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Heavenletter #3965 Published on: October 3, 2011

Any tenseness you may have tells you that you are holding on. You are holding on to something. There is something you think you must need. There is something that you fear that, if you don't have it, you will be lacking. You are afraid that you won't amount to much unless you have it.

Whether it is money or a loved one that you feel dependent upon, you are intact. You are whole. Come to believe in yourself. You are a Divine Being solidly in My heart. Can this not be enough? At Thanksgiving time, you want all the trimmings with your turkey. I am telling you that We are complete. All else that you have held onto are trimmings. You may even value the trimmings more than Truth.

Trimmings are not essential. They are nice, yet not essential. There are two essentials. They are you and they are I. That's it. We are in it together for the long haul. We are the turkey and not the trimmings. It is not incumbent upon you to have the trimmings. Trimmings are, after all, only trimmings. Enjoy them when you have them, and enjoy just the same when you don't have them. Nothing outside you is the making of you. Outside matters may bolster you. They make you feel good, nevertheless, they are not the making of you. Or they may make you feel bad, and, still, they have nothing to do with you.

You don't need all the things you think you need. You do not need them. You can have them, but you don't need them. You and I are the making of you. You don't need all supports you feel you would be at a loss without.

Holding on is attachment. Attachments have to be let go of. The physical object you cannot let go of, you can keep, only you have to let go of your hold on it. You don't need it. You may depend on it, yet you don't need it. The same is true for people. Keep those dear to you at the same time as you let them go. Your loved ones are free agents, and so are you. Freedom is better than attaching. When you attach, your heart will get broken. What else would break your heart? Freedom does not. It is your attachment that you have to break, not your heart.

To be free, you must set others free. The more you release others from your clasp, the freer you are. You are freed from your own clasp.

Either you have attachment, or you don't. Half attached is still attached.

Attachment doesn't mean love. Holding on doesn't mean love. When you let go of being attached, you can love more. When you are attached, you may call your attachment love, yet love is not attachment. Attachment is not love. Attachment is a poor excuse for love.

So what is all this attachment to attachment you experience? You must think it serves a purpose. What purpose can attachment serve but to separate you from yourself? When you attach to another, you are forsaking yourself. You are holding on too tight to another. You have a strangle-hold on the one you presume to love. When you attach, attachments will break. Better you break off the attachment now and find easy-going love to give instead.

When you are attached, you become desperate. You become desperately in love. You become dependent upon holding on when, what you must do, is let go and become unattached. You do not need to ride on anyone's back. You are not a child who has to hold on to his mother's skirt or leg. When you are attached, you must let go so your loved ones can each be a free-wheeling being in their own light and you a free-wheeling being in your own light.

Our connection is inviolate. It cannot be broken. Listen to what I just said. Lightning cannot strike Our connection. Earthquake cannot shatter it.

That you can get rattled, We well know. You may be distraught and not able to find the telephone in the mess of your thoughts, but Our connection is solid. You may hang up the phone on your end, but the line is still open. The minute you pick up the phone, here I am.

In Truth, you don’t need a phone. I am wireless. Our two-way connection requires nothing but your turning toward it. Reduce some of the static in your mind, and you will hear. Yet, even in great noise, you can hear Me. Attune your ear.

I am Ever-Present. I am ever in your presence. Be present with Me. Come to My court. It is free. It is a lanai. It is a front porch. It is a gazebo. It is a back yard. It is a blanket on the beach. It is a clearing in the woods. It is a swim in a lake. It is the banks of the lake. It is an ocean. It is the stars. It is the galaxies. It is Heaven.

My courtyard is even in a closet of your house. There is no escaping My court. It is held when you are asleep or awake. It is always open, has never been closed. You may slam a door every now and then, but, in the blink of an eye, I bounce it back open before it closes shut.

The connection between Us is unstoppable. It can’t be locked. It can’t be cut. It can’t be hammered, shredded. No matter what you do, you cannot close Our connection. All your shutting down is insignificant, for I am always open. You may think that the negative has power, but it has none. Negativity cannot close what I keep open.

I am not the customer service of the electric company where you have to wait on hold for service. I come out the minute you call. I never say the repair is your problem and charge you for My service call. I do not see a problem. You are the one who does. I am ever-ready, and you are fiddling with your hair. I am sure, and you are hesitant.

Have you ever been in a room, and it takes you a moment to realize that someone else is there?

In Our case, it may have taken you eons to realize Who is always with you, never apart from you.

It is preposterous to imagine that I ignore you. Even in tight spots, I am with you. You do not know how many times I have rescued you. Even in pain, I am with you. You don’t know how many times I have soothed you. It goes without saying that in supposed death, I am with you.

Acquaint yourself with Me. Know My presence, and the emergencies in the world will retreat. Together We will ravish illness. There will be no cause for it. It will simply disappear. Before Our very eyes, cruelty will melt into kindness. Strife will be abandoned. There will be no use for it.

The world will meld into Oneness.

When you are in My Presence, what can exist but Oneness?

I do not let you alone. I do not leave you alone. We are All Oneness, beloveds. There is no aloneness.

The world will become a demonstration of love. Everyone and everything on Earth will grow towards Heaven. Earth will rise. There will be no need to pull it up. There will be nothing but upliftment, and then it will not be known as upliftment. It will be known as life, life on Earth as it is in Heaven.

In the relative, the world is always with us. To be in the world but not of it truly reveals a state of consciousness. You are not too good for the world but nor are you tossed hither and yon by it.

Presently the world makes a mountain out of a molehill. And there are many molehills.

Would wars exist otherwise? In what soil could they grow? In the certitude of peace, what flames can there be to fan?

Know that it is possible to live in the world and not tremble in your boots. Even in an earthquake, it is possible for you to be serene. That takes not so much strength as it takes awareness. The body is frail, but your Being is not only great but greater than everything else.

You are a model for others. What is it you model ? Do you model fear? The speed of anger? Or do you see differently from the madding crowd? Do you perhaps actually see?

I do not speak of an act to be put on. This is not merely best foot forward, though best foot forward is wonderful. To even think about best foot forward is wonderful.

I am speaking about reacting to what you see. What do you see? When a firecracker goes off, do you see a firecracker or a bomb? Do you see friend or foe? That which you see, you gather to you. What would you like to gather to you?

When in situations seemingly not of your making, ask yourself: “If I were an all-wise all-loving person, how would I handle this? Would I handle it head-on? Would I be creative? Would I say or do something I have never said or done before? Would I lift someone else’s consciousness, or keep them where they are?”

Is there anyone who would not like to be a bright light to the world? So, then, why isn’t everyone a bright light? Why is there such sturm and drang in the world?

Do people choose upset and aggravation? Do they like to fight? Against what do they fight? What is it they want to win? What is it they are trying to prove?

The next time you are ready to put your dukes up, consider that the Being across from you is I. Then wouldn’t you put your fists down? Would you take another look? Is it possible that all your anger and frustration would melt? No matter how angry you might be with Me, face to face with Me, all your anger would melt. You who have been angry with Me have been angry at what you see as My non-presence.

But here I am before you in the guise of a Human Being, and now what do you do? And what do you have to say? How big was the situation before you, and how big is it now? Where did it go? What changed it? With a thought of Me, you changed it, beloveds. You are a receptacle and dispenser of animosity or an eraser of it.

You are My messenger or you are My interloper. You further My message or you tear it up and substitute your own. You follow My Will or you make up one of the world’s.

You waste time or you make time count. You jump on Eternity or you get caught by the hands of the clock. You do somersaults or you drag your feet.

You are meant to be fleet of foot. You are meant to be Mercury Who delivers My messages with speed. My message is infallible. It is to love. Transcend your fears and anger. You can get out of them. Once out of them, you will once again find the love that surpasseth all understanding. Of course, you have to get beyond the understandings of the world or you perpetuate them.

Choose to light the world, beloveds. Enough dimming. Turn the lights on now full-blast. Here, press your heart to Mine, and feel the beat of love.

You sit in a horn of plenty and wonder where your wealth is.

You have everything at your fingertips, and yet you wonder why you are without. Certainly you are missing something. You are missing awareness. You are missing the awareness that wealth is not something that you receive as much as it is something you find in your pocket. You just had to reach in.

There is no difference between you and the millionaire. His pocket isn’t bigger. His reach may be bigger. His vision may be bigger, and therefore his grasp. He may have inherited money. He may have toiled for it. He may have invested. He may have had a brilliant idea. Somewhere his mind took a leap and landed him or kept him where he is. It is after all only money.

For those of you who work from dawn to dusk with little to show for it, this is hard to accept. Wealth may not have been your experience, and it may not be what you have observed.

Perhaps the world still holds the idea that there is only so much to go around. Perhaps it holds the idea that there will always be the rich and the poor. Perhaps the idea that there must be the poor in order for there to be the rich. Perhaps the idea that one has to deserve wealth in order to have it. Perhaps the idea that it is better not to have wealth. Perhaps the idea that you wouldn’t know what to do with it. Perhaps you fear the acquisition of wealth. Perhaps you think you are better off without it. Perhaps you think you are more virtuous or more responsible to struggle. Perhaps you think many things that are not true.

Perhaps you think it is simpler to be without because, along with the realization of wealth, comes responsibility. Perhaps you have been careless with money, and with wealth, you would have to take care.

We know that there is abundance that has nothing to do with money, but who said that you can’t have abundance of diverse kinds AND money.

If you have world wealth, it doesn’t mean you have denied someone wealth. It is the reverse. If you denied yourself wealth, you have denied someone else wealth. Whom are you not giving money to because you cannot afford to hire them?

The theme is not Money before all else. Nor is the theme Money for everyone else before you or Money for you after you have achieved everything else.

Perhaps you like the drama of not having lots of cash. Perhaps you turn your nose up at money. Perhaps you think you are too spiritual to be concerned with money. Perhaps you think you are better off without money. Perhaps you believe in impoverishment and impoverished countries.

If countries are your children, then you believe in some of your children more than you do others. What you picture comes to pass, or it continues to portray your vision.

Your next question may be, how can a country of dust and drought provide even food to its inhabitants? First of all, you don’t need to know the answers. The answers are beyond your vision now. You have gotten only so far as the questions.

If enough people on Earth picture a poor country in full wealth, if enough people believed in the wealth of that country, how long could the country stay poor? That poor country is an aspect of you, beloveds. Perhaps you create poor countries because you hold the concept that is the way to keep your country wealthy, that there is only so much money to go around. This is world proof, beloved, and you must go beyond that to Truth. To Truth you come, and wealth multiplied by the very generosity of your mind.

Do not covet is fine to say. Certainly, it is good advice. But it misses the issue. Only from sense of lack does covetousness arise.

When sense of lack is replaced with awareness of plenty, covetousness is replaced with generosity. Needing and giving are but two sides of the same coin. You may need to be instructed in awareness of the wealth that is yours.

Who would grab when he sees there is enough to go around? When he sees abundance spilling over, what would he feel denied about? What would he possibly want to draw to himself and not to another?

Even a candy bar kept to yourself lacks joy, for keeping to yourself deprives you. Break the candy bar in two, and you set something wonderful in motion. Do not deprive another of what you have, and you will be full, and life will be sweet.

Hoarding is covetousness. It is an announcement of importune poverty. You even covet what is already clearly yours.

But if you must covet, then covet Me. The moment you grasp Me, you will give Me away. There is no help for it. The minute you notice I rise in your heart, you can only pump Me into others' hearts. It is impossible for Me to be hoarded.

When you swim in a beautiful ocean, you do not covet it. You say, Come in. The water is fine.

No one wants to keep the ocean to himself.

No one wants to keep joy to himself. Kept to himself, joy is half-joy. Kept to himself, joy is thwarted.

Do not mix up desire with coveting. If you are not certain which is which, then desire to share.

Sense of strength brings peace. Sense of weakness brings turmoil. Covet strength then.

If you find you still covet what your neighbor seems to possess, then imagine yourself a King who bequeaths the very same to your neighbor. Picture yourself giving your neighbor his beautiful land and his beautiful wife and his beautiful sons and daughters and his beautiful friends and his beautiful talents. Give them and bless them to your neighbor. Oh, yes, you will feel rich. You will find your heart growing to its natural size.

If your neighbor has more than you, bless him to have ten times more.

If your child has left his frail body, bless every child to health and a long life. Such a gift from you holds vast power.

If your limbs are cut, bless every man to four limbs.

If your heart aches, bless every heart to happiness.

If you are uncomfortable, bless everyone to ease.

If you are war-torn, bless everyone to peace.

If your skin is mottled, bless everyone to clear skin.

If you are hungry, bless everyone with food plentiful.

If you are thirsty, bless everyone with streaming water.

If you feel unhappy, bless everyone to happiness.

If you feel ignorant, bless everyone to knowledge.

If you feel ungainly, bless everyone to poise.

If your purse is empty, bless everyone's purse to overflowing.

And when your table is full, invite a guest.

When your table is empty, picture yourself giving food to the hungry.

Whatever you have, share.

Whatever you have not, give in your heart by the bushels.

This is the only way to live. To give is the only way to live. You are for giving.

Forgive anyone who has more than you, and forgive those who have less.

Forgive yourself for having more than another, and forgive yourself for having less.

Nothing is yours, and everything is yours.

Give everything away. Dispossess yourself of the hold the material has on you. House it, but do not clasp it. Free yourself from want.

Life on earth from your vantage is not always or even usually fair. Therefore, it must be so that justice is not the point of life.

Truth is that you are in the Eternal. There is no aberration nor fluctuation in the Eternal.

Justice and injustice are judgments, for something in life has not befallen as you would have it. Because of your judgment, you do not know what to do but suffer. You consider the unfairness in life has caused you suffering. You have perhaps seen no alternative.

But this is what I want to say to you: Your aim in life is not to avoid or dismantle suffering. Naturally, you don't want to have it, but that is not your purpose in life any more than perpetual happiness is.

Avoidance or abstinence is not why you are given to earth.

Consciousness is not something you are to prove, to yourself or to others. It is not viable to count your state of consciousness by the state of your suffering or good fortune. It is good to count your blessings, but that is not the same as chalking them up. A chart of your comfort and discomfort are not a record of your consciousness. How you are doing in life may not indicate how you are doing in life.

Often what you call suffering is longing. Longing can move you forward. It can also hold you back.

What you do with your life is what you do with your life. Your fortune is in your hands. You name it good or bad.

What is the value in thinking of it as bad?

Good and bad are two words to throw out of your vocabulary. Comparisons in life divide life.

Consider there is life, not good life nor bad life. Life.

I well understand the pain that comes from loss of a child, for example, through a court decision or illness or any reason.

As much as you can, dwell on the love rather than the perceived loss. What you call loss can be gain. Let it open your heart, and it is gain.

We come back, again and again, to the fact that your life is not for you alone. Maybe it is not even for you at all. Maybe there is no "your life". Maybe you are a linchpin. Maybe you are a stitch in the embroidery. Always a beloved stitch.

Know this: You are energy. You are light. You are a surge in life. Surge yourself forward in life, and surge yourself upward. Look not back.

If you are a wave in the ocean, you are surrounded by waves.

If you are a ship in the sea, you pass other ships, and other ships pass you. You do not weep because a ship is set on another course. You blink your lights and say hello. Goodbye is not meant to be sadder than hello.

In any case, be the sun that sparkles the sea.

In terms of your particular life, be a fly on the wall, and you will be less attached to what occurs and will not take it so personally. You will observe.

You are in the midst of a great story, this story of life. It is a serial. It is made of episodes. It is contiguous. Like waves, every story is connected to every other. You cannot trace that connection, but you can know it is there.

It has been said that there are no coincidences. We could also say that all is co-incidence. All is entwined, and nothing is accidental. But a wave goes up, and a wave comes down so that it may gain momentum and go up again.

And you are rising.

It is true that you may expect too much of others and are frequently or always disappointed. It is better not to expect anything of others, but you already know that. But here is what you may not know: you expect too much of yourself.

All this time, you thought you were lazy. You thought you didn't begin to do enough or accomplish enough, and now I tell you that you have expected too much of yourself right along. You have asked too much of yourself in terms of the world.

So lean back a little, and recline in that place where you recall to mind that what you do, you do for Me. You don't do it for accolades. You don't do it for success. You don't do it for outcomes. You do it — everything — for Me. You are on earth altogether for Me.

Knowing this, you ease up on yourself. You don't whip yourself any longer. All you need to do is to remember that you work for Me.

Among other things, this realization and the remembrance of it keep you in the present. Recognition that all you do you do for Me keeps you in still waters. It is the world, your expectations of it, and its expectations of you, that agitate you.

I stir, but never agitate.

You are into doing, accomplishing, achieving, succeeding, outdoing, impressing. I am much more into the heart of things, the heart of you, and the heart of life. I am not an executive as you use the word. Getting things done is not at the top of My list. Or, rather, let Me say I know how to get things done, and I know it is not by effort.

When I created the universe, I breathed in and I breathed out — I did not huff and puff. When I created the universe, I breathed life into it. It came alive itself.

And so when you have projects, do not get held in the sway of them. They are not the motivators of you. You are the motivators of them.

Drive is not what gets things done. Desire gets things done. Intention gets things done. Force doesn't get things done. Pressure doesn't get things done. Easy does it.

Hard work is not the determinant in your life. Hard work is not the power of life.

I am not telling you not to do anything. You who are in life on earth don't just sit still. Perhaps We could say that the work you do is a result. All the while, you were looking for a preconceived return.

You in life are on a train ride. That you are on the train means you are going somewhere. You may find you are not going in the destination you had in mind. Well, then, perhaps it is your mind that has to change.

Perhaps you wanted to go to Cincinnati, and you are disappointed to find you are not. But you may find that you are being rerouted in circuitous ways, and when you get there, you are in Paris. You were traveling there all the while. The route just was not known to you.

The projects in life that grip you are always more than you think. That is the same as to say that your thoughts have not been big enough. You set out for a specified thing to happen, and are disappointed when it does not, but a greater thing is going to happen. Even in terms of the worldly, it is. Yet your destination at any point in time, no matter how wonderful, how magnificent, how sought-after is little next to what I have in mind for you.

Meanwhile, whatever you are embarked on, keep in mind that you are embarked on it on behalf of the One Who created you and Who is this minute and always aware of you.

This Heavenletter is not meant for everyone. It is meant for some. Perhaps you will recognize yourself here. But perhaps this message is not for you. But it is for some of you.

There is suffering. There is your own, and there is other's. Other's sufferings belong to them. "Belong" is not the right word because suffering does not belong to anyone. It is an add-on. But in any case, do not make anyone else's pain yours. Do not take it on. You do no one a service to take it on. You do a disservice.

That does not mean to be insensitive or indifferent to another's pain. Just don't make it yours. Don't take it on. You can be a good compassionate person without absorbing another's pain. You do not reduce theirs. You double it because now you have made it yours as well.

Help the starving, but that doesn't mean to starve yourself. Help the sick, but don't absorb their illness.

When you take on another's emotional pain, you try to solve it for them when it is theirs to solve. You meddle. You interfere in their growth. You try to rearrange their life. You tell them what to do and how to do it. You take over.

They may like it, and you may like it, but sooner or later, you have to face the music. You boobytrapped yourself. You've gone too far. Suddenly, you find yourself responsible and yet you are not. Instead of their moving on in their life, they are embedded into yours. You want someone else to move on, but they have to make their own moves. Move on in yours.

The tentacles of another's pain do not a friendship make.

Be a true friend and honor another's ability to surmount whatever they face. Often what they face is their past. You cannot make it up to them. They have to get out of their past, and you are not helping them with commiseration and tongue-clucking and madly dashing to their side.

Because someone had a miserable childhood, are you in debt to them? Because someone has welts on their back, must you cut into your back as well? Must you glue their pain to yours? You cannot be the savior of another.

But sometimes you would rather face another's problems than your own.

Sometimes some of you, by no means all, denounce your own life. You make another individual your life, your vocation, your hobby, as it were. And you have forgotten to honor your own life and your place in the cosmos.

You are not here to do a makeover on someone else. You are not here to salvage their life at the expense of your own.

Christ did not take on the pain of others. He saw beyond their pain, and so must you too. He did not erase pain. He saw with My eyes the truth that existed. He saw health and blazing light. He magnified the light in another. He lent credence to their light and not their infirmity. Christ did not take on anyone's burden. He honored them, and so he helped them.

You truly help another when it is your pleasure. You do not help another when it is your pain.

Love is not painful. Giving is not painful. If loving and giving cause you pain, then what you are doing is less than love and less than giving. Giving too much is not giving. It is denying.

You are here to find your way to joy.

Expand your vision.

Saints did not suffer. They were not at the mercy of another's pain.

Love your neighbor as yourself, yes. Start loving yourself.

There really are not disagreements of hearts. There are disagreements of words. Your heart wants agreement, for your heart knows that anything less than unity is untrue. The heart always seeks truth. Oneness is truth. Unity is truth. Love is truth.

So what if someone's words are not the words you would like? Beloveds, if there were no words, you would have more familiarity with the peace of Oneness. Ideas would not be expressed in words. Ideas would pass from heart to heart. Ideals would be lived. Try being mute for one day and notice the sweetness that swells in your heart.

Love is beyond words, isn't it? And yet We have language made of sounds called words. Sweet words can pump the love in your heart, and your heart surges with love unbounded. Cold words numb your heart. May all the words you speak and all the words you hear be sweet. Let words come from your heart and not from ego with all its fanfare.

Trees do not speak in words. Nor do sunrises and sunsets. Nor do oceans. Nor do babies. All the beautiful expressions of nature speak to you without words, and you know you are blessed. Communicate the way nature does. You too are part of nature. Communicate like music without lyrics.

Words can become swords that stab your heart. Better to be wordless than fight with words.

Because you are in the physical, the physical takes offense. You don't think your soul does, do you? Your soul isn't dense. Your soul doesn't come up against walls and words. Your soul knows its Oneness with all souls in Heaven and on Earth. Your soul sees far, and your soul hears all the music of the universe. It doesn't listen to static the way you do.

These moments of your life immersed in the world are precious. Even though you sometimes dismiss life in general and your life in particular, life is precious to you. You would kiss your life if you knew how. In the world and in words, there are stories, and you love stories, and you love the story of your life. You love the intertwining of lives. You love its entertainment. Whatever you may say, you love life with all its attributes, light and shadow. You love that you are, and you love your Being. You love the opportunity of life that you have. You wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Life, as you have lived it, has been either too short or too long. In any case, this brief span on Earth in your body is a precious time. It behooves you to spend this life on a grand scale. Little spurts of disagreement are not fitting for one such as you. You are meant for greater than argument. You are meant for commingling of hearts.

Would you perhaps consider that you are an official greeter at a party called Life? Everyone who enters the ballroom, you welcome. And everyone who leaves, you send them away with something, a gift, a hope, a blessing, and an insatiable desire to return to your presence.

I have appointed you to be a Greeter of the Universe. You greet on My behalf. I dubbed you an Ambassador of Love. You are an ambassador to the hearts of all Human Beings.

You are not only a Greeter of the Universe on My behalf. You are the one who greets Me as well. You greet Me no matter what form I appear to be in. Greet Me well, beloveds. Greet Me now.

No one on Earth can take your individual power away. No one. I speak of your sense of self. I am speaking of your own use of freedom of thought, responsibility for your Self. No one can wrest that from you.

But, oh, you can give your power away. You can give it away to individual people, to mass thinking, and advertising moguls. If you feel you have lost your key self-power and motivation, then it can only be you who has lost it. You have let someone or something or a school of this or a school of that take over your God-given mind.

Much of the time you are in a daze and are unaware of how much of your originality you have dribbled away. Sometimes it would seem that you have given carte blanche to the world, as if you trustingly wrote a blank check and gave it to anyone who happened to be around and offered you something, an illusion perhaps. Sometimes it would seem that you have been looking to give yourself away. You may have wanted someone or something to take you over. You may have wanted your thinking to be kidnapped.

Beloveds, you have wanted allegiance to something greater than yourself, but this does not mean to abandon yourself. You may have given permission for food or drugs to take you over or the CEO of your company to think for you, or masters of influence, or anyone.

Pause a moment and consider whom or what you adhere to and whether that is what you really want. What are you thinking about? What are you moving toward? What do you run to and what do you run away from?

Two common expressions: "To thine own self be true." And "In God we trust." Consider them. Perhaps there is no more to say but that. Perhaps they sum up all the human lessons in life.

You, who resist being told what to do, have let others' thinking tell you what to do, what to think, what to covet, where to spend your money — as if it were a wonderful talent to spend money and to ignore your own sovereign thinking. You, who would refuse to be an automaton, have indentured yourself to the world out there and perhaps neglected the world within. This is almost too much for you to think about.

No one can steal your thinking and substitute their beliefs unless you are, to some degree, a willing partner. It is yourself you need to caution. You may have perhaps closed your eyes and chosen unawareness. You perhaps would have rather slept than be awake. You perhaps would rather give away your power of attorney than to keep it.

You have perhaps raised your children the way someone else said to. You have perhaps thought someone else must know more than you. You have perhaps thought that others are experts, and you are not. Surely, you can learn from others. But, surely, you do not have to disregard yourself and give authority to others. You were made self-sustainable.

Do not blame the world if you are in a trance. You perhaps said: "Take me. I'm yours. Do with me as you will." Perhaps you just stood in line. Perhaps you moved from one line to another, and considered that you were thinking for yourself.

Pay attention to yourself. You are a child of God. I gave you your mind and heart for you to use. Everyone has their own. Consider where you put your money and your heart. Happiness lies with Me. Life is between you and Me.

Consider more how you treat than how you are treated. That is how you step out of the mire. You do agree it’s a good idea to step out of the mire, don’t you? When you do not wish to further disharmony, what can you do but rise above it?

Another can go the route of their choice. And you can go yours.

Trying to change someone else is futile. It is not for you to change anyone. You are not the truthsayer of anyone. It is not for you to make indictments. It is not for you to sentence someone to your correction. You are not here on Earth to improve anyone. You are here to better the world. And that means to widen your perception. That means turning in a new direction.

Pointing out faults is pointing out faults. It would seem it serves no purpose beyond your complaining. Complain not. Complaining allows a trace of discontent to ooze out of you. You may think you are better than someone else, but I assure you that every fault you point out in another is yours or at least matched by another of yours, or surpassed.

You are not the Emperor of the World. You are an enlightener of it. Have you forgotten? Have you forgotten that you are to be a shedder of light? Shedding light on another’s faulty Humanness is not shedding light. It is disbursing shadow.

No matter how right you think you are in pointing out the errors of another’s ways, you are mistaken. No matter how right your assessment is, it is not yours to make. Your efforts are misplaced anyway. First of all, no one is listening. When was the last time someone said to you: “Thanks for pointing out the error of my ways.”

Look to yourself. Tie your own shoelace. Be expert at more than zeroing in on fault. Consider that what the other person is missing is for you to fill. Perhaps. Perhaps not. In any case, be not one who points out fault. Fault-finders are a dime a dozen. Stand out with your leniency towards others’ demerits.

Most of your complaints are circled around how someone has treated you. You feel mistreated, under-treated, under-cared for. And you seek to remedy the situation. No matter how offensive someone has been, whatever the outer concerns, you have made something of the situation that is not yours to make. You have drawn conclusions that are beyond your jurisdiction.

You are not an editor of someone else’s life. You are not to spend your life on how you think other people should behave. That is not your bailiwick.

The thing to improve is your view on life and your view of the people in it.

Look to yourself, beloveds, in all things.

Depend not on others to fill your needs. You and I fill your needs, no one else. You and I give you happiness. I give you all the love in the world. No one else can patch your life. You do not ride on a merry-go-round forever.

When love and approbation seem to be denied you, find somewhere to give your love and approbation. At the very least, give them to yourself. Seek your happiness where it resides. It does not reside in someone else.

Whatever lessons in life you feel you have learned, there is a deeper lesson underneath. One way or another, you have been holding on to an illusion. You blind-sided yourself. No one else did. No one else can.

You are your own hero. And, if you see yourself as a victim more than a hero, then you have appointed yourself victim. You have pointed the finger at yourself. You have made a declaration of hurt rather than a declaration of love. Turn in a different direction now. Leave the past once and for all. Do not replay your life. Lift it.

Dear Loves of Mine, dear Hearts, dear Friends, dear Seeking Souls, dear Harbors of Love, dear Faces that look Heavenward, dear those whose faith is strong and those whose faith is weak, those who stand before Me and those who would retreat, those who speak My Name, and those who do not, those who are unhappy, and those who are happy, those who give and those who take, those who sense great purpose, and those who feel none, those who walk at an even pace and those who falter, those who are neat and those who are messy, those who speak Truth and those who bear false witness, those who lead and those who follow, those who give blessings and those who curse, those who savor life and those who disdain it, those who give life, and those who take it, those who go astray, those who lead others astray, those in the prime of youth, and those in the prime of age, those caught in time and those caught in space, every single one of you is My child, and every single one of you I addres s. It is your eyes I look into. It is your eyes I would flutter open. It is your eyes I would moisten with love. It is into your heart I would pour sweet cream. It is to you I whisper, and it is to you I whisper sweet love.

Do you really imagine that I leave anyone out? Do you really think I pick and choose who is to be My beloved and who is to not? I made a choice before your birth, and my choice was to love all. That was the choice I wanted, so I gave it to Myself. It is you who makes other choices. It is you who calls yourself by names other than love. Not I. I know your name and I call you by it.

Sometimes you turn your head as if someone had called to you. I am always calling to you. I whisper in your heart. I call your name.

You are My Divine Love, yet you think you have failed. You think you are without love, or that you have given it only sporadically and received little back. Any way you look at it, you may feel you have failed at life. With that presentiment, you removed Me from your sight. You abandoned the Garden, and said I sent you out.

I would not dismiss you. I would not evict you. I would welcome you. I do welcome you. I usher you into Heaven. I take Heaven to you. You do not believe Me because you do not believe in yourself. You think you are a forsaken self only because you have forsaken yourself. You put other Gods before Me, and you put other Gods before you.

Come back, come back, Eternal Child. Rest your feet, soothe your brow, come drink of the water I offer you. Come, be lighted with the light I offer you. Come, be touched by the touch I give you. Come, be heartened by the heart I give you. Come here. Bring everyone with you.

You cannot come alone. There is no sneaking in. There is only entry for everyone. That has to be so. There is no one I would leave out. No one. But you would. You would assign places. You would put some first and some last and some, if left to you, you would never admit.

That is the difference between us, beloveds. You hold fast to the concept of sin whereas I hold fast to the concept of love. Let go of your concepts and accept Mine. Enter Heaven with Me now. Welcome all as I do welcome all. Come now.

What is it that you want to hear?

You fear to say, "Truth, God", because you don't want to hear what you don't want to hear. You fear that the Truth about you is not so good. You are afraid you will receive a poor or failing grade. But I do not give them. Man does enough of that. Man does too much of that.

The Truth is not to be afraid of. The Truth settles your heart; it does not disturb it. But you hold yourself up to standards that you could better meet if you did not make them into commands.

As a child, you may have been going to a party, and your mother tells you to sit up and not to spill anything. You already had every intention of sitting up and not spilling anything, but somehow with the command, you are frozen, and what was easy for you to do — easy when you didn't have to relegate yourself to it — suddenly descends on you from somewhere else and therefore it becomes hard to do. And so you learned to command yourself in regard to too many things that you have no need to. You make unnecessary cautions and demands.

You write a prescription for yourself, your demeanor, your actions, your thoughts. And then at some point you may say: "To heck with it. This is too hard."

Playing a role IS too hard. The thing is: there is no role for you to play.

You don't need a prescription. A prescription sets limits, and limits aren't good for you, and you're not good at them. I don't ask you to be perfect or imperfect. You are beyond regulations. You are beyond anything the world asks of you. I ask that you be who you already are. To do that, you have only to honor the beautiful being that you were made to be and are. You tense up when you think you have to be someone or something else or meet an impossible standard. You rack your brains to find yourself guilty when, all the while, you are your own sovereign. I gave you possibilities, not impossibilities.

You are already My child, and I say you are good. You are not shoddy. But when you tell yourself you have to be this or that superlative goodness, you feel unworthy to the task and defeated ahead of time. Sometimes you would rather not try at all because you carry a history of defeat, and you keep referring to it. Put it down. Cast it aside. Don't read it anymore.

I give you a fresh card. Every day, a new one. It is not a running tally. I have already written in your name and your grade. I wrote your name as "My Beloved". I wrote, not that you passed, but Surpassed. And under comments, I wrote: Promoted to the next day. There is nothing you have to achieve. All you have to do is be here.

The name of your school is Glory. The curriculum is Joy. And all you have to do is to begin to be what you truly are. It is easy to be you. It is hard to be someone else. You are what I say. You have nothing to live up to but what you are. What is hard for you is to remember who you are, and so I remind you. Look for the reminders of who you are. I leave them everywhere. Look for them, and you will see them.

Let the sun pierce your heart. Let newness greet you. All is before you. And you are before you. The goodness and beauty you seek are yours. What is there for you to do but to reveal them. Reveal the truth of you now. I set it before you. See it now.

Taking things personally is making too much of yourself. Better to be neutral, and then you don't billow into resentment or hurt. Then you save your energy for greater things. Spending your energy on hurts is like spending your money on little things you don't want and that you don't have room for and will only have to throw out later because they get in your way.

Taking things impersonally is nothing more than seeing the truth.

In order to see the truth, you have to go beyond yourself.

In one way, you are the center of the universe. In another way, you are here to make life easier for others, even that personage you call yourself. Sometimes you have made life hard. Resistance makes it harder.

When you don't take things personally, you stay love.

Contrary to what you may think, you really don't want people to agree with you all the time. That would become its own burden for you.

There is nothing you have to carry with you through life.

You do not need to make someone feel sorry for being who they are in any particular moment. Attend to that which is yours to attend to. Why do you get ticked off when someone doesn't do what you think they should do? when they don't do what you want them to do? when they consider what they want more than what you want?

When it is someone else's choice, it is their choice. It never was yours. Hands off.

Bless the people who come into your life. Bless those that go out. They are the same people who come in as who go out. No one can leave your life unless they have been in it. Would you rather they had not? Be glad they came for however long a spin.

Do you really want your will to prevail over another's?

Remember My Will and the great freedom I give to you.

What is freedom but others going their way and you going yours?

You will wind up together again. You have met before, and you will meet again.

Do not control others. Do not control yourself. What is there to control? Another's will? Your own? No, don't control. Allow. Be open to will, yours and others'.

Find what your will is. You don't make it. You don't order it. You find it.

Give to others that which you seek for yourself, and that is the freedom to be who you are when you are. You don't want to divert from yourself, even when you don't know what yourself is. Everyone is seeking his own answers. He wants to find them himself. He doesn't want your answers.

No one has to do what you want. No one has to be what you want.

Believe this: no one is going against you. They are merely trying to find their own way, and sometimes you knock into each other as two people turning a corner from different directions might. Both say Excuse me, and go on.

There is room in the universe for many going in different directions. And each, consciously or not, is trying to find his way to Me. Be glad others are too. Allow them all the space to try their different routes. What do you care? What is it to you which way they go? If they take a wrong turn, they will turn back. Have you not done the same?

It is not for you to say what is a mistake and what is not. With far sight, you may see that what you thought was a wrong turn was the right one. How will someone know unless they find out?