroundings were given in trust. You were given dominion of the Earth to raise it well. Plant good crops. While you are at it, plant good crops.
Everything you do is for something good to come of it, your being and your doing. You may feel helpless on Earth, but hardly are you. You are mighty. Just think of what you contribute to. You contribute to health and well-being. You contribute to joy. You hum a tune, as I hum a tune. You ride the range, or you ride the bus. You are the vehicle for life, and you start yourself up. Giddyap, cowboy. Round them up. Round up the days, beloveds. Make life breathable.
The Universe is for you, and yet you offer yourself up to the Universe. There is such an interchange of energy. Whose hands are they that move the world in front of your very eyes? Are they your hands or the hands of the Universe? Who can tell. Certainly, it is well known that you are a player.
Some of these words I give are not quite breathable or understandable. It is good that you have things you don’t understand. It is good to go deeper and deeper into the deepest layer of your Being. It is good not to understand. It brings you closer to Me. Give up understanding. Give yourself to Me to be consumed in the fire of love. It won’t hurt. You will come out singularly new without anything but your True Self. You have long been seeking the acquaintance of your True Self even as you have hidden yourself somewhere where you do not see. You have pushed your Self off to the side. You have meandered. You have played blind man’s bluff with yourself. You were a smattering of yourself. You didn’t dare to look. You looked away, and looked again, and looked away again.
Lift up your eyes to Me. Look at Me then. You will see the reflection of you in My eyes. You will hardly be able to take your eyes off Me. I never take My eyes off you.
I am not an apparition, nor are you. We are the only real there is, the One of Us. Do not hesitate to keep your eyes and heart occupied with Me. I will not go away. I never have. May you have the eyes to see and the heart to heal.
Your heart is the healer of all the world’s woes. Nothing else is. You are the powerhouse of the world. I sent you to Earth to do My works. Are My works not lovely? I gave you Myself so that you might discover Yourself abiding within Me.
There is nothing else to discover but the One of Us and our invincible relationship. Our invincible relationship is Oneness, pure and simple.

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HEAVEN #3862 Discovery of the Soul , June 22, 2011
God said:
From the Ocean you came. You walked out of the Sea. A beautiful sight you were as you strode out of the water and took to land. You did not parachute in. What a brave thing to do to come to Earth. How foretold it was. You took strong steps from the Sea to Earth. Then you were on land. The sun dried you off and warmed you.
You made many discoveries. You discovered sand. You squeezed your toes in it. You wrote in the sand with sticks. You dipped yourself into the Ocean, and sand clung to your feet.
You are a pioneer of life. You trod on untread territory. You learned to dance. You hopped. You skipped. And so your legs lifted you, and your soul came along to guide you and discover you discovering life on Earth. Life on Earth was a lark.
And then you were pelted with hail stones, and you didn’t understand. Rain you understood, but not hail stones which seemed to drive you into the ground.
You made up sadness and strife as though life on Earth had to do with struggle and so forth. You struggled with yourself untold times. You made a business of strife. You built obstacles in the sand. They were imaginary. They took over your life as though they carried more power than you.
Struggle overwhelmed you. You became a fish out of water. You panted on Earth. You knew this wasn’t the way life on Earth was supposed to be, and yet you thought that this is how it is, and you knuckled down and built sorrow and believed in death. Your soul tagged along, and yet knew better.
You drifted in sand, and you drifted in snow and named progress as your by-word. You didn’t know what you were talking about. Your teeth chattered. You turned your back to the Sun. You toiled.
Your soul kept knocking on your forehead, and yet no one was Home.
You ventured to the edges of cliffs that you had made up, for life on Earth was not made of sharp edges except as you conceived them. There were no cliffs to fall off. You cognized tragedies and sore feet.
Your soul held on tight, wrapped its arms around you, sang to you and whispered My name. You walked anyway as if soul were not, as if personality were supreme. You danced with ego and tripped yourself. Ego became curls and tresses on your head, and you made up make-up and all sorts of things that you took unto yourself and convinced yourself were true. You substituted false for true and felt satisfied with your knowledge. In ignorance, you acknowledged yourself. You played with your toes. You cavorted. You made up with yourself time and time again after long arguments.
Long arguments turned into the arms of man-made laws, and you signed your name on the dotted line. Bounty hunters arose. They hunted those who ran away. Children played the game of tag. It was symbolic. Children still knew how to have fun. They grew up and forgot.
Romance was manipulated. It became a bargain. Love was sold in vials of perfume and circles of bracelets. Dreams became small and demanded a high price. Business became another name for life, and livings were foraged out of rock.
Now the dawn is replacing the curls of ego on your head. You part your hair. You snip off ego. It falls to shreds at your feet, and love grows in fertile soil. Your soul has come back into its own. You suspect its existence. You look to follow it. You look within, and there it is. And here you are.

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HEAVEN #3861 The Altar of the World , June 21, 2011
God said:
The world is My altar. I have set it before Me, and you have lain yourself down on My altar and donated yourself to Me. The world is the altar of My heart. And you are the tribute you give to Me.
In giving to Me, of course, you give to yourself. There is no one else to give to. You are Mine, and all are Mine, just as I am totally yours. Oneness lies down on the altar of itself and declares the world to begin.
Your life is an offering to Me. Now you have chosen Self over ego. You have let ego abdicate the throne. You have forfeited illusion for Truth. Of course, that is no sacrifice. That is coming down to Earth, and this coming down to Earth is your passage to Heaven. You are sailing on a ship or riding a horse all the way to Heaven. This is what your physical life is about. Have a good trip. Just think of it, you are coming to Me. You are rushing into My arms. What a reunion We have. What a welcome you get. You are coming to Oneness of Heart where there is neither hot nor cold, simply Oneness. There is neither near nor far. There is neither space nor time. There is Oneness Supreme. There are no factions. There are no seeming interruptions. There is nothing to dissolve. All has been dissolved. You have been absolved from arbitrariness. You have been absolved from wasted motion. You have been absolved from the past. You swim where the fishes play.
My Own True Love is coming Home, and I am readying the table for you, and soon you will eat the fruits I set before you. The table is set. You are coming for a full meal. The feast is love. How happy you will be, surrounded by love, inside and out, though, of course, there will be no outerness whatsoever. Oneness will be your full plate.
You will settle in to the peace of your own heart. You will eat your fill without having to eat. All will be given to you. All will be digested. All will be predigested. There will be nothing to digest. All will be Oneness, and nothing but Oneness.
Here is the Garden of Eden where you abide and where you thrive. You soar over the stars. You hold them close to your heart. You are a suffragette of love. You storm the hearts of the world as you sit like Buddha relishing the world. You are the force behind the world. You are the force beyond the world. You have sat on the throne of Holiness. You are My Holiness. I have declared you Mine, and, so, Mine you are. That you are Mine means you are freed from whatever has held you back. You have pressed Fast Forward. You have entered Heaven. You have sole occupancy. Like Heaven, you are filled with soul. This is your soul’s journey you have been on, and you have fared well. You have new thoughts now. You have new vision now. For the first time, you can really see. You can see all. You see, for once, the tribute to Me that your life has been.
You see how well-pleased I am. The Prodigal Son has returned Home. We thank Each Other. Our hearts are complete. The One I love has returned. His awareness has returned. We have embraced, and embraced All Which is the Oneness of Our Heart. We are truly One Love.

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HEAVEN #3860 To What Are You Beholden?, June 20, 2011
God said:
To what are you beholden? Not to obligation. Obligation and responsibility are not the same thing. Joy is your responsibility. Love is your responsibility. Obligation doesn’t seem to carry joy. Obligation is a favor or an exchange. Obligation may be a bartering situation. Obligation is a loosely-written contract. Such contracts often have repercussions. Obligation isn’t generous. As a matter of fact, obligation stints. Obligation is a miser and does not come from the heart. Obligation is a weight. Duty and obligation are not generous words, and, when enacted, they are not giving acts. Duty and obligation can be considered skinflints.
Responsibility and heart ride together. Duty and obligation are more like grimaces or gritted teeth. May you be spared from those who would serve you from a sense of obligation. Free yourself and others from obligation.
Obligation comes from outside you. It is like a rule you’ve heard. Responsibility comes from inside you, and is, therefore, timely. Responsibility is your decision. It is not imposed upon you. You accept it.
A mother comforts her baby. That is the mother’s joy. And so she gives joy to her baby. The mother may not like being awakened at night, but she wants to nurse her baby more than she wants to sleep. She is responsible for her baby, and it is a responsibility that, by nature, she accepts. The mother blesses the baby, and the baby blesses the mother. It is not a trade. It is the will of both mother and baby.
Obligation is heavy-handed. Obligation may incur resentment. Obligation is simply not appreciated in the way that responsibility is. Obligation hangs heavily on your shoulders. Responsibility strengthens your shoulders. It makes you stand taller, straighter. Responsibility is not drudgery. Responsibility is an offering to the altar of life. It is not a formality. Obligation is a leech. Responsibility is an honor.
You may be a prisoner of obligation. Obligation is like being in a chain gang. There are fetters around your ankles.
Responsibility has no handcuffs. Responsibility is a free choice you make. You are responsible to yourself. Taking on responsibility is a gift to yourself, and it bears gifts to others. Being responsible is something you want to take care of. It is only a committed heart that reinforces responsibility. Responsibility is an embrace. Obligation is like a forced march.
There is a fine line between responsibility and obligation. Remember, you are responsible for yourself as well as to another. If you are to treat others as you treat yourself, make sure you treat yourself well. What you may do from a sense of obligation obligates another. When you feel obligated, you may well be obligating another, and then you start measuring and counting what you are owed. You may not want to do this, yet you do it. Give others their freedom, and keep your own freedom of choice intact.
When you obligate another, you deny them their freedom. You may become a dunning debt collector. Even when you don’t say a word about it, you are moiling over debts due you in your mind. You are adding up figures.
Be not an obligator, nor obligated be. Either way, obligation is not wholesome.
Responsibility on the other hand is wholesome. Responsibility is a lightweight. Obligation is a heavyweight. Responsibility is an opportunity. Obligation is a ball and chain. A sense of obligation has been thrown at you. Responsibility, on the other hand, is like carrying a torch at the Olympics. Responsibility is a winner who carries the torch and runs with it.
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HEAVEN #3858 Your Belief in the Past, June 18, 2011
God said:
Physical possessions are of the past. Even if you found a stone on the beach today, the stone is the past. Even if you bought a new dress today, the dress is already in the past. It is fair to say that all physical possessions are of the past. The past in whatever form it appears has held great importance to you.
No longer are you to hold on to the past. It never was for you to hold onto, and yet the past has held you in its sway. A glass, a spoon, all hold you to the past. Of course, it is not the past’s fault that you do. The past hasn’t asked you to make it so important that you let it impact your present.
I hear you. I hear you say arthritis runs in the family, and so you make an excuse for your arthritis. Your belief in the past may even have drawn arthritis to you.
You may say that as a child, for self-preservation, you were forced to lie. You may have had no choice then. You have choice now. Never mind what you were taught unless it is beneficial for you and the world now. There is nothing in the past that has to have a hold over you now. The past is over. Be you over the past.
The only way to free yourself from the past is to let go of it. Let go of your attachment to it. Any glass will do to drink from. No matter what crystal a glass is made of, no matter who once drank from it, you don’t have to be stuck to that particular glass. A glass is a glass.
A spoon is a spoon. Any spoon will do. It does not have be precisely this old spoon you are attached to. You can even eat with your fingers. You can drink from the bowl.
A river does not hold on to its past water. A river keeps moving. A river escapes the past because it is ever-flowing.
You may think it is hard to let go of the past. It is holding on to the past that is hard. Letting go of the past is easy, only you have difficulty and ease confused. It is holding on to the past that takes energy and requires effort. Letting go of the past is effortless unless you have convinced yourself otherwise. Letting go is lovely like putting your hands palm-side up. Palm-side up, you are ready to receive. Your hands are open.
The past wants to be let go of. The past doesn’t want to be any more to you than a drop in the bucket. The past wants to be free of you. The past does not want to be held hostage. The past does not want to be accountable for the present. Release the past. Have you nailed yourself to the past?
Do you hold the past accountable for everything that transpires now? I have told you to let go of the idea of cause and effect. You may well have been using the past as an excuse for everything in the present. You may say that the past caused your problems now. In that case, you are making your childhood responsible for how you treat the world now. You blame the circumstances of your birth, your upbringing, the wrongs perpetrated on you, and so you perpetuate them.
It is not in your best interest to contain the past to the degree that you do. The past may have become your fall guy, your stooge, the scapegoat you kick. Let the past retreat. It is the past.

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HEAVEN #3857 The Bank of Love , June 17, 2011
God said:
The only thing you need in your life is more love. You have more love to give, only you don’t really understand this, understand what this means.
You cannot manufacture love, yet you can give it. You can give it to yourself. It would be good for you to love yourself more. Love your Being more. Love your personality as well, and yet know that personality is a fleeting thing, often associated with ego. Concerning your True Being, there is no ego involved. As you love Me, you love your True Being.
Your True Being isn’t concerned with image. Image is concern with ego. Yet if you can love other people’s personalities, why not love your own? You can keep your personality in place, and yet you can behold it with love.
What a singular thing to be a True Being housed secretly in the human aspects of your given name. What a parade. What a charade.
Getting back to love, how do you give more even when your heart feels parched? How do you feel more love? Remember it. Remember love. Come back to love. When you feel more love, you will naturally breathe out more love. Is there a greater joy than love? I cannot think of one.
And every day you have occasion for love. Your love does not have to be humongous love. It can be simple toned-down love. It can be awareness of love. What does it feel like to love? The passageways of your heart are cleared. You send out love without a big to-do. It is an easy-going thing to give out more love.
It is not that you psych yourself up to love. It is that you focus more on love than you focus on the matters you have been focusing on. Worries, for example.
Look, when you want to have more money, it’s unwise to focus on lack of money. When you want to radiate more love, it’s unwise to focus on perceived lack of love. The only thing you truly have to give is love. Acts of love may or may not be backed by the Bank of Love. Acts of love have their merit. An active flowing heart of love merits more. When it comes to love, it doesn’t matter how you box it and wrap it. It matters the love itself.
Love is energy, beloveds. Your True Nature is love. The love I filled your heart with cannot be overlooked forever. Instead of knuckling down to love, just idly paddle love as you would a canoe. If you are making your life a movie of love, you will not make an epic movie of love. It will be a low-key movie. It might even be a silent movie.
Let love be known to you. You do not have to profess love. Be present in love. Sink into the cushions of love. Lean back, recline, know that you are love and that you have love to give. You do want to give love, don’t you?
Give love from your heart. Be telepathic with love. Let your love go everywhere. Let the love in your heart emanate from there. Let love be your password to life. Let love be the path you walk on. Go arm and arm with love. Rather than profess love, allow your God-given love to be. You are not shooting your love out. There is no need for a barrage of love. There is just need for love to flow as naturally as you breathe.
Love is good. You are love. You are good. Love is the epitome of your life. Be a hot-cross bun of love. Be a provider of love on the corner. People will find you there. You don’t need a big sign. Casual encounters with love will do. Easy does it.
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HEAVEN #3856 Be Your Own Blessing, June 16, 2011
God said:
Life is unpredictable, and you don’t want to predict life anyway.
Of course, knowing you, you want to know if your prince will come and when and what his name is, yet you are not meant to read the script of a play before you go to the live theatre. Better to watch the play as it occurs.
What is it exactly that you imagine you gain by knowing what and when and how life is going to appear? It is better to live your life than to preview it.
Understandably, you would like reassurance. Let Me reassure you now that you are going to have a blessed life. I ask you to make it blessed. I ask you to be a good sport when things don’t go your way, and level-headed when things do go your way. Life is not meant to be an ambush, nor is life meant to make you swagger.
You create your future, but you don’t own it. It’s not yours the way a check made out to you may be. The imagined future becomes the present soon enough. Get out of the past, and get out of the future. Dance where you are. This is the day I have set before you.
In a way, seeking to know what happens next in life is a little like getting the questions to a final exam ahead of time so you can ace the exam. It is cheating. There is no real advantage. There is only a mistaken illusion of advantage.
You don’t want your life to be a rerun. You want your life to be vibrant, and you want to live it as it arrives. This is like eating the soup when it’s fresh and hot off the stove. Do you really want stale bread served with your soup as well? It’s better to cross the bridge when you come to it. I say it’s essential to live today.
If you were given a favorable prediction, what makes you think you wouldn’t worry just the same? You might worry: “Is this really true?” You might carry your anxiety about the future along with you just the same. With a favorable prediction, you might even carry greater anxiety because now you feel there is more at stake.
And if you were given an unfavorable prediction, you would be upset, and your upset would indeed impact upon your life in the interim. You might kick the present time away as not worth it.
Were you to receive a prediction, even a favorable one, odds are you would then want to have a revised version of it. You might suggest, “Add a little here, take away a little there. “Why not? Why not?” you would ask. “And why couldn’t it be a red dress instead of blue?”
You could write a story about a man who knew what his life would be in a year from now. As the fiction writer, you might wonder how the man would live the year before with the knowledge of what the future held. You might even wonder if his knowing might change his future. Yet all of this is moot, for no one knows the exactitude of his future.
Do you really want a predictable life? Ho hum.
May I suggest that you create your life as you go along in it?
If you really do want to know the trend of your future, I will tell you how. Pay attention to your thoughts now. Your present thoughts can tell you the flavor of your future. In fact, I will tell you to look forward to many blessings. I will tell you to accept the concept that everything is a blessing. May you be your own blessing.
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HEAVEN #3855 Give Joy Rather Than Lessons , June 15, 2011
God said:
It is true that you are everyone’s teacher. Everyone has the opportunity to learn from interchange with you. And you learn from everyone else as well. Everyone is everyone’s teacher, and everyone has something to learn from others -- undoubtedly, a lot to learn.
Everyone can learn from your misbehavior as well as from your generosity. The fact that people will learn from you regardless of your actions is no excuse for misbehavior, however. There are limits in the world, and many of them are in your best interest. There is good behavior, and there is poor behavior. Rudeness, it is safe to say, is not good behavior. Instead of saying behavior, it may be more helpful for Me to say idea. Some things are clearly not good ideas. I would say following the 10 Commandments is a good idea. Certainly, it’s not a good idea to convince yourself that breaking them is a good idea.
Jumping on tables is usually frowned upon. If you jump on a table to get across a crowded room, what blessing is there? What lesson are you giving when you jump on tables? Perhaps you are showing disrespect. It is not for you to set out to teach people lessons. Did I give you a free pass? Because you choose to do something, does that make it virtuous?
Now, in musicals, it is allowable to jump on a table in order to perform a stellar dance. The dancer who jumps on a table in a musical is not giving lessons, not even dance lessons. He is giving joy.
Think about giving joy, not lessons. Spread joy, and no one will need lessons. Joy fosters good ideas.
With all your might, forego giving lessons. Sure, teach someone to ride a horse or drive a car. Offer such tried and true lessons, and let people ask you for them.
Of course, people are responsible for their reactions to you. You are not responsible for how others respond to you. You are responsible for what you do. You are responsible to see that what you do gives people peace and not pain. What are you giving?
Are you perhaps trying to prove that you are smarter than everyone else? No one is smarter than everyone else. Smartness is singularly overrated anyway.
You don’t even want to prove that you are kinder than everyone else. You have nothing to prove.
If you are one who generally thinks of yourself as meant to stir things up and teach lessons, then you have lessons to learn. Better to grace people with your presence than to upset them. Create peace rather than clamor. When you consistently incite clamor, you have a lot to learn.
So long as you know everything, you are not open to learning. The first thing is to open your heart and not close others’ hearts. If you feel your role is to roil other people, you are discounting yourself. Arrogance comes from your lack of belief in yourself. Otherwise, you would respect yourself more.
Those who commit crimes are generally called criminals. They write their own rules. They write: “It is okay for me to steal. It is all right for me to kill. It is all right for me to cheat.” At least they are honest criminals. They don’t convince themselves they are virtuous. They admit they are doing it for their own ends. They do not say that they are criminals in order to enlighten others. They do not kid themselves that they are creating havoc for the betterment of others.
If you are really here on Earth to teach others lessons, then teach them happiness, and teach yourself as well.

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HEAVEN #3854 Advance the World , June 14, 2011
God said:
How do you separate the world from its people? There is Earth, and there are people. Together they are what make up the world. I created the world. I set it in motion. I created formulas so that the beautiful Earth and its beautiful inhabitants would do some wonderful dancing together. I gave you free will so you may dance a dance of your choice. I did not foist only a certain dance on you. You choose the dance you favor. You may say you do not favor the dance you are dancing, and, yet, beloveds, you chose it, for you are dancing it. How you dance is up to you. I provided the orchestra. I provided the dance floor. I provided you the legs, the energy, the sense of rhythm, and yet you can develop anything. Regardless, you are a force in the world.
It is not meant for you to be passive. A wallflower does not have to sit there waiting for her world to change. Those who are dancing chose to dance. It is not for you to wait for life to plop you here or there. A wallflower in life waits to be chosen and considers it all the luck of the draw. Luck does indeed seem to exist, and yet you can draw to you the life you truly want.
Dancing in life doesn’t have to be dancing. You may favor mountain-climbing. You may prefer ping pong. Follow your heart, beloveds. You need not be such an avid follower of the world. Be a leader, and advance the world.
Your happiness in life matters to the world. You have a responsibility. You have a job to fill. It was made for you. You find your calling through happiness. If there is nothing that gives you happiness right now, it could be you are thinking too much about yourself and your lack of happiness.
I made the Earth for you. Will you take life by the shoulders and uplift it? Instead of waiting for something in the world to change, change yourself. Change your intention. If you are radar, have a bigger screen. If life is moil and toil, you had something to do with it. But never mind that. The question is now: Where do you go from here?
The only thing for you to change is your own thinking. If you want to change the world, change your view of it. Change your view of yourself. You don’t have to put up a big front or any front at all. Be honest. Be honest with yourself. It may seem that the world wants to humble you. Be humbled then. That life humbles you doesn’t mean that you are being demeaned. Life is alerting you. It is possible that in how the world reacts to you is giving you evidence of the way you are to go. Certainly, you are to rise.
Humbled is a good place to start from. Being sure of everything isn’t such a good place. Humbled, you can take responsibility for your life. Arrogance makes it harder to. If you blame the world for everything, if you blame circumstance for everything, you are denying your responsibility to yourself and to the world. Ego is a factor here, of course. Ego would have you neglect your responsibility to yourself.
Do not think of blame. Think of responsibility. You are responsible for yourself. Blaming others is a way of making excuses for yourself. “I didn’t do it,” you say. “They did it,” you say. When you blame the world, when you blame others, you are negating the importance of yourself.

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HEAVEN #3853 Cheer the World , June 13, 2011
God said:
The importance of your staying positive cannot be overestimated. It is incumbent upon you to set the sites of the world. Your thoughts produce the world.
Let Us say, for the moment, that you are a manufacturer of bottle caps. As the manufacturer of bottle caps, you know better than to say negative things about bottle caps. You wouldn’t say they aren’t made right. You wouldn’t say that the bottle caps you manufacture are foolish. You wouldn’t say, “Bottle caps. Tut tut.”
And, yet, about the world, you say, “Tut tut.” About the world, you give dire prognoses. About the world, sometimes you throw up your hands. About the world, you may say, “There will always be wars.” You may say, “History repeats itself.” And by your very statements, thought mentally or said aloud, you try to establish that what you say is true. So, when history repeats itself, you can say, “There, I told you so. I could see it. I knew it. I predicted it.” “And I won,” your mind says vacuously.
From now on, please shed light on the world. The world is of Our making, beloveds. It is Our baby. If you do not speak well of Our baby, who is going to?
The world is your infant. How you nourish an infant makes a difference. The world depends upon how you think of it and what you say about it. The world will change according to how you think about it. There is the age-old topic of nature or nurture. The world which I gave birth to in love also depends upon nurture. The world depends upon your nurture.
Is it not well-known that how you think and speak of a houseplant makes a difference to its growth? If you want your houseplant to be blooming, you bless it. If you neglect or badmouth your plant, it will wither. You can’t possibly think that the world is less affected than a houseplant you picked up at the super market.
There are truly good things you can say about the world, and you must say them. Say them, or be quiet. Either cheer the world, or be mute, but it is much better to cheer the world.
Without the world, you wouldn’t even have it to find fault with! The world is not be your scapegoat. The world is your opportunity. You have an influence on the state of the world. You cannot fling the world aside for the sake of your own declarations.
The world is a living breathing entity. It is well-meaning. It has no choice but to reflect you. Give it something wonderful to reflect. Be the world’s best cheerleader. Lead the world on to victory. Consider the world your army, and so you give it its direction. Of course, the world can be an armed solider ready for war. Of course, the world can also be the loving Mother Earth it was designed to be. It is your call. You call the shots. Your thumbs up or your thumbs down make all the difference in the world. You are the designator of the world. You are the propagator of the world. You are the farmer who tills it. And you are the children who pick the fruit from its trees. Upon all of you, the world depends. It takes its cues from you. You are the mother of the world. You are its orchestra leader. You are its champion. You support the world. Find that which to admire. And so you bolster the world. There is much in the world to love right now. Love it.

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