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  Light October 28, 2014 at 7:43am

  Heavenletter #5086 In a Garden, October 28, 2014
  
  God said:
  All good is on its way to you. Are you ready to receive? This is the question I ask you.
  
  You say: “You bet, God, I am ready to receive. Bring it on.”
  
  Even so, you may have some attachment to having something to find fault with. Some attachment perhaps to being wronged and put upon. You are so accustomed to your life being a battle fought on all fronts. The fists of your mind are ready and waiting for a fight. You have your dukes up. What is the tenseness you carry with you but readiness to fight? What is tenseness but that? And what good does this tension-producing readiness do for you?
  
  Have the idea that you do not need to defend yourself. Let go of need to defend in the same way you let go of need to offend. You don’t need either.
  
  What if you could live in a friendly world that wants you here and wants to treat you well? If you would put your dukes down, you would come to see this as so. Let down your barriers. Tenseness is not your friend. You don’t need its protection. Tenseness does not protect you anyway. It rattles you, it makes you nervous. Put down your arms. Tenseness isn’t giving you much help anyway, is it? It does you no good. It keeps you in restraints.
  
  If you want to relax, let go of any perceived need to be tense, and you will know relaxation. Take a vacation from tenseness. Be done with it. Why would you keep it? Don’t be a hoarder. Let go of all that doesn’t serve you or the Kingdom.
  
  Withdraw from battle. Declare a truce. Loosen your tie, and loosen your blood vessels. Loosen your heart, and make space for your recognition of Truth which is the peace that beats all.
  
  Come from peace, and you will see a new world, one in which you do not have to prove your bravery.
  
  Let life be a piece of cake. How you look at life influences it. Let go of tension, and you are ready for joy to take over. Tension is tightening. Joy is loosening. You choose.
  
  Fear does not belong to you. It is a hanger-on. Fear is a wastrel. Get rid of it. Just don’t have it. Fear does not have to do its will with you. Let My Will prevail. Fear gives you sucker punches. Fear cannot be trusted. Fear is like the big guy who bullies you, unnerves you, knocks you off your feet and makes the ground tremble under you. You can trust fear to do its number on you -- you can trust fear for that all right.
  
  Best to ignore fear that repeats and repeats itself yet is always finding new forms of itself to toss at you. Fear is not wise. It is foolhardy. Fear upholds itself, not you. Fear is a scoundrel. Send him off, and you will relax. To be free of fear is like a full-spa treatment. You can do very well without fear and its companions, anxiety and worry. Let them go. Without them, with the absence of these niggling pests, you are renewed. We can call this urban renewal. Well-done, My friends. Well-done.
  
  No longer think of life as a challenge that you have to be ready for.
  
  Think of life as an eddying pool in which you rest. Rest on your back, or in a canoe. You can paddle now and then as you like, and yet be laid-back. Where can despair take hold when you live life like as it is meant to be lived? Perhaps you will come to find yourself in a garden, in the Garden of Eden.
  
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  Light October 25, 2014 at 2:22pm

  You Know What Love Feels Like

  Heavenletter #5083 Published on: October 25, 2014

  God said:

  Even as loving is the mastery of the world, you see absence of love too often and fullness of love too seldom. If you look at the newspaper, you understand Me clearly. If you have ever felt abandonment, you understand Me clearly. If you have ever felt unloved or unappreciated, you understand Me clearly. If you have ever felt misused or taken advantage of, you understand Me clearly. If you have ever disliked someone, you understand Me clearly. If you have ever felt sorry for yourself, you understand Me clearly. As a giver of love or recipient of it, you know what love feels like and you know very well what absence of love feels like.
   
  Love does not have to be proved. You don’t have to prove your love to anyone, and there is no one who has to prove his love to you, nor do you have to prove that no one loves you. Have you not perhaps spent enough time and energy on your own sense of being unloved and unfairly treated? You might do well to get out of all the compunction you have for yourself, and put some attention on loveliness. Put on some new glasses, beloveds.
   
  A tradesman has to take pride in his work, or his work will be sloppy. In order to do good work, a tradesman has to attend to what he is doing. He can’t take the line of least resistance. No matter if he has been heralded as a master craftsman, he still has to take pains with his work. He has to pay attention to details. He has to measure. He has to cut straight lines. He doesn’t leave his work up to chance. Is there anyone who would not agree with this?
   
  When it comes to living life, however, you may take pride in being trammeled. You may say life is unfair. You are perhaps proud of your self-pity. You may perhaps pin a medal on yourself -- the most mistreated person in the world. What statement do you make? Perhaps you convey that you love misery more than love and happiness. If you keep stewing in misery, you keep your sense of victimhood alive and well.
   
  There is enough misery and unfairness in the world. You do not have to till it. No matter what, do not make yourself a picture of pitifulness.

  You can spend your life energy on feeling you have every right to complain about the burdens you have. You say you have to have an outlet. You cannot keep it all to yourself. Are you saying that you want to stay in misery? Keep going on about it, and you are saying that misery is the food of your life. You are perhaps saying you can’t live without it. The Universe will grant you your wishes. If you are in pain, going on about the pain makes it stronger. If you feel put upon by life, I ask you to get out of that propensity to declare that the Universe and/or God and/or your immediate situation are the causes of your misery, as if misery is piled on you from the outside. Look, it may indeed be that you are in a miserable situation that no one would want to be in. If you feel it is therapy for you to expound on your misery, can you see that you are mistaken? Why hold misery to you? Do you really need it so much?
   
  Why on Earth would you want to stay where you are? Is the refrain of poor you more important than restructuring what you think and what you say? If your complaint is that life or the Universe or God Himself has mistreated you, and misery is your comfort zone and you want to stay comfortable, that is your free will. It is also your free will to get beyond dwelling on your unhappiness. If misery is what you want, keep talking about what a sorry situation you are in and how there is nothing you can do about it.
   
  Your misery comes from your own thoughts and how many times you moil them over and talk about them to others who will commiserate with you and help you to stay where you are. When is enough, beloveds? With your thoughts and words, you can start steering your life in the direction you want to go instead of staying smack where you have been.

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    Light > Light October 27, 2014 at 11:17am

    Heavenletter #5085 Lean towards Love, October 27, 2014
    
    God said:
    It is natural to think of others and on behalf of mankind altogether. World thoughts for survival have mis-distributed the idea of loving others as yourself.
    
    “Kill or be killed” is not the theme of your life, nor is it the theme of most people’s lives, although this theme is carried along less dramatically in expressions such as: “Look out for yourself,” and “Get while the getting’s good” or “Take the biggest piece of pie” or: “Think of Number 1.”
    These ideas may still be rife on Earth. For many years, life has been for survival, yet you are here for more than survival. “For the good of all” is something to remember. Unquestionably, you are here on Earth for more than yourself. You are here for Me.
    
    Bear in mind it’s possible that a woman who spends a great deal of her time in spas and on beauty treatments, by her very beauty, may inspire others. Of course, it might be a sound idea for this woman to treat another woman to a day at a spa. Love is what We are speaking of here, after all.
    
    Some people may spend their lifetimes seeking enlightenment yet seeking enlightenment for themselves alone, the way others might seek a fur coat or a new car. They are desperate to have enlightenment and may not be thinking of anyone else.
    
    There is a big world, and good hearts are to encompass the world. Less self-centeredness is part of being enlightened. If all the money in the world could buy enlightenment and someone who has been a “me, me, me” person all his life becomes enlightened, could he continue to be self-centered?
    
    My advice is not intended to become a rule to go by. It is not an ordinance. You are not meant to calculate a percentage. Nor is this meant to be a scale you use as judgment on yourself or others. On the other hand, why not remember that you are not the only person in the world and that your life is not the only life to nourish?
    
    Gently remind yourself that life spent with your whole intent on yourself isn’t what you are here on Earth for. You are here to serve and to serve Me. Serve Me by serving more than yourself.
    Ah, at the same time, you are not to sacrifice. Sacrifice is not admirable. Giving with a glad heart in joy is what I’m talking about.
    
    In the world, it is not always easy to comprehend the line between selfish and sacrifice. You are not here only for yourself at the same time as you are not here only for others. You can’t really live life unless you are part of it.
    
    Consider the theme of sharing more like a subliminal idea. Your question in every activity is not to be: “Am I being selfish or unselfish?” Have the concept of generosity at the back of your mind and not in front, for you want your words and actions in life to come spontaneously. Life is not meant to be contrived. Basically, life is your reward. It is not necessary to be concerned about so many things.
    
    No need to have to think about life in terms of going within or in terms of going in an outer direction. In time, you will know in and out as the same.
    
    Well, you won’t stay out all night, and you won’t meditate all day, doesn’t that sound right! Lean toward love, and you will be fine.
    
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  Light October 24, 2014 at 9:49am

  Sit Right Here, Near God

  Heavenletter #5082 Published on: October 24, 2014

  God said:

  Weeping is a mechanism that lets go of sorrow. Yet you do not really want to be done with sorrow. You may say you do. You may think you do, yet you drown yourself in tears of sorrow, and somehow, and somehow the sorrow is a comfort to you. Weeping assuages something within you at the same time as it opens wounds and puts salt on them. When you don’t know what else to do, you cry. It is not a show-down. It is not coming to terms with your self-avowed heartache. It is just weeping, and sometimes you don’t really know why. You can list reasons, yet you don’t really know why.
   
  It is not wrong to cry. If it is a release, it is a release you need at the time. You don’t know what else to do. Often your woe doesn’t have a name. It is an unnamed woe in your heart. There seems to be no end to it. When you turn the pages of your life on Earth, you feel abandonment. Time has passed, and loved ones are no longer with you. Your crying may come down to this:
   
  “What am I going to do without my friend? I have lost a friend. I have lost mother and father and brothers and sisters and more friends that I can count. In many ways, loved ones are lost to me in a distance of time and space. Oh, how I would visit with my lost friends now if I could.
   
  “I am bereft at life. Life is an ache in my heart. I am sure life is not meant to hurt so much.
   
  “The truth is that I seem to need something to happen in my life in order to be happy. Something wonderful has to happen on the surface of my life for me to be happy. I know better to think that way. All I need is You, God. And all I have is You, and yet …and yet ... something is missing, and somehow, forgive me, You do not always assuage my heart. This is a lack in me. My heart seems to be full of grief and empty of joy. Sometimes I would seek forgetfulness and swim in the River of Lethe where there are no absences and no memories of the past nor any dreams for the future. Sometimes I would welcome nothingness.
   
  “It is like You cannot wipe my tears. Even when my eyes are dry and I weep no longer, my tears have left for only a while. They are waiting for me off-stage. They will even come unbidden. They seem to come on their own.
   
  “There have been times when I have really believed that I have made it and tears are behind me. Too soon I could name my life: The Return of Tears, the Triumph of Tears, Sadness over Joy. At this moment, tears are my only friends. They are in my corner. They hang out with me. They are at my beck and call. They are good servants who come to my aid. I seem to need them, yet I do not want them.
   
  “I want You, God, yet I am too often closer to tears than I am to You.”
   
  Beloveds, it doesn’t matter. All this doesn’t matter. What you describe here today is not all that you are. It is not representative of you. Have a good cry when you do. Remind yourself about tears of joy that have also hung out with you.
   
  Joy is now waiting for you around the corner. You will be dancing in joy again. You will have more joy than you ever imagined. Joy will overwhelm you. You will be overjoyed. This is in the offing for everyone of My children. It is in the offing for you. You can continue to lament if you wish, yet you don’t have to. Release the past and enjoin with Me now. Here, sit right here, near Me.
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  Light October 23, 2014 at 9:39am

  Crowded in Time and Space

  Heavenletter #5081 Published on: October 23, 2014

  God said:

  Everyone on Earth is a Divine Being. On Earth, you are also a human being. In other words, you are Soul, and you are also human being. You are Divine and you are also physical, and therein lies the rub.
   
  Yes, you can reach far further than you imagine, and you can accomplish far greater than you imagine. Yes, you are a Super Human Being, yet you are not yet Superman who can leap tall buildings in a single bound. In a body, you get bogged down in time and space. Truly, you are beyond time. You are Infinite. This is not a new idea to you, that you are Infinite. Of course, You can accomplish far more than you imagine, yet there is a bugaboo called time. So long as a clock is ticking, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and there are limitations put upon you. You are unlimited, yet on Earth, you are limited by time and space. In time and space, you can be too crowded.
   
  There is no way I ask you to over-extend yourself on Earth. Exhaustion is not a virtue.
   
  Certainly, there are occasions when you exert yourselves. There is a deadline. You want to keep your job. An employee doesn’t come in, and you have to work a double shift. You are a doctor on call, and you give up much of your time to the care of others. You are a mother, and sometimes mothers work around the clock.
   
  I am also exhorting you to take care of yourself and make time for yourself. A mother is not going to set her baby aside and put her rest first. A doctor is not going to deny his patients their care and so on. At the same time, you can’t do everything and be everything to everyone and leave yourself out of the equation. If you weigh 100 pounds, you probably can’t lift 100 pounds eight hours a day.
   
  There is physical pressure put on you. There is time pressure put on you. It is good to take responsibility and work hard. There is good in being stretched.
   
  You know that I suggest you take a day of rest. Not a bad idea. I am the exception. I do not take a day off. I always manage the store, so to speak, yet I am never ruffled. I am never overextended. I am resting all the time in deep love and silence. I do not wear a body nor can I be worn down. I do not overdo myself, nor can your soul, and yet your body may well need time off. Perhaps your feet. Perhaps your eyes. Most of all, you do not want to feel pressured in life. If you feel pressured, unpressure yourself.
   
  You do not have to have a perfect balance. It’s an arbitrary figure – eight-hour work day. People have worked from sun-up to sundown, and there are some who still do today. There are some who never get a day off. Your work can be a joy to you, and, nevertheless, you can be overwhelmed by how much you have to do. Change something in your attitude. As in everything on Earth, you are your own solution. Mostly it is your idea of being pressured that pressures you. Consider work a reward, and see what happens. At the same time, if you need a break, find a way for that as well.
   
  Bear in mind that those who do not have daily work also feel a different kind of pressure. Pressure can be independent of how much you work. Pressure is something you add or subtract to the concept of work. Who decides if you are overdoing? You do, beloveds.  
   
  Allow yourself to love your work. Work is part of life. It is a great part of life. And work can be great of itself. The word work may not have a good rep. It would be good to find a new name for work. Perhaps We could call work Time Well-Spent or Focused Time Enjoyed or Time-Off, and make it so.

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