HEAVEN LETTERS

God said:
Whatever issue you have, you can face it. There is a deep issue within you that you have been running away from. You don't want to face it. Suddenly, you see it, staring you in the face. It may have been haunting you all your life. And now you see it. Now it is as if you see yourself under an X-ray. There is no avoiding it now.
Perhaps your issue is abandonment. That sounds clinical, yet it may be your underlying issue. It may be what you have been running away from, that you have an issue that is at the crux of your dealing in life. It may be at the crux of all your sadness and all the vague uneasiness you feel.
A workman may say he is coming to do some necessary work, and then he doesn't come at all. You don't know why that hits you so hard. He got your hopes up. He was going to do a great job, and now you don't know whether or not he is coming ever, and you are crushed. Or he comes and does not live up to his promise in other ways, and you are so disappointed. The workman became a bigger issue to you than himself. He perhaps symbolized all the disappointments in your life.
At some point in your life, when you were a child, you felt you were out there as a stray, and strays long to be picked up and reassured. You perhaps did not have the reassurance. The sense of bereftness has lingered. Without realizing it, you may have carried this seemingly-forgotten anguish around with you.
The world has not always been a safe place for your beautiful heart. You made too much of the world. You let the world decide your well-being. The world may not have come to the fore to take good care of your needs. And you thought you were dependent upon the world.
Whatever the deep abiding issue within you may be called, it arises from your dependency on the world. Under the underlying issue lies another issue. But I think the crux of your issue, whatever its name, lies in a perceived utter subjection to the world.
The world is temperamental, beloveds. You do not always feel honored, respected, or taken care of by the world. It may not have taken good care of you, and now, perhaps, you blame your sense of desolation on a mere workman. You hadn't realized how fragile you felt, and yet what you feel is not always what is.
If you were dependent upon how the world treats you, you would indeed be in trouble. Once you were little, and you were helpless. Now you are big, and you are not helpless. Yet you may still see yourself as helpless, just a little cog in a big wheel. You may even feel like the dartboard of the world. This is illusion.
You are not at the mercy of the world. That is only a thought, and, like the world, your thoughts are not always reliable.
To recognize the fallacy of this thought is part of your education in life. It is time for you to graduate from this fallacy. It is never too late. The time is now.
This reliance on the world is an old thought whose time is done. Now you break through the ribbon of this thought, and you come out a winner of the race. Your old belief is not so powerful as it once was. It is dwindling, as well it must. You are moving out of the domain of this illusory out-dated thought and moving on to new thoughts that support you. Once you were on a swing of unreliability, and now you are firmly on your own two feet, and you know you are with Me, and you know you are solidly in a reality of certainty. The world is not, once and for all, the decider of you, and now you no longer hold on to the thought that you require a savior. You are already safe with Me. I will never abandon you. And now you will never abandon yourself again to the winds of the world.
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God said:
If you would take hold of joy the way you clasp trouble to your bosom, how happy you would be. Clasp appreciation close to you. Clasp regard for life and your life. Be glad for what you are and for what you are not. Be glad for what you have and what you have not. Allocate to yourself all that you can be glad for. Your life is your life. Do not begrudge it. Do not fault it.
You were handed a certain sequence of cards, so it seems. You may have picked them out of the deck. Whether you did or not, however they got handed to you, they are in your hands, and you are the one who plays them out.
In sickness or in health, life has been granted you.
I know you feel that life is often not fair. Some of your blessings may not be fair either. Value your blessings, and then you are playing fair with life.
For reasons known or unknown, your life is such and so. Someone would be grateful for what you, at present, may or may not be grateful for. In retrospect, you may be grateful for much that you were not grateful for at the time.
When you were nineteen, you might have found fault with your figure. Now you would be thrilled to have that same figure.
Once you may not have appreciated some people in your life, and now you wish they were here and that you could hug them and talk to them and tell them how much you love them.
Once, someone broke your heart, perhaps, and it was the end of the world for you. Now, in retrospect, you heave a deep sigh of relief that you did not go down the path that once you so wanted to go down.
You may favor one fruit over another, yet each fruit from God's tree nourishes you. Your preference is not everything. Digest what is before you. It may be hard for you to see, yet some good will come from it. You may well not know what good, yet good will come. You will come out ahead from it. You will survive. You will thrive.
What is there in life to be surprised at? If you must have woe, you must also have joy. Let woe be uncommon, and joy abundant.
You may not have conscious choice of all that visits you in life, yet you can choose the timbre of your life. You may have a scrawny little tree in your yard, and you can water it, and you can bless it, and it will bear fruit. Someone else may have an orchard and neglect it. One tree, or a thousand, trees are for you to nourish. Life is for you to nourish.
Whatever is given to you or taken away from you, you have say over how you treat life. You are a vital factor. You are the deciding factor of how you value your life. You do not need to stay stuck in one view of life. You are free to choose from many views. Do not let moaning about life become a habit. It is a hard habit to break. If you have adopted that habit, let it go now. It is easier to let go of it now than later.
If, at this moment, I were to adjure you to pray, I would ask you to pray that you lift up your life and offer it to Me with all the love in your heart and so make your offering of your life to Me and your responsibility for your life simple and holy.
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God said:
As a matter of fact, there are matters in life you do not have to concern yourself with and fuss about. Where do you put your attention? Irritations in life are not to be your focus. When you focus on what is annoying, you harvest it. Or you mine it. Better to mine for gold, beloveds.
Your garden may have weeds growing in it, yet let your focus be on the flowers and vegetables you grow. You can curse the weeds if you want, but wouldn't it make more sense to bless the flowers and vegetables?
Weed the garden, if you must, but be thinking of the garden and why you planted it. I don't think you planted your garden so that you would have an opportunity to be angry at the innocent weeds.
If a book you read is not what you want, you don't have to read it. You also don't have to pan it.
Everything does not have to be to your liking. Make yourself to your liking. How much do you value complaints? Anyone can be a complainer. It takes no special skill. Do not be victimized by annoyance. Let not annoyance and irritation be the mainstays of your life. I know for a fact that annoyance is not your mission in life. I AM.
Being irritated is the line of least resistance. Sometimes resistance can be a good thing. The point is that I want you to be a good sport in life and in the world. There are enough irritants. Do not make yourself another irritant. Sometimes it is wise to not express yourself. If you must let off steam, go to the gym, lift weights, or jog in the park.
This is not a question of whether you are justified to be irritated. It is a question of whether you are going to jump to the tune of every Tom, Dick, and Harry of irritation. What do you wish to make the theme of your life? Do you want to be in the Guiness Book of Records as The Most Prolific Fault-finder in the World? By your deeds and by your word are you known.
If seeing the downside is your hobby, find another hobby.
How much are irritants going to figure in your life? You were given life as a gift. It is a worthy idea to appreciate what you find under your tree.
If you find a can of worms, you don't have to open it. You don't have to tell the world about it.
It is not new advice that sometimes you don't have to open your mouth. Instead of taking back your words later, keep them to yourself now.
You don't have to gush positivity, and you don't have to gush negativity either.
Will you today not voice even one complaint? Remember the expression: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Can you do that, beloveds? I think you can. I know you can.
Start from a clean slate. Do not carry over old irritations. Do not make new ones. Be considerate. Someone went to trouble to please you. Can you not give her pleasure in return? You do not have to tell everything. You can smile and say thank you.
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HEAVEN #3491 Stardom of a Kind, June 16, 2010
God said:
Life is not all about you. Life is not all about what feels good to you. What you like and what you want are sometimes off-track. You are in My thoughts, and I do serve you, and yet I am here for more than serving you.
You are on Earth for a reason, yet the reason is not to serve yourself.
Do not make a mistake and think that others have to have you. I am central in the Universe. You are needed, and yet no one else's existence or happiness is dependent upon your individuality. You are not the kingpin of the Universe. I AM.
Yes, you can make a difference in someone's life. Surely you make a difference for your children, and you are there for them. Surely you have friends, and you bless their lives. Yet you are not essential to their well-being. I AM.
You are not essential to anyone's well-being. When you think others cannot get along in the world without you, it may be that you have convinced yourself that they are essential to your well-being. There is a lot of kidding yourself going around in the world.
It is true that the world serves you, and I serve you. When you think you are the ultimate purpose of the world, then you have misinformed yourself. If you think you are the ultimate purpose of someone else's life in the world, you have pulled the wool over your eyes.
There is a fine line between selfish and unselfish. There is a fine line between serving others and being self-serving. There is a fine line between ego and service. There is a fine line between everything. You may like to convince yourself otherwise.
For the most part, your suffering is an add-on. It is a condition that you attribute to yourself. You may have a need to suffer. Beloved, you are not to be a prima-donna. You are not the end-all be-all. So what can the problem be.
It seems that some people go out of their way to hold a shingle of suffering on their door post or over their heads. "Here stands a sufferer," says the sign. "Look how I suffer because life is what it is and not what it used to be and what I want it to still be." And so you honor loss.
It would be better that you consider yourself in a privileged place. You may be one of the most privileged people on Earth, and yet you call suffering to you. You consider yourself denied something, or something was taken away from you. Take self-centeredness away from you. Take it away yourself. Be done with it.
Troubles in the world are relative. Much of the time you are the source of your problems. You fantasize problems. You look for noble problems. You conjure up problems that are the cat's meow when you really have no problem at all. You have sought-out stardom of a kind. You may have chosen a focus that is not yours to focus on.
In terms of the relative world, there are problems that are real. To have a sick child is heavy-duty. And there are chosen problems that do not matter two cents' worth. Once upon a time, not having the right dress to wear was a problem. Not having your way was a problem. And that may be your problem now and what is causing you suffering -- your illusory need to have your own way.
Be open to the Universe. Be open to what life holds for you. Because today does not bring what yesterday brought is not a problem. Because today does not bring you all you ask for is a problem only as you say so. Don't say so.
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HEAVEN #3492 A Mighty Dragon, June 17, 2010
God said:
Even though time does not in truth exist, you don't want to waste it. Don't waste your life on problems when you can spend life on desirable attributes of life. Surely, you can think of something better than difficulties. I shiver to think of the energy and life vitality you put into difficulties. Picture a pie-shaped chart of joy in life. There is no pride to take in a pie-shaped chart of troubles.
What are you emphasizing in your life?
There are hordes of angels surrounding you. Let go of your hold on troubles, and these merry angels will lift troubles from your shoulders. Where is it said that you are to carry a yoke on your shoulders? Where is it said that you must carry infinite trouble on your shoulders?
Your shoulders are meant for joy. Even if your shoulders are broad, they are not meant to carry trouble. Your shoulders are meant to let trouble slip off. Must you keep troubles, treasure them, go over and over them as you would pore through pieces of jewelry?
If troubles are not fun for you, why dwell on them?
And if you don't know what to think about instead, then think of Me, for I am thinking of you. Thinking is not quite the right word here. My heart is beating for you. Let your heart beat for Me and not so much for troubles.
Do not believe so much in woe. Are you an idolater of woe? Are you an idolater? Do you have other gods before Me? Why would you? From what illusion would idolatry of trouble come from? Must trouble be so mighty?
Where is it said that trouble must take over your life? Where is it said that trouble must consume you? Trouble may be a mighty dragon, and yet who says you have to believe in dragons? Are you worshipping dragons? Let dragons make all the fires they want. Fires burn themselves out. They do not last forever. Troubles are a temporary misalliance.
You live in the relative world where everything is relative. Everything depends upon how you look at it. Everything depends upon your impression of it.
I understand that life is very serious to you. I know how you look at things in life. I know what you covet and what you despair about. Don't have a great appetite for despair. Despair is a conclusion you draw.
I do not say that you do not have troubles. I do not say that your troubles are nothing. I say that your troubles are not everything. Whatever your troubles may be, you also have blessings in your life. You who are so fearful of death, you are alive today. Whatever troubles may be yours, there is someone who would love to have yours and not theirs.
Even with troubles, can you allow yourself to be a little happy? Surely there are matters in your life that you can welcome with an open heart. Surely trouble can't be the only thing in your life. Certainly there are some kernels of that which you are grateful for. Increase gratitude and diminish dismay.
If you had two balloons, and one had a Smiley on it and the other had a skull and crossbones on it, which one would you favor? Which one would you breathe your breath into? Which balloon would you use to advertise yourself with?
There is that which you can change, and that which you cannot change. You are free to change how you look at what you look at. You are free to weigh life differently. You are free to use a different scale. You are free to emphasize troubles, if that's what you choose, and you are free to enjoy life regardless of its difficulties.
I lift your heart now. I bring you to Me. Now, what can the matter be?

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HEAVEN #3490 If Boundaries Were True, June 15, 2010
God said:
Impatience. It is your impatience. It is not the people around you that cause you to be impatient. They do not have the control of you. You have the control of how you spend your time and how you spend your energy.
If you were not so subservient to time, you would not be so impatient. Have you perhaps made time your God? Have you written Time with a capital letter and decided to bow down to Time and follow its every wish?
If that is the case, you sing a song to the tempo of rush, rush, rush. Hasten, hasten, hasten. Run, run, run. Hurry, hurry, hurry. You involve yourself in the nick of time and to the march of time, as you run lickety-split, hither and yon, to and fro. Time becomes like the kings in fairy tales who tell the prince: "Complete this task, and then you may have my daughter as your bride. If you do not complete the task successfully, you will be beheaded."
Under the auspices of reward or penalty, you dance to Time's tune. You, the prince, adhere to Time, and you fulfill the task successfully, and then the King has one more task for you to fulfill, and then another. It doesn't seem to matter how many tasks you fulfill successfully. It doesn't even seem to matter how many times the King of Time tricks you. You try to appease Time every time.
You know, you could tell Time to go along. "Run along, Time. Hasten." You could trick Time and say: "Run along, and I will catch up to you anon or bye and bye." You're never going to catch up with Time anyway. Time isn't going to let you.
Of course, Time will run along without you. Time is self-empowered. Why aren't you?
It is said that the tortoise won the race. The tortoise cannot win the race of Time anymore than the hare can. Why try, I wonder.
Time presents you with a puzzle doomed to failure. In every case, Time leaves you behind. He tricks you. His rules are not fair. Time is a sly trickster. He will always leave you in the dust far behind him. Time is like Lucy who tricks Charlie Brown every time. Time gets your hope up, and then tee-hees. Time is like the Gingerbread Man who races ahead of you.
You cannot catch up to Time, yet you can catch on.
Of course, you understand, from reading Heavenletters and other things, that Time, the Mighty, does not even exist. Of course, Time does not follow a standard for how can Time not be elusive when it is illusion? How can Time be caught when he is nowhere to be caught? Time will escape you every time. Of course, he will. You can never catch up with Time any more than you can keep your house free of dust. The same way you have no choice but to let dust settle and wipe it clean another day, so have you to deal with time.
It is nice to keep appointments, not because of Time, but because of consideration to others who are waiting for you. In that case, stagger your appointments and duties so you have free time and time enough to get somewhere at an agreed moment merging Time and Space, both masters of disguise. Yes, they are relative reality, and yet they are no Reality at all.
If Time and Space existed, where would Timelessness, Immortality, Eternity, Forevermore, and Vastness and Infinity and Truth and Love exist? Time and Space would make them untrue. And where would I exist if boundaries were true? And you? And you? Where would you exist if boundaries were true?

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HEAVEN #3489 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, June 14, 2010
God said:
Blessed be you. Blessed be you for being alive on Earth. Blessed be you for aspiring. Blessed be you for attaining and for even not attaining. What is wonderful is that you venture forth. Without armor, you venture forth into the big world, and you make your way in it.
Each day you pull up the window shades of the day, and each night you close them. You are like the rising sun, and you are like the setting sun. You bring days into action. You run through a day, or you pause, or you tiptoe. You are the one who runs through a day the way a river runs through the land.
You are a pioneer. You are much more a pioneer than a settler.
Each day there is a new terrain to run through. You venture forth, you give each hour its time of day. You open the curtain of each moment of the day. You are the revealer of the day.
Each day is a like a book you read, or a chapter, or a prologue, or an epilogue. Or each day is like a deck of cards that you peel open to see what the cards say.
You are a diviner of each day.
You hold each day in your hands. And you ruffle through the day.
May your day be blessed. May you cherish it, this never-before-given-day of today. It is your slate to draw on. It is your part of the masterpiece that is being created on Earth today. And you contribute to its creation without a backward glance, for you are ever moving forward into this landscape of life. You turn the kaleidoscope of the day the way a captain of the seas turns his telescope to see a far-off star.
The star the captain sees is blinking brightly at the captain who made an overture to the blinking star.
Each of you is a star-gazer like Galileo. Each of you makes new discoveries about the stars and life and the divine threshold of discovery that you are on. You are on the verge of great discovery. You are about to discover yourself. You are about to discover yourself in the mundane world and beyond. You are the discoverer of life on Earth. You set the course of study, and you find out what it is you have set as you go along. You may intend to learn one thing and find you learn another that what was on your mind all the time.
What do you want to find out? Keep walking, and find it. By and large, you do find what you are looking for. Look far and near until you do find it. It may be right under your shoe now.
This is a day never before seen and never before opened, and now you open it. You open it for all the world to see. You turn the key of the world, and you usher it in. You create daybreak.
And, at night, you put the day to bed, and night awakes. The stars come out. Night clubs open up. Some people sleep, and some people wake.
Babies are born, and cats knock over garbage cans in the alley. The moon is big or small. Wynken, Blynken and Nod sail off on their wooden shoe, sail off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. What is more probable than that when you are alive on Earth and can sail on anything and reach the white moon and take it home, even as it follows you?
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God said:
Look up. The dawn has arrived. The sun is out. Were you sleeping?
I have told you that great gifts are on their way to you, you, as a group, and you individually. The summer of your journey is here.
You are boarding a train of delight and unexpected courtesies. Lift up your foot. Board that train. It is an excursion train. It is going somewhere wonderful. It is full of surprises. Your head had been looking down, and now you look out the windows and up at the sky, and you see the wondrous sights waiting for you, wondrous sights eager to be seen by you. The gifts coming to you blush in their eagerness to be seen by you.
As you feel blessed, they feel blessed, you, the one who sees, and they, the gifts that are seen. It is mutual love. The gift loves to be given. And the receiver of the gift loves to receive. It is a perfect match.
You have so much to look forward to. Lift up the window shades so you can see all.
The name of the train you ride is Good Fortune. It is impending. No, it is right with you. It is you who has to be impending. Impend to receive the gifts that have been earmarked for you. They are coming fast and furious, spilling everywhere like night stars in the sky, vibrant, sparkling, delighting in being seen and admired. How the stars love you. How they come out for you. Such nightly gifts are the stars, the magnificent stars of light in the night sky, all bright and beautiful for you to look at. Be sure to look up at the stars and receive their light on your face. Go out and be a stargazer.
By day, go out and look at the reflection of the sun through the leaves of the trees. Look how the light turns itself and shows itself off so that you may delight in how it turns and curtsies to you. Can you hear the sun laughing in joy as it plays tag with you everywhere it goes?
These are constant gifts the Universe has given to you every single day of your life. It takes no effort for the stars to sparkle and the big yellow sun to shine. And there are new gifts coming to you, rapidly, one after the other.
Many of these gifts will be gifts you have had right along. Not all, but many, and so many of these gifts will be in the form of realizations. You will begin to see what has been right in front of you just as long as the stars and the sun and the days and the nights of beauty have been with you.
You may not see angels with wings, yet you will recognize the angels in human form who have lifted you and given you Heaven. You didn't know it when they appeared, and yet now you recognize them. You have had many angels in your life, only, at the time, you didn't get it that they were angels.
You, too, beloveds, have been angels to others who passed by you not recognizing at the time who you were. You didn't know either.
You have known angels all your life. Just not by name. That's okay. This recognition is retroactive. Now you will begin to see the good gifts that have always been.
And you will also receive more gifts of the world, gifts from the world that is grateful for you. You will receive gifts like jewelry that reflect the light of the sun and the stars and the sea. You will receive more gifts that you can hold in your hand.
Be ready to receive all the gifts that are markedly on their way to you. Lift up your head. Open your eyes. And see what I have prepared for you on Earth.
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HEAVEN #3486 Serve God Over the Past, June 11, 2010
God said:
It is essential that you let go of your past mistakes. No matter how much you regret, no matter how careless a mistake, or how deliberate, you have to let go of it. Otherwise, you lasso yourself to the past and tie yourself there. This does no good to you or any man. Flagellating yourself is non-productive. It embeds the error. Tell the error, "Begone."
If you must be punished with the realization of the error of your deed or non-deed, you have already been punished enough. Do not keep yourself in the dunce's chair. There is no point to it. You are someone who learned something. The person who made the error and the person who regrets it are not the same person now. Regret your mistake once, and then be done.
You have to let go of the past. You have to free yourself from it. For My sake, let go of the past, and its errors.
Is it not true that heretofore you have been relentless with yourself? Now, I beg of you, let the guilt go. I exonerate you. You are all atoned for. You will not make that mistake again. Is that not good enough?
Why whip the hand, beat the chest, embed a knife in your heart again and again, to what avail?
Every time you imprint an error in your heart, you make it deeper. You make a rotogravure of it. Better to erase it. Do you see the humaneness and practicality of what I am saying? Do not keep error to you. Do not sustain it. Do not feed it over and over again. Release it.
You make no excuses, but you have to let error go. Congratulate yourself for being further along than you once were. Can you not be glad for progress made?
I congratulate you. I congratulate you for having greater vision now. I congratulate you that you are done making that error. You will not step in the same puddle again. Go ahead now, and buy yourself some new shiny shoes. Reward yourself.
You have graduated from an error. Once you were ignorant, and now you are less ignorant. Now you are wiser.
In the world, you do not have to be perfect. You are here on Earth learning how to live divinely in a human world. This is not always easy, but, dear ones, do not make it hard for yourself. There is no percentage in it, not for you, not for anyone.
When you have reached a higher rung in the ladder, you have reached it. Climb up, not down. Think of the greater good and not your penitence.
How does your sitting in a corner, chewing your nails, lashing your back, feeling regret and pain - how does that serve the world? It does not. It pains the world. Why not bless the world? Say:
"I made a mistake. I'm sorry, deeply sorry. Now I erase my mistake from the face of the Earth. I would not burden the world any longer with my regrets. I cast off this burden, from myself and from the world. I have vanquished the dragon. This dragon's term is over. And now I shall go forward on Earth and slay all the dragons of my past and leave a clean playing field for myself and for others forevermore.
"Once I was a scalawag. Now I am further along. I do not keep the dragons of my past in a cage where I can see them. I am not a taxidermist. I live life, and I serve God, not my past. This is good enough."
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HEAVEN #3485 God Hosts a Party, June 10, 2010
God said:
You are invited to a party I am giving on Earth for all who are here. This gala event is in your honor. It is in honor of your being alive on Earth and partaking of all the experience that there is for you to partake of. Come in. Come here with Me.
Here is your name card. Sit right where you are, or, rather, here is Our dance card. Dance right where you are. I offer My hand to you, and I say, "Let's dance." And you accept My hand, and We dance. We dance fast and slow. We dance to all rhythms. We find that We are virtuosos of the dances of life on Earth. Even the old dances are discovered anew.
We make the music. All has been tuned here. You turn the juke box on. You put the nickel in, and We dance. You are the invited and the inviter. The thing is that you dance, and the whole world is a dance. This is the party that We come to.
We encircle each other. We intertwine with all the other dancers. Our dance is planned, unplanned, spontaneous, unspontaneous. What matters is that We dance, and We dance for the joy of it, not for the complexity of it, not for anything but the joy of it. We invent new steps.
We taste the fruit of all the trees. Even the trees from faraway that we have never seen or touched, we taste the fruit of Our imagination. We name every object and call it by its name even when it has not yet been named. There is nothing that We don't live on our way in and out of Our little spin on Earth. We go around the block once or twice or more. We partner in, and We partner out. Exchanges are made.
Oh, yes, of course, you call some dances work, and some dances play, and some dances dancing. You name that tune.
All the while, you are an adventurer or Earth. You are a scout, a hunter, a barterer, a player, an Excalibur of adventure on Earth. You are lithe, and you are thick, and the Earth waits for you. The Earth doesn't mind what you are like. It offers you itself. It is your dance floor. It is the forest, and it is the lake, and it is the day bright and the night dark, and it is the calm sea, and it is the roaring seas as they enjoy their tempo whatever it may be. May you enjoy too. May you enjoy the swinging. Swing, beloveds, swing.
Life on Earth is here for naught but to be discovered, rallied around, and enjoyed. Life is for the joy of it, the fun of it, the spectacle of it, the unexpectedness of it and the expectedness of it. All is good when you are enjoying on Earth.
Enjoy the swaying. Enjoy the swinging up and the swinging down. Enjoy the highs, and enjoy the lows.
Enjoy the refreshments. Enjoy old favorites, and enjoy for the first time. We are here to enjoy. We are here to savor. Let Us savor the sweet, and let Us savor the not so sweet, and digest it all. It is on Our plate. We lick Our plate clean. We accept what We are served. We accept in good grace. We are at every instant being treated to life on Earth. Whatever comes to Us is Ours, and so we dance with First Choice and Second Choice and even Last Choice because it is what is served to Us.
We close Our eyes, and We open Our eyes. We blink. We smile. We do not frown, for We are dancing. We are dancing to the beat of Our hearts, and so We dance, and We dance until 2 a.m. in the morning, and We dance at dawn, and We dance between times. The thing is that We dance.

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HEAVEN #3484 In Martial Arts, June 9, 2010
God said:
Moods have got to go. Being reactive has to go. You know what I mean. Reaction. Blind-sided reaction. You are quick to ignite. Founded or unfounded, your reaction has to go. Perhaps you like to react. Sometimes it seems that your happiness comes from being offended. You find a certain happiness in feeling wronged, for now you have something to fight over. Maybe you like a good disagreement, is this true?
There are finer ways to live life than finding offenses to pounce onto. Find rewards to pounce onto instead. Yes, be quick to smile. Be quick to enjoy. Otherwise, don't burn. Don't get yourself fired up. Do not ignite into flame at all. Stay cool. Don't even have a slow burn.
What is the cost to you of breaking out in anger or any of its distant relatives? What is the reward? Perhaps you feel you have to stick up for yourself? You do not have to stick up for yourself. You exist. There is nothing to stick up for.
There may have been an old offense stirred up, and you latch an old event onto a current event or word. You may fall for it every time. Certain things tick you off. Serve yourself well, and get over those repetitive words or looks or deeds that tick you off. Be a leader rather than a reactor.
Even if it is true that someone doesn't honor you, how much does his or her honor amount to? If this same person gave you advice on the stock market, would you follow it? And, yet, if he should make a remark you don't like, deliberately or by chance, then you take him at his word and you become a puppet who dances to his tune. It must be you are looking for an argument or to revive a hurt.
It is not smart to flare up because of someone else's thoughtlessness or even deliberate offense. In any case, he has been thoughtless.
Odds are you are angry with yourself for falling into an old trap and trying to defend yourself. Don't. If someone is seemingly unkind, must you be? If someone wishes to oppose you, why should you oppose him? Come from real strength instead of pique. Remember Me. Remember My regard for you.
I know you would like to be out of the fray once and for all, for you know it doesn't get you anywhere. There are so many other things to think about rather than who and what and why someone doesn't value you enough and how you must not allow this. Value yourself enough. Don't have pique. The other person is not the star of your life.
Make your own life, and make it higher.
As it is in martial arts, you come out ahead as you do not offer resistance. You really do not have to fend off offense. No one makes you get hot under the collar.
When someone offends you, why add insult and injury to yourself on top of it? When you declare someone as against you, you assault yourself. This is an old pattern, and you no longer want any more of it. Do not hold enmity to you. Befriend yourself. Give yourself wise counsel. You can do it. I ask you to do it.
You do not have to answer to everything that is thrown at you. Give yourself a break. Do not allow an offhand remark or even deliberate remark to compound into a burning of your heart.
I love you and the person who offended you equally. Let Me apologize for the person who offended you. Will you accept My apology?

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HEAVEN #3483 You Are a Charter Member, June 8, 2010
God said:
The tower you build to Heaven will not topple. You are on steady ground. The steady ground you stand on is Heaven. Earth is rocky. That's okay. You stand firm in Heaven. You abide in Heaven. You balance beautifully in Heaven.
On Earth, you seek to find your balance. When you just find it, then the ground under you shifts. Do not think so much about balance. Think about joy instead. You do not have to balance joy. Accept it. Relish it. Exalt Heaven.
There is great joy on Earth. True joy equals Heaven. True joy. Meaningfulness hops up to Heaven. Joy lifts you up higher. Higher is a good place to be.
Somersault in life. Do handsprings. Get yourself up in the air. Fly high. Carry the world with you. Lift the feet of the Earth higher. As you trod the soil of Earth, raise the world. Be a lever that bounces Earth to Heaven. Or be a pulley that lifts Earth to Heaven where it belongs. The world has been in a closet of its own making. Take the closet door off its hinges. Open it up. There is no void. There is Vastness. Vastness is not a void, beloveds. You cannot call the center of a cell as void. Vastness is full. It is full of Everythingness.
Each atom has a core, and you are the core of the Earth. You are Earth's Destiny. You have come to Earth to spin it. You are the double helix on Earth come to resound it. You are the beat of My heart on Earth. The beat of My heart never stops, nor does yours, nor does your true heart which beats evermore in Heaven.
You tour Earth while you abide in Heaven. There would be no Earth unless there were Heaven. Earth came from Heaven like a rainbow with you on it. Earth and rainbows return to Heaven from whence they came. You are a charter member of Heaven. Remember your Source. Remember the beauty of all. Hold your head high so that you are centered in Earth as in Heaven.
Consider the Earth a spinning top, and you are the one who spins it.
Earth is a collective. It is a community. Heaven sustains it. Hearts pump Earth. Earth is like a tank for hearts to beat and grow in the delivery of love. Oh, yes, deliver love from Heaven, and so balance the spinning Earth. Make it happy.
Perhaps you have thought that the Earth owes you a living. You may have had it backwards. Give your proceeds to the Earth. All is to be given. If giving were a task, your task is to give. But the ability to give love is the highest ability I have given you. It is your talent. Talent is not a task. Talent is God-given, and it is for you to express.
You are learning to express Heaven on Earth. You are building a tower to Heaven. Or call it a bean stalk. There is no top to this bean stalk, and no giant at the top, unless you call love a giant. The love from Heaven is secured on Earth, and you are the securer of it. From Heaven through you comes My love. What else did you think you were doing? What else did you think you were here for? Perhaps you thought you were here to make money or garner fame? Go ahead. Become wealthy and famous, and use your wealth and fame well. Don't just sit there. Put them to good use.
You inhabit a world in order to bless it. You and I, We bless the world.
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HEAVEN #3482 Bright Yellow like the Sun, June 7, 2010
God said:
Be a delight to your heart. Good times, hard times, they come and go. This is nothing new. To roll with the punches is a good idea. You don't have to fill your heart with sadness.
Let your heart be bright yellow like the sun. Even on a day you feel blue, the sun itself is bright. Covered by clouds, it may not be seen where you are, and, yet, it soon will be. The sun always comes out. And sadness leaves. It takes its course. It fades. The sun comes out bright.
You might as well be done with despair. If its hold on you is so strong that you can't be done with it this moment, then sit it out. Go on in life despite whatever mood you are in. A mood is only a mood. It does not have to overtake you.
There is not one person alive who has not lived with sadness or deep despair. If it is the gauntlet you run, then you run it, and you come out the other side. Do not treasure the doldrums and keep them close to you. Go off and live life without them. Dance anyway. Sing anyway. Before you know it, despair will not cling so tightly to you. Despair's job is to leave you alone. Your job is to not mind it so much.
Your despair is like a hem of your skirt that has fallen. Pin the hem up. You don't have to drag it around all day. In terms of the metaphor of sadness, the hem will fix itself. Just as rain turns to sunshine, so does your sense of decline turn around.
Despair may seem to have you in its grip, but it is on its way out. As soon as you are aware of despair, it is already on its way out. It makes a scene when it leaves. It does not quite know how to leave graciously. It gives you a few good kicks as it goes out the door.
There is an end to suffering. Let it go. Just let it go. You don't have to fight it. Let go of your grip on it. Truly, sadness is a passing fancy like any other. Do you have the idea that you must have highs and lows? Do you like batting yourself up and down?
Nor is this to suggest that you must lead an even life that stays the same. The thing is that you don't need the ups and the downs. You can be okay whatever is going on in life. You can be in a good mood even when you feel you are in a bad mood. Because you feel blue, you do not have to wear blue. You do not have to sew blue up. You can be good-natured and considerate regardless, regardless of anything. Not only can you be, what choice do you really have when all is said or done, but to be upbeat?
Do not think that you deserve to be depressed. You do not deserve it. Despair, or whatever name you have for it, is like sitting in a corner and eating bitter pie. Who says you have to eat it? Put the bitterness aside. Get up anyway. Even tragedy is not a tragedy that you must get caught up in. Get up even from tragedy. It does you no honor.
Sometimes you feel down for no reason at all. It just seems like the bottom has fallen out from under you. Or one slight gesture has hurt your heart, and you have decided to feel bereft or angry. Do you know that despair and depression are just the other side of anger? Get up from that bed, and move on.
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HEAVEN #3481 Love by the Heartfuls, June 6, 2010
God said:
Once upon a time all the hearts in the world met, and so hearts were magnified, and so hearts were multiplied in their power. To this day, hearts are mighty. Upon hearts depends the world. Your heart is an establisher of love. This is the privilege of your heart. This is its power. This is what your heart loves to do. This is what your heart is meant to do. It is meant to leave itself in all likely and unlikely places.
Give your heart every opportunity to establish love upon Earth. Herein lies your happiness. All the places you have searched for love, and love is not, or love runs away, or is chased away. If you are serious about finding love, greeting love, feeling love, then think of love beyond yourself, far beyond yourself. You see, love is not your quarry. Love is your gift to give.
Find space to give the love that is ever in your heart. Even when your heart feels forlorn, plenty of love is waiting to come out, waiting to be given, waiting to reveal itself all over the place. It is not that your heart is an attention-seeker. It is an attention-giver. Give out that love. Let your love overtake the Earth. Let your love be resplendent. Let it be for the giving.
As you would strew corn to feed the chickens, strew your love. Let go of it. It is not for you to follow the course of your love. It is for you to drop it off. Let it be picked up where it may and by whom it may, by one or by thousands. All this is not your concern. Your concern is to give love by the heartfuls. Give love, give it and give it until the world is overflowing with your love. You might say the world becomes swamped with love, but it cannot be swamped, for love rises forevermore.
Love, once given, is never lost. As soon as your love reaches Heaven, it is blown back to Earth, and given and given and returned and returned again and again. Love is eternal. Didn't you know that? Love is as driven as the falling snow. It will reach everywhere. Love is driven, and love is one-pointed. Love knows what it loves to do, and that is to give itself over and over again and again and again. There is never too much love, yet, often, there is seemingly too little. Love may wait for an auspicious occasion, yet it is love that is auspicious and need wait for anything but the occasion of itself.
Love comes first, and love shoots out from your heart. Everywhere is love's target. Love loves to alight everywhere. As leaves fall from a tree in autumn, so does love fall from your heart. Let the wind take it where it will. Let your love circulate itself and find itself everywhere and anon.
Love is still looking for more of itself. Your love is still looking for more of itself. Your love, to be seen, and for you to grasp it, has to be loosened from your heart. When love flies free, then you will know the love that issues from your heart, and you will know that it is rampant. It is widespread, and it is vibrant and real. Only as it ventures forth can love from your heart be seen. See your love going out all over the world eager to give itself until there is only Heaven on Earth, and Heaven of your making is accessible to all.
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HEAVEN #3479 To the Very Heavens, June 4, 2010
God said:
Calmness is not an act. Calmness is your natural state. Calmness comes from a depth of silence. Silence is your natural state. From the depth of your silence comes peace. Less than peace is heretic. Less than peace is an infraction. Be that state of peace that is yours to hold and to marvel over and to circulate across land and sea.
Peace be unto you.
Peace is not far away from you. It is your natural core. If only you could believe this. If only you could believe that you are your own peace, that peace emanates from you, and that peace from you blesses the entire world.
Peace isn't difficult. It is all the hullabaloo and noise surrounding peace that are difficult. Peace is easy. Anything that is not peace is a set-up. Accept the peace I give to you. You crave it, and yet you stir the pot rather than settle it down. The soup of life has been stirred enough. Let it cool.
Sail on a calm sea. And if the sea is not calm, then quiet yourself, and the sea will copy you.
You are meant to be an instrument of peace. Let your breathing play like a sweet flute. Hear the notes of the flute bringing peace with it. Its round mellow notes soothe all in its wake. Be the flute of God. Play the flute of peace for Me.
Be the snake-charmer. Uncoil the world from the basket it has wound itself in. Peace is not coiled. Peace is flat and straight. Peace has no secrets. It is out in the open.
If you go to the top of a mountain peak, what do you see? You see peace. You do not see havoc. Seek peace and give peace. Peace is not just a sigh, and yet peace is contentment. Why not be content. Why not see the world as I do see it and bless it and spread peace on the world. Be a beacon of peace. Be a beacon of peace wherever you are. Be a marker of peace. Be an inspiration of peace. Be a herald of peace. Be a flute of peace.
Let your heart be your flute. Let the music of your heart be heard near and far. Let your heart smooth out rough terrain. Let your heart climb over the rocks and create a plateau of peace.
Be the peace you so desire. Give the peace you desire. Peace is not dull. It is not unstimulating. Peace is a comforter, and yet from peace comes exhilaration. From the peace of exhilaration comes more peace until you are peace itself. What were the Great Ones, beloveds? They spurred peace.
We could say that the Great Ones lowered the flame on hearts. They made hearts heart-temperature, not hot, not cold, but just right so that hearts could grow and embrace all other hearts. Through their hearts of peace, the Great Ones gave peace. They emanated peace. This is what peace does. Peace is calm and fun-loving and spreads itself like wildfire.
Show Me a man of peace and you will see a man who enjoys to the hilt. He builds a mountain of peace. He sculpts it out of hearts, and he raises hearts to the mountain-tops. He puts your heart like a star at the very top of the Christmas tree. The star spreads its light from one house to another. From one peak of peace to another, from one heart to another, peace shines and raises the Earth and everyone in it to the very Heavens.
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HEAVEN #3480 Like a Daisy in the Field, June 5, 2010
God said:
Let sweet sounds come from your throat. Sweet words. If you like sweets, you will like giving sweetness to the world. Be sweet and fleet of heart.
Hearts are not meant to be sour or bitter or heavy. Hearts are meant to take flight. Let your heart be a sweet nightingale. Uncage the throbbing bird of your heart.
The way to clear your heart is to give love. If your heart has been clogged, unclog it. Pump that love. Splurge your love all over the Universe. Fill other hearts with love from your heart. Do not let your heart become wizened.
Consider your heart like a balloon that you fill with love, and then you let the love out. Your heart is easy to fill up again and again until all you are doing is filling up your heart and emptying your heart. Of course, you can bail love out of your heart forever, and it is never emptied. You can't love fast enough to empty your heart. Fill-ups are automatic. You can never outdistance your heart. The dial reads Full.
Your heart issues love. What does love look like? Love cannot be seen. Evidence of love can be seen. The Valentine box of chocolates left at your door is not love. It is candy. It is sweet evidence of love, and yet love cannot be boxed. Love is to be freely given, and freely found. Expect love to be left at your door. Expect love, and yet give love without expectation of love returned. You are not owed love. Love cannot be owed. It can only be given.
Is offense so much more easily given than love? Is offense taken more easily than love? If so, reverse the trend. Love is easier than anything to give or to take, for love is real, and offense is idiosyncratic. Offense depends on something. Love depends on nothing but itself.
Let love love. Let love grow like a daisy in the field. A field of daisies. A field of love. Let the whole Universe be a field where love grows and grows and takes over all the land. See those fields of love sway in the breeze. All wheat bows to love. Everything bows to love and looks up at the sun, and so rises to the sun that shines from Heaven.
Be a steward of love. Hand it out. Love tends to the flock.
Love grazes. Love loves to be where it is. And it is everywhere. There is nowhere that love does not like to be. Love likes to be everywhere. It likes to be in good company.
Be love, and you are good company. Enjoy your own company. Make the most of it. Paint the world with your love. Accompany the world with your love.
From whence cometh your love? It cometh from Me. I know where love belongs, and it belongs with you, and love belongs to fly from you and meet itself coming and going. Love is no stranger to itself. Mighty love soars. Hearts soar above the clouds. Up and up goes love, and love spreads itself over everything. Love is the dew of morning, and it is the cicadas at night. What is love not? And where is love not when love is all, and all is love?
Greet love. Do not avoid it. Let love be transparent. See through love, and know it is yours, yours to receive, and yours to give. Love is yours to make much of. Recycle love. That is how you make much of it.
Holy, holy is Our love.
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HEAVEN #3478 Travel Light, June 3, 2010
God said:
Indeed, there is nothing to worry about in life. Whatever possibly-conceived benefit from worry you imagine you gain is contraindicated by worry's nagging quality. Worry undermines you. It hangs heavily on you. It saps you. Don't do it anymore. Let go of worrying, for it wears you down. Worry scrapes against you and leaves you wounded before you are hit, if, indeed, you are hit.
You rub yourself raw with worry. Worry is like hives. Worry eats at you. It devours you. There is nothing good about worry, for it weighs you down. If you want to be slimmer, give up worrying. Substitute sense of well-being for worry. Abolish it. Why be careworn when you can be carefree?
Carefree is not the same as careless. Look both ways when you cross the street. Absorb safety into your life.
When you keep gnawing at a rope, it will eventually break in two. Don't gnaw at worries. The worry will finish itself anyway.
Be worry-free. Take confidence as a matter of course. You may not always be able to defray unwanted occurrences in life. People do slip on banana skins, yet you can defray worry. I think you must. It costs you nothing except freedom from worry.
Begin living again. Set yourself free. Imagine the giant steps you can take! Imagine the leaps in life! Imagine how lovely it is to no longer clutch something to your heart, fearful for losing it.
Why not live life without fear? Fearful, you take ghosts to heart. The ghosts are the dread thoughts you carry with you, as if you could not live without them, as if they were your bodyguards. They are not. Fear and its cousin worry assault you. They are your attackers. They are spies. They are good-for-nothings. They are marauders.
You may worry about everything, or you may worry about nothing at all.
You do not let robbers into your house, and yet you admit worries to your mind. You take in the worries, and you go over and over them as you would rosary beads. Have you been worshipping worries? Have you not been taking them into utmost consideration, as if they were royal guests you do honor to? Worries are fragments you have picked up along the way. They are pests. You do not collect flies or mosquitoes, yet you collect worries. You whisper their names. You keep them safe and don't let one go.
Put all your worries into the trash pick-up, or burn them in the backyard. No longer harbor them. They are not your friends. They are not even warnings. They are false alarms, and they make you frantic.
When trouble comes, beloveds, you will know it. Trouble needs no scouts going out to look for it. Trouble will announce itself very well. Do not make your thoughts be harbingers of anything but spring.
What do you want worries for? They eat you alive. Why do you let worries in when you can leave them outside? Put an X on your door. "No worries allowed. Worries, worries, go away, and don't come back another day."
You may think that worries bode the future. They are from the past, or they are from something you read in a journal of fears, one new illness or acronym after the other. Subjects for worry are like rabbits that multiply and hop across your mind. Worries are rampant. They have no business running all over you.
Worries demand your attention. They insist, yet you do not have to give them attention. Let worries go on their way. They don't belong with you, those pesky worrisome worries. They are of no account. You do not have to take any of them with you. Travel light.
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HEAVEN #3477 Today Will Be Puddly and Wonderful and Delicious, June 2, 2010
God said:
What would be fun for you to do today? And if today is an ordinary work day, what can you do to make your work day today more fun? Why not have more fun whatever you are doing today? Why not make life today a walk in the park?
Why not be exhilarated today? Why not give yourself the gift of enthusiasm?
Someone is going to be enthusiastic today, and I ask: Why not you?
If you have to clean house today, make it fun. You can make anything fun. When you were a child, you knew how to have fun. You knew how to play. Play today when you are at work. Make work play. Make it light, and you will get more done, and you will get more done with alacrity. Whistle while you work.
Have a heyday today! Ride a merry-go-round. Enjoy. Be in suspense. What will happen next to delight your heart?
What exhilaration are you going to give to today? What exhilaration are you going to give to the world today?
If you cannot find it within yourself to brighten up someone else's day today, at least brighten your own. Take an interest in uplifting your life, your bit of life today. Just take care of today. Open up your life. Lift it above the ordinary. Make it sparkling. Make your day the delight of all.
Work with your heart today. That is to say to encourage your heart today. Invite it out of itself. Invite it to enter the domain of fun. Bang the drums of fun. When you wash your face today, splash the water. Listen to its sounds. Remind yourself about the days when splashing water was play. Remind yourself when everything was play. Skipping in puddles was play. Walking to school was play. Whatever you were on your way to was play. Remember when play was play.
Remember when just being alive was enough, when being alive was good, when life was new, and something fresh kept coming up, and you had the energy to play tag and hopscotch and chase your dreams. Chase them now.
Have a dream that today will be puddly and wonderful and delicious.
Look forward to today, or the rest of today today, and make your life today a song like this:
"Hello, Today. Come right in. Bring your wares to me and animate me. Today and today and today and forever, I am alive on Earth today in order to be vibrant and alive! I relish each day. I am excited to be alive today. Come dance with me, Today! Let's go around the mulberry bush. Let's play Hide-go-seek. Let's be flying birds today and swimming fish and playful puppies. Let's be everything today. Let's take flight and soar. Let's be kites today. Let's be balloons. Let's be everything fun today. Let's find fun in unexpected places. Let's smile big. Let's laugh loud. Let's take delight and be delightful.
"Today, let's run upstairs. Let's go somewhere we have never been before even if it's right where I've always been. Let's have an adventure today, even if we explore where I sit in the chair I am. Let's gallivant through our day today, Today!
"Today, let's make today a parade. Let's make today a holiday as I am at work. Let me look forward to holidays and work days. What do I care what day you are, Today, and where I am. I am alive on Earth, and we spend today together on Earth. We are explorers together, and we do not know ahead of time what treasures we shall find. We only know that we will find them, for I have an eagle-eye for treasures. I can spot them anywhere and everywhere. I am a treasure-hunter, and together, Today, you and I are on a treasure-hunt!"
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HEAVEN #3476 Travel Lightly, June 1, 2010
God said:
Some people have real troubles, beloveds, in terms of Earth concerns. What you yourself consider trouble may be a sniffle compared to what some people contend with. Your biggest problem may not be a problem at all except that you would prefer something other than what you have. Some people really do have something else to prefer.
It is not that I suggest that you compare yourself to someone else. It is that I point out that you tend to shore yourself up with troubles which, although inconvenient or unwieldy, are not much on the trouble scale. This is what I wish to disarm you of. You have experienced this. You have had a great disappointment, perhaps, a broken romance let's say, and it is devastating to you, and then your father dies or your child may be deeply ill, and then the broken romance is not, after all, so high on the scale as you had previously thought.
Everything in the world is relative. In the scheme of things, in terms of the big picture, even that which is considered real trouble, is not so big as it looks from the side of the world.
Sometimes it seems that you have a tote bag for troubles, and you keep thinking you have to fill it up. No, you want to empty it. You want to keep it empty. Or get a tote bag with a big hole in it so no troubles are kept or sorted out or mulled over.
Sometimes it seems that everything, even when it does not trouble you excessively, does give you concern, just the same. Is it not possible that you could get along without worrying or fearing? Would you really be lost without something to agonize over? Can this be a simple habit that you would do well to do without?
How etched in you is it to consider troubles as part of your life? Throw all your pains out the window. Occupy yourself with something else. Develop a hobby rather than a worry. Take up knitting, or take up sports. Find that which you like to involve yourself in, and involve yourself. Find something to do that serves someone. Worrying serves no one. Lamenting serves no one. Regretting serves no one.
You don't need to aggravate over that which serves no purpose unless it is to make you feel forlorn.
You are hardy. You are not a hot house rose who cannot take a change in temperature. You are a hardy dandelion or a tree of much renown. You have been through enough difficulties, and now there is no need to curry more. Consider that you have had your quota. You are finished with trouble now. You see further and higher. Without trouble on your mind, there will be less trouble for everyone, not only less for you, but less for everyone.
Trouble is behind you. You do not need to reacquaint yourself with it anymore. Unburden yourself, beloveds. Unburden yourself of the sense of burden. Travel lightly. Be light-footed.
Will you admit that you have held trouble closely to you and nursed it? You have made room for it. You have coddled it. It almost seems that you have made trouble your reason for being. You may say: "No, God, I don't want any trouble."
Then I say to you: "Why have you catered to trouble, been on the look-out for it and brought it close to you as if trouble needed you to keep it close, as if trouble were an avenging angel who needed you to nurse it. Trouble doesn't need you, and, surely, you do not need it."
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HEAVEN #3475 To Be Responsible Is to Be Powerful, May 31, 2010
God said:
No one alone is responsible. No one is triumphant alone. All are part of a whole. Responsibility is shared. Everyone is responsible to every other.
I laid the groundwork of the world, and now you create it with every breath and every thought. There is no distance, and yet you are responsible for what happens in the perceived distance as well as in your home.
You are responsible, and yet you are to be responsible without guilt. Guilt does not serve. You are responsible for securing the world in peace. Keep peace in your heart. And when you slip and do not serve peace and do not fulfill your responsibility, then somehow you must escape guilt. I banish guilt. Guilt has no place in life.
Guilt is a pile-up of the past. It is an egregious hoarding. Responsibility, on the other hand, allows you to put your shoulders back and stand tall, and go forward.
Guilt burns your fingers and keeps you immobilized. Down with guilt. Up with responsibility. Guilt is the opposite of responsibility. Guilt is self-flagellation. Guilt is self-centered. Responsibility has a different center. Responsibility is like the mighty tin solder who loves his paper rose. Love comes first, and then responsibility and caring for follows along easily.
For all the beauty and blessings of the world, you are responsible. For all the hurt in the world, you are responsible. It is not possible to trace your responsibility, yet all are responsible for all else. You are responsible for what you contribute and what you do not contribute. If all are responsible, then you are responsible. This is not a verdict of guilty. This is acknowledgment of responsibility.
You are powerful and, with your thoughts and with your heart, you can change the view of the world that the world presently presents in any corner of itself.
If the thoughts of man can contribute to war, then the thoughts of man can contribute to peace. If a heart can break, a heart can be whole. If folly can make war, love and wisdom can make peace. If the thoughts of man can be unwise, they can be wise. If love exists in one place, it can exist in another. Love can be evident, and war can be inadmissible.
Be responsible for seeking reasons for peace, and do not look for reasons to declare war. All fighting is within yourself. Let go of it. Let go of need to prove might is right. Let go of need to uphold injustice. Every time you think you or your nation has been unjustly treated, you uphold injustice. Let not injustice become a treasure to you that you put on an altar and worship.
How much resentment is enough, beloveds? Any resentment is too much. In life, you are taking a walk in the woods. Some branches do swing back and lash you. Do not stay in the same place and keep lashing out at the branch. Don't stay in the same place. Your thoughts could be miles away, and you could already be going down a beautiful path. Let not branches in life hold you back. Move out of where you have been. You are not brave to stick around.
How do you right a wrong, beloveds? Only by moving on, can you. Not by not digging deeper, can you. Only by doing good, can you. Only by going higher, can you.
If you have been poisoned by a snake, you do not heal yourself by keeping the venom. Cut out the venom. Venom has no place in your heart.
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HEAVEN #3474 Golden Light Shining in the Firmament Like Stars, May 30, 2010
God said:
Everyone's heart is connected to every other heart. Hearts hold hands as children hold hands in ring-around-the-rosie. There is not one heart that is not connected to every other heart. All hearts are connected to your heart. All hearts are interconnected. When you consider that there is no time nor space, you can better see how this is so. Connections are made. They are effortless. Hearts co-exist with every other heart. Life on Earth rises and falls according to the heartbeat of all, and now heartbeats beat high notes, and love prevails.
Without time and space, every heart is attuned. There is no possible separation on any scale. If hearts are One with Mine, then all hearts are golden light shining in the firmament like stars.
How wonderful to love in Oneness. There is nothing else but Oneness. There is nothing like it.
And, yet in the world of Earth, love shining is not always visible. In this case, come back to your heart of love and let it be outstanding.
What an outcry there is for love on Earth. Love is waiting for you to claim it. Long live love.
Without love, what is there but striving and even strife? Have a heart full of love, for love surpasses all understanding, and love skips over all misunderstanding. Love knows what is real. Without love, fear and travesty have a heyday.
Although love is natural and love is your birthright, love may have to be relearned again and again. The only lesson is love. Behold love, and fill your heart with it. In the world, imperfection exists a-plenty, and, yet, the perfection of the light of love shines. Perhaps your love needs polishing or maybe not. Perhaps your love just has to come out and let the light of day shine on it. Let the sunshine of love warm your heart.
In Reality, you are a dynamo of love. In Reality, love is ignited in your heart. Your heart is full of love, and yet you may be shy with your love. You may be inhibited with your love. You may resist love and keep it back, keep it yet to be born, keep it shackled by rules and regulations. Will you free your heart and let it love fulsomely?
Now is the dawn of your love. Now there is no dismissal of love, no sunset of love, no termination, for what is love dependent on? The world may have made love a payment due when love is not about accountability. Love is to be freely given without bookkeeping or charges made. Nor is love to be a secret hoard kept for later. Love is to be rampant. There is not to be a sieve for love. Love is meant to be out there full-center, so it is known, felt, seen, without response required, and yet love poured out voluminously. Long live love.
Love is a great white steed that gallops across the frontier. Love is the prow of a ship that furrows through the ocean. There are no gaps left in the ocean. Love splashes and splashes without further ado. Love is a hearth where hearts warm themselves. Love beholds itself wherever it is from. Let love take precedence and belong to all.
Let love come center stage. Let love take over the world and declare itself, declare itself peace, joy, and harmony, and run the world, make the world divine and hearty and heard and listened to everywhere. Love is ready to be heard in every heart. The signal has been given. The flag of love has been raised. One love, One love everywhere, and love for all, and all for One.
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HEAVEN #3473 God Sings in Our Hearts, May 29, 2010
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To what do you attribute that spring in your step? To what do you attribute your good fortune? To what do you attribute your being on Earth? To what do you attribute the Earth? To what do you attribute YOU?
You are like a bird in flight, only you are an angel, an angel disguised and disguised well, to be sure, disguised as a fledgling human being, not yet in flight, still on the ground. You are like a bird that has never been hemmed in, yet sees cage wires all over the place. You are a high flyer, only you have not flown. You have thought you are a bird that cannot fly.
This is a mutual enterprise that We are engaged in. In one sense, you are like a decoy of yourself. A decoy is not the real thing, yet you are the real thing. I, in the form of you, am not seen for what I am, and, therefore, you are not seen as you are. The view of the world does not even come close. It may be that, in your whole life, no one has had a clue. Not even you. And yet, and yet, there has been a glimmer seen every now and then.
I urge you to have a clue as to the Eminence you truly are. This is real down-to-earth Pre-eminence. You are an angel who does not understand where he has landed. Once an angel, always an angel. There are no scissors that can cut your wings. Thoughts have blocked your beautiful wings from view. Hidden from view, your wings are nevertheless ready to fly. Oh, fly into My heart that longs for you to know where you are always and Who you are always.
You who are always in My sight, I long to be in your sight. In a sense, I am a lovely bird caught in your heart, and yet you do not yet know I am here. I am the pulse of your heart, and you think your heartbeat is a mechanical thing. I pressed the key that brought you into existence in the eyes of the world, and, yet, you, as well as I, have always existed. Eternal are We.
What is this about your wanting to be other than you are? You may think that your placement on Earth is who you are. Have you equated your placement here with being less than angel? Where are you more needed?
How much does it matter where you are sitting when you have wings and a mind and a heart that can fly and reach the stars and spin the galaxies and find one more wonder after another while your heart is singing like a nightingale. Let the eyes that see not and the ears that hear not think of you as a silent sparrow, yet, whether your heart song is heard or not, it sings and sings forevermore. What a beautiful song is sung around the world and beyond the world and echoes in every treetop. The streams sing the same song, and the fruits and the berries and stones, the same song they sing.
Every motion on Earth is a dance. See the dancers in the mall and on the streets. See the dancers in homes and in the fields. See the dancers come to your door. See the dancers even when you cannot quite see their dancing or hear their songs. Join in the chorus of love and life. Let your heart sing so that I may be heard, and so that all can sing to their heart's content.

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HEAVEN #3472 The God of Oneness, May 28, 2010
God said:
At every moment, you can know that you are in My awareness. There is not a moment in Eternity when you are not in My awareness, for I love and, therefore, you are constantly in my awareness. I know nothing else but to think of you. Certainly, you must know that I do not sit around thinking of Myself. Or, I suppose We can say that thinking of you is the same as thinking of Myself.
In the dream of separation, you and I are two. In the Reality of All That Is, We are One. In that sense, there is nothing I can think about but Myself. And, yet, I know you understand that I am not self-centered. I suppose We could say that I am Self-centered which means I am loving you every moment. You are the love of My life. You are My life. You live My life. I live My life in you. I love Myself.
You twirl the world on the fingers of your thoughts. It has been said in song that love makes the world go round, and that could not be closer to the Truth. Love spins the world. Love spins the world so fast, differences are blurred, and all becomes One, not Oneness itself blurred, but Oneness clear, sparkling, lovely.
In the world, it is as if you chip away at Oneness as you try to absorb it. You really can take Oneness in one gulp.. You don't have to take Oneness apart in order to know it and know it deeply! Just toss love into the ring, and Oneness appears, and Oneness will win as, of course, it must, and as it does. Love always comes out ahead.
Oneness is so simple. It is simpler than anything else. Oneness has no complexity to it. How could it? And yet it is analyzed and chopped into little pieces so it can be put back together again. When Oneness is not taken apart, there will be no need to put it back together. Let Oneness be Oneness. Even though there is only Oneness, paradoxically, Oneness is for All!
Who can analyze love, beloveds? Love is to be given, and love is to be accepted. What more is there to say? What more is there to be done?
In your search for love which you crave to find, you are like fish in the water looking for water. Except you are human beings looking to measure love, to look at love, put it in a jar and cap it, as if love were something you own. Love is something to take to heart, and yet there is no lid on love. The human heart expands to make room for all the love in the world. You are that love. That is who you are. That is your true nature. Have you perhaps been swimming against the current of love? You will never get anywhere.
You who already swim in the Ocean of My Love, now know it. If you don't know it, imagine it. Imagine that the air you breathe is My love, and breathe it. Imagine that every view from your window is My love painted so you will know the depth and extent of My love and My attention on you. Imagine that every bite of food you take is the nourishment of My love. If every bite you take is My love, then you are eating well.
Love, beloveds, love. Intake love, and radiate love. Do it now, for the God of All is loving you this minute in Eternity.
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HEAVEN #3471 A Golden Chariot of Thought, May 27, 2010
God said:
You are the completion of My thought. I cognized you, and you came into Being. I had a thought of you, and you appeared. I am directing My words now to everyone who reads My words or hears My words and to everyone who does not read them or hear them.
You are My soul's longing for Myself. You are My heart's call. You are the song I sing. You are the words that fell from My lips. You are My dream recalled and replayed.
Creation is the carpet you walk on. You walk in the world. You have a surface to put your feet on. Yet, you, who are My creation, are also my radio to the world. You play the radio, you listen, and your thoughts are broadcast.
You can believe how lovingly I created an iris, a rose, an arbor, a vine, a playful kitten, brown eyes, blue eyes, and seasons to arise, and a horizon to see beyond. Will you also believe how lovingly I created you as servant of My love? If you do not like the word servant, then simply consider yourself My love itself serving Me on a tray to all, near or far. If you prefer to consider yourself a messenger, that also applies. You are a messenger of My love. This is what angels are.
You might as well know that you are an angel on Earth. Earth is filled with angels. Of course, you are an angel. You are an angel I sent to Earth. We made an oath that you will carry Me on a Golden Chariot of thought and deed and desire and will. We agreed that you would deliver Me from Heaven to the world. We further agreed that you would lift up the world and carry it to Me in your arms of love. We concurred that you would return Earth to Heaven where it came from and to where it now returns.
Beloveds, bring back the world to Heaven. Help the world to breathe. Bring My breath to the world. Bring My light to the world, and the world will be carried on your wings right to Me. How happy We shall be.
A flight of angels is rising to Heaven and bringing the world to Me on wings of light. You are happy to. You are in process of restoring Eden on Earth, an Eden that you are just beginning to grasp, to understand, to like. Eden is not the way you have previously thought. It is much more wonderful than that. Your Father's Kingdom has many mansions. And your Father's Kingdom has gardens to suit every taste. Eden is not one-dimensional. Nor is it two-dimensional, or three, or four, or five. Eden is beyond dimensions. It is far more than you ever dreamed of, as am I, as are you.
Your heart's longing is for Me because I am the revelation of you. Call Me a mirror, if you like. In any case, My eyes gaze into yours. I am Christ-like in that way. And you are Christ-like. You are God-like. Roll over in joy.
Be like a joyous red cardinal and hop into My arms and come travel with Me right into the center of your heart which is Heaven on Earth, which is Earth in Heaven, which is Heaven to the right and Heaven to the left, which is Heaven every which way. You will, dear ones, find Me in your heart where I have always been eager to be found. And from your heart and from My eagerness, you will strew Me everywhere on Earth. I have desired to be strewn everywhere on Earth for all to find and return themselves to Me through the ticket of love that you gave in My name.

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God said:
Is not life a great thing you have as you walk through the world? Just think of it, you have life every day, day and night, day in and day out, and the life you have is yours. You go with it, and it goes with you.
Life, as it appears to you, often surprises you, or startles you, or glorifies you, or hurts you, mystifies you, or dismays you. Life goes on looking neither left or right, so it seems. Sometimes life seems to give you too much attention, and yet, you figure, doesn't seem to take you into consideration at all.
You could say that life is indifferent to you, as if you were simply by the side of the road, as if life were a stray bullet that misses the mark, sometimes hitting you, and sometimes just zinging past you. And yet life was made for you. It was chauffeured to you in a long limousine. And life in the world is simply a continuation of life out of this world. From where you came, you return. Nothing changes but your experience. And yet experience is not everything. It seems like everything to you. And yet experience and your perception of your experiences is not everything. Consciousness is. Love is. We are.
Life does not always appear dressed the way you would like it to. Sometimes you may think that life is dismal. And, yet, if you were not starring in your life, you might see it differently. You might.
Life in the world is an apparition, beloveds. It is a seeming thing. And yet it is the most important thing to you right now. You want it to be lovely, and only lovely, so you think and so you say. You wonder why life isn't all you desire when you desire. Life falls short in your estimation. Days you would call good, you may call the exceptions.
What if you would consider the days that you see as unlucky as if these days are the exceptions? It may well be that you count amiss. You may have put some of your days under the wrong columns.
You may slough off some days as fair or middling. Perhaps these days were not as exciting or as wonderful to you as you might have liked, and, yet, beloveds, what was really wrong with them? It is possible that you are an extreme critic of your days. Take another look, beloveds. Look again.
Enjoy life while you have it. Disregard some of the things you have regarded.
You don't want to whiz past life with your nose up in the air. Walk through life without a chip on your shoulder. Have you perhaps had the idea that life owes you something, and it has defaulted on its debt to you?
Life is merely on loan to you. Do not grumble about the loan given to you. Do not default on the loan made to you.
Sometimes you stumble through life with your eyes half-closed or your eyes on a far-off objective you have in mind. Sometimes you stamp your foot because of what you feel life denied you. Sometimes you begrudge life, and, yet, you still ask for extensions of it.
So, I say again, sing a happy tune through life.
Life is not a refrigerator you took a loan out to pay for. You were given a lifetime loan.
Look at life as if it were a meal served to you. Whether everything served is your favorite or not, eat the food before you, digest it, relish it, every crumb. Thank the Cook. There are many who would be grateful for the meal served to you.
Be glad that your tummy is full. C'mon, beloveds, be as glad about your life.

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HEAVEN #3468 Pick Out the Gold, May 24, 2010
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Perhaps you are having the time of your life, and you don't realize it until later on. Has this not happened? The life you reflect on today was so wonderful, only you missed out on it at the time.
You might say that, at the time, it wasn't all golden. And, yet, now you see the gold, and your face is lighted.
So pick out the gold from today. There is something sweet and golden in your life today. It is there. If you are in a bad mood, and you insist there is not, I tell you there is. And if you cannot see that today, then you may be being stubborn.
Even if you are bedridden, there is light shining in your window. There is someone who tends to your needs with a smile. There is a voice that you like to hear. There is something.
Even if you are bedridden and in pain, and you don't see any light, be a light to someone who enters your room.
How well I know that there are many excuses for feeling glum. You would say reasons. I will say excuses, and I will further say that there is no excuse for you to be grumpy and not shine light on everyone. There is every reason to shine light. Others need it, and the light you shine shines back on you. This is simple arithmetic, beloveds. 1+1=2.
We can also say this: 1 = 1,000.
When you light up one face, your face is lighted as well. Yes, We're agreed. And the face you light lights another, and so it goes on and on. There is no end to the golden light you can start in just one day.
Let Me tell you something else. Do not wait to feel love before you shine it. What you may feel is not who you are. I have told you that you are love. So be love even when you may not feel it.
Be love. Be it. Be love. This doesn't make you a fake. You ARE love. Be straightforward love with a smile. All it takes is a smile, a little welcoming. You don't have to let everyone know what irritation you may be feeling or what stray thought you may have. You are not putting on a show. You honestly do want to love.
Beloveds, why would you not welcome every child of Mine? You do not have to hang out with every one of them, and yet you can be a good sport and greet everyone. Don't think that you have to be so honest as to let everyone know they peeve you. Simply toss out a smile, a simple word, the way you would toss your hat into the ring.
Shed a little happiness around you. Is that too much for Me to ask?
What would it take for you to be a glimmer of light today?
What would it take for you to be to others what you want others to be for you?
Simply do not get hung up on your preferences.
All are My preferred. You are not letting go of your integrity to give a simple hello from Me. You might be letting go of petty resentments or whims or letting go of you-know-not-even-what.
Even when the sun is not out, you can shine.
What if today you have only happiness-bearing words and expressions on your face to give everyone. What would that cost you, beloveds, and what would be the reward for you, for the seeming others and for the world, and for Me?
Be a blessing to everyone, and, in so doing, bless yourself and All That Is.

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HEAVEN #3465 Time and Space, Heart and Mind, May 21, 2010
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Time is such an elusive thing. It gets away from you! It dominates you, and yet how does it do that? You make lists in order to master time. You try to set priorities in order to master time. Whether you follow your lists or not, time seems to get the better of you.
And so it is with space. There is too much or not enough. You try to arrange it. You try to keep it one way or another.
Both space and time seem to have their own say. You try and try to keep them in place, and, yet, time and space speed, and sometimes you just can't keep up.
If you race time and space, you won't be the winner, or you won't be the winner for long.
Must time and space dominate your lives? Of course, time and space are the relative that you are dealing with. You may say you are dealing with people as well. Of course, the people you interact with are yourself in one shape or another. They too are trying to keep up with time and space. People seem to be your biggest issue, yet it may be that time and space are.
Of course, sometimes people are in your space. And sometimes people take up your time. Those same people, if they came without space and time and without their physical attributes, they would be easy for you. All that interferes with your love would fall away. All that interferes would not exist. You would become two souls meeting as One.
What are some of the things in the world that do irk you? Speeding cars. Litter on the streets. People talking with their mouths full or making slurping noises.
And so your senses come into play. Counting is with your fingers and your toes. Counting is touch. All the senses are beautiful. It is your mind that would make something else of them. The five senses are your great intermediaries in life, yet the mind takes over. Your mind tells you what is worth keeping and what is not, and, yet, as strong as your mind is, you sometimes escape it.
What is the missing factor? Some might say it is habit. Some might call it will.
You would like to be above anger, and yet you find yourself angry, perhaps time and time again. You cannot contain yourself. Yet is not anger willful? Is it will or lack of will that makes you help yourself to anger? What incurs your anger?
Does your mind actually make your choices for you? Does the heart? What makes you tick?
What does rule you, beloveds? What makes you swim in the dark. What makes you use a blindfold?
Whatever, come nearer to Me. Stay close to Me. In truth, Our hearts are One. Your thoughts, fostered by the world, pull you off track and unsettle Our arrangement. Let Our minds be One as well. Come closer to My way of thinking, for I earnestly seek you to see in new ways. Be open to My heart, and be open to My mind, for I would like you to be attuned to all that good and true. I speak of your inheritance. My heart and mind are for you.
The reality is that not even are My mind and heart separate, one from the other. Our One Heart and Mind embrace its One Self in the same manner that you and I, as One, embrace.

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