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March 13th, 2010 — Heaven Letters
God said:
Everything in the world is a symbol. Christmas lights are a symbol of lighted hearts. The symbol, consciously or subconsciously, reminds you of all the light that goes on in the human heart. It is a reminder. Let the love in your heart be seen. Turn on the light in your heart.
Symbols are required in the world. Santa Claus is a symbol of giving. Wrapped gifts are a symbol of giving. Naturally, there is a greater than an electric train or the most desired doll or anything you wrap and put under the tree.
There’s no fun in obligation. Make sure that your heart goes with the gift you give. Make sure that you have delight in the gift-giving. Nothing is given unless joy goes along with it. If you cannot think of the right gift, if you cannot think of something material that is just right for the person you are giving to, then give them something that they can share with others. Chocolates are an old stand-by. Flowers. A plant.
Gifts are meant to be tokens of love. Pull those tokens out of your heart, and give them.
During the year when there is no holiday or special event, still be thinking of what you can give. A note of appreciation is good. A toy whistle. Anything at all so that someone knows he is in your heart and welcome there. It is a wonderful gift to think of someone and to let them know you are thinking of them. And then they will think to pass on the light you gave to them to someone else.
This is how love grows in the human heart.
It is your heart you are to give on all occasions and for no occasion at all. The opportunity to give a dewdrop of love exists. You will find it.
Allow your heart to become soft, not hard. Unharden your heart. De-ice it. Start right now. Let your heart melt in love. There is every occasion to give love. There is no occasion to withhold it. I know you think there is. You think there are plenty of pitfalls around, and so you lift up the skirt of your heart, careful to keep your heart above the throng.
Beloveds, when you give with thought of return, you haven’t given. You have been fishing. You have been trying to catch something.
When your heart feels hurt, you have been expecting something, and you didn’t get it. You may like to think you are sensitive and that others are insensitive, but let Me tell you squarely, that is your ego whispering in your ear. Your ego takes affront. That’s what ego does. Ego tells you that you are owed something, and an individual or two or life itself has been remiss, and so you sniffle.
Beloveds, if you are owed anything, you owe it to yourself to open your heart and give and give and give. It really is not your heart that aches. It is your ego. You are trying to stand up for yourself, or defend yourself. There is no need. What you need is to give more. Preoccupy yourself with giving and not with feeling hurt.
Do not compare the gifts you give with what you receive or don’t receive. That is a blind alley. Don’t go down it.
This is one advantage in giving anonymously. You don’t expect anything in return, not even a thank you.
And that is how you want to give, just old-fashioned giving from a heart that knows its role in life and loves to play it.
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February 13th, 2010 — Heaven Letters
God said:
The fat is in the fire. Your life has started, and it is continuing. Your life started as it started. It started where it did. It started when it did. It started in one family and not another. Your early life was the way it was and not another.
And now your life starts anew. At every moment, your life starts anew.
You may be attached to your beginnings and the sequences of events, and yet I must tell you that you are not beholden to them. The past was a configuration then. You can have a new configuration now. In fact, you must step out of the past and leave it behind you. The past has past. Now you can make life as you desire. Choose the radius of your life. Design it now.
No matter what your past, today is a starting-off point.
Whatever your havoc, you can drop it off now. Whatever your griefs, you can leave them behind. You had the suffering. You don’t have to relive it. You do not have to live up to it or down to it. You are not tied to it. You can let go of it. You can choose to.
The love and happiness from the past that have crumbled have often turned into sadness. You can not really hold on to the happinesses of the past try as you may. Earth mothers and fathers do not stay to nurture you forever. Brothers and sisters move away. Beautiful bodies age. Life moves fast, and there are changes right before your eyes.
And so, beloveds, treat the past, pleasant or painful, the same. The past is all a day that has passed. Today is a new day. I would like it to be a sunny day for you. Why not a sunny day? The past does not have to linger. The past is not meant to be a cloud over you nor an umbrella nor is it to be wonderfulness that leaves you longing for it.
Once you had a fabulous patent leather coat. You don’t even know where it went, and yet you cling to memories of that beautiful patent leather coat.
Turn now to make new memories that you will also have to let go of. The past is no more. On Earth, the present is but a fleeting moment. Grab it before it is gone. Grab today before it is gone. Grab it, but don’t hold it tight. Catch the bus to Eternity, beloveds. Catch the bus that is going in the direction you want to go. Take a new bus, and see where it takes you.
The bus has a sign on it. Take the one that says This Moment. In smaller print, you will see This Bus to Eternity.
And if the bus you ride on doesn’t take you to Eternity, never mind. There is another bus tomorrow.
You have to take a chance. Going the way you went before is also taking a chance, and the odds are not in your favor.
Take a new turn. Put your foot in a new place, and then pivot. Lift your foot, and set it down somewhere it has never been before. That is what is happening anyway, beloveds. The Earth is spinning, and the sun appears to move with it. Nothing stays in the same place. The kaleidoscope of life keeps turning.
You cannot keep going through the same revolving door and get anywhere. I think I’ve made My point.
Face forward, and greet life with your two arms opened wide. Life, like a beautiful bird, will fly to you in all its brilliant color.
Come, fly away with Me.
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January 24th, 2010 — Heaven Letters
God said:
It is not possible for you to say, “Let go,” too often. To say Let go to yourself is what I mean. Tell yourself to let go a lot. Make up a song with a refrain of Let Go, and let that refrain run through your mind. Make a commercial of it, and play it often.
“Let go. Let go. I gotta let go of all I hang onto. I gotta let go of the ways life has gotta do or gotta look like. Let go, let go. I gotta let life choose its own clothes. I don’t put life in a closet with mothballs. No, no, no, I don’t cuz I let go, let go, let go. I gotta let go.
“Life owns itself. Life is for me to use, not for me to boss around. I walk beside life and not ahead of it. Ooo, ooo, ooo.
“Let go, let go, I gotta let go of everything I never wanted. Let go, let go, I gotta let go of everything that happened. I gotta let go, I gotta let go of everything that didn’t happen. Ooo, ooo, ooo, I gotta let go. Gotta let go.
“Let go, let go, I gotta let go and get closer to God. I gotta let go, let go. Too much in my way. I gotta let go, let go, of what gets in my way. I gotta let go. Nothing is going to keep me away from God.
“I gotta let go, let go. I gotta get closer to God, closer to God, to God, to God. I’m on my way. I gotta let go and get closer to God. Here I am, God. Right here.
“‘Let go gotta be my new song. Let go gotta be my new jingle.
“Let go, let go, I gotta let go of the past. The past gets me in trouble. Hanging on gets me in trouble. The past gets in my way. That old past is like eyeglasses that need cleaning. I gotta I gotta let go of the glasses of the past. Let go, let go, I gotta get me a new pair.
“I’m letting go, letting go of old ideas. I’m letting go of my old hanging on to whatever I hold onto. I’m letting go of my hanging on. Ooo, ooo, ooo.
“Gotta let go, gotta let go. All I’ve got is love. I gotta leave love behind, and I gotta take it with me too. I keep my love, and yet I can’t keep it to myself. I gotta let go, and I gotta love and I gotta let love go.
“I gotta let go of that i.d. I gotta let go of my i.d. My i.d. not me. i.d. is a card I carry. It’s a trick. It’s like a coat I wear. And a coat is only a coat, and I am not a coat. My coat may be pretty, and yet I am not my coat. I gotta let go of my coat. I gotta let go of my coat. Now you see it, and now you don’t. I gotta, gotta, gotta let go.”
Beloveds, do you like My new song? It’s catchy, isn’t it. Hang on to this song, for this is how you let go of all that holds you back.
Let go, let go. You gotta let go.
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January 8th, 2010 — Heaven Letters
Glory to Me in the Highest! You have long sought the Highest when it is you who are the Glory all along! Yours is the Glory forever.
If you could only recognize and accept a little of the Glory you are. If you had even a glimpse, a mere trace, of how Glory-filled you are, how happy you would be. The whole of the world rests in your palm, and yet you hold your hand out begging for a tuppence of peace in your life.
You want Me, you want love, and another name for what you want is peace. How you crave peace in your own home and in the marketplace. Think of a world in which peace reigns. Think of your home without an inch of friction. But the existence of non-peace arises not from the world or from your home. Non-peace as well as peace arise from your heart. Peace or lack of peace exists in your heart. You know this is so.
The enemy is within. This is a poor quavering enemy within. He is hardly worth the time of the day, and yet you bow down to him many times during the day. He has another name, this culprit, and his other name is fear. He is really a wimp, or he would not exist always in the shadows. True, he has a loud voice, and he assumes great ambiance.
Trade in fear for trust. Trust is quite another matter. Oh, if you would trade in fear for trust, beloveds, how happy you would be. What dancing there would be in your heart. Your heart would sing: “The wolf at the door is gone. The wolf of fear is dead. Hurray. The wolf and witch of fear are dead. Hurray. Hurray for me, and hurray for the world. The wolf and witch of fear are dead.”
When fear leaves, negativity of any kind has no place to hide. Everything untrue tiptoes out of your heart when fear slinks its way out. All the other tentacles of negativity in your heart are but the fingers of fear. Look at all that gunk leave your heart. Fear’s departure is long overdue. It has overstayed its welcome. You could have kicked it out long ago, only you thought you had to keep it, that fear somehow was part of survival.
Now that fear has gone, what is left? What can cohabit in your heart when negativity has made its exit? You and I, beloveds.. We can be known as the Oneness of Love and the Oneness of Peace. We are what is left in a heart where fear has vacated the premises.
Fear was an arrogant ogre all along. It made a lot of noise, yet fear was a lot of to-do over nothing. Fear was a muscle-man pumped up with steroids. Beloveds, stand up to the hollowness of fear. Fear doesn’t begin to be a worthy adversary for you. Fear is a shadow, beloveds, and one that chases you. Shadows are only shadows. No matter how big they may appear, shadows are phantoms. Like a phantom lover, fear has hung around you, eating off you, stealing your warmth in order to bolster itself. Fear has done a pretty good job of it. It has been twisting your arm right along, and all along, fear has been nothing but bluster. Now that We have gotten fear to size, he can fit through a keyhole. He can leave as you will. Fear is no bigger than a cowardly thought. .
Say: “Adieu, fear. Adieu.”
Say: “Welcome, God, love and peace. Put your feet up, and stay a while.”
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October 2nd, 2009 — Heaven Letters
God said:
Who you are is irrelevant to everything that you know. Who you are is irrelevant to everything you see, everything you think, everything that happens, everything. You already know you are not your body. That you are not your body means you are not your looks. You are not your age. You are not your illness nor are you your health. You are not your habits. You are not your thinking. You do know you are not your fingernail, and yet all that you may presently think is you amounts to no more than a fingernail.
Who you are is irrelevant to your perceived suffering and your perceived happiness. Who you are is irrelevant to your success and your failure. Who you are is irrelevant to your comfort or discomfort. Who you are is irrelevant to your position in the world, irrelevant to your relationships with your family, irrelevant to your loneliness. All that transpires is irrelevant next to who you are.
All the world’s plaudits are irrelevant. All the wealth or all the poverty. All the understanding or misunderstanding. All the caring or not caring. All the ease and all the difficulty. All the knowledge and all the ignorance. All the fame as well as being overlooked. All the A’s and all the E’s. They are all the same. They have nothing to do with you. What does anything have to do with you? Nothing has anything to do with you. Nothing at all.
You are in one corridor, and all that you perceive is drawn in another building altogether.
This is not how you view it, of course. Heretofore, you are sure that everything that happens in the world and in your world and to you has everything to do with you. It has everything to do with what you may presently perceive as you. The wool has been pulled over your eyes, and even that has nothing to do with the you who stands above all the world.
All that happens in the world is irrelevant to everyone in the world.
What does the tune you find yourself humming have to do with you? It is an idle hum. You don’t even know how it got there.
The you that you may think you are has nothing to do with you. The you that is you is untouchable, pristine and pure. I could say you are My light dancing. I believe I had said that. And yet you are even more than that. You are Myself dancing around on Earth, even as you are fixing your hair, watching your posture, holding in your stomach. All the while, the posings and the posturings have nothing at all to do with the you that you are.
You are Myself. The dancing is not you. Your hair is not you etc. I am you. The you that you have perceived as yourself does not exist. You do not exist in the shoes you wear. You are non-existent.
You are the God of the Universe. You are not the bondage you have presently wrapped your little self in. The Big Self of you cannot really be wrapped. Ah, but, yes, who you really are can be overlooked. You may say my saying you are more than what you see and take yourself to be – you may say that this is a spoof, a spoof you are too smart to be taken in by.
Beloveds, you have been taken in by a spoof. You have held the spoof in all its variations high. All that you have thought you are has nothing to do with you. I have to do with you. There is a vaster you than the one you display. There is a vaster you than the one you give credence to.
You have been mistaken. The person you have thought you are does not exist.
