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Do not spend your life trying to improve other individuals in their personal lives. Do not know better than another what they should do and how they should do it. A need to improve others is your need, not theirs. Do not need to improve others, for it is always for your sake, not theirs. Furthermore, you only try to improve others because you have made judgments. You found the others lacking. You found yourself superior. You found your judgment and exalted it.

Do not always know better than someone else.

When you try to improve another, you invade their territory.

No matter how well-intentioned you are, and you are, you usurp another's rights. You want to help another. You only want to serve, but you take over. Do not help people so much. Let people help themselves.

Even little children, let them feed themselves. Let them use their fingers. Let them make a mess. It is your need to have eating immaculate. Let your need be to give independence.

Do not make others dependent upon you.

Giving freedom is not giving license.

The more you respect others' rights, the more you will respect your own.

You are using another's energy when you try to improve them. You think you are being kind in improving, but you are drawing a small circle around them. You manacle them. Despite your wish to give goodness, you become a scavenger.

Be not a critic. Be an enjoyer.

Leave another to their foibles. You can be sure you have your own.

Be hands off. Let someone tie their shoe incorrectly. It is their shoe. Let them find their own way themselves.

Be not a fault-finder. Be a joy-giver.

You do not like people to improve you. It does not matter whether you need it or not. When you want improvement, you will ask, and then you will listen.

When someone asks you for advice, then maybe you can give it. Maybe they were not sincere in asking for advice. Let them then learn to have their speech follow their true thought.

Learn to keep silent. True giving is silent. True giving is not intended. It just is. It comes of itself, and is done before you know it.

Giving advice is controlling. You misguidedly try to control another's life on Earth. Let them be. Let them find their own way. Do not take it as your right or purpose to change them. Help someone by not trying to change them.

I let you be. I let you stumble. I let you everything. I do not try to improve you. I accept you, and I inspire. If I did not accept you, you would not be inspired. My very acceptance of you inspires you, and you raise yourself a notch.

You have to climb your own ladder, and everyone must climb theirs. Find a way to draw a picture of a ladder on which one rung is not higher than another. Different rungs, different placement, but each rung your foot reaches for is your next step.

You do not spare another his next step.

Do you try to improve another who tries to improve you? It is a hard task. Ask Me for help, and I will lift another's thoughts from you. And I will lift their hearts so they will pay more attention to their own life and less to yours.

Pick yourself up wherever you are. What others do and say is not your domain. What you do and say is your domain.

Include Me. Do not try to change Me either. Embrace Me. Let Me be God. Let Me be your God of Love, for I do love you and I let you live your life in peace.

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.

Fear is a rumor that got started. It is a study in contagion. It is a wayward bus. It is a fire that burns everything in its path. It is a cold sweat. It is an anomaly. It is a habit. It is a way of looking at things.

Change how you look at things. No more need you bow to fear. Fear tricked you, and it tricks you still.

Fear is a noise. It is a caged lion's roar. Fear became the tamer of you.

Notice how you honor fear. You let it overshadow you by overshadowing your awareness of Me. You think fear is real, and that I am not. Some things you have gotten wrong.

Somehow fear taught you that it was your friend. Well, it certainly is a companion, but a friend? I think not. Fear is a pretend friend who all the while plots your demise. It keeps you captive. It keeps you in its thrall.

It cries wolf to you. It sends you running. It flashes lightening as if a storm is coming, but all the while, fear itself is the storm. It warns you really of itself.

Fear is the rumor that a storm is coming. And fear makes a production and coaxes your imagination. Fear becomes your chief advisor. It warns you of itself. It catapults you into a frenzy of itself. Fear cuts your legs off, and it chains you to its shadow.

Have you not had enough of fear? Must you know it so well? Must you get to know it even better? Must you keep it?

Fear will not walk away from you. It's time for you to walk away from fear. Cut its head off, and you will see it is made of straw.

Fear is a football player that blocks your every move. You become a dodger of fear, and so your life is lived, bouncing off fear. Fear leaves you little. It doesn't want you to have anything.

Surmount your fears. Kick them out of the way. They are not your sustenance. They are your undoing. They make you inert. All the fear energy of the world engages in itself. Trade in your fears. Return them to the distortion they came from. Get your money back. Get yourself back. Undermine yourself no longer.

Fear is a tracker. It hunts you down. It is a virus. It is rampant. Fear coaches you to be wary of everything but itself.

Now it is time to abandon fear.

Adopt love. Adopt it now. Adopting is choosing. Choose love now. Love is your natural state and does not push its way into your awareness. It doesn't need to. It knows not of the existence of fear. It knows of the non-existence of fear. Love is not afraid of its own shadow or of rumors. It knows it outlasts fear that was only rumored in the first place.

Truth is the opposite of rumor, and truth is the same as love. The basis of life is love, not fear. But ego is well aware of fear. It is its servant.

Fear plays on your ego. Ego is that annoying prickly red-faced youth that thinks it must raise itself on the shoulders of humanity and be looked at in certain aggrandizing ways or it has failed. Ego is in love with the illusion of its grandeur, and fear uses your ego to keep you controlled all the while it kids you that you are the chief controller.

Ego is a jukebox that fear plays at will.

Remove your ego, and fear vanishes like a stone thrown in water.

Fear is a gnawer that has eaten its way through your life.

Think of life without fear.

Just think of it. What a relief!

Fear is a stimulant you do not need. It is really a depressant.

You need no stimulants. You need no depressants.

You need to be who you are, and you need to come to Me so that you know who you are. You who are without ego know that you are grander than ego. You rise to the occasion, and the occasion is love, and I am the Provider of it. Come to Me and not to fear. I am real, and fear is not. Fear is a rumor that got started and was fanned by the world, and you jumped on to that popular train of fear. Now jump off, and begin your life with Me.

I take away your pettiness. I take away your petulance. In return, I give you vision. Would you not give way to My vision?

Generosity is generated from kinship. I know My children so intimately that I can only give to you. You are My generation. I generated you. It is My genes that you have. It is My genes that made you. My love made you. You are My generation of love.

Do not be too proud to be My child of love. You did not create yourself. Nor do you lead yourself. When you lead yourself, you lead yourself in circles and then complain to Me about it.

Get on course with Me.

Greatness comes from Me. I give it to you. You are made of it. But you must never assume that it is of your making. It is of your realization.

Once you know Who you are, then you can only be it.

If you knew you were gold paint, you would only be gold. You would not have to transform yourself into gold because gold is what you are. It is your original state. Perhaps you are gold in a plain wrapper and do not know the color you are within until you are opened, painted, and revealed.

Do not hide the color of your soul.

Do not hide the color of your heart.

Gold is gold.

All is golden within you.

You were born gold.

You were conceived gold.

Anything within you that does not seem to be gold is debris that flew in from somewhere. It does not belong there. It is not you. It is not a part of you. It is apart from you. You can leave it. You certainly don't need to keep it. Foreign matter is foreign matter.

You are not foreign from yourself. You just have been away from yourself in your thinking. You bought thoughts that were not yours, and thought they were. You mistook.

If I say you are gold, what can you be then but gold?

Does someone know something I don't? Does someone know more than I know? Yet you have thought that you did. You thought you knew better than I.

Even right now you don't believe Me. When you don't believe Me, you are doubting. When you doubt, you are thinking that I don't know what I'm talking about. You are thinking that perhaps you have clearer vision than I do.

Oh, My children, gold of My heart, listen to My voice and not to echoes from the world. The world is past. It keeps looking back. You must look Heavenward because that is where you will find yourself. That is where you came from. And that is what your goldenness is to make evident.

Do My words have a tiny hold on you? Is there a little thread within you that can consider the possibility that I am speaking truth and not fancy? That little thread within you that connects to what I say is a golden thread, and it is our connection. You are on earth, but you are connected to Heaven. You are connected to Me. We are connected.

You cannot break Our connection, but you can kid yourself that it isn't there. You can blind yourself to it. But you can also unblind yourself. Simply remove the blindfold over your eyes, and you will see clearly. Take the plugs out of your ears, and you will hear clearly.

Most often you see and hear what your mind (from its various tangents) has told you is there. Your mind predicts what it will see and hear. It predicts you will see and hear static. It predicts that you cannot possibly be gold because look at what you have always thought you were. You see from where you think you are. You see from the platform you think you stand on.

Rise to My dais. You have been an inch from the ground and thought you were seeing the vast universe. You have been seeing a little plot of land.

Now, rise to Me, and tell Me what goldenness you see. ***

My children, you are so quick to credit or blame your constitution on genes you inherited from your parents. You think those genes are inviolable. I tell you they are not. They can change. If you have inherited genes that serve you well, keep them. If you have inherited genes that do not, disinherit them. You do not have to stay what you think you are. You can get out from under or sweep over. You are not bound. That is so hard for you to hear.

But the inheritance I have given you, you cannot disinherit. You are My child, and you have inherited My greatness. You can ignore, dissemble, run from, but you cannot disinherit yourself. What is yours is yours for all time. You are My shining light. I gave you the light of Myself to shine. Accept this inheritance. You have it, so accept it. You have been mistaken to think that you are other than My light. You are lifters of earth to Heaven. It is for you to raise the sights of the world Heavenward. Raise your own, and the world will follow where your eyes look. Look high. Look high. Catch My eye.

Heavenletter #3921 Published on: August 20, 2011

You are the crossbows of the Earth. You are the bungee cords that bind the Earth and hold it together. What did you think the Earth was made of if not your consciousness? You who walk the Earth also spread it before you. You design the world as you go along. The world is not so much your forethought or afterthought. It is your thought right now. The Earth exists as you see it, as your feet cover it, as you imagine the Earth to be. You are always imagining. Your thoughts make footmarks now. You print the world out before you. You make flyers of it, banners, advertisements, cartoons. You make the world anything at all depending upon - dear Heavens - depending upon your mood.

You carry the world in your arms. The world is for you to nourish it. Feed it. Comfort it. It is your world, after all. Treat it well. Treat it exceptionally well.

All you really have is love. That is your inheritance. It makes sense to love what is here for you to love. All is for you to love. Unless you love the Earth and all its participants, you are denying your love. That is not fair of you. Who is going to love the world unless you do? And how are you going to love the world unless you see it in a favorable light? Look through eyes of love.

You can see anything you choose to see. That is what you have been doing right along. Instead of being self-righteous, pointing out the flaws, now strew love across the four corners of the world. Leave nothing out. You are as capable as all the Great Ones who have lived on Earth. Make the world wonderful, won't you?

It is like you were given a little plot on Earth. It is yours to plant as you like. What are you going to plant? Bad news? Imperviousness to love? Come on, give the world a break. You have good soil. Plant something you would like to harvest. Never again plant weeds of discontent. It is not news to you that anyone can nurture weeds. Have you thought that if you can plant weeds, you can plant roses? You can sow a crop of happiness. You can sow a crop of anything you want. You can start right now. The crop you plant is not dependent upon the weather or the season. Formulate the weather, beloveds. Design the world you were given to love. If the world is not presently what you desire, then redesign the world. Make it the world you want it to be. Start now. Let your heart design the world. Fill the world with your heart. Bless the world with your presence.

Anyone can find fault. Anyone can find anything. Find diamonds. Plant trees. Be worthy of Earth. You are not meant to be a hanger-on. You are not meant to kick the Earth. You are meant to love it.

The Earth is your home for now. Take good care of it. Bless it with every step you take and every step you don't take. Bless the Earth every which way. Bless this part. Bless that part. It is all yours. There is not a spot on Earth that you are not responsible for. You are responsible for all of it, and this is your privilege. Your rule reaches far. Grant the Earth you live on your blessings. Love the Earth you live on. Partner with it. Love it well. No exceptions. Simply love, for the Earth is all yours and all are yours. There is no one who is not yours. Love your neighbor. Love your stranger. Love those who are just like you, and love those who are not like you. Let love from your heart bloom.

Heavenletter #3920 Published on: August 19, 2011

You are the crown I wear. Your presence blesses Me. I, God, am blessed by you. You are My blessing, and you are the focus of My attention. I tend to you. You are the crown of glory I cover Myself with. I occupy Myself with you. You fill My heart, and you fill My thoughts. You are My occupation.

I tend to you even as I know that you are all set. I send you reminders of your worthiness to Me. I see you have forgotten. I have never forgotten, and so I bless Myself with reminders of you on your behalf. I write to you in remembrance of yourself. When you remember Me, you remember yourself. Climb up a rung in the ladder. Climb to Me even though you are already stationed deep in My heart.

You are deeply established in My heart. You cannot fall out. You cannot disappear from My heart. Not a whit of you can disappear from My heart. You are My heart. You are the centrifugal force of My heart. I placed My heart out across the land of Earth. You have taken over My heart. I gave it to you in the same way that I gave Earth to you, as I gave you life on Earth, as I gave you the Garden of Eden, and now you roam in it, and you know not where you roam. You know not. You were found long ago, only you have a memory lapse. Your memory lapse is your fall from grace. You never fell. You forgot.

You have not quite figured out your surroundings. You have located yourself on Earth, so you believe, and you have forgotten your current place in Heaven, as it were. You forgot your true identity, and you took on a false one. You took on an alias of yourself, as it were. You took on a false persona. You whisked on a mask. You forgot the mask was your disguise. You believed your own propaganda. You sold yourself a bill of goods. You advertised it to yourself.

You thought you had made a good bargain with yourself when you had sold yourself folly. You are My true begotten love, and you have dubbed yourself Forgotten Love, yet it is you who has forgotten. I have never forgotten you and My love for you. My love is indelible. It cannot be shaken. I cannot do otherwise than love you and love you with all My heart. My heart is a lot of love indeed. My heart is perpetual love. It is Eternal Infinite love. It is yours, do you understand? You are My beloved. You.

From the moment I had a thought of you, you were Mine. I wrote your name across the Universe. I placed you gently on Earth, and you had the idea that you were thrown out of Heaven. I placed you gently so that you would be Heaven-placed on Earth.

The apple Eve ate was an apple of forgetfulness. The tree the apple came from was the tree of forgetfulness.

Now, in remembrance of Me and in remembrance of Our Oneness, I ask you to remember. Remember Me, and remember yourself. Remember that you are My glory. Only a semblance of you is strewn across Earth. Your body is strewn, yet you are not your body. You are not your body. You are not your body.

You are far more. You are My song sung from My heart. You inhabit the Earth on My behalf. You stand in for Me. Bless the Earth now in My Name and yours.

 

Heavenletter #3919 Published on: August 18, 2011

Tell Me, beloveds, how are you today? Are you thinking of Me? Have you noticed Me yet today? Have you been looking for Me? Are you waiting for Me?

I am here. When you are asleep, I am with you. As you are awake, I am with you. Between every thought of yours, I am with you. I am with you now. My heart beats in yours, and yours in Mine. We are together. Never have We ever been apart.

You think you know separation. Your mind seems to be on top of apartness. Your mind has done a pretty good job of speculating separation and heaping it upon you. It doesn't matter that separateness is an impossibility. The wayward mind has taken apartness as a theme, made it your theme song. Sometimes you have to stand apart from your vigilant mind and wave the flag of Oneness so that you see it or at least lean into it. Bend to it. Rise to it. Let the reality of Oneness seep into your heart. Know Who is with you. Know Our Oneness. Accept it.

When the thoughts in your head give you trouble, pull you down, trample your heart, make you lose confidence in yourself and Me, then you must allow yourself the pleasure of an exchange with Me. Must you cleverly dispute your love for Me as well as My love for you? What's in it for you? What do you gain by feeling that you stand on top of a mountain all by yourself with no one to even call out to?

Why would you shake Me off your awareness? Why would you accept loneliness over My Presence?

Well, what if I am with you every moment, at every turn, at every happening and non-happening. What if I am with you always and We are never apart. Why wouldn't you put that in your pipe and smoke it instead of the versions of aching heart that you put yourself through?

Isn't it about time that you started to declare yourself to Me and add Me to your repertoire? I am by your side. Why not know it? Why not stand taller and claim Me and a close-up God who claimed you long ago, so long ago that you have forgotten, or have chosen to forget, have chosen to close your eyes, have chosen to be stand-offish, have chosen to stand by the side of the road, have chosen to turn aside or away, have chosen to hitch-hike across the world and not see the car I pull up in but you rather accept a ride in a lonely car, a hot rod perhaps that takes you around the block and no further.

I open the door for you -- as if there were a door that closes. I have an open-door policy. I close no one out. I certainly don't close you out. I welcome you. You have never been unwelcome. It is not possible, for My love for you is certain. It is your love for Me that is uncertain.

Perhaps you hold a grudge of one kind or another. Or perhaps you never really consider the topic of Me. Perhaps, perhaps.

Stick your thumb out, and I will slow down, and you can hop in My humble car. Perhaps you hesitate about a limo. I am pulling up to the curb you stand on right now. Hop in. You will never want to leave. I will occupy your heart, and I will fill your mind, and you will see that your thoughts become a preponderance of thoughts of Me. You will have a heart full of God and a head full as well.

You do try to define Me. Somewhere in the recesses of your mind, you define Me as good or failing and, sometimes, both and shades in between. You like to define things. You like everything sewed up tight. You don’t like loose ends. And, so, you also try to define yourself in so many ways, and as you do, so does the world.

You define yourself according to gender. You define yourself according to height. You define yourself according to occupation, and you also have adjectives you apply to yourself when you make a mistake.

You cannot define Me, nor, beloveds, can you truly define yourself. In that case, accept My definition of you. Upon Self-examination, I declare that you are as indefinable as I am. The closest definition to you that there exists is that you are love and light, and I stop there. I am Love and Light, and so are you. The difference is that I know Who I AM, and you do not yet know, or fully know. Of course, you do not yet fully know the width and breadth that I AM. You skirt the edges, beloveds. You hold Me up to certain standards. In that sense, you are Goliath to My David.

However, in My case, We are both winners. We win together. What is good for Me is good for you. It is equally true that what is good for you is also good for Me. The thing is that you don’t always know what is good for you. At the same time, I do not go down the line totting up every move you make. I am too busy looking at your golden light and your golden love.

Even when you are in the midst of upset, anger, or despair, I am looking at you with My lighted eyes of love. Wherever I turn, I see Myself. I may see Myself wandering in a human body that you identify as many things, sometimes, it seems, almost anything to deny your true identity. Sometimes it is as if you go out of your way to prove that you are less than I say. Somehow it may be more comfortable for you to say you are a derelict rather than have to take responsibility for the state you are in and the state of the world. You may prefer to prove your incompetency rather than your worth. It seems to Me that sometimes you go to great lengths to prove you are other than what I say you are, and I say you are gold.

In this moment, you can identify yourself with Me. Masked fear has held you back. It is difficult for you to face the fact that you have great say in your life and the life of the world. You may rather foist off responsibility on Me or on the person across from you. In a limited way, you may blame yourself due to your inability, due to your being resigned to offer little or nothing to the world or offer suffering to it as a payback for your suffering, or from a need to show how suffering and helpless you are. You may prefer to become an addict rather than to declare yourself sovereign.

You must admit that sometimes, or often, you do tend to run away from yourself, and so you become rag-tail or controlling or whatever you do to limit yourself. You likely see yourself as only a human being. Only a human being? You are a great only. You are a great creation. You even have the power to deny the Greatness of yourself. I am not talking about modesty. I am talking about outright denying if not deploring your Godly strengths. You look into the mirror too much and see only a human body that can only lack Greatness.

Choose My identification of you. I tell you frankly that the shoe fits.

http://www.heavenletters.org/god-gave-you-your-identity.html

And to what do I owe the pleasure of your company? You have come to Me here now today, and I ask you what has brought you here? Whatever you think brought you here, happenstance, a decision, a habit, I brought you here before Me so I may look at you and so you may remember that you are deep in My heart. You are in My heart. Think of that. You are in God’s heart. You are an essence of My heart. That means you are essential to My heart.

It is not that I have need because all is fulfilled, yet in terms of the world, We can say I need you in My heart, and, yet, how do I need when you are already based in My heart? You, also, have no need of Me because you already exist in My heart. Your need then is to know that you are deeply, irrevocably, in My One Heart.

I cannot long to have you in My heart because you are already in My heart, and yet, if it can be said that I long, I long for you to be aware of your immovable place in My heart. My heart is filled with you. We could say that My heart is a piñata, and when you poke into My heart, why, you find yourself spilling out, you, the love in My heart.

You who have sought to know Me, or who have not consciously sought to know Me, find yourself in My heart.

My heart is splendid. Could it be otherwise? And you are in My heart. You always were, are. There is no place for you to be but tender in My heart. Of tenderness you were born, and of tenderness you remain. Tender is your heart, and in tenderness, there is strength. The strength of your heart – and Mine too – is tenderness. What else would a heart be for?

And so, now, your heart softens. Malleable becomes your heart. Like sweet bread kneaded becomes your heart. Life itself kneads your heart, this heart of yours, like Mine, in Mine, that is to remain open.

Your heart is not meant to dry up, or to close up. Your heart is meant to open, open, softly open, until the whole Universe finds a haven in your heart. Why not? Why not your heart?

Your heart, once opened, opened all the way, is the same heart as that of the Great Ones. A heart is a heart. The hearts of the Great Ones were fully-blossomed hearts. They loved all, embraced all, warmed all, heartened all. The Great Ones were great openers of hearts. Intellect is one thing. Heart is another. Be one-hearted. Be One with My heart. Remove all impediments to your realization of the state of your heart.

You say your heart is wounded? Then open your heart. You do not heal your heart by keeping it closed. Open your heart rather than protect it. Your heart has no need of protection except from yourself. Your heart needs no bodyguard. On the contrary, your heart needs to be unprotected. For love to fill your heart, it must be open. Certainly, a closed heart cannot be filled. A wary heart cannot be filled. No longer deceive your heart. No longer trammel it. No longer cut it off. No longer say to your beleaguered heart, “Enough of that. Enough of love.”

Don’t be preposterous. Say to your heart, “Forgive me for the hammerlock I have put on you. I am removing all restrictions now. My beautiful heart, I am setting you free so you can be the heart you always really are.”

http://www.heavenletters.org/the-pleasure-of-your-company.html

You have to become a reliable person. You don’t have to be relied on for everything, yet you do have to be relied on that you will respond to life in a circumspect way. You have to be counted on to be considerate. You have to be counted on to consider another. You have to be responsible for your actions. You have to be counted on to not find excuses for what, all in all, may be less than illuminated behavior. Even kindness is not to be random but to be counted on. You have to be counted on to be responsible for what you say and what you do.

You have to be counted on to not test the limits of friendship. You have to be counted on to not make excuses for lapses.

Be reliable in your willingness to grow. Unless you are responsible for your present reactions to life, how then will you grow? If someone else is responsible for all that you bring on yourself, then you hide from yourself and are being irresponsible.

Patterns in your life are patterns in your life. They are your patterns. They are your doing. It must be that you set yourself up. Why would you do that? And why would you set yourself up and pretend that what you incited you are entirely innocent of? Why would you pretend you are not responsible? Who is responsible for you if you are not? Do not hold fate responsible for your actions and reactions.

You are no longer a baby who is carried here and there and put down here and there. You now have free will. Now you have responsibility for your own life.

No longer can it be that patterns in your life are someone else’s doing. They are your doing, beloveds. There are actions you have taken, or actions you have not taken. It is your initiating or your allowing. And it is for you to undo unhelpful patterns in your life. Old patterns are old patterns. You do not have to keep them. You are responsible. Be a responsible person.

That you are innocent does not mean that you are not responsible. If you are cheated all the time, you are the one who is allowing yourself to be cheated. If you are misunderstood all the time, you have allowed yourself to be misunderstood. You don’t have to change the understanding of those around you. You have to change your understanding of yourself. You are the one who doesn’t understand. This has to be, or the same patterns in your life would not be repeated. You are the one who has to change.

I am telling you to stand up. You are not a victim. If you are a victim, you claimed the title. You put on the hat you are wearing. You are a crook of your own good fortune. You have stolen from yourself.

Ultimately, you have to take responsibility for yourself. The world may be mistaken, yet that does not take away your responsibility for yourself. You don’t have to kowtow to the world. At the same time, you don’t have to rebel against the world. You don’t have to put yourself in front of a moving car.

That may be what you have been doing, and then you blame the driver.

Consider that in life, you are crossing a street. Look both ways. Look both ways, and pay attention to what you see. Patterns in your life are not to be shrugged at.

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However…whenever…whoever…life is a beautiful apparition. There is nothing like life, is there? What a richness is life! What a story! What a happily ever after or not happily ever after. There is always ever after. Life continues on whatever plane. There is no end to life. Nor does life have to be stored.

Your life writes itself as it goes along, and then it is to be erased and room made for more life, more new life, spontaneous life. Life is not to be revisited. It will revise itself. In any case, life, as viewed in the relative world, will not stay the same. Hop on one foot or hop on two, life is always moving merrily along. Life is merry. You may not be, and, yet, you can be regardless of what journeys life takes you on.

Just think of this miraculous gift of life. Its richness. Its abundance. Its surprises, its hilarity, and, yes, its disappointments. Nevertheless, life is not to be slandered, thought ill of, disparaged, put down, nor is life to be swept under the carpet. In this moment, you live it. In the next moment, is another opportunity of life. You don’t keep peeking at the underside of the carpet. When a moment is past, it is past. Be done with it, and move on to the next.

Life does not have to be crafted. You don’t need to draw designs for it. Have ideas, have intentions, have dreams to build on. Yet, in the moments of having your dear dreams, also let go of them. Do not hold on too tight. You do not let go of your dreams too easily either. There is a fine balance. You have seen life like the porridge in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One bowl of porridge is too hot. One bowl is too cold. One bowl is just right. And so it goes with the chairs, and so it goes with the beds.

Life does not have to be your cup of tea. What you can know is that life holds great wonders in store for you. What wonder is life going to perform for you today? Life may even hold greater for you than you imagined. In that case, you may have to turn in old dreams for new. You don’t want to be stubborn with life. Life has to have its broad swath. Life does not want to be confined any more than you do.

Life is a picnic, beloveds, only this picnic does not always have the delicacies you most favor. There are many tastes in life, and you will get a taste of each. The taste matters, yet how you digest the various tastes matters more. Let life go down your gullet easily. Life in the world is not permanent. Life grows. Life evolves. Even when you can’t see your growth, you are growing, and you are evolving. Keep up with life. Be happy when life gives you sweet honey. Be happy when life gives you manna from Heaven. Be happy just the same when life gives you a turnip.

And when there are bumps in the road, be happy too. You have many resources at your disposal. Support your heart. Support life. How about your making life happy?

Know this. You are never singled out for heartache. There are those who fear that they are being neglected. They don’t see My helping them. They are perhaps seeing either/ or. They are perhaps short-sighted. They most certainly are short-sighted when they don’t see Me coming down the road, for here I am.

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If you came across people with leprosy frequently, you might say to yourself: “What have I done to attract this?” You might take it personally, hold yourself accountable, karma and so forth, or you might not hold yourself accountable at all but be mightily annoyed that people with leprosy seem to gravitate to you. You see it that you are being given a hard time.

So now, here’s the difference between you and the Great One who helped to heal. He said nor thought any of the above. His thought was: “What can I do to be of service?”

He wasn’t thinking of himself. That meant he didn’t wonder how he might have brought people with this illness to himself nor did he find fault with them for having a disease that made them outcasts in the common world they lived in, nor did he resent them for choosing to come to him. His immediate thought was to be of service to his Heavenly Father through the needs of those before him. He served, and yet he did not take others’ difficulties to himself.

I use the above by way of example.

Now, let Us say that you suffer ill-will too many times from others. Others seem to be offended by you, and a sure result might be that you offend them back. It is like you are innocent and yet you find yourself in the same pickle time after time. The incidents you may come across can be compared to the appearance of people with leprosy. Your common response might me: “How come there are so many people who take offense at me? They shouldn’t behave this way to me. It’s always like this. This isn’t right. What is the matter with these people?”

You may see that somehow the world mistreats you. You recriminate the others for their lack of consideration to you.

There are others who see themselves responsible for the recurrence of situations, and, yet, they are still as helpless as the ones who cannot come to grips with the idea that they somehow contribute to the drama repeated in their lives again and again. These children of Mine may hold themselves guilty of doing something wrong, even when they don’t know what, and even may be an innocent bystander.

In one scenario, one person takes no responsibility, and in the other scenario, one dwells in guilt about it. In both cases, attention goes on themselves.

Better to get away from these scenarios and ask yourself the questions now: “What do I do? How do I respond to this? How can I repair the experience for the benefit of all?”

Let Us say that someone accuses you of being rude to him or unkind in some way, and you see this as an assault on you. Your reaction is anger. You are going to have nothing to do with this person in the future. That did it. He or she wronged you, and that’s the end of your exchange with that person. That’s the end of that person in your life. You’re finished.

And so you punish the other person, and, in the process, you punish yourself.

In kindness and generosity, you could say to the person who was offended and who, in the process, offended you: “I’m so sorry. I had no idea. I was unaware. I would never want to offend you. I will be more careful in the future. I never want this to happen again.” How would it hurt you to say this? Or would you rather be the angry victim?

We are talking about your being a true friend, not a happenstance one.

If, for good reason or no reason, you have alienated someone, don’t alienate them further. Make peace.

Better to make a friend than a foe. Better for all. Better for the world.

There is much uncertainty in life. But of what I say, you can be certain.

You may say that there is also a question of interpretation. Someone else may interpret My words differently. Don’t interpret My words then. Just listen. Let the Truth enter your mind and heart whether you understand them or not. I come from the place before words. Words have a vibration. My words have the vibration of Truth. Close to the Source are the words that come from Me Who is your Source.

I tell you that I will never fail you, and yet you feel I have let you down. You feel I have not made things quite right for you. You feel I may have thrown nuts and bolts in your way, that I have scattered debris that you will trip over again and again. Whose decision is it that you trip? Not Mine. But, listen, do not ever think that I wash My hands of you, or abandon you, or let you down. You want something, and you don’t receive it. Want something else then.

When you lose a loved one, consider that there is a blessing in it. You may not see a blessing. A blessing does not have to be visible to you. Nevertheless, it is there. It may be a blessing for another, yet a blessing for another is also a blessing for you. You do not have to understand. You have to go forward. That is a commandment I give. Go forward. See far, and hop to it.

Do not underestimate yourself, and do not underestimate Me. Refrain from second-guessing yourself, and refrain from second-guessing Me. I do not see amiss. If you do not yet see the Vastness that I do see, correct yourself. Take Me at My word. My word is Love. My existence is Love. And you are My love. You are the love of My choice. I accept you gladly and wholeheartedly. Will you accept Me?

It has been said that in the Earth world, there is no perfection. Do not believe that. There is perfection. Have you never looked at the stars? Have you never looked into eyes? Have you never seen a baby? Have you never looked into the palm of your hand?
And I am telling you that you also are perfection. Nothing prevents you from being in the perfect image from which you were made. You were not made from a cookie-cutter. I molded each of you by hand. I made you thus and so. I made someone else thus and so. I never got bored. I never lost My place. I loved you into existence. Every single person on Earth I made with love, the love from My heart.

Beloveds, you see obstacles. I don’t see obstacles. Obstacles are ideas in your head. All the obstacles you see are not there. When you cannot go one way, then go another.

There are no problems. How well you see problems. Problems in the world are a hobby. They are no more than a hobby. You attribute whatever you attribute to being a problem and so you engage in solving it. If you accepted that there were not problems, what would you solve? What would you do with yourself? What would occupy you? What hobby would you take up then?

Seek forth blessings from now on. Be a fine collector of blessings. Solve yourself with blessings. Store them in your heart. This is the way to go. I bless you. Now know you are blessed. Know that I embrace you with blessings.

You are blessed. As you think of your blessings, they multiply. This is how you become more blessed. This is how you become bless-ed.

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Let it be easy to stay in peace, and hard to blow up in anger. Anger doesn’t become you. No matter how justified you may feel, anger is not in your best interest. When you are irate, you are not yourself nor are you an example to yourself or to the world.

What are you afraid of that you let anger get the better of you, that you raise your voice or jump out of your seat, or that you fume however it is that you fume?

If anger that rises within you is too much for you, remind yourself that while you are in the heat of anger is not the time to forcibly to discuss it, for it is not a discussion then at all. It is like a raid. It is certainly a tirade. In the heat of anger is not the time to go physically near the supposed cause of your anger. If you cannot contain yourself, then leave the room and take a walk around the block. Under no circumstances, when you are so angry, are you to unleash your anger. Never mind about repression and all that at this time. Above all, when you are so angry, at this time is exactly when you must not vent your anger.

Anger is anger, and anger is not very nice. One lit match lights other matches. Regardless of the circumstances, you are not right to incite or ignite anger. You can keep the extent of your anger to yourself without harm. Otherwise, you escalate anger. Anger is inflammatory, and you will get burned.

This is your anger. No one else is the cause of your anger. No matter what, it is you who got angry. You alone are responsible for your anger. You are responsible for taming it. Anger is not to be the ruler of you. Would you take boiling water and pour boiling water over everyone in the room? Yet you take boiling anger and pour it over the hearts and souls of everyone in the room, the innocent bystanders as well as the presumed guilty.

Let Me tell you something. Anger, no matter how righteous it seems to you, is ego at its prime. You are sure that so and so had no right to say or do whatever it was he said or did. I want to make sure that you know you have no right to get so angry that you lose your cool. You have no right. Feeling furious is one thing. Lashing out your anger is another. Even with anger, you can keep your wits about you. Anger is no excuse for you to create havoc. Anger is nothing to be proud of.

What is it you are so afraid of that you must let everyone know how angry you are? What would happen if you did not have to react angrily? Does anger make you look big or small? What would the gain or loss be to yourself or to the others if you did not fly off the handle?

Do not think you are timid to silence your anger. Do not think you are currying favor to hold in abeyance how livid you feel. Reining in your anger is being responsible, and it takes great strength to keep your anger within bounds. The world does not have to know how angry you are at the moment. Give peace to the world.

And if you really must express your sorry anger, then do it privately with the one person you feel caused your anger. Do not reveal your anger in front of an audience. You are the one who will pay for it, and you pay too high a price for it. When you express your anger in a group, everyone has to pay for your flaunting your anger.

This Heavenletter is meant for you if you are someone who lets your raging anger get the better of you. If you are already someone who keeps your anger within bounds, I congratulate you.

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What motivates you, beloveds? For the most part, what motivates you? Ego or love? Fear or love? Anger or love? Love is love, and yet it is also wisdom. Is it not wise to love? Love is unlimited. Ego is quite limited. With ego, there is the strong urge to put yourself in bright light. With love, you care about bright light shining beyond the sphere of yourself. Funny, without ego, you love yourself more and what you include as yourself covers a far greater range. With love, you are also all the others in the world.

You are not guilty about anything, yet you are responsible.

Sense of guilt is a kind of stewing in place. Sense of responsibility gets up and moves. Responsibility does not suck its thumb. The difference between sense of guilt and responsibility is huge. Forget guilt. Take up responsibility.

Responsibility does not brood. It takes action. Responsibility does not say: “I should have done this. I should have done that.” Responsibility gets up and takes care of the situation. Responsibility is not ahead nor is it behind. Responsibility is right now.

Responsibility is not commiserating. Responsibility is doing something. Responsibility does not say, “Tut tut.” Responsibility says: “Here, let me help you. Here, let me. Allow me.” Responsibility fills a need. Responsibility does what it can, and then moves on. Responsibility does not look for credit. Responsibility does not look forward nor does it look back. Responsibility does not say: “I could have done more.” Responsibility does not think that way. Responsibility is not so much a thinker as a doer. Responsibility does not cogitate. Responsibility does not sit in a rocking chair. Responsibility does not lament. Responsibility does not protract. Responsibility is love.

Ego holds up a picture of yourself. It wants to advance a picture of yourself. It wants you in a better pose. It wants to show you off. Ego wants you to get acclaim and bask under it.

Love says: “Let me embrace. Let me take a step towards making life better for another, or many others.” In this way, love also takes care of you. Love doesn’t say: “Forget yourself.” Love knows that in serving, you are served. Love is not self-serving, and yet love is not self-neglecting. Love feeds itself. It does not starve. Love feeds you, and it feeds the world.

We are talking about the difference of self and Self. We are talking about the difference of you and You, We are talking about the difference between ignorance and awareness. Ignorance is quite dumb. Awareness is quite astute.

You are responsible for yourself and your Self, yet responsibility is not selfish. Responsibility is forward-moving. It is like a snow plow, and it picks up ego in its path. Responsibility does not kill ego. It drops it to the side. Responsibility has too much to do to be detoured to ego. Responsibility offers ego no apologies. It does nothing to ego but drop it off. “There you go, ego.” Responsibility cannot carry ego any longer. Besides, responsibility is filled with love. There isn’t room for ego.

Responsibility is not self-effacing. It is ego-effacing. Responsibility is like the hero in a Western who doesn’t say much yet he is there coming to the rescue when he’s needed, and then he silently rides off, perhaps with a wave of his hat. Responsibility does not strut. He rides off into the setting sun and says, if he says anything, “Hasta la vista.”

Ego, on the other hand, would dance a little jig. Nothing wrong with a jig, yet ego is dancing for itself, for it feels aggrandized. Ego says, “Look at me, fellas. Look at me.” Yet ego is all smoke.

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