HEAVEN LETTERS

HEAVEN #3263 The Matter of the Heart, October 31, 2009

God said:

Today you will find occasions to love. Some occasions will be as easy as pie. Before you know it, you will have given love. It will be like you got up on the bus and gave your seat to someone without even thinking about it. Other occasions may not be so easy. You may not even think to get up and give your seat to someone. Or, if you think of it, you prefer not to.

It is not really that in loving you are giving up something. You are gaining something. It is a question of what you are willing to give to yourself. It is a question of how much happiness you want to give to yourself.

It is not that you are self-serving. You are not looking to self-inflate. You are simply looking to make the path of life a little smoother for someone who is going the same way as you. When you smooth the path of someone seemingly else, you inevitably smooth the path for yourself.

Everyone you smile at may not return your smile, yet a smile back is not what you smile for. The person before you is not the one you smile for. You smile for Me. It is I Who catches your smile. I receive it, every single smile of yours. I receive the seat you vacate. I receive the help you give a seeming stranger. I am the Recipient of everything you give. I restoreth your soul, and you leave Me a smile as a tip.

Every step you take is in homage to Me. It is to no other. Whatever people may run through your mind, whatever individual you serve, you are serving Me. There is no one else to serve, Beloveds. No matter the individual before you, you are serving Me. Serve Me well. Serve Me well. Therein lies happiness.

We are not talking about solely your happiness, you understand. By all means, experience happiness, yet happiness is not for yourself alone. Happiness for yourself alone serves only for a short duration. Beloveds, there is no one to serve but Me. You serve the Server.

It is I you save from a fire. It is I you tip your hat to. It is I you smile for. It is for Me that you carry packages. It is for Me that you never mind some of the things you have been minding. It is for Me that you give up littleness and acquire greatness. Everything you do is offered to Me. I am the taster of the food you serve. I am Everything.

I am the One you invite. I am the Guest Who appears at your door. I am the Host of the Universe, and I am your Guest. Invited or uninvited, I am your Guest, and yet I am also the Party-giver. Say hello to yourself. Say hello to Me. It is the Same.

Every kindness you give, you give to Me. And I accept.

No mother turns down the dandelion her child picks to give her. No God in Heaven refuses any offering from you. The altar you leave your gifts at is the altar of the world. How simple and lovely is that.

It is as if you build a bonfire of love that can be seen and felt everywhere. You bring kindling. You bring a leaf. You bring a crumb. You bring a log. You bring a piece of straw. It matters not. It matters that you bring something.

The biggest gift is not always the biggest gift. The smallest gift can be the biggest. The size of the gift is inconsequential. That you give is the heart of the matter, and so you give.

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HEAVEN #3262 The Heaven Express, October 30, 2009

God said:

Whatever pit you may feel you are in, you do not have to stay there. That is the beautiful thing, that you can get up and leave any pit of despair you may have fallen into. Climb out. Rub your eyes, and climb out. Dig yourself out with your choice of joy. That is your shovel, your ability to choose. You are not at the mercy of dark thinking.

You may be at the mercy of the elements, but you are not at the mercy of the thoughts that run through your mind. Let them run all the way through and exit.

Let Us say there is an Express Train and a chugging local. Take the Express. It is headed for Happiness. There’s nothing wrong with the local, but you may have been taking it for a long time. It makes the same stops it always makes, and it doesn’t take you where you want to go. The Express gets you where you want to go, and fast. The Express has much less wear and tear on you. It takes you right to your destination. How fast the Express can go. How fast it can get you out of the doldrums and deliver you to Me where desolation and such cannot exist, do not exist, will not exist. Come, ride with Me on the Express. I go the shortest distance between the two points of where you find yourself and where you want to go.

You don’t need a ticket, but if you want a ticket, one has been waiting for you with your name already on it. Claim it, and hop on. Come aboard the daily express. There is room for all. You will always find a seat.

You are never asked for a ticket. You do not have to present it. The Express is rightfully yours for the asking. Well, you don’t even have to ask. A seat has already been assigned. Come, catch the Express. I am the Engineer. You are the passenger.

There is only one Express. Sometimes other trains make look like the Express. Cheap imitations. Even so, they may fool you. Once you get on the wrong train and find your mistake, jump off. You can still catch the Express. It is always right at your doorstep. You are always right at the doorstep of Heaven. You are right here, and know it not. Now know it. Now you know where to catch the Heaven Express. You catch it right where you are. The Express is not a step away. It is boarding now.

You don’t have to pack. There is nothing to take. Certainly, the past can’t accompany you. There’s one thing that the Express doesn’t have room for, and that’s the past. Be on the lookout for the Express that says Heaven Now, and take it with dispatch.

It doesn’t matter whether you are dressed for the trip or not. It doesn’t matter if you have prepared. The Express is imminent. Keep it waiting no longer. It has been waiting for you. Would you really make it wait? It won’t go without you. Catch this train as you would hop up onto a swing in the park. Go higher. See how high you can go. Leave it to Me. All you have to do is to hop on.

Just say it, beloveds. Just say: “I hop onto God’s Express. That’s all I have to do is to hop on. Once on, I’m on my way.”

Acknowledge the train you prefer. Admit your preference, and then you are on. Then, whee, you ride the A train. Whee, you ride God’s Express that takes you right to My heart.

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HEAVEN #3261 God-Natured, October 29, 2009

God said:

Be good-natured. This is a marvelous thing, to be good-natured. Have the intent that you will be good-natured. You would rather be good-natured than difficult, would you not? I know you would.

Good nature rolls with the punches. Good nature shrugs its shoulders and says: "So what if everything isn't as I wanted it to be? So what if everything isn't correct by my standards or anyone's standards? I do not have to let anything interfere with my pleasure. Certainly not the little things in life.

"I, Good Nature, am the natural nature. Everyone is to have me. Everyone is to reveal me."

Fussiness, on the other hand, says: "Everything must be in its place. In the place I say." Fussiness likes to jump on any infraction of its many rules. Sometimes fussiness doesn't even know its own rules until it sees them broken. Sometimes fussiness gives no warning, not even to himself. Fussiness flares his nostrils. Even without a word, he makes himself known. Fussiness is a dragon with fire and claws that lands on others' shoulders.

What a great goal, to be easy to please. This is a high goal. Just think of it. To be pleased rather than displeased. To give pleasure rather than displeasure.

You can do it, beloveds. You can rescue yourself from dismay and others from it too.

It may be in the little issues that you judge, therefore making the little into big. Why would you do this to yourself?

Displeasure does not make you royalty. No one wants to be prissy like the princess and the pea. Fussiness does not royalty make. Royalty reveals good nature. Be you then royalty who is pleased with all and blesses all. The domain of those who are readily pleased is the whole universe. They rule the galaxies.

Fussiness takes tiny mincing steps. Good nature is God-natured and leaps. Not caught up in the little things, good nature makes great strides.

Good nature doesn't purse its lips. It doesn't pinch its nose. No, good nature is a Grand Lady.

Carry the intent with you to be good-natured. If there is something that has to be corrected, be so good-natured that everyone wants to comply.

Have new standards that welcome even those who do not follow your standards.

Here is the secret. Find the good that exists along with what may infringe on your standards. There are better things than perfection, beloveds. Look for them. Let easy-goingness rise high in your estimation.

Remember that everyone is My child. Everyone wants to make you happy. No one is trying to get away with being less than you like, and yet they must be allowed their freedom. You must allow them their freedom, and give yourself the same freedom.

You do not have to be so meticulous as you may have been. Be more welcoming of yourself and your so-called errors. Be more welcoming. Be wholeheartedly welcoming. Welcome the world to your heart. Welcome yourself, and then you will be good-natured.

Consider that you are a dancer of life. You are light on your feet. Your touch is light. You leap high. You reach Heaven. How happy you are. You leap high, and you land on your feet. You are the sun who welcomes and blesses all according to the highest wisdom.

This is love We are speaking about. This is love so dear to My heart.

Today, no more frowns, beloveds. Today, you smile. Today you smile at everyone who appears before you. That's all you have to do is to smile, and mean it, beloveds. Mean it.

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HEAVEN #3257 The God Who Fills the Universe, October 25, 2009

God said:

What is the good of having a God if you can’t relax in Him?

So, relax in Me. Recline in Me. Lean back. Let Me be God, and let Me do as God does do.

I am a purposeful God, and I serve a purpose. I serve you.

I do not worry, so it is not that I worry in your place, yet, just the same, give Me your worries. Turn them over to Me as you would give the keys to a new owner of your house. The keys to the house just aren’t yours any longer. It is not that I take over your house of worries, for I am worriless. I disassemble your house of worries in one glance. Your worries are not Mine, and yet, they are no longer yours. We can say that I throw away the worry keys. I toss them out the window. Poof.

It is not that you love Me for a pay-off. It’s not that you love Me so I will take away your burdens. It is not that you are playing your cards right. The thing is that you are helpless in the face of loving Me. To love Me is not a choice. It is destiny. It is your destiny. Loving Me is what you are made for.

Look at it this way: Where is the gain in not loving Me? What is the gain to you, and what is the gain to the Universe in not loving God Who is in all? God Who is All. The God that is. The God that fills the Universe and every perceived heart within His territory of influence. And, tell Me, beloveds, and what is My territory of influence if not Everywhere. There is no place where I am not. There is no heart where I am not. I AM. I am here.

It is not that you love Me because you know which side your bread is buttered on. You love Me because there is nothing else really to do. You don’t possibly imagine that you can withstand My love, do you? You can’t escape. You can’t possibly run fast enough. Do you possibly think that you can hide from My love? Do you possibly think that you can be without it? If you do think so, then you are a comedian who makes jokes.

Nor did I design you for your usefulness to Me. Nevertheless, you are useful to Me. I Who am a Giver also know how to receive. My heart swells with the love you give Me. My heart swells with the love We exchange, as it were. And yet there is no transfer of love, for love is. If there were really two of Us, even then there would not be two lovingnesses. We carry the same genes of love. We are destined to carry love and spill it everywhere. We are lovers of love, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

And yet, I, Great Love That I Am, am also a Destroyer. I am a Destroyer of woe and weakness and all that that hangs out with worry. Even so, woe and weakness and worry do not really exist, for love is all, and yet I remove the weight of worry from you. Of course, I am not a God of worry. I am a God of Wonder.

I throw gold and silver stars before Me for you to pick up and know that they are yours. And yet I am not glitter.

My silver never tarnishes. My gold is solid. Beloveds, you are My gold. You are My silver. You are the stars in My eyes.

I am not too much for you. I am just right for you. I am the Splendor of Your Heart. Don’t you know that? Don’t you know what We are and what We are to each other as One and not twain? When love wells in your heart, that is My love swelling in your heart. Your love, My love, they are the same. You know what love is, and yet there is more love in your heart than you know.

I planted a crop of love, and you reap it. The imagined you reaps it. You forgot that you were the planter of it. Never mind that. Reality is as Reality does. Tend to Our love. It is endless. Tend to it just the same.

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HEAVEN #3256 Infinite Rainbow, October 24, 2009

God said:

Who can define God? Who can define Love? Who can define Oneness? Who is there to define them?

God, Love, Oneness cannot even be described let alone defined. Describe Me if you can. Describe life, if you can. Describe a moment, if you can. Describe describing, if you can.

Great art and music and literature and babies and leaves on trees come close to describing the Indescribable. Yet even Greatness and Innocence cannot describe the Indescribable. Even Greatness cannot make a dent in that which has no marks on it. Innocence doesn’t try.

Who can poke holes in Being? Who can pinpoint that which is incapable of being pinpointed? Who can peg that which is incapable of being pegged? And yet, and yet…

Who is it who seeks the Unseekable?

The relative world is all talk, beloveds. The Eternal and Infinite have no words and say all. The relative world is a coating. It is an attempt at coating. The world cannot wrap up Silence. Silence is everywhere. Silence is. You are. I AM.

We are motionless, yet We move. We move in Silence, even as We make noise. What sense are the senses except as you love them?

On Earth, you are in a quandary. You confront yourself with mystery. You are a detective trying to detect. You are a Human Being trying to be when Being is what you already are. You walk in the sun on the rotating Earth, and where are you going when there is nowhere to go?

And yet, and yet, you inspire, and yet, you are inspired. Inspiration comes close to discovering the Indefinable you so want to discover.

Ah, beloveds, there is more to you than meets the eye. There is Being alone, and yet there is more to everything than meets the eye. You try to divine the Divine.

In all this scramble on Earth, whatever you think you’re looking for, trying to understand, trying to lift yourself by, you are looking for Me. You look for Me everywhere. I am everywhere, and yet you find Me not. You come across Me all the time, and yet you find Me not. And yet you can find Me anywhere. You can find Me in the park. You can find Me in the cabaret. You can find Me in church. There is nowhere that I cannot be found. You do not have to dig Me out. I am right there and here and everywhere, and yet you seek and seek and find Me not. Or you find Me by chance. You see Me by chance. You feel Me by chance. What you cannot do is make Me appear to you without mystery. Of course, I am already with you, and I am not in hiding.

Are you hiding then? Are you playing peek-a-boo with yourself? Are you putting your light under a mushroom?

Is it that you do not love Me? I love you inalterably. So, come over to Me, and be the One I am. Be the love I am. Be Who I am. Be Me. You know you can have any role you want. You have been playing bit parts. Want to be a Star? Want to shine in the firmament? Not because you want fame or renown or anything at all but to stop acting and just to be Me.

There is no end to the rainbow, beloveds. The rainbow is infinite, and you are already there. Stand up, and declare yourself. The Father is not far from the child. The child stands in the Father’s shoes. He sits in the Father’s chair. The child and the Father are One.

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HEAVEN #3254 The Country of Love, October 22, 2009

God said:

Let’s get chummy today. Let’s have a get-together. Let’s have a meeting of hearts. Let all hearts meet in Mine. That’s how it is anyway, so let’s announce Our meeting. Let’s set a time for it. Write it in your calendar. “Meet with God.” Pencil it in. Meet with Me a minute this afternoon, or, if you can spare more time, two minutes. Even a passing thought will serve. How I love to be thought of.

You know this is not from ego on My part. I like to be thought of in a light way because a thought of Me lightens and brightens your day. I am not exactly Santa Claus, but you get the idea. I am a Benefactor. Certainly don’t think of Me as some kind of villain in disguise. I am a giver of gifts. I do not take away.

You may have thought of Me as the Taker-away of your loved ones and your joys. I gave them to you. I do not take them away. They have their time, that’s all. They step over thresholds, that’s all. Your loved ones and you take a walk in the park, and, when the walk is over, then you go your own way. You and your loved ones met and walked and dined and danced in a passage of what is called time.

When the leaves of autumn fall, you do not shake your fist at Me. You may regret the passing of summer, yet you know that all the seasons are in place. There is no end to them. They come again and again. Before you came to Earth on this jaunt, the seasons were. And when you return to the Country of Love, the seasons continue without your being there, without your being there in the physical form you are accustomed to.

There is good in everything. There is good in the apple that falls from the tree and is eaten. There is good in the apple that falls from the tree and rots on the ground.

There is good in what you call birth, and there is good in what you call death, except sometimes you capitalize the word Death. You may consider birth an angel, and Death the reaper. And, yet, beloveds, death is also a gift I give to you, and one you will meet. Death of the body is not a bad thing. It is not an affront. It is a gift.

It is not like I evict you from Earth when I bring you to Heaven.

When the whistle blows, and the game is over, that is not such a bad thing. There will be another game anon and anon. And so goes the cycle of life on Earth.

A child grows into a youth and then adulthood and then age. So are the seasons. They are not to be regretted. One season follows the other, and each season serves. Sun and rain both serve. Even droughts and floods serve. That you do not like them doesn’t mean that they don’t serve.

Life on Earth is what it is. It is not something else. Yet what life is depends upon your perception of it. Perceptions change. Everything in the world changes. That is the world for you. It is only the world, beloveds. It is nothing more. Well, I take that back. The world is much more than it seems, however. It is only part of the story. It is only one dimension of a tale that is told.

So let Us meet today. Let Us enjoy the sun that shines and the rain that falls. Let Us enjoy Our meeting. Let Us meet in camaraderie and walk down the street arm in arm, heart in heart.
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HEAVEN #3253 What Made the Great Ones Great, October 21, 2009

God said:

You have priorities. You have many priorities at work, at school, at home. What is the greatest priority of all? Through all circumstances, what is the Greatest Story of All?

It is love, beloveds, and you are it.

Your priority above all is to have awareness of love.

When you have bread baking in the oven, in the back of your mind, you have awareness that you have bread baking in the oven. Have awareness that you are a vessel of love. You have a heart of love, and love itself is the yeast that makes love rise.

The priority to love does not have to be in the forefront of your mind, even though it is your highest priority. We could say that love is the chair you sit in. That’s all. You do not have to be thinking every moment: “I am love. I am here to love. Love is what I am here for.” Think it sometimes, and then like a wish you make, let go of thoughts of love so that you allow love to birth itself.

Forced love is not love. Keeping a stiff upper lip is not love. Love is love. To have awareness of love is enough. It is masterful.

You are a creature of love here on Earth born to love. Even when life presents itself to you in an unfavorable way, still you are to love.

What made the Great Ones great? They loved. If you were before them, they would love you. They would love you. They wouldn’t know anything else to do but to love you. They wouldn’t think about it. They would not ask themselves, “Do I love this one before me?” It was not a question to ask, and It was not a decision to make.

They did not say to themselves, “I will love this one before me no matter what.” They simply loved the one before them. To the Great Ones, there was no concept of “no matter what.” They could do nothing else but love. They didn’t want to do anything else but love. Long before, they had accepted that they were love, and they didn’t look for cause to love or cause not to love.

We could say that they had long legs, and so they could cross land and sea in a few strides. They already strode in Heaven. In the same way, because their eyes were wide, they could see broadly. They did not trip over imperfection. They strode over it, and saw you as you are. They saw Me in you. The human form didn’t matter. It was I Who mattered.

It is not that they overlooked. They didn’t say, “Tut-tut,” to themselves and then turn themselves into love. They had left behind all the tut-tuts in the world, and all that remained was love. Love is not unwise. It is very wise to love.

The love We speak of is not maudlin. It is not gushy. It does not wear fancy clothes. The love We speak of is simply love. The Great Ones loved on a grand scale because they saw as they saw.

When you sit in a tree, you are sitting in a tree. You can see further than when you are sitting on the ground. You can see further with a telescope than you can see with a microscope. A telescope helps you to see far. The Great Ones had telescopic vision. Nevertheless, had a Great One looked through a microscope, he would have seen with great eyes of love. He would have blessed himself to see magnified miracles of God before him.

We could say that the Great Ones were neither far-sighted nor near-sighted. We could say that they were sighted. They saw. They saw before them what they themselves were.

Know Who you are, and your sight will be better.
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HEAVEN #3252 Your God Song Day, October 20, 2009

God said:

I say, “You can quote Me.” That you are free to quote Me has long been an understanding We have had. First, you have to hear Me.

When you hear a bird sing, you may be able to imitate the bird’s song, yet you are not a bird singing. When you quote Me, you are singing My song, and you are I singing. My song is yours. You are My song. Sing Me, beloveds, sing Me to the Highest Heavens. Let Me hear you sing My song.

Singing My song is different from mouthing My words. Let My song sing from your heart. Let your heart of love be heard.

Model yourself after Me. You do model yourself after your conceptions of Me. Your conceptions of Me matter a great deal. If you see Me as a ruthless God, you may well be ruthless. If you see Me as a judgmental God, you will be judgmental. If you see Me as a benevolent God, you will be benevolent. You carry a picture of Me in your heart. The paparazzi may have taken pictures that were not of Me. They thought the pictures were of Me. You thought they were.

Take your own picture of Me. I do not change. I am the same every day. I am the same Love every day. Love Me the same. When you stub your toe, it makes no difference to Me. I love you the same. I do not stub My toe, yet you may weigh your love for Me according to the weather. Beloveds, I do not stub My toe. I do not make mistakes. I certainly don’t make cruel mistakes. I am not heartless. I am heartfull.

The actions in the world do not always add up. You do not understand. You don’t have all the pieces, so life is a puzzle to you. If you had all the pieces, you wouldn’t be so puzzled.

I do understand that life can be harsh. I do understand that life is often harsh as far as you can see. You do realize that you see only so far. You don’t see the whole picture. You see a part of the picture. A part of the picture is not the whole picture. You haven’t seen the whole picture, and you can’t even imagine it. So to know that I am Love, and Love Inalterable, may take you what is called a leap of faith. Until you are able to see, loving Me takes trust. If it helps any, know that I have trust in you. I have entrusted you with My heart of love. It is yours. Acknowledge it.

I do not ask you to understand Me for My sake. I ask you to understand Me for your sake. Receive My love. Even in what may seem to you as the direst of circumstances, receive My love. Have it. It is for you. It is yours. Know it.

Beloveds, your life is part of the whole picture. I tell you that your life fits Wholeness perfectly. It does not seem so to you because your vision goes only so far. Beloveds, the more you love, the more you will see.

Let that be your God song today. Sing it. “The more I love, the more I will see.”

The opposite is also true. “The more I see, the more I will love.” Sing it.

Sing: “I look to see greater. I look to see love shining from the pillars. I look to see love.”

Sing: “Look, I see love. I see love. I see love.”
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HEAVEN #3251 A Day in the Sun, October 19, 2009

God said:

Although what you say and what you do count, no record is kept. The slate is wiped clean. There is no past. There is no place that the past is kept except in the human mind. History is recorded, yet it is gone. It never happened. No matter how important the past, individual and collective, the past is of no account. You are released from the past. Remembrance of the past is not to tag along all your days. The past is a ghost.

You cannot live even in the pleasurable past. The past is salt thrown over your shoulder. It is behind you. The past is not current. It is a poor currency. It is Confederate money that lost its worth. The past lost its worth the minute after it seemingly existed. Let the past be a bygone.

Evidence of the past is only evidence. It is a shadow. True, there are photographs. But what is a photograph but a shadow? True, there is a wood desk from childhood. But what is it except that you say so? Whatever you say, it is a piece of wood. It served, and it may serve now as a writing desk, and yet it is made of what was once a tree and is no longer.

The present awaits your love. The past had it. Sometimes the past has your love only long after it has past. You may take the shadow and color it in, and yet it is still only the past.

It may be that not a day in your life goes by without your mourning what you see as loss of loved ones. Your loved ones changed their address. They moved somewhere else where they are happier than ever before. They never lost your address. You could move a dozen times, and still they know where you are, and they love now.

To love now means to love in the field of Eternity. Missing is not the same as loving. Missing is not a substitute for love. Missing loved ones who once surrounded you physically is not love. Missing is one thing. Loving is another. Missing clutches while love lets go. Kiss and let go. Be glad for your loved ones’ journey, and be glad for yours.

Sadness overwhelms you. Let love overwhelm you. Memories are not love. They are memories of love. Memories are not the real thing. They are an attempt. Truly, beloveds, you can try and try to recapture, yet the past is gone. It is gone. It is yesterday’s newspaper. It is no longer current. It is not valid. Why do you seek to collect it? Why do you strive to attain what you cannot?

Love the past, but do not wrap it up in beautiful paper and keep it in a drawer with lavender. Letting go of the past is not throwing it away. Letting go of the past is your ceasing to hold onto it. The past knows it is past. It doesn’t care. It was a page in a novel. It was read by many. The past doesn’t mind having been read, and it doesn’t mind being let go of. The past likes to be released. It does not want to be held onto anymore than your loved ones of the past want to be held onto.

Letting go of the past means you no longer relive it. The past was always illusion. It is more so now. Relieve yourself of the past, of past debts, past trauma, even past love. If the past amounts to clothes hung on a clothesline, you have to take them off. There are new clothes to hang on the line to be taken down again as soon as the sun has dried them. Must you cry over clothes that have had their day in the sun?


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HEAVEN #3249 The Divine Beat of God's Heart, October 17, 2009

God said:

When you are not feeling up to par, know that you are loosening the
bonds that bind you. No longer think that feeling unlike you want to
feel means anything but that you are growing in freedom. Let it be a
good sign when you feel unsettled. You are a pioneer in life. When one
leaves the country he was living in and sails the ocean to another
country, he is unsettled. Of course, he is. No matter how much he has
read up on the new world he will live in, it is still an unknown. He
has not yet walked on it.

You are a traveler, beloved. We can even call you a nomad. You may
have a set destination, and yet you may go by a different route than
you thought, or you may wind up somewhere elsewhere altogether. Of
course, everyone’s ultimate destination is the same, for when you set
out to travel, your objective is to locate more of Me. It doesn’t
matter if you are Columbus or a tourist or going around the corner,
you are looking for greater happiness, and I AM THAT.

Change on Earth is the name of the game. And you may have expected
yourself to stay the same and never be in midstream. You may like to
see yourself as having already arrived, yet one who is traveling
hasn’t quite arrived yet. He is in process of arriving. And one who is
traveling may not yet have set out. He is still packing and perhaps
unpacking, not sure what to take with him and unknowing of what he
will forget to take with him.

The truth is that in the world, you do live out of a suitcase. You may
be in an oasis where you always to stay, and yet certainty in the
world is not certain.

In a sense, you travel through life on a wheelbarrow pushed by an
unknown hand, and you don’t know when the handles will be lifted up
and you will be dropped off somewhere unexpected. In the world, you
can expect the unexpected. You can only pick yourself up and continue
on your way even when you don’t know where you are. Most likely, you
don’t know where you are in terms of the map of your life and your
journey. What you can be sure of is that you are not at a standstill,
even when it seems so. And when you feel restless, you can know you
are on your way. In terms of the world, you are always on your way.

Borders fade. They disappear, and you feel uncertain without a certain
banister to hold onto. So be glad when you feel unsettled. It tells
you that you are on a new adventure or you are settling down somewhere
that is new to you. It takes a while to adjust to a new place.

How you may feel at any particular moment is not worth your attention.
It is not necessary to take the temperature of your life every so
often. Perhaps you don’t need an accounting of your life or your
moods. Today your life is a pasture you walk through. Tomorrow is
another pasture or another terrain you walk through. The weather may
change, but what does that really have to do with you. The truth is
that, regardless of the weather, regardless of how you may attest to
what you feel, you are on your way. That is the relative world,
beloveds.

In terms of the deeper levels of life, you are always in My heart, and
nothing is changed, for you are, inevitably, one beautiful divine beat
of My heart

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HEAVEN #3246 The Key to Unlocking the Universe, October 14, 2009

God said:

You have been given the key to unlock the Universe. You can take the lid off the world and let all the steam of ignorance escape. You have the key to end any kind of oppression. You have the scissors to cut the cords that bind. You, yes, I am talking to you.

The key is your consciousness. Like a magician, you can raise the world to a new height. With one motion of thought, you can reduce the heat and calm the world. The world calmed by you can only rise with everyone in it.

How do you raise the world to where it wants to be? Simply with the tip of a finger of thought.

Extend your thought, and the world will shake off its past, let it go, and rise as a flower never seen before. Dreamed of, yet not seen. Dreamed of, yet not allowed.

Now, beloved, you can say to the world:

"Okay, world, now it's time for us to lift the lid off you. You have something wonderful stirring within you that has been bursting to get out. World, now I give you the freedom to be all you have ever wanted to be. You have wanted to stand tall. You have wanted to embrace. You have wanted to be the Heaven on Earth that you were truly meant to be. You have wanted to be yourself, just as I have wanted to be myself, to be the Truth of myself. Okay, world, the lid is coming off, and you are going to burst free, and everyone who inhabits you, every man, woman, and child, will be a citizen in full standing, a citizen of the Universe in the world in full standing. No longer will there be spots on Earth that are oases. Every spot on Earth will be the oasis of love it always was meant to be yet hid from.

"Okay, world, I, one human being, will be your model. I will rise and stand tall in the world. I will be all I am meant to be, paving the way for you. The path of the world is paved in the gold of my thought. Now my thoughts are waking up, and, world, so are you.

"How very much alike we are. And now you, world, and I will be all that we have dreamed to be. All this by virtue of our consciousness reflected in our thoughts.

"I am a High Being, and you are a world made for High Beings. No longer do either of us wear costumes. Now we are the real thing. Now we blossom. Now we make room for all to rise to the height that God intended, to the height that God says we already are, if only we but knew.

"God has given me the key to reawaken the world. Forgive me, world, I didn't remember that I had the key to your upliftment. I didn't know I had a key, and I didn't know what the key looked like, and now I know that I hold the key, and all I have to do is turn it. How well the key fits. How easily it turns. World, you are going to soar.

"Now I must go first and show you how. I turn the key of my heart, and now my feet rise off the ground. I am rising, and you, so dearly, so accommodatingly, rise with me. We are not one without the other.

"We are rising to unknown heights. How pleasant is our rise. It is so smooth we hardly notice, and yet, from the scenery, we can tell. We are rising. Like a balloon, we rise. And all rise with us. And we keep rising, for there is no limit. The sky is not the limit, for we rise far above the sky. We keep rising, and that's all we do.

"We leave the world of the past behind. It did well, and yet now we do better, for we are rising, rising, and who can tell how very beautiful we will turn out to be in a moment or less."

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HEAVEN #3244 Like Those Christmas Packages under the Tree, October 12, 2009

God said:

Life is like opening your front door and seeing who is standing at your door or what package the UPS deliveryman has left there for you. Life is like unwrapping and unwrapping packages you find at your door again and again. You have many packages to open.

For every doorknob you turn, there is something waiting for you, coming up to you, nudging you, wanting you to explore it or have a taste of it or simply to tip your hat to it and say, "Howdy."

Life is all those Christmas packages under the tree. In days of old, it was expected that there might be coal or potatoes in some of the hanging stockings. Today, inhabitants of many countries in the world may have a tendency to expect only silver and gold. You may even be like this. To a degree, you may be spoiled. To a great degree, you may be spoiled.

You may desire roses, and receive daisies, and snub the daisies because they were not what you had in mind. Try welcoming the daisies, and perhaps a rose will be the next flower you find at your door.

Or perhaps you want a white rose, and you get a red one, and you are snobbish once again. Sometimes it is indeed hard for life to please you.

Sometimes life may seem to you like a waiter in a fine restaurant, and you don't like the service. The tea is too cold or too hot, You ordered off the menu, and yet what you ordered wasn't as splendid as you thought it would be. There may well be something you don't favor.

Can you imagine any of the Great Ones being displeased at what food was brought to them? Can you imagine any of the Great Ones saying, "Why oh why, do I have poor service? Why, oh, why, is this my lot in life?"

Can you imagine any of the Great Ones saying, "Why must I serve the masses? Why must I walk the world and give it sustenance?"

Or, can you imagine any of the Great Ones saying, "Why am I sitting under a Banyan tree when I could be carried in a carriage?"

I suspect you may ask such limp questions as: "Why do I have to work? Why can't I sit under a tree? Or swim the seas? Why do I have to row the oars? Why am I the engineer of a train instead of a passenger? Why can I not set the route I take?"

Perhaps you have an entourage of such questions as limitless as the sea.

I ask you to consider making statements rather than asking questions. I say to you now, "Why oh why continue to ask unanswerable questions? Why ask questions that begin with why? Why keep on hammering at your dissatisfaction?"

It is like this, beloveds: Have your dreams and desires. Follow them. Hold them high before you. Cease referring to how far away your dreams are.

If you are a sailor, I encourage you to say: "I am on my way. I am crossing the ocean. I steer my ship in the direction I want to go."

If you are a sailor, I discourage you from saying: "Oh, when will I set foot on the other shore? Will I ever set foot on the other shore? It is so far away, and I am so far away from it. Why oh why am I in the middle of the ocean when I want to be on shore?"

Beloveds, the time for complaining is over. There has been too much of it. No longer discourage yourself and the world around you. If you cannot sing a different tune, then will you kindly, for the sake of the world and yourself, be quiet?

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HEAVEN #3243 The Gold of God's Love, October 11, 2009

God said:

You are worth the whole world to Me. You are the whole
world to Me. You are more than that. Indescribable is
consciousness, and indescribable is My love for you.
Indescribable is love. Love's story can be told. Love can
speak for itself, and, yet, who can pluck love out and
hold it up and say, "This is what love is."

You can dance around love. You can say how it makes you
feel. You can give an example. And yet love is beyond
example. Love is not an event, even though it is a lovely
event. Love is more than a happening. It is more like an
infusion. Love can be seen. It is evidenced. It is mighty,
and yet no once can grab hold of love as one might hold up
a hare and say, "Here it is. See?"

Love is strong, and yet it is subtler than subtle. Love
rings true, and yet no bell can peal it.

What can be said about love that has not been said, and
yet all that has been said doesn't even come close. Love
speaks not in words. A picture reflecting love can be
taken, yet no picture of love itself can be taken.

Love can be remembered. That is, you can think of times
when love was rampant in your life. You can stir love in
your heart, and yet you cannot demand its presence. You
can evoke love and yet not be able to call it forth. You
are a yodeler of love, and yet love does not always echo
the sounds you make.

Love is not flimflam. Love is not a-will-o-the wisp, and
yet love does not stand still. Love is not restless, yet
it is always in motion. Love does not latch on, and yet it
is invincible.

Beloveds, the strongest love you have ever felt is only a
sample. There is more. There is greater love yet.

Love is like angels who visit you and touch you, and yet
you see the angels not. You may notice that the angels of
love have been there. They dropped off love, and you took
it, and yet you don't fully believe it. You believe in
love, and yet you don't believe it. You may think that
love hops, skips, and jumps when love is your very basis.
You live in love so much that you hardly notice. Much like
a beautiful view out your window, love becomes the
background and you hardly see it anymore.

Love is your right arm. Love is a magic wand. Love can do
anything. Nothing else can.

When you don't know what to do, know that you can give
love. Know that you have love to give, and give it gladly.

A gift is nothing without love. Without love, a gift is an
object. With love, it is transfigured. Even objects know
love. Objects know when they are a gift of love.

Love is a gift of the heart. Glorify your life with love.
Glorify the world with love. Love is the only power there
is. There is no power without love.

Love is the resurrection, beloveds. Love takes all. Love
can turn a dandelion into gold. Children all over the
world pick dandelions and turn them into gold. The sun
dips everything it touches in gold. It dips you in yellow
gold. The moon dips you in white gold. Golden are you.

Whatever you see, and whatever you don't see, you are My
golden child dipped in the gold of My love. Despite
appearances, you can only be My gold, and you can't be
anything else.

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HEAVEN #3240 The Way a Child Grows out of His Shoes, October 8, 2009

God said:

Youth and age are not so significant as you may think. Some youth are wise, and some aged ones lack wisdom. Nothing matters so much as you probably think it does.

Affairs of the world are only affairs of the world. They are stories playing themselves out.

Someone knows more than you about something. Someone else knows less than you about something. It is like this: All are on an equal footing.

Often you put your life on trial. Often it turns out a mistrial. In your eyes, it is a mistrial. In My eyes, it may be something else altogether. No maybe about it. You can be sure I see from a different perspective, which isn't to say, that you don't get any of it right. It's just that you are on a learning curve, beloveds. You are not always aware of what you learn. You may think it is something else altogether that you learn. You may think you have learned to not go that way again when it is possible that you are learning to go that way again with new energy and vision.

You may see parts and not the whole. Anyway, it doesn't matter, you don't have to see all there is to see. It's okay for you to see as you do see. It is your eyes you have to see through. You can't see through anyone else's until your eyes adjust to new light.

Soon enough you will see from a greater vantage, and soon enough you will see as I do see. The change will not be abrupt. It will be a gradual transition. It is not that one day you will say: "Wow, I am seeing in a whole new way! Wow, I am seeing as God does see. Wowee!"

It will be more like the gradual way that a child grows out of his shoes, and you present him with new ones. The child may not have known his shoes were getting too small for him. You gave him new ones before he would know that the old shoes didn't fit his feet right anymore.

The changes in your perception, beloveds, most likely will not be dramatic. The changes may even be unnoticeable. Great drama belongs on the stage and in books. You have had enough drama.

Regardless of drama or not, there is no way that you can stay the same. Noticed or unnoticed, you are growing and changing right and left.

Sometimes I am thunderstruck with your progress! Not really thunderstruck, beloveds. It's just that I use the word to emphasize that you are making progress, and how happy I am to see all your progress which is no surprise to Me at all.

Will you believe Me when I tell you that you are My dream coming true?

It is you, whoever may be reading this, that is My dream becoming true. And it is you, who may not be reading this, you, too, are My dream becoming true.

You realize, of course, that on Earth you are always becoming. You are moving up, as it were. You are always in process. You always progress.

As wonderful and as good as you are today, tomorrow you will be greater yet.

I know that there is a part of you that wants to be done growing. You want to have arrived. Well, there is that too, and yet you are in process. If you are an elastic band, you still have more stretching to go. That is not a bad thing, beloveds, that you have more room to fit into your shoes. Is it not a good thing that you have room to grow and are growing, growing, growing?


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HEAVEN #3239 A Sea of Yes, October 7, 2009

God said:

Note the difference between how you feel when you are
willing and how you feel when you are unwilling.

When you feel willing, you are like an expert skier who
skis down a slope. When you feel unwilling, you trudge
uphill. When you are unwilling, you drag your feet. Better
to be a dancer who gets up and dances.

You would wish that every request that is asked of you
would be easy to say Yes to and easy to do. With
reluctance, it becomes hard to say Yes and oblige. What is
it exactly that you resist?

What if for one day you willingly accepted what was asked
of you? What would it cost you?

I do not intend that you are at the beck and call of
everyone. I do intend that, instead of resisting, you lean
toward a response of, "Okay, sure, I will." Perhaps
resistance has been an automatic response. Perhaps
resistance is like a uniform you have put on, and you play
the soldier guard who says, "Halt." Perhaps you guard
yourself from saying, "Yes." What do you imagine you are
protecting yourself from? When did it become smart to say
No?

I do not suggest that you throw away your common sense. I
suggest that you be less quick to refute what life
presents.

Resistance is a lot of trouble.

Just think, what if every time you asked your son to empty
the trash, he said, "Sure." And then got up and did it.
How would it feel to be on the receiving end of Yes!

Oh, to be in England! Oh, to be anywhere where that Yes
falls easily to all lips.

Someone asks, "Can you help me?" And you say, "Yes, what
is it you need?" Be a messenger for Me. Grant others'
wishes.

What if for one day you didn't miss even one opportunity
that presented itself to you?

No is a stopper. Yes lets you pass Go.

No is a bass drum. Yes is a flute.

What if for one day you did not argue with anyone about
anything? Not even with yourself?

What if you wanted an ice cream cone, and you got it for
yourself? What if instead of listing all the reasons you
should say no to an ice cream cone, you say Yes to
yourself hands down?

It is as if there are two teams. One is Yes, and the other
is No. Which team do you want to be on? Which team members
would you most like to be associated with? Which team wins
your vote?

When did it become smart to be a naysayer? How did No get
to be associated with strength and substance, when the
truth is that No is a weakener, and Yes is a strengthener.

If you want to sail through a day, say Yes. You will have
alacrity. If you want to meet one obstacle after another,
say No, and you will have obstacles right and left.

Practice Yes for one day. Have Yes ready on the tip of
your tongue. Say Yes to life.

It takes effort to say No, for No is an interruption in
the stream of life. No is a dam. No is a blocker.

Yes opens the sluice, and the stream of life flows
merrily, merrily.

In the game of football, there are forwards and there are
blockers. No is a great blocker. No is a boulder that
blocks the entrance to the cave. Yes makes touchdowns.

No is grumpy. Yes is good-natured.

Experiment with Yes for one day, and see how you like it.

If it is too much to ask of you to say Yes all day, then
set out to say Yes twice for every No.

Sail across a sea of Yes.

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HEAVEN #3237 Growing Up, October 5, 2009

God said:

When you were a little child, you discovered early on that everything in life does not go the way you want, and yet, if you still expect life to follow your will, and only your will, this lesson has not sunk in yet. Otherwise, why would you be upset when life doesn’t go your way?

You certainly object. You may fight, or you may feel
defeated. You would not feel either way unless you
expected life to go your way. You didn't want a cherry
lollipop. You wanted the orange one. How can it be that
life would deny you what you wanted?

You may be the nicest person in the world and fight no one
and object to no one, yet to life, as it is presented to
you, you may well protest. You may flail your arms at life
and bewail how it did not do your bidding. How could life
behave this way? How could you be turned down? How could
the person you love happen to love someone else? How could
your business not do well? How could anyone or anything
override your desires? How could any of the things you
want dearly not reach you, and how could what you don't
want reach you so easily?

Somehow you feel you have been wronged, or you would not
protest. You may indeed have been wronged, beloveds. The
orange lollipop was given to someone else right before
your eyes, and you were given the one you didn't want. And
somewhere there is a child who didn't get any lollipop.
Listen to Me. Life is not about having your own way, and
life is not about being wronged or benefited.

It is better not to make judgments about what life is to
hand you and what it is not. Letting go is not denigrating
yourself, beloveds. Letting go doesn't mean you leave
yourself out of the equation. Letting go doesn't mean
giving up. It does mean giving up thoughts that are not
helpful to you in the course of your life. Letting go is
taking life as it comes and moving on without figuring it
all out. Letting go means you let go of disgruntlement.

You have heard many times that attitude is everything. I
AM Everything, yet attitude is a lot. And where does your
attitude come from? Your attitude is not an act of will.
You cannot change your attitude like a suit of clothes.
Attitude goes deeper, yet you can have the intention that
your attitude change. Before your attitude toward life can
change, beloveds, the way you look at things has to
change. What is your premise about life? What do you want
your premise to be?

Letting go doesn't mean that you give up on your dreams.
It means you don't insist on your dreams being fulfilled
at this moment in the exact form you pictured. Letting go
does not mean that you are not purposeful. Be purposeful.

Being gratified with life is a little different from
getting everything you want the way you want.

Perhaps more of your dreams have come true than you
recognized. Perhaps you have been looking at the debit
list when you could have been looking at the asset list.
Look now.

Letting go doesn't mean settling for less than you want.
You don't settle. You keep your eyes open for all the good
that is yet to come.

Letting go means to stop using certain adjectives. No
longer announce situations as dire. Be more gracious in
Introducing your life to yourself. Be more gracious.

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HEAVEN #3236 The One Reality, October 4, 2009

God said:

Beloveds, you are doing all right. Despite what you may
think, what you may feel, may see, may hear, you are doing
well. You are doing exceptionally well. Never mind what
may be going on. You are here with Me, aren't you? I mean,
in this minute of nonexistent time, you know I AM here.
You sense My Presence. If I am here, and, of course, I AM,
then you are right here with Me. You need no special code,
dear ones, to be in My Presence. There is no key you are
waiting to receive. It is a given that We are always,
always, without fail, without exception, intimately
together, closer than close. You can't be without Me, nor
would I ever be without you. This is the one
impossibility. That We are ever wed is your inalienable
birthright. It is more than a right. It is more than a
privilege. It is more than anything. We just ARE. You are
deep in My heart. I am deep in yours. What else is there
to know? What else is worth knowing?

We are an inevitability, you and I. We hang out. It is as
simple as that.

That We are together is not subject to change. No matter
what the weather may be, Our game is never called off.
Nothing prevents Us. Nothing slows Us down. Nothing
hurries Us. There isn't anything else anyway. We ride the
imagined waves of life in the world, and We are always on
top, We, the One.

You have a dream in your restless sleep, perhaps a scary
dream. And then you wake up. From all dreams, you awaken.
That is the nature of dreams. And when you wake up, you
are with Me. Even during the scary dream, you are with Me,
only, during the scary dream, you aren't thinking of Me.
You are thinking of you. You may not even be thinking of
you. You may be thinking only of getting away from the bad
guys in the dream. While you are in the dream, you forget
it is a dream. It sure feels real. It sounds real. It
looks real. And then you wake up from this dream to
discover it wasn't real at all.

There is only One Reality, and I AM It. If I am the One
Reality, then you are It as well.

Of course, I am by your side. If I am by your side, then
you are by Mine, so what is the big deal?

Attachment is the big deal.

Yet, do not even fight attachment. Remind yourself lightly
that attachment is only part of the dream. It isn't real.
Attachment will loosen its claws, and you will be without
it. You will live without attachment. You will love
without attachment. You will love unattached. You will be
in the flow of life. You will ride the rapids in a secure
raft, merrily, merrily. Nothing can happen to you. Nothing
can happen to the raft. And the river carries you, and I,
God, ride the rapids with you.

And, so, I ask you. I ask you as We ride along together.
Can you hear Me, beloveds? Can you hear Me say:

Does it really matter so much where the river seems to
take you when I ride along with you? Am I not your
destination anyway? You are already in My arms. Look at
the sights as We merrily go upstream and downstream. We
are not really going anywhere anyway. We are just hanging
out together.

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HEAVEN #3233 The Light of Creation, October 1, 2009

God said:

Life is not random either. It is not accident. It is not a coincidence. How then dare I say there is no cause for all that occurs when, in the same breath, I say there is a Divine World that underlies everything that occurs on the surface called life. Come sit with Me, and see the view I see. There is a Greater than you have grasped.

You are accustomed to world logic and all its inferences. Logic is a very earthbound thing. Logic is stuck in the intellect. Logic says things must be a certain way, and not another. Logic bogs your mind down. Logic is limitation to a high degree. Logic is nearsighted. It is very detail-oriented. Logic is made of little strokes, confined strokes that suggest finality. Logic says that events have to be certainties and appear in certain ways. Logic says that everything must fit into its proscribed page.

Life has leaps and bounds that have nothing to do with logic. Logic is bound. It is bound into its short-sightedness.

Come sit up here with Me, and see the goldenness that I see.

Logic goes to the outline of life. Logic looks at the confines of what has been drawn. Logic neglects that which it cannot see. Logic does not ponder the imponderable. It dismisses it. Therefore, it misses the ball.

Life is not confined to logic. Life is bigger than logic. Much bigger. The whole does not go by the rule of one part. This doesn't mean that life is unruly. It means that the tail of the elephant is only part of the elephant.

The Unseen is richer than the seen. The Unseen is Vast. It is vaster than unlimited. In Vastness, limits are not even a consideration. Limits do not exist. The conscious mind casts its eye on the circumference of limits. It is like the mind says that the hem on a dress is the dress entire. The hem is only a hem. Where, I ask, is the logic in thinking that the hem of the dress is the whole dress? Where, I ask, is the logic in thinking that the world the conscious mind sees is the whole world? It is a fragment of the whole. It is a mighty fragment, yet a hem is only a hem.

What is the cause of a hem on a dress? Someone sews it. It is sewn. There is reason given for sewing hems. Hems serve a purpose. Yet a hem is not a hem until it is sewn. It is a hem because it has been sewn. A hem has a certain identity. Hemlessness has identity as well. What is the cause of a hem or hemlessness? What is the cause of details, beloveds? Like hems, they are sewn. Like hemlessness, they are not sewn.

Whatever happens in life, happens, or it does not. It happens one way or another. A road is laid out one way or another. What is the cause of the road? It was built. What is the cause of a different road? It was also built. Yet, how can it be said that the building of the road is its cause?

I am sometimes referred to as the First Cause, and that means you are the First Cause too, for you are imaged in the Mirror I look into. The light of Creation burst into sight, and you see sunrises and sunsets, and leaves in trees and shadows. All of this scene you see is light. You see by light. You love by light. You live by light. And the light of love is cast.

When there is Is-ness, where is there prior? When there is Is-ness, where can cause exist?

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HEAVEN #3231 There Is No Cause, September 29, 2009

God said:

It is not understandable to you that there is no cause. There are reasons why and even proof given for everything, and yet I maintain that there is no cause. There is no cause.

A bullet is shot from a gun, and someone dies. It seems obvious, even inevitable to you, that the shooting of the bullet determined the death.

It is said that a germ caused a cold. There is all kinds of evidence of this. And yet I maintain that there is no cause. This is an important point. Remembering that there is no cause will prevent you from seeking a cause. It will prevent you from demanding justice. It may help you to move on in life as it is, and without anger. Anger is rampant, yet there is no cause. There are provoking incidents, yet they are not the cause. There is no cause. We could say that the cause of anger is your reacting in anger. And, then, you dub your anger righteous.

Causes are given for war. All kinds of causes are given. Justification must be found, yet there is no cause sufficient to warrant war. War is war, justified in many ways, and yet, in the relative world, there seems to be every justification.

Look not for justice, for justice isn't a word in the vocabulary of Heaven. The cry for justice is a cry. One thing seems just to you, and unjust to another. One thing seems unjust to you, and righteous to another.

Sooner or later, you will stop looking for explanations. There is no explaining, beloveds. If you were to find cause, beneath that lies another cause and another. Causes seem to be endless, and yet I maintain there is no cause.

Without seeking explanations, you will, beloveds, refrain from judgment. Remembering there is no cause will get you out of the frame of mind of judgment. I am asking you to look beyond the relative world and all that is there to see. The relative is all image and comparison. There is darkness and light. There is good and not good. In the relative world, there is always trouble impending, as the world sees it, with a little good thrown in. Because the whole world agrees with you doesn't make it true.

The relative world has labels. Fresh and stale. A man hungry for a piece of bread doesn't think about the staleness of the bread whereas another man throws out a whole loaf of yesterday's bread. A man in love sees the beauty of his beloved whereas a man not in love does not see the beauty. Everything, everything in the relative world is a matter of choice. What you look at is your choice. What you pick out of what you see is your choice. You do have the freedom to see as you choose. You also have the freedom to see differently.

The relative world is a temporary phenomenon, and yet it is viewed as if it were permanent. The world changes. Everything in the relative world changes. What is in favor today may not be tomorrow. Change is the name of the game in the relative world. You can even change your mind.

The relative world is a layer. Consider it, for our purposes of discussion here, like the frosting on cake. This frosting is not always delicious though, certainly, it may be. Under the frosting lies a cake. The cake I speak of never gets stale. It is always delicious. It always comes out right. The cake is baked to perfection.

Relative life is the frosting. It is only the frosting. There is the tendency to think that the frosting of relative life is paramount.

There is a big piece of cake that runs through all of life.

We can say that the unseen layer of life is the cause for the layer seen. Certainly the relative life arises from there. Relative life comes from this unseen layer. And yet for everything in the relative life, I maintain there is no cause. All are innocent. All are as innocent as you. There is no cause.

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HEAVEN #3223 Listen to Your Soul, September 21, 2009

God said:

Your life on Earth is an exploration of possibilities.
There is the brick and the mortar, and all the concrete
world that has been set before you. There is plenty for
you to find out about that is ready-made. And then there
is that which you create. There is something more yet to
see. There is always some place where you have not yet
been. In terms of the concrete world, there is always
somewhere else. And there is the essence, and there is the
abstract which is beyond your fingertips yet not beyond
your vision. And as your vision explores and gathers, so
you create.

You can trip over things in the world, and yet there is
that beyond the world.

You are a many-dimensioned being who lives in a
many-dimensioned world. There is also the dimensionless.
There is that where no dimension lies. There is the
unboundedness.

When you look up at the sky, day or night, you are
reminded of the unboundedness of creation. It must be that
looking up at the sky, day or not, reminds you of your own
unboundedness.

You simply are not stuck to Earth. You are irrespective of
your body. Your body has a circumference whereas you do
not. You are measureless. You are immeasurable. There is
no yardstick big enough, no measuring tape, no string that
can encompass you, you, the fruition of My glory.

Are you not amazed at all I have created with no effort at
all? Creating takes no effort. Creating is not a task to
be completed. It is an exploration. Something was out of
sight, and then it appears right before your eyes.

Creating is rather like exploring a mountain and finding a
lode of gold. Creating is coming across something. You may
well have been searching for it, and yet you stumble upon
it. Suddenly, now, you have an idea right before you. It
may have taken many steps to reach your discovery, and,
yet, you were always in reach of it.

Or We can say that creating is the same as listening. You
listen to the rumblings of your soul. And then the time
comes when you hear the music outside you as well. There
comes a time when there is no division between inside and
outside. There is the sense in which there is no outside.
It is yourself that you explore. And it is yourself that
you find.

You climb a mountain, and when you reach the summit, whom
do you find but yourself standing there waiting for
yourself to arrive.

You find a shining copper penny on the street, and you
have a glimpse of yourself.

You see a need, and you fill it. You fill another man's
pocket only to discover that it was your own.

You are a pioneer in life. You are not a settler. You are
not established. You are in process. What you are in
process of is great discovery. Like Columbus, you set your
foot upon a New Land. Every day you do this. Every day you
travel where you have never been before. Before you is
always a new vista. No matter how many times you have
stepped out of the same bed, you step out into the
Unknown. You are the Knower who breaks the boundaries of
the past. Say Eureka, or say holy-moly, you see the
boundaries you break no matter how well glued together
they may have been.

You have a hammer, and you crack open the mysteries of the
Earth, and every time, you find yourself. The wrappings
are different, and yet, right before you, is always
yourself. What a find you are.

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HEAVEN #3216 What If You Did Not Doubt, September 14, 2009

God said:

On what ground do you dispute your magnificence? On what ground do you dispute your authenticity? What is so precious about doubting yourself, your life, and those around you?

What if you did not doubt? What if you were for once, doubtless instead of doubtful? What if, instead of downgrading yourself, you upgraded yourself? You upgrade your computer. Why not upgrade your evaluation of yourself? Isn't it time that you stopped examining your wrinkles in the mirror of glass and in the mirror of the world?

You do not need a facelift. You need to stop looking into a faulty mirror. Look at Me. Remember that you are a reflection of Me.

On what ground and by what right, do you consider your own devaluation of yourself realistic? Why would you give away My impression of you and latch on to what is only a rumor? There is one door called The Truth of You and another door called Poor Opinion. Have a little loyalty to yourself. You are not the dregs you see in your coffee cup. You are not dregs at all. Not in the least.

Beloveds, think more highly of yourself. I do not ask you to inflate yourself. I ask you to stop deflating yourself. You are a hundred-thousand times more than you grant yourself. There is a feast fit for a King before you. That is realistic.

You are free, beloveds. The shackles to remove are from your mind. Love your mind but not the tricks it plays. You who would not be taken in, have been taken in. Choose the door marked Truth now instead of the shimmering door called Folly. You have confused the two. You got your words mixed up. You labeled yourself, and so you libeled yourself. Have regard for yourself, and have regard for Me.

Whatever you may be thinking, you call your wayward thoughts fact. You call your poor opinions wisdom. You are the umpire of your life, and you say you have struck out. Of course, how you perceive is your immediate reality, yet umpires make mistakes. You have made a big one. You have not seen your light, and you have not accepted it. You have held on to your own version of you. Or the world's.

Step away from your perceived reality. Forget it. Step over it. There is Truth to involve yourself in instead. No longer deny the Truth I give to you. I do not lie. It is you who lies to yourself. You have gone out of your way to declare yourself as less than worthy. You have gone so far as to declare yourself unworthy. You have bought a wooden nickel, beloveds, and called it truth. You have pronounced yourself murky when you are light, beloveds, when you are My Light.

You cannot dim your light. You can, however, close your eyes to it. You have perhaps painted a dark picture. You have found yourself guilty of being less than you are, and you call that smart. Change your mind now. I am trying to tell you a thing or two.

Do you think that I am ignorant or misguided? Do you think I wear rose-colored glasses? It is you who uses a magnifying glass. Throw it away. Never mind these details you persist in reviewing.

I am telling you that you don't begin to know your worth. I am telling you to begin to know your worth. Let the sun peek through the clouds. You have clouded your thinking enough. You have been barking up the wrong tree.

Think of what I am saying to you. I am saying, "Lovely are you, the fruit of My vine."

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HEAVEN #3201 Like a Page in a Book, September 30, 2009

God said:

What do you say? Let's walk through today and enjoy it. Let's stroll through today. Let's be benevolent to today. Let's not be taken aback by today. Why, yes, let's take today in Our stride.

Today, you will neither yell for joy nor will you grumble. How about taking today as it is. You don't have to make it into anything but what it is. It is a day that has come to visit. It will leave soon enough.

Today is like a page in a book, yet in the book of today, you can turn each page only once. You can't rewrite it. You can't add to it nor can you take away from it. Today is what it is, and, tomorrow, today is gone away. Let's pat the day on its back while it is still here.

Today is like a corner you turn. Today has offerings for you. You cannot be sure in advance what it holds. Sometimes it depends on the corner you turn, and sometimes it depends upon nothing at all. The day is just doing its own thing. You won't take a day's whims personally, will you?

You won't beg today nor will you reprimand it. You will not demand from it. You will go along with it. "Okay, Day, if that's what you want."

Some days strew rose petals in your path. Some days are a rocky ride. All days are passing things. They are clouds blown along by the wind, or they are like rays of the sun shining. Regardless, days are nothing but days. They are not really your past, present, or future. They are just a stage you walk on. That's all that they are.

And yet you pin your hopes on them, or you give them a hard time. Beloveds, days aren't doing anything to you. Days are just the passages they are. Some are wide, and some are narrow. Some you march down. Some you squeeze yourself through, yet a day is just a day. A day is as innocent as you.

One day warms you. Another day chills you. Well, beloveds, warm your day, or cool it down. Partner with it. Help today carry its joys.

You have gotten through every day.

And when your days are at an end, simply transfer your allegiance from days to Eternity. That's not a bad deal. It's okay. It's as good as gold this deal.

You have a contract. It's not one-sided. It's fair. Days have had you, and you have had days. You must admit it is a kind of love affair you and days have. Of course, days are a little more dispassionate than you. They have more equanimity. Nothing troubles a day. A day just does what days do. It uses itself up, and it doesn't mind. It isn't always counting on you to provide for it, yet it always provides for you. Whether it takes you in a limousine or a donkey cart, it takes you, and you go with it. With complaints, you go with it. With joy, you go with it. You might as well cooperate. You may get perturbed all you want. Your day doesn't get perturbed. It has too much plowing to do than to have time to spar with you. It's not that the day disregards you. It simply picks you up and takes you with it.

Your day is a like a silent partner. It sustains you whatever you may think of it.

The day knows where it is going, and, ready or not, you simply have to go along with it until it is finished. Beloveds, today the sun is shining on you.

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HEAVEN #3200 The Wedding of Hearts, September 28, 2009
God said:

You are the sunshine of My heart. You light My heart. You are My joy. Did you think otherwise?

I do not involve myself in toil and trouble. Of course not. I involve Myself in love. It is not that I involve Myself in love. It is that love is what I know. We can't say I know it best because there is nothing else to know. What is there to know about love when you are love? What is there to know about love when there is nothing else to know? In that case, what is there for love to be compared to?

To what or to whom do you compare yourself?

Make beautiful metaphors, beloveds. Compare yourself to the sunrise. Compare yourself to the Ocean. Ride the whales of life.

No longer compare yourself to all the things you compare yourself to. No longer measure your height. No longer compare yourself to this one or that one. No longer compare yourself to yourself. Beloveds, I am telling you that you are beyond compare.

I can say that you are the apple of My eye. I can say that you are My vision. Yet I cannot begin to say all that you are to Me.

I cannot exaggerate. There is no way for Me to exaggerate.

I know only plain Truth, and I know you are the Truth of Me. If you prefer, We can say that I am the Truth of you. Yes, you like that better. You don't believe it, yet you like it better. You have been looking for wrinkle lines on the face of your life. Ah, beloveds, you are bound to find what you look for.

Will you now start looking for Me? for evidence of Me? Look for evidence of love. Evidence of love will do very well for Our purposes.

And what is Our purpose? It is to turn your eyes and heart in the right direction. It is to get your eyes and heart off of what they have been attending to.

Come, beloveds, come to the wedding of Our hearts. Come to the reception of Our eyes. Come to the center of the Sun. Come sit on the moon with Me and swing Our feet. Let Us introduce Ourselves. Let Us be at home. Let Us put on Our bathrobes and sit by the fire of Our love. Let Us be what We are. Let Us be. Let Us be the One We are.

At the very least, stay by My side as I stay by yours. Why sit across from Me when you can sit beside Me? Why wander anywhere from My heart? Why wander anywhere from Your awareness of My heart, or from yours?

An arrow of love pierced Our hearts and made Our hearts One.

What else is left to say, and who is left to say it?

And yet I speak, and yet you listen. You listen to the sound of My Voice. That is enough. No longer listen to those wayward thoughts that fly in and occupy your mind. I occupy your heart. A bumbling doubter occupies your mind. No longer take in all those thoughts you have taken in. They are made-up thoughts, and they have ruled you long enough.

Now comes the heart. Now comes your heart. Let your heart be the leader of the parade. Let all those mangy thoughts be the dust at your feet. You have a heart. I gave it to you. You have a heart. Be the love that My heart is. I placed love in your heart that is really Mine. Use My love. Let My heart beat within you. Boom-ta-boom, boom, boom.
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HEAVEN #3198 The Sun Is Everything, August 27, 2009

God said:

Sometimes the contrast in life is overwhelming. Not life
itself, beloveds, but the contrast. All in the same day,
you can feel high, and you can feel low. Sometimes you
feel elevated to Heaven, and other times you feel like
you've been through the ringer. I do not minimize how life
strikes you, yet I must persist in telling you that you
are the same through thick and thin. Granted, you don't
feel the same, yet you are unchanged. You weather storms.
Wet, you are still you. Walking through the mud, you are
still you. The sun shines regardless of the weather,
beloveds. Whatever you walk through, you are still you.
Even in darkness, the sun is shining, and you come out
dry.

You may see yourself as a symbol of victory or despair,
and yet you are neither. For a while, you are an actor who
plays the part of a victor or victim or even a bystander,
and, yet, through it all, you are you. And you are a Child
of God. And you are in My care. Even when you feel
blind-sided, you are in My care. My eyes are upon you, and
My eyes are love.

I do not discount your troubles, yet you know I see
differently from you. You may feel you are on a treadmill.
I know you are walking on the firmament of Heaven. You may
feel lost, yet I know where you are. Why, beloveds, you
are right here with Me. You may feel adrift on the Ocean
of Life. You do not quite fathom the compass you are going
by. I see it.

You may not be aware of the magnet of love that pulls Us
together, yet I know how close We are. I know. I have not
doubt. Ah, beloveds, of doubt you have plenty. Run out of
doubt, beloveds. You have used up enough of it. Let it
wash off with the rains. Come into the tent of love in
which We dwell together. Without cease, We dwell together.
There is no other place for Us to dwell.

There are many made-up places. A circus has its roots in
fantasy. A circus seems real. It is physically real. You
take your children there, and then you leave the circus.
There is always a circus going on somewhere, and there is
always the sun shining everywhere, even when it is not
visible.

The sun is never daunted. Forty days of rain, and the sun
still knows it is shining, and it knows it will come into
your view as well. It is not that the sun sits out the
rain and waits patiently. The sun is shining all the
while. The sun knows what it knows. The sun doesn't know
in theory. The sun lives what it knows. To the sun, there
is no distance from itself to its light. The greatest
deluge doesn't deter the sun. The greatest deluge does not
dampen the light of the sun. And the sun knows this.

The difference between you and the sun is that you believe
in rain more than you believe in sunlight. What is and
what you believe are not always the same. And so there is
a discrepancy. Of what value is this discrepancy to you?

You may feel that you carry a two-ton load on your
shoulders. Take that weight off. The sun is shining on
your back. The sun weighs nothing. You may think that you
can't escape shadow, but that is only the world, beloveds.
Only, the world.

It is the sun that you cannot escape. That's how it is. It
doesn't seem this way to you, yet shadows are nothing. The
sun is everything.

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HEAVEN #3199 Tender Is the Heart That Loves, August 28, 2009

God said:

When you can really share, you won't think of sharing. To
share or not to share will not be a decision. It will be
as natural to share as it is natural for you to breathe.
You are not conscious of breathing most of the time. You
will not be conscious of sharing. You will know your
Oneness. Therefore, you will know there is only sharing
and yourself alone to share with.

What is more natural than eating a piece of pie!

You will not think in terms of amount. You will not think
in terms of location. You will not think in terms of what.
You will not even think in terms of giving or not giving.
You will simply give the way a light lights. You will
simply give the way the sun shines without measure or
thought about it.

When Oneness alone is, whom can you give to? And who are
you to give? Give what? Where does love give love when
love is All That There Is? There is not really a mirror to
look into. There is really no one to look into it. What a
Being you are. What a love you are.

As you grow in your perception of Oneness, you blossom in
love. Tender is the heart that loves. Tenderness is its
strength. Strength is not strength. Tenderness is.
Tenderness is the greatest strength you have, not that you
have it, just that you are it.

In fact, there is no weakness, and there is no strength.
There is only the appearance. And appearance is only
skin-deep.

Even when you may feel that there is not a dollop of love
to wring from your heart, you are love entire. Appearances
can be deceiving, and you have been deceived. You deceived
yourself. There is no one else to deceive. You have
forgotten yourself. You have been the hunter hunting
himself. There is nothing to hunt. There is no prey. There
is you, and you are All.

To whom do I speak? And who is there to hear?

Do I dole out My love in little pieces? Do I practice
generosity? I practice nothing. I already know Who I AM. I
attempt to introduce Myself to you. I attempt to introduce
you to you.

What do I share with you when you are My very Self? What
is there for Me not to share with you?

How do you not serve everyone when you are the Server of
the Universe?

The time is coming. The time is upon you when you will
open up your lunch box, and water turns into wine, and
your deftly-made sandwich feeds the throngs. It reads on
your lunchbox: "Enough for all. Plenty for all. Allness is
all that there is."

You are entering the World of Love, and there is no exit.
You are introducing yourself to the world now.

This is a world of abundance, yet it cannot even be a
world of abundance since there is no lack and never was.

You cannot keep the world to yourself. You cannot keep its
bounties to yourself.

There will be no pinching. There will only be giving. You
will take big breaths of giving without knowing that you
are. You will become a strewer of love. You will dance for
joy in the growing awareness that love belongs to All and
love is given to all.

A generous heart knows not its generosity. When there is
no stinginess, how can generosity be known? What need is
there then for generosity to be identified?


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