HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3364 The Leap from Illusion, February 9, 2010
God said:
Beloved Beloveds, your hearts sing to Me. I hear every heart and the longing of each heart. I know your aches and pains and your heartaches. I know all that troubles you, and I know all that brings you happiness. I know more about you than you know yourself. Most of all, I know all you are capable of, and that includes great happiness and power.
There is a tendency for you to think that you don't amount to much. Now is the time to get over that. You have illustrious power. You have the power of love. Now demonstrate it to yourself.
With every inch of love you give, your sense of self will grow. This sense of self is not ego. The higher your sense of your own self-worth grows, the less will ego be able to hang around. Ego attacks those whose sense of self-worth is not what it merits to be, and so ego finds great openings.
You don't see Me strutting around, trying to be important, adding this or that to make Me feel mighty. I feel as mighty as I AM. You may not feel the might of yourself. I say it again and again. All that I AM, are you also.
I know you see yourself as little you, and you see Me as big God somewhere else, perhaps in the sky. I do not exaggerate. I am certainly not exaggerating when I say all that I have, you have. All that I am, you are. You are an expression of Me. You are My masterpiece. I created your body from the dust of the Earth, and your soul came from My very love. You are not a foster child of Mine. You are of My very own soul.
I see clearly, and yet My heart does not ache. My vision is not obstructed. When it comes to seeing yourself, it is like you have your hand covering your eyes. You peek through your fingers every once in a while, but most of the time you are convinced that I speak in hyperbole. You must think I exaggerate, or you would know that what I say is true. I say only what is true.
I speak to you in a voice you can hear. I try every trick in the book to get you to see and to hear. You do see, and you do hear, yet only so far. Are you timid to embrace all that I say and make it your own?
You are My own creation, created from My very heart and soul. What more would you want? And yet that is not enough for you to take the leap over from illusion to reality. If you believed only 25% of what I say, you would be way ahead of where you are now. Oh, beloveds, you would leap over tall buildings.
It is perhaps ego that keeps you from making that jump from illusion to truth. Ego would trip you. Ego would make a play for your attention. Ego would bolster you up in some way, yet, My most beloved, in truth, you need no bolstering. You need no humbling either. Without ego, you would not hide behind yourself. You would step right up and proclaim yourself. You would say:
"I am the gift God gave to Himself and to me. What an amazing thing. I am of God's lineage. God has made me the heir to His fortune. I only have to claim it, not as My due, but as God's gift to Himself and the human being I know as myself. How can I not be grateful for my heritage? I belong to God, and He loves me. I am the most loved being on Earth. No one is more loved than I. No one is more capable of doing God's bidding than I. I will go forward with God. I will follow in His footsteps. This is what God's Will is for me."

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HEAVEN #3362 Angels Are Here, February 7, 2010
God said:
Hello, beloved Seekers of Me. You have Me, beloveds. You already have Me. You have all of Me. I am right inside you.
I do not stand on a pedestal. I am not far away. Nor must you stand on a pedestal. Angels do not stand on pedestals. Angels mingle with the mortals. And so do you, a human being on Earth. You give grace to those who have been lucky enough to meet you. Do you see what I mean?
What if you are an angel in disguise? What if you didn't know you were an angel? What if you did know that you are an angel? What would you do differently?
You do not need a sign that says Angel. Quite simply, you don't even have to know you are an angel to be an angel.
Angels are here on Earth and in Heaven to help others. That is the only reason. They are not here for themselves. They know better. You have not always known better. Angels sing a song to heighten the Earth, and so must you.
Look for those opportunities to grace the Earth. That's all you have to do. Look for the opportunities, and know they are yours. They are for you.
Beloveds, you are either gracing the world or not. When you smile, you grace the world. When you grumble, the world is not so graced. The world does not hold any grudges against you. It matters not what was yesterday. It matters what is today.
If you have been a person who litters the beautiful Earth with candy-wrappers, today you can be an angel who picks up candy-wrappers, leaving the Earth nice for the next person.
When you give consideration to the next person, you are gracing the Earth. When you look up at Me and feel a connection, you are gracing the Earth. When you offer your seat on the bus to another, you are gracing the Earth. When you do not honk your car horn in impatience, you are gracing the Earth.
You are a model for all others. Someone is copying you. Your life on Earth is saying to someone: "You can do it this way too." Whether you are an assassin, or a philanthropist, that is your message. You can be an assassin in business. You can be a cutthroat in any field of endeavor. You can also be an angel.
To be an angel does not mean that you neglect yourself. To be an angel means that you restore yourself to yourself.
You do not commit acts of kindness for recognition, acknowledgement, or praise. You are kind and considerate because I placed you on Earth for that purpose. Now I am reminding you, and now I ask you to be an angel on Earth. I ask you to perpetuate beauty and grace and love on Earth. You are perpetuating something. Let it be that you perpetuate what I ask of you.
It is not difficult to follow My Will. It is merciful. It is merciful for you as well for those you serve. You Who are angels are God serving God. It is a natural thing for you to be an angel on Earth.
You can earn your living on Earth and be an angel. You can be a politician and be an angel. You can be a clerk and be an angel. You can make it easy for others to see the angel in themselves. You can be the forerunner of the world. You can introduce the world to itself. You can be the prow of the ship of the world. You can be My ambassador to the world. I appointed you long ago.

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HEAVEN #3360 Desires Fulfilled, February 5, 2010

God said:
I am the simplest of all that exists. You may have thought that I was complex. No, beloveds, I am simple. Creating is a burst of light. I don't do much, you understand. In one sense, I do nothing at all. I just am, and light keeps shining.
I don't try. I will, and My Will is done. I desire, and My desire is fulfilled. You can say that I have an easy life.
I desired grape vines, and lo and behold, there were grapevines. The vines flowered and grew grapes. I didn't desire grapes for Myself. I don't eat grapes. I desired grapes for you who are, as it happens, Myself. .
You may wonder how I can have desired grapes for what is called you when you were not yet born. Beloveds, have you forgotten that you were conceived before you were born to Earth? We have the same birth date, if you will. Of course, I have no birth date. I am always. You are always. The concept of time had not yet made itself known.
You might ask Me what is the secret of My success. We could say that I ask the right questions, and I get the right answers.
You may find life on Earth, well, convenient or inconvenient. You use an inaccurate measuring stick, or you would desire and receive easily too. You have had some success with this. You do know what it is to have a desire and have it fulfilled so nicely, so smoothly.
If all is so easy for Me, why can't it be that easy for you, too?
There are some answers to this:
You are accustomed to seeing trouble, and so you foresee trouble. You are on the lookout for it. You embrace it. Some people hop, skip, and jump for the joy of trouble, as if pouncing on trouble is a splendid feat.
You can't really get a handle on the idea that you can create a scenario where your good wishes are all fulfilled. In other words, you may not accept even 5% of what is within your reach.
You may desire that which may not be good for you for the long haul.
You may use force and loudness rather than love and silence. Your dreams cannot be whipped to come true. You cannot rant and rave. You may say that I demand or command, but it's not like that. Easy does it.
You may think that you and I play a game of cat and mouse, and so your thoughts go to warding off danger or toward feeling victorious, perhaps feeling you are running ahead of Me and so are victorious.
Beloveds, please take no offense. Your ego may be as thick as tar. Ego may rule your life. Learn gratitude instead.
In one sense, you can say that I have patience, yet I have no need for patience. I exist where time does not. You might say that I am patient with you, that I wait and wait until you lift your eyes to Mine. In My land, there is no when. I know that you are coming to Me. I know your destination. I know that you will come to Me. I am ready for you now. Of course, I know you are with Me now, only you may be thinking you are waiting for Me.
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HEAVEN #3358 Let New Thinking Begin!, February 3, 2010

God said:

Let new thinking begin! If you are someone who thinks, try on new thoughts for size. What you are sure about, be less sure about. See what happens.

What I am saying to you is to be amenable to growing. How do you grow when you keep to old thoughts as though they were sacrosanct?

When was the last time you had a new thought? New thoughts are offered to you, and there is a tendency to block them.

That I AM may be a new thought for you. That I love you abundantly may be a new thought to you. That you can know Me as your very self may be a new thought to you.

What is so precious about old ways of thinking that you hold on so tight?

I am asking you to consider other thoughts.

Great literature can be read on many levels. Great literature exists on more than one level. Do you understand Me? There is the literal level. There is the metaphoric. There are levels within levels. Your thoughts can also be read on more than one level.

As your consciousness grows, you see from a greater height. So I am asking you to be open to new ways of thinking. I do not tell you to accept everything that comes before you. I suggest you be open. There could be a kernel of truth in a new thought, or there could not. I ask that you consider the possibility.

Once upon a time all the good people on Earth thought that the Earth was flat. No matter how well-endorsed, what was taken for truth did not tell the whole story. According to the logic in Columbus' day, it made sense to think the Earth was flat. It did not make sense to think it was round. What seems like sense to you may not be the way to determine truth. Logic can only go so far. Logic is limited, beloveds.

Do not be adamant about keeping the thinking you presently have. Do not close yourself off from thinking something you never thought before. It is okay to let go of old thinking. It is okay to embrace new thoughts. Open to the possibility that there is something new for you to think.

Because you thought one way once doesn't mean you can't think a new way today. You don't have to think a new way. Just be open to it.

It is a lovely thought that you can think one way today and think another way tomorrow. What a freeing thing!

Your thoughts do not have to be battened down, nailed to the wall, frozen in time, irrevocable. Your thoughts can bud like flowers. They can ripen like fruit.

As a human being on Earth, you do not know everything. When you do not know everything, you can grow. It is possible to learn new ways of weaving on a loom. It is possible to learn new ways of weaving hair. You can learn new ways of weaving life. You can learn new ways. You do not have to keep the old.

Truth is not a style. It is not fashion. The old truth may well be true and good to keep. And yet, you have new eyes to see, and you are entitled to see in a new light. Keep your eyes and ears open, beloveds. I put My trust in you as a growing being who also learns new ways of thinking, not every new thought that crosses the bounding main, but some, some thoughts that you may never have thought before.

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HEAVEN #3359 Love at the Speed of Light, February 4, 2010

God said:

There comes a time when your heart is so full it feels that it cannot get fuller. You are at a seeming standstill. You may bereave this, for it is so lovely to feel your heart grow fuller and fuller. Have you ever felt yourself at a plateau of loving?

You heart will grow again. More love will burst forth. And yet it is such a natural event, you may feel far away from the love that you give. You may grieve for the time when giving love was a spectacular event!

It's not that love becomes old hat. It's just that the contrast is less.

It's not that love isn't still delicious. We could say it's a little like a delicious pie. It is still delicious, only it isn't quite so delicious as the first bite.

As your ability to love grows beyond its reliance on events to cultivate it, there is more of an evenness to giving and receiving love. Perhaps it becomes a little like breathing. It goes on without your attention on it, yet when you think of it, what a remarkable act breathing is! It is customary for you to breathe. It is customary now for you to love.

Now your love does not have to be sparked. It is on automatic. You almost don't see the crevices that you fill with love. You just fill them in passing as it were, much the way you notice a flower on your way to work and breathe it in.

And yet, even so, you are still a beginner at love. We could compare it to dealing cards. You know how to deal cards very well, and yet your dealing out of cards is not yet at the speed of light, for some can deal cards almost faster than you can see.

Your commitment to give love has been made, and there is more love to come. There is such a flow of love that is ready to burst forth from you. You are well on your way to becoming a Vesuvius of Love. You are well on your way to becoming a Statue of Liberty of Love who greets every newcomer to the shores of My heart. They think it is your love. You may even think it is your love. No problem. If I cannot make My love yours, who can?

You are well on your way to becoming a troubadour of love, a town crier of love, an oasis of love, a tower of love, a farmer of love. You who are love are gaining the momentum of love. It is not a hobby of love, but a career of love, a Ph.D. candidate of love. From an acorn of love, a mighty oak grows.

You are flowering in My love. Feel that love flowering from you. Feel it taking over the garden of your heart. Love grows like weeds, taking over everything, every act of yours, every word, every beat of your heart.

No longer can you escape your role in the game of life. You are a hardy soldier of love. You who are love now choose to be love in all its form. You choose to be the creator of love on Earth, the strewer of it, the simple giver of it as if there were nothing else to give and nothing else to do.

You wear an invisible T-shirt that says: "I am God's love." This is you, beloved, the purveyor of My love.

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HEAVEN #3357 Picture Our Love, February 2, 2010
God said:
Welcome to a world of love. This love resides in you. You are a fountain of love. Your love mists everywhere, and your love rises to Heaven.
Whatever you do with your love, it rises to Heaven. Love rises. When you think of casting love on the world, you may think of yourself in a position of throwing your love beneath you, or strewing it out on top of the earth as you would strew seeds of wheat.
In your mind, now picture tossing your love up, tossing it as high as you can. The higher you toss your love, the wider span your love will reach, further than the soil you cast your love on, further than the people who walk on the land, further than your eye can see. Loving the world is more than loving the planet, beloveds. Simply love, and love will rise from you. It will reach the Highest Heaven, and then your love will mist down and cover the world with the radiance of your love. Will you picture love radiating from you?
You are a radiator of love. Picture the rays of your love emanating out as if from a heater you plug in. The rays of love go further and further until the whole Universe is warmed by your love.
Do you picture how loves goes out, and how love comes in?
It is the most natural thing.
Your love reaches the rays of My love, and love becomes mightier and mightier.
We could say that you send out a dollar amount of love. When your exuded love reaches Heaven, one dollar becomes a million.
It is like, in loving the world, you give it a small bouquet of lilacs. My love added makes your bouquet enormous, a hundred times bigger, maybe thousands, millions, billions.
You may have asked many things of Me over the years. Now ask Me to add to the bouquet of love that emanates from you. Have you ever asked for this before?
Now it is no longer a question of asking Me for love or even begging for love to reach you. Now it is a question of your love reaching far, reaching to Me, and therefore to the whole world.
Say: "God, may the whole world receive my love. Even if I am only able to send a little shoot of love, I know you will magnify it for me.
"I know you will double and triple the love I send. If I send one candle of love, you will turn it into a thousand or more candles of love.
"I know that when my love reaches You, dear God, it is purified in the light of Your love. You light a match to my love, and my love becomes magnanimous and reaches everywhere. Even a little bit of my love looms large when You see it.
"So, God, may I always make it easy for You to see my love and to make it bright. For this, I thank you, and keep You lit in my heart."
Picture your love now. Picture how you ladle it out. Picture how your love rises. Picture how I blow on it and scatter it out to the world that is waiting for your love. Picture how your love is received. Picture how the world lifts its head. Picture the world's love rising to Me. Picture the world's love coming back to you as pure, as My pure love entering your heart, so that the love you give and give is ever new. Picture Our love.
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EAVEN #3356 A New Refrain, February 1, 2010
God said:
In life, you are like a silhouette of Who you are. The finite edges of the picture you see of yourself may be clear, yet you see not the center of yourself. You would like to believe that you are more than the eye can see, and yet you can't see your splendor. You climb up a hill, carrying heavy luggage, and wonder why your feet drag and your climb is slow.
Put down your luggage. You will run up the mountain side like a gazelle when you drop your luggage.
By luggage, of course, I mean the past. Must the past be so influential in your life? Must you carry it around with you? Must you drag it around as if you were chained to it?
The past has its limitations, beloveds, and yet you carry these limitations around with you. This does not weight life in your favor.
If the past were food, you would digest it and be ready for another meal later. However, in the case of the past, you regurgitate it. Or the past sticks in your craw.
Even if you had the most wonderful past, it's necessary to let go of it, for there is evolution waiting for you. Better moments are yet to come. You don't want to spend all of your life in kindergarten. You want to be promoted to a higher grade each year. Give yourself permission to step out of the past. No matter how harrowing or nurturing the past has been, step into new shoes today.
Be born anew. Let's have a new play on the stage of life today.
Looking backwards froze Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. We could say she was frozen in time. She froze herself, you understand. It was not sleight of hand on My part. To be frozen in time isn't what I desire for you. Step forward. Step lively. Be light of foot, beloveds. Enter Eternity.
Free yourself from the past once and for all. This is another way of saying to go higher. The past, even the most wonderful past, is not up to date. It is not even up to par. The past has outlived its usefulness. You are to skip out of the past, the long-distant past as well as a moment ago,
For how long do you eat reheated food before you say enough and decide to cook something new? Why would you apply reins to your life? Why would you harness your present to the past? Why perpetuate the past? The past is an old bathrobe. It's time to throw it away.
Even if in your childhood you had trauma, even if you were beaten, even if you were tied up in a tiny basement room, why would you imprison yourself now in recriminating thoughts of your childhood? Now is the moment to give yourself another chance.
Does not the sun rise anew every day? Let your life rise with the sun.
Salute a new life beginning right now. Make room for it. Whatever has been, you are to author a new script now.
If you had a broken record on your victrola, you would stop playing it. And yet, stuck in the past, you play your old life over and over again. Come, choose a new record, and play that. Play it once, beloveds. Fill up with a new choice of what your life is to be. There is a new refrain for you to learn and then to let go of.
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God said:
Are you perhaps waiting for Me to lift you? Indeed, I will lift you. I will move you to new heights. You may be looking for a sign from Me. Beloveds, I am looking for a sign from you!
It is not that I am waiting for you to pray to Me. I am looking not for words, not for longing, not for supplication. You may be looking for Me to provide for you. I am looking for you to take steps.
You live in a world of action, and there is action for you to take, even if a tiny step.
Certainly, I can send you manna from Heaven. The thing is I do. I have a feast prepared for you, yet it is for you to come to My dining-room.
The three little pigs set out to find their fortune. I am asking you to set out. It is not on My behalf that I ask this of you. It is on your behalf that I ask. At the same time, it is My happiness that you eat at My table.
Do not play a waiting game. If you want to dance, you don't have to ask Me for help. You just get up and dance. Children, it's unlikely that I will grab you under your arms and pull you out to the dance floor.
If you want a car, it's a good idea to look at cars. Even if you are not immediately ready to buy a car, it is still good for you to look at cars. That is a step.
And if you are looking for a good husband or wife, it is better that you don't leave it all to Me.
Of course, I could have the right person come right up to your door and knock. This has happened. I can do anything, yet it's not certain that I will serve you your mate on a tray.
I can be relied on. I am the One you can rely on. Yet I am relying on you to take steps.
If you were hungry, you would not stay in your house waiting for food to be delivered to you. It could well happen that someone would drop by with a meal for you. It is possible, but do you think I would advise you to sit and wait for a meal to arrive? It is better that you get up and go the store, or perhaps there is a garden in your back yard and you pull up a carrot.
When you have dreams and desires that mean something to you, it's a good idea to get up and meet them at least half way.
It's true that a fortune in gold could descend on you from Heaven, and yet you increase the odds of finding gold by getting up and mining for it. You do not want to sit and wait for a handout from Me.
You might say, "Dear God, what if I dig and dig and don't find gold? God, maybe I already have been digging for gold and not finding it. To what avail shall I keep trying?"
There are many answers to this. Maybe tomorrow, you will find a vein of gold. Maybe you won't. Or maybe you will the next day. Or maybe you have been trying too hard. Maybe you held on so tight that you have kept the gold mine away. Or maybe your desire for wealth is short-changing yourself. Or maybe you desire for the wrong reasons.
You may say, "God, someone else desires gold, and it is greed that motivates him, and still he gets what he wants. Someone else may desire gold for the wrong reasons, and he gets it. Why not me?"
Of course, it is better if you do not compare lives.
It could even be the best thing in the world for you that you don't find a treasure of gold. Perhaps there is something else for you to find.
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HEAVEN #3353 And the Sun Came Out, January 29, 2010
God said:
The theme of opposites runs through your life. You have happiness and unhappiness. You have confidence, and you have fear. You have gain, and you have loss.
What is this power you give to whatever opposite there is that disturbs you. Ten wonderful things happen in a morning, and then there is one inharmonious incident, and your morning is ruined. The incident may plague you all morning or all day, maybe even for a week. I wonder why you would allow one incident to take precedence over all the loveliness? It is simple mathematics, beloveds.
Back to My question, why does the negative take such a big chunk out of your life? Certainly ten to one is good odds, so why do you let one incident disrupt your happiness?
If you had ten dollars in your pocket, and you lost one dollar, you would still have nine dollars, and you would be glad for that. You wouldn't spend all day moaning about that one dollar. Or you might if that were your last ten dollars. Even so, what good would that do you who so wants good in your life?
So I come back to My question, why does one inharmonious incident in life seemingly weigh so heavily on you? Well, never mind, why. Rather, let Me ask you what can you do so that an unhappy incident doesn't run off with your happiness?
You already know the answer. I have said it at least ten times. Never mind the one unpleasant incident. Focus on the nine respectable ones. Is it habit that you don't already? Habits can be changed. Habits of thinking can be changed. Your life can be changed.
So, beloveds, get on the wagon of focusing on the good stuff, and get off the wagon of focusing on that which is not happy for you. Write off the distaff. Shrug your shoulders. Let go of thinking how faulty someone else was or you were or about what you could have done better if only you had thought. Beloveds, desist from thinking so much.
And if you must think, think of all the lovely things that lifted your heart in the past hour. You got up. You walked downstairs. You ate today. You received a fine email or two. You went outside. You caught a bus or a train or drove your car. There were no accidents on the way. You got to work on time. Someone smiled at you. You got some work done. Lunchtime came, and you ate again. More people smiled at you. And the sun came out.
Be good to your heart. Give it its true calling which is to be delighted for all the blessings you receive, big and small. And don't take to heart whatever you don't see as a blessing.
Do you choose moseying along, or do you choose a traffic jam in your heart? Attention on what is negative to you is not the best use of your time nor is it the best use of your heart nor is it the best use of your life, your life, beloveds, this life I give to you to do as you will and as I will.
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HEAVEN #3351 Go with God, January 27, 2010
God said:
Seasons change, and you change, and yet there is a magnificence in you that stays the same through the seasons. Seasons have their essence, and you have yours.
You are not startled when the seasons change. You know the world is moseying along just the same. And you are too. Whether there are winds or rain or snow or hot sun, you keep your essence, and yet you grow. You grow every day. You grow in matters of the world, and you grow to Me.
Whatever details in the world that you may be involved in, no matter how engrossed in them you may be, you are growing to Me. The path you are on leads to Me. No matter what detours you may take, you are on your way to Me. You cannot escape your destination. I am your destination. Your destiny is assured.
You have safe passage, beloveds. No matter what gauntlet you pass, no matter the ravages, you have safe passage. With fear or without fear, your passage is safe. No matter what the events, you are intact. You are invincible.
I fashioned you, I did not make you out of cardboard. I did not make you throw-away, I did not make you temporary. I made you Mine without any exception. There is no death, so I ask you, beloveds, why you are afraid of death? Go with God, or go with fear.
You may say you go with Me, and still you have fear.
I understand, beloveds, that shadows of fear and death follow you. Nevertheless, if there is no death, why are you afraid to jump out of the plane? I tell you that you have a parachute, and you will not fall. If you must persist in the idea of falling, then know I will catch you. I will tell you that I will catch you even though I have caught you all along. Safe in My arms are you. It has never been otherwise.
The reality is that you are already lifted high. You are infinitely high, and yet I lift you higher. Every time you bounce, I pick you up and raise you higher. I pick you up, yet you were never dropped. You never fell. You never hit rock-bottom.
Whatever terrors you deal with, they have no basis.
I hear you screaming: "What, no basis? What if You had bill collectors, God? What if You missed a payment? What if Your wife left You and took the children? What if You had an illness. God, death is the least of it. It is the times after birth and before death of the body that are hard. Do you really expect Me to be laissez-faire when the wolf is knocking at my door?"
Beloved, I do understand that wolves chase you, and dragons chase you. I am telling you that even if a dragon reaches you and devours you, you survive it. Perhaps this dragon is to thank for tossing your awareness squarely to Me.
The real dragon, of course, is your fear. You have been caught up in the dragon's claws of fear.
The wolf at your door is a false belief. No matter if the wolf blows your house down, you are safe with Me. The wolf and the dragon loom large in your mind. They occupy your thoughts. They wreak havoc in your heart.
I am telling you that everything is all right, and you are saying that the wolf and dragon known as fear are mightier than I am! How absurd. Turn your back on the wild animals that have captured your attention and look at Me. I am speaking to you.
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HEAVEN #3350 Sterling Peace in Your Heart, January 26, 2010
God said:
My beloved wonder of the world, your heart speaks to Mine. Your heart speaks of beauty and love. Your heart serves beauty and love alone. Love and beauty are what your heart is meant for. It is not that your heart needs more pumping. It needs a clearing, a clearing-out of debris, and then your heart will be clear, and you will have full use of your heart unobstructed.
Those lesser items seemingly in your heart are invaders who are merely crossing the land of your heart. They are not going to stay there. Give them their exit visas today. Pass these visas out to all the lesser emotions who are merely passing through.
Goodbye, anger. Toodle-loo, spite, fear, envy, sloth and whatever else you may have allowed to enter the estate of your heart. What belongs in your heart belongs. What doesn't belong doesn't belong.
The weak-kneed items ravaging your heart are wayfarers, that's all. They cannot stay there. They cannot stay there because they have no place there. Wish them well, and send them on their way. Push them over the cliff of your heart and let them fall away. They won't get hurt. They are just residue anyway. Mop your heart, and items like anguish will be mopped up.
Oh, My beloveds, if you would only put as much attention on clearing out your heart as you do on other things, how happy your heart would be.
How did those unwanted items get into your heart anyway? They sneaked in a little at a time. And now your heart sometimes feels overrun with them, or always feels overrun with them. They are like spiders who crawl in any way they can. Good person that you are, not knowing what else to do, you let them stay. You even let them invite in their buddies and so infiltrate your heart that was made only for beauty and love.
So, now the intruders' party is over. They are on their way out now. They are not wanted, and they can't stay. You don't want them, do you? Put them outside. Give them a good send-off, if you like, but the point is that they are leaving. What is not wanted is not wanted and will leave. Make no bones about it. You have to tell them to leave.
Picture picking up all those angry little spiders, the crawling worms of despair, trembling fear and anxiety, crotchety resentment, slivers of envy and jealousy. Pick them up one by one and place them in a little box, and toss the box into the trash. "Out, trash. Out, invaders of my heart. Out, out, out. Begone."
And now, instead of turbulence, there is sterling peace in your heart. Now your heart is fully aware of the beauty it is surrounded with and the love it is filled with. There is a peaceful stream now. Silver light sparkles on the stream as it flows and flows and flows, crossing streets, mountains, oceans, galaxies. Unending is the flow of your heart now that that smallness in all its forms has left its premises. How wide and tall your heart is now. How soft. How flexible. How easily it flows. Feel the flow of your heart as it makes it way into every other heart. Your heart is brilliant now. How it shines. How you enjoy your heart now. How hospitable your heart is. All can come in, all except those pesky intruders. They know better than to cross the threshold of your heart now. Only love and beauty can come in and stay and venture forth to seek their fortune with you.
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HEAVEN #3349 Woven in Many Hues, January 25, 2010
God said:
There is not one thread of life that is not connected to another. Not one. All is interconnected. A thread is woven and unseen. It may take a year or ten or a thousand before that thread is seen again. There are no dropped stitches in life. A seed planted years ago will sprout and spread new seeds of itself. A remarkable quilt is being woven, ever continuing, never-ending.
There is not one call that is not answered. There are many calls that have been answered and the answer unheard and the answer unseen. A callback will crop up again in one way or another until the weaving is seen and so progress is made.
There is not one connection that is left unconnected.
All threads are picked up.
Once noted, the thread can be knotted. That thread can reach its conclusion. The quilt it is a part of continues. New threads are started, and new connections are made, yet the old ones remain with the quilt. Their presence is there, yet that thread is done. It keeps to itself now. It lies in the snow, content to lie there. It has served its purpose.
The jaws of life finish with many threads. They are bitten off, and a knot is tied. This happens many times.
Although you may be old, your childhood isn't finished until the thread is cut. You may think that your childhood has created you. Do you forget that I did?
The woven quilt appears all at once. It was woven in stitches, and yet it is all of one piece today. The quilt is unfinished, and yet each day it is completed. That row is over, and now begins a new day and new colors and new stitches and a new winding.
The quilt is huge now. You can cover yourself with it, but only with a part of it, any part you want. You can lie under the color you like. You can pick and choose. You can lie under blue for the sky, or you can lie under blue for the sea, or a blue silk dress you once had. You can have pistachio ice cream for green.
You can lie on top of the quilt if you like. You can fold it up and put it away if you like, and yet the quilt continues being woven. It cannot stop. It will burst from the closet. It is like yeast.
You are a stitch in this quilt, and you are the knitter of it. The knitting needles move under your fingers or not. You can drop the needles, but not the stitches. The quilt project is ongoing.
There is a quilting bee, for everyone joins in. You cannot leave the quilting bee.
This communal quilt grows in every direction. It reaches everywhere. It reaches the galaxies known and unknown. It reaches the bottom of the sea and inside the Earth. There is nowhere this communal quilt does not reach. When you look at this quilt, when you really look at it, you are amazed.
You may have been looking at one corner of the quilt, and now you look up and are dazzled by all of it, the lengths it goes to, the plushness of it, the shades and shapes of stitches going in and out and each one connected to every other and not one stitch dropped.
Can you find the stitches of this quilt that you have woven? Can you find them? It doesn't matter. They are there, and other stitches will be built upon them. Each generation is represented, and each generation is united with all. This is Eternity, beloveds, always itself, and yet beautifully woven in many hues.
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HEAVEN #3347 How about a Smile?, January 23, 2010
God said:
Be of good cheer. Why not? What does it cost? It costs no more to smile than it does to frown. As a matter of fact, it costs less to smile, and you get a better return. In terms of economy alone, it pays to be of good cheer.
When you reflect light, you get light back. When you reflect darkness, you get darkness back. Besides, when you smile, you will like how you look in the mirror more. You might even smile back at yourself. Better to have smile lines than frown lines. A great beauty secret is that you will have fewer wrinkles when you smile.
Furthermore, I would suggest that when you feel like frowning, let go of it. The only merit in frowning is that it points you to smiling. When you're in a pit, quite naturally climb out of the pit. Do it now.
Furthermore, I would like to suggest that when you smile, you mean it. I know you would like to reflect sunlight. That's all you have to do to ensure that you are in the sunlight. Why wouldn't you be glad to smile?
Perhaps there is a person you don't favor, and you don't feel it's in your heart to smile at this person, so consider then that you are smiling for yourself. Make yourself feel favored. Of course, it is something of yourself that you are seeing in this person that you don't like. Remove the splinter from your own eyes, beloveds.
Were you completely at ease with yourself, you wouldn't feel so discontent with others. You wouldn't feel a voiced or unvoiced tirade coming on. Content with yourself, why would you be discontented with someone else? Although it is good to put less attention on yourself, you are nevertheless the heart of the matter. Whatever the matter is, it is about you.
So what are you going to do about yourself? You would do anything to be away from difficulties if only you knew how. I suggest you begin with taking some responsibility. Maybe the other party is all wrong. He or she is not seeing you clearly. Nevertheless, it is up to you to see the other person clearly. You may truly be faultless. Nevertheless, you are responsible for how you perceive and how you respond.
You know that in a little time you will cool down about whatever incites you now. In whatever dispassionate way you will later calm down and see a situation differently, see it that way now.
Sometimes you are embarrassed to remember how you once reacted, is this not true? It's possible that the situate you are irate about this moment is really the same as the one you now remember with embarrassment.
I am asking you to make progress. I am asking you to move up a notch or two. Am I asking too much of you? How could that be?
Meanwhile, as part of your training, if you are sorry, say so. And if you no longer know how to reach this person, apologize to them in your heart anyway. Or perhaps write a letter. Even if you cannot send the letter, you will have written it, and you will be done with that chapter of the past. You will feel better, and your apology may somehow reach the person it is meant for. It most assuredly will. No matter the geography or time, your apology will reach, just as, once upon a time, your anger reached. All your thoughts reach. Reach higher now.

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HEAVEN #3346 A Play Played by Players, January 22, 2010
God said:
How beautiful is life with Me. Think of it. You are on Earth. You are on Earth created by a God of Love. The Earth turns, and you twirl on it. You have much experience, and you make much of it. You appear to experience, yet the you of you is Being, not experiencing. You can observe your life in the way you watch a show on Broadway. You enter into the play, you laugh, you weep, and then you walk out of the theatre. You had your gig with drama or comedy, and you leave the theatre and you walk home having watched the experiences of a cast of characters.
At the theatre, you know you are watching a play. You may be touched by the play, yet you are sitting in a theatre watching what is on stage. This is what to do with what you call real life, beloveds. Watch it. Observe it. It is all theatre, and when a scene is finished, don’t develop it further. You don’t try to rewrite the script. You don’t belabor it. You don’t chase someone who is off-stage. You don’t write speeches. You simply watch and then you exit. Tomorrow there will be another play that you watch close-up, yet you can watch it as if from a distance. Even when you are the main character on stage, you can observe. It is just a play. It is an enactment. It is not fatal.
And when the play ends, and you die, even death is not fatal. Death is not real at all. It repeats itself again and again until all those you know have preceded you or followed you, and nobody you know is left.
It is as if each play is like a change of seasons. One follows the other. And actors play one part or another. And it is all the same. No matter how varied the drama, the stories are the same. All the gambits are covered. All the emotions are emoted. All the tears are shed, the questions asked, the questions answered or unanswered, and heads nod, and people walk across the stage.
You can consider the world a cradle that holds you. You can hear lullabies or people arguing. You can hear and see any manner of things. This is a world that turns, and you twirl on it, round and round, back and forth, upstairs and downstairs, opening and closing windows, washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, getting to bed or getting up. There are cycles in life, and you ride them, beloveds, and come out the other end.
Sometimes you don’t grasp what the play is about, and you struggle with that. Nevertheless, the scene ends, and another scene begins.
You are an actor, beloved. And so you watch yourself acting. You play the ingénue, and you play the villain. You play the innocent and the guilty. You play the judge, and you play the jury. Endless are the roles you play. No matter how sincere you may be, you are nevertheless an actor on stage, and you say your lines, rehearsed or not. Sometimes you trip over a rug. Sometimes you are superb in your role, and sometimes you forget your lines.
The thing to do is to forget yourself as the star of the play. Even if you are the main character, you don’t take your scenes too seriously. It is, after all, only a play, and you are a performer in the play. A play may be a great success, and yet it is only a play, and one day it is over, forgotten, and done with.
What has happened? Nothing has happened. Only a play was played by players
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HEAVEN #3343 Take God With You, January 19, 2010
God said:
Set your direction to Me. You are on your way anyway, but once your direction is set, you are on your way with elation, on your way to complete realization of God with a spring in your heart. I am your automatic pilot. Nevertheless, I rely on you. While you are still on Earth, you can have full awareness that you know Me very well. After all, beloveds, We have been together forever, since the beginning of time, since before the beginning of time. Of course, there is no beginning, and there is no time. It can only be your awareness that begins to dawn.
We know each other very well. We are so intimate, you do not see. You dance to and fro. You have been well-practiced at playing Dodgem with Me. You can't win. That is, you can only win Me, beloveds.
We are meeting right now. We never stop meeting. Along the way, I suggest you do not beg Me, yet ask Me to serve you, not as a favor, not as if you are subordinate but rather as My dear companion. What shall you ask Me? Ask Me for your awareness to take hold. Ask Me to help you to see. Ask Me for the clarity to see. We already know you are coming to Me in terms of your awareness, so tell Me in steps how I can help you. These steps, of course, are steps you will take. By asking, you set your foot on the next high step, and you progress. You will progress with or without asking. Your destination is assured. In asking Me, it is like you put a post-it note up for yourself to see.
Ask Me for energy in your daily life. Ask Me to give you wisdom. Ask Me to heal your heart. Ask Me to help you pour out love. Ask Me what you want in your desire to come to Me, and then get moving as if you already have it, for you do! Enough of waiting for Me. I have been waiting for you!
Already established in My heart, you are nevertheless traveling to Me. Put your hat on, pack your bags, come outside, and gravitate toward Me. I will pull you like a magnet.
You now know which path you are walking on. You can take a short-cut. The short-cut is your attention on where you are going. It takes so little to escalate your seeming journey to Me. Just a little awareness of what you want. Even blindly, you will hasten to Me. Here I AM with My arms wide open. You are already here with Me, and still I greet you. Still I say, "Welcome." I say it now. Welcome. Welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven. Welcome to the Heart of Love. Welcome to where you have always been.
You are My own true beloved. You are like the master of My heart. I am omniscient and all that, yet I take My cues from you. That is how I can say that you are the master of My heart.
I have the eyes to see and the heart to hear. No longer do I want to hear you moaning, beloveds. Step right up to Me and let go of your dependency on restrictive questions you seem to continue to ask Me. I am your True Love, and you are meeting with Me now.
We are walking hand in hand at this moment. I ask you to help Me. You are My helper. Arms entwined, I ask you to make My path easier. Lead the way, My beloveds. Show Me the way to go home. Take Me with you.
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HEAVEN #3344 Understanding Is Generosity, January 20, 2010
God said:
I love questions from your heart. I love it when you tell Me what's going on with you, what you are feeling, what is important to you, what you are loving and want more of. The intellectual questions are what they are, and yet they are not so revealing of you. They may be a cover-up. In any case, they are a stop-gap, beloveds. They delay your give and take with Me. Your questions of the intellect are like an intermission. They are very intelligent, and yet in intelligence is not where the real meat of life lies.
I sit in your heart as if I were on a swing. I go up and down with you. You take Me to great heights with you, and then you show me the doldrums. Your heart vibrates. Your heart has a primal call.
Your intellect is more like an add-on. It is a clever sort, yet your intellect loves to see itself running from tundra to tundra. Your heart, however, likes to be focused on the giving and receiving of love. Your heart isn't happy without both giving and receiving, not that your heart spends any time pondering on the receiving. Your heart knows that giving suits you just fine. Your heart doesn't really quite know the difference between giving and receiving. Your heart looks at love and not at any particular direction love goes in. It is the turning over of love that captivates your heart. From a camera shot of an exchange of love, a gift of love from one to another, the photo doesn't show who is the giver of the love and who is the receiver of the love. Impossible to tell. There are smiles on both faces.
From a camera shot, all we know that love is being exchanged. Of course, I don't have My picture taken. I don't ask to have My love returned to Me. I am so immersed in love I bring that up only to the degree that giving love serves you more than receiving love serves you, serves you more than coveting love, serves you more than hunting for love or demanding it.
Love has no questions. Love is not a reporter asking who, where, why, when, what, how much, how little. Love dives in and asks only to dive, meaning only to love.
You like someone to be generous to you because it tells you that you are loved. You like someone to be kind to you because it shows that you are loved. You have coveted love and you have coveted proof that you are loved. Now covet the giving of love, and give love generously. Give love because you are generous as I am generous.
No longer count love and return only an equal amount. Be generous regardless of how much love someone else spends on you. Give where generosity is not expected. Expect generosity of yourself and expect not from anyone else. If someone has to repay your generosity, how generous have you been?
Give kindness not in equal measure. Give kindness because you like kindness so much, you experiment in being kind. Not for a reward, beloveds. Your reward is in your ability to give kindness, not as a rich man to a poor man but as one who knows only kindness and so is being kind and rewards himself and Me. A poor man is kind to you in his acceptance of your gift.
You give because you want to give. Give that which you especially want. You want someone to be generous to you? Then you are generous in spirit to all who cross your path. How generous it is to be understanding.
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HEAVEN #3342 This Fine Morning, January 18, 2010

God said:

When there is turmoil in your heart, turn to Me. I am here. I am here for you. Look up at Me, and feel My love. Is there anything better than My love? You may be focused more on other things.

You have an alternative, beloveds. Switch your awareness to Me and away from your troubles. You may well have been doing the reverse. There is more to life than troubles and worries and haste and waste.

Sometimes it seems that having troubles has become a way of life in the world. "What is wrong today?" you often ask yourself. "What problems do I face? How am I doing in the face of all my worries? What is to become of me?" What a sad song for you to sing, beloveds.

Here, I give you some new lyrics to sing in the morning: "What is right today? Is it daybreak? Do my legs work and get me out of bed? Do I have a bed? Am I awake? What will I have for breakfast this fine morning?"

Thoughts are reversible. Your thoughts are reversible. It is like remembering to wear the other side of a reversible coat that has a beautiful lining. When your thoughts are ungainly, reverse the lining of your thoughts. There is another color of the coat that is better for you. Much more flattering. Talk yourself into reversing your thoughts, and see what happens to your day.

Take Me with you in your thoughts. If you sit on a bus or train and it is tiresome as you go to work, have the idea that I sit beside you. Or, if you drive your car to work, have Me on the passenger seat. How much will traffic jams bother you then when you know I am right beside you? And if you walk to work, walk with Me. I'll stay by your side.

All this sounds so obvious, so simple, yet how often in the heat of the moment have you forgotten to remember that I am right with you? I do not want to count the times you have thought I was at a distance nor do I want to think how often you have not thought of Me at all.

If you were a bookkeeper, you would have two columns, one called Asset, and another called Debit. Of course, it is the asset column you want to fill up.

In life, it seems like you have two columns. One is called Ordinary or Regular Life, and this column is filled to the brim. There is another column called God Loves Me. Now, let this column take precedence. Fill it up. Keep writing in your heart: "God loves me."

Think of it! I love you. I can't help loving you. I cannot do anything else but love you. I am a prisoner of love, and, oh, how freeing that is. I love without cease, and it is you I love. I love you. Will you please get that through your head? And then fill your heart with the thought of it: "God loves you."

I love you every day of the week. I love you every hour, every minute, every second. I love you without fail. I have always loved you. I will always love you. Whatever your deeds, I love you. I do not cast My eye on your deeds. I cast My eye on you, and, oh, the loveliness I see. Oh, the loveliness you are.

Your soul visits with Me, and We are happy. Now, come, with your thoughts. Visit Me, and stay with Me.


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God said:

There are two journeys. There is the embarkation you

are on in the world where you seek self-understanding

and the growing up of your individual personality.

Intermingled is the journey of your soul, your soul that

stays with you and with Me. Your soul stays with you

through thick and thin, just as I am with you and never

without you. Your soul is wiser than you. You

understand that. You don't know what you are doing

half the time, and yet your soul is merry on its

adventure. Your soul is reliable. Do not believe these

stories that you can lose your soul. You might as well

try to lose Me.

Your individuality can try to evade your soul, yet it can

never succeed.

With all that being said, let's talk about your individual

life on Earth. It only seems to you that it is your

individual life on Earth. In truth, it is a group journey. All

sail on the same ship. All are connected and

coordinated like oars on a ship of old. Your hearts

connect you. There is not one heart that is not

connected to yours. There is not one heart that your

heart is not connected to. Those you love and those

you don't love are connected the same. You are not

chained, beloveds, yet you are connected.

Much of your journey on Earth is pure fantasy. Maybe

once in a while, you lift your head up and see Truth.

Most of the time you are taking part in a play. You enact

a story. You are caught up in a story, and you are in an

excited state. Here is where fears take hold. Fears get

their claws on you and feel real. Fears feel more real

than the Real.

I want to say that when you are happy, you are in Truth,

yet you may have a different definition of happiness

from Mine. Of course, you are happy when a big check

arrives in the mail. The happiness I speak of is more

like an underground stream whose murmur you hear.

This murmur is not exactly exultation. It is a murmur of

Truth that runs through you. Just as you are sometimes

exposed to the elements in the world, you are exposed

to the elements of True Life.

It is raining outside, and you get wet. When you are

exposed to the elements of the underlying Truth, when

you have even the slightest awareness of the stream of

Truth that underlies all, there is a sense of peace, a

sense of happiness, yet it is very quiet. Only a murmur,

and yet this murmur is enough. This murmur is so quiet

it can almost elude you. It is always there, and yet it

eludes you quite a bit. It is like a secret garden within

you, and yet you can go there at any time. You can go

there right now. Perhaps you are there right now as you

absorb My words. We can call My words a murmur of

this stream. Do you hear it now? Do you hear the beat of

My heart as it calls your name? Sometimes you may

hear My call as a pounding, as if I bang a gong of love.

You can hear it near or far. Whether you hear it or not,

or how loudly or softly you hear, My heart is beating in

yours, and that is the call of love that you hear even if

ever so faintly.

Listen well so that you may hear. Often you have asked

Me to listen to you. Now I ask you to hear Me calling to

you in your heart where I dwell.
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HEAVEN #3340 If Love Were in Your Shoes, January 16, 2010

God said:

The triumph of your life is in giving. It is in nothing else. In giving is the essence of love. I do not mean protestations of love. I mean love silent and generous. I mean love from your heart radiating like rays from the sun.

I mean for you to be the lover of the Universe and all that it contains. I ask you to not skimp on love. I ask you to give all your love. How can a heart of love such as yours ever spit fire or hurt or revenge or any pinch of those lesser cramped feelings.

Such feelings can only come from misunderstanding or from a lack of understanding. When you are angry, what have you not understood or misunderstood? I swear to you, despite all the reasons you list, no matter how many, how righteous you are, how put upon you are, your anger is self-inflicted. Ego sees many reasons to take affront, yet you are not ego. You are love. If love were in your shoes, what would love see, and what would love say?

Ego does not make you happy. You know that. Ego squelches your heart of love. It puts your love in a narrow channel, and steps on it there.

Is it not possible for you to choose love over ego? Ego chooses you. We know that. And yet I tell you time and time again that you are love. If you are love, that precludes ego's having a hold over you. It must be that you think you are ego more than you think you are love, or ego would be gone or at least miserably diminished. Let your ego be miserable and raise yourself to the heights of love.

There are those who tell you to love ego. I say to be dispassionate about ego. You have been its prisoner, and now you get away from it. It's not necessary for you to love ego nor is it necessary for you to despise it. Ego is something that offered itself to you with all its bluster and promises of protecting you. Of course, ego trips you instead. Ego agitates you. Ego arms you. And yet you are the chooser or loser of ego. Ego can do as ego does, and love can do as love does.

Do you forget that you are love? You are not a modicum of love. You are love entire. There are no heights of love that you cannot rise to. There is no depth that ego cannot take you to, probably has taken you to. Ego is a great deceiver. He exudes his charm with one hand and stabs you in the gut with the other.

Perhaps you have taken ego to heart. Perhaps you have felt you are to administer to it. I would suggest that you pay as much attention to ego as you do to a fly. Swat it when it gets in your face. Otherwise, don't think about it. Let it go. Let thoughts of ego go. You don't belong to ego, and ego doesn't belong to you. Ego has to depend on you, but you don't have to depend on ego. If you have had a co-dependent relationship with ego, end it now. You have had it long enough.

Ego will sweet-talk you, but you don't have to sweet-talk ego. You don't have to tiptoe around it. You don't have to stand for it. When ego no longer takes you over, you will save your energy and use it to be the love you are. That's so much better than fussing around with all the ire and defense that ego wants you to have. Be egoless. Understand more. Be smart.


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HEAVEN #3336 Share Your Hearts, Beloveds, January 12, 2010

God said:

Hold onto nothing. Let everything go. Nothing belongs to you. Not even yourself. You do not own. Ownership is an illusion.

There is merit in saying that you own the sky. You own the stars. You own the planets. They are yours. They are also everyone's. Otherwise, beloveds, what do you own?

Owning is a game. Objects go back and forth. You own a house. The next moment you sell it. Someone else owns it. What can the meaning of owning be?

You do not really own your body. It is here and there for a while. It carries you, yet it is a supposition that there is anywhere for your body to take you.

You like to think you own your mind, and yet you may be unwilling to take responsibility for your thoughts. Many of your thoughts have been unbidden, and yet you received them. You took them on. Perhaps they entered your head like a stranger invading your home. What would you do with an invader in your home? It's likely you wouldn't invite invaders to stay. You wouldn't want them, and you wouldn't make room for them, yet you keep unwanted thoughts. Let go of thoughts that have invaded, or that you bought. Let go of them like old clothes in your closet. They simply don't fit anymore, if they ever did.

You don't own your own heart. You try to control it, and sometimes it gets broken. Your heart can only break when you have held on to the idea that you own something, someone else's heart perhaps. Beloveds, you don't even own your own heart. Immersed in the idea of ownership, your heart is tense. It knows deep down that it doesn't own. If you didn't imagine ownership, your heart couldn't snap in two, A relaxed heart doesn't break.

Ownership is a weight. The idea of ownership is a weight. It keeps you from being free.

What does the wind own? It blows leaves, yet it does not presume to own anything that it moves around. The wind is as free as a bird to come and go.

A tree doesn't own. It has its place. Its roots go deep, and yet a tree doesn't think of owning or not owning. A tree is open to the elements. Some trees are able to bend. Some trees are too firm to bend, yet no tree presumes to own. It stays where it is, oblivious to such a thought as ownership.

A sense of ownership may feel good to you, yet it gets you in trouble. You may go to court over it. You may go to court over a bauble.

Instead of thinking restrictive thoughts such as that you are an owner of things in space, start thinking of yourself as a sharer or even a giver. That will lighten your step.

If you have a deed to a house, I don't mean to say that you give it away. When someone comes over, you simply share it. With or without company, enjoy your house, and yet know you don't own it. It is loaned to you for a while. You are blessed to live there, and yet you don't own it. Knowing that, you are not owned by it.

Unchain yourself from possessing. There is nothing you have to have. Enjoy all. Own none of it.

You are a nomad, beloved. There is no permanent place to settle. You are a tenant of the Universe. The Universe is your home. And yet, renter that you are, you share the Universe with a cast of thousands, really with a cast larger than you can count. You are a sharer, for you share. You live side by side with your neighbors who are transients as well. Share your heart, beloveds.

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HEAVEN #3338 Hear Me Sing, O God, January 14, 2010

God said:

I, God, do not have to read the Heavenletter forum to know what it is said there. I do not have to see it to know its power, your power. I know its level and how it vibrates. Twang, twang, go the heartbeats. I feel the breath of all who post their hearts and consciousness there. I bless you all. Of course, I feel the breath of all who do not post. But today I focus on those who speak My love out loud.

You have a focus of love, and you spread your love around. You put it out there. Love is what you are posting, whether you know it or not.

And when you read the comments, you are reading love. Long live love.

My love is everywhere, yes, and yet it is more evident in some places than it is in other places.

We don't have to call love love. It is not love in fashion, as it were. It is normal natural caring. It is not a production. It is a natural event. Just as flowers bloom, so do you, and I recommend that you bloom where you can be seen.

Flowers do not hide their blooming under a barrel. Flowers look up at the sun. They absorb the sun. They even turn their faces to the sun. And so, you, My beloveds, turn your divine faces to the sun. You breathe in love right and left, and you breathe love out right and left and up and down and every which way, for true love is not one-directional. Or, We could say that love is One-Directional, and that is to say in the direction of Me.

Be glad you love Me, and be glad to say so. What wonderful three words. "I love God."

You declare: "I love God with all my heart. And now I am also learning to love God's Creation. I pour out my heart to God, and I pour it out to the world. I no longer keep to myself. For what reason would I keep to myself? For what reason would I keep my love for God to myself. Hey, I will stand up on the rafters and speak my heart of God. I will stand up on the roof and play the fiddle of my love for God. I hear myself speak, and I learn from what I hear myself say. I write my words on the forum, and I let the winds take my words where they will. I am the breath of God, and I breathe. I also inhale and exhale my thoughts. I breathe for all.

"To God, I am not a tiny dot in the world. To God, I am His Voice. I speak for Him. I declare Him. My voice may be weak, but not God's Voice. His Voice may be still, oh, so quiet, yet it is heard in the wilderness. Everyone must hear God for himself, and yet I add my voice to the choir of love that sings out God's heart.

"The choir says: 'God loves. He loves me. He loves you. God loves. He loves every bird that sings, and every lion's roar. And God loves me. If He loves me, it goes without saying that He loves you too. And yet I want to say that God loves you. So I will say it. God loves you. God loves you, and God loves me. God loves us as One, and He loves us as individuals together. God ignites the sparks of our love, yours and mine, and yet all love is God's. Hear me sing, O God, hear me sing.'"

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HEAVEN #3339 Love Entire, January 15, 2010

God said:

Of course, you move in the world on My behalf. On whose behalf would you move in the world if not for Mine. You are My representative on Earth. You are no one else's. I planted you on Earth for My sake.

I understand that you have thought you move in the world on your behalf. Now you understand better. Now you see a wider intention in your heart. Beloveds, there is no one to represent but Me. There is no sake but Mine. And yet, what is for My sake is for yours. I am thinking of your sake all the time. My heart beats you, you, you.

Consider that you are one who plants seeds of My love for Me. You scatter seeds of My love on Earth. Certainly, I did not position you on Earth to scatter seeds of discontent, despair, depression and so forth. I positioned you to scatter seeds of love AND to pick up love everywhere. Sow love. Garner love. Pick up love as you would blossoms from a tree.

You are not to litter the world. You are to lift the world and lift it high. You are the parent of the world, and you are to show it the way to grow. You do not teach. Your responsibility is not to teach. Your responsibility is to show and sow, beloveds. You are a planter of love wherever you are and wherever you go.

Where love is not, you are to sow love most of all. Wherever you are, you are to plant seeds of love. No matter if the field is barren, you drop off some love there. Who is going to do it if you don't? Yes, of course, it makes sense to plant in fertile soil, yet still you leave seeds of love in barren soil. You never know when a spark of rain will fall to moisten the seeds and help them grow. You never know who may have a watering can and choose to water the seeds you have left.

You are not to hang around to see how the seeds grow or not grow. Yours is to sow the seeds and move on. I did not appoint you as auditor. I appointed you as a sower of seeds. Look to yourself, beloved, not others. You are a sower of love, and that's it. You are not a recorder. You are not a tester. You are not to look back. You are to move forward, and this is how you move others forward.

If you seek to accomplish for others, all you have to do is to sow My love. Plant it on cement, and that is A-OK. I do not ask you to select an oasis on which to sow My seeds. Sow in the desert, and I am happy. Let My happiness be yours.

It's also fine to sow love where others have sown. There cannot be too much sowing of My seeds of love. May all participate. May all chip in. Nevertheless, I am talking to you. I ask you to chip in. I ask you to come join the dance. Sow for Me, and dance for Me. Exude happiness for Me.

I am telling you wherein happiness lies. It lies within you, and you are the sower of it. Sow, sow, sow to your heart's content, and it will be My heart that is content. Of course, My heart is always content, for I know and see all. At the least, you can see and know that you are planting My love. I thank you, My loves, for planting what I AM and what you are.

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HEAVEN #3337 Hail the Returning Hero, January 13, 2010

God said:

You are Created Beings. You are creatures. You consume My heart. I am ever aware of your presence, and yet I do not own you. When I gave you free will, I set you free. We are One, yet, in your view, you are not bonded to Me. In your view, you can go off on your own. You may seemingly depart from Me, feeling that We ought to part ways, or that We already have parted ways. You are free to do that in your mind if you want, yet in actuality, that can never be. I am bonded to you, beloveds. You are free to trot off anywhere you like, yet I chose to stay with you always. I will never in My imagination or deed part from you. I cannot, and I will not. My Will is to be with you and embrace you. I stick close. I cannot conceive anything else. Why would I ever disengage Myself from that which I hold dear?

If someone wanted to pull even one of your teeth for no reason, would you say, "Go ahead, pull my tooth?" In the same way, I would not pull out from My awareness even one of My children. What possible need could there be for Me to distance Myself from you or anyone? It makes no sense. I am yours, and yours I stay. I am everyone's, and everyone's I stay.

Nor are you My yo-yo on a string. It's true you go up and down. That is your own volition. You go up and down because of the stories your mind tells you. You listen to the stories. You discern tragedy and decide you have to feel low. What if you did not discern certain events as tragic? What if you omitted the entire concept of tragedy? What would you weep over then?

What if the word tragedy had never been formed? What if all events in life were considered as only events in life? There is joy at the birth of a baby and a baby's cry. Must there be tragedy when someone leaves Earth? You are aware that everyone will leave Earth, and yet, every time, it is a jolt as if death were an outlaw.

Life is precious, and so also is death. Have a sense that death is a reward, not a tragic event.

With death, it is like you have received a telegram: "Come Home. We're waiting for you. Here is your ticket. We are going to celebrate your arrival. And what rejoicing there will be! You are about to embark on another leg of your journey. We can entitle it Heaven Revisited. The hero has come Home. God bless the hero. Godspeed."

What is wrong with that? What if you stopped arguing the inevitable? You who are an Immortal can never die. Only your body takes its leave. Would you prevent it? How long would you prevent it?

At night you rest your head on a pillow. This nightly event is not mourned. And yet at the sunset of your life or a loved one's, when you or a loved one lie down for a well-deserved rest, there is wailing. Wail not, beloveds. The hero has come Home. Rejoice.

What would you have your loved ones do, beloveds? And what would you, given the choice, do? Would you hang out in the world forever?

When you depart Earth, you are as light as air. All burden has left. Worrisome thoughts have dropped away. You are left with what you have always wanted, and that is love, beloveds, and that is love. Hail to the returning hero.

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HEAVEN #3335 When There Is Love in Your Heart, January 11, 2010

God said:

When there is love in your heart, you truly are not thinking about yourself. That is what love is. You have tenderness for a seeming another. You can't think two thoughts in your head at one time. When you are thinking of another, by necessity, you aren't thinking of yourself.

This is a very good thing, don't you think, to have another uppermost in your mind and heart? Everyone on Earth longs for this. You long for someone else to love with all your heart and to think about. How wonderful even to tend another's garden. How wonderful to think of someone else rather than yourself.

It gets a little wearing, doesn't it, to always be thinking of yourself? What you want for breakfast, and what life didn't give to you that you are sure it should have given. What, what, what.

When you love and have thoughts for another's happiness, you are coming from fullness. When thoughts of yourself are uppermost in your mind, odds are you are coming from a presumption of lack, a presumption of being short-changed. Trade in such thoughts for fullness. Loving yourself and thinking about yourself get to be self-propagating and draining. Yes, My children need a change in focus every now and then or often.

This is a virtue of work as well. It takes your mind off yourself. And if you love your work, you are a king in the world, blessed more than twice.

And this is the virtue of having children. They expand your world. This is on the agenda of life, for the children to be born, and the children to raise you.

So, beloveds, instead of thinking about what you are missing, haven't had, should have had etc., think of what would give happiness to another. Even when there are those you don't feel great love for, what could you do that would lift their happiness level?

You are a lever. A lever works in every situation. Levers don't have specialties. Levers lift up. They get underneath and lift up. A lever is not a plier, for pliers grasp and hold on. This is why I say you are a lever. You are also a lover, beloveds. You are one who loves. Love abundantly. Love in every situation. The more you love, the more you love. Try it.

Pretend you are in a fairy tale, and I am the King whose daughter you want to marry. I tell you that the first thing you see, you must give love to. If you see a gate, a dog, a beggar, a street cleaner, or a princess, whichever comes first, you are to give love to. Let love with your heart rise to your eyes, beloveds. Acknowledge to yourself the love you have for a gate whatever its appearance may be. And the same for the dog, beggar, street cleaner, and princess. May you can shine love on all five. Why not? You may be particular, but love is all-embracing.

Maybe you can appreciate the ground under your feet that carries you to your beloved. Maybe you can appreciate the taxi driver. Maybe you can appreciate your shoes. Maybe you can appreciate even the stranger who bumps into you in his hurry to meet his wife.

What is love but appreciation, beloveds? What is love but gratitude for the opportunity to love? Love is mighty. Love makes the object of love mighty. Love makes others the kings or queens. Love makes happiness for all in its vicinity, and for all not in its vicinity.

Love is noticing what is, beloveds, and love is, and love is all.

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HEAVEN #3334 The Camera of Your Mind, January 10, 2010

God said:

Peace be with you, beloveds, It is your choice. You have perhaps thought that peace was not your choice? Peace is a quality within you. You are choosing peace, or you are choosing agitation. Consider yourself as a beacon of peace, and peace will radiate from you. When you consider yourself as put upon, you radiate that too. You can radiate more than you have been. You certainly can.

Will you, once and for all, radiate peace and good will and love?

If you have felt that you are sitting on a seat at a hostile interrogation at a police station, will you switch to a picture of yourself in a comfortable chaise-lounge surrounded by Me and a thousand angels? We attend to you. We pull you higher. Do you not favor this?

You may have had the idea that what you think isn't important, yet it is tremendously important to Me and to the world. My desire is for you to change your thinking and therefore the thinking of the world. This is what it comes down to. This is what I am asking of you.

At every moment, you are forming a picture of the world, and the picture you perceive is snapped by an invisible camera, and that camera sends the picture it takes around the world. You see it on covers of magazines, and you see it on TV. Your picture of life is broadcast.

The world and how the world appears are your responsibility. It is your responsibility because I am talking to you, and you know better than to sow troublesome seeds. Sow seeds of sunflowers instead. Disseminate peach blossoms. Sprinkle the world with pictures you are proud of.

Your mind is like a camera. You are the photographer. Attend to what photos you take with the camera of your mind. There are things that exist that are not worthy of having their picture taken and passed around, do you agree?

There is great goodness in the world. There is plenty of fodder for a smiling world for you to take pictures of. Look for kindness, and you will find it. You will find it under every barrel. Even in circumstances of great unkindness, there is also kindness to be found, to be highlighted. True, an unkind act is not kind, yet it provides a great opportunity for others' kindness to shine. Even in ashes there can be gold.

The thing is that the camera of your mind is to photograph what is beautiful to the heart. The beautiful is right there too. Have the courage to see beyond strife. Have the courage to see peace and to spread it. I am asking you to be a soldier who has his empty palms up and no weapons hidden and whose eyes see deeper than the surface traffic of life.

Will you do as I ask? There are already many who do not hear what I ask and so continue to play the popular chords of bad times or hard times. Will you kindly get off that bandwagon? Will you convert the world's thinking?

Yes, first you have to convert your own thinking. When you are driving, it is easy for you to switch from one highway lane to another. You just look carefully and turn the steering wheel.

In the case of switching to another highway of thought, you don't have to look carefully. You just have to do it. With old thinking, consider that you have been going down a dead-end street, and now you go onto a super highway where all the cars will follow you.

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God said:

The moon is. The sun is. I AM. You ARE.

Blights of one kind or another seem to come and go, and yet the moon is, the sun is, I AM and you ARE. What makes you flail, beloveds?

The waves of the ocean may be wild, and yet the underlying ocean is calm. Waves are waves. Ocean is ocean. Surface is surface, and depths are deep.

The Ocean of Love buoys you. There is nothing to be afraid of. Must you keep your fears? Must you hang on to them?

What is there to fear, beloveds? Fears are not your whole life. You have latched fear onto so many things. Your list of possible fears is enormous. What they all amount to is fearing life. You fear death and illness and loss and humiliation. It is life itself you fear. You do not want the turns and bends in life, yet what choice do you have, beloveds? You fear the course of life itself. All the while, you are alive on Earth, you, a child of God, and yet you see yourself as some kind of prey or victim to life, as if life were a torment, and you are at the mercy of the torment. You who are invulnerable feel vulnerable, and so you fear uncertainty.

You want to be certain of everything. You want to have a say in it.

Beloveds, you already have enough difficulty in making decisions. Do you really want to decide the day you leave your body behind? Do you really want to govern everything concerning your life? Beloveds, govern your fears. Don't have them. They are not valuable. Life is valuable.

The inevitability is that you will join Me in full consciousness. The incidents, the give and take, as you follow your path to Me, are minor compared to the arrival of your full consciousness. You fear the temporary when you are fully emblazoned in the permanence of My love, Our love. All that which seems so exceedingly important to you palls next to the Eternal of you. Yet it seems that you put all your money on the temporal. Eternity cannot be changed, and yet you give your allegiance to that temporality which you see as letting you down. The steps of your life, including the untoward ones, inch you further or even escalate you further. You are a rocket taking off, and life, as it presents itself to you, fuels your flight.

Consider Earth as a space station, beloveds, or even a bus stop. You don't stay there for very long. In the untrue measurement of time, perhaps you stay only a half hour or a minute or two. You have a space ship to catch or a bus, and soon enough you will be on your way. Do not let a stop along the way that is not to your liking absorb so much of your attention. Do not let it hold you back from rising to a new height. You are rising now. Hitting bumps makes you rise!

You are taking off for Heaven now. You are on your way. See the sights along the way. They are only sights. They are passing sights. You have a great target in mind, and nothing can stop you. Your course has been set.

You will go through good neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods. You will see all sorts of things. You will see mishaps, and you will see beauty. And, all the while, you are flying to Me. You are flying to Me.

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