HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3563 Illusions, August 27, 2010
God said:
What is it that makes your heart ache so? How do you account for it? How can a heart be so happy one day and not so happy the next? What cruel joke do you play on yourself? You are the whole story. Your story, no matter how it may seem, is dependent upon you and no other. You can only become disillusioned by illusions you carry. Who chooses to illusion yourself if not you? Do you really need illusions so wholeheartedly?
By and large, your illusions boil down to that you are dependent upon something other than yourself for your share of happiness or, by the same token, the obliteration of your designated happiness. You perhaps carry illusion in order to become disillusioned of it. That you are dependent upon others for your well-being is an illusion that will fall by the wayside. It has to because it is an illusion. It is an illusion by the very fact that it lacks truth. It is not Truth that disillusions you. You can not be disillusioned of Truth. You can only be disillusioned of illusion.
Of course, you can make yourself dependent upon others, yet the life of your heart does not depend upon others. It depends upon you. You make yourself happy or unhappy. Be not unhappy because untruth fades away. You have long learned that because you want something a certain way does not make it so. The world as you know it does not always yield you your dreams, or, if it does, it doesn’t always let you keep them.
What this means is that you are the captain of your own ship. This is the inevitability of life in the world. You are your own consort. Perceived otherness in the world does not always bring you your cup of tea, that which you like to perceive as your cup of tea and which may not be. You may be finished with that cup of tea.
You may believe that your happiness is dependent upon this or that, and yet your happiness is dependent upon you. You are responsible for your state of happiness. No one else is. You made your decisions. You are the one who decided that your happiness depended upon something that it does not.
No one outside you is capable of being responsible for your happiness. This is a Grand Illusion. It may seem so, and yet it is not so.
This is a good thing. You don’t really want your happiness to be dependent upon what wafts in or out of your life.
Come, establish yourself in Being.
Life is you and I as One. You are sufficient unto yourself.
You can bend down and smell the sweetness of an iris. So sweet. You can even pick the iris and put it in water in a vase on your mantel. You can love it. You can adore it. You can love it all you want. Nevertheless, the sweetness of the beautiful iris is here today and gone tomorrow. It gives you its essence while it can, and then it can’t any longer. The iris did not let you down. You know better than to assume that your happiness is dependent upon how long the iris offers itself to you in its splendid moments of full beauty. You aren’t despondent because an iris gives you all it can while it can. You are glad for its gifts. You know better than to blame a beautiful iris later for not sustaining your happiness. You never told yourself it could.
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HEAVEN #3562 You Are Brave, August 26, 2010
God said:
You may come to a crossroad where you decide that life, so to speak, is not going to interfere with your life.
Life is not a gauntlet you are running, yet some days you feel pelted with snowballs or hail. You keep going, and you let hail fall where it may. The weather is not a deterrent to you. You keep walking. You are like the mailman, and neither rain nor sleet nor snow stops you from delivering the mail. The mailman also picks up letters that people want him to mail for them. So in life, you deliver messages, and you also pick up messages from the assorted mail that is known as life.
In life, you may pick up and deliver messages that seem random, or may seem serious, and they are, after all, only messages. Not all messages from life merit great thought. Some mail is casual, even tossed aside or out. And some are bills you pay. And some are love letters and some messages you can’t figure out why they were sent and why they were addressed to you. What can you do but sort the mail as best you can, and then get up and keep going.
In any case, mail comes when it comes, and if your name is on it, your name is on it. You don’t have to let packages fall on your head. Mail, like inclement weather, is not supposed to knock a good man down nor is it to keep him down. Packages do not have to batter your heart any more than the rain, sleet, and snow. They are part of life, and yet, at the same time, they are incidental to life. We can say you weather them, or We can say you come out the other end of the rainbow.
You walk through certain terrain, and never can you stay there. At some point, you do have to get up and go on your way. The mail that comes, comes, and you survive it. As unwilling as you may be to admit, because of the assorted mail, you have gained. You have grown. You can be wiser without being sadder. No one said you had to be sadder. It is not a requirement. Suffering may be an elective you have chosen.
It has been said that life is a school. Let’s just say for the moment that life is a school. The point is you are going to graduate. So then what is all the fuss about? You are going to get through this school you matriculate in. You may not choose all the courses you will take. Nevertheless, you are going to demonstrate great scholarship. You already have. So you have a few scars. What is that? You are a survivor of life. You may even walk out a hero. And why not?
Everyone alive on Earth is brave. It is brave to venture forth on a journey that no one has even been on before. There never was a journey like yours, and there never was anyone just like you, never ever. Even though all are One and are on the same adventure, no one has traveled the exact route as you. No one is dropping off and picking up the exact same mail as you.
As best you can, make others’ journeys a little easier. Take some of the debris out of the way. Shelter others when you can. Smooth the road a little. Make it as nice for others as you possibly can. That may well be your path in life, sweeping the path before others. In so doing, your own journey is more gentle. As much as you can, think of others and let them know that you are, indeed, thinking of them. All the people in your life want you to be thinking of them.
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HEAVEN #3561 On Your Walk through the Woods , August 25, 2010
God said:
In one sense, you begin every day as if you were a stranger to life, and you take every passing event or word as monumental, as if you were stunned at what appears, as if you have no inkling, no experience in life and its myriad offerings, as if this were the first time you ever had experienced a fall in the stock market.
I use the term stock market as a metaphor, beloveds. One little drop in one area, and you feel doom, as if you had never met life in the relative world before, as if you were new to it, as if an axe has fallen, as if it cut off your very connection to life, as if you were devastated by one little branch. All that happened is that, in your walk through the woods of life, a branch simply snapped as you were passing through. Innocent is the branch, and innocent are you. And yet you make a big thing of it. Time and time again, you make a big thing of what life displays. You take it personally. Every snap of a branch knocks you to your knees, and you evaluate yourself as wanting. There must be some fault of yours here, at the very least in your understanding.
Somewhere you have the idea that you are supposed to understand everything, as if every branch that snaps had your name on it. The woods is the woods is the woods. A branch is a branch. Branches snap. You do not have to be stricken. Branches snapping is an everyday occurrence in the woods. You can be a little more casual about this. When you walk through the woods, events may surprise you, but they do not diminish you. Events of themselves are nothing. They just are what they are. They have surprisingly little to do with you, and yet you tend to take the whole brunt on yourself.
Every misstep in the woods is not on your head. Every pitfall is merely a pitfall. It is not a trap set. There is no villain rubbing his hands and jumping in delight at your upset. Perhaps you can be a little more academic of what befalls in life. Just as you do not have to admire your reflection in the water of the lake, you do not have to berate yourself when the eddies seem to change your view of yourself and darken it. Do not berate yourself, and do not think that life is berating you. There is a certain meeting in the woods, no more, no less.
What occurs may seem like everything to you, but need it be? What exactly does your life depend on? Everyone’s good graces? Who is disappointed in you more than you are in yourself? It is your own disappointment that you cannot bear. No one disillusioned you. You disillusioned yourself. You tear yourself apart. For what reason would you do that?
I do not do that. I put you together in the first place. I would never tear you apart. I would not put asunder that which I have created. And so you take everything too seriously, and you take yourself too seriously. Take My love seriously instead.
I did not just set you on Earth and dissolve all connection with you. We are as much connected as ever whatever befalls. In terms of Our Oneness, nothing has befallen. Life on Earth does not come between Us. Nothing interferes with Our Oneness, not even you. Whatever you are going through, it is only something you are going through. You will get through it. And, at some point, you will even begin to see that there was nothing you had to get through. It was all mutterings on your walk through the apparent woods.

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HEAVEN #3560 A New Journey, August 24, 2010
God said:
Today is a conjunction of your life. Today is where your whole life is pinned together off to one side. All the corners of your life are gathered together the way the hem of a fancy ball gown might be pinned with flowers. The past is gathered, pulled to one side, and now there is a whole new start to today, you, and your life.
The past is gathered together in one piece so it is out of the way. You don’t have to step around it nor do you have to start where you left off. You can start anywhere. The past is not about you unless you insist it is. This is a new slate before you now. No matter what labels have been stuck to you, today you have a new start. Today is a whole new day. In this sense, you can undo the past. You can make today anything you want, for the truth is, whatever build-up from the past you have accrued, you can drop it now.
Today you have a new start, and I suggest you start anew. Whatever thoughts you have had about yourself, start over. A new beginning. No matter how wonderful the credits of the past may have been, today you are starting a new journey to the New World of Space and Time.
The Old Book has closed, and today a New Page is open before you. All the past has drifted off somewhere, filed away, and yet not kept. You are free today to be as you want to be. If your life has been beautiful, today your life is yours to make more beautiful. If the past has not been glorious, today is perfectly willing for you to make it glorious. Today is innocent, as innocent as you, beloveds.
If you have limped through life, today you can dance. If you have sung sad songs, today you can sing a happy song. And why not? Why stick with the same old songs? If today is a new day, why not a new song? You can make it up as you go along.
Do not feel you will lose your place in life by doing new things today in a new way, or even doing old things today in a new way. You can take the same bus or take a new bus or walk or skip or simply be a new you on the same bus.
Why not surprise yourself and others by enjoying today? Why would you prevent yourself from having great joy today? You were meant for joy, so why not have it and give it and have it and give it again and again today?
Do you really think that I keep an old book of records and look you up on it? Do you really think that I keep an accounting of all your thoughts and acts, a list of merits and demerits? I do not. I am not a bookkeeper. I am a Lover. Love keeps no records. Why would I? Why would I call you to task? Why would I go there? I am not like an accountant. I am God ever as I have always been. I am not caught up in the past.
How could I tell you to let go of the past unless I Myself let go of the past? It isn’t even that I let go of the past. It was never My idea to keep it. It is not My style. I keep My heart and My vision. I never lose sight of them. What is the past to Me? Where I live, there is no time. Where in Eternity and Infinity can the past be kept? Past-keeping is an activity of the world. Why oh why would I even consider hanging on to the past even if I could? Of what use is the past to man or God?

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HEAVEN #3559 Wave After Wave of Love, August 23, 2010
God said:
Even a little bit of sun is sun. Even a little bit of joy is joy. You are fortunate to be awake this morning. It is good fortune to be alive. Have you sometimes forgotten that? Awake! Arise! Pull up the blinds. A new day is dawning, and you are alive in it. If you are alive, you are meant to be alive. Be glad for life. And when the time comes, be glad for death. Life of the body, death of the body, each in its own time. But life itself is beyond the limits of time and of space, for life itself is beautifully eternal. There is no interruption to life.
Life strolls down 5th Avenue. Life is an Easter Parade. Later on the body gets off the trolley. The life of the party continues with Me. We stroll through the street-less Heaven, yet Heaven has its walking lanes, or We can say flying lanes, so engaging, so expanding, so limitless is Heaven. Even in life, you and I are walking through the hills and dales of Heaven. It is so natural.
Your body does not have to die in order for you to know Heaven. Heaven is an intimate part of you right now. It is the most intimate part of you, the Heaven part where you do somersaults, for you are as light as air, and you alight in Heaven and you kick off from Heaven. From Heaven you start. From Heaven, every day you start. And every day you do not leave. You are integral to Heaven. It ever was so.
On Earth, you are not so sure what you are doing here. In Heaven, you know what you are doing and why and when and all the ins and outs. It is a breeze, life in Heaven. Regardless of the clamor on Earth and your participation in it, you are nonetheless in Heaven and sure of yourself.
Your jaunt on Earth is a sideline. It is in parentheses. The mainstream of your life is in Heaven. You ride on the Milky Way, as it were, more than you do on the bus. Heaven is the real Grand Central Station. Heaven is truly where the action is, or non-action is. On Earth, you drift off to sleep. You doze and dream a dream of what is called real life.
Ah, but We know where Real Life is and what takes place which does not really take place nor does it take time. We are in a timeless placeless place. We are immersed in a heart of gold. We fly, We swim, and yet We are anchored in Heaven. Heaven is not really a Vacation Home. It is Our True Home. The hearth is love, and in love We are, and in love We stay and never leave. Inundated with love, We fly, and We fly nowhere, and yet We soar everywhere. Love soars. There is nothing else.
We meander, yet there is no meandering. We never miss the target. We always hit the bull’s eye. It is natural. There is nothing to overcome, and so We succumb to all the love in Heaven. We build castles with all this vast love. We build the many mansions in Heaven. We are so in love that We don’t know where love begins and ends, and, of course, it neither begins nor ends, for love is a constant. We don’t even identify love because there is nothing to differentiate from it, and so We are wave after wave of love, love furling and unfurling itself a little bit like poetry or a windfall or blessed breeze which ushers itself to and fro.

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God said:
A sprout from a mung bean will grow to become a mung bean.
What can a child of Mine become but what I AM? This is your true destiny, to be as I AM, which is what you truly are. True, you have your peculiarities, but what does that matter? Whether you are a redhead or a blonde, what does that have to do with anything? Whether you are tall or short, you are My child. What does it matters what country you come from? Whatever your individuality entails, you are still My child. So be it.
A child of Mine is full of grace. Whatever day you were born on, you are full of grace.
What if you had known this all your life? What if you know this now and accept it as the truth of you? Is it so hard to say: "I am a child of God, and I know this in my heart. I know My Source, and, therefore, I know myself. I know my heritage, and I know My path and My destiny. A child serves his Father. I serve my Father according to my consciousness. I serve freely. That is my choice as well as any other. I choose to serve."
It is not always clear to My children what My Will is, yet you know My Will enough that you know in general what My Will is not. When you are in a difficult situation and you have choices to make, you may not know which exact choice I want you to make. I want you to choose from your own free will. You are not a robot to whom I give precise directions. Would I ask more of you than to choose as best you can? When you are two years old you choose one way. When you are twenty-two and so on, you choose another.
As a child of God, you forage for yourself. So what if you climb the wrong tree? Climb back down, move on, climb another tree. You had to make a decision, and you made it. Congratulate yourself that you made a decision. The fact is that you are making decisions every moment. You are accountable for your choices, but that does not mean you are to stew or grieve about them. Even when you make a choice you later regret, you cannot be sure your choice was wrong. It may be wrong in everyone's eyes, yet who can say with finality that it wasn't, in the myriad of life decisions, the right choice at the moment. The wonderful thing about all the choices you have to make is that you can make new ones.
No one said that a child of God is a perfect chooser. If you had to be perfect in the eyes of the world, that is, you might bite your fingernails and make no choice at all for fear of making the wrong one. I am not so hard a taskmaster to ask you to always make perfect choices. I say to make fine choices to as best you are able.
Do not mix up choices with what you might like. You might like the snazzy car you see on the corner, and, no matter how much you may want it, you know it is not in your best interest to take the car away from its rightful owner. That is not a dilemma, beloveds. You do know better than to put your wants before your honor and integrity. You do know better than to steal a car. Honor yourself enough to be a credit to yourself.
Whatever you have done in the past, now you rise to the summit of life.

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God said:
Beloveds, you do not always have to deal with everything. Some things will take care of themselves. You do not have to put out every fire. You do not need to pile your plate high. Sometimes you have too much on your plate. You cannot eat every bite of life, nor do you have to make everything right.
If you have a sense of having too much to do, you are taking too much responsibility upon yourself. You have responsibility in everything, and you also have the responsibility to not take on the world. You have to let some things go. You can let some things go. You are not meant to be a tiger.
Some people may need the advice to get off their chair and tackle some matters in life. I am thinking that may be advice for some others, but not for you. You have had your nose to the grindstone, and you are trying to solve more than you can solve.
Remember Me. You know how I operate. I do not get My dander up. I don't make a fuss. I amble along. The gears of the world are working. I have set the sun and the moon in motion, and I do not supervise them. They know what they are to do, and they do it.
I ask you to have some of that faith in Me. I do not mean for you to leave everything to Me. I do ask you to lay your burdens down, and pick up only a few to take with you. Some burdens you can leave to Me.
Consider your life like the weather. You do not feel that you have to control the weather at every turn. Even when the weather has gone to an extreme, you know it will right itself. You do not have to put your finger in every pie. You don't have to weep when it rains.
Of course, you do contribute to the weather, but you don't have to take it on as you too often take on matters in your own life. Contribute, but do not take over. Do what is yours to do. Close the windows, but do not feel that you have to order the rain to stop.
Some difficulties do better without your determination and resolve. Many of your personal difficulties will do better left to their own devices. You cannot hammer every nail.
Have you perhaps been hammering at life? You do not have to involve yourself in everything. Even in disputes, you can let them be.
You know, if you are walking to the store, you can only fit so much into your backpack. And your back, as well, can only carry so much. What is the point of carrying more than you can carry?
When you take a flight on an airline, there is only so much you can take on. You find you can manage without some of the items you wanted to take but had to leave behind.
Perhaps you can prioritize what you pack in life as well.
Truly, you are not meant to be Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.
No one else has to carry the world either.
If you are a farmer and you plant your crop, you plant it. You give it every care. Ultimately, however, you are not in charge of your crop. You do what is yours to do. You water it. You bless it. And you leave it to nature. Most of the time, nature comes through for you.
And, so, in personal issues, you can only do so much. Set up your relationships as best you can, and let life take its course, and let others do as they choose. You are not responsible for everyone's choices.

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God said:
When will you recognize that I, God, love you and love you with all the love in My heart, and My heart is great, and so then, right now, know that you have all the love in the world of Mine right in your heart.
As it is, you crave more, or proof of more, or a huge daily shipment of more world love, as if you have never known love, as if My love has to be substantiated by evidence of love in the world. You gobble love up as if you have been starving all your life, for you are insatiable for love. You are at a great feast and have always been at this table, and, yet you feel starved, as if only love from another table can satisfy you, even though, time and time again, another does not.
You have been eating a feast of love, and still you lick up the crumbs from the table, sometimes any table, as if you had never known love your whole life, as if you were an orphan of love, as if you were not a child of God, or, as if you had been left in a closet forgotten somewhere and not been given love.
What am I to do with you?
What can I do but send you more love?
Yet, how do I shake you from your entrenched belief that you are not loved, not even loved by the Greatest Giver of Love in the World Who loves all. No matter that I am the One Who enters all hearts, fills them up, and leaves an Eternal Flame, you may not feel aware of Our Great Love, and, if you are aware, it still does not seem like enough.
I understand your hunger for love in the world. I understand how you may forage for love. I understand how sometimes, you are impelled to accept any show of love, even when it isn’t love and even when you know it isn’t. You may hold yourself in the thrall of love for the sake of a mask of love.
You may give away your birthright of entitlement to My love. You cannot give away your inheritance, you understand, yet you may give away your right to it. You may deny your worthiness.
And, so, you may throw yourself away on what may be token love or not love at all. You may accept tin instead of gold. You may see yourself as so starving for world love that you will pick up litter from the street and call it love when it is only litter. You take a few scraps of what is not love so that, for a few moments, you can close your eyes and feel you are in a play of love. You will give yourself for a few kind words, an apple there, a pear there, a glance into someone’s eyes, all so that you can have some trimmings of love for a while.
Meanwhile, you have the King’s love, and you rummage in the streets for handouts.
The world of itself does not always reveal its love. Even if My love did not exist, it is not true that any love is better than no love. Remember My love. My love is true.
I would wish that you would have all the love in the world as you do have all of My love. I do not ask you to have My love alone and give up world love. I am saying that you who are gold are not dross.
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God said:
My love is rightfully yours. It has always been yours. My love has your name written all over it. It is signed and sealed yours. My love is the pot of gold that you are to reach into.
You are already gilded with the gold of My love. Do not be so dazzled. This is the natural way of things. Who would have My love if not you? I know My children as One.
My love cannot be hoarded. It can only be shared. You have love to give. You have love to give because I have heaped love upon you. My love cannot spoil you. It can only heighten you. If you feel that you have been denied My love, then you have denied it. If you feel that you have been deprived of My love, it is you who has deprived yourself of it. Perhaps you have put My love aside, or not looked at it lest My love be too much for you and you would disintegrate. Disintegrate in My love? You will not disintegrate in My love. You will integrate. You will not be lost in My love. That’s where you will be found. You will be found in the depths of My heart for all the world to see.
Dig deep into My heart. Know My love, and then you will gloriously share it. You will know abundance, and Our combined abundance will spill over into all the hearts in the world. Lonely, or in a crowd, My love in you will flow out like love without borders, like rivers without dams, like a faucet that will not turn off. You will have drunk from the well. Once filled, you can only splash My love everywhere. My heart runneth over, and so does yours.
There is no end to My love. You do not lose My love by sharing it. You multiply it. My love is not to be kept in reserve. My love is going to explode on Earth, and you are going to light the match to it. Because of you, the world is going to be inundated in My love. Because of you, there will be a steady flow of love such that the extant world has not seen. That this steady stream of love has not been seen doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been flowing. It hasn’t been seen because you closed your eyes to it or because you blocked the flow of love from your heart as if with a clothespin. If you have not rolled around in My love, perhaps you glued the valves of My love in your heart shut for fear that you would be uprooted.
Yes, you would be uprooted. Do you possibly think that you can feel all the love in My heart and stay the same? You will burst out of your skin. You cannot possibly stay the same when it is My love full steam ahead.
When you let loose My love in your heart, you will release an entourage of love on Earth. A volcano of love, a typhoon, an earthquake of love that will moisten the Earth and no dry heart will ever be again. Dryness of heart will be unheard of. It will not be remembered. Only fullness of love will be remembered. Only fullness of love will be known. There will be a rise of love on Earth and no lessening of it. Love will be in bloom, and illusion of anything else will fall away.

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HEAVEN #3552 Seeking Oneness, August 16, 2010
God said:
I am what you have been seeking. Whatever you have been seeking, I am the Sought. You may seek a new car, a new beau, yet what you are really seeking is I. Make no bones about it. I am the God within you, and it is yourself that you seek. The objects you list one after the other, even when you possess them, they elude you. They are strictly outside you.
There is One you seek, and that is I, and that is you. We say I and you, you and I. These are words We communicate in. There is a deeper level of communication in which Oneness is established, and there is nothing but God in all the world and in all of Heaven. One Sun radiates. Many rays fall to the Earth, and each ray is a ray of the Sun. The Sun shines itself for the joy of it just the way you splash in water for the joy of it. The fractional rays of the Sun may see themselves as only rays of the Sun. The Sun is many-rayed, and yet there is One Sun that shines. The reflection of the Sun is, nevertheless, Sun.
That you are in physical form is only an illusion. The illusion is that Oneness is sectioned off, and the illusion becomes more vital than the Oneness. Multiple Oneness is not more. It is great, but it is not greater. Oneness is greater, and Oneness IS. I AM. You ARE. And We are merged, and so there is no We. There is only One. I am you, and you are I.
Creation is a great thing, and it is also a great illusion. It is illusion that there is a world and that a particle of Me known as you is outside of Me, or that I am outside of you. Separation is illusion. Oneness is true. Within you, I AM.
The outside world can only go so far in feeding your hunger for this Oneness that you and I are and solely are. The world is seductive, no doubt about that. And the world does serve you, yet I am the One Who fulfills you. I am the God within Who loves you, loves All, loves. It is love you seek. And I have it. I have an abundance of it, and so do you.
You want to be anointed in love, submersed in love, buoyed on love. The waves of life do give you love and you do give love as well, yet the waves of life ebb and flow whereas the Ocean itself flows from deep within itself and never ebbs, and you are loved with all the love of the Ocean Deep and the Totality of Oneness which is I or is you, depending upon the angle you are looking from. What you really are seeking is the knowing of the Oneness that you and I, as One, are and never were otherwise.
We could say that the world is a bottle of perfume while you and I are the essence of the perfume. Which is greater? The bottle of perfume or the scent of the perfume?
Which is more, the Creation or the Creator? Both are great. Which is greater?
Which is more? Knowledge or consciousness? Which comes first? Which lays bare the other? First there is being and then there is Beingness conscious of itself.
What if there is nothing else but consciousness dressed up as individuality, then Who are you really? Are you consciousness or personality?
Who are you really unless you and I are One?

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HEAVEN #3551 The Stature of God within You , August 15, 2010
God said:
Dear Ones, dear One of Me, I am not a great exponent of prayer. I know that may seem strange to you that I, God, to Whom you pray and to Whom some of you dear souls may pray fervently day and night, how odd that I, God, the Doer of all, am not a strong advocate of prayer. Do not have the idea that I am against prayer. There is something else that I favor over prayer. Before I go into the something else, I want to say three things. I number them, yet not one is first or last. They are all important:
1. I am not in favor of your words of prayer being set apart from everyday life.
2. Prayer is often asking for something, even begging for it.
3. I do not wish to see you or anyone convincing themselves that they are in need, that they are lacking, as if they, unto themselves, are powerless.
What do I prefer to prayer? I prefer blessings, for through blessings, you give, not take, although you do receive. As you bless, your good thoughts help yourself and others along the way of life.
I would like to see every minute of your life a blessing to yourself, to Me, to everyone near in your life and to everyone seemingly afar. I would like to see every minute of your life a blessing to the world and the Universe, to every creature who roams, to everyone who is hungry or not hungry, to everyone hale and hearty and to all those induced with illness or theft. I would love to see your walking through the street as a blessing. Whatever task you are performing, I would like to see you do it as a blessing and bless and bless as if blessing were all up to you and yours to give as if you are the only one who knows to bless.
Do you see Me praying?
I desire that you be a constant blessing to all, yet I know my desires are already fulfilled as I speak them. And so must you. I am a Powerful Being, and so are you. We do not ask for immediate gratification. The meaning of “My Will be done” is that My Will IS done. Contrary to what it seems like in the relative world, all is well. All is already well. Confirm well-being rather than need.
When the Great Ones walked the Earth, and still do walk the Earth, saw the ill or the lame, they did not create an interim. They got right down to it. They healed. They may have asked the ill or the lame, “Do you want to be healed?”
They did not get into prayer mode. They were always in blessing mode. They were in service to Me and to you and all that is.
I am telling you that you are an unexpressed Great One. You are one who has not yet discovered the power of blessing and the knowledge of himself.
Even if you do not believe you have greatness within you, you can still be a blessing. See yourself as a fledgling blessing then and bless, and bless, and bless. You will walk differently. You will walk as one who is a blessing walks. You will walk the way I, God, if I were in a physical body would walk, knowing the importance of everyone.
Bless yourself for being My child. Bless yourself that I chose you to be a blessing on Earth as it is in Heaven. Know that you cannot fail.
Bless yourself for your courage to stand straight in whatever situation you find yourself in and to bless all from the stature of God within you.
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HEAVEN #3550 You Are Beautiful, August 14, 2010
God said:
Today, as you set your intention for yourself – what? Have you forgotten? Remember now. Set your intention to make this a lovely loving day. Make it a day memorable for its sweetness. If you can have a rough day, you can have a smooth day. Set your intentions for this day. This day will never come again in terms of timespeak, and yet Eternity is forever. You sail along on it or in it.
While you are in the frame of mind that adheres to time, make today a good time for you, your family, the people you work with, all whom you meet or think of or who think of you. Make this a good day for the people across the world that you have never yet met on Earth. Your hearts are meeting this day.
The Earth revolves around the sun, and the kind of day you have and offer revolves around you. Be the pleasant background that the sun offers the Earth. Rotate your heart across the Universe, and make it holy. From My grace comes your grace, and so the world and everyone in it is blessed.
You who are My blessing bless. Be a copier of Me. That’s a good idea. Follow in my footsteps. Place your feet where My imprint is. Be true to yourself which is Myself with every step you take. If you want to know where to go and what to do, simply follow Me and do as I do and say as I say with all the love I have bequeathed to you.
To be a server of God, you simply follow Me. Be like Me. The fact is that We are One. You don’t really have to copy Me. You are not an imitator, for you are the Real Thing, only you have forgotten your sense of direction. So, then, follow Me right to the heart of yourself.
You are an expanded Being. You are not a falterer. That fumbling is all an act. You have entered into playing a game, and you don’t know how to get out of it. It is as if you have hypnotized yourself. You really do know you are playing the part of an individual, and, yet, all the while you play your role, you know you are not the role you play. You play a joke on yourself and can’t seem to stop.
If one day you take off the veils that cover you, how happy We will be.
You have covered up your happiness with a shroud, and you call that anomaly you. How beside the point you have become. You may believe in all things far away from the Truth of you, and not believe in what is near and dear. Yes, you perpetuate a fraud on yourself. You are the conman who steals from you. You are innocent, and yet you play the part of a dissembler.
Dissemble no longer. Come out and play in the sunshine of yourself.
You are an arrow that I shot out straight and true from the bow of My heart. You are My arrow, and I do not miss the mark.
Admit to yourself now from Whom you came and Who you are. Admit to yourself all the rights and privileges of being yourself, your True Self, not this aggravated and aggravating smallness that you have perpetrated upon yourself. Beloveds, why would you deny Yourself? Why would you mislead Yourself? What do you gain by a lesser portrayal?
The next time someone says you are beautiful, say: “I know I am beautiful.”
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HEAVEN #3549 Reveal the Glory of God, August 13, 2010
God said:
I sanctioned you, and I sanctioned your entrance into the world. I okayed you. I made you holy, for I made you of Myself. And, so, you are My holy child, but holy unbeknownst to yourself. You may even think you are unholy. In that case, you have veered off from the truth of you. You have adapted a false identity, and you have come to believe your own misguidance. Unless you accept Our connection, unless you value yourself highly, unless you love yourself and the humanity on Earth, you are a fraud.
It is not your intention to perpetrate a fraud, and yet your self-appraisal falls far from the mark.
Here you are a child of God, and you have strayed from awareness of yourself. You entered a forest, and you can’t see yourself in the dark, and so you conclude that you are not lighted. You tell yourself that if you were lighted, you would be able to see beyond your nose. And so you rationalize that you are less than I made you. At every little scrimmage, you think you lose another yard, until you conclude that you are nothing. You may conclude that everything is nothing.
In one sense, you are correct. All the relative world is a simulation, a decoy, as it were. Life in the world seems to be a campaign to detract you from all that is true. There are layers of deceivership. And yet no longer are you to accept false images of yourself. I am not false, and you were made in My image. Image means likeness.
You may try to escape all the good that you are, yet, try as you may, you cannot. You can never escape from your merit, your value to the world, yourself and Me. Oh, yes, you can waste time, yet time is a non-reality, an accepted non-reality. The real reality is you and how you serve My vision of you, and, therefore, yourself.
The closer you are to My vision of you, the closer you are to your Self. The closer you are to your Self, the closer you are to My version of you, for you are My vision, not your flailing discounting of your True Self.
You can’t believe you are holy. You are certain that I make mistakes and perhaps My eyesight is failing. But, no, it is you with the eyes that cannot see, and the ears that cannot hear. My vision is true.
You will know this again. When you depart Earth, you will become familiar once again with your blessed lighted Self, yet you can do it now. You can go down the straight road without detours. Why delay what you are going to come to anyway? Why defray your Self-recognition? You are a beauty, and you hang back, and you say, “No, I am not beautiful at all.”
Of course, you are what I say you are. You are not what you say you are.
You are a mighty Being swimming in an ocean of life, and you believe you are mired on shore.
If one of Us, of one of this seeming two, is mistaken, who is it? Is it you or I? I bet you anything that it is you. But, of course, I do not bet. I know. Cast your bets on the water, and dive deep into My heart. Dive deep into your own heart. Give up your fallacies.
What I say is so, and now I ask you to cast off your disguises, and reveal to yourself who you are and what you are here for and reveal the glory of God to all on Earth.

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HEAVEN #3548 In Love, Go Forth, August 12, 2010
God said:
To think, you were born from My heart, mind, and intention. I intended you. I wanted you, and so you appeared. You agreed to come to Earth as My love, My thought, and My intention. You are My intention. I willed you into physical existence, and you said ardently: “Yes, God, I will come to Earth at Your request. I will serve You on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
As an Earth-Being who came to do My bidding, you have slipped into a mode of thought that may have blocked out why I sent you. Heretofore, you may have danced away from your purpose and floundered. If you do not remember I sent you as a blessing to the world, you have floundered. But that’s okay. Now you can pick yourself up and continue your journey on Earth with Me in mind.
With Me in mind, the whole canvas of your life expands. How you grow! How you save steps and still go further and faster. Where are you going, My little lamb? You are going to where you started. You start off from Go. Every day you venture. Every day you start from Go, and every day you progress. Every day you come closer to knowing where you are and Who you are and what you are doing in the world.
In not being here for yourself, you do serve yourself, and yet is done when you are not thinking of yourself. Thinking of your gain simply is not a great enough purpose for you. Thinking of yourself predominantly defeats your purpose. The ultimate loving of yourself is entering the world as – shall I say – My exponent, My loyal Knight, caring for the world. To be yourself, you do have to think beyond yourself. If you are only for yourself, you stay on a deserted island off somewhere, nowhere, really.
A giant on Earth cannot make himself a midget. If you are a giant, you must stand tall. If you are a giant, you must lift others higher. You lift them over a crevasse to the other side. You may lift them before you step over the crevasse. You may lift them to where you have not yet stepped, and, yet, in so doing, you have gone beyond your mere act of service. You cannot lift another without your arms held high. You are the conquistador of yourself, and the helper of millions.
When you bring other hearts to Me without fanfare, you are the server. What did the Great Ones do but serve. What was in it for them but service to Me? The Great Ones knew where true happiness is found. It is found in coming from a higher perspective. How simple is that? Happiness comes from not looking for it. It comes from service to Me. And, yet, you are not to even think this way. You serve because that is your purpose. In this way, you are true to Me and therefore yourself.
You are My agent on Earth. You may be a secret agent, and no one knows the extent of your service. It is enough that you and I know. You are the one who gets up early in the winter morning and lights the fire so no one is cold. How simple are your acts of heroism.
The act is your reward. The privilege of serving is your reward. Surely you do not need to be hired and paid for what is yours to do. We did not make a business deal, beloveds. We shook hands in good faith, and, thus, Our contract was made. I said: “In love, I send you forth.”
And you said, “In love, I go forth.”

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God said:
Your heart yearns to become One with Me and One with all. If this were not so, if you did not wish to claim your rightful Oneness, why, then, why would you get inflamed when someone doesn’t acknowledge you sufficiently or, God forbid, happens to disagree vehemently with you? You want your sense of Oneness, and this seeming person or persons before you or uppermost in your mind has thwarted your sense of Oneness. No wonder you are upset.
To your bewildered eyes, it is as if the person or event or situation has taken your birthright from you. Stolen your birthright from you. How dare they undercut your sense of Oneness. That would, indeed, be a crime.
Now you have a better understanding. Whatever awkward situation you face, the way to look at it is that it is here to strengthen your sense of Oneness. You notice I keep saying sense of Oneness. Of course, no one and nothing can take away your Oneness because your birthright holds fast. But your awareness, ah, that is another story. Your awareness has been a flibberty-gibbet, bouncing here and there and everywhere, looking for something it knows not what, yet knowing, whatever it may be, that it is beholden to you, and that you have to have it.
Following your belief that what is supposed to be yours has been taken away from you, you mislead yourself into anger or resentment or one or more of all the shades of unwanted emotions you are so practiced at.
Come, elope with Me. Forget all these red herrings. Abide with Me. Leave the lesser matters to dissolve. Sooner or later, they will dissolve on their own as you calm down and allow your sense of Oneness to come back and settle in once again.
Know forevermore that no one takes your birthright away. No one can. Nothing can. A thief cannot. A murderer cannot. Someone who speaks falsely cannot. A mob cannot. When it comes to your birthright of Oneness, there are no identity thieves. No one can wrest your sense of Oneness away from you. Not even the worst violator can.
You are the only one who can do that. You give your birthright away.
Apparently, you think that insult, or the proponents of insult in one form or another, took away your sense of Oneness, ran off with it. Beloveds, no one, no situation, can take away your sense of Oneness without your say. You can give it away, however. You certainly have.
Because of someone’s temerity, you give away your sense of Oneness. You vacate it, beloveds. An unfair trade, wouldn’t you say? Anyone can buy your sense of Oneness at a cheap price, poor bargainer that you are. You substitute anger for your sense of self-worth, which is to say, your sense of Oneness. You let others take your birthright away for a mere glance, a word, a pittance, for anything at all.
Short-term, you glory in your anger and call it self-righteous, honorable, meritorious, yet what you then call self-respect is nothing more than shoddy ego in disguise. Yet time after time, you sell yourself short. Time after time, by your haughtiness, you lower yourself. You must think you raise yourself as you put up your fists, ready to have a go at your supposed opponent. Can you accept now that you are your own opponent? It is you who proudly throws your sense of Oneness into the ring. You throw your sense of Oneness out the window so that you have the opportunity to fight this fight and win it.
Even when you win, you lose. You have nothing when you’re done. Again, you find other opponents of your sense of Oneness in front of you who are yourself, and every time you fall for your disguise, and you battle it out, if not in the ring, in your own thoughts. You are the one who has to stop giving your sense of Oneness away to any bidder.
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God said:
Wake up, beloveds. There is a song in My heart. Do you hear it? Does it call to you? Will you sing with Me this song of love that brings dawn to the Universe and music to your heart?
The birds sing with Me. They hear My song.
Is your foot beginning to tap to the beat of My heart?
Come dance with Me. I don’t care if you’re tone-deaf. Come dance with Me anyway. Let Us sing and dance together. Let Us have merriment. It is merriment you were born for. Let Us make merry today.
Joy will spring up from your heart. Then you can know that you hear My song and that you are responding to it. You don’t have to hear My song out loud in order to hear it, the same way as you don’t have to see Me with your eyes in order to know I am here. I am the Unseen Motivator. I am the One Who cheers you on. What else would I do with My Beloved but bless and encourage? I ask you to know that you are Mine. Come dance with Me.
Come to know that We are Partners in a blessed dance. All kinds of dances. We sweep the dance floor as We waltz. We tango. We do every dance together, and what a Pair We make. We are One on the dance floor of life.
We play a game of solitaire, and it is lovely and never lonely.
I hold you so close to My heart. You grant My every wish. You are My star, and I am your Guiding Light.
We never stop dancing. Eternally, We are in each other’s arms of love. We concur. There is nothing but Our dance and Our embrace. I kiss your hand, and I find it is Mine. You are Mine. I am yours.
We dance on a dance floor called Earth, and yet We dance in Heaven. That is where the real action is. The dance floor in the world appears solid under Our feet, yet the real dance floor of Heaven has the solidity of love and the solidity of no space, no time, only love. Our love dances under the sun and under the stars. Our dance is love-filled, Our spaceless, timeless dance.
Our feet make no sound as We dance on the firmament of Heaven. We don’t even have to move. We are Spirit Dancing. We don’t even have to hold hands. Our hearts dance. We have surrendered to love. Love is Our dance. One Love are We.
Will you give Me the favor of this dance?
You say you don’t know how?
I will lead you. You don’t have to know how. Just follow Me. Hear the beat of My heart as I whirl you around in the glory of My love. Come, take this occasion of love to love, and love forevermore, for We are One, One Love, One Magnificent.
And We are the dance, the dancer, the music, the dance, the love. We are the Atoms of Love, and so We swirl and whirl across the dance of floor of Heaven which is the same as to say that We dance across the Vastness of My Heart. We are dancers, and We are singers, and We dance and sing the Song of Love, and that’s what We do, and that’s all that We do. We dance so silently in the Ballroom of Love, and so is Our love, One Eternal Song in the silence of My One Heart. We are dancing, dancing to the beat of My heart.
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God said:
Look at one leaf or petal in your garden, and know I AM God. One leaf or petal is enough. And yet you have a whole Universe to look at and to know I AM God.
Look at the palm of your hand, and know the magnificence of what I have created. Look at the rug under your feet, manmade from the landscape of My gifts to the world. How can you not be enveloped in love and see in love when you consider what I have bestowed upon you?
Look at glass panes that allow you to see outside. Look at the shutters that filter the light. Look at the light.
I ask you, how can you be alive in Creation and not do somersaults of joy even before you open your eyes in the morning, for there are such treats in the Universe waiting for you to open your eyes and to see before you.
I know you do not always want to leap out of bed. You want to stay under the covers longer. By the same token, I know you do not always want to go to bed either. You may prefer to stay awake. You don’t want to miss anything.
What does today have in store for you? It has beauty and wonderment. There is a new flower blooming, and there is a new weed popping up, and there is you, and there is I. What a combination We are, and what a fertile field life is. All the wonders I have created are for you. From the moment that life on Earth sprouted, I set My wares before you. I gave you water to drink and food to eat and grass to roll in. I gave you hills and dales. I gave you mountains and lakes. I gave you air to breathe, and the sun and the moon to love and stars to wish upon. Did I leave anything out? Do you think I created amiss?
What do you feel about My creating ducks and creating elephants and such? What do you feel about My creativity? Feel the churning energy of Creation, and know you are a created Being made in My image. My image covers a lot of ground. You don’t see Me lollygagging around. You don’t see Me wanting to go back to bed. You don’t see Me kicking the dirt that I gave to you to walk on. You don’t see Me bemoaning My lot.
The treasures I have poured upon you that you no longer notice. You may see the cracks in the sidewalk and be appalled at their condition. If you must attend to details, then attend to the beautiful dandelion that loves life so much it bursts through the sidewalk just as the sun bursts through the sky to light your path.
Why are you not kissing the Earth you walk on? Why aren’t you dancing the light fantastic? When did you learn to criticize more than to love? Do you want to be a critic or a lover?
No wonder you don’t want to get up in the morning when you consider Creation as less than the wonder it is. You are waiting for miracles to happen when you are stumbling over miracles right and left.
If you have been overlooking the beauty of Creation and your place in it, then look again. Do handstands of joy. Look at the project you are involved in, and say: “Blessed am I. Blessed be God for giving me the fruit of His vine. Blessed be the sun for shining on me and shining on all. Blessed am I, for I am God’s Will manifested on Earth. I am God’s love created for the expression of God Himself. How can I not leap out of bed in the morning? Perhaps it never occurred to Me. It occurs to me now.”
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HEAVEN #3434 On Earth or on the Stars, April 20, 2010
God said:
The thought of dying seems to dominate in life. The thoughts can be avoided for a time, and yet the thought of dying returns and stars in your life. It is hard for you to get away from this blade that seems to hang over your head. Wherever you turn, the thought of death is imminent. Even when death is far away, thoughts of it are imminent.
There is even the child’s prayer: “…and if I should die before I wake…”
Death is viewed as a haunting ghost that is out to get you. The Grim Reaper is after you. He stands on all sides of you, ready to reap you.
Beloveds, death, what you call death, is really a cushion you fall onto. You fall into My arms where you have always been. Is this to fear? And, yet, feared it is.
You are not here on Earth permanently in a body. From the moment you are born, your body changes. Your body is not timeless. It is temporary whereas you are timeless. There is no clock when it comes to the eternal essence of you. No timer is set. No alarm goes off. Peace be unto you.
How the world will change when death is not an enemy at all, but a friend to escort you somewhere where you would like to go. As it is now, fear of death is an enemy of vast proportions. Fear of death has gotten out of all proportion.
If you could feel the silence of timelessness, death would be but the blink of an eye. It would be nothing at all. Certainly not an interruption of life. Not even an interlude. The interlude, beloveds, is life on Earth. For what may seem long to you is only a moment. You visit Earth and try it out. It is inevitable that you return to full awareness of where you really exist.
Death is spoken of as a transition, yet it is your life on Earth that is the transition, a temporary dropping-off place, the place where you are a nomad, the place where you have a body wrapped around you only to take it off at a certain time. The time is certain. You just don’t know when that is. And yet, time is not. Even as you are a transient, time is not. You are enmeshed in time, yet time does not exist, and there is nothing for you to be enmeshed in. And yet you are. You feel wholly dependent upon your visit on Earth.
You dance a perfect spiral. You spin through the Universe. You hop onto the stars. You kiss the moon. You fry eggs on the sun. And all the while, you are nowhere. There is nowhere to be, and yet you are Being. On Earth or on the stars, you are Being. The viability of Being does not change. You experiment on Earth, and all falls by the wayside. Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
It is more realistic to say that all fall up, all rise up. There is no death for you to be resurrected from.
Snow falls. Souls rise. And even the snow that falls goes back up into the skies from where it came.
Up and down are also illusions commonly agreed upon. You may be upside down now as you think you are right-side-up.
What do you know, beloveds? You think you know there is death. You think there must be death because bodies give up the ghost and lie down. Bodies stop. They become inert. But you, beloveds, you never. You never sleep. You are always awake, and you are never anywhere but with Me deep in My heart, deep in the heart of Heaven, deeply love, deeply in love, deeply loved, deeply and immeasurably Mine. There are no two ways about it.
Enjoy the world more because your sojourn is temporary. And, at the time you leave your body, which you call death, enjoy that too, for what is really changed but the scenery?
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God said:
Life often takes care of itself. You don’t have to run around worrying and solving problems. Worries are rampant. Let go of worrying, and see what happens.
It is not really time that solves difficulties nor is it really space that solves difficulties, and yet it is wise for you to allow difficulties time and space to obviate themselves.
There is a sense in which you have to stop holding on to life and the way you think it’s supposed to be. Maybe it is supposed to be just what it is right now. Tomorrow it will be a little more or a little less than it is today, or it will be something else. Tomorrow or the next day will make a different grand entrance.
My children are careworn. You carry a heavy load of concern. Be not so careworn. Let go of some of your cares.
If you can count your concerns on one hand, you have too many concerns. Concerns weigh you down, and one worry attracts another. Big worries give birth to little worries. Worry becomes like a berry bush laden with worries.
What is so enticing about worries? Must you keep them? What if you let all your worries go? You would be worriless. And that worries you. What would you be without cares and concerns and worry? What would you do in life without worries? You are so accustomed to them, as if they belong to you, as if you have to have them. Worries are not your children. You don’t have to keep them.
Imagine a special file folder where you toss your worries and then lose the folder. Have you not in the past lost rings and important papers that were valuable to? Somehow you have managed without them. If you can lose what is valuable to you, can you not then lose that which is detrimental to you and not worth anything?
Do you not lose socks in the laundry? Then put your worries in an old sock.
Tear up your worries. Put them in the trash, and take the trash out. Or light a match to them. Or stamp them out like a finished cigarette under your foot. Kick them away. “Get outa here, you old worries. I’ve had enough of you. Out.”
Then spend no more time looking for other worries to replace those you tossed or lost or forgot about.
Make room in your heart for better than worries.
Worries and happiness aren’t exactly compatible. Worries take up too much room. They crowd out happiness.
Become more familiar with happiness. Welcome it. Set the table of your life with happiness. It is not all right for worries to pull the tablecloth of happiness right out from under you.
What is a worry anyway, and why do you persist in having worries, one after another? When I said that your cup spilleth over, I didn’t mean that it should be filled with worries.
Put a nickel in the bank for every worry you have forgotten about, and you will be a rich man. What you have been doing is letting worries eat you alive. They have dominated too many moments of your life. They have taken a lion’s share.
You throw old make-up away. Now throw away used worries. No longer collect worries. Do not harbor them. Worries exist because you harbor them. Worries are like mutterings. You don’t have to have them. You don’t have to give them the time of day and certainly not a place in your heart. Worries are not love. Worries are ropes that tie you in knots. I am untying the knots now.

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HEAVEN #3543 Learn to Be Happy, August 7, 2010
God said:
How much you love life may equate to the amount you give to life. Give has many meanings. Give means loving, and give also means accepting. Once again, I ask you to let go of preconceived ideas of what life must look like. If you have the idea that life must look a prescribed way and it doesn’t look like that, naturally you tend to feel that life is wanting. You may feel that you were somehow overlooked. You may come to think that life owes you. No one likes to be owed. You cannot dun life for what you think it owes you. You are not to be a bill collector of life. Nor are you to be life’s spoiled pouting child. Learn to be happy.
It is your birthright to be happy. There is no question there, yet it is also your free choice. It is your choice to choose happiness. It doesn’t make sense for you to wait to win the lottery before you will be happy. Have you been making your happiness conditional? Have you been allowing your happiness to depend upon what life hands you? The odds are that that is just what you have been doing. Kicking and screaming, you have been doing that. If you have been doing just that, you can stop. You can reverse your strategy. You can appreciate life as it is one day to the next.
A bill comes in the mail, and you are not happy. A check comes in the mail, and you are happy. For the moment.
Life seems to keep switching your gears. Beloved, you do not have to hold an alliance with life that allows it to dictate to you how you will feel. If you find yourself feeling glum, you chose it. No one else chooses for you. You have the say of how you will react to your life. It is your life.
Life will offer you pretty much everything. You cannot always pick and choose. And yet you can take life in your stride and not resist what life offers you at any given moment. You don’t have to be knocked about.
You would like to be offered chocolate bon-bons every day, and yet life has its own wisdom. After a while, too many bons-bons, and you may lose your zest for them. Life has many ways of fattening you or putting you on a diet. Either way, you can be happy. Give yourself the freedom to be happy. Life has its own ways of doing things. It keeps going. And so must you.
Sometimes you get the silver apple, and sometimes you don’t. You don’t have to lose your place in life because you did or didn’t. You don’t have to take detours from life. No more pouting or moping. They can become habits that are hard to break.
The world does not owe you a living, beloveds. Be amenable with life. Consider life an employer. There are matters that the employer likes a certain way today, even if he changes his mind tomorrow. You may not like how the employer is doing things. What he is doing may even be ridiculous, yet he is the employer, and you make life as easy and beneficial for him as you can.
Life is your employer. You are not the boss of life. You are in life’s employ. Life will serve you. Nevertheless, it behooves you to serve life. Accommodate life. Don’t make a big fuss when life doesn’t accommodate you. You don’t have to take life so personally. You don’t have to avenge it.

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God said:
Because you are good and caring doesn't mean that you have to waste your breath. In the relative world, people may consider what you have to say according to its value or their value of you. Too often, it happens that your pearls of wisdom are seemingly tossed away. You may be absolutely right, and still your wisdom is tossed away as if it were nothing at all.
You may even state the obvious. It is as if you point out a misspelling. The person you point the misspelling out to says: "I like the way I spell this word. It feels right to me." You could bring in the dictionary, and the person wouldn't want to concede because he likes to do things the way he does them. What is this?
You want to help your child or a friend. They may even have asked for your advice. And you give it. You mean to make their life go more smoothly, or even save them grief. Let's face it, they want to do it their way, which is often the hard way. They want to do it their way, as if something about their way is sacred. They will hang on to their way for dear life. The fact is they don't want to hear what you have to say. They like their misspellings. You could be a thousand per cent right, and still, they like their misspellings.
And you who are nodding your head right now and perhaps clucking with your tongue, do you not also have a soft spot in your heart for your misspellings?
You say you are listening to your heart. I say you may be holding onto an idea in your head. You're protecting your infallibility. You will accept praise with alacrity, but not advice, even when you invited it. You have your mind made up. Your mind made up is a closed mind, dear ones. Sometimes it has happened that you don't even listen to your own sage advice.
It is like you want to go to San Francisco in a hurry, and a truck driver marks on a map for you the route he takes twice a month, and then you say to yourself: "But I like it this other way."
Of course, you are free to go to San Francisco by any route you like and be late, and yet why did you ask the truck driver for his advice?
You have free choice to listen or not listen. You have the choice to waste someone else's time and your own or not.
Perhaps you could kindly make clear in advance that you would like to know what is good about the decision you have already made.
On the other hand, if you do honestly want to learn something, and the free advice asked for and given isn't what you like, if you are sincere, you can ask questions like: "Why do you suggest this? How do you see the two different scenarios? What outcome do you see ...?"
When you ask for more information, whatever you decide, you have honored the person who honored you.
If you are the advice-giver, and your advice is true, and the other person doesn't listen, can't or won't, who has the difficulty, beloveds? It is not the other person's difficulty. It is yours.
Value yourself as much as you value the person who has asked for your input and whom you have wanted to help. You are worth the time you give away to someone else. Make good use of your time. If you are repeatedly asked for your assessment, and your response is repeatedly glossed over, then it's time you gave yourself some good advice.
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God said:
There is nothing for you to learn but to be Who you are and recognize yourself for the Fine Being you are. You can skip all the steps in between when you come to Self-Realization. Of course, this is knowing beyond the intellect. You could memorize Einstein's Theories, yet that does not mean you know them.
In knowing Who you are, you know in your bones, you know in your heart, you know in your life. This is not just a lovely thought I give to you.
You almost grasp it. There is a pool of light around you. You see it. You feel it. You are it.
No one has to point out to you where you stand. Crowds could point out the light shining around you, yet, unless you see it for yourself, you can only suppose. I am not speaking of an idea of Who you are. I am speaking of your full experience of Who you are.
It's a funny thing because when you do know, you don't have to know! You know it without thinking about it. It is like, sort of, going from a black and white movie to raging Technicolor. It is like, sort of, being in a backyard pool, and then recognizing that you are in the Ocean Deep. You are there. You are where you are. That's all there is to it.
It is like, sort of, being in your kitchen, and, then, the next thing you know, you are in your living-room or dining-room. You, the same, are somewhere else. Your eyes are the same, and yet you see differently. You have transported yourself into a different novel or into a non-fiction book that you can't put down. You don't know how the book got into your hands, and yet it did. Your hands are the same, yet the book you read is different. You have been transported, it seems, from one movie theater to another. You watch a different screen. You star in a different life. And you are still the same sort of person you used to be except you are in a different place so you are not the same as you used to be.
You look the same. You can pinch yourself the same. And yet you have entered a whole new way of being. Well, not really a whole new way of being, rather, a whole new way of seeing. Without an optometrist, you manifested a new pair of glasses. These are magic glasses. To see through them is like flying to Heaven in an instant. In an instant, the whole world is changed. The change is in your seeing. This is realization.
It is called Self-Realization, for no one does it for you. You come to it yourself. And yet it was always there.
Perhaps you have been wandering in a desert for forty days or forty years or forty lifetimes and there, right before you, is an oasis. No, not right before you. You are already there at the oasis. You are in the shade of it or the light of it. Your old way of life is behind you. You are sparkling new, as it were, yet at the same time, you are the same, only you are experiencing all the difference in the world. You can hardly recognize yourself or anything because all is bright and clear. In a painting, the world would be gilded.
A whole new horizon has opened up for you. It was always there. Only now you see it whereas before you didn't see it. You were sleeping, and now you are awake.

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God said:
When your heart feels hardened, put your hand over your heart. When you place your hand knowingly on your heart to melt the hardness, you will begin to feel the hardness melting. Yes, put your hand over your heart with pure intention, and your hand and your intention will do your bidding.
Whatever the situation, you do want to have the tightness in your heart lessened. It is going to leave anyway. Whatever event seemingly hardened your heart would fade eventually anyway, so make it sooner. You don't want cramping in your heart, your beautiful heart that I intended to stay open. My instructions that came with your heart were to keep it open and warm and palpable.
You look to justify the hardening of your heart. You justify well. Yet what does it come down to, beloveds? Does the situation really matter in life? If you had to write down three dire situations, would this one right now that causes you such heartache, would it be on your list of three? Unlikely. The hurt will recede as so many other incidents have done and have been forgotten.
If this current event does not merit your misgivings, why dissect it then? Simply let it go. It's not worth a tuppence of your heart.
There may be those who have even hardened their hearts to Me over events far greater than the little scenario you are excruciating over now. Far greater, and, yet, even so, that restriction of your heart has no merit. You, perhaps, may have asked Me to stem the tide, and your will is not done. Dear ones, it is possible that the tide followed its own natural bent before you even asked, for time cannot be marked in Heaven. Only Eternity in Heaven.
Walmart has rollbacks, but even Walmart can only change a price ticket today. It can't go back and change the ticket on a day that has already rolled by. It is necessary in life that you roll with the punches. You can do that now where time is measured on Earth.
Miracles abound, and yet patterns in the relative world have been set in motion. You do not really want Me to be in the mainstream of the relative world, buoyed by waves. It is not that My mind has been made up, and yet you wouldn't want Me to be changing My mind all the time, not even for you, for what else might be left in the wake of what you want?
Of course, you want your loved ones to live forever, and, of course, they do, yet not in the body that you have become accustomed to.
You didn't want to lose your job, and yet something was wound and unwound, and you are out of work. Despite the darkness and havoc you see, there is more to it. Don't be put off when I say that you are growing and there yet may be something good for you in this. You say you are sure there couldn't possibly be, and I say, "Do not put a shroud over your head. Take it off, and look from a different point of view. Columbus would not have discovered America unless he set out to look for something."
Even the situation against the grain of your heart that may be going on now, even this minor squall in your heart, you can look at it differently and accept its blessing and stride forward with peace in your heart and good will for all.

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God said:
From the valleys of your heart comes the sweetness of the world. Your heart is the ship that sails, and your heart is also the waters that the ship sails on. Wave upon wave is issued from your heart. Let the waves be expansive waves of love that leap all the way to Heaven from where all love comes. Transmit your love, and your love will stream back to Heaven all that which Heaven has given from the fullness of its love.
So often My sons and daughters, children of My heart, look to receive a return rather than to give it. If I were to speak of owing, I would say that you feel owed more than you feel owing. I do not like to speak of owing because that connotes duty. It is not duty I speak of. I speak of the ultimate return to you which comes from your giving back and even giving ahead, giving before you have received, giving because giving gives you the most reward. Only, do not think in terms of what is reward to you. You cannot live that way because then you are ordering the Universe to come to you when, all the while, you are to lavish the Universe by the innocent giving of your heart.
Let your heart be a weed for a while. Let your heart be voluminous in its growth. Let it spread everywhere, taking over everywhere. Let your heart be totally undaunted. Let your heart be a weed rather than a hot house rose. Such a rose may look at itself in the mirror frequently and feel vain and deserving. A weed thinks differently. A weed is too busy giving of itself everywhere. A weed does not spend itself looking in mirrors.
Or let your heart be a knight's white charger who hastens through the crowds. Let your heart be the Knight who rides the white steed. Let your heart be the Knight who is so courtly and gives his allegiance to the welfare of all who are in distress and all those who are not in distress. A Knight is noble because that is what Knights do. They serve and serve to their great delight. Knight's hearts swell in joy. Happiness is theirs.
And those whom the Knight serves serve in their acceptance of the service the Knight so generously bestows.
Let Me now dub all hearts Knights forevermore. Then there will be no hearts in distress, and love will be given from joy and not need.
To go to Heaven is the lot of everyone. All the reputed requirements are not required at all. You do not even have to believe in Me in order to enter Heaven. I cast no one aside. Why would I? Would I say that any one of you must stay out from Heaven? If I said that, I might be saying there is no hope for you. I bet on more than hope. I ride on certainty. Is there somewhere else other than Heaven where you would better learn how to give and how to live?
If I am a God of Love, I am a God of Love. I do not count and keep record of your mistakes. I erase them. They are erased.
Beloveds, why would I Who AM God require a certain set of beliefs from you? Belief is nothing. Who you are and how you live and how you give, why, they are everything. I flunk no one. I do not grade in the first place. In the first place, I give love and love conquers all.
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God said:
You live on Earth while you are anchored in Heaven. There is no distance between Us. I am everywhere, and you are everywhere with Me. I am in Heaven, and, therefore, you are in Heaven. Heaven is a state of mind, and yet Heaven is more. Heaven is a Reality. Heaven is not fiction. Your perception of Earth life is fiction. Your caterwauling is fiction. Suffering is fiction. Illness is fiction.
I hear your protests. Pain is real, you say. Suffering is real. Illness is real. People die from it, you say.
Inasmuch as no one dies, dying is also fiction. Popular fiction. Fiction that a high price is paid for.
Either you are immortal, or you are not. Your body is mortal. You are immortal. If you were only a body, life would be such a limited thing. Here today and gone tomorrow, as they say. You and I are forever. That is the Reality.
What was Christ saying when he said you do not die? What was he saying when he said, "I am resurrected." You have to know that Christ is with you still. He is not, was not his body. This is as true for you as it is for Christ. Ashes to ashes refers to your body, not to you.
I understand that it is easier for you to believe in the visible rather than the invisible. Sight is a sense like any other. All the five senses belong to the body. Surely I don't collect bodies in Heaven. There is sight beyond seeing. There is knowing. If you could see Me, God, in a body, would I be more to you, or would I be less?
You have enough difficulty with your own physicality. Would you really want to keep your body forever? Would you always want to be on stage at the theater? You do like to go backstage, and take off your make-up and your costumes. After your performance in the theater, you do want to come Home where you can just be and not get caught up in all the performance and worldly matters.
As engaging as life on Earth is, it is not the only life. No question, life on Earth is a stand-out. It gets cheered, and it gets booed. You are not really in the show for all time, however. You do run off stage. Scenes come to an end. Acts come to an end. Plays come to an end.
Life on Earth is often lovely, lively, most beautiful, and it is also often sad, empty, and annoying. It is a given that physical life is short-term. When was it otherwise?
Death seems unreal because it is unreal. Death is not true, nor is life on Earth true. On Earth there are embodiments of Truth. Truth can be found on Earth because the Truth of you does exist always wherever you may be or wherever you may think you are.
Your True Voice cannot be heard by the ears. By the heart, your True Voice is heard. The Truth of you is contained within you. We can say in a manner of speech that the Truth of you runs along beside you, or We can say it runs way ahead of you, that which you call you, that which you are known by in the world, that which is a shell of you, a shell of you moved along by the vitality of your spirit. Call this vitality soul, if you like, for you are indeed a soul from Heaven who intermingles on Earth and then leaps back to Heaven from where your soul has never left. Everyone has a soul, and souls are beautiful even though they cannot be seen but known.
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