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No one can donate love on your behalf. You cannot hire someone to disseminate your love. By the same token, no one can hide your love but you. No one can disguise it. No one can spit out less than love from your mouth but you. You are the only one. This is a wonderful thing now to know that you are the sole proprietor of the love in your heart. This means that you are the boss. You alone have the key. There is only one key, and no one else has the capability of turning it. You may have thought otherwise, but no one except you has the capability of opening your heart or closing it. You are the manager and magician of your own heart. This awareness puts an end to the imagined power of circumstances once and for all.

The only valid circumstance on earth is that your heart is made of love. Therefore, the responsibility for sharing it is yours and yours alone. If your heart has hardened, it is for you to warm it up. If your heart has turned to stone, you are the one to pull the sword out. You are the designated one. You designate your heart open or shut and how much. You are the gatekeeper of the flow of your heart. You are the decider of your heart's fate.

Do not hide the love in your heart from yourself. Have you not kept your unbounded love a secret from yourself above all? You thought your heart was a delicate hot-house flower capable of flourishing only under certain conditions. But your heart is a stalwart weed that can grow everywhere. It can even grow where nothing else does. Your heart of love is limited only by the decrees you make.

Make a note of this. You are the keeper of your heart. You are the maintainer of it. Tender your heart. Free it from any bounds you have set.

You can love your enemy. Who can if not you? Enemies as well as love are made in your heart. If you have kept prisoners there, it is now for you to free them. Take off the signs that say enemy. You put those signs up. Turn the arrow on the dial of your heart to unknown and from there it is not a far cry to the space where friend is written. The name of the game you play is Friend or Foe. And you are the assigner.

You may think I am giving you a casual approach to life, that I take lightly the dangers that surround you at every corner. How else should you take imagined things but lightly? How much good has your watchful penetrating approach done for you? Looking for enemies, you will find them. They will march right up to you. They have.

By the same token, look for friends, and they will be there. They will come to you.

There is a parade of people waiting for you to tell them whether they are friend or foe. These people are near and they are far. The messages from your heart extend everywhere. The messages from your mind the same.

Some hearts seem to relish a good fight. Those same hearts would relish good friends more. Which side of the line do you think your heart wants to be on? Follow your heart, not some heart-rending thoughts.

Here is a list of the contents of your heart: Love.

Subheadings are: Love freed. Love held prisoner.

Have you not called the love in your heart by other names than love?

Heavenletter #4018 Published on: November 25, 2011

You are My buttercup, and I fill you to the brim with the nectar of love. And now love is for you to spend. Overflowing love overflows, and you are not to stop it. That is what being innocent means. You do not give thought to loving. You love. Externals are not so meaningful to you. Giving love is meaningful. Instead of courting people, you court love. Side by side, hand in hand, love and you keep company. You are in the company of God Who is Love.

I am the precursor of love. I am the love poured into your heart, and you are to give Me away splendidly. By giving My love away, that is how you retain Me. I am the retainer of love. Spend Me. Spend Me lavishly. There is always more of Me.

That which is held flees. That which is let go keeps.

I do not hold on to you tightly. I gave you free will. I gave you free will gladly. There is no other way to keep you. I have no leash on you, beloveds. Therefore, you desire to come closer. You want to play in My green pastures. You want to spend My heart as I so desire you to do. Spend love. There is no cost.

Spend love the way rain nourishes the Earth. Spend love the way the sun shines on Earth. Sun and rain give themselves. They are rapture.

Love is not hesitant. Love gives of itself. It gives fully. Love is caring, not careless. It is not stingy. It doesn't keep track. It does not segregate. It congregates. It does not tease. Love does not spoil. It pours so it is always fresh. Love is not indulgence. Love simply pours itself out.

Which of you has had too much love? Which of you has had enough love? Which of you knew My love right along? I am a constant outpouring of love. I am always rife with love. I spend love so marvelously. It is no expense to spend love. It is a treat. It is entering a waterfall and cooling off from anything that does not fill the human heart.

I have said that everything is a form of love, yet let Us pour pure love. Love is not so much action. It is Being. Love is like a bird singing. A bird sings from love. A bird does not talk of love. He sings it. Let your heart be a bird that sings love.

A bird does not limit his audience. He sings to all within his radius. Sing your love the same. All are within your radius. There is no one and nothing in the world that is not in the radius of your love.

You are either giving out love, or you are looking for it. Give out love. Let it pour from you, and you will replenish yourself. Love out is love in. There is no discrimination when it comes to love. If you are not feeling loved, spend more, and you will receive your love in a million ways. At the same time, what you receive is not the question. What you give is the question, and it is not meant to be a question at all. Just give.

Giving love does not hurt. Giving love and naming a return may hurt. Love is not meant to be given with a binder. Love for the joy of loving. Love here, love there, love everywhere. Expand your heart. Welcome the Universe to your heart of love.

Heavenletter #1786 Published on: October 11, 2005

Life is to be savored. It is a good stew cooking on the stove. You take a taste now. The next bite may be more delicious. The aroma captures you. The stew continues to cook, and you continue to stir and taste. Relish life the way you do something delicious cooking on the stove. Or baking in the oven. Or cooling in the refrigerator. Or on your plate.

Life is meant to be tempting. You are meant to be the enjoyer of it. Perhaps you have had a sour taste in your mouth, and this affects the taste of everything. You are the one who tastes life. Taste it at its best. Come to it new every day, just as you do to food. Whatever the menu was yesterday, today’s may offer a new specialty of the day, or the same one, but always with fresh ingredients. Or perhaps today will appear as a new restaurant. This is today’s Grand Opening.

Why not relish life? Why not smack your lips at it? Life is not old hat. No matter what, it is not. Even if the external should stay the same, you are someone who is rising. Your perception is changing, the same way the sun’s light moves on and finds other details to alight on, so do you. Sunlight moves, and your eyes do not see the same as they did yesterday.

Life is to be devoured. You are not just to sit through it as you might a dull play. If your life lacks interest, then that is your incentive to enliven it. Invent a new dance step. Stand up on a chair. Or sit down and write a poem. What you write has never been written before. It has been waiting for you. I have been waiting for you.

What are you waiting for, beloveds? Another day? The day is here. This is the day I have set before you. Entertain it.

Today is the platform you stand on. It is a bridge you walk on. It is the bridge of yourself. You are the one who goes across it. The bridge can’t go anywhere, but you can. You can find what is on the other side. First, you must get up and walk. The bridge cannot carry you unless you walk on it.

Be your own incentive. Have you perhaps been playing a waiting game? Have you been sitting in a waiting room, waiting for life? Life is here now, beloveds, and it is for you to partake of. It is My offering to you. It is My gift to you. I am blessing you with it.

Never mind all the offerings you make to Me. All the candles and pledges are nothing next to your enjoyment of today. Offer Me your enjoyment. Offer Me your smile. Offer Me a kindness you extend to yourself or to another. Make someone else smile, and your offering will go high on My altar.

As for your complaints, they have been repeated enough. The Age of Reason and its offspring, the Age of Complaint, are over. The Age of Love has risen. This is the age you live in. Information age is a misnomer. You live in the Age of Love, and love is what you are to leave to the heirs of life on Earth.

Think of it! You live in the Age of Love on Earth. You are a bequeather of love. Enjoy your life. Make it joy, and love will simply follow. Your destiny is today.

Heavenletter #1118 Published on: November 13, 2003

You can take action without anger. You can solve situations without anger. Anger is a signaler. It is not meant to be a ruler.

Anger lets you know there is something that needs tending to. Perhaps you have been sweeping something under the carpet.

You are always the cause of your own anger. It is your frustration after all.

Do not think that I am saying anger is not worthy. Anger serves its purpose of awakening you. But anger is not to live by.

You want to take care of anger, the way you would an unruly child. Anger IS an unruly child. You are piqued at something and then your pique grows to anger. Something in you gets irritated. It is not usually what you think.

There is a sensitive spot within you that gets irritated. It was already irritated, and then something else scratched it and brought it to your attention.

Not everything makes you angry. Only some things. Consider that fomenting anger comes from something in the past. Do not pretend it away. Take a good look at it and see what its message is. Ultimately, you are angry with yourself.

Somehow you placed yourself in that situation you find yourself in.

Wrest knowledge about yourself from that situation, and change what you can. And if you cannot make great changes at this moment, do what can be done at this moment.

Put anger in its place. It does not have to be at the front of your life. Admit, you are angry at your anger. Anger is maddening. You've got to do something with it. Address it. State your case to yourself. Your anger belongs to you. It does not belong to the people surrounding it. Acquaint yourself with what makes you angry. The situation is the offense. Do not displace your anger onto people. They would not be offenders except that you are in the situation you are in.

If you are a student, and a teacher makes you angry, the teacher is a symbol of your anger. Just as you are not the real cause of your teacher's anger, he isn't the cause of yours. You are players on the same stage with wants and desires yet unfulfilled. Start fulfilling them, and anger will disperse.

It is such a simple thing for someone to say Sorry. Say the word. It can trip off your tongue and change an entire situation, the same way Thank you can. Do not give excuses. Simply apologize instead. Acknowledge the facts.

In the case of the teacher, say: "I did my homework hastily. I didn't take the time. I'm sorry." Do not say what intervened, as if you were a hapless pawn. You chose not to do your homework well. No one and nothing else bears responsibility.

In the same vein, take responsibility for your anger. Do not foist it on who happens to be around. You are sorry you have anger. You can apologize to yourself.

Let your anger be a quick thing and then over. Notice it, do what's necessary, and let it go. As soon as you notice your anger, it has served its purpose.

Heavenletter #3770 Published on: March 22, 2011

When you think about it, what is anything? What is the worth of a piece of paper with a money amount and your name on it? It is worth to you the number put on it, and yet it is only a piece of paper. Everything and anything is worth to you the price you set on it. This applies to checks, items, furniture, and people.

You’re pretty good at estimating the worth of items. When it comes to people, you often fall short. How many people have you dismissed for no reason at all. You tossed their merit aside for an assumed reason, perhaps for the looks of the coat they wore. In your estimation, you somehow devalued people that, if you had seen through whatever blocked you, you might have found inestimable.

Don’t dismiss anyone so that you are not dismissed, for when you dismiss someone, you dismiss yourself.

There is no one who is irrelevant. Everyone is relevant. If someone comes before you or is even seen out of the corner of your eye, he or she came before you. Everyone comes for a reason. You don’t have to know the reason. You just have to acknowledge their presence. They may be tarnished like good silver. You are meant to see beneath outer appearances. Your inner blindness is often someone else’s outer appearance. You are the determinant of someone’s presumed value or lack of.

Sometimes whole peoples are undervalued because of superficialities. Until you know a person, or a nation, your under-evaluation is based on a supposition. Of course, you may attribute value to someone or a nation by the same premise. What do you value? Fame, fortune? Good looks, age, condition of skin? How many superficialities can you think of that decide the course of your life and what people you take into your heart and which people you do not.

Thankfully, you are not that way with dogs. You know that a scruffy dog may be a prince. You know that size isn’t the making or unmaking of a dog. A dog has no pretense. You give dogs a chance.

Sometimes in a fairy tale, it is said that the next person you see will be instrumental in your life. If you were told that and believed it, you would really look. You would really pay attention. All kinds of wonderful things could come from meeting someone. All you have to do is to keep your eyes and mind open.

I am saying to you that the next person you see may be instrumental in your life. He or she may be instrumental in opening your eyes, mind, and heart.

You have thrown away so many opportunities, and now I ask you to consider in equanimity all that comes before you. Give everything an even chance.

See what is. Do not see ahead of time or see later with regret.

Even if everyone before you is not delightful to you, you can still take delight.

Consider that all you meet have unexpected favors to give you. Suspect favors rather than anything else. Even someone who displeases you may be doing you a favor. Beloveds, you can even turn over a stone and find something of value. Unexpected delight is waiting for you. It is running after you.

It is better to go by present experience rather than past.

It is better to greet everyone as new. Give even someone you have seen every day for years a chance to be new. It is for you to see with new eyes. See the whole world with new eyes. See what happens.

Heavenletter #1345 Published on: July 23, 2004

Surface life is fleeting, but the Oneness of Life is implacable. The surface does not support you. The Unseen (but not the Unknown) does.

You are a ray of light. Rays of light come from somewhere. They come from Me. You come from Me. I have shone you on Earth. What else is there to say?

Roses do not worry. They grow. Trees do not worry. They grow tall. You worry.

You were made in My image. I do not worry. I would not know how to. And yet, you have perfected the skill of worry. Undo the knots of it. Worry is not to be your rosary beads. Let worry fall through your fingers. Let each worry fall and dissolve itself. You graciously accepted worry, as if it belonged to you. Now graciously let it go. Unlearn how to worry. Learn instead how to live life more amicably.

In the worry-mode, there is no end to worry. In the worry-mode, there is nothing but worry. Worry is a regurgitation of speculation. Your speculation has been endless. Put an end to it.

You are uneasy with worry. Be easy with it. Worry is nothing more than a worrisome thought, and thoughts come and go. Let go of worrisome ones. One rushes after the other. Perhaps you have collected worried thoughts as though they have value.

Go and worry no more. Leave worries behind like apple peels. Eat the apple and leave the peel.

Your worries are many, and your worries are huge, and yet they weigh nothing. They would not fill the tiniest atom, for your worries are made of nothing. You have been clicking knitting needles without yarn.

Worry squeezes life and puts it off. Worrying life is not living it. You are here to live, not worry.

Substitute love for all your worries. Why not? Cast aside your worries, and keep the love. Emphasize the love. Be accountable to love. Which would you serve? Love or worry? Which have you been serving the most? Where does your attention go?

Of course, worry equates with niggling fears. Love can never be niggling. Love is forthright, while worry is insidious. Worry is extraneous to you. Love is integral. When you honor the love in your heart, worry is automatically dismissed.

You are love, so you might as well be it. Do not divert from the love you were made with and of. Divert from worry and everything else that is less than love. Why waste your time on anything else? Of course, with love, there is no waste. Love is more than a time-filler. It is existence itself.

Take the love in your heart out from hiding. It may have been hiding behind worries. Push worries aside, and let love takes its rightful place in front. Let your life be led by love not worry.

Love honors that which you have been given. Love honors life. It is an honor to have this Human life you have. Not everyone has it. You have it. You are alive on Earth right now. Relish what you have right now. Do not squander your beautiful life on the imagined past or future. Do not save your life for later. Throw off all of your mind's encumbrances and swing into life itself. Dive into the rolling life before you.

How can you swim well when you keep looking back? You can swim looking ahead, but perhaps miss the pool you are in right now. Drink deeply of the draught of life that is in your hand.

Beloveds, be alive to yourself. Welcome yourself. In so doing, you welcome Me. Shine your light on Me, and I wink back.

Heavenletter #1346 Published on: July 24, 2004

If you have a problem, know that it is the way you perceive that makes it a problem. Regardless of what the world says, I am giving you the real story. When you and/or the world determines that something is a problem, you double its weight. When you accept life as it is, what then can the problem be? You need not be so handy at identifying situations as problems.

Even if the roof has caved in, what is the problem? It's already caved in, and now you clean it up and put a new one on. If you were building a house from scratch, you wouldn't think adding a roof was a problem. It simply would be part of what you were planning on in the first place. Because you did not plan on something doesn't make it a problem except that you call it one. You are a sleuth at pouncing on situations in life and yelling Problem.

And if you do not have the means to make a new roof, then you move somewhere else, or you live under the sky. To some that would be desirable. Even to you sometimes that would seem desirable.

Do not walk away from life. Walk away from your concepts.

Life itself is not too much for you. What you conclude may be too much for you.

No matter what, you are blessed. So long as you have life, you are blessed. And you always have life, so you are always blessed. And when the body dies, your life continues, and you continue blessed. Life, even with all its twists and turns, is a blessing. Life is a blessing I gave to you. Nevertheless, you are suspicious of life and wary of it.

Life wends its way. From one view, it is curvy. From another, it is a straight line.

It is certain that life will surprise you. Why be surprised at surprises? Must you be dismayed because your idea was thwarted and your plan was not followed?

You are stunned even by that which you know is inevitable. The inevitable does not postpone itself according to your idea. But everything, even your stubbornness teaches you to let go. Even death of loved ones teaches you that there is more to life on Earth than your perception of it. Your misconceptions are illusions, and you will do well to let go of illusion. You will do well, instead of listing problems, to erase your precluded ideas. Let your ideas serve you and serve you well.

If you are a logger, the chopping down of a tree is a good thing. If you are a conservationist, you bemoan it. But the tree serves regardless of its status. It will dig its roots deeper, or it will give itself over to another use. It does not quibble. Regardless, the tree serves. The tree has no ego. It doesn't think: "Oh, dear, I have tumbled over, what a sad plight. Now what can I do? What is to become of me?" The tree doesn't struggle to return itself to the spot it once held. The tree is amenable to change. Rain or shine, the tree knows its worth, knows it is not dependent upon what befalls. The tree plays its part well. Be it stump in the woods or table in your house, tree stands tall. Nothing diminishes it.

When you find yourself disturbed, remember the tree, enfold it in your heart. Put your hand over your heart, and know that the supreme strength of the tree is yours, and that all strength comes from a limitless Source, and that you have within you all the Almightiness there is.

Heavenletter #83 Published on: January 22, 2001

Let simplicity in and complexity out.

Complexity is not truth. Simplicity is.

One is a simple concept.

Reduce everything to one.

When everything is reduced to its simplest, you have truth. You have had much fringe on your thinking. Your thoughts have been tassels waving in the breeze. Let your thoughts return to the main of what is and release the exterior of what is not. You have created false images.

The not's of your mind have held you in their sway. The possibilities of not have gripped you. The censureship of the mind has gripped you. The mind gives you the possibility of failure as a weighty alternative. That possible failure is heavy, and mostly it resides in what someone else will think of you, and you take their thoughts as yours. What is failure but the concept of not achieving something you or someone else thought you had to? Do you see now how your life is based on your thinking of it rather than the living of it? Failure does not exist. Only false premises do.

Embrace the possibilities of Yes. That is a premise you can operate from.

If you cannot embrace the possibility of Yes, then embrace the possibility of Maybe. The concept of Perhaps alone will open vistas for you, for the closed mind has condemned you.

What is there that cannot be in the heart of God?

False trails lead you nowhere but back to yourself. Lost on a false trail, you return to where you started and set out again.

Back to yourself is a good place to be, for that is where everything begins.

Begin today to settle down to truth.

Get out of the way of truth.

Get out of the way of yourself.

You make too many demands. That is the same as to say that you try to take control. Any personal control you take is too much. You even control your letting go of control. You order its release, but you order it only so far. You still keep your eye on it. Your attention is more on control than it is on being. You cannot be into your beingness and control at the same time.

You order outcomes. Ordering a particular outcome denies you others. Control is holding on to your desire rather than allowing it to fulfill itself.

You do not have to order the dawn of the day. The sun comes without your control. You do not order the rose to bloom. It blooms from its own bloomability.

The most beautiful things are those that you do not try to control, or even imagine to control. The most beautiful events happen as if on their own. Love comes on its own. It bids itself to come. I have set everything in motion, and you must allow it to be what it is and reach where it will.

The truth is that you have no control. You cannot control life. Your control is only resistance, and your resistance comes from a precluded idea or two.

Nothing has to be the way you thought it had to be.

Your thoughts are wisps.

When you can accept that your calculations may have been miscalculations, you will be on a new footing. You will leave the old sticky past. You will arise to great before-unimagined heights because you will have let go of the ballast you held on to.

You have been a boat moored to shore. You paddled and paddled, and wondered why you couldn't leave shore. Now is time to unmoor the boat. Cast off.

You cannot stay at the so-called safety of shore and ride the waves of the ocean at the same time. Is that not what you have been attempting to do? Have you not hobbled yourself with old ideas you fashioned?

There is no sky without stars.

There is no boat that sails without direction.

There is no child of mine that can be lost from Me. He can only think that he is or someone else can think that he is. There is no truth to it. Your security is in Our connectedness, not in an old rope that holds you in place.

A dancer cannot dance without leaving the ground. It would not be dance if the feet adhered themselves to the dance floor. A voice cannot sing if it holds itself to itself. A voice must flute out to sing. And for you to live life on earth rather than just abide it, you must start out on your adventure with the supposed daring to leave the particulars of the outcome to Me. Not only some of it but all of it, not some of the time but all the time, not just the weather, but all of the trip. You must let go of your proscribed outcomes. You must even let them out of your sight, for you do not know what greatness lies before you and what you have withheld from yourself by holding on to certain outcomes and disallowing others. In other words, you do not know what lies just over the horizon.

Will you, once and for all, allow Me to give greater to you than you have deemed within your province?

Heavenletter #83 Published on: January 22, 2001

Let simplicity in and complexity out.

Complexity is not truth. Simplicity is.

One is a simple concept.

Reduce everything to one.

When everything is reduced to its simplest, you have truth. You have had much fringe on your thinking. Your thoughts have been tassels waving in the breeze. Let your thoughts return to the main of what is and release the exterior of what is not. You have created false images.

The not's of your mind have held you in their sway. The possibilities of not have gripped you. The censureship of the mind has gripped you. The mind gives you the possibility of failure as a weighty alternative. That possible failure is heavy, and mostly it resides in what someone else will think of you, and you take their thoughts as yours. What is failure but the concept of not achieving something you or someone else thought you had to? Do you see now how your life is based on your thinking of it rather than the living of it? Failure does not exist. Only false premises do.

Embrace the possibilities of Yes. That is a premise you can operate from.

If you cannot embrace the possibility of Yes, then embrace the possibility of Maybe. The concept of Perhaps alone will open vistas for you, for the closed mind has condemned you.

What is there that cannot be in the heart of God?

False trails lead you nowhere but back to yourself. Lost on a false trail, you return to where you started and set out again.

Back to yourself is a good place to be, for that is where everything begins.

Begin today to settle down to truth.

Get out of the way of truth.

Get out of the way of yourself.

You make too many demands. That is the same as to say that you try to take control. Any personal control you take is too much. You even control your letting go of control. You order its release, but you order it only so far. You still keep your eye on it. Your attention is more on control than it is on being. You cannot be into your beingness and control at the same time.

You order outcomes. Ordering a particular outcome denies you others. Control is holding on to your desire rather than allowing it to fulfill itself.

You do not have to order the dawn of the day. The sun comes without your control. You do not order the rose to bloom. It blooms from its own bloomability.

The most beautiful things are those that you do not try to control, or even imagine to control. The most beautiful events happen as if on their own. Love comes on its own. It bids itself to come. I have set everything in motion, and you must allow it to be what it is and reach where it will.

The truth is that you have no control. You cannot control life. Your control is only resistance, and your resistance comes from a precluded idea or two.

Nothing has to be the way you thought it had to be.

Your thoughts are wisps.

When you can accept that your calculations may have been miscalculations, you will be on a new footing. You will leave the old sticky past. You will arise to great before-unimagined heights because you will have let go of the ballast you held on to.

You have been a boat moored to shore. You paddled and paddled, and wondered why you couldn't leave shore. Now is time to unmoor the boat. Cast off.

You cannot stay at the so-called safety of shore and ride the waves of the ocean at the same time. Is that not what you have been attempting to do? Have you not hobbled yourself with old ideas you fashioned?

There is no sky without stars.

There is no boat that sails without direction.

There is no child of mine that can be lost from Me. He can only think that he is or someone else can think that he is. There is no truth to it. Your security is in Our connectedness, not in an old rope that holds you in place.

A dancer cannot dance without leaving the ground. It would not be dance if the feet adhered themselves to the dance floor. A voice cannot sing if it holds itself to itself. A voice must flute out to sing. And for you to live life on earth rather than just abide it, you must start out on your adventure with the supposed daring to leave the particulars of the outcome to Me. Not only some of it but all of it, not some of the time but all the time, not just the weather, but all of the trip. You must let go of your proscribed outcomes. You must even let them out of your sight, for you do not know what greatness lies before you and what you have withheld from yourself by holding on to certain outcomes and disallowing others. In other words, you do not know what lies just over the horizon.

Will you, once and for all, allow Me to give greater to you than you have deemed within your province?

Heavenletter #77 Published on: January 16, 2001

Although time is not, there is a moment that comes when the Sun peeks its head up over the horizon. The Sun lifts up its shoulders at its inception over the crest of the earth. It is a steady motion, the Sun beginning its day on your side of the earth.

Of course, it is the earth that is rolling to the Sun.

You could say that the earth is the puppy that rolls over to be petted by the Sun.

The rolling over is surrender.

The earth surrenders to the Sun, and then the Sun becomes earth's, and the Sunlight on the earth and the earth's receptivity of the Sun are integral, one to the other. How innocent is the earth! How willing! How open! How ready! How unattached but all set!

And that is how Our love shines.

I shine totally, day or night.

Like the earth, you roll over.

You accept My light. You would say the beginnings of My light, but My light has no starting-place for it is eternal. So, therefore, it is you who begins it. You begin it by opening your eyes and letting some light in. It is so simple, our arrangement, our engagement in the exchange of Our love.

Love is not complete until it is received.

Love given is something other than love until it is accepted. Love cannot be halfway. It cannot be extended only so far. Part of its being extended is its being received. That is the freedom of love.

An overt attempt at giving love is not the same as love. A gift is not truly given until it has been received. You send a package in the mail. You have sent it. But on its way, it is not a gift. It is a package. It becomes a gift when the intended's hands open it, and their eyes light up.

You who have loved without return, that is not love. Giving something unwanted or unappreciated is not love, for love is a letting go. The giver and the receiver are true to themselves and aware of the other.

There are two parts to love then, the giving and the receiving. The receiver is as much a giver as the original offerer.

And that is how We exchange love, you and I. I am the Original Offerer. You are ever in My attention. When you receive My love, that makes you the giver of it. You give to Me when you accept My love. In truth, We cannot separate our love. Do you understand better now what Oneness means?

Love is not a tugging at the heart. Love is a filling of the heart.

That is why you give love to one another without attachment. Attachment is not love. Which one of My children did Christ, overtly or covertly, hold to him by force? Not one. From his side, he did not hold. From the point of view of those who held on to him, they were held by his strength of clear-seeing love. He attracted but did not hold. He was like a moon, and his disciples were satellites that moved around him. There was no force. There was no contract. There was not control. There was wisdom and love and strength and freedom.

It is the same with Me. That is why I gave you free will. What would My love be if I consigned you to a particular one-way street?

If I throw a party, you, as a guest, come of your own accord. If I, the Host, insist that you must come at the stroke of a certain moment and at a certain entrance and in a certain costume, and you must come, then you have not been invited but ordered. Then you are not a guest but an employee. It is not a party for you unless it is your choice to come. There cannot be acceptance without freedom.

I am the Greatest Giver of Freedom there is.

But that does not mean I do not invite.

I invite and invite. And I know you will attend My gathering, for it is a celebration of you. Sometimes you are surprised when you come, that the party was in your honor, but I am never surprised. I knew you were going to attend. I saw it coming. Once I saw you catapulting on your way to My house, I knew the exact moment of your entry, and I had the welcome mat out for you, swept clean for your arrival.

Some of My children like to attend My banquet alone, and some in groups, but, in truth, no one attends alone. When you are so lit, others will see you. They will note where you have gone and mark it down in some obscure place in their heart. That place will not remain obscure. It will start to grow, and that place in their heart will blossom.

When you avoid My party, it is because you are not listening to your heart. I am the most neutral party-giver in the universe. All have been invited. I have the staff, the refreshments, and programs enough for the entire population of the world. Nothing will spoil. It all waits for you. You don't have to wait.

I am the most cordial Host you will ever know. I invite and invite no matter how often you do not respond, and I let you go your way. My invitation is permanent. I never rescind it. My invitation is sent. It is sent again and again. Sometimes you just toss it out without looking at it. But one day you will open it. And one day you will read it. And one day you will come, but in your own way and your own time, and that is the freedom of your will.

Heavenletter #249 Published on: July 5, 2001

When you start to feel guilty, it is a sign that your selfishness and ego have crept in. Your selfishness and ego are indeed the harbingers of your guilt.

You are vital in the universe, but do not think that your so-called sins or omissions are the warp and the woof of it. They are incidental.

When you feel guilty, you are most assuredly thinking of yourself, and in your vanity, you make a small picture of yourself. You call attention to yourself. Your sense of guilt doesn't say you are responsible. It says, "Woe is me! I am not as perfect as I thought I was. I have fumbled the ball!"

You are so involved in yourself that your fumbling the ball makes you feel bad, and that feeling bad you identify as guilt.

Now, identify guilt as ego, pure and simple. Guilt is self-flagellation, and that is always ego.

Remorse is not honorable. Remorse is a time-stalker.

When you feel guilty, start to feel guilty about feeling guilty and get up and hit the ball again. Fumble if you must. But fumbling is better than stewing. Stew no more. Get out of the past, even if the past was only yesterday or a moment ago.

Guilt is a disguise. It wears a guise of being repentant, but it is really egotistic. You think repentance is heroic, and you like to milk it for all its worth. It is worth little. It is being locked in the past. It is not in My list of virtues.

Acknowledge that you would see and do differently next time, and then forget about it. Pick yourself up. Do not grovel on the ground with guilt.

Pick guilt off you like a giant tick. Fling it away. Burn it. But get it off you. Kick it away. Tell it to not bother you again.

All learning is from the past.

Think of what I just said.

Vow to be smarter and wiser and better all you want, but what you really want and really must have is openness. Each situation has its valor. You cannot know ahead of time. You cannot figure it out. That is only delay. Figuring out and delay are not life. They are only figuring out and delay.

The best you can be is open.

Ask Me as you begin your day to help you be open. Openness is meeting life with Me in your heart.

Openness isn't weak. Openness isn't wishy-washy. Openness is belief in yourself and belief in Me.

Past experiences are past experiences. Going by the past as a rule book is control. Control trips you up. Control makes you stiff. What do you think arthritis is?

And where does control come from but from fear? You fear that if you do not corral life and the people in it, that you will be trampled.

Guilt is a great control mechanism. It is a valve that doesn't work.

Erase the concept of guilt. Guilt is belief in error. It is a personification of judgment. Guilt is really cowardly, and it makes promises it may not keep. It is much more heroic to not feel guilty and to embrace life and yourself. You are not faulty. The sum of you is not fault. You have a faulty picture of yourself. It is a faulty picture to make of any child of Mine.

Choose guilt or choose life.

Choose past or choose present.

Choose defeat or choose lift-off.

Choose to walk along scuffing your shoes or choose to fly with the angels.

Emulate the angels.

They are not so serious about the past.

They are lightly in the present. They are light in the present.

And you are My light on Earth. Sense of guilt puts blinders on your light. I set you, My light on Earth, to shine Me before all the world to see.

Guilt darkens. It believes in the myth of error. It holds error dear.

Hold truth dear. Be My disciple who flings cloaks of guilt away and lifts My light high. The higher you lift My light, the higher your arm reaches. Reach high, not low.

Lift yourself up and come to Me right now.

Heavenletter #875 Published on: March 13, 2003

Make an assumption that everyone you meet looks with favor upon you. This is the one thing you must assume. You must assume this, and you have not been. You have been assuming otherwise.

Assume goodness. Assume that every heart beats to welcome you. And have yours ready the same.

Not every heart knows this truth. But you do. And from now on, this is what you will incur from every heart. You will show it itself.

Many hearts have been strangers to themselves. They have been clamped shut. You are a releaser of that clamp. I sent you to the world so that you would open hearts wide. Enter another's heart, and you have opened it wide.

What an easy task! Not formidable. Not a task at all. It is like I have given you ice cream to eat all day long, all the flavors, one newly-discovered flavor after another — you can never tire of ice cream I give or run out. It is like I have given you mountains of ice cream, and so you scoop the delicious ice cream out of your heart on a spoon of your love, and you share it.

Of course, ice cream is cold, so My metaphor falls short, for within hearts there is no coldness. Only warmth. But warmth contracted feels cold.

So We shall compare your heart to delicious hot steaming soup. Just a whiff of your heartiness swirls around in the atmosphere, and many look up, wondering what that wonderful aroma is. It is the soup of your heart. Your heart is always the soup du jour, and you are the ladler of a big pot of it.

Or your love is like hot chocolate poured on shivering hearts, melting them.

Your heart is like the sun beaming brightly, warming corners of the universe.

Your heart is telescopic.

Your heart is unending.

If hearts were not covered up, you would see their power. You would know that each beat is pulsed universally. You would know there is a common beat and each next beat greater than the one before. You are amplifying the world in a crescendo so great that it encircles the world and brings the whole world to you. Your heart is the caretaker of the universe. It is the babysitter. Your heart is the feeder.

Do you think that love in hearts is uncommon? No, love is rampant, but you may have noticed the hiding of hearts more than the revealing.

So now you doff your heart like a gentleman his hat. You are a magician of hearts. One doff of your heart, and wonders you perform. You initiate a surge of love, a stream of love, a flood of love that cannot be stemmed. Once set in motion, love keeps going. It overflows from one heart to another. It spills everywhere, and yet there is more. All returns to its source.

It is fair to say that you are the source of great love in the universe. I initiated it, and you carry it on. It is My torch. And it is splendor that you carry. You are the sound heard round the world. And you are the light that reaches all hearts everywhere. Where your body is is incidental. Where your heart is is monumental. I see your heart right now, whirling fast, holding its hat, circling the world, catching every heart in its effulgence, giving all hearts a tinch of themselves. Never stop.

Heavenletter #775 Published on: December 5, 2002

Have you expected life to be a straight line? Then life would be one dimension alone. Life is many-dimensioned. Even when nothing seems to be going on, much is going on.

Your life is made of many elements. Your life is stereoscopic. The multi-dimensions and multi-colors of your life wind their way ever higher. You do not recognize all that your life is made of.

Sometimes you get blasé about your life and life in general. You yawn because of what you don't see. You have drawn curtains over your life. You have perhaps desired to see only so far and to go only so far, and no further. You may prefer a single path in your life, albeit a hard one. You are afraid of losing your place in life. You consider your place in it your life.

But life is more. You see studies as many-branched, but life only one, and yet life has more streams than algebra or geometry or sine equations, chemistry or physics or biology, history or literature or economics, more than theatre, stage settings, lights and sounds do, but, still, you may see life as a single track. Life is definitely a mixed brew. You don't always relish it.

And this life you are in — you swim in it. You paddle. You drink. You splash. You float. You kick. You immerse yourself, and you dive in and out. You somersault. You look at it from all directions, prone, supine, erect, sitting, and you may think you pose. You may think that life is something flat you just jump on and off, again and again. You may think you engulf it or it engulfs you.

You toil in life, and you loll in it. You spar with it, and you think it knocks you down. You look to ascend over it. You want to keep it, and yet you want to vanquish it and come out the winner.

But life ordinary, and life extraordinary, are inextricable. You cannot separate the threads. Nor can you be without them. You are in the lifestream of life. You are an intrinsic part of life. You are the surface, and you are the depth. And, yet, so little you fathom. Sometimes, none at all. The liveliest thing is your life, and yet sometimes you yawn.

Life is such a mystery, puzzle, anathema, rebus, poser, jumping bean. You forget its simplicity. It holds the beginning of many stories, and most you don't know the ending to or the point of or the meaning of or even the path already trodden. You don't even know where you are in your life right now. Often you think you are right at a precipice, and you don't know which way to go. Behind you, you see the attacking tigers, and in front of you an abyss. Perhaps beyond, in the far distant future, you see a Paradise. You think you may see it in the far distance, but it may be too blurry or misty to your liking. You fear it is not solid ground, and you hesitate to leave where you are.

I am not talking about death. I am talking about life. I am talking about your life. Are you not hesitant to go further in it? Are you not leery about where your next step may take you? What is it you are so reluctant to let go of before you dare leap up to greater? What mottoes do you live by?

I am trying to tell you that there is no difference between now and later, or here and now and future. You are part of a vast plane that extends far into eternity and the wholeness you so seek. I hold out My hand to you, and I will help you across this terrain you call life. Extend your hand so that I may hold it.

My dear children, the first thing you must do is remove the sentence, "I just can't," from your vocabulary. What you think, you encourage. What you say, you incur. What you repeat, you strengthen. Listen to the statements you make. Listen to your slogans. Listen to the advertising that you give yourself.

Whatever it may be that you "just can't," you must. It may not mean you have to do it, but it does mean you have to stop bowing to it, and you may have to do what you fear to do. Look at it, and see its folly. What particle of ego is making you think you can't?

You promulgate, "It is too much for me." You see a huge cliff before you. As you continue to avoid it, it grows bigger, manufactured in your mind. The great divide grows bigger as you kowtow to it.

Or is Gloria the only one who does this?

What are your statements that, from this day forward, you will recant?

This is the beginning of assuming responsibility for yourself.

Begin to think differently.

Notice the roadblocks you set for yourself and kick them out of the way.

You are graduating now. You are being promoted to first grade. In the school of Heaven, that is a great accomplishment. You are being given the choice to leave kindergarten and enter first grade. In first grade, you have subject matter. You learn things. In Kindergarten you played so you could be ready to learn things. I say you are ready.

And what you are learning now is to undo false premises that have substantiated your life.

From now on it is yours to speak truth, to yourself and to others. Speak the truth of God which is the only truth there is. The truth is, you have the power to call on angels to light your way. The truth is, angels already light your way. You have no excuses any longer. You are entering a world where fear is seen as fiction and is put down like a book that no longer interests you.

Put down your fears like a card you place on the table. Don't spend your time looking at the card. Deal it facedown, and know it is not yours to mull over. It is not yours at all. It is not to be examined. It is to be put down.

Now you take another deck of cards which is not of fears but of strengths, and this is the deck of cards you look at now. These are the cards that strengthen your hand. These are the cards that you play. These are My gifts to you.

You hold a strong hand.

Now you honor your strengths instead of imagined weakness. This is your assignment today.

Today, as you watch what you say, you strengthen others.

You are stepping out of the past and entering the new.

I will help you. You are shedding old skin.

You are shedding old devices. You are shifting into gear.

You are getting ready to open your world.

You are opening it.

You are cleaning your glasses so that you let yourself see truth.

All the subterfuges you have put in front of you, all the subterfuges to keep you from seeing — put aside now. No longer kid yourself that you need them.

You are starting a different journey.

You empty the sack of stones you have long carried.

And now you pick up only the gems to carry.

Why carry anything else?

You are on earth to collect gems in your life.

You pick up truth now, not false glitter.

Dispense with the trinkets, and wear truth.

You are not your fears. Your fears are not you. You borrowed them, and now it is time to give them up. No longer imagine that you require crutches made of fear. You can walk without them. You can walk better without them.

Feel My strength go through your bones.

Feel My love in your heart.

Clear the way for Me to sing My song through you.

Today you will sit back and be receptive and learn.

Today you will put yourself aside and listen to Me.

You do not need your agendas anymore.

You were born attached to your mothers so that you could dis-attach yourself and learn your Oneness with Me. You don't have to go anywhere. You do not have to distance yourself. You separate to learn there is no separation. Only, you have attachment to separation.

You have been attached to your individuality, and now you will make way for Me.

You are all pure receptacles of My love.

Receptacles are containers. A receptacle receives and holds, not in order to keep, but to be emptied.

As a receptacle of My love, you pour Me out. You don't have to do much. You only have to bend a little, tip a little, and My love will flow of Itself.

Yes, you will be a pure receptacle of My love.

Pure does not mean what you think it means. It does not mean that you are perfect in the eyes of the world, that you eat perfect foods, behave perfectly. You, of yourself, cannot behave what you call perfectly, because the individuality you are attached to knows so little and understands even less.

You will go higher today. You will leave your past behind. You will not depend on your past so much anymore. You are making way for Me, and to do that, you (that which you imagine to be you) must get out of the way.

That is all you have to do. Move over. Then you allow Me.

The receptacle thinks he is the owner of his contents. But a receptacle is not an owner. He is a conveyer. He holds only in order to convey. The contents are not for himself. A receptacle is poised and ready to surrender what it has held. The receptacle does not hold on but lets go.

I am Purity.

And you become the pureness of love you are meant to be by letting go of your individual sense of ownership. Your individuality that you prize so much holds you back. You think it is your importance, but it is your trial and tribulation. You think it is your doorway, but it is boarded over with your attachments.

The individual does not want to change. He may say he does. He wants that which is around him to change perhaps, as he sees fit, but he really wants to hold himself to himself as he already is, or as he thinks he already is. He wants to capture the world to him rather than opening himself to it.

No more holding on.

Instead, allow Me to enter and dispense the love you have been holding in store for Me.

Today get out of the way of yourself.

You are not the topic.

I am the topic.

The world of life is Mine.

You have flanked the world.

Now I tell you to enter it.

And enter into it as you came.

You came with nothing but Me. You came with My faith in you. Now you learn your faith in Me. Be innocent.

You did not come with suitcases. You did not grasp. Your hand was open, and so you had everything to give.

You contain everything still. All is contained within you. But you look to the outside to fill you. You are already full. You have Me within you. Know it. Let My thoughts be yours.

Today awaken to your holiness.

Pettiness is a pretense.

It is not truth.

Today you are learning what Thy Will be done means.

At present you dig the earth with your fingers, and all the while there is a huge Mover at your disposal. You shovel with a stick when you only have to allow Me to open the earth. You draw fantasies with your stick and complain about what you have fantasized and question it and worry it from every which direction and ask for every description and analysis of it so that your will can be done, and, all the while, your will is a little stick.

Join with My Will and come from a higher wider place of great Truth and great Love. Do you really think the finite can overtake the Infinite? Be not attached to your small world. Open to Mine. Open to Heaven, for I have poured it into you.

Perhaps you have wound yourself up too tight. Perhaps you have demanded too much from yourself and from life. You may have stamped your foot in frustration to protest life's lack of consideration for you. You may blame life or you may blame yourself or both. You may feel you haven't moved fast enough and that life has set up roadblocks for you, obstinately challenging your every move.

When you feel blocked, sit back a while, and let everything catch up to itself. When life doesn't move fast enough or strongly enough for you, let go of the reins for a while. Float. Assign yourself other tasks.

Perhaps you have been in the front lines and now it is time for you to be a medic to yourself. Recline. Sip lemonade. Read a novel. Take naps. Let your wounds heal.

Be slow of limb. Be on vacation. Even as you live life, be on vacation from it. Stop the pacing. Be a train that sits on the track for a while.

If you feel you are going nowhere, then stop where you are.

Reconnoiter.

Pause.

Close your eyes.

Find a hammock.

Have more consideration for yourself. It is not selfish to rest. It is not selfless to wear yourself out. Pace yourself. No one else will do it for you.

All is not lost. When you go to bed at night, you do not take sleep as defeat. When you breathe, you do not consider the breath in as a waste of time and only the breath out as having merit. You favor both.

Yet you perhaps have thought that only spending life had merit, that only wearing yourself out is meritorious, and that outward return is the value to be set on you. Yet you cannot fruitfully manufacture life. You don't have the say on results. Your demands do not have to be met. Life may well not serve your purposes, even when they are benevolent. You serve life best when you strive less.

Since when did ambition become your King? Since when did you give obeisance to ambition? Ambition is an ambit. It is not the sayer of your worth. Worldly ambition is a decoy. Accolades of the world are a small reward. Let your reward be in the service you give, not in how the world views it. Let not the accolades of the world exalt you. Let not the world's indifference reduce you.

What do the plaudits of the world have to do with you? They may buoy you for a while, but not for long. You are meant for more than the mercurial up's and down's of the world. The world can only give you small change. Even when you are drowned in praise from the world, you have been shortchanged.

The world cannot sustain your heart. Only you and I can do that. Look not so much to the world. Have you not been waiting for the world to give you acclaim? I am telling you that you are worth more than whatever the world can possibly give you. The world doesn't know what it has in you. It doesn't know your worth. Even if you are famous, no matter how the world treasures you, your relationship with the world is simply not enough for you. The world cannot reach high enough. It is not equal to you.

Look to Me. Meet My eyes. Fill your heart with My love. I give it to you freely. Don't worry about earning it. When you say you have to earn My love, that is the same as saying you are not yet worth My love. I say you are. Be magnanimous enough to accept My love. At My behest, accept it. Then you will be a giver to the world.