A Locket

Heavenletter #289 Published on: August 14, 2001

God said:

When you read a Heavenletter or receive other news from Me, it is like I gently lift you up and hold you high. And when you have finished, gently you are put down and returned to Earth, and yet, you are a little taller. Something of your Heavenward journey stays with you.

It is not that you keep photographs of it, although you may. The Heaven air has touched you. You have breathed it in. It has wafted through you and become part of you, in your cells, We might say.

Now, here's the tricky part. You are full of Heaven already. So our journey can't really rub off. Our journey is more like Our rubbing a sweet-smelling herb between your two palms. You already had this herb in your pocket, but now you take it out and move it around and stir it against itself in your palms. This releases its scent. This common herb, mistakenly held as rare, was yours all the time, and now it is reactivated. Hobnobbing with Me reactivated it.

A specialness of experience has happened to you. The experience is that you are lifted out of the mud of your thoughts. Your mind is cleansed and dried off for a moment in the Sun, and after that, no matter where you find yourself, you will remember something of the experience of being lifted up by God, embraced, patted, and sent on your way.

And if you do not remember, you will have the remembrance that there was something you forgot. You can't quite think of it this moment, but you know it will come back to you, whatever it is that you forgot and can't quite remember.

You are the sleeping beauty. You are the dozing beauty. What else can you be?

How much the innocent apple is blamed for forgetfulness. Adam and Eve and Sleeping Beauty are one and the same. And you are the replay of the theme. Or perhaps you prefer to be Cinderella who didn't wake up so much as to be recognized. Be your own Fairy Godmother. The wand is your awareness.

In any case, a state of grace awaits you. A reprieve? Much more than a reprieve. A permanent entering. You will enter this state of grace so much that there will be nothing else. It will never leave you, nor has it. But now you will carry it with you in your awareness and you will never forget.

You have been in a garden, and you have smelled a rose, and you have walked in the midst of scented petals, and that is all you know. The scent never leaves you. You become the petal.

Are you not a petal of Heaven's flower?

All flowers grow to Heaven.

And so do you.

The attraction is too great.

I am attracting you right now.

I dash in front of you so you will notice.

I drop things in front of you so you will stop a moment to see what has befallen you. What I drop will help you rise. Bend down, and then you look up. Stumble, if you must, and then look up.

You have been looking down. Enough of that. You have had enough looking where you've been. Look where you are rising to.

Your mouth is watering. You lick your chops. You pant in anticipation. Just a little further, and you will spot the oasis. The mirage isn't that it appears to be there. It is there. The mirage is thinking it's not there. It was and is there all the time. But you were looking askance. You were looking anywhere but at the full light of Heaven. Looking anywhere else is askance. Elsewhere is askance.

You carry a view of Heaven within you. It is a precious locket. Open that locket. You forgot you were wearing it. The locket is meant to be opened. And only you can open the locket so near your heart.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/a-locket.html

In the Next Moment or So of Infinity

Heavenletter #719 Published on: October 10, 2002

 

God said:

 

I created you, and you are still being created. I am not done with you yet. All the blueprints were made long ago, but you are still being molded. I am molding you. Or, We can say you are molding yourself as you go along. Yes, you are creating yourself. You are picking up all the pieces and putting them together. You are picking up loose or missing pieces of yourself and finding where they belong.

You who are already wholeness are nevertheless in process of completion. You are alive. If you, as you live your life on earth, were already set, if you were all done, what hope in the world could there possibly be? But, fortunately, you are not all set yet. You are still becoming. You are the clay coming out of the potter's wheel. You are a vessel, but more of you still appears, gets smoothed, pulled up and up.

You are the film being developed. The picture has been taken, but it hasn't appeared yet.

You are a great gift that has not been opened yet. Until you are fully opened, you have not been revealed. So there is yet more to come.

Now you step out of your preconceived mold.

Whatever magnificence you have manifested, however far you have come, no matter what blue ribbons you wear, you have barely begun. This is a good thing. Do not be disheartened. If you have already revealed all that you are, what would happen to opportunity? You who are changeless are in process of changing. Your change is growth. And you are growing up. You are growing upward. You are growing to the height that is yours to grow to, and then another height after that.

Never say again, "That is how I am." Or, "That is what I am." Or, "That is who I am." You don't even begin to know, so it is much too soon to finalize yourself. It is never the right time to say you have already manifested all there is for you to manifest. All is not said and done. You are not frozen in time and space. Any pictures you presently have of yourself on earth are old pictures, and now it is time to take new ones.

These will not be studio photographs. You will not pose for them. They will be natural photos, taken in the sunlight. You won't be aware of their being taken. You won't ask to see them, as if they were a report card of you. You will not be looking for reports. You will be doing the reporting. You will report progress by your very being. You will reveal life by living it ever new. You will reveal the possibilities of life to yourself and to others. You will reveal Me, and, in so doing, you will reveal others to themselves and you will begin, just begin, to know the extent of who you are and what wonders you are to perform.

If you had completed your tasks on earth, why would you still be here? You are not on earth to do time. You are not here to twiddle your thumbs or to twiddle the same thoughts over and over. You are not here for nothing. You are for something. You do not just pass by or pass through life. You are not on an idle amble. You are not a tourist. You are the tour leader. And you are taking others on a tour of creation. You are a tour guide of creation. Now you will know that.

You are the one pulling the drapes off the beautiful art on the walls so that all may see. In so doing, you see and you reveal that you and all with you are represented in the great paintings on the walls of time — and in the great art not yet hung on the wall or painted yet or even thought of until now or in the next moment or so of infinity.

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Fall into Love Again

God said:

When you have awareness of Me one time more than another, it is a matter of the quality of your attention. That has to be so because I am with you totally without fail all of the time. It is an impossibility for Me to be absent for even one split millisecond. I do not wander. It is simply your awareness that does.

Of course, there are levels of awareness, as you are well aware. Choose an angle of lightheartedness. Not heavy-duty. Remind yourself that I am not a duty. I am a pleasure. A sense of duty becomes heavy and seems to drag you. It certainly weighs you down. So you want a lilt of Me, a light base to touch on, a light greeting, a light expectancy. Not a serious God-must-appear-to-me-right-now, but a lighthearted Wouldn't-it-be-nice-if-I-felt-the-Godbond-right-now?

Consider that you are looking for Godness rather than God Himself or Herself. You are looking for the essence of God. Whenever you feel a sweet quality of love in your heart, a sweet enlivenment, a beginning of the full flush of awareness dawning, you are aware of the love I strum in your heart. And aren't you aware of it as you read My words now? Don't you feel something effulgent between Us? Of course, there is nothing between Us, for We are One, yet We can say that love is between Us, even when there is no between Us to put love. We are love. Love is Us! We are It. This exquisite churning of your heart as We meet now on these pages is Our simple connectedness, and that is all there is, beloveds. Wherever you happen to be, We are. Wherever you think you are, We are still the Oneness of love.

What you feel right now plunk in the center of your heart is Our familial love. This is Our relationship. We say Father and child. Yet in Oneness there is neither Father nor child. There is Oneness. Our relationship is Oneness. In that sense, We always are met. There is no arriving, for We have arrived. Love is here. You might as well have awareness of it, and now.

Do We know Whose hand holds Whose? Do We know Whose heart holds Whose? Do We know Which is Which or What is What? There is no Whose and there is no Which or What. There is only Godness. Godness We are and have always been. In motion and in stillness, We are One. We are locked in the One Heart of God.

Locked in heartedness, We expand. Locked in love, We are free. Eternally One, We can never depart. No ill can befall Us. You think it can because your awareness has slipped from its enthrallment with love. Some occlusion entered your heart. Signaled by some event on Earth, the full love in your imagined heart slips and falls, and you are bewildered. It is bewildering to forget Our Oneness.

When your heart aches, for a moment you have absented yourself from the awareness of the depths and heighths of Our love, our pure and simple Oneness. This is much like reading a book and having a slight interruption. For a moment, you lose your place in the book. For a moment you are vague. You scramble now to find the page. What was obvious love becomes hidden from your view, hidden only from your view, but not hidden at all. Nothing has altered but your awareness.

The page is not lost. The page is here as it ever was. Only your eyes fell from it for just a moment. And in another moment, you will return your eyes to the page and fall into love again.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/fall-into-love-again.html

Be the First to Step Forward

Heavenletter #1275 Published on: May 15, 2004

 

God said:

 

Good morning, My beloved children, who struggle and twist and turn in life because you believe you have to in order to exist. And so you enter the fray. That is your error, that you believe it is necessary to fight life. Therefore you parry and thrust for all you are worth, and you wear yourself out with fighting ghosts when you could befriend them.

Because of past impressions, you place an overlay over those you meet. The ghost of the past meets the ghost of the present, and so you see a false image. Instantly you refer back. You believe that history repeats itself, and so you duel again and again. You believe you take righteous action when all along it is righteous imagination.

Make an overlay of Me or Christ or Buddha or any beloved saint at all and place that overlay upon all whom you meet. Then you have Truth, and then you are mighty.

You respond to that which you see before you. See otherwise. See differently, and you recreate the world.

That is what you have been doing anyway. Now recreate it in My image.

Diffuse your picture of enemy.

If you can react defensively and offensively, why then can you not react in a different manner? Or why must you react in any way that fuels the flame? Even when someone appears preposterous and cruel, why cannot you be kind? Even when someone is not favorable to you, can you not be favorable to them? Who sets your pace? Whose swirling tassel do you dance to?

See bigger, and your life will unfold in a bigger fashion.

Life is not meant to be a calculating chess game. Life is not meant to have opponents. Life is meant to be an arena of joy. If you cannot be joyful all the time, you can at least be generous in your thoughts. You can be benign. You can be benevolent. You have choice. You can be a benefactor to humankind. If someone can, why not you? No other is to determine how tall you will stand.

No matter how you may have been treated in the past, you can dispense yourself in a different way.

If you were treated unkindly, you can be kind. That is easier for you in the long run. And in the shorter one too.

Make the one decision today, that no matter what befalls, you will respond from a higher plane. If another comes to you with animosity, you will respond in another way. You will not toss kindling into the fire of their heart. They are not seeing you. They are seeing a ghost, just as you have done.

Be in your truth. Do not dissemble. Is it not true that you are sorry someone feels animosity towards you? Would you not rather that they showed trust? Must they go first?

If you wish to be a leader, then you must lead. You can lead the parade of life. You can present life in any way you like, for you have choices. Do not think that you are without choice.

You have been given free will. It is a great gift. Choose to use it.

If you must imitate others in life, imitate the great ones. Do not limit yourself to a mediocre standard of rebuttal. You are not created to be mediocre or status quo. You are not meant to ignite bombs. You are meant to defuse them. You are meant to be the first to step forward into a field of peace. I am waiting for you, beloved.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/be-the-first-to-step-forward.html

How Serious Is Life?

Heavenletter #815 Published on: January 11, 2003

God said:

One of your greatest gifts is your sense of humor. You need sense of humor on earth because you have been away from Truth. Your sense of humor acknowledges this. It tells you that you have been off-course. Your sense of humor stands up straight and says: "You have been looking at this occurrence incorrectly. You have taken it much too seriously. It is to be made light of, not heavy." Your sense of humor takes you out of narrowness into a broader field.

If Truth alone were known, there would be no need for a sense of humor. The predicaments of life would be seen for what they are. There would be no need to bring them down to size.

Serious has been a way of life for you.

When I encourage you to laugh, I am not talking bravado. I am not suggesting that you laugh at heartache and pretend that you are happy. I am suggesting that you have the idea that it is all right to take life lightly. Life will not be offended. Your step will be lighter. You can let go of heartache.

How many times have you taken a little thing seriously and made a big thing of it? The run in your stocking, the mud that splashed, the milk that spilled. How many times has a little thing spoiled your day or moments of it? How little even are some of the things that you and the world consider big!

Life in perspective is easier than life blown out of proportion.

Whatever befalls in life, you are equal to it.

Do not think I make light of what is seen as tragedy on earth. I do not make light of suffering. I do not say you will never have it. In fact, I will say that on earth, none escape it. And yet you do not have to emblemize it. You need not make a shrine of it. Suffering has a time-limit. It is not meant to be a holy way of life. After a while, endure suffering no longer. Shake it off the way a dog shakes water off his back.

If you cannot cease suffering for yourself, then do it for another. When you ease your aching heart, you ease another's. No one wants to see you unhappy. You who communicate suffering can just as well communicate joy. Joy is as available as sorrow. There are many colors to life, and you can choose one over another. You are not solely at the mercy of what has been handed to you.

Have you perhaps been a prickly porcupine? Ready at a moment's notice to fend life off?

Have you been like velcro and picked up everything around and kept it with you?

Could the sorrow you carry be a mask? I say it is because sorrow is not the truth of you. No matter how genuine your sorrow, it is not the truth of you. No matter how mammoth your sorrow, no matter how grievous, it is not the truth of you. The mask of sorrow may have been put on you, but you can take it off.

For a while, sorrow gives you comfort. Then it no longer does. It may outlast its usefulness. You do not have to keep it. You are not better with sorrow than without.

Rejoice in what there is to rejoice in. There is such a little turn in the dial from sorrow to joy. One of your senses is sense of humor. Remember you have it. Keep your sense of humor more than a lot of the things you keep.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/how-serious-is-life.html

Every Morning, Birds Sing

Heavenletter #5717 Published on: July 20, 2016

 

God said:

 

Baggage you carry with you is one thing. The concept of karma in the world is another. The difference may be subtle, yet the difference is momentous.

Yes, you may keep carting baggage from the past. Why would you keep dragging the past along with you on your next journey? You are smarter than that. Why would you go to all that trouble. For Heaven's sakes, why would I?

I wouldn't.

Do I teach you that you are a hapless victim of the past, that karma is your pay-pack, that retribution coming back to you to haunt you, that the past won't let you start over fresh, that the past follows you, even chases you, that you can't escape it, that a deed the person you once were committed is now marked on your back with a skull and crossbones, that, tut tut, that you can't do anything about leaving the past but to face the music?

Regarding this theory of karma, no one minds the karma of good deeds that you don't remember yet are considered responsible for. This is a horse of a different color!

By and large, karma is thought of as consequences for regrettable behavior. You may be an entirely wiser person now, yet somehow, still your hands are slapped from the past. If you were unkind to someone, one way or another, someone will hand you back the unkindness you gave even millenia ago. Tit for tat. That's it. There is nothing you can do about it. You earned this karma, and now it's time for you to pay the piper so be good from now on cuz so you won't have to walk in fear later.

Since when, do I endorse holding on to fear? I don't.

I protest the idea that says you are stuck, that you can't get out of it. You owe a debt, and you must pay it, or Life will dun you.

This is all retroactive. If this type of score is kept, where is love? Would I make the balancing act of a bookkeeper? A bookkeeper has to rectify everything, yet do you believe this is the way I rehash your life in Heaven?

I am not a bookkeeping kind of God.

I do not hold the past against you. You were innocent. If you did a misdeed, you didn't know better. Even the laws of the world offer a certain number of years after which you cannot be accused. C'mon, now, are you saying that the world is more accommodating than I?

By all means, start off life with a clean slate.

Does this mean everything will always go your way? You know it doesn't. Earth Life is not something you can figure out in layman's terms.

Start your life from where you are. It is not for you to look for retaliation or an accounting as to why something unfavorable happened to you anymore than you have to figure out why something outstandingly favorable has to be accounted for.

In every case, the question to ask is not: "What did I do to warrant this?"

In every case, the question to ask is: "What is my next step? How do I move on from here?"

If you cannot go back in time to reverse something that has already happened, why go back at all? Why look back at all? What kind of vibration does thinking of a sad past give you? Why look to blame yourself or anyone else? Everyone knows that life can change in a moment. My advice is to hark to the present.

Greet the present now. Embrace it. Why not? Drop the idea of karma as an equal return retroactively due you for past offenses. I have no fondness for grudges.

Move on. Forge new paths. You are living a new life now. You have surpassed the past. If you have risen from the past, well, you are risen. I say you are risen.

Birds sing every morning. Instead of listening to all the thoughts you listen to, listen to the birds sing. The birds sing of thee.

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Everything in Nature Grows

Heavenletter #3577 Published on: September 10, 2010

God said:

Everything in nature grows. Everything in nature grows because it is natural to grow. It isn’t that a rose or a cauliflower set out to grow. They don’t work at it. They grow. They would not know how to make themselves grow. Nor is there any school that can teach them how to grow. They grow on their own. We could say that they trust in their growth. They are meant to grow. It is ordained that they will grow.

Sun and rain are provided for them. And for those green growing things that find themselves out of their natural habitat, there are good kind people like you who nourish them and water them, filling their needs.

With fruit, flowers, and vegetables, the season of their growth is known. You can anticipate when apple trees will flower and you can predict when the apples will be ripe to pick.

In your case, it is a little different. Your growth is assured. One way or another the growth you so desire will arrive, and yet you know not the season. And you mostly do not notice the growth as it happens. For you, your growth may be inch by inch, or mile by mile, or all at once. That you will grow is a definite, and yet you are not sure of that. Have confidence in the natural process.

You know it is better to relax than to be tense. Has not your search for higher consciousness often been filled with urgency? Your growth is not a now or never sort of thing. Your growth is ever whether you see it or not.

Whereas a plant smiles at the sun and knows it is blossoming right along, knows when it just has to rest, knows when it just has to stay on a plateau, and knows when to burst forth in all its glory, you may not be at peace with your growth. You may even despair of ever growing to the spiritual point that you would like to achieve. Dear Ones, it is not your achievement. Evolution, enlightenment, higher consciousness etc. are not your doing. They are your blessing. I bless you with higher and greater, and you are blessed. It is not your effort that brings you higher on the spiritual plane.

Your growth is not dependent upon this course or that course. Your evolution has been built-in. We can say it is dependent upon Me. Your growth spurts have been embedded; they have their own time. You do not beat the drums. You do not set the timer. The timer has been set.

There are not rules to your evolution. There are not how to’s to speeding it up or slowing it down. You can copy what is called an enlightened being, yet that does not make you one. What you learn may be admirable, yet imitation goes only so far.

You could desire to be an airline pilot, and yet pantomiming the motions of a pilot the way a star in a movie might does not make you a pilot. You can wear the uniform and turn the wheel just so, and push the buttons dashingly, and yet there is more to becoming a pilot than pushing the buttons.

Of course, it is not really enlightenment that you seek. You are seeking your realization of it. You are seeking your awareness of who and what you already are. It is like you have forgotten that you are a pilot, and one day, you are flying a plane, and you realize what you had forgotten.

It is guaranteed that you will remember. Your remembering is on its way right now.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/everything-in-nature-grows.html

Choose Your Role

Heavenletter #1034 Published on: August 21, 2003

 

God said:

 

You have played many roles in this life. You have been child. You have been roustabout. You have been serene. You have been fun, and you have been upset. Now you are adult, and you have become a career and husband or wife or mother or father. And yet through it all, you are My child.

If you are not pleased with your life as it stands today, play another part then. If you have been renegade, become a wise man. If you have been a stay-at-home, go out.

Whatever life has been to you, you can change it. Whatever role you have played, you can play a new one.

If you have been loveless, you can become love-full.

If you have been sad, you can become happy.

If you have played the role of victim, you don't have to.

You can be what you want to be, and you can lead the life you want. You are the decider. If you are discontent, decide differently now.

If you have been fussy, become well-pleased.

If you have tried overly to please, withdraw from that role. Choose another.

You may think that the role you play is foisted on you, but you are the chooser. The more you resist this thought, the more you need to hear it.

You are not hapless. You are not a stick bobbling on the waves of the ocean.

You have say in your life. You are the determiner of it. That does not mean you insist. It means you change your vision, and then you live up to it.

You are a conceptual person. You can alter your concepts.

You cannot change the weather, but you can change what you wear. You cannot control the elements but you don't need to battle them. Get a different uniform, and see how changed you feel.

Be like a child who makes the best of things. When he sees a puddle, he sloshes in it.

Make life to your choosing.

Keep in mind the life you want and grow to it.

If you would like an apple tree to grow in your garden, you plant one. You don't just wait for one to appear. Why would your life be any different? Why would you treat your desires in life any differently from the planting of a tree? Why would you sit wherever you sit and bemoan where you sit?

Get up and open another door.

If you do not like the view from your window, go to another window. Or walk out and become part of the view or look at the view from another post.

You who always say you have too much to do, do something about your life. If it is not the one you prefer, change it. Do not give in to that which you would abstain from.

If the message on a letter you receive is not the message you want, then you write a new letter and send it out.

If the fish you presently catch are not to your taste, fish in another pond.

If you are capable of complaining, you are capable of getting up and doing something about that which causes you to complain. Remove it. Or remove yourself. Or look at it differently. There is something you can change.

Remember the power of your thoughts, and use them well.

You are the designated driver of a force that runs through your life. Avail yourself of the power that is yours. Avail yourself of it now.

That which you desire desires you. It is calling to you now. Arise and receive it.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/choose-your-role.html

Amazing Oneness

Heavenletter #6357 Published on: June 22, 2018

 

God said:

 

Beloved, herein lies My heart as I give it to you in words – as if I express My heart in words taken from Heaven and typed on a computer.

Beloved, there are matters of significance that cannot be expressed fully in words, not even in the Word God, as it is avowed to be in so many varied sound waves. Varied names are attested to from wherever you happen to hail from. Yes, of course, I answer to My Names in joy no matter how far-flung they are across the Universe and noted all over the world and known to represent Me. It isn’t solely by what exact name you call me that matters. That you call Me is what matters. If sound did not exist, you would still have a knowingness of Me and be enriched.

You may have realized Me as a bare caress on the nape of your neck. This, too, may have been a light touch of My Love for you. Or perhaps you heard something not quite fully heard, yet you were melted by Me in the Highest. Then you have heard this from Me – not in a manner of speech but rather in a manner of silence. Of course, I can speak without sound or words, and I am known, and you know My Love. My Silence reaches far beyond the world. You are able to catch My drift wordlessly.

At the same time as you would like to exist in My green pastures and be claimed by Me, you also may resist the idea of being another lamb claimed. Naturally, you do not like Me to overlook you. You would not like to be bereft of Me in the slightest. Don’t worry, this will never happen. One is One. We are happy in Oneness above all the world.

In any case, I prefer Oneness. Oneness is the claim I establish. Beloved, ten horses could not pry apart what you and I are to each other, and why would anyone try to pry Oneness apart? Nor, Beloved, could pliers possibly ply Oneness into less than Oneness. I am not called Almighty God for nothing. I bequeath Myself to you. Indeed, I AM your inheritance. In your DNA, AM I. In this sense, I have proprietary rights, which include Oneness with you free and clear.

Oneness means Oneness. We are not two factions of One God. By no means are either of us or I two halves of One God through the terrains of life. We are awakened somewhat to My Glory and therefore to the Glory of your Self, hand in hand with Mine in ordinary life and also far and beyond to the furthest extent of life while thou art in Heaven.

In the fullness of One, I burst forth in song to Amazing Oneness from the mountain tops. Be sure to know that Oneness isn’t two halves. There is nothing more to add to Oneness. The whole gang’s here. We are at the apex now, yet there is always more to express, and express We do. To express is not the same as describing. You can reveal, yet not describe. Throw your arms up wide to the Heavens in jubilation with Me. Never do We go along except hand in hand.

Heretofore, you have hidden yourself in plain view away from yourself. Now, We stand tall in this Our Congregate of One. We are exactly in full Oneness. We are not pinned together. We are One.

Wholeness is wholeness, and We are It, you and I, One, Seamless Whole.

Link to this Heavenletter: http://www.heavenletters.org/amazing-oneness.html

Embodiments of the Past

Heavenletter #656 Published on: August 6, 2002

 

God said:

 

All of the physical possessions you possess are embodiments of the past. Physical, of its very nature, has it stuckness. What has stopped is of the past. What occurs now is of the present.

A table serves a purpose. A chair has its uses. But it is you who sits at the table, leans on it, writes on it, sits or rocks in the chair. It is you in the present who gives life to the paraphernalia around you through your attention.

You may say, "But, God, there is light in everything. So everything has life." And I would say, "You are quite right." I would also say that it is the physical appearance that has settled. It is the physical appearance that is illusion. Illusion is a cessation. Illusion is locked in mind and, therefore, space and time.

A growing tree you lean against and feel greater love for than a piece of wood cut from the tree. Even in a forest where a grove of trees cover every inch, there is room for every tree. Each finds its place. No matter how crowded, there is not sense of clutter.

You do not possess the trees in a forest. Even if you own the land they spring from, you know that the trees have a life of their own independent from you. You really don't collect them. They are their own sovereignty.

Yet the objects in your home you own as your property, and so they stay where you put them, and they rise and fall according to the attention you give them. You can accumulate the objects until they take over your house. You keep some for no reason at all but to mark time. You perhaps keep some as notches on a belt to locate some durability in your life. And all the while, they are keeping you.

Even one growing tree in a plain all by itself is beauty. A tree serves its own purpose, and along the way, you who view it partake of its beauty. Perhaps you who own less own more. Perhaps everything that presents itself then to you is yours to savor, and then yours to move on from without obligation.

What is this need to possess that My children have? Where did it come from, and where does it go?

In the physical realm, it is easy to recognize attachment and see it in play. How precious this or that object or even a piece of paper becomes to you! The paper may become more important than what it symbolizes. The paper may be money. And you want to accrue it, perhaps without thought given to the energy it represents.

Try this: remind yourself that everything in your domain is energy. We can just as well call everything the energy of love, but when it comes to love, you become a little defensive, so let's just call it energy. When you call to mind that all is energy, you feel a greater lightness than when you think all is material substance.

The paper money that you value highly at the same time you have disdain for is energy manifested. It comes from the same trees that grow in the forest, and now it has turned into this greenback, owned as a possession and loved for what it represents and what it promises to you. But the original energy of the tree, passed from hand to hand — the source of the paper money — has been forgotten. The source of the paper is the tree, and I am the Source of the tree. Now We can call energy love.

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Free Your Heart

Heavenletter #488 Published on: February 22, 2002

God said:

When you feel anxiety, somewhere along the line you have not been forthright. You erred. You have tried to control that which is not yours to control. You have offended yourself. Anxiety lets you know that you have performed or thought less than you are. Anxiety nudges you to take a look at how and what you are maneuvering and to stop it.

Life is not yours to maneuver. Outcomes are not yours to make.

Anxiety is heartfall. It is a sinking feeling. It is common. It is a murky abyss. You don't need it. Anxiety is related to regret and remorse. You regret you were imperfect a moment ago.

Anxiety tells you that you have had a false start. Acknowledge that, and anxiety leaves. You had a thought you need to change, and now you change it. Anxiety is nothing but a recurring thought of guilt. Absolve yourself of the thought.

From some fear or some sense of danger, you sought to control an aspect of your life. But the real need was not to control; the need was to free. You tightened something, and now you feel the stricture in your heart. You have called anxiety to you, and now you can let it go.

You are walking in life, and you stumble or almost stumble. It is done. The incident is over. Why feel anxious over what has past? Sense of anxiety comes from past matters. When you feel anxious about something in the future, you have brought past anxiety forward. When you fear that you will stumble again in the future, you have brought the past with you.

Let Me allay your anxiety. It is all right to stumble. Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and continue. Do not stay in the same spot. Leave that spot in your thinking, and anxiety leaves. So you tripped and fell. So you said something you regret. So you didn't say something you wish you had.

You think you must always choose the right box, and you berate yourself when you have not. Move on. Forgive yourself. Don't sit down on your error and stay there. You have already paid for it.

Human beings flail their hearts for no good reason. Free your heart. Whatever misdemeanors you are guilty of, you are absolved. When you absolve yourself, you do not give yourself license to repeat error. You give yourself license to move away from it. You will not recur the event when you have gone beyond it.

When you feel anxious that you have offended someone, you are really anxious at the offense to yourself. A cry of ego shames you. It disgraces you. You were imperfect. You denied your truth. Do not belabor that. Just return to truth. Don't tote imperfection with you. Drop it where it was.

You were drawing a picture, and you made some lines you wouldn't make now. You do not need to be appalled by this. Erase the mistake, and start anew. All the time you are starting anew. Needing an eraser is not cause for self-recrimination. Erasing is not pretending something did not occur. It just is not making too much of it. You do not have to punish yourself. You just have to let it go. Love yourself as you would your neighbor.

Do not tie knots in your life. Anxiety crimps you. It blocks your heart. It is a build-up. It is plaque.

When you mire yourself in anxiety because you feel you offended someone, you have not released yourself, and you have not released the other. You bind him to yourself. Free him. Free yourself, and he is freed from your hold.

When you hold something to yourself, you are trying to control. Control does not move you forward. It holds you back.

If you want a new lease on life, then release that which you presently hold.

Is it cause for anxiety that a moment ago you were less than you are now? Do you think that you have to be forgiven for learning something? Well, then, you are forgiven. Now forgive yourself.

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Diamonds

Heavenletter #1846 Published on: December 11, 2005

 

God said:

 

There are different flavors in the world. One flavor does not try to become the other. Chocolate is happy as chocolate. Vanilla is happy as vanilla. And so may you be happy with your particular talents and your particular ways. Universality outdoes individuality, but your individuality is also magnificent. Be the individual you are. You do not need to be taller, nor shorter. You need only to like yourself. Do you understand what I am saying?

Truly, if everyone recognized the wealth of their own beauty and Being, there would be no envy. There would be no sloth, no procrastination. There would be no avarice. There would be no guilt. There would not be perceived need for them.

There would be no need to shine because you would know you already do.

There would be no need to catch up to someone else nor to fall behind.

There would be nothing to cover up and nothing to reveal. All would already be revealed. Beauty would be revealed.

If everyone recognized their own worth, you would live in a world of sparkling companionship. Each person would be the diamond he is in his own right, no one trying to be another diamond. Everyone would be worth gold. Everyone would be prime.

Because you do not recognize yourself as the belighted Being you are, you look for other lights to shine on you. You want what they have. You would steal their light, for you want to be the belighted Being that you don’t accept that you already are.

Because you do not recognize yourself, you overcompensate with others, or you turn your nose up at others. You try to become a variation of what you are not. You throw away a diamond and pick up a piece of glass instead.

I love you as you are. I don’t love you because of something. I beseech you to raise your thinking so that you may perceive your beauty as I do perceive it.

You may say, “But, God, don’t You want me to be like Christ?”

Christ was Christ because he knew precisely Who He Was. So, yes, I ask you to be like Christ.

You may say, “But, God, don’t You want me to give to the poor and help the lame?”

I want you to awaken to the Greatness within you so that you may naturally succor the world without a backward glance. When you know what you are made of, there would be no poor to give to. You would recognize the person across from you as yourself, and so you would give to yourself. You would heal because you would see health. You would see beyond tatters and beyond skin. You would look into eyes, and you would know they were your eyes, and you would see into the depths.

Christ did not strain and struggle to be the Being he was. He simply did not hold himself to the impoverished thoughts of the world, and therefore, he was able to give. From where he stood, he could not have done otherwise.

When you are hungry, you eat. And so Christ fed hungry hearts and he filled his own. He has been feeding the world with joy, and his joy has not stopped. Christ was not blind to himself. He did not turn away from himself. He didn’t turn away from My vision of him. He accepted My vision. He made it his own. He didn’t adopt it. It was his own. He started to see, and with that the deed was done. And there was Christ, walking on Earth, doing My bidding, calling to you, calling to you on My behalf.

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Golden Are You

Heavenletter #126 Published on: March 4, 2001

God said:

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.

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Light the World

Heavenletter #382 Published on: November 10, 2001

God said:

Saying that your life has purpose is the same as saying it has value. The value accrues to more than yourself. You are not here for yourself. You have heard that before. But you are not here for others either, and yet your life has value to yourself and to others.

You are here to end dissembling. Anything away from truth is dissembling. Truth has to do with love and not with facts. The facts of your life or the facts of the world are small items. If you harbor them, you fill your mind with details and dissuade yourself from the love that reigns in your heart and which is meant to encompass the universe.

From love you came, and of love you are, and to love you journey. And so, your journey is journeyless, although it is day by day.

The love We speak of is not sentiment. It is something else. We can call it awareness. When you have awareness of the fullness of life and the vastness of your life here on earth today — your placeless place in the scheme of things — you begin to grasp and express love. Love moves on a far grander scale than the particulars that surround it.

Love is not in bits and pieces. Love is like the sky that blankets earth. The sky has no partiality. The sky exists as a canopy for all. It blesses the earth entire.

And now I tell you that you are for more than the corners of your life. It is beyond your present understanding, but your life has naught to do with your life. Whatever has transpired in your memory is salt, dried upon the sails of life, but your life is not the salt. Your life is far more. Do not let yourself be caught up in the tatters of your sails any longer. That is bygone. Now you sail to greater shores, and you carry the entire universe with you. Of great import are you.

Each of you in the armada of life sets the course. What course you set affects all the ships. You affect the roll of the sea. And all sail upon the sea you affect.

All your thoughts have affect. What your mind dwells on either lifts or dismays all else. Turn your mind to the endowment of love I have given you for the engenderment of the earth.

I asked you, and I ask again, that you turn your mind to your heart's wealth. Be beneficent with My love. Do not hoard it. Do not save it. Give it. Give it overall. In your thoughts today, donate My love. There is not one on earth who does not require My love, and you have been chosen to give it.

Step out of the squalls of earth so that you can be the sunlight that approaches out of the darkness. Today is for you to remove the covers of darkness from the screen of your individual life so that you can shine My light for all to see.

The darkness is not the truth of you. It is only a cover-up. From the corner of your room, My light in you can be seen and radiate from the farthest stars, and so you light the world at My behest.

Do I ask so much? That you dispense with trouble and accept joy? That you don't carry the past into today? That you start anew from new fields of life. Grass grows today, and so do you.

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