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Heavenletter #647 Published on: July 28, 2002

When I say to you to never mind what other people think of you or whether other people understand you or listen to you — when I say what matters is that you listen and you understand others — I am not making you less important. I am directing you to what you can do. You cannot make someone listen to you or appreciate you, but you can listen to others and you can appreciate.

Do not put your energy into making others what you want them to be. They are not your concern. You are your concern.

Your responsibility can only go as far as it can go.

I give you practical advice.

You have a certain territory that you rule. And that territory is yourself.

Certainly you are and should be as important as anyone else, but your importance is not your emphasis. Your emphasis is how you respect and treat others. Anything less is ego. You don't need your ego strengthened. You have too much to do in the world than to occupy yourself with what is insignificant.

You do not need your significance proved. You do not need a certificate of significance from anyone. Your worth is not dependent upon what anyone or the whole world thinks of you. Your significance is far greater than that.

How you respond matters. What you do matters. What others say and do is a trifle.

You cannot spend your life trying to swat flies. You cannot spend your life on what other people are doing or saying. You have your life to spend, not theirs.

Redirect your attention.

You are a consoler to the universe. You are not the one to be consoled.

As in marriage, sure, it should be 50/50, but you can't count up what someone else does. You can only give. Don't be a counter in the world. That would limit you, and you are not to be limited.

Your greatness is not dependent upon what someone else does.

All the plaudits of the world can go up in smoke. What others think of you is too little to lean on. What you think is another story. Let your strength come from what you think, not what others think. Do not make too much of what others think. Whether they slight you or make too much of you is not your concern. Do you understand what I am saying?

I don't say that you don't matter. I say you matter a great deal. I say you matter too much to be concerned with what others think of you. You are more than a reflector in the universe. Be the original light that shines.

Never mind the tribute the world makes to you. Pro or con, it is a passing thing.

If you play in a band, you are concerned with the music from the instrument you play. You pay attention to the sounds that you make. The music the other members play affects the whole, but you have your part of the whole to take care of. You can only pluck the strings of your own guitar.

You have dominion over yourself. Yet how are you going to best affect the world?

I tell you to put attention on what you can do. At the same time, I tell you to take your attention off yourself. I tell you to put your attention on bigger than you and bigger than those around you. Your vision must be great. You play your part, and you play for Me, not for the throngs, for, after all, Who is your true Audience?

Heavenletter #402 Published on: November 29, 2001

You will find a message in your life today. You will stumble upon it. It will find its way to you. It is marked for you. Be alert to a message today. You do not know from where it will come, but today a message will arrive, and you must reach it. It comes to you, but you must reach out to receive it and then listen to it, for it has something important to say to you.

There is much you do not yet know, but a huge impulse is on its way to you and will create a great wave in your life. Be not daunted. Welcome it. This is the message you have been waiting for. Now arise to it.

You have called it to you. You have half-called and half-deterred, sitting on the fence as you are.

You are on the cusp of eternity. You yearn for it, and yet you hesitate to embrace it, for fear of falling or fear of containment or fear of eternity, so you have delayed rather than to know. But today a message will come to you that will help you sit up and take notice.

This message will transform your perception. It will transform your view. You will see from another way.

You wonder how this can be true for everyone who reads this message. Do not waste your breath on such wondering. Wonder about the grander scale. Wonder about what is, not how it can be.

That you are infinite ever-flowing light means that you will keep lighting up. You have not yet achieved your apex. There is more. And today you will have more. You will find it in front of you.

Harken to messages today because you have a great one coming. This idea alone will wake you up.

You are going to have a revolution of thought. That means that an insight within you, long dormant, will awaken. It will be awakened by an outside event or an outside word. You will have a recognition of something, and this recognition will lighten your life. It is as if you run through the streamer that signals the winning of the race, only this streamer signals the beginning of another, for you are ever anew.

Be watchful today of all that surrounds you and comes into your awareness. The message you receive today may be coded, and you are the one to unlock it.

The cells of your body are leaping into Oneness at the thought of what is coming today. Your heart becomes like a great sun which radiates light to your entire body and out further. This light from your heart will spill into the universe and be well-received. Your cup runneth over.

A stream is going to bubble up where there was none. Your perception of dryness of the soul will be a thing of the past, for this stream bubbles up within you. You are the giver and the receiver of it. You are it.

I am the Mainstream, and you are joining Me. You are racing to the Ocean which races to you.

The message you receive today, no matter from what messenger, comes from Me. You may receive it secondhand, but it comes from Me firsthand.

My hand is held out to you through many hands. Which hand presents Me to you today? And in what form do I appear? And how readily will you receive this great awareness bestowed upon you today. You will wonder where you have been until now. You will clap your hand against your head and wonder at your previous ignorance, for today you are going to receive a great message that will change the course of your life.

Heavenletter #824 Published on: January 20, 2003

This is a blessed day before you, for I have blessed it. I blessed the day with you, and you with the day. The day is a message from Me, and you are a message from Me. The day is like a beautiful table cloth I spread out on a table before you. The table is set with beautiful dishes and delicious food, everything you could ask for. All you have to do is to sit down at the table, lean forward, and take of the offerings as you choose.

Or imagine the day as a blanket on the grass in a meadow for you to lie on, and for you to look above at the firmament to see what you can see. You are looking for Me, aren't you?

Or imagine this day is a red carpet rolled out before you to walk on.

It awaits you, this day. It is a heralder of you. It is ahead of you.

This day is ready to serve you the way a personal valet waits for you to nod your wishes and make them known. The day is at your beck and call. It is like your employee. Be good to it.

When you roll out of bed in the morning, you roll into your life. It is your entry on stage. It is the curtain going up. Enter your day well.

If you could have three wishes today, what would they be? Three wishes to be fulfilled immediately, not long-term. Is this a hard question? Does it make you think? Pause a moment.

Where do these wishes take you? What are you thinking about?

Now add three more.

Periodically today, write down new wishes. It is good for you to know what you are looking forward to today.

Today is a garden of flowers. Come into this garden. It is right here before you.

Carry this garden with you today in your mind. That way you not only nourish the world but also the garden of your mind.

Picture the circle earth. Now picture it with you on the curve of it, you at the top, you at the top of the world. Nothing is between you and the earth. No buildings. No knowledge. No interference. Just you and the world and God above.

Picture today as a friend you have been looking forward to seeing. You and today made a date a long time ago that you would meet right now. Find and give comfort in your day. The day has been looking forward to meeting with you. See how graciously it greets you. Hold out your hands to it.

Picture yourself as a cowboy who lassoes the day like a heifer. Now that you have caught the day, what do you do with it? Where do you take it? Lead it where you want it to go. Treat it kindly. This is your chance to be wonderful to this day. See what happens.

Take a picture of today. From what angle do you take the photo? What do you emphasize? What do you point out? To whom will you show this picture.

Will you show it to Me? Will you take snapshots of today to send to Me? Even though I accompany you the whole day, I would like to see the pictures you take. I wonder if you will be so kind as to take them from My perspective. See how they will develop, how they will glow, how beautiful. You can capture the great beauty of today in the pictures you take. Tell Me, what do you focus on today?

Heavenletter #260 Published on: July 16, 2001

When you hold on to the past, even objects of the past, you are holding on to a part of yourself that used to be there. You used to adore and use that object, for instance, and now you no longer do. You cannot let go of it because you feel you would be letting go of yourself. And, yes, that is precisely what is happening — you are letting go of a past part of yourself. You are letting go of a memory that is no longer true.

Perhaps the object was your mother's, and it was precious to her, and you have taken on the object and kept it in loyalty and love to your mother, as if you were keeping it for your mother, as if your Human mother is going to come back for it or to check up on you, as if your keeping it makes you a good daughter, or as if your letting it go or breaking it makes you a flagrant one.

The object is no longer dear to your mother, and only an echo of it is still dear to you. The idea is precious. Only the idea.

The past. The past. As though it were present!

The past. The past. As though it were obligation!

The past. The past. As though it were future!

The past. The past. As though it were lifeline!

Your past. Your past. As if it matters now!

Only the now matters. Only the now counts. Only now is before you. Now is your clay to mold.

The past you merely take out or carry with you. What can you really do with it now but let it go?

The object you keep isn't the issue. Your keeping is. To keep it physically or not isn't the issue. Your keeping it intact as though it were a living part of you is the issue. What you keep is what you carry.

You cannot carry your old life and your parents' old life. They have a new one now, and so do you.

Certainly a string connects you to the past and to your past's past. I do not say there is no connection. I do not say that the past has no merit or no demerit. I say the past is the past, and it is not yours to live in any longer. You can drop the strings and no longer be responsible for the past.

The past does not have to bind you.

Your past identity does not have to come with you. Whatever you used to be, you used to be, but you don't have to be it now. If you were timid in the past, you can be brave in the present. If you were demanding in the past, you can be undemanding now. If you were nervous in the past, you can be serene now. These are your choices every day. They can be decided today. You do not need to be hung over in the past. Letting go of the past is letting go of the past. It is starting fresh. It is freedom.

Did you think you were already decided? Did you think your fate was sealed? Did you think it was irrevocable? Did you think you were only a bauble bobbing on the waves of life and somehow kept to the shore, or dragged there?

This moment is yours now. It is your clay. It is your clay whether you use it or not. It is there for you. It is a gift I constantly give you.

Who gives it to you if not I? No one else gives it to you.

This moment of nowness is not for you to keep intact. It is not yours to keep. Nothing is yours to keep. Today is yours to fly with.

You can stay in the garage. You can also open the garage doors. You can fling them open. And you can come out. And there are many directions for you to go in. Many old and many new. Pick a new one. Start out today, the freshness of you. Refresh yourself with the present, for it is before you. Not behind you. Not in back of you. But ahead. Eyes up. Look at Me.

Heavenletter #303 Published on: August 27, 2001

There is a reference point, and I am That. I am your Reference Point. Of course, I am. You started with Me and to Me you return, although you actually stay with Me all along.

If you check with anything along the way, check with Me.

You have checked with your friends. You have checked with books. You have checked with TV talk hosts. You have checked with your past, and you have checked with everything under the sun.

Check with Me now, and find your answers. Find your confirmation with Me. If you want Truth, here is where you will get it.

Perhaps you think either that I approve everything — "too easy, this God" — or I disapprove everything — "impossible to meet this God's demands", but here is what you are missing: It is you I approve of utterly and inalterably. I do not rate your actions. I do not keep score. I guide you as best I can, and never do I drop you. It is true I love you no matter what. But that does not make Me too easy. That makes Me God.

How you see yourself is most likely how you see Me.

Perhaps you are too easy on yourself or too hard. Or perhaps you are both. And you project your picture of yourself onto Me.

You make an error. You would undo it if you could. You could kick yourself. And so you think I am kicking you.

And when life goes well for you, and you make choices that content your heart, you may have a vague thought that you are getting away with something, that I, God, am letting you get away with something, that you are getting off free when really you should be penalized for something.

But I do not punish. And I certainly do not punish you for learning something. Your learning is progress whatever so-called mistakes led up to it. I am joyous for your learning.

Yet sometimes the lessons in life that the world teaches are not My sentiments at all. Winning the prize may not really be winning the prize. So make Me your reference point, and just check with Me in your heart. Check whose admiration you have.

Deep in your heart you know what is important and what is not. When all is said and done, you know. Yet sometimes, My children ignore what they hear for the sake of something that can only be a bauble once it is in hand.

You know the difference between tin and gold. And yet sometimes you choose tin because of how it glistens for a moment. Know the difference between whim and following your heart.

Today choose with your full heart. Choose with My blessing. You have that. Whatever you choose, you have that. But, ah, choose to make Me happy, and then you have My happiness in your heart.

So now you are asking yourself: "What will make God happy here? He is never displeased with me. But what can I do now that will please Him? I know He does not ask for sacrifice from me because if I feel I am sacrificing, I am not being honest. If I feel I am sacrificing, I am expecting something, and I know God doesn't want me to expect a certain result, for that is making an attachment to result. So I am not trying to be good. That is gauging myself against the world's measure."

Then you say: "When I have a choice, how do I know which choice will make God happy? I must just feel in my heart to know the truth of my decision."

And it is My place to tell you that some choices don't make any difference to Me. They don't matter.

What matters is that you follow your heart. And you are learning to listen to what your heart says.

You can weigh oranges in your hand, and know which weighs more.

You can weigh decisions in your heart the same.

Heavenletter #555 Published on: April 28, 2002

You can see in the dark. You can see in the dark with your heart. Your heart is like a huge flashlight that illumines all. The dark is a myth. It is a fantasy. Open your heart, and all that never existed will no longer seem to appear before you. When your eyes are on a bright and beautiful horizon, that is what you see. Nothing blocks your view. You pay no attention to anything in between, for there is nothing in between. But even if there were, the far horizon becomes close because it is in your awareness.

When your heart is open, it pulls all good to it. With a closed heart, nothing can get out and therefore it is harder for more love to get in. A closed heart is like a fist, and an open heart is like a hand opened upward that can catch the light from the sun and the mist from the sea. Your heart can open. It is only fear from memory that tightens it.

Wounded or not, your heart can open to itself. It can unfurl. It can get used to being open, and greater love will come to it for the reason that it is open. The heart allows itself to be a vessel, a pitcher that pours and is refilled. There is no limit to the pitcher of your heart.

Love flows. That is its nature. It swirls and eddies. It is a tidal wave. It catches everything in its path.

There can never be too much love or too much attention on it. There has been too much attention on everything else. Toss your heart high now. Let it call to itself from every mountain top. Let your heart be heard around the world. Let it hear itself. Let your love be yodeled across the universe. The sound of it will be well-received everywhere. And you will begin to hear the sound of your own heart.

What did you think your heart was for? Did you think it was to be scarred? You thought that a heart open was vulnerable to attack and that you had to protect it from further wounding. But an open heart is strong. You had it wrong.

A closed heart hurts itself first before anything else can. No one, nothing, can damage your heart as much as you already have by closing it. How emboldened your heart will become when you let it stretch out its limbs! It has been cramped too long. Exercised, it begins to notice its power. Flex the muscles of your heart.

Physical exercise is small next to the exercise of love. You have forgotten to exercise it. You have been so busy protecting your heart from pain, that you have imprisoned love. You have neglected your heart and caused it discomfort. Like you, a heart was made for something. Armor blocks your heart. Take away the armor, and your heart forges ahead and finds its destiny. Your heart's destiny is far greater than you ever imagined.

Your heart's destiny and yours are the same. When I say you are destined for greatness, I am talking about your heart. Your heart will take you where you are going. Your heart does not know about amassing. Your heart knows only about flowing. Your heart circulates itself. And from where does the flow of it begin? It begins from Me.

Your heart flourishes in My love. There is no other. There is no love that belongs to you, and that is why you must free it. My love rests in your heart so that you may extend it. My love is not to be possessed. It is to be given. It is not for you to say where. You are not to govern your heart. You are to be led by it.

Heavenletter #885 Published on: March 22, 2003

This is one of those times when We don't have much to say. We have a lot to be. So let's just let the Being of Us intermingle. Let's meld. Let's, for this short while, not bother with words or thoughts at all. Thoughts aren't what matter. Love is not a thought. Truth is not a thought. What matters are not thoughts.

Language expresses something. More than the language, more than thought, more than words, what is behind or beneath the expression matters. Words are not needed for truth to be known. Sometimes words juggle Truth or preclude it. Let's just sit in love a while. Let's bask in Our love the way mortals do the sun's rays .

If there were no words and no syntax, love would still be. Let Us engage in a moment of the silence of love. Let the Oneness of Our One Self settle down, so that Our Oneness then arises before Our very eyes. Let Us live in the truth and love of Oneness. Let Us just be, immersed in Our Oneness.

It is not that We close Our eyes to something else. There just isn't something else to close Our eyes to or to open them to. All there is is Our Oneness of Being, and We are steeped in it. Nothing of Us can be separated. Not even into a thought. There is no ABOUT Us. There is nothing outside Us for an about to exist.

What if you could see without thought? What if you be without thought after thought, thoughts about thoughts? What if you didn't have to catch on to anything? What if all you had was insight? You would not know of outer. You wouldn't have the concept. You wouldn't have the concept inner either. You would have wholeness.

You would swim in a clear stream of love. You would know nothing else. There wouldn't be anything else to know.

When you swim in the clear stream of love, what would you ask about? What would you want to know? There would only be knowing. Your rabid intellect would take a long-deserved rest, and you would know you dwell in the house of Oneness forever.

Of course, nothing else exists. All that exists is Oneness and Eternity. There is no place to go to and no other time.

What mere words can possibly conjure up Our beauty and Our eternalness? What can possibly capture that which is forever free, and therefore beyond the limitedness of what you call freedom? When there are no chains to undo, when there are no cells to unlock, no closed minds to open, where does the concept of freedom exist?

All words fall short.

But truth is greater even than you knew. It encompasses everything. It encompasses the light called you and the light called Me. Oneness is the only truth there is. What is there to discuss when there is nothing to say?

So, when I say, Come sit down with Me a while, I am saying: "Here, look, notice where you are. This is where you have always been. This is where I always am. This is Our Oneness." Adrift in a dream like an idle boat, your mind has rippled away from the inevitable indelible impenetrable truth of Our One Self. In truth, how can you be adrift on an Ocean of Being when you are the Ocean of Being? How can you be only a part of what you are when you are everything and all that there is? How can you depart from Oneness when there is nowhere and nothing else to depart to? I ask you, What is there for Oneness to fuss about?

Heavenletter #149 Published on: March 27, 2001

You are receiving messages from Me day and night. I am ever sending you messages. And they reach you. That is My part. Now it is yours to open them. Often you do not even notice their arrival, so how can you open them? You left them piled up outside your door like newspapers.

Pick up My messages. They are for you. And they are good news for you. The headlines read: GOD WANTS YOU.

But you think, Oh-oh, what does He want me for?

But My messages are nothing for you to fear. You are guilty of nothing. You fear you are guilty of something, and that you have a tongue-lashing or worse coming. No, you have love coming.

With or without your awareness of My messages waiting for you, you fear that there is some doom trying to catch up to you. What is the contrary of doom? I think it is good fortune, love, your desires' answers coming to you.

You may even suspect that you do have hopeful messages from Me, and you are afraid to pick them up. You fear that perhaps they were sent to the wrong address. Or perhaps they are some kind of mistake, a typo, or, if true, a message so old its truth has expired.

But what if you are really the one I have in mind? What if it is My blessings I have been trying to deliver to you? What if My blessings have no expiration date? What if the message is My love in answer to your uttermost desires?

Perhaps you fear disappointment more than you want good.

God has love letters for you. What do you think this is that you are reading right now? Do you think it is false advertising? I am Truth, and nothing but the Truth.

Or do you suspect it may be true, but meant for someone else? If you are reading it, it is for you. And if you are not reading it, it is also for you. I love My children equally. I favor all.

All My favors are directed toward you.

Think of what this means.

I think you'd better pick up your messages.

I think you will be glad.

Glad tidings await you.

Doom you can find on your own. You don't need Me for that.

And if you have already carried doom, let Me help you carry it away. It is heavy for you, but light for Me. I know what it really is, a piece of dust magnified. But even if it were the heaviness you thought, it is still light for Me. I know how to carry things, and I know how to make them disappear, for they never were anything except as your mind carried them.

You have unopened messages from Me. Will you grant that?

Furthermore, everyone and everything is My message. There are many of My messages that have crossed your path, and you haven't opened them. You have feared to open My messages for all the reasons given above which is to say for no reason at all.

Today expect good messages from Me. Look for My message from everyone you meet or talk to. And listen for My message that you are delivering to them.

My message is One, but how you deliver it is your choice. You can garble My message, or you can make it clear. You can try to not deliver it. You can try to toss it away. You can try to camouflage it. You can try to cross it out. But in your deepest heart, know that you are My chosen messenger.

How you receive My messages is also up to you. Forthrightly, or furtively, or not at all. You can misinterpret them, refuse them, not read them, misread them, read them upside down, never open them.

But there is always a message that you are giving or receiving. It may be a half-message. It may be veiled, but messages you are delivering and receiving all the time.

So I suggest that, while you are at it, take a look at My messages. You might as well. Receive Mine, and give Mine, for it is to Me that you give. I am the Sender and the ultimate Receiver. Deal with Me in truth, and My children in truth. What do you wait for? I am already here, and I have been waiting for you, My loves.

Heavenletter #60 Published on: January 3, 2001

Surrendering yourself to Me is the same as surrounding yourself with Me. You surround yourself with your acknowledgement of what is. It is not surrender but recognition. Surrender is the brightening of a lamp you kept dimmed. Surrender is the ah of joy that escapes your breath in a moment of inescapable Truth. Surrender is surrender only to Truth. Surrender is realization of a Wonderful Partnership.

So many times you have thought you were alone. For you to be alone is an impossibility. There is no separation between you and Me. There never was. There was your averting your eyes.

Now you open your eyes, and now you see.

Your surrender to Me is not for Me. It is for you. You need your surrender. I already know Truth. I am Truth, and so are you. You need something more only in your awareness, and that something more is surrender.

Surrender to Me is no sacrifice. It is quite the opposite. It is a great lifting of burden. You have carried burden that is not yours to carry and that profits no one. Do you think you are helping Me with carrying what is Mine?

You think you are conscientious, but it is more like you are burdensome. You weigh yourself down with responsibility that you assume is yours to take. If your heart is laden, you have intruded there and packed in some things that do not belong to your heart and for which there is no room.

If you lack happiness, it is because you have crowded it out. Unpack your heart.

Surrender its worry.

Surrender its control.

Surrender all its fears.

Surrender all its attachment.

Surrender all from your heart except its true nature of love. Give yourself freedom, for that is love. Let go of your false responsibility for others and allow Me. Let Me enter their heart and yours. Let Me take hold in your heart. I place My flag there. On one side the flag says Freedom and on the other it says Love, for freedom and love are synonyms for one another.

You thought clamping was love. Now you know that clamping is attachment, and freedom is love. Love and freedom do not exist one without the other.

Do not clamp down. Do not staple things to yourself. Let them touch you, if they do, but do not paste them to you. If you paste them, then they are not free, and you are not free.

There is one thing you are in truth attached to, and that is My love. Even that, you are not attached to. It is your very content. Perhaps We can say that My love is attached to you. You can think of it that way if you like, for My love never wavers from you. It is focused on you. You can't make a move without it.

We can say that My love is a spotlight on you. You never move too fast for My light to spot you and stay with you. I follow you always. Now it is time for you to see My light following you. Pretty soon you will blend into My light, and the reflection and the Light will be One. How brightly you will shine My light.

Our One light will brighten the earth. This takes no effort. It takes allowing. And that allowing is your surrender, for it is Light that you surrender to. Say:

"Light that follows me, I accept Your Presence. I acknowledge that You are All Light, and that includes the Light in me. I am glad that You shine on me so that I may shine as a reminder of You. I know I shine for You and Your Purposes. I know You are the Greater Light, and I am the lesser light, as I also know that Your Light cannot be less, and that I am not subsidiary to you, but rather one of Your Chosen Reflectors. You gave me Your Light so that I may glow in the dark with it. That darkness that seems to shroud earth is nothing but my eyes closed, for when I open them, there are You, God's Light. God and His Light cannot be separated. Nor can I be separated from My God and His Light, for He has dubbed me His Server of Light. And I thank You, dear God of Light, for this, my little surrender to You."

Heavenletter #494 Published on: February 28, 2002

You have to stretch to make room for what the world calls success. It is such a little thing, success in the world, and yet you feel stretched to meet it.

It is like you get ready for a play, and you are immersed in stage fright. Here is your big moment. You have a line to utter. Your throat is dry, and your legs tremble. You have waited so long for this moment, and now that it is here, you would hide from it.

What you have to know is that nothing is changed. The world's acclaim or disclaim has little to do with you. It does not touch your interior being. You, acknowledged or unacknowledged, are still you. Part of you, as then, as now, as always, moves on the surface of life, and a larger part of you steers through the world untouched.

There is a rudder (call it God) that propels you through life. You are not rudderless. And you who are ruddered are not changed by the assaults or acclaim of the world. What the world says or notices has little if anything to do with you.

Pans and praise are made of the same ilk. They are opinions, true or false, uttered by the surface of life.

And now you ride a high wave, and now you know, how insignificant success is, and how little it has to do with you.

You sail into certain waters, and you are acclaimed as hero. You sail into other waters, and you are not even seen, or not yet. But you are that which you are whichever waters you sail on or into. The self-same rudder keeps you firmly on your path, and whether the crowds cheer or not cheer is immaterial to your course through life. Your course through life is your course through life. Cheers are on the side. They are not the leaders of you.

Be neither dampened nor exalted by the attention of the world. It is a passing thing. And you are a passing thing in the world. Passing things are not of such import. The world is not the bellow that blows you up or lays you down.

World recognition is a little thing. It is not much. So do not worry much, or at all, about your perceived performance in it. You do not perform for the world. You perform for Me. Not all know that, but you know that.

All the applause in the world is never for an individual. It may seem so, but the applause is for the wonder of Me and what I have created. What I have created is evidenced through an individual. Whether the world remembers that or not, you will remember, and you will be untouched by the favor or disfavor of the world because you know from whence what matters comes.

Arms reach up to the Heavens in appreciation, and hands clap to make a noise that resounds through the universe. The world applauds creation. The Human world applauds the beautiful divine strain that runs through it. Emissaries of God applaud the messages of God through other emissaries. Human shoulders are not big enough to take the applause as their own without falling over.

So, those of you who applaud, and those of you who are for a moment applauded, know that all applause is for your Holy Maker, and that it has come from Me as well. My applause you always have, for I am the Recognizer of you, whether you are on stage or in the audience. I am the Applause and I am the Applauder, so nothing is changed when the world gives you the nod.

Heavenletter #492 Published on: February 26, 2002

Remember that you are not the only thing going on in the world. Sometimes the things you feel are reflections from the world. What you feel and think certainly are reflected in the world, but others' thoughts and feelings are also reflected in you. You catch a ball, as it were, and you think it is yours.

You ask where it came from, but you attribute its arrival to something deep within you, or you blame it on outside forces, and, it is true that sometimes you are an innocent bystander. But wherever anxiety comes from, from within you or extended to you and taken within, you don't want to pay it so much heed. Do not take it so seriously. It is but a passing shadow fallen on your brow. The sun comes by and by and moves the shadow away.

What is not seen as light must be shadow. Shadow is light shaded. It is light covered up by something. But light is only covered. It is not dismantled. Without light, there could not be shadow. But light exists with or without shadow. Light is not dependent upon shadow for its existence. Light falls upon shadow, and the shadow is gone. The shadow never influenced the light. Light disregards shadow.

Or sometimes light plays on shadow, plays peek-a-boo, blinks shadow around, peeks under it, overlays it, but light is playing with itself. Light is light-footed. Dark is heavy-footed. Light is fundamental. Shadow is not.

Light is quiet. It has a steady influence. It is overt. It does not sneak. It is as plain as day.

You can be in a good mood, or a dark mood. Consider mood as light itself. In that case, you are always light, so you are always in a good mood, only sometimes your mood is covered by shadow. Shadows come and go, so you think moods come and go, but the basis of mood is light. Light never left you, yet you believe the cover-up more than you believe the light. You go by shadow often.

Do not think that going by your moods is going by your heart. Your true heart does not fluctuate. It beats true. Listening to your heart is not the same as listening to your mood. Be out of mood mode.

Moods are transient. They are will-o'-the wisps. You can't go by them. You cannot depend on them. They change before your very eyes. They are illusive. But light is not.

You would not lean on a sapling. You would lean on an oak tree. Yet you lean on your moods. Often you let them rule you.

A mood is a mood. That is all it is. And you are far more than your moods. Rise above an ailing mood.

You can turn on the light in your heart whenever you wish. You can turn it on right now. It is easy.

Darkness does not have to possess you. You can look at dark feelings as you would anything that passes by you. You can go on to the next feeling. Or you can be a passer-by of a mood that grips you. You don't have to be gripped by it. You can laugh at it.

Dark is to be laughed at, for it is nothing but shadow. It is a clown, or it is a drama queen, but, in any case, you can laugh at it. You don't have to revere it or go by it. You can take it off like a reckless scarf. Unwind the mood, and toss it in a corner somewhere.

Do not give credence to your moods. Why should you? There is a steady ray of light that shines brightly through you that casts no shadow. There is no need to let your light be shadowed when you can stand brightly in Mine.

Heavenletter #32 Published on: December 13, 2000

Without your prescribed boundaries, you feel that you are flying blind. And that is exactly what you must do. You can only fly blind. Any parameters you put down are interference. The fact is that you fly blind anyway. You write down these little mooring places and think that means you know where you are going. You don't even know where you have been, My children.

You fly blind, or it is not flying. Flying by the stars, that is another thing. But you have to know the wisdom of the stars in order to rely on them.

You have an inner guidance system that is from above. It is not from littleness. It is from greatness. It is not from tiny marks but from a great unmarked territory. You have to trust. What other choice do you have?

The flight you have signed up for does not have little rails for you to hold onto. It does not have little places for you to attach your feet to. In order to fly, you have to step off.

You have been flying all your life.

Your whole life is a flight to greatness, otherwise, you flee it.

Fly or flee.

Go forward or retreat.

Resist or accept.

Hold back or let go.

Now is time to let go. You have had enough of holding on.

And you have been holding on to fantasy.

Let go of fantasy, and you have Me.

That is what is left.

After fantasy, there is God.

All you ever had was Me.

You just thought you had something, but the something you thought you had was not. You thought you had fear and danger. What an imagination you have!

All along you have had Me, and I am All that you have had.

Is that so bad?

Does that make you less to have had God all along?

To have been unaware of what you had means you have not been observant.

You have been counting mere trifles. So busy counting that you forgot to look up and see that which is beyond counting. You have measured the measurable, and forgotten to look at the Immeasurable.

I am too vast to be measured. How do you measure Infinity?

You have been trying to measure the distance between you and Me, and I tell you there is no distance to measure. Distance does not exist. You and I exist. Oneness exists.

How far can you count one?

That you and I were ever fractured is illusion. That We have to reconnect bits into Wholeness is also illusion.

Right here, right now, you have it all.

You are not a splinter. You are not a torn piece. You are Wholeness. Only you have forgotten. I remind you, and you fear to believe, for you fear it might not be true, and you do not want to be disappointed one more time.

I have never been disappointed in you. I have always seen you as My precious Self. Now that is what you must see. And see it now. See Our gathering and not an imagined dissembling. For unless you open to Our Oneness, you are dissembling.

Heavenletter #430 Published on: December 25, 2001

It is a puzzle how you expect too much and not enough at the same time. You look forward to this holiday in one way or another, and yet your heart looks for more than it receives. You know there is something more. Once you have picked up the ribbons and the wrappings, you are left with yourself, and your anticipation has fled. Something more was supposed to happen, and somehow the sun set, and the day is done. It is already the past. And what did you miss? What slipped past you?

You see too well the contrast between what can be and what seems to be. Better to see Me. Better to dwell on the greater possibilities than the daily-ness at hand. There will always be the day-to-day details of Human life to be taken care of. And there will always be the greater glory.

Everything is more than it appears.

Light seems to come from a light bulb, but it comes from greater than that. And your light of life comes from far beyond the place where you stand.

Be not near-sighted. Be dear-sighted.

See the glow in everything. It is there. The same light that a bulb practices is everywhere in everything. It is in you. See it. Move it along.

On this day that commemorates the birth of Christ, commemorate your birth. Engage yourself in the holiness of today. You are the Magi, and you are the star that brings the Magi to you, and you are the blessedness of Christ’s birth.

That which you love is yourself. Whatever capacity in another that you adore, the self-same capacity is yours. You pick out greatness in another that is also yours. If Christ really stood apart from you, he would not uplift you now. If he were really far away from your capabilities, he would have receded from your awareness. If he were not real in you, you would not remember him.

In truth, he reminds you of yourself.

And he reminds you of Me.

Yes, Christ is a reminder of yourself. He is a recollection. He is like a clock that ticks in your heart. Every once in a while, a little bell goes off. Maybe it is a Christmas bell that rings to awaken you to the truth of your own self.

Christ is a memory within you. The bell he rang never stopped ringing. Now you are becoming more attuned to the sounds that signal a greater tempo coming to earth.

Christ is a holy vibration of My love. And you are also that vibration. You are a pure note I struck. But other sounds have drummed over your initial note which was of such clear ringing that all rushed to your side to behold you.

Now you must behold yourself. Wherever you look, you will behold yourself. And you will see Me beholding you.

When you look into a stream and the sun is behind you, you will behold the sun and you will behold the sun’s light illuminating you.

The mirror of a stream is innocent. It is impartial. It can only behold what is before it. But it is you who must see. Look deeper into your reflection, and you will see. It is not that you will cast a spell over yourself. You will remove a spell. You will turn in old sight for new vision. You will take off the glasses you have been wearing and begin to see.

And you will share your new vision. You cannot help sharing it. For when you see, others also see, and you bring them into the light as well.

You are the star that illuminates the earth.

Heavenletter #918 Published on: April 26, 2003

All that you learn you want to put to good use. When you learn a greater understanding, you want to use it. It is like when you see a flight of stairs, it's good to see it. But to climb the stairway is to use it, and only then are you higher. Seeing the flight of stairs by itself does not put you are at the top.

Look for opportunities. Have in mind to give a little more of yourself. When you hear a knock at your door, answer it.

It is not enough to know that you are boundless. You do not experience your boundlessness by staying the same and keeping boundaries. To find your boundlessness, you have to venture forth. Break a boundary or two. The boundaries you break are within you.

Have just a tiny awareness that you can see something differently, that you can understand something differently, you can act differently. There is nothing artificial here. You can rise to the occasion, not as you think you should, not as someone else would do, but as you are, as you are, only you with fewer boundaries.

Start saying yes to your own heart. Stop saying no to it.

You do not have to be exemplary in life. You are not setting standards. You are going beyond them. The standards of the world are too low, and you do not allow them to keep you down. You have already risen higher, and now you have to know it.

The past is no longer useful to you. It holds you back. You do not need to use it as your reference point. It is no longer your reference point. What the past has done for you, it has done. It has brought you to where you are, but now you have surpassed the past. Leave old shoes behind.

Listen to the present. Have you not been rewinding or fast-forwarding? You have lunch on a tray before you. While you eat it, you pay more attention to what you ate at breakfast or what you are going to have for supper.

Time is a boundary.

Everything you knew yesterday is a boundary. When you dig yourself into boundaries, it is as if you are done and there is nothing more to learn.

Throw away all your accumulated knowledge. Start anew. Right now is the opportunity you have been craving.

Trees change. The seasons change. Weather changes. Temperatures change. The angle of light changes. And you, the you that lives in the world, also changes. Have you not held on to yourself and tried to stand still?

What is the fear that holds you back from letting go. Resistance to letting go is the same as staying where you are. Attachment means not going forward, or perhaps tilting forward with a full tank of reluctance.

Turn your thinking upside-down. That will straighten you out.

Consider that you are a three-way bulb who has stayed at one setting. The bulb is dimmer than it is meant to be. Unless the light is turned on, where is it?

You are not building a nest. You are not tearing one down. You are flying. You do not yet know which limb to fly to, but you start by flying. You do not need to know what limb you are flying to. You just need to fly and alight somewhere. Wherever you alight is only a perch from where you will spread your wings again.

Just as birds are meant to fly, so are you.