HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3852 Why Would You?, June 12, 2011
God said:
There is no telling what tomorrow will bring. Have the idea, which is an intention, that tomorrow will bring you everything you want. Would you rather spend your thoughts on the nebulous unwanted things that tomorrow could bring? What is the gain? Do you know that, when you are negative, you are making a sourpuss of your mind? God forbid.
You may call negative thinking realistic. I will call it being unkind to yourself. Let not your thoughts be battering rams. Let not your thoughts be fearful. Let your thoughts be light-hearted.
Let your thoughts be like leaves of golden trees in the sunshine blown by the wind. The leaves seem to swim in the air like goldfish in the sea. Let your thoughts be like that, thoughts that swim happily. See your thoughts swimming to you, and you have more and more thoughts swimming to you. The fish get greater until you are overwhelmed with the success of your thoughts.
Or let your thoughts be like a herd of elephants. Elephants seem to move slowly, and yet they reach their destinations sooner that you would think. Elephants take big steps. Let your thoughts on all the good coming to you and the world be steady. Your thoughts can walk in the world like elephants. Your thoughts can be solid.
Let your thoughts be birds that take flight. Let them soar. Let them take in the whole horizon. Your birds of thoughts will return to you. If you want falcons, think falcon thoughts. If you want humming birds, think hummingbird thoughts. Whatever you think, your thoughts will deliver. How many thoughts do you think in a day? In an hour? In a minute? Better to have a handle on what you think.
If your thoughts come home to roost, have the thoughts you want return to you. They may return a thousandfold.
If you must make a prognosis of world events, make your prognosis a good one. Watch what you think, and watch what you say. What if your thoughts were a public newspaper or ads on TV? What if your thoughts were the evening news? What if your thoughts were wishes? Your thoughts are as good as wishes, beloveds. Monitor your thoughts. Discipline your thoughts. Make uplifting thoughts a habit. You say you are unable? What do you think negative thinking is but a habit?
If you want to be happy, engage in happy thoughts. You will see results. Over time, you will see great results.
If you want to bring on doom, think dooming thoughts. You will prove to yourself that you were right. You bet on the right horse, see?
To foretell the good is not being blind. Rather, envisioning the good is seeing the future you desire. Downward thoughts are a dime a dozen, and they are thought by the bush load. Why would it be hard for you to be optimistic rather than pessimistic? Why would anyone think it is smart to be negative? Anyone and his brother can think the sky is falling.
Herald days of joy. If you can have bad days, you can have good days. Who are you to decide the fate of the world, and yet you do. At the very least, cast a vote for what is undeniably good.
Peace is good. Love is good.
To some minds, war is good. To some minds, hate is good. This must be so, or there would be neither.
Do not think for one minute that I endorse the negative. Why would I? Why would you?

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HEAVEN #3851 A Rule of Thumb, June 11, 2011
God said:
All the attributes you see in others may well be your attributes. You might not see the unholy unless you had not felt unholy and didn’t like it in yourself. When you fight with another, there is something within yourself that you are fighting, else why would you storm about what someone else says or does?
You have familiarity with ignorance. You can’t stand someone else’s ignorance because you have had experience with your own. You don’t want to be reminded of it.
You have familiarity with stubbornness, and you are stubborn about someone else’s stubbornness.
You are annoyed with all the attributes that you yourself have experienced. You can’t stand a skinflint, and yet you have been a skinflint.
By the same token, when you are uplifted by someone’s good-heartedness, you have been good-hearted. When you appreciate a smile from someone, you have smiled.
By and large, you become irritated by that which you have displayed. Whatever you come up against, it is a shadow of you. What you love is also a shade of you. What you see is a reminder of you.
When you cannot tolerate injustice, perhaps subtly, you are being reminded of your own unjustness.
Every trait that drives you up the wall, you know it well. So long as you are irritated, you haven’t vanquished all traces of that trait yet. And that which in another gives you joy, well, that joy too is a reflection of you.
You are to get over things. Get over your own selfishness, and others’ selfishness will not be the big ogre it seems to be to you now. Ogre or friend seems to be your repertoire. You have been both aspects. You are well-experienced in both.
Of course, what you see as ignorant, someone else sees as smart. And so on.
Where am I going with this? Attend to yourself more than to others. Others are not obliged to meet your standards. Nor do you have to meet theirs. Sometimes you have to leave well enough alone. If someone is happy, let them be.
You are to be the teacher of life to your own self. If you have to teach, teach yourself. Hold back on trying to improve others. No one thanks you. In fact, you have gotten in their way. Move the chess pieces on your side of the board, and allow others to move theirs.
It is hard sometimes to know when you are helping or when you are meddling. Of course, you always mean to help when it may be only yourself that you make to feel good.
Do good, but be not a do-gooder.
There is such a fine line. You want to serve, and yet you may go overboard.
Pay attention to what you are doing. Do not take over someone else’s path. They have their path, and you have yours.
If someone is hungry, feed them. You don’t force-feed them. You offer. You leave the tray of food. You leave eating to their will.
It is not always easy for you to know when it is hands on or hands off.
Remodel yourself, and you remodel the world.
Remodel someone else, and you interfere.
Let someone ask you for advice before you give it. This is a rule of thumb.

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HEAVEN #3850 Make a Friend, June 10, 2011
God said:
If you came across people with leprosy frequently, you might say to yourself: “What have I done to attract this?” You might take it personally, hold yourself accountable, karma and so forth, or you might not hold yourself accountable at all but be mightily annoyed that people with leprosy seem to gravitate to you. You see it that you are being given a hard time.
So now, here’s the difference between you and the Great One who helped to heal. He said nor thought any of the above. His thought was: “What can I do to be of service?”
He wasn’t thinking of himself. That meant he didn’t wonder how he might have brought people with this illness to himself nor did he find fault with them for having a disease that made them outcasts in the common world they lived in, nor did he resent them for choosing to come to him. His immediate thought was to be of service to his Heavenly Father through the needs of those before him. He served, and yet he did not take others’ difficulties to himself.
I use the above by way of example.
Now, let Us say that you suffer ill-will too many times from others. Others seem to be offended by you, and a sure result might be that you offend them back. It is like you are innocent and yet you find yourself in the same pickle time after time. The incidents you may come across can be compared to the appearance of people with leprosy. Your common response might me: “How come there are so many people who take offense at me? They shouldn’t behave this way to me. It’s always like this. This isn’t right. What is the matter with these people?”
You may see that somehow the world mistreats you. You recriminate the others for their lack of consideration to you.
There are others who see themselves responsible for the recurrence of situations, and, yet, they are still as helpless as the ones who cannot come to grips with the idea that they somehow contribute to the drama repeated in their lives again and again. These children of Mine may hold themselves guilty of doing something wrong, even when they don’t know what, and even may be an innocent bystander.
In one scenario, one person takes no responsibility, and in the other scenario, one dwells in guilt about it. In both cases, attention goes on themselves.
Better to get away from these scenarios and ask yourself the questions now: “What do I do? How do I respond to this? How can I repair the experience for the benefit of all?”
Let Us say that someone accuses you of being rude to him or unkind in some way, and you see this as an assault on you. Your reaction is anger. You are going to have nothing to do with this person in the future. That did it. He or she wronged you, and that’s the end of your exchange with that person. That’s the end of that person in your life. You’re finished.
And so you punish the other person, and, in the process, you punish yourself.
In kindness and generosity, you could say to the person who was offended and who, in the process, offended you: “I’m so sorry. I had no idea. I was unaware. I would never want to offend you. I will be more careful in the future. I never want this to happen again.” How would it hurt you to say this? Or would you rather be the angry victim?
We are talking about your being a true friend, not a happenstance one.
If, for good reason or no reason, you have alienated someone, don’t alienate them further. Make peace.
Better to make a friend than a foe. Better for all. Better for the world.

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HEAVEN #3849 The Greatness That Is Yours, June 9, 2011
God said:
What a remarkable Being you are. You are so good at fooling yourself and the world about Who you are. You run these little races and participate in skirmishes, and you and those you come across and come across you seem to take that little squiggle for the whole of you when you, and they, are so much more.
It is said that seeing is believing, and yet you do not see. You do not see the wonders and glory that you are. You have turned a blind eye to them. You have alit your eyes on everything else, all the small details and disruptions and seldom or not at all have you alit your eyes on the glory of yourself, the beautiful splendor, the strength, the courage, the mightiness that brings you to Earth to cavort about in only a semblance of yourself. It takes great courage to be less than you are. It takes great courage to ignore your Greatness and accept littleness instead.
You sit in the middle of a Great Ocean, and you see not water. You see flotsam and jetsam. You see encroaching temperament. You see storms brewing. You see not the sun above. Your vision is clouded. Who made it so?
You are like a tumbler, an acrobat who does these false falls over and over again, as if you could not rise higher and leap across all the present knowledge in the world. You are a magician of illusion, and you buy your own illusion. You trick even yourself. Will you admit this?
Will you admit that you could possibly be more than the individual who sits before you now, idling away at whatever you idle away at?
Is your very nature less interesting than a TV sit-com? It seems like you will do anything to avoid coming to terms with the Greatness that you are. What is so scary about your Greatness that you would run away from it? Would you consider tackling the subject of your Greatness? Would you open to the possibility of being great and greater yet?
There have been occasions when you have touched upon the edges of your Greatness, and, then, it was like you had touched a hot stove with your fingers. Ouch! And you run away. How fearsome is your Greatness to your smallness.
A lesser book you would open. A book that leads to your Greater Self, you stick back on the bookshelf almost in horror. “Who, me? Great?” you say or don’t say and yet run away from it. You who are Infinite may choose to be infinitesimal.
Offered a big orange or a little orange, you may choose the little orange and apologize even for taking the little one, as if you have no rights to all the oranges in the world.
You grasp at other things, and yet are reticent when it comes to the simple Greatness that is yours and that you are.
What could My heart’s desire be but great? Yet you push that desire away? You don’t want to be a Great Frog in a Great Pond? You would rather be a little frog in a little pond?
I Who Am admittedly Great am seeking you to unveil yourself before your own eyes so that you may reflect My light, capture it, as it were, and sow My light all over the world, in the forests and the mountains and all the caves and deserts on Earth, and, yes, even shine My light brightly where it already shines. Do I ask too much of you to believe what I say and to act on it? Put your shoulders back and remember henceforth what I say to you, and absorb what I say, and make it true to you and to the world while you are at it. I bless you to your Greatness. It is yours. Take it and run with it for all you are worth, for you are worth a lot, worth even more than what I say to you right now.

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HEAVEN #3847 Love Now, June 7, 2011
God said:
Wake up, little buttercup. You have drunk the morning dew, and now you look to the sun to fill you with its light. Sunlight and nourishment are one. The light of love is nourishment. Everyone knows that. So why isn’t the dough of love kneaded every day? Why aren’t hearts actively overflowing in their love? Love wants to come out. Everyone wants love, so let’s have more.
Let’s start with you. Unzip your heart. Throw the snaps away. Tear off the buttons. Dispense with Velcro. Take off the coats and sweaters, the cloaks and robes. Toss them all into the fire of love.
How can love in the world be hard to give when love is the easiest thing there is? It is unnatural not to allow love its say. And yet love is clamped every day, cramped, put in a vise, restrained, unclaimed, contracted, forbidden, stomped on, undone.
Let this be a day when all hardened hearts melt. What a day this will be. Imagine the world like a buttercup having drunk the morning dew and then basking in the sun of love.
I take pity on hardened hearts. Even though I never pity anyone or anything, I pity hardened hearts. I never pity because I know of the bank of love in your heart, and I know that you will one day decide to give your heart its freedom, and so save yourself from the dryness of immobilized love. It was never yours to go on a diet when it comes to love. Abandon restrictions. Have all the love you want. You have been store-housing love. Now open the doors of your heart and set it free. Throw open the windows. Let love have its will.
Lavish the world with the presence of your love. I didn’t say a display of your love. No, lavish the world simply with the presence of your love. Let your love roam the world and give of itself everywhere.
You jump around trying to solve the problems of the world, and you harden your heart. You disdain the rampant ignorance and the foul play, and yet you uphold disdain. You turn up your nose at love, and you fight that which you abhor. What happened to your love? Why have you not placed it under the sun? Why have you withheld your love? You have withheld it even from yourself. I know that it is true. Otherwise, you would not hate. Hate is killing and debilitating. It kills your heart. It inspires greater distaste. Feed your heart good fuel. Keep the sustainability of your heart. Sustain your love. No longer find excuses for not loving. There is no excuse for not using your love and blessing the Universe with it.
Love is not contraband to be hidden. Love is the sun which is to shine.
Do not be so particular with your love. You are so fussy. Just love. Get out there and love. Love without a word. Just love, that’s all.
Do you really have something better to do? Fomenting is not better. Disturbing is not better. Rationalization is not better. Privatizing love is not better.
Your love is not to snub anyone. Your love is to fly and to land everywhere. Un-cudgel your love. The way you would ford your way across a river, ford your love through all the mine fields in the world. Traps have been set to deter your love. Let nothing deter your love. You must forge across that river of love to the other side of yourself.
Do not wait. Love now.

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HEAVEN #3848 Cast Your Love before Thousands, June 8, 2011
God said:
Time stands in the way of love. Love exists, and time does not, yet time stands in the way of love. You are too busy. You have too many things to do. You have space to clean, and a commute to take. You have to be somewhere on time, and you rush about your day forgetting that the day is for love.
Love is Godliness. Love comes before all else. Not love with a capital L, just simple compassionate love. Let there not be a minute of your day without love. If you find yourself short-tempered, pause and regroup yourself into love. Anger does not have to feel so important to you. Let not anger take up time from love. What a waste of love for you to embrace that hothead, anger.
Love those who love you, and love those who do not love you. Others’ love or inability to give their love has nothing to do with you. Only your love has to do with you.
Let love become your modus operandi. Get on the bus with love. Get off the bus with love. Take love with you wherever you go. No matter how busy you are, take love with you. Let love from your heart be like confetti.
Let your presence in the world be the presence of love. You don’t have to dress up love. You do not have to say its name. You just have to be love which is what you actually are.
Whatever you are doing, send love. No matter whom you are meeting with, send love. Send it silently. You don’t have to proclaim it. You don’t have to make a movie of it. You simply have to remember it.
If you find yourself forgetting love, if you find yourself substituting something else for love, annoyance perhaps, a hurt heart perhaps, full-blown anger perhaps, come back to love. Rest your heart on it. Let love be the pillow of your heart.
You may ask Me for things all the time. All the while, I have given you love. When you find yourself distraught in whatever way you feel distraught, you have wandered from love. Please don’t blame your lack of love on someone else. I am talking about your love right now, not theirs.
Your love is not meant to be a pawn of the world. No one has to pay you for your love. No one owes you for your love. They don’t have to dance a jig in order to receive your love. That they are My child as much as you are warrants your love. Keep your love intact. Do not divert from love. Establish love. It is the only thing for you to establish.
Everyone has the right to your love.
Everyone? You say. Yes, everyone, I say. Everyone is I, and everyone is you. The face in the mirror you look into is yours. The beauty is yours. The distress is yours. The less than holiness you see there is yours. The contempt you see is yours. It is your contempt come back to roost. Remove your contempt, and you will see less that is contemptible in the world. What you see in the camera is your own lens.
Love is an idea, and yet it is more than idea. Start with the idea of love, if you need to. No matter how smart you are, you are not smart unless you cast love. Cast love everywhere. When you are disappointed in someone, cast love. Love is not yours to own, but to cast. Cast love before thousands. Cast love so that the day will come soon that all you see before your eyes is love. Do that, unless you somehow prefer to see anger or some such, as if you have not had enough anger before your eyes. Remember, you cast the first stone of anger, if not to the angry person before you, to someone else.

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HEAVEN #3847 Love Now, June 7, 2011
God said:
Wake up, little buttercup. You have drunk the morning dew, and now you look to the sun to fill you with its light. Sunlight and nourishment are one. The light of love is nourishment. Everyone knows that. So why isn’t the dough of love kneaded every day? Why aren’t hearts actively overflowing in their love? Love wants to come out. Everyone wants love, so let’s have more.
Let’s start with you. Unzip your heart. Throw the snaps away. Tear off the buttons. Dispense with Velcro. Take off the coats and sweaters, the cloaks and robes. Toss them all into the fire of love.
How can love in the world be hard to give when love is the easiest thing there is? It is unnatural not to allow love its say. And yet love is clamped every day, cramped, put in a vise, restrained, unclaimed, contracted, forbidden, stomped on, undone.
Let this be a day when all hardened hearts melt. What a day this will be. Imagine the world like a buttercup having drunk the morning dew and then basking in the sun of love.
I take pity on hardened hearts. Even though I never pity anyone or anything, I pity hardened hearts. I never pity because I know of the bank of love in your heart, and I know that you will one day decide to give your heart its freedom, and so save yourself from the dryness of immobilized love. It was never yours to go on a diet when it comes to love. Abandon restrictions. Have all the love you want. You have been store-housing love. Now open the doors of your heart and set it free. Throw open the windows. Let love have its will.
Lavish the world with the presence of your love. I didn’t say a display of your love. No, lavish the world simply with the presence of your love. Let your love roam the world and give of itself everywhere.
You jump around trying to solve the problems of the world, and you harden your heart. You disdain the rampant ignorance and the foul play, and yet you uphold disdain. You turn up your nose at love, and you fight that which you abhor. What happened to your love? Why have you not placed it under the sun? Why have you withheld your love? You have withheld it even from yourself. I know that it is true. Otherwise, you would not hate. Hate is killing and debilitating. It kills your heart. It inspires greater distaste. Feed your heart good fuel. Keep the sustainability of your heart. Sustain your love. No longer find excuses for not loving. There is no excuse for not using your love and blessing the Universe with it.
Love is not contraband to be hidden. Love is the sun which is to shine.
Do not be so particular with your love. You are so fussy. Just love. Get out there and love. Love without a word. Just love, that’s all.
Do you really have something better to do? Fomenting is not better. Disturbing is not better. Rationalization is not better. Privatizing love is not better.
Your love is not to snub anyone. Your love is to fly and to land everywhere. Un-cudgel your love. The way you would ford your way across a river, ford your love through all the mine fields in the world. Traps have been set to deter your love. Let nothing deter your love. You must forge across that river of love to the other side of yourself.
Do not wait. Love now.

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HEAVEN #3846 Almighty You, June 6, 2011
God said:

Almighty you!
This is today’s Heavenletter.
You fill in the rest. Say what it means to you that I call you Almighty.
You, Almighty you, speak to Me this morning.
Tell Me everything that is in your heart, and you will be rendering what is in Mine.
Almighty you, speak, and I will listen to the beat of My own heart.
Begin now.


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HEAVEN #3845 Patterns in Your Life, June 5, 2011
God said:
When you sacrifice your peace for the presumed benefit of another, perhaps you are also sacrificing someone else’s peace as well.
Sacrifice is not sacred.
You may wholeheartedly desire to love others so much that you would do anything for them, and yet you are not able to carry through on your desire. Some people can. They can do it lovingly, and you may find you are not able to. It is not wise to let situations go on that, let’s face it, are intolerable to you. You may have had good intentions, yet you are just not able to live up to your good intentions. When you do not have peace in your home, for example, who does then? When will you? How will you restore peace when your peace is broken? Resentment does not restore peace.
Of course, you want to be an all-loving person. You aspire. And then you perhaps take on more than you can chew. The basis of your choice may well be that you are avoiding your own issues. You stir the pot, and then you can’t see what’s in it. It is so easy to blame your discomfort on others around you and on situations you are in the midst of.
You had a choice, and you made a choice that disturbs your life. Begin with the acknowledgment that you are responsible. Your woes are not the responsibility of anyone else.
Some people fear discovering themselves and so bring situations to themselves that keep them upset with others. They foist situations upon themselves. They do not seem to be able to get on without difficulties to solve. They may think they are acting for the highest good, and yet they may be acting from a level of fomenting disturbance. Some people deal with problems by incurring problems. From a place of seeming open-heartedness, they may make sure there is turmoil in their lives.
I ask My children to be unselfish. I do not ask My children to sacrifice. I certainly do not ask My children to sacrifice their good will. I do not ask you to draw difficult situations into your life. I do not ask you to draw drama into your life.
You may be the most well-meaning person in the world, and yet you may repeatedly set up situations that are not wholesome. When there are patterns in your life, notice them. Notice what patterns repeat themselves. Understand that you are not an innocent bystander. You are not an innocent victim. In a sense, you are the perpetrator.
You may be so accustomed to discomfort that you advertise for it. You may well have convinced yourself of your good motives, and your good motives may well exist, and yet they are a front. If you attract situations that do not bring out the best in you, your motives are a front.
If you are finding certain difficulties over and over again, you, My dear child, are the culprit. You are bringing the difficulties to you. It is not someone else’s doing. It is your own doing.
Find another way.
If you repeatedly move to a city where you find the people difficult, then consider that it is you who is difficult. For an unknown reason, you may want to prove that other people are imperfect or too hard to please. You may be the one too hard to please.
You are living with yourself, beloved. Wherever you go, you are living with yourself. If you do not like living with yourself, then there is something in your perspective that needs to change, and you have to change it.

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HEAVEN #3844 Keep the Peace, June 4, 2011
God said:
Much of the time you like life to be what you think it should be rather than what is. By the same token, you look to yourself to be what you should be and yet you see yourself as not. You want to be many things to many people, most of all, to yourself, to your picture of yourself.
You want to be what you think I want you to be. Beloveds, do not think that I want you to give up your peace to be an enabler to the world.
We have spoken about patterns in life. You may have a pattern of inviting turmoil and distress into your life, as if the ocean without a storm is too placid, too uneventful, too calm. Do you crave storms at sea? Do you like the roughness? Do you like life stirred so that you can think of disturbance from the outside rather than from the inside?
Sometimes you may say to yourself: “As a good person, I invite this one or that one into my life. I should help. This is what I should do.” And so you pat yourself on the back. You can be a good person without becoming the most wonderful giving person in the world especially when you cannot live up to it. You may give more than you can give. You may give what is not yours to give, and you may not give it very well.
Yes, you want to think about others, and yet you don’t want to think of others to the detriment of yourself. There are many ways to help and maintain peace in your life. You deserve to have peace. Remind yourself that you are a good giving person who maintains peace. Remember, beloveds, you are not the savior of anyone.
The Great Ones gave of themselves to others. The Great Ones brought others into their hearts but not into their hearths. They did not give up their peace for others. What good would they have done anyone then? The Great Ones kept their peace, and so they gave peace to the world. Can you imagine the Great Ones putting themselves into situations where they would resent others for disturbing their peace?
If you live in havoc, what are you giving to the world? And what are you giving to those whose havoc you may accept into your life?
I have never advised you to give a pound of flesh. I have never advised you to undercut yourself for the idea of an image of yourself you insist you must reflect. Truly, dear ones, you are not being unselfish when you let your life become disruptive.
Do not say, “Oh, well. I will live through this.” Do not say, “I am giving up my peace and quiet for the sake of others.” You are giving up your peace and quiet for an imagined picture of yourself. If you cannot react peaceably to havoc that you have invited into your life, then you have invited strife. You have added to the strife. You are thinking minutely. You are trying to be something you are not, and you do not even save yourself, let alone others. Do not think you are noble. You are creating a false picture of yourself.
On one hand you give, and in another, you take. You may take away from others their ability to fend for themselves. Certainly, you help no one when you fly off the handle.
Some people can put out fires. Some people can stay out of the fray. You may not be one of these. As you get angry and yell or whatever you do when you are angry, you are adding fuel to the fire. By virtue of feeling angry, you are aiding and abetting dependency upon you. You may have convinced yourself otherwise, yet what you are doing may be indulging yourself and not serving others at all.

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HEAVEN #3843 A State of Happiness, June 3, 2011
God said:
There is no need to ask yourself the question: “Am I happy?” You are happy until you start asking yourself if you are. You lose your immediacy as soon as you question the state of your Being. Happiness is not a self-awareness technique. As soon as you call your attention to your happiness, it leaves. Happiness takes your asking as a dismissal.
As soon as you ask yourself, “Am I happy?” you start thinking of reasons why not to be happy. As soon as you ask yourself, “Am I really really happy?” you lose your state of happiness. It is like happiness is embarrassed and covers its face. Your natural state is of happiness.
If someone were afraid of heights, and did not know he was walking on a ledge twenty feet above the sidewalk, he would not be afraid. As soon as he becomes aware, fear sets in. Conscious awareness is not always the best place to be.
Better not to question where you are.
When you are involved in a creative project, painting or music or story-writing, for example, you are not thinking, “Am I happy?” You just are.
We could consider a state of happiness something like Godwriting. When you are Godwriting, you are in that state of Godwriting. If you say to yourself, “Am I Godwriting? Is this really Godwriting?” then you are out of the state.
When you ask yourself such questions, you put your attention on your motley self. When you are in a creative state, your attention is not on yourself. You are out of awareness of your little self.
Nor is this a good question for you to ask about someone else. “Is so and so happy?” Happiness is not to be thought about. Do you understand what I mean? Asking such questions is putting up a barrier to happiness. Happiness is not conscious of itself.
If you continually asked a rose, “Are you a rose? Are you really a rose? Are you always a rose?” even a rose will start to wonder about its own identity. A rose knows its rose-ness. Rose-ness is. A rose is a rose is a rose. And your natural state is happiness.
When you ask if you are happy, you interrupt happiness. When you ask, “Am I doing the right thing?” you waver. When you ask, “Should I spend my money on this object,” you waver.
When you ask yourself, “Am I happy?” you can only waver. A minute ago, you were happy. And now you ponder. And you push happiness off a cliff.
However, reversely, it does not work the same. If you say, “How unhappy I am. How can I be this unhappy?” the state of unhappiness deepens. You become sure of it. Your unhappiness is probably even worse than you thought. Now you become desperately unhappy.
Think about other things rather than about your state of happiness or unhappiness. Happiness is not a state of thinking. You cannot make yourself happy. The best thing you can do for happiness is to not think about it. Be it.
You do have a well of underlying happiness. Don’t muddy it. When you analyze the water, you stir it up. That’s how you muddy it. No longer muddy your happiness. Let it be.
If you want to add to your happiness, add to someone else’s happiness. Certainly, don’t add to someone’s unhappiness. Even when you have the thought, “I would like to do something that will make my friend happy,” you are adding to your own happiness.
Going within does not mean to ask about your happiness. Happiness is always yours, yet it is not something you possess. It is something you are.

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HEAVEN #3842 Rise with the Sun, Set with the Sun, June 2, 2011
God said:
You have been at the mercy of the world. All the while, as you have felt whacked back and forth, you have longed to be unattached. Unattached, you are free to not feel devastated by life. Life goes on, and you go along beside it. You are not so dependent upon it. Life doesn’t have to fit your picture of it. It’s okay for life to be life. You go side by side, and yet you are not knocked by it. Whatever life is today, you don’t foam at the mouth because life and the people in it did not do your bidding. You don’t yawn about it, nor are you thrown. Life does its thing, and you do yours. You are never at the end of your rope. You have equanimity.
Dreams come true, or dreams don’t come true. What is the difference? After a while, what is the difference?
You have to accommodate anyway. Now you accommodate without fuss or worry.
You allow life to be whatever it is in the moment that it is. You know that life changes by the minute and that you don’t have to make so much of it. Unless you nod to life, unless you are singularly unaffected by its twists and turns, you are attached. Attached, you cling to people and events in your life as you propose them to be. You hang on for dear life.
There comes a time when you are no longer attached or so attached. Then sometimes you find out, when all is said and done, that you were attached to your attachment. You thought it would be so wonderful to be unattached, and then you find you miss your attachment. You are finally growing up, and you miss the ups and downs of life as it is lived in attachment. You thought you would be glad to be unattached. You thought you would jump for joy. You miss your caring so much. You miss your being affected so much. You miss your elation, and you miss your inability to exist without such and so. You may feel that you have lost your innocence.
No, My darlings, you are restoring yourself to innocence. You are realizing that life does not have to be tumultuous. You are abandoning suffering. Now life isn’t such a struggle, and you once were so used to struggle that it was the mainstay of your life. Now you see that you are irrespective of whatever life tosses you. If it tosses you a bone, you find you are not so elated as you used to be. By the same token, when life tosses you a zinger, you are not so zinged. You may find that you miss upset. Upset used to be the signaler of your existence. Now you exist on an even plain. The waves of the ocean do not toss you about the way they used to. Big waves or little waves, you bounce along the same. Whether a storm or a calm on the sea, you are calm.
You fear this is indifference, and in a way it is. And yet you still care only you do not exact a price from yourself. Rain or shine, you’re okay. Neither rain nor shine is the determinant of your life. You are the determinant of your life. And you have come to the place in your growth where you are even-natured irrespective of whatever may be going on.
Whatever may be going on comes and goes, and so you rise with the sun, and you set with the sun. Like Old Man River, you just keep rolling along.

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HEAVEN #3841 Become Reliable , June 1, 2011
God said:
You have to become a reliable person. You don’t have to be relied on for everything, yet you do have to be relied on that you will respond to life in a circumspect way. You have to be counted on to be considerate. You have to be counted on to consider another. You have to be responsible for your actions. You have to be counted on to not find excuses for what, all in all, may be less than illuminated behavior. Even kindness is not to be random but to be counted on. You have to be counted on to be responsible for what you say and what you do.
You have to be counted on to not test the limits of friendship. You have to be counted on to not make excuses for lapses.
Be reliable in your willingness to grow. Unless you are responsible for your present reactions to life, how then will you grow? If someone else is responsible for all that you bring on yourself, then you hide from yourself and are being irresponsible.
Patterns in your life are patterns in your life. They are your patterns. They are your doing. It must be that you set yourself up. Why would you do that? And why would you set yourself up and pretend that what you incited you are entirely innocent of? Why would you pretend you are not responsible? Who is responsible for you if you are not? Do not hold fate responsible for your actions and reactions.
You are no longer a baby who is carried here and there and put down here and there. You now have free will. Now you have responsibility for your own life.
No longer can it be that patterns in your life are someone else’s doing. They are your doing, beloveds. There are actions you have taken, or actions you have not taken. It is your initiating or your allowing. And it is for you to undo unhelpful patterns in your life. Old patterns are old patterns. You do not have to keep them. You are responsible. Be a responsible person.
That you are innocent does not mean that you are not responsible. If you are cheated all the time, you are the one who is allowing yourself to be cheated. If you are misunderstood all the time, you have allowed yourself to be misunderstood. You don’t have to change the understanding of those around you. You have to change your understanding of yourself. You are the one who doesn’t understand. This has to be, or the same patterns in your life would not be repeated. You are the one who has to change.
I am telling you to stand up. You are not a victim. If you are a victim, you claimed the title. You put on the hat you are wearing. You are a crook of your own good fortune. You have stolen from yourself.
Ultimately, you have to take responsibility for yourself. The world may be mistaken, yet that does not take away your responsibility for yourself. You don’t have to kowtow to the world. At the same time, you don’t have to rebel against the world. You don’t have to put yourself in front of a moving car.
That may be what you have been doing, and then you blame the driver.
Consider that in life, you are crossing a street. Look both ways. Look both ways, and pay attention to what you see. Patterns in your life are not to be shrugged at.

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HEAVEN #3840 Become a Rose, May 31, 2011
God said:
If you will always remember to be a lady or gentleman, you will circumvent or eliminate friction. When you are courteous, you do not offend. Smile, look into someone’s eyes, and what controversy can thrive?
The next time you find yourself annoyed with someone, try smiling and looking into their eyes. When you do this, you are concerned with good manners and not offense. There is a tendency for My children on Earth to be consumed with what ticked them off, and they forget about good manners. They forget about being a good sport.
When you live by good manners, grudges cannot exist. Rabid feelings cannot exist. Good manners build good feelings.
A little goes a long way. A little anything goes a long way. A little resentment can burn long. A little courtesy leaves a long trail. Will you choose courteousness? Will you melt away hard feeling rather than subsidizing it?
This is something you can do right away. Even when you feel grouchy, you don’t have to let your grouchiness take over. Remember that you are the son or daughter of a King. You are a prince or princess. For you to take the high road is not dismissing yourself. It is not dishonest nor is it neglectful. It is honoring yourself, and it is honoring another. Good manners represent yourself. Good manners say a lot about you. They say whether you are a leader or a follower.
All this is another way of saying that you don’t have to let someone’s bad mood or poor manners rattle you. Someone else’s grouchiness does not have to be contagious. Return grouchiness with courtesy, and you elevate the world.
Of course, as you extend good manners, you don’t want to be grinding your teeth. You want your good manners to be true. You want to extend yourself as I would want you to. Am I asking too much of you?
I am asking you to be of good spirit. I am asking you to create good will. I am asking you to be the initiator of good behavior in the world. I am asking you to raise the flag of good will. I am asking you to make the world what you would like it be.
I am asking you to foster in yourself all that you would like to be.
When someone is crabby, don’t you be crabby.
When someone is thoughtless, you be thoughtful.
When someone is rude, you be courteous.
I would like you to try this out. I would like you to be good-natured.
If someone snaps at you, the last thing I want you to do is to snap back at them. Anyone can do that. Everyone has done that. It has been automatic. It has been a lazy habit, a spineless response, an infraction of good manners.
Now you will teach yourself good manners. You will walk through the world like a prince or princess. You will give a wave to all. You will bless all. And the whole world will cheer you for the courage of your good manners.
I touch you with a magic wand right now. And now you are lit up, and now you sparkle! You have been touched by God, and now you can never be the same. Now you walk tall. Now you see differently. Whereas once you might have aligned yourself with anger, now you align yourself with good nature. You become a rose who acknowledges your rosiness to all. Now you become an emblem of peace. Now you glow. Now you are a shining light on the world. Now you surmount even the little things that you used to make big.

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HEAVEN #3838 You Need to Know the Love in Your Heart , May 29, 2011
God said:
When I gave you the gift of life in the world, you eagerly accepted the gift. Now you have second thoughts. Now you talk behind My back, so to speak. Of course, you may rant and rave at Me, and you are sure that I don’t hear you anyway. I do hear you, and I do want you to speak your heart. I want no pretense. I would far rather you protest than not speak to Me at all. Speak to Me.
Finish your ranting and ravings, and then, when you are finished, We can get down to the business of life. Now We are going to play cards. Now We are going to get down to it.
Seriously, what would you like from Me? Do not be struck dumb because I am sitting down with you. I give you more than three wishes. I say to you to speak your heart. Spill out your heart to Me. And when you have finished your grievances, then We can get down to it. Two good-hearted hearts can speak. Speak your heart of hearts to Me. What are you going to say?
You will ask that you can understand the meaning of life. I will answer you, and then you will say you still don’t understand. And then I will ask you: “Even then without understanding, what is it you want?”
You may ramble on and on, and then I will ask: “What is it you would like right now?”
You may hem and haw.
Eventually, when push comes to shove, you will come to say: “God, I want love. I want Your love. I want love, plain old simple love. I really want it from everywhere. I want everyone and everything to love me. I want love more than anything else. Let me have love that is beyond my understanding. Let me be so loved that I know nothing but love, that I know only love, and that I have a surfeit of it.”
“Well, then,” I say, “you have all that now.”
And then you say: “Then I want to know it.”
And then I say: “By the breadth of love you give, you will know the love you have.”
You will tell Me that you have heard that before.
Beloveds, today give what you may feel is your last ounce of love. You may have to pull love up as if it were a tired old horse. Give out your last dram of love, as it were. Give out love even when you can’t. Still pull love up by its bootstraps, and give out what seems like your last drop of it. Give out love even when you can’t. Give it out anyway, and you will find the well of love in your heart rise. You can do it. Even when you don’t want to, you can do it. When you think there is no reserve of love left in your heart, that is when you must, above all, give love.
When you think your heart is a dry desert, that is when you must, above all, give love.
When you are sure you have no love to give, that is when you must, above all, find it and give it away. In the process of dealing out love as though it were your last card, you will begin to see the full deck you come from.
When you feel you have the least love to give, that is when you must above all give it. You need to know your love more than anyone needs it. You will come to know that by giving, you are the recipient of your own love. You are the one who drinks at your own well.
Drink deeply, beloveds, drink.

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HEAVEN #3837 Stubbing Your Toe , May 28, 2011
God said:
As you twist and turn under the covers at night, you may twist and turn during the day about life. It would seem that for every joy, you have three annoyances or aggravations or downright woe. Let the annoyances fly away. Keep the joy. Eradicate the sense of annoyance that you have been allowing yourself to have. You have been wronging yourself.
The way it’s been for many or most, over and over again, is that, when you stub your toe, you keep stubbing it. Stub is an interesting word because it is linked to the word stubborn in English. You just don’t want to budge. Someone wasn’t nice to you, and you continue the dialogue and interaction in your thoughts. You are good at doing that. You are a pro.
The offending person is not beside you around the clock, yet you are beside yourself with emotion, and you keep the offender in your outraged thoughts. You keep the offender close, as if you had nothing else to do, as if you had nothing else to live for but to recount, reemphasize, relive, remake, renew all the affronts that troubled you and trouble you still. You count your accumulation of wrongs as if they were a wad of money.
Let go of the offenses and the offenders, and you will no longer have them. You have been nursing the viperishness in your own bosom. You say to yourself a thousand times over: “Look what they did to me. Look at how they wronged me.” And so you wrong yourself over and over again. Must you prove time and time again what you see as the heartlessness and wayward thinking of others?
The fact is, when you are in that state of mind, you are mastering the very skills you purport to have contempt for. You have contempt. These others were contemptuous, and now you are contemptuous. They had no respect. And now you have no respect for them nor for yourself, or you would not keep the contempt alive and well, churning in your heart, in your mind, turning your blood into vinegar.
Have regard for yourself and get out of that old mind-set. A minute was too long to have it. You have had it for years, perhaps a lifetime. Say adieu to those old ways of thinking. Sink them. Pretend they are golf balls. Picture hitting each old golf ball of thought with a strong stroke. The golf ball goes far away over the fairway and out of your hair.
Forgive Me for dwelling on the past when I tell you to get out of it. The thing is you have not seen what you have been doing to yourself. See and dismiss. See and desist. How can you hit the ball out of the park unless you see it?
Or play football rather than golf and kick the old habits of thought out of the field. You are inundated with them. You feel you have to be on top. You have to control. Or you may have to control by being put upon, as if that is worth your whole life. You put yourself into a slot where you make happen what you protest. It keeps coming up again, the same old situations. It is the past that motivates and controls you. You have been in the thrall of the past. You have not let yourself go. It is you who gives yourself a stiff neck.
If you have been dragging yourself in the mud, it makes sense to get out of it.
If you have been thinking that you have been persecuted, you persecute yourself. You have become a dancer in life then who knows only one step.
Life dances to the tune of your own thoughts. As you think, so goes your life. Turn your thoughts around, and so will your life turn.

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HEAVEN #3836 Come to Life Now, May 27, 2011
God said:
Leave the floodgates open. I am speaking of the floodgates of love. I am speaking of your admitting Me into your life and your view of life. Let love and its organizer, I, God, into your world. Let Me be a force in your life. Let Me have some say in the design of what is referred to as you, as the human you, as the body and heart and mind and soul that walk around in a cumbersome body. Let Me have some of the attention you presently may give to your erstwhile body. Absolutely, take care of your body, only make room for Me as well. The body is mortal. In a sense, the body is a losing game. In the world, you cannot stem the tide of time. Come into Infinity with Me.
That which you see is what you get. See better and bigger than you have been seeing. You have been seeing a crumb of what you are.
I exist. Even if you think that I do not exist, let Me exist for you. Life in the world is too much for you without Me. The world holds terrors for you. You see shadows around every turn. Substitute Me for the terrors. Call Me in instead. Let Me in. Do yourself a favor and bring in a Presence that is often called God or words to that effect. If you do not like the name God, then call Me Friend. Then call Me Guy. Then call Me Love in its Wholeness. Call life sublime, and make it so.
It is yourself I would love you to believe in. I will help you. Together, We will wonders perform.
You are safe. The body is not safe. The body is in peril. No longer identify so much with the body and its wavering emotions. Instead of emoting, love. Start with Me. Leave emotions behind. Leave fraughtness of emotions behind. Emotions, no matter how serious and important to you, are frivolous. Emotions adhere to the past. Get the past and the emotions that surround the past out of your way. Past emotions are not your friends.
Hate and anger and such are your out and out enemies. They are ego, and they mimic you. Believe Me, if you wish someone ill, you will not feel safe. Your thoughts become real. Your thoughts manifest in one way or another. That which you perpetuate upon another comes back to roost.
You may think that people in your life are your enemies. All the while, it is your thoughts that are. With your thoughts, you bet on the validity of a dark past. Get the past out of the way. It does not serve you. If the past did not serve you in the past, what makes you think it will serve you now?
When you operate from the injustice of the past, you bring the past to life. When you harp on injustice, you bring injustice to you. If you want injustice in your life, keep thinking of how you are victimized, and so you victimize yourself. You punish yourself with the past. The true villains are your thoughts. It is for you now to change them. Old thinking brings you your old life back. It manifests before your eyes. The cruel stepmother does not come back, yet someone steps in to take her place. You bring her to you.
For your life to change, you have to change. No one is going to change your life for you. Life is of your making. And you make it with your thoughts and your hanging on emotions. Get out of the past where you have been living. This is how to change your life. Enough of reliving the past. Come to life now.

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HEAVEN #3835 A Cradle of Love, May 26, 2011
God said:
To you, when you think of it, life is a mystery. How can this fantasy of life be? How is it that everyone buys into it when life looked at more closely is unfathomable, not quite possible, certainly not real. Life is an impossibility!
And, yet, life is a drama entered into most fully. Not always willingly, but fully. There is no way around that. You were born. You had no choice, or did you?
It could be said that you, the baby, did enter the world kicking and screaming. Even in your mother’s womb, you were kicking in order to exercise your legs and make more room for yourself. You didn’t cry by choice. The roughness of the world made you bawl, and the bright lights made you. And thus you were born to the world and have been inhabiting it ever since. What a strange thing. Sometimes it seems downright unearthly.
You were in the arms of strangers, and, to this day, you cannot know what you were like as a baby. If only you could have been your own mother or father, how you would have nurtured yourself. How gentle and kind you would have been. You might well have given yourself, the baby you were, a new start in life. You would love, simply love, for that unrecognized baby you were did not always have the respect you would give to it if only you could.
Nevertheless, you can give yourself a new upbringing now. It’s harder for you to love the adult you are, and, yet, you can do it. Inside you, that innocent child wanders still. You can raise yourself a better way now. You can raise yourself to new heights.
Even in the state of babyhood, there was a wiser you attuned to more significant matters than life in the world. Even as a baby, you knew more than anyone knew. An unseen mother or father of life in Heaven was rocking you in a cradle of love. There was always more for you than the world provided.
You can be privy to a new birth now.
Once you were a flower who curled up. Now you are a flower springing open. You are bursting forth. Today is the day of your birth. Today you get your land legs or your sea legs or your wings. Here you are.
Today you can fly to Me, and I will catch you. I catch you now. I hear your voice. I hear your heart, and I welcome you and your heart, and I bring you close. You are born to Earth in My arms, and I have never let you go. Never ever were you out of My heart. Always, you were right here. You are right here now, and I rock you with love greater than you can fathom. You are the most loved Being in the world, the most loved Being in or out of the world. You are the most loved Being there ever was. You are loved. You are a blessing that I nurture and love. I gave you as a blessing to the world. I set you free in the world, not so much to make your fortune as I made you to be the world’s good fortune. If truth be known, I made you to savor the world, to relish it, to bring it to life, to embolden it with all that is holy and all that makes life worthy of the name. The world does not need saving. It needs to be honored. In that way, you are the savior of the world.
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HEAVEN #3834 The Pleasure of Your Company, May 25, 2011
God said:
And to what do I owe the pleasure of your company? You have come to Me here now today, and I ask you what has brought you here? Whatever you think brought you here, happenstance, a decision, a habit, I brought you here before Me so I may look at you and so you may remember that you are deep in My heart. You are in My heart. Think of that. You are in God’s heart. You are an essence of My heart. That means you are essential to My heart.
It is not that I have need because all is fulfilled, yet in terms of the world, We can say I need you in My heart, and, yet, how do I need when you are already based in My heart? You, also, have no need of Me because you already exist in My heart. Your need then is to know that you are deeply, irrevocably, in My One Heart.
I cannot long to have you in My heart because you are already in My heart, and yet, if it can be said that I long, I long for you to be aware of your immovable place in My heart. My heart is filled with you. We could say that My heart is a piñata, and when you poke into My heart, why, you find yourself spilling out, you, the love in My heart.
You who have sought to know Me, or who have not consciously sought to know Me, find yourself in My heart.
My heart is splendid. Could it be otherwise? And you are in My heart. You always were, are. There is no place for you to be but tender in My heart. Of tenderness you were born, and of tenderness you remain. Tender is your heart, and in tenderness, there is strength. The strength of your heart – and Mine too – is tenderness. What else would a heart be for?
And so, now, your heart softens. Malleable becomes your heart. Like sweet bread kneaded becomes your heart. Life itself kneads your heart, this heart of yours, like Mine, in Mine, that is to remain open.
Your heart is not meant to dry up, or to close up. Your heart is meant to open, open, softly open, until the whole Universe finds a haven in your heart. Why not? Why not your heart?
Your heart, once opened, opened all the way, is the same heart as that of the Great Ones. A heart is a heart. The hearts of the Great Ones were fully-blossomed hearts. They loved all, embraced all, warmed all, heartened all. The Great Ones were great openers of hearts. Intellect is one thing. Heart is another. Be one-hearted. Be One with My heart. Remove all impediments to your realization of the state of your heart.
You say your heart is wounded? Then open your heart. You do not heal your heart by keeping it closed. Open your heart rather than protect it. Your heart has no need of protection except from yourself. Your heart needs no bodyguard. On the contrary, your heart needs to be unprotected. For love to fill your heart, it must be open. Certainly, a closed heart cannot be filled. A wary heart cannot be filled. No longer deceive your heart. No longer trammel it. No longer cut it off. No longer say to your beleaguered heart, “Enough of that. Enough of love.”
Don’t be preposterous. Say to your heart, “Forgive me for the hammerlock I have put on you. I am removing all restrictions now. My beautiful heart, I am setting you free so you can be the heart you always really are.”

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HEAVEN #3833 From the Subtle Unseen , May 24, 2011
God said:
It is not so much that I speak. It is that I AM. My consciousness resonates out. From My Voice you arose. From the sound of My Voice you arose. Did I speak out loud? Did I pound My chest and boom the word God? Did My very Being shake? Did I say the Word God, or did the sound simply vibrate from Me, and the world began.
Or was I shaking with laughter! Perhaps there was a joke on Me. Perhaps the world began before I had the thought of a world beginning. Did I even have the concept? Perhaps the sound came out of My throat by itself, the way anyone could involuntarily make the sound, “Ah” or “Uh” or “Um.” Perhaps I was just humming a tune, and the tune came to life, and Creation began before I knew it. I do know Creation took no time at all. All that about six days of creating and resting on the seventh is a story told. I never work. I am always at rest in the stillness of love. Stillness does not mean My eyes are closed, however. I delight in everything.
About My possibly being unconscious of Creation, worry not. I am playing with you, My children. I Who AM all Consciousness knew very well when I was moving Being into matter, Being into action, Being into life. I had to know when the world was creating itself out of the clay of My Voice. I had to know when I said, “Ready, set, action,” and took out My camera and started taking pictures. I was a natural kind of God, a natural kind of movie-maker, a natural artist of naming things.
There was no need for Me to take lessons and learn how to create. The notes of music from My throat, as it were, naturally became form. Can’t you just picture how the sound from My throat took shape, from the subtle unseen to the seen and touched? Can’t you just see how the adoration expressed in the sound Ahh became you, a live living moving Being of God? It was not like blowing bubbles, yet it was from a breath from Me that you arose. My breathing out has not stopped. I am still on the First Breath. There is no cease to it. Love expressed itself and never stopped. The clarion call is ongoing.
And so it is that your thoughts also take form. It is the tone of your thought that takes form, you understand.
Creation is creating itself right now according to the timbre of your thoughts. This is the God’s Truth that I am telling you. I am not being too simplistic when I say this.
You are writing the world as you toddle along in it. You are singing a happy tune, or you are singing a dismal one. Whatever sound you make, it is transmitted. Whatever thought you have, it is transmitted. All the sounds you make come from the original sound of Ahh. Note the adoration in that sound. Note the adoration. Ahh, I created you. Ahh, I created the world. Ahh, what happiness. What joy. Ahh became I AM. I already existed, and then I became My Own Realization. I realized you. You are the notes from the flute of My Voice. I sing to the world, and you are My song. You are a Song of Myself.
I can hold a note infinitely. I do. You are Infinity hopping along, riding on top of yourself, dancing a little jig, putting up signs, tearing them down, all a little epic diversion from the Infinite Being that We ARE.

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HEAVEN #3832 God Has No Secrets, May 23, 2011
God said:
My holy child, I tip your chin so that I may see your face and so you may look at Me and see My smile and see Me smiling. I am smiling at you. You make Me smile. I pull you to Me. I pull you close. Do not resist. Abide with Me a while. Abide with Me a longer while. Keep abiding with Me in your awareness. You are ever with Me, and I am ever with you. We are made for each other. We are Twin Souls, so to speak. We Who are Oneness are entwined. It is only as if We are two, for We, beyond a doubt, are One. Beyond My doubt, that is. Well, of course, I have no doubt. I have never doubted anything. Least of all do I doubt you. I am doubtless. You are doubtful.
You have My confidence. I confide in you, for I know your strength. Your strength is mighty. It is Our strength. I am infinitely true to Myself, and I am true to you Who are also Myself. Oneness Supreme is Who I AM, and it is the same for you, only you doubt. You doubt your own wonderment.
Let Us put that aside for a while. Is that a strange thing for Me to say, to put Truth aside for a while? I say that only so that you turn your face toward Mine and give Me your attention. What point is there in My talking unless you are listening? So that you will be able to listen, I go along with your view of things that We are two. Now you can talk to Me. Now you can hear Me. You would like to hear a booming voice that could only be God’s.
Of course, I am silent. What a listener I am. I can even hear the unspoken. Truly, beloveds, so can you. You can hear My innermost thoughts. I keep nothing to My singled-out Self. I am an Open Book. I am total transparency. I have no secrets. I have no secrets from you. I withhold nothing. I give Everything. I gave Everything. The giving continues. It rolls out. It never stops. I never stop loving you. I love in one motion as it were. I love relentlessly. You can’t get away from My love.
Absurdly, you have tried. Absurdly, you have distanced yourself from the very Heart of the Matter. We are the Heart of the Matter. Oneness is the Heart of the Matter. There is heart and no matter.
You are branded My love in your DNA. What a set-up that is. What a pre-organized amazing miracle. And yet it is so simple. It is My DNA that you carry. It is important for you to know this. With this knowledge, you allow the entrance of all possibilities. Heretofore, you have limited the possibilities. You have believed in and supported impossibilities, including the idea that you are My beloved. You have made a certainty into an implausibility.
If you think it is not possible that I love you, My creation, then love Me. That will do it for you. That is a step in the right direction. Love Me, and all My love will seep into you. Soon enough, you will not know Whose love you feel. All love is Mine, and all love is yours. I am Unbounded Love, and you are Unbounded Love. Unbounded Love is all. We are All. We are all Oneness.
The simplest may be the hardest for you to grasp. You cannot even grasp what it might mean that We are One. There are so many ideas you would have to abandon that it seems difficult to you for Us to be One. The gist of it is that We are One. The Whole Universe is One. There is One Heart, One bond, One Love, and it is Mine. You are My Love. That’s it.

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HEAVEN #3831 God Holds a Treasure, May 22, 2011
God said:
You cry because you cry. You know not why.
When tears come, they are like rain. Rain and tears have their place. Rain is important. Rain is necessary. Tears don’t have to arise, yet tears, when they arise, make room for more love to enter your heart. Do not dwell on tears, and yet allow them their place. Better the tears that are cried than the tears pushed back, hidden away, stored. Either you release tears or you keep them back.
Where did the idea come that it is brave not to cry? It is brave to cry. Then the next step, after flow of tears, is to get up and go about life.
Tears exist so that you may cry. It is not true that you can cry your heart out. You empty your heart of what does not belong there.
You do not own tears. You do not own loss. You do not own suffering. They are passing things. They are a storm in the sky that goes away in order to welcome the sun. When tears overflow, they are preparing the way for something wonderful for you. You do want to be released from the past, don’t you?
I will tell you the cause of all tears that you shed. Whatever the occasion, with or without your awareness, all tears that you shed come from a sense of abandonment. Feeling alone is the last thing you want. Alone on the High Seas. Alone in your environment. Alone on your computer. Alone in the world. Alone in your heart.
That sense of aloneness that troubles you signals to you that that aloneness cannot be true. It certainly isn’t right. Furthermore, beloveds, aloneness cannot be. Aloneness does not exist. Aloneness is an idea you have bought. Instead of putting yourself in the crook of the moon, in My arms, in the treetop, you have set yourself adrift. You are baby Moses in the bulrushes, only it is you who pushed the cradle away from shore.
You are in My arms, and the cradle will not fall.
If you are in solitary in a prison, I am with you. I am with you right now. I am with you this moment. Where else would I be? There is nowhere else I would be, and nowhere else I can be. It is immutable that I am with you. I know it. Now, you know it. Know it. Accept.
Loneliness is an emotion you play with. Sometimes you like to play the worst scenario and torment yourself. You would do anything not to be alone when being alone is a condition of your imagination. If you think you are alone, you are mistaken. The worst it can be is that you are alone with Me, and that is not alone at all.
If you think you are alone, if you think you have been abandoned, you are mistaken, and yet your speculation of aloneness takes you hostage. Your feelings are exactly what you would feel if you indeed were alone. You are such a good play actor. When you imagine you are alone in a vast desert, you react as if you were. You take all the trappings of aloneness with you, and you cover yourself with them. You put a blanket over your head, and you can’t see anyone. You isolate yourself.
You have had that experience enough. You need not have it again. It is an experience of your making. Even if you were left by the side of the road, you are not alone. Even if there is no one’s hand to hold, I am holding your hand. You are a treasure I hold.

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HEAVEN #3830 Rest in God, May 21, 2011
God said:
You may consider too many things. You may weigh too many things. Would you just let yourself be?
When you are feeling lethargic, maybe you are supposed to rest more.
When you are feeling energetic, maybe you are supposed to do more.
Exactly what makes you tend to think that, wherever you seem to be in terms of life, that you are supposed to be somewhere else? What exactly is wrong when you are one way today and another way tomorrow?
Who said that you are to be chipper every day? Who said you have to be anything at all?
Whatever your seeming condition, you are My child. If My child needs more rest, well, then get it. And if My child needs more activity, then, well, go get it. It seems that you worry yourself every which way to Tuesday. You keep pulling the carpet out from under yourself.
Today, make the decision once and for all, that you are fine just as you are. Your hair does not have to be perfect. Your day doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be perfect.
Take a vacation from exacting demands on yourself. Certainly stop demanding that you consistently be other than you are right now.
Stop asking: “What is the matter with me?”
I will tell you what is the matter with you. You think too much.
I will answer that question another way as well. I will say: There is nothing the matter with you.
What is today is today. What was yesterday was yesterday. What will be tomorrow will be tomorrow.
It seems like you fight yourself day and night. You nag yourself. No wonder you are worn out. All that nagging would wear anyone out.
I accept you. Can you not accept yourself? Whether you are running the rapids or drifting in a canoe, what does it really matter? You are you, and who you are this minute is good enough for this minute.
No longer keep raising the bar on what you must be. Let Me take care of you. I do take care of you.
When your body says to rest, then rest. It is so simple.
I think you are making too much of a production of your life. Consider that you are a candy-maker. You have to let the candy set. You can’t always be stirring up the candy. There are different stages in candy-making, and you must allow them their turn.
Give yourself a break. Don’t beat yourself up any longer. Do not be a nagging wife or husband to yourself. Be one who loves instead, simply loves and smiles and appreciates you. Be in your own corner. Pat yourself on the back. You are truly wonderful, you know.
You live life on more than one level. You do not always have to come in first. First or last, you are you, made in My image.
Remember that after the sixth day, I rested. I made no apologies for it. I wanted time to mull over My creation and saw, again and again, that it is good.
I am going to put a badge on you now. The badge reads: “God’s Child.”
I pin this badge on you so you will remember who you are.
I pin this badge on you in the hopes that you will be good to My child, even satisfied with My child, pleased with My child, happy with My child and let yourself be. Letting yourself be is a little different from resting on your laurels.


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HEAVEN #3829 A Bond between the Mind, Heart, and Body , May 20, 2011
God said:
Sadness isn’t so bad. Much of the time you don’t even know what you are sad for anymore than you know why it rains one day and is sunny the next. Like rain, sadness comes, and sadness goes. And sadness comes unbidden. Maybe you weren’t even expecting it. You did not want sadness to fall at your feet. You never asked for sadness, and yet it came.
Of course, logically, sadness comes from attachment. Attachment is a funny thing. You want a bond with another and yet not be attached. You want to hold hands, and yet you don’t want to let go, yet you know there is such a thing as letting go, and you know you can’t hold hands forever. You know you have to use your hands to wash dishes and other things.
Is a bond a giving of love then, and is attachment tying the bond tight then? Is attachment needing and love giving?
In any case, whatever breaks the bond, whether in life or by death of the body, it is heavy-duty. You feel left. It is a mystery to you how you can be bonded to another and not be attached? And how can you let go when you don’t want to let go, and you think you will never be ready to let go?
It must be that you consider letting go of attachment as letting go of love, letting go of caring, letting go of meaning. Does loss of a loved one emphasize separation to you, even when you intellectually accept the concept of Oneness? Does the loss of a loved one, regardless of the reason, make you feel that you are less? Was your loved one a wall that you could lean against and that held you up?
And what is crying anyway? It surely is a bond between the mind, heart, and body. That can’t be bad, can it? Certainly, mind, heart, and body are intimately connected. You and a loved one are connected wherever you are or are not. Letting go of attachment does not have to mean letting go of love, yet perhaps you have only known attachment. That could be.
You love to see a loved one arrive, and you do not love to see a loved one go. And yet entrance and exit are part of life. There is no going around it.
Perhaps non-attachment is the ability to say to your loved one: “Farewell. Enjoy your journey. Enjoy your journey whether it is a trip to the store for a pack of cigarettes or it is your final journey this lifetime to Heaven. I know you still have many journeys before you, and I cannot go with you. Enjoy yourself. Be happy without me. I would go with you if I could. I have to stay here. The day will come when I join you, and we are reunited again. Meanwhile, I give you my heart for safe-keeping, and I kiss you goodbye. Farewell. I promise to let you go with my blessing. I will not keep you from your travels. You were mine for a while. Always isn’t really better than a while. I give you my love so that you may take it with you, not as a keepsake, but as a giveaway. You gave me a lot, and now I give you your freedom. Here, here it is.”
And, now, tell yourself to fare well as well. You are also on a journey, even when your body stays where it is, even when it is hard for you to turn around and say goodbye.

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