HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3591 The World Is Your Piano , September 24, 2010
God said:
Each new day is like an envelope you receive in the mail. Inside the envelope is a card you are to fill in. And that is your day. Welcome each day, and do not take it too personally. Even when it is a glorious God-given day, it’s a day for you to travel through and yet not possess. Be glad for its blessings. Be grateful.
Be grateful for what you receive, and yet know that it is not a handout. Accept what the day brings. There is no need for you to be overly elated than there is for you to be disgruntled. Your day comes and goes, and you live longer than the day. The day is a tiding, and you who are eternal ride on the day, and yet the day is not the making of you. It is more to the point that you are the making of the day.
Every person’s day interlocks with yours, and your day interlocks with everyone else. No one is in this life alone. Each is a receptacle and each is a rocket. Each heart touches. This is really true. There is not one heart that does not reach yours, and your heart reaches every single other heart on Earth.
There is no time or space. There is always touching. Every soul supports every other soul. You are Oneness as I am Oneness. There is no one who is not Oneness. We can say there is One Heart in the world, and it is yours, Mine, and everyone’s. No one’s heart is unaffected by yours. You are a linchpin of the Universe. Your picture is being taken now, and you are being radiated all over the world and beyond the horizon. There is nowhere where you are not. In one instant of imagined time, you are everywhere.
You are the bell that peals in the world. You are heard. You are answered. It is really true that you are the metronome of the world. You are instrumental. You play the orchestra of the world. You may not know your importance, yet you toll the world. The world is your piano. You may not realize your importance, yet, surely, you do not possibly think that you are irrelevant to the world’s turning. Your neighbor is yourself. You are the sun. You are the rising sun. You shine all over the Universe. The world rises and falls with you. You serve the world. Pay attention. How you conduct yourself matters. Upon you depends the world.
Stand up straight. Shine your light. Let it be seen. You do not speak for yourself alone. You speak for all. The whole world is following you. Light up the world. You are a team player whether you know it or not. You do not go it alone, and no one in the world goes without you. You are more than a fixture in the world. You radiate it.
Hark to the messages you send. Hark to the tone of your voice. Hark to all the voices that call out your name. Whether they know it or not, everyone in the world is looking for you, their counterpart. Make yourself known now. Send out rays from your eyes. Your eyes need to be seen. Love from your eyes is yearned for. You are yearned for. The world has been yearning for you to shine your light as a beacon to the world. You are ready, so shine.

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HEAVEN #3589 Better Than Hope, September 22, 2010
God said:
Hope is something, but it is not enough to sustain you. Hope is just a glimmer. It is better to know than to hope. Hope has a disclaimer with it. Hope says that maybe something you want is going to happen. Maybe. It could. It might. There’s a chance, if you’re lucky. Hope is more like holding on to a thread.
A thread of hope is better than nothing. Hope lets a little light come in. Even to have an idea of a blessing to come is a good thing. Yet hope is a weak thing. Better to pull the shades up all the way.
As it is, hope carries a percentage of doubt with it. Can you imagine My saying to you: “I hope you get over your cold. I hope you pass your test. I hope there will be world peace some day.” A little lukewarm coming from Me, wouldn’t you say? So is the wimpiness of hope.
If I were you, I would carry much more hope than the word hope gives you. Hope is lack-luster. I know a better word, more like a marketing word. It is sure to wake you up. It is sure to put stars in your eyes.
Desire is a word that carries more zip with it than hope. Desire is a wonderful word that exhilarates. I am all for your desiring all that you desire. Who should desire all that you do desire more than you? Desire is stronger than limping hope.
But there is another aspect I must point out, and you may not like it. You do not have to have everything you hope for! You do not have to have everything you desire. All your desires do not have to be fulfilled. You may think you would like total fulfillment of desires, but, you know, you have heard of poor little rich girls who get everything they want. Desires fulfilled so rampantly are not so fulfilling. This definitely is so when your desires are all about you.
So now I emphasize four more points:
1. Know that you can be in good standing, and still all your desires may not be fulfilled. It is not a bad mark against you when your desires are not fulfilled the way you would like or as soon as you would like.
2. You may want to expand on your desires. If you desire a new dress, odds are you will have to go to a store and buy it. If you desire a happier home, desire that you find ways to make your home happier. If you desire to make a home run, desire to hit the ball hard and to run fast. Desire is greater than just making a list of your desires.
3. Along with being a desirer, you want to be an appreciator. Here is a very good line: “Thank You, God, for all the blessings You are about to give.” “Thank You, God, for this meal.” “Thank you, Mom, for this meal.” Ah, beloveds, even if you can say: “Thank You, God, for this ache in my heart,” that is far better than feeling neglected or sore about it.
What if even heartache is a blessing? It has to be. In heartache, a different kind of opportunity is being presented to you. A different vision is being presented to you. What is the gold in even heartache? In years to come, you will see the beatitude of it. What brings heartache, beloveds, but a lack of comprehension and vision? Heartache will whisper its greater meaning to you, even when that may seem impossible. Even heartache has hope with it.
4. No longer fight so hard. Be easy-going.

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HEAVEN #3588 Like the Tide, like the Dawn, like the Seasons, September 21, 2010
God said:
You partake in life at the same time as you observe it. It is like you are taking your own picture. You may be a major player on the field, and yet you are in a booth taking a picture of yourself on the playing field. You record every action and often do replays, and, in retrospect, you ponder all the moves you made.
Although you may forget a lot, you recorded everything and stored it somewhere. In a sense, you are a hoarder of experience on Earth.
You are a tourist who travels to a distant land, and you want to bring back home with you every memory of scenery and architecture, art, food, and the people. You want to bring everyone and everything back with you. You want to bring home every scent and shade of color. You stick the memories somewhere within you. You have your camera and recorder going all the time. You don’t want to let them go.
What you really want is to hold everything in place. You want to stop time. You want to make the impermanent permanent. You want to stockpile the past and be able to sort through it, organize it, learn something from it, keep it with you always. Meanwhile, streams of new experience pour in, and the camera clicks and the recorder records and plays.
What you forget is that life on Earth is all a passing moment that, like the tide, like the dawn, like the seasons, cannot be held back. You forget that you are to let go of the past. You can’t keep it anyway, and yet you continue to add more to all the backload you have stuffed somewhere in your mind. Your dear mind gets crowded. You store more and more. You go through some of the past deliberately, and some of it imposes itself on you. The past is water under the bridge. The past is yesterday’s newspaper. You really can’t keep scrapbooks of every experience. Keeping the past is not a hobby you can keep up with. What you end up with is clutter.
Just as in life, you cannot keep all past possessions in a storage shed. There is no room for them. Besides, you have to let go of them. What is the point of keeping them all anyway? Sooner or later, past accumulation of all accountings and memories has to recede and make space for right now.
Travel light, beloveds. Just take a little knapsack with you, or, okay, a little backpack. Do not drag a trainload along with you. Life on Earth itself is but a brief moment.
You can’t really pack love, and yet love will go with you wherever your foot falls. Take wide steps across the land of life. You are where you are now. Do not even gather rosebuds. Let them fall where they may.
You are not meant to be a collector of life. Do not keep the war mementos and the baby booties. Life moves on, and so must you.
Every day you are a new person. You do not want to be encumbered with the past. You do not want to be encumbered.
Be light of foot like Mercury.
Let go of memories and possessions and conclusions and all that holds you back. Do not stockpile the past. You are a God-created being right now and you are made for this glimpse of Eternity that is called right now. Otherwise, you burden yourself. Take what fits into your heart, beloveds. Take Me, take you, take Us.

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HEAVEN #3587 Love Gives, Love Allows, September 20, 2010
God said:
Take the cover off your heart the way you would a lid off a pan. The lid perhaps served for a while. It kept the steam in. Now it is time for the contents of the pan to be served to all who sit at your table. Do you understand Me? You are the table, and you are the pan, and you are the food. All that you have in your heart is to be given. Why keep even a little bit of food left over in the pan of your heart? Throw the lid away. Let there be no top to the love that your heart delivers. Perhaps you tend to hoard a little bit. There is no keeping love to yourself, beloveds. That’s how hearts and arteries get clogged. Even such a beautiful thing as the stream of love from your heart can get clogged when it is held tight. And so you must loose the love in your heart.
The love in your heart is a ship that must sail. It must ride the waves. Your heart is a fine sturdy ship. It weathers all the storms. The ship of your heart cannot be kept to itself. It is not happy to be moored at shore, tethered. Untie the love in your heart and let it go. It longs to travel. It longs to reach everywhere. What can give a heart greater happiness than to be set free to go where it wills?
You may say that recipients of your heart’s love have not always wanted it. There isn’t anyone who wouldn’t welcome more love. It is possible that you were making demands to go along with your love, or the recipient of your love feared there were demands. Of course, true love does not make demands. True love freely gives hugs and hellos and goodbyes and travels on. Love does not capture. Love gives, not to its detriment but to its betterment. If another heart wants its freedom from your surge of love, then, so be it.
Love is not dependent upon what someone else wants of it or doesn’t want. At the same time, love does not mark its territory. Love does not put up a flag and set payment or rules for love.
Just as you may love a certain tea and drink it every day, the tea isn’t upset when you chose not to drink it tomorrow. Neither a certain tea nor a certain love need obligate you.
Love is not to cost you, nor are you to charge for it. Your heart may not be all that another wants. Perhaps another wants your heart to fulfill certain conditions. Perhaps another requires certain standards for your heart. Your heart cannot be mandated, nor can you mandate another’s heart. No heart is to be taken prisoner. No heart is to take prisoners.
Of course, you would like your heart to be welcomed as long as you want it to be. Each heart in the world has its own timing, however. You cannot even make demands on your own heart, beloveds.
The point is that you do not own love. You cannot regulate it. You are not a despot of love.
And then you ask about faithfulness and loyalty. They do exist, and yet what someone else does with his or her heart is not yours to choose. And, so, when you have to send love at a distance, send love at a distance. It is your love that We are talking about now, not someone else’s. No one has the say over other hearts.

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HEAVEN #3584 All the Galaxies and Planets, September 17, 2010
God said:
Come into My heart right now. Without further ado, come into My heart. My heart is set for you. I have saved a place just for you. Your place is here. This is where I invite you. This is where you belong. As you wend your way in the world, so are you seated simultaneously within My heart and beside Me in the tryst of Our love. Never do you leave My side nor I yours. No matter how far you may wander, you cannot wander from Me, nor can I from you, not that I ever would. I have no such desire.
I cannot be lonely because I have a whole world to embrace with you in it. In Oneness, there is not loneliness. It would be lonely without Oneness. A million lonely beings together are lonely together precisely because each knows that Oneness exists, and that they are to share this Oneness. There is nothing else like it. Not all the gold in the world lights a candle to Oneness. Love does. True love does light a candle to Oneness. In fact, supreme love is Oneness Supreme.
There is value in looking at the photos of all the galaxies and planets and suns in the Universe. There is value in seeing the magnificent planet Earth as a tiny dot in the whole utterly exquisite Universe. There is value. There is also value in seeing yourself as encompassing, not only the planet Earth, but the entire Universe. You are bigger than the big, greater than the great. There is nothing greater than you. I include Myself there as well, for I am you, and you are I. I am All-Knowing. You, on the other hand, don’t know all you know so, for a while, you are All-Uncertain.
But you are not a fragment of Wholeness. You are Wholeness. You haven’t quite made that full discovery yet. You can’t quite climb up on that wonderful news. How close you are to sighting this new land. You have an inch further to go, yet, of course, that inch seems like a mile to you, and a little time seems like a hundred eons as you look at the world and the Universe with wide-open eyes. Yet it is not even an inch the distance you perceive, and it is not even a blink of an eye the time you think it takes for you to touch the Base of all your desires. Your awareness is imminent. Of course, it is long overdue in your view, and you want a finite definition of imminent. How imminent, you ask. How soon.
It cannot be soon enough for you, and yet you delay it. Here is the beautiful Ocean. All you have to do is to dive in. You say you don’t know how. You ask all and sundry: “How cold is the water of the Ocean? How far down does it go? Has anyone been lost in it and never seen again? Can I get back out after I’m once in? Can I go back in again after I’m once out?”
Your questions continue like those cut-out paper dolls holding hands that you used to cut out in elementary school with those short safe elementary school scissors. There is no break in your questions.
Beloveds, if you are looking for answers, it is better not to know everything, and it is better to not ask everything.
If a man is thirsty, he does not ask: “What temperature is the water? Is it spring water or distilled? Where did you get it? How long have you had it?”
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HEAVEN #3585 A Great Being of Light in a Vast Universe, September 18, 2010
God said:
When you feel that you are at the end of your rope, you are really at the cusp of a beautiful opportunity. You may not be sure of this, yet why not think that way? While you are at it, why not think a forward-moving way rather than beating the drum of fear? In any case, it has to be true that you are moving forward. You cannot retreat into the past. You didn’t always know that the past was wonderful when you were in it.
I say that if you are in a rowboat, row. And you don’t row while your boat is still tethered to shore. And yet, when it comes to life, you have had one foot tied to land and the other hesitant to dip into the water. Water is to swim in, not to be afraid of.
Life is not to be afraid of. Life is to swim in. That’s all you have to do. Enter into the pool of life and swim. You are not even swimming for dear life. You are simply one who swims. You are on a cruise ship. You are to cruise through life. You are not on a merchant ship. You are on a cruise ship, and you sail the world, and you see what there is to see. You see the wonders of the world. Everything you see is a wonder. Tell Me, what is not a miracle on the face of the Earth?
It is a miracle that you are alive in a human form. It is a miracle that there is an Earth, and you live on it. It is a miracle of illusion, yet it is a miracle nevertheless.
And you are a miracle. From the waters of the deep, you came to the surface. You are greater than surface, and yet the surface is a great place to be. You have come up for air, beloveds. You are like a periscope who has come to the surface in order to look around. Here is the world I have created for you. Here are you I have created for the world. Truly, you are perfect for each other, the world to walk in, and you to walk in the world. You and the world are like two steps of progress. In terms of the relative world, you can’t have one without the other.
Of course, the reality is that you are independent of the world. You are independent of everything. You are independent. All that goes on in the world doesn’t supersede the significance of you. It doesn’t matter where you stand in the world or what uniform you wear. My heart beats in yours, and I feel the beat of your heart. Your heart twangs throughout the Universe. You turn over on the Universe, as it were. The Universe is your pillow.
You never were a minnow in a small pond. You have always been a Great Being of Light in a Vast Universe. Don’t let the Vastness scare you. Really, it’s only you and I. We’re the only ones here. We are Vaster than Vast, and We are Greater than Great. We are no small potatoes. We are God and Man. We exist together. We are not One without the Other, therefore, We are One. We are One what? We are One Life Force playing different parts at different times, and yet We are One Life Force blazing across the horizon. We are One Bicyclist bicycling across the sky. We go up and up. You may feel you are going in a straight line, but, really, you are going up and up, and that’s all there is to it.

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HEAVEN #3582 Reading God's Words, September 15, 2010
God said:
You live on the tides of life. Sometimes the waters seem smooth, and sometimes they seem rough. What makes the difference between smooth flow and flow not so smooth may be the speed. It may not be the speed, yet smooth is even-tempered, and rough is not so engaging.
But whether the ride is rough or smooth, fast or slow, even or uneven, long or short, you arrive at your destination.
You arrive where you have never left except as it seems to you on your voyage of life in the world. You are on a cruise, beloveds, and yet your cruise may seem beset with disturbance. Disturbance is just something getting out of the way. Disturbance is a harbinger of change. It is a beckoner of growth.
Of course, you don’t invite disturbance. Invite peace. And yet, when disturbance finds you, don’t take it as an assault. Your plans have changed, that’s all. Even in the middle of the ocean, your plans can change.
Beckon life to you. Beckon life, but don’t insist, and don’t push it away. It will move on soon enough, much the way the moon grows and wanes day by day. The moon’s cycle is short and anticipated. Your flow of life may be a surprise. Some surprises you like.
Life is not a horse that you can restrain with a rein. Life is more like a beloved dog who always jumps over the fence or finds some way to get out of his yard. And yet the playful dog always returns to you wagging its tail and so happy to see you. The dog may be muddy and knock you over while he is licking your face.
This playful puppy called life doesn’t mean to inconvenience you. It just is playing out on the streets, and you are discomfited. And this puppy you cannot train or tame. Life is so rambunctious and creative and there is such a confluence of activity when one person’s life meets another, and so it is throughout the whole planet.
And then sometimes life seems to take a rest and doesn’t pay all that much attention to you, and you can catch your breath as well.
In one way, We can say that life is the master, and you follow along. You may not orchestrate life as you would wish, yet you can be as you wish.
Wherever you are in the cycle of the washing machine that I now switch to calling life, you have to go along with it. You don’t have to bang on the door or scream to get into a different cycle. Sooner or later, you will be in the gentle cycle, and sooner of later you will come out all fresh and new and clean. While life is going on, you are the conductor of it, even when you are thrown hither and yon. You can clench your teeth, or you can smile. You can even laugh at all the contortions you have gone through. You can shed a different light on them. You can be glad that you are further ahead now.
You are always further ahead. Hot water, cold water, too much soap, not enough, you are ahead. No matter how scathed, you come out unscathed. You go through the cycles of life, and you are a hero of it. You are the hero of your own life. You have experienced what no one else has, and you came out if even from the wringer. What you have gone through doesn’t really matter. That is the past. And now you are in the present, and you triumphed. You are reading My words, aren’t you?

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HEAVEN #3583 The Royal King , September 16, 2010
God said:
Well, the sun is shining today. What more is it that you want? Can it not be enough that the sun is shining on you? Can you wait a little to see what remarkableness the sun is bringing you this morning? What light will the sun shine on your life today?
And what light are you yourself shining on your life and the world?
Be like the sun and charge yourself up with the sun’s energy. Welcome the sun. And welcome you.
A day is dawning that has never dawned before. This is the day that has been waiting for you. This is the day for your debut. Walk out on the stage of the world, and say: “Good morning, Day. We have been waiting for each other to appear on the horizon. Now we are here, and we say hello. Good day, Sun, I also say because of my desire to welcome all light to me and to the world. I want to be the light of the world too. I want to be a discoverer of light as well. I want to be light inside, outside, every which side. How I love to be light and light up days and eyes and all of life. I want today to have an easy passage through my life. I want today to be energized by my receipt of it. I want, I want…”
The day wants you just as you say. The day says to you: “Get up, sleepyhead. I have arrived. I am here. Shall we get going and start ourselves on our journey this morning? I will take you wherever you would like to go. I am not exactly a golden chariot, but in a way I am, and I will take you along with me, and we shall see the sights that you pick out. I have a route to follow, and yet you can make of it what you will. Do you like that?”
Of course, you like that very much. You like to travel. You like to go places. And that is just what the day offers you. It offers you a whole day!
It’s like I have given you the ingredients to make a pie. You have choices. Whatever the day brings, what do you want to bring to the day? Do you want to make an apple pie, a lemon meringue pie, banana cream, pecan pie or Boston cream pie? Think of all the choices you have to choose from. Of course, there are mud pies and sour cream pie and crab cakes and so on.
How you bless today is your choice. Bless it well. Give it a good start. Give it your blessings. Thank this day for appearing before you, for the day serves you. You bid the day, and the day bids you. The day bids you, Good-day, and you bid the day, Good-day, and then you make it so. You make the day good.
Day rises, and day sets. You get up in the morning, and, at night, you go to bed. You and the day lie down together. Most likely, tomorrow gets up before you do. Soon enough, you do get up and rise to meet the new day that has dawned, a brand-new day, a day with unexpected treasures, a day that you might say is like another and yet it is not like any other. Today is a newborn day. It is a golden path for you to walk on, and it is a hammock to lie on and ponder on. It is your royal day today, and may you be the Royal King who rides on the day to see what it holds for you.
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HEAVEN #3581 The Fountain of Youth, September 14, 2010
God said:
You were not born to be dissatisfied. You were born for far more than that. Better to build on your foundation than to be perennially dissatisfied. A sense of dissatisfaction ages you whereas a sense of the goodness of life takes away wrinkles. So now I know how to reach you. I will copy the magic marketers. I will say it outright. “Come with Me, and I will make you young again and see that you never age.”
Isn’t this how it is done in the world? "Buy me, and I will give you every advantage. I am the fountain of youth," the ads say.
I, God, am indeed the Fount of Immortality. I am better than plastic surgery. I am better than the most expensive creams. I am better than any pill.
What works against Me is that I am readily available, anyone can afford Me, and no one has to spend a fortune on Me. No one has to spend even one penny. I am free to all. Yet I will tell you that I am worth all the disappearing creams in the world and the most precious diamonds, and I am yours free for the asking. You don’t have to fill out forms to order Me. You just have to desire closeness with Me in your heart. Just nudge yourself over. You don’t even have to wait for Me to arrive in the mail. I am better than priority mail. All you have to do is accept Me. Even before you desire and accept Me, I have been right with you in our mutual service to the Universe.
With Me, beloveds, you let go of the past. It could be said that you also let go of the future because you are pleased right now in My presence in your life. I dandle you on My knee. I dance and sing for you. I take your hand and invite you to dance with Me.
What else I do is to ask you to take upon yourself responsibility for your joy. I give you plenty of opportunity, and yet you have to avail yourself of it. You are the one who has to take the opportunity for joy even as it flies to you. You have to catch the baseball of life. Even when it comes right to you, you have to catch it. Your participation in joy is required. You are not allowed to sit there passively waiting for joy to visit you, for that way you sulk.
You are sitting in a rowboat. The rowboat may drift. If you want to make progress, however, it’s best if you take the oars and row the boat. Put some energy in, and gain mileage.
For plastic surgery, you lie on the table, and all is done for you, but then, you are not as good as new. You want to be new. You want the real thing. You want to be ageless, and you want to be beautiful.
I even have beauty secrets that I will give to you. You will learn to even age and be beautiful. You may not even desire youth of the body any longer because in our walk together, everything reaches its own level. You may desire greater than eternal youth. You may desire to serve and be so busy serving that you forget the errands you used to go on before.
With Me, you save your money, and you travel further. You travel to your true self which is ever the same. Your true self. Clamor for your true self. Your true self is love, and you are climbing the rope of love headfirst. You are so immersed in the heights of love, there is hardly anything else for you to desire but for more of Me and the love that grows in your heart.
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HEAVEN #3579 Our Gladdened Choice, September 12, 2010
God said:
You are not on Earth in order to be tested. You are on Earth in order to serve and be served. How wondrous it is to have you on Earth. You came to Earth to serve. Serve well, beloveds. Serve well. Serve as one who has been chosen by God to serve.
It is as if I tapped you on your shoulder. If you could remember My tapping you on your shoulder and saying: “Loved one, would you like to serve Me on Earth?” If you would, you would remember that you nodded yes, and you would remember.
I said: “There are thousand and one ways to serve Me. Certainly, there are more ways to serve Me than the numbers of your fingers and toes. There are more ways to serve Me than the number of living beings on Earth, for each being may have sundry ways to serve Me. Be the Truth of Who you are, and you will be serving Me the same way you breathe. You will serve Me with inspiration. With every breath in, you will serve. With every breath out, you will serve.
I said: “You will serve not in servitude but in love. And you will serve with alacrity.”
You will be thinking: “What can I do to serve God? Even what little thing can I do to serve God?. Nothing is too little for me to do for God.”
You will be thinking: “What will do I now that gives God an opportunity to be glad that He chose me to come to Earth? What opportunity is here for me to be glad that I said Yes to God? Of course, I could not say no. How can anyone say no to God Who says Yes to us? How could I say no to God Who loves me no matter what? That’s what it means that He gave me free will. He would not have given me free will if I had to appease His love, court His favor. Of course, my will, in truth, is surrender to God. I never did not surrender. I am surrendered.”
You will be thinking: “The theme of my existence always was: ‘God, here I am. God, I am here to serve you.’”
You will be thinking: “And, God, You said to me: ‘Live and love on Earth, and you serve. Love yourself enough to know that you are in service to Me. As you are in service to Me, you are in service to yourself. To love is not a command, you understand. Love cannot be commanded. It can only be rendered.’”
I, God, said to you: “When a song goes through your head, it comes to your lips, and you are singing the song or humming it. It came to you. And that’s how you love. Love occurs to you, and you are irresistibly drawn to it. What a lovely thought to have: ‘I am in service to God. Who else could I be in service to? There is No One Else. There is God. There is God alone.’”
Say to yourself now: “God does not let me lie at His feet all day. He asks me to stand up and serve. He asks me to fill plates for others. He asks me to be his host or hostess to the Universe. He asks me to welcome all. He asks me to show others the way. It is only courtesy. God asks me to be a flashlight to the world and to myself. He asks me to know that I lie down beside green pastures as I cultivate pastures and make them green. He asks me to be chlorophyll radiating the way the sun radiates light. God has asked me to make life on Earth fertile and happy so everyone wakes up in the morning with joy in their hearts and life on Earth invincible and Earth our gladdened choice.“
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HEAVEN #3580 Do You Believe in Fireflies, September 13, 2010
God said:
From the beginning of existence, you have been Mine. We exist now. We are existence itself. And then I made patty-cakes, and you had a body. First there was light, and then I created you as a Body of Light. There was light, and then there were rays of light sent to venture into the world, and We called you a Human Being of Light. Somehow, along the way, the important words “of light” were dropped off. What a careless error. Know forevermore that you are a Human Being of Light. You are not just any human being or just another human being. You are a Human Being of Light.
Do you believe in fireflies more than you believe in yourself? You see the flashing light of fireflies and you see not your light and the light of others. This light has not been proven to you. Let Me tell you, the light which you are does not have to be proven to you. Proof goes only so far. Actuality is beyond proof. Neither you nor I can be proven. Proof is inconsequential.
In the world, proof changes. Once it was proved that the planet you walk on was flat. Then it was proven it was round.
So I have just proved that proof changes. Your light exists more than proof. Proof is not so wonderful. Light is.
If light is wonderful, then it follows that you are wonderful light. That you may not have shined your light on the world does not make light less wonderful. It makes your light hidden, covered in shadow. Light that does not shine is light wasted, yet even light wasted is light. Light turned off is light turned off. It is not light non-existent.
The words “Let your light so shine before men,” is not an idle statement. Your mission is to let your light shine. You don’t have to believe in your light quotient in order for your light to shine. You don’t even have to believe in Me in order to shine My light.
It is easier to be a human being who shines light than a human being who does not shine his light. It is not such an easy thing to repress your light.
What would happen if you intended to shine your light? You might surprise yourself. You might start seeing yourself in light. You might start seeing yourself as vested only in light. You might shed light on a world that craves your light. I proclaim that you have had your fill of darkness which only pretends to be lack of light.
And yet you have seen that light goes off. Even as I say that light is eternal, you think light has a switch.
You believe in thought. You believe in furniture. You believe in woe. Why not believe in your Lighted Self? You don’t have the corner on light, for light belongs to all. Light is the very fiber of your being. Light is no less light because everyone has it.
Seek less light from others. Rather let your light shine and sparkle and light up other hearts that have become dulled with loss of hope or bruised with despair.
The thing is that hearts need your light. No longer can you keep your light hidden from view and especially not hidden from your own view.
You are on Earth in order to light it. Light up yourself with some awareness of your light. If you have ever contributed to someone’s smile, you have shone your light. If you yourself have smiled, you have shone your light on yourself. In the same light, I smile on you. I shine My light on you with all My heart. There is nothing I like more than to shine My light on you, and, so, in this moment, as always, I shine My light on you.

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HEAVEN #3578 Open the Window of Your Mind , September 11, 2010
God said:
All your worries are for naught. You worry if you do, and you worry if you don’t. You think of all the dangerous possibilities. You worry about worrying. You must know by now that worrying is a downer.
Substitute freedom for worry. You are free! You are a free being on Earth. You are free not to worry. Worry is getting ready for disaster, big or little. You are free not to worry. You don’t have to put yourself through it.
The well-worn process of worry takes you down a road you don’t want to go. Take a different turn in life. You have not been given a quota on worry. There is not a certain amount of worry in a lifetime that you must fulfill. If such a quota did exist, you fulfilled it long ago.
Instead of the uncertainty of what you worry about, give yourself a gift. If you are a farmer, and you worry about your crop, picture the beauty of your crop at the moment it comes up. Picture its plentifulness. Cease to picture a drought or a flood.
If you worry about illness, give yourself a gift of picturing your health. Be a realist. Of course, you have many times been unscathed from your worries. You worried plenty, and yet you had a good crop. You worried plenty, and you had good health. Turn from the disability of worrying and wondering into an ability to think of that which you look forward to.
Worry is like poison ivy. You keep scratching it. The scratching isn’t a cure. Do you want worry or do you want to walk away from worry? I say to walk away. Worry is not a pet to keep. Bless yourself and worry not.
Instead of thinking of all the disasters that can befall, think of all the blessings. Chalk them up. Blessings are on their way to you. Blessings have already arrived. Blessings are earmarked for you. They are a foregone conclusion.
Worries, on the other hand, are simply riff-raff you have picked up off the street. Or worries are vines that you have been taking care of, one after another. Look at those vines of worry grow, and yet they do not yield fruit. They just yield more worry. They are like poison ivy. The more you scratch, the more you scratch.
I say that now you are to let worries go out the window. Open the window of your mind, and let worries go. Worries are worthless. They are worse than worthless. They are painful. They are worth nothing but pain.
You may say that you can’t stop worrying about this and that. I say you can stop. Worry is not like a job you have to keep. You do not have all the time in the world to worry. You have nurtured all the worries in the world. There is not one that has escaped you. I am telling you to escape worry.
Perhaps you have too much time on hand. Then get a second job, or volunteer somewhere, or knit a sweater. If you knit a sweater, will you start worrying then about dropped stitches? Better that than all the other worries you have harbored.
Worries are like smallpox. You simply don’t want them. They are no use to you. Don’t have worries, and then you won’t have to recover from them. Worrying is an illness of the mind. There is a cure. Stop adopting worries. Worries are not meant to be a way of life for you.
They are a penalty that you are to set yourself free from. Set yourself free from worry right now. I thank you.

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HEAVEN #3577 Everything in Nature Grows, September 10, 2010
God said:
Everything in nature grows. Everything in nature grows because it is natural to grow. It isn’t that a rose or a cauliflower set out to grow. They don’t work at it. They grow. They would not know how to make themselves grow. Nor is there any school that can teach them how to grow. They grow on their own. We could say that they trust in their growth. They are meant to grow. It is ordained that they will grow.
Sun and rain are provided for them. And for those green growing things that find themselves out of their natural habitat, there are good kind people like you who nourish them and water them, filling their needs.
With fruit, flowers, and vegetables, the season of their growth is known. You can anticipate when apple trees will flower and you can predict when the apples will be ripe to pick.
In your case, it is a little different. Your growth is assured. One way or another the growth you so desire will arrive, and yet you know not the season. And you mostly do not notice the growth as it happens. For you, your growth may be inch by inch, or mile by mile, or all at once. That you will grow is a definite, and yet you are not sure of that. Have confidence in the natural process.
You know it is better to relax than to be tense. Has not your search for higher consciousness often been filled with urgency? Your growth is not a now or never sort of thing. Your growth is ever whether you see it or not.
Whereas a plant smiles at the sun and knows it is blossoming right along, knows when it just has to rest, knows when it just has to stay on a plateau, and knows when to burst forth in all its glory, you may not be at peace with your growth. You may even despair of ever growing to the spiritual point that you would like to achieve. Dear Ones, it is not your achievement. Evolution, enlightenment, higher consciousness etc. are not your doing. They are your blessing. I bless you with higher and greater, and you are blessed. It is not your effort that brings you higher on the spiritual plane.
Your growth is not dependent upon this course or that course. Your evolution has been built-in. We can say it is dependent upon Me. Your growth spurts have been embedded; they have their own time. You do not beat the drums. You do not set the timer. The timer has been set.
There are not rules to your evolution. There are not how to’s to speeding it up or slowing it down. You can copy what is called an enlightened being, yet that does not make you one. What you learn may be admirable, yet imitation goes only so far.
You could desire to be an airline pilot, and yet pantomiming the motions of a pilot the way a star in a movie might does not make you a pilot. You can wear the uniform and turn the wheel just so, and push the buttons dashingly, and yet there is more to becoming a pilot than pushing the buttons.
Of course, it is not really enlightenment that you seek. You are seeking your realization of it. You are seeking your awareness of who and what you already are. It is like you have forgotten that you are a pilot, and one day, you are flying a plane, and you realize what you had forgotten.
It is guaranteed that you will remember. Your remembering is on its way right now.

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HEAVEN #3576 True Love, September 9, 2010
God said:
Oh, for love in the world to be freed from its shackles. To be unlatched. Oh, for love to be a bird that is let out of its cage. Oh, for the window on real love to be opened and left open where it can go out and come in as love likes to do.
Love on Earth has been repressed. You know it has. And sense of need has sometimes replaced love. There would be no unhappiness if the bird of love were let free. As it is, love has been regulated, even imprisoned, as if love had to be cautious and plan its extension carefully. Love would much rather be free to rise wherever it may land. Love wants to be free to love. That’s all love wants, to be a butterfly free to go to all buttercups, drink their sweet nectar, fulfill them, love loving to give itself.
Love is not a mandate. Love needs no mandate. It just needs to be left to be free to alight anywhere or everywhere. A long leash is not good enough for love. A long leash does not allow love to reach everywhere. Love that can go only so far is not free to be the love it is. Love is love, not an arbiter. Love does not haggle. Love knows itself, and that’s all it knows.
Love is not about jurisprudence. There is no court of law when it comes to love. We are talking of true love itself, love not limited to specifications and not physical attraction but love, true love. True love is unbidden. Love cannot be corralled and made to love here and not there. Love cries out from the wilderness of its restraint. It cries out:
“Once and for all, let me be free to do as I will, for I will to be set free from any bounds. I will to be unbounded. I am so tired of restraints. Let me out of this straightjacket that tells me when and where I may love. I just want to love and have no artificial barriers to my love. I can love all. I can love you, and I can love others. I simply know how to love and not find reasons not to love. As for my love itself, it needs no reason. Love does not follow reasons. If love did have rules, love would not abide by your reasoning. Love has a life of its own. Do not take love asunder.
“I am love, and I want to be me. I am not an unruly child. It’s just that the world has made unholy rules for me. Allow me to be what I am. Allow me to be all I am. Allow me to fly high. Allow me to venture forth. Allow me to be love. Allow me to be instant. No longer give me static. No longer decide where I should alight or when.
“I am love. I am not your pet that you decide when to let out or when to let in. I am love. I am my own blend. Let me be what I am without any objections from you.
“There are no limits to me. I love. That is the whole story of me.
“Do not confuse me. Do not cut off my limbs. Do not squeeze me through a slot. Open all doors for me. Open all windows. I want to be me and not someone’s picture of me. I want to be plain love, for that is what I am. I do not want to be sheltered. I want to be set free. I want to be as I am. I want to be me.”
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HEAVEN #3575 The Ocean That Knows No Shores , September 8, 2010
God said:
The rains come, and the rains go. Sun rises, and sun sets. And flowers grow, and you grow. You grow every day. In rain or shine, you grow. Rain or shine, in the myriad world, life gives you a new view, and therefore you grow in a way you never quite grew before. It may seem to you that another wave of life appeared like wind-blown fields of grain, and, yet, you are not quite in the same place where you stood before this day. In truth, a mere wave cannot sway you at all.
In the world, you are a being who grows. Under all conditions, you grow. You may run away. You may dash in front. You may jump up or down. Nevertheless, each day, another notch is marked on the tree trunk of your life on Earth.
On Earth, you are not a being who stays the same and never alters. You are a perennial flower that keeps blooming. Only you are greater than perennial. You are an ever-blooming day-lily and a nocturnal rose and a new flower not yet in the books. You are eternal in a world that shifts and changes, is here today and gone tomorrow, for has not the world been changing before your very eyes? Is not the world ever-changing? In the tide of life, the stream is new, and the foot you put in the stream is new, and you, who are of the world yet not fully in the world, are new, ever-changing in the world, yet you, even during your life in the world, you who are from an unchangeable venue that is infinite and eternal -- this venue goes with you wherever you may seem to be. And, so, you are what you always were, an infinite unchanging being romping in the illusory world.
You are based in Heaven. Whether you are asleep or awake on Earth, whether you are stubborn or bending, glad or sad, Heaven is your foundation. You are not a foundling, beloveds, for what is Mine, I claim, and I never leave you nor do I ever stray from you. Oneness cannot stray from Oneness, and We are Oneness Eternal and Infinite.
Our hearts set out together long ago in terms of time as it is measured on Earth. In Heaven terms, We were born together in the waters of Eternity. We never wandered, and We never stopped. We are One, and, so it can be said that We have been together in a non-place noted as Heaven where time does not even pretend to exist.
We cannot say an hour or a day or even eons because Eternity doesn’t come in installments. Beloveds, We cannot slice Eternity into this thing of time that is so well seen and measured on Earth and yet does not exist at all. The best We can say is now which is to say between moments because, after all, We are Eternity. If Eternity could be bound and sealed, then We are bound in Eternity, free and yet bound, open and yet sealed. We float on an Ocean of Eternity. We seemingly get up and walk around, and yet We are always here, immersed in the waters of this Ocean that knows no shores.
So, where are We going in Eternity? Nowhere, for space like time does not exist either. Eternally One, We travel in imagination alone, for love such as Ours is complete and total and there is nowhere for love to travel to or leave from or return to, and so, beloveds, and so, beloveds We ARE.
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HEAVEN #3574 A Dancer on the Stage of Life , September 7, 2010
God said:
How fast the days of life pass. The days were upcoming, and now they are gone, and there is another herd of days waiting to appear over the horizon. You flip the pages of your life one after the other, and somehow they seem to assemble into what is called, sometimes fondly and sometimes not, your life.
That you are alive on God’s Earth is a wonderful thing. Think of it. You were sent to Earth as My envoy. This is extraordinary. What are the odds of this? I want to be sure you know that your being on Earth is not hit and miss. It is not by chance. It is the chance of a lifetime, yet it is not by chance that you have your feet on Earth. Nor was it without your knowledge that you came for this visit, and nor was it against your will that you came. You jumped at the opportunity. You knew it was an opportunity, and that it was your opportunity to take, and so you sallied forth and alit on Earth. You were not dragged down. You were invited, and you accepted, or you would not be here on the planet called Earth.
In any case, you are here with some of your life behind you and some of your life ahead of you. Let’s make merry! Whatever streets you have gone down, amiss or straight on, let’s make merry. What else is there to do but laugh at all the intrigue that seems to go on on the face of Earth. Who could make up a story with a plot like the one you are in? How would it be told, and how would you tell it? You are acting out the story right now.
What a story! And what a cast of characters! Who does the directing? Who chooses the parts? What a production! And how do all the t’s get crossed and the i’s dotted. Who paints these settings, and who changes them or takes them away? And how did you get here in this particular soap opera or comedy of errors or cartoon or mystery or action thriller or documentary? Something is happening, and you take part in it. You don’t know where it is all heading, and you have to ad lib a lot and seemingly dance to different tunes.
Sometimes you feel that you are on the wrong set, that you were supposed to be on a different stage. You mumble your lines, or you yell them, or you grow mute. And, yet, this is the stage you are in, and this is the role you play. It may very well be that what you see is not what you get. There is a lot going on behind scenes. Your life is not all about what’s onstage. The make-up and costumes are secondary. You are primary. In fact, you may be in many plays all at once.
You may be noticed, or you may not be noticed. Yet, all the while, you pace the stage back and forth. You stand. You walk. You sit down. You smoke a cigarette, or you bite an apple. Regardless, you are significant. There is no one who can take your place. There is no one who can play the part you play as well as you do, for there is no one on Earth or anywhere just like you. You are like no other.
And, yet, the part you play can change. You are not stuck with it. You cannot change who you are, and yet you can change the part you play. You can grow into a different part. You can change your tune. Your life can become a musical. You are already a dancer on the stage of life.
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HEAVEN #3573 Be Like the Sun , September 6, 2010
God said:
See how the sunlight plays on the leaves. The sunlight goes under and over and around. The Sun takes delight, and yet its shining is a matter of course. The Sun is ever the same and never the same as it plays along the leaves.
In your life, be like the Sun. Shine every day whether you are seen or not. Play every day in and out of the leaves of your life, and take delight. You are to play. It is not that you pay so much attention to yourself as a player. You pay attention to the playing. Although you are the star of your life, your attention is not on stardom.
The Sun takes so much delight because it gives so much delight. The Sun is not thinking of itself. It thinks of spreading light. And so you, beloveds, be like the Sun, and say:
“What warmth will I share today, what light will I spread, what joy will I give and therefore receive delight in?” These are your questions to ask. Ask not, “What hassles will I have this day?” Ask not, “What’s in it for me today? What am I going to get out of it?” Ask not, “Am I getting my full share?”
Today is a day where the spotlight is on what you are contributing. Today is not a day for you to be thinking, “Me, me, me.” Today is a day for you to be thinking, “You, you, you.”
How will you serve the Universe today? Is that too big a bite for you to swallow? The fact is that you serve the Universe every day. You serve it generously, or you stint. You think of yourself uppermost and what you are owed, or you think about something you can do that will brighten a day for someone.
Even when you want to, it is not always easy to know what you can do to make life a little better for someone else. Your help isn’t always welcomed. You do not always feel welcomed. Bear in mind that you do not always have to plan. Desire an opportunity. Many opportunities may appear to you. Don’t hesitate. Don’t think it over. Never mind if this is THE opportunity or opportunities earmarked for you. Take them anyway. If you see them, they are yours.
Pull out the chair for your wife to sit in. Give up your seat on the bus. Cook your husband’s favorite foods. Let your child be.
I will tell you something. To think of doing something nice for someone will help your circulation. You will be getting up from where you have been sitting. You will walk across the room. You will walk across the street. You will take a step, and so you will be walking across the Universe, and so you will strew rose petals of consciousness before you, and the rose petals will be noted and picked up. It is so simple to serve when you have the intention to serve rather than to reap. Yet, of course, you will reap. You will reap more this way than from all the attempts you have made to reap. Rose petals of consciousness are yours so that you will strew them. You are alive this day so you can make a roseful path for others to walk on. Strew rose petals before you, and you can only walk on them.
Perhaps you have been trying to take a short cut in life. A short cut may not take you where you want to go. Where do you want to go, beloveds, and how many will you make the path smoother for?
What would keep you from blazing a trail across the Universe just the way the Sun does every day? The Sun serves. How it serves. The magnanimous Sun serves, and the Earth turns.

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HEAVEN #3572 Choices Choices, September 5, 2010
God said:
Is life mistaken, or are you mistaken?
If you win or lose, what really is the difference? You ran the race.
And yet life is not the marathon race that it sometimes seems to be. Take it easy.
You are neither a runner through life nor a dawdler. You are a constituent of life. You are not the peg that gets moved along on the board game nor do you always have choice of the route you take. Is this a surprise? Sometimes you have choice over outcomes. Sometimes you do not. You don’t know ahead of time. You set the ball in motion, and then you see where life takes you. And yet the pinball machine of life offers greater odds than any pinball machine.
Sometimes it may seem that, in your life, you have been shot out of a cannon and landed in a place where you do not belong for one reason or another. Now here is your taking-off place. Now here is where you make your choices. You can be grumpy or good-natured. You can mope or you can sparkle. Life may foist itself upon you, yet what you do then is fully up to you. You are more than a reactor to life. You may not have gotten the cards in life you would have chosen, and yet you are a chooser of how you deal with the cards you have been dealt. Where do you go from here?
You have seen people who seem to have everything in life, and yet they are dissatisfied. And you have seen people who seem to have more than their share of difficulties, and yet their life is a work of art and their spirit is indomitable. Which are you, beloveds? Which side of life have you chosen to be on? That is your fortune, and for that you don’t have to toss a coin. You only have to choose.
Outer events are not meant to be the decider of who you are and what you do. The label on a coat is not the coat itself. Your life is more than what happens to you. When life has seemingly knocked you down, it is your choice to get up, and it is your choice to stay lying down, and you have numerous choices in between. You can get up and go this way or that, or you can take the count of ten and get up then or be carried out in a stretcher. You can be glum, or you can be a hero. Being a hero isn’t foisted on you. Being a victim isn’t foisted on you either. “Foiled again,” is an attitude. How you walk in life is your choice. In that way, life is of your making. You are not a prisoner. Or, if you are, you have the key that can unlock the bars.
If you have no chair, you can sit on the floor. If you have no floor, you can sit on the ground. You are your own captain.
When you play baseball, you can hit the ball out of the playing field and run. When you play baseball, you can bunt the ball and run. Life is the playing field, and whatever the field is like on any particular day, you are a runner on the field. You catch the ball, or you fumble. You throw the ball, or it jumps out of your hand. Well, then, pick it up and throw it again. As you play, you are courteous. You uplift the world, or you don’t. It is your call to make.

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HEAVEN #3571 Even in the World, This Is So, September 4, 2010
God said:
Because of illusory time and the regard you give it, you reap a sense of urgency. You allow the world to impose urgency upon you. What is so urgent? What if whatever it is doesn’t get done on time? It strikes you as a fatality.
Of course, now is a good time for everything, and yet everything can’t be squeezed in at this moment. And so matters line up. Finish one, and another takes its place, and so you are always behind the eight ball with time, so it seems. The truth is you can’t be ahead of time. Time has a lariat, and it lassoes you, and you are caught up in it. No matter how well you do in your arrangements with time, time gets the better of you. Illusion has that way about it, and, you, innocent you, valiant you, you always think you can gain on time. Time is merciless, so be merciful on yourself. The passage of time is a hallway with a walking escalator, and it takes you round and round the block, and never lets you get off.
You cannot win a race with time.
Time would convince you that life is linear when life is anything but linear. Time would teach you sequence. Time is like a gas tank that never gets filled up. Time sets up an alarm. Time would get you out of breath.
Make your peace with time. You cannot really waste it. You can’t really spend it, for time is an agent unto itself.
Eternity is a different story. Eternity may be thought of as timeless, yet that is not quite accurate. There can be no timelessness when time does not exist. There is no line of time that can be drawn. Whereas time is always in a hurry, Eternity is simply here. We could call time noise, and Eternity – what can We call Eternity but no time at all. Eternity is a field of peace. It is out of the realm of time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Time is a measurement, and Eternity is measureless. There is no tick-tock in Eternity.
Time is an imposition. It imposes on you.
Eternity is more like a wonderful backrest or a celestial mattress. Eternity is where it’s at. There is nothing but Eternity.
In the world, time and space become interchangeable and add clutter. The mind takes over. When the mind takes over, love becomes second in line. Love may even become a nonentity, and you may be thought of as a commodity. There is much fiction in the world, beloveds, and it is highly believed in.
It is as though you attend a masked ball. Everyone is in disguise. Nothing is what it seems. Or you sit in the stands at a circus, and there is no knowing, even in world terms, what is true or what is a trick. Is the clown a clown, does he fall in the water, and does he temporarily help you to forget time and space in his leaps on the stage at the circus? Even as the clown moves, he helps you to forget motion. For a moment, your heart is still, and your mind is still, and you suspend belief in time and space and all their jumping up and down.
Time can elude you, yet it is not easy for you to elude time while you live on Earth, and so you go along with it. At the same time, remind yourself that time is not your master. Time does not rule. Love does. Time is next to nothing. Where love is, time takes a back seat. Even in the world, this is so.

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HEAVEN #3570 This Is Your Life, September 3, 2010
God said:
Ah, the little aggravations of life, and how they get to you! You know you were not meant for smallness, and that is just why the little things do get to you. You are frazzled or weighed down or anxious about nuisance matters, and you know you are made for more than that. You know you are greater than that. You know you are here on Earth for a greater purpose than being annoyed or upset. You know, you really know deep down, that you are made for Greatness, and you are aggravated by your own attention to that which is not worthy of your heart and soul.
You are aware that when you are aggravated, you are walking down a street that isn’t yours to walk on. You are well aware that you are dealing with nickels and dimes when you are meant to activate treasures. You know you are playing penny-ante poker when you are supposed to be in a big game.
What are We going to do with you then? How do We get you out of the mode of buying into the little stuff? Every time, it seems that you fall into the trap. What little thing is going to get the better of you next?
What if nothing does get the better of you ever again? Wouldn’t that be an accomplishment, wouldn’t that be an occasion for celebration?
Let’s celebrate in advance! No more aggravation for you! Not because aggravating events don’t pursue you but because you don’t allow aggravation into your life any longer. Now you let aggravation roll off your back. This is your life We are talking about. Why on Earth would you let irritation fill even one moment of your life when there are so many better things to fill life with?
Do you really have to aggravate over what aggravates you? To what end?
It is as if you have a rash, and it drives you up the wall, and yet you keep scratching it and tormenting yourself more.
We are celebrating the end of petty annoyance. We are celebrating the end of your taking petty annoyance into your bloodstream. You are turning a cold shoulder to annoyance. No longer are you going to let petty annoyance take over your life.
We are celebrating a cool you. So what that mosquitoes of thought are buzzing around you. They will come to leave on their own. No longer are petty annoyances uppermost on your mind. No longer do you scratch them as if on command. Petty annoyances no longer beat your drum, call your tune, occupy your heart. They are not the rulers of you. You rule yourself. No longer is there place for petty tyrants to take your attention away from joy and love.
You have had enough aggravation to last a lifetime. No longer will you dance to aggravation’s tune. You are done with it. You are learning a new dance step, a dance step that raises you high above the ground. You may never alight on aggravation again.
Let the aggravations have their fun, and no longer play with them. Just because there are annoyances doesn’t mean that you have to be annoyed. They don’t have to stick in your craw. You are looking up at Me instead. We, you and I, are dancing together. Remember Who your Partner is. Remember Our vision and all that We like to embrace. We have no room for aggravation. It plays a false note. We are into good music.
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HEAVEN #3569 An Unforeseeable Path, September 2, 2010
God said:
Be good-hearted, not sore-hearted. Be tenderhearted for others and strong-hearted when it comes to your heart. Do not be frazzled. All the hullabaloo of emotions flapping and zapping is not necessary nor is it beneficial. Whatever you have been holding on to, let it go now. Let life be what it is. Do not hasten life forward nor hold it back. Life has a mind of its own. You can keep to your integrity without tears.
You can still be true to yourself and not fight life tooth and nail. Have you been objecting to life? It can be that life is going a route you wouldn’t have invited, and yet how do you presume to know better than life as to what it proffers you this moment? How do you know it’s not a good thing to stop in your tracks or to be pushed or pulled along? Maybe you are being put in shape. Maybe you have been out of shape, and now life is toning you. Maybe it’s just fine what is happening, like it or not.
Perhaps you have often objected to life except for the moments when life concurred with your wishes. It might be good if you could be a little more agreeable to life as it appears. You do not have to be so quick to object. As a matter of fact, life has every right to step forth as it chooses. Do not knock down the doors of life nor block them. Life has its entrance, and its walk across the stage, and then it exits, and a new scene begins.
Life, as it is, is a puzzle to you. You do not order everything that life brings, and yet you cannot always turn down the shipment. Life may seem to wreak havoc, and yet it may be you that is wreaking havoc.
There are parts of life that you just have to take the way they are. Life may be too casual or too formal for you, and yet you cannot always set the dress code. You are always part of your life, and yet you cannot always assemble it as you would like. Life comes with its own construction. You may not like certain constructs, yet you have to meet them half-way. It would seem that you cannot always have life the way you would like, and, so, then, you are to be a good sport. You do not win every game, and sometimes you don’t know what is winning or losing or what is right and what is left or really where you are.
I suggest that you do not look at life as a battlefield but rather as a meeting ground. There is a conference going on with a cast of thousands. You are not the only apple in the bunch. There are others’ lives to consider and what their interests are. At the same time, there is nothing to consider but to move on from where you are and discover where you land next. Maybe you just had a boost.
You are your own person, and everyone else is also his own person, and sometimes the twain do not meet, and sometimes they do, and sometimes it changes around. You can be certain that life in the world is full of change. Its theme is change. The world is not Old Reliable. Yet you can rely on yourself. Through thick and thin, you can be there, and you can come out whole. Life may not come out all roses, and yet you are furthered along on this unforeseeable path to greater compassion in your heart and greater comprehension in your mind. Life has its way with you and moves you ahead. You might as well skip along with it.

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God said:
Events in the world are only events in the world. They are not lasting. Events are passing things. They seem momentous, and yet they are ships passing in the night. Events alight for a moment, and then they take off. They lose their steam. Stars in the sky sustain themselves and routinely appear, yet everything in the world seems to rise and decline. Where are the movie stars of yesteryear?
You, too, are a ship that passes in the night, and yet, how much energy have you extended to other ships passing in the night? Events are gone the moment they arrive.
All this too shall pass. Beloved, all this has already passed.
The moon emerges, and the moon changes its shape. As We speak, the moon is shifting. And the Earth spins under your feet.
And yet the you of you is eternal. The world is a passing thing, and you are forever. This is a strange mix, is it not?
Nothing is permanent but the you of you and the I of I, which, unbelievable as it is to you, are One and the Same. And yet while you sojourn on Earth, you are nimble, and you enter into the hop, skip, and jump of life with all your heart. Of course, you do. You are an active participant in the drama, and you play your role well. All the while, I observe, and I am the Silence within you, giving My whole heart to you who gives your whole heart to the drama in life, and, to Me. We are a whirl of paint in many colors, and yet We are not whirled at all. The whirling is the drama, not the actuality.
In actuality, you are the Supreme Stillness that I AM. You have a little dream, and, all the while, the dream seems so true, so alive, so close, so uplifting or so demeaning, and, yet, all the while, it is only a little dream of this and that, and sometimes it is twisted out of shape, and sometimes it is clear and beautiful and full of what dreams are made of and are coming true.
And so you are immersed and enmeshed in a grid of drama on the screen, and you are pulled like taffy this way and that.
To keep an even perspective is not an easy thing. An even perspective is hard to grasp when you are being flipped hither and yon. Nevertheless, you always alight on the solid ground of Heaven.
Life on Earth, in its glitter and in its shadows, is a party you go to for a little while, and then you always go Home and into the real life of the spirit that is, indeed, your life.
Surely all this that seems to go on around you is a fantasy, and too often a fantasy of errors. The Truth is no fantasy, beloveds.
The Truth is a different Reality altogether. It is the Only Reality, if Truth be known. Let Truth be known. Let it be known as it is. Truth is not a traveler. Truth is a permanent resident, and it lives in your heart. Your heart may feel wear and tear, yet there is no wear and tear in Truth. Truth is truly where it is at.
Truth in all its glory seems to be out of reach for you, and yet, you reach for it. You reach for it nobly. While you do the running dash on Earth, you are, nevertheless, established, all settled in Heaven, and away We go, and here We stay.
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God said:
You say you are tired of heartache. Why then do you still have it? If you were really tired of heartache, you would be without it. You carry it along for some reason beyond understanding. It must be that heartache is like water that fills the crevices of your heart. While your heart feels so forlorn, it is filling itself up with the water of life. Perhaps you feel that if you abandon heartache, you are abandoning your heart altogether. You will even accept heartache over the chance that you might not feel at all. Perhaps you feel that emptiness could be more fatal than heartache.
Nevertheless, you cannot give up on love. Is not heartache the other side of the coin of love? Isn’t heartache a little bit like stamping your foot except it is your heart you stomp on, and you leave it with an ache? Your heart knows it is supposed to be love and nothing but love, and so it aches, and so you mourn for the love you are not able to find in your own heart at this moment. You let your heart dabble in love, and now you know you were only dabbling. If you had not been dabbling, you wouldn’t be feeling bereft now. It is not that love eludes you. It is that you lay down conditions, and you stick to the conditions rather than love.
The main condition you make is that you are to be loved in return in every way you believe you must be, and so you are heavy-handed with love. Love, which is a butterfly that must fly free -- you try to grab it in your hand and keep it still, bound where you believe it is supposed to be even. It is your own perceived withdrawal of love for a list of reasons you give that you mourn. Your heartache has nothing to do with the perceived other, for it is yourself that you dally with. You are the one who has to love, not the other. You must get out of the past-dated concept that love focused on you is the heart of the matter. It is your own heart focus that matters. You are the only one who can wound your heart. You are the only one who does. Let loose the bird of love. Let it fly free.
Do not stint on the love from your heart because of an infraction of love that you perceive. And if another does not want displays of your love, then you do not have to have such displays. If the other does not want a name assigned to your love, then you do not need a name. You only need to love, and love does not capture another’s love. Love can only set love free.
What matters most is what your heart does. Sometimes someone wants the nurturing of your heart, and sometimes someone wants you to leave their heart alone. Do not strangle another’s heart with your ministrations. It isn’t that you must withdraw your love. It’s that you must withdraw the suffocation of your love. No one’s heart is in bondage to yours, so, why then, do you feel that you are to call the shots of someone else’s heart? Kiss another’s heart goodbye so it is free to fly, free to alight, free to come back or not come back. Don’t waste your heart in self-appointed misery. Do not wrong your heart. Do not shift responsibility for your heart’s happiness to any other. No one can wrong your heart, nor are you to complicate anyone’s heart. Only your heart belongs to you. Since when are you supposed to own another’s heart?
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God said:
You may be walking on a rocky road, yet do not mistake this road for your path. You may be on rockiness now, yet there is a smooth terrain coming up. You are not the road you are walking on, or stumbling on, or hanging on to, or getting away from. You are more than all those aspects of life that you identify as you or anyone may identify as you.
If you are riding the rapids, that doesn’t mean you are the rapids. If you are taking a slow boat, that doesn’t mean you are a slow boat. You are beyond all the pieces and paces of your life as it appears on Earth. You are absolutely greater than the sum of the parts. You are Wholeness.
You may be a doer, and yet you are also a receiver. You fling your life, and you catch it. Life is communicable, and it is indefinable. You are greater than any definition. You are further than the eye can see.
You are a poem I wrote one night, and you are reading up on yourself. You may identify yourself as a tract or technical exposition, yet I wrote you as a great poem. You must read between the lines. You are also the words not written. I wrote a poem of you, and yet it was a poem of Myself that I spread out across the firmament. You are Creation. There is no digression. You come alive on the page of the poem I wrote, and you are held up for all the world to see, and, yet, the world does not always see. It is too busy.
I am the Doer, and yet I am never busy. Busy requires time to be busy in, and I am beyond time, and you, as well. We live in other dimensions even as We are dimensionless. In order to be dimensionless, there have to be borders, and We are beyond borders. We are beyond dimensions. We are beyond shapes and sizes. We are vast. We are Vastness itself.
We run on the fuel of love. What else is there to run on? We appear to be running, yet We are ever still. We are immovable motion. We are motionless. Love does not run around. Love simply blossoms. It blossoms in you.
Love supersedes the imagined boundaries. Love is the meat of life. Whatever path you may think you are on, you are on the path of love. You are on the path of yourself. You are on the trail of yourself. You are the hunter of yourself. You are tracking yourself down.
Of what beauty are you made? Why, of My beauty, of course. In My vision, and in your true vision, there is nothing that is not beautiful. There is no speculation. There is simply Being, and you are a Being of My love. You fill the interstices of My heart. You are the filler of all hearts, and you are all hearts. You are the embodiment of love. From My love you were made. There is nothing else you can be, and, yet, you do not quite believe Me. You may even fight the idea. You scramble around in life and may overlook the love you are. It is said you have forgotten. Certainly, you have disputed My recognition of you. I give no appraisal. I gave Myself to the world, and you are Myself strewn across the world, and yet you object and yet you protest, and yet, even so, you are My poem.

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HEAVEN #3564 Rewrite Your Script, August 28, 2010
God said:
No one hurts your heart but yourself, do you understand Me? It is not what occurs that injures you. You think someone else caused your heartache. Someone else may be the trigger, yet you pull the trigger and hurt your own heart. You draw conclusions, and you accept the conclusions you draw, and you point your finger at the other person. He injured your heart, you say. He stabbed you and twisted the knife. You are the only one who has the power to do that. Conclusions you draw stab your heart. What others do or do not do is their business, not yours.
The same act can be seen in more than one way. You are perhaps quick to take an act as an affront to you.
Everyone is trying to balance his life in the world as best he can. No one takes you captive. In his attempt to free himself from a situation he perceives in the way he perceives it, someone may bump against you or even knock you over. Perhaps the seeming other simply is trying to make his way in the world. Fearing what he was fearing, perhaps some kind of imprisonment from you, perhaps, he was simply running for higher ground. He was trying to survive, just as you are trying to survive. He is trying to get out of the way of what he may see as a flood, let’s say, and seemingly, your heart gets stepped on. Your presence is incidental, you understand. It is something within himself that the other is fleeing, and, yet, you feel hit in the crossfire.
There were no real bullets in the gun. You wounded your own heart, for you too are only trying to flee from an untreated hurt, from a hurt of long ago that you happen to see raising its head from the past. Contrary to your evaluation, no one is doing anything to you now except recalling to your mind a long-blurred long ago-met contusion and confusion of the past. Your initial appraisal was incorrect because you did not have enough information. You misinterpreted in the first place. You took on a hurt that was never yours to take. You were there, yet it was someone else’s pain that you took as your own. It was someone else’s fear that attached itself to you. You were innocent, and yet you proclaimed yourself guilty, guilty of someone else’s lack, and so you declared yourself unloved instead of loved.
You were cast in a play once. Unawares, you play that same role again and again. You remember the lines so well, and yet you have forgotten that you already have played that scene. You can’t seem to get off the page.
You do not see what is in front of you. You see the past instead. You feel you have something to undo, and you try to undo it now. You encapsulate the past into the present. You do not know any new lines to say. You were hurt once, and now you hurt yourself again, as if that were the role you had to play, as if you couldn’t choose another role. You are capable. You can change roles. You can step out of an old costume and don new clothes.
A role you play is only a role. You are not consigned to it forevermore. Only it is you who has to recast yourself. Once you were a small child. Now you are a grown person. Once someone in his own lack of vision betrayed your heart, and you have let occasions replay what never should have happened to you, but did. It happened. You don’t have to replay it ever again. What you once were, what you once suffered do not have to stick to you. You are powerful enough now that you can rewrite your script and make it what you will. Rewrite it now, and be done. Open up the door to your freedom. You have the key.

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