| 3 years ago :: May 06, 2010 - 1:09AM #31 | |
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HEAVEN #3449 Know There Is a Way, and You Can Find It, May 5, 2010 The sense of frustration you experience serves you. Frustration leads you to solve or resolve that which frustrates you. It brings you to thought, realization, action. The action may be to have a talk. Frustration can make you deal with that which assails you. Welcome frustration because it is your teacher. Tough teachers can be very good. They bring you to realization. They bring you to address something that needs to be addressed. Tough teachers may make you face that which needs to be faced. Frustration gives you the choice of running away or dealing with, and, within those two choices, there are many shades of choices within. Staying in an unwieldy situation isn't always good, nor is running away always the solution. Yet sometimes it is better to get out. Do not always have the idea that it is good for your character to stay in a situation in order to overcome it. As in playing poker, sometimes it is good to fold your hand, whether you want to or not. Giving up is not always a bad thing. You don't have to always run the gauntlet. Sometimes you can get through what is difficult and be better off for it, and sometimes it's better to change directions. And yet there are not always yes or no answers. Don't box yourself into a corner, that you have to decide either this or that. Be simple. See what is obvious. Or be creative and think of an alternative never thought of before. The world is full of variety. Find a variety that saves the day. If it doesn't totally save the day, at least it may allay your frustration which is the same as a sense of helplessness. Life is short, indeed. It is not for suffering, and it is not for lollygagging either. Sometimes you have to knuckle down. Sometimes you have to be fleet. Each situation is its own. Know that there is a way, and that you can find it. Neither frustration nor comfort is the way of life nor is a middle-ground always the way of life. Compromise enough, but not too much. Maybe you are learning to hold your ground, or maybe you are learning to give sway. Any way you slice it, you will get through whatever it is that is bothering you now. When your frustration lies with another child of Mine, there is a very simple understanding for you to have. There is a simple explanation for the stand the other person has taken that is opposed to your perceived happiness. The explanation is obvious. He sees the situation differently from you. Is this not simple? And yet the other person is entitled to the point of view he has. He is entitled. The same can be said of you. You see the situation in a different way. You don't understand. You are entitled to see the situation as you do see it. Now we come to your new position of taking the time to see how the other person sees it. Find out. Perhaps you have not asked or allowed the other person to speak his mind. In your listening, the other person may clarify his thoughts and see it differently on his own. Come from the place that you care about this other person, and he cares about you too. There has been an error in your thinking, beloveds. You may have forgotten that you are loved. Unloved, you feel barriers. Knowing you are loved, you can talk it over. Knowing that you love, you can talk it over. Have you thought that not being understood meant you were not loved?
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 07, 2010 - 11:56AM #32 | |
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HEAVEN #3450 What Your Life Is About, May 6, 2010 In life, you are looking at the lay of the land. The terrain is laid out for you. Where you go and what you seek is your decision to make. What happens is not altogether up to you. You have some say, but you do not have say over everything that happens in life. And yet you have wanted to control everything in life. Beloveds, whatever may come, you have to deal with it. Whatever lands at your door, you have something to do. Sometimes you let it in, and sometimes you step aside. You do not have the say. You have the say over where you will go from there, yet you are not the total dispenser of the Universe. If you find yourself in a landslide, you are in landslide. Where you land probably isn't your choice. Wherever you find yourself, your choice begins. You go on from where you find yourself. Even if you cannot walk, you have choices. You have the choice to despair. Perhaps you have the choice to crawl. No one likes waking up in a strange place, yet, if that's where you find yourself, the question isn't how, when, why. The question is what do you do now? And if you can do nothing, how, then, will you accept it? How do you move on in your life, or how long do you stay where you are and moan? You find yourself in a situation that may not be of your making. Certainly not of your making in a deliberate way. Yet conscious or not, you have to decide to go east or west now. Perhaps this is the time to roll with the punches. If you find yourself in a landslide, it is possible that being in the landslide was a choice you made. Maybe you made the choice long ago. Maybe you will never know. It's hard to believe you would choose to be in a spot you never would want to be in, and, nevertheless, you find yourself there. Even if you are entirely an innocent victim, your choice is to cry or to get up and start anew. A seed may not have choice over where it is planted, yet it can choose to grow there and even blossom. A hat may not ever choose which head it goes on, and yet a hat continues to do what hats do. Hats serve. Seeds serve. And you serve. You have will, and choice as to how you will use your will. Do you use your will to protest and fight or do you use your will to move forward? Do not equate will with stubbornness. Will does not have to hold on to where it has been. Will does not mean getting your own way. Life has already taught you that you don't always get your way. The thing is that you have to make decisions without knowing what the outcome will be. Somewhere along the way, you may have had the idea that you have to know the results ahead of time. That's where the idea of odds came in. Yet playing the odds doesn't always come out the way you want. Sometimes you go against the odds, and all is as you want or it is not. Along the way, it is necessary to let go of the idea of winning or losing. Life is not a question of winning or losing. Life is life. And you do not always know when you have won or when you have lost. Frankly, your life is not about either winning or losing. Your life is about being a good sport.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 07, 2010 - 8:57PM #33 | |
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if you chose not to read this whole message, please take two minutes to scroll down and read the italisized portion: (thanks ya'll!) HEAVEN #3451 The Joy of Creating, May 7, 2010 When you are creative, you feel good. The reason is that there is flow from you to the Universe. As you are creative, you get yourself out of yourself and into the Universe. Flowing from you, creativity stirs the Universe. Your joy in creativity does this. The measure is not of what you create. The measure is not of the perfection of what you create. The measure is in your giving, for that is what creativity is. The young child's painting has an effect on the Universe even when the child's work looks like scribbling. Why? It is not the outcome of events that make anything meritorious. It is the heart put into it. Bake a cake with joy, and you are serving the Universe. This is why it is so vital for you to be joyful. When you worry about the world, you are not helping it. When you worry about the world, you are rubbing salt into its wounds. When you say to the world: "You are looking a little pale today. You have a lot of problems. You are not doing so well," then the world starts to feel squeamish, and doubts itself and its ability to renew itself. We are talking about the health of the world. Pay attention to what is healthy in the world, and the world will have more health. Love the world, and the world will take care of its own problems. Love the world, and the world grows strong, and problems dissolve. Your hitting the world with your fists doesn't dissolve anything. Stop complaining. Start loving. The overt is nowhere near as powerful as the unseen. You can't talk about the world behind its back. It hears you. It grows weak, or it flushes with vigor, depending upon what you say. You are always in hearing distance of the world. You have no secrets from the world, beloveds. Odds are that how you treat the world is how you treat yourself. It may be that you are always picking on yourself, telling yourself how you could have been smarter or earlier or better in one way or another. In other words, you may be telling yourself how you have failed, and failed yet again. You may even be always telling yourself how you are not quite up to muster. You may demoralize yourself. Your intentions may be fine, but not your practices. How far do you think you can go when you do not even befriend yourself? You may be a harridan to yourself. How can you be happy with a harridan harping at you? I am talking about common courtesy, beloveds. Treat yourself genially. Be a king or queen to yourself. Royalty knows how to be courteous. And in courtliness, royalty uplifts. If you have failed in good manners to yourself, change your tactics. Get off your back. You may ask too much of yourself at the same time as you do not ask enough. Give yourself a break and give yourself directions you can follow. Ask enough of yourself, but don't be a nag. Be an agreeable person who inspires yourself to go higher with encouragement rather than with disdain. This is how to treat yourself, and this is how to treat the world. The world is your child, beloveds. It is of your making. Do not make a feud with the world. Don't take pot shots at it. Encourage it instead. Smile at it. Pat it on its head. Point out to the world how splendid it is. Point out to yourself how splendid you are.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 21, 2010 - 3:49PM #34 | |
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HEAVEN #3464 Choices to Make, May 20, 2010 Beloveds, there are experiences in life. Things happen to you. Someone may shove you in line. Someone may rob you. Someone may bless you. You may have no conscious choice over what happens to you. It is easy for you to receive someone's blessings. Maybe the blessing was a beautiful gift. Maybe the blessing was money. Maybe the blessing was a smile, a welcoming word, good food. Without giving thought to it, you smile. You may even hug the person. In any case, you feel good. Pretty much you respond as quickly and as naturally when someone does not treat you as you and I wish all would treat you. Instead of your heart rising, your heart sinks. That is not surprising. And pretty much, when someone is truly loving, and he or she donates happiness to you, you remain happy for some time after. And pretty much, when someone is unloving, and he or she, in effect, donates unhappiness to you, your heart sinks, and you feel baffled and affronted. When you find yourself irate, however, that is your choice. You didn't have choice of what the other person said or did. Your heart sank. Yet now you have choice. You can brood about what happened all day. You can write angry letters. You can punch the person in the nose. You can swear. What you do or say after an event is your choice. And how long you continue to feel diminished, that is your choice. It isn't the choice of the person who offended you. At some point, you just want to let go of thinking about it. You may not be able to forgive the other person his egregious error. Maybe you can't just yet. At the same time, you don't have to carry around hurtful resentment or outright anger. You don't have to keep them. You may say you can't help it. I understand how you feel, and yet I tell you that you can help it. You can decide to help it. You can decide to leave the scene of the crime. You can give your thoughts another direction to go in. You can decide ahead of time that you will not let unhappy feelings linger. You can know it is not your role to let unhappy feelings take over. No longer do you need to let an event or another person make decisions for you. You are not helpless. Even when more than your ego is hurt, you can let go of it. I don't say you can instantly forget it. I say you can decide not to pack it in your heart. You may think it is your heart that decides all your emotions for you, yet it is your mind. Heretofore, your mind may have urged you to retaliate. Your mind is telling you what to do, not your heart. You have become accustomed to reacting in anger or perhaps tears. Whether you actually show your anger is one thing, but storing anger within you is another. This is what you must forgo, just the way you forgo a second piece of pie. The pie is not the lord over you. Nor is anyone entitled to dictate to you how you are going to be. It is for you to decide and to be. Someone or something did do something to you. Let go of the idea that they can't. They did. What is it that you have to defend? Your honor? Keep your honor for yourself, beloveds, and act accordingly. I know that sticks and stones and words do hurt you. I also know that you can free yourself from added penalty. Let go, beloveds, let go. Untoward events are not lord over you.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 22, 2010 - 8:22PM #35 | |
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HEAVEN #3466 Take Another Look, May 22, 2010 Is not life a great thing you have as you walk through the world? Just think of it, you have life every day, day and night, day in and day out, and the life you have is yours. You go with it, and it goes with you. Life, as it appears to you, often surprises you, or startles you, or glorifies you, or hurts you, mystifies you, or dismays you. Life goes on looking neither left or right, so it seems. Sometimes life seems to give you too much attention, and yet, you figure, doesn't seem to take you into consideration at all. You could say that life is indifferent to you, as if you were simply by the side of the road, as if life were a stray bullet that misses the mark, sometimes hitting you, and sometimes just zinging past you. And yet life was made for you. It was chauffeured to you in a long limousine. And life in the world is simply a continuation of life out of this world. From where you came, you return. Nothing changes but your experience. And yet experience is not everything. It seems like everything to you. And yet experience and your perception of your experiences is not everything. Consciousness is. Love is. We are. Life does not always appear dressed the way you would like it to. Sometimes you may think that life is dismal. And, yet, if you were not starring in your life, you might see it differently. You might. Life in the world is an apparition, beloveds. It is a seeming thing. And yet it is the most important thing to you right now. You want it to be lovely, and only lovely, so you think and so you say. You wonder why life isn't all you desire when you desire. Life falls short in your estimation. Days you would call good, you may call the exceptions. What if you would consider the days that you see as unlucky as if these days are the exceptions? It may well be that you count amiss. You may have put some of your days under the wrong columns. You may slough off some days as fair or middling. Perhaps these days were not as exciting or as wonderful to you as you might have liked, and, yet, beloveds, what was really wrong with them? It is possible that you are an extreme critic of your days. Take another look, beloveds. Look again. Enjoy life while you have it. Disregard some of the things you have regarded. You don't want to whiz past life with your nose up in the air. Walk through life without a chip on your shoulder. Have you perhaps had the idea that life owes you something, and it has defaulted on its debt to you? Life is merely on loan to you. Do not grumble about the loan given to you. Do not default on the loan made to you. Sometimes you stumble through life with your eyes half-closed or your eyes on a far-off objective you have in mind. Sometimes you stamp your foot because of what you feel life denied you. Sometimes you begrudge life, and, yet, you still ask for extensions of it. So, I say again, sing a happy tune through life. Life is not a refrigerator you took a loan out to pay for. You were given a lifetime loan. Look at life as if it were a meal served to you. Whether everything served is your favorite or not, eat the food before you, digest it, relish it, every crumb. Thank the Cook. There are many who would be grateful for the meal served to you. Be glad that your tummy is full. C'mon, beloveds, be as glad about your life.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 23, 2010 - 2:33PM #36 | |
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HEAVEN #3467 An Attribute of God, May 23, 2010 What is so fair as a day in June is Our love, Our one entwining woven delicately embroidered love that covers the world. Our love wraps itself around the world. It embraces the world at the same time as it sets the world free. The same goes for My love for you and the world. You are wrapped in My arms of love, and you are set free. We could say I knitted-to-fit sweaters of love for everyone on Earth, and you wear them, these sweaters, every stitch made by My hand. How soft the wool, and how loved you are. In the summer, you wear a gossamer robe loomed from My loom of love so the fresh air can reach you and cool you. During the day you wear a cape of My love, and during the night, you are under a canopy of My love, and, depending on the season, a down quilt or two. Regardless, you are encased in My love and kept safe in My heart. Whatever befalls on Earth, you are safe in My heart. In other words, nothing can befall you, beloveds. In Earth terms, your life is rife with danger. That is because you forget you are eternal, so dependent are you on the physical body and the physical world. Don't berate yourself because you rely on the physical, for that's where you are in your dream. Even when you know it's a dream, just as in sleep dreams, when there's a rattling on the door, you may be scared at what may be rattling the door. Only in world life, beloveds, can you have worry wrinkles. Without the physical, no worries would be. Without the physical, what could there be to worry about? What mirror would there be to look into? What bills would there be to pay? What could possibly, possibly, interfere with love, boundless unbounding love when you are excused from the physicalness of worldly life? Regardless of what occurs, can you not enjoy the gift of life to the fullest? No matter what, can you relish life? Who says you can't! You say you can't. You and the world have told you over and over again that you can't. How can you live without your beloved friend who died, you ask. The fact is you are alive, and you are living without your loved one, and so you can, and so you must. No matter how close you may have been, you are closer yet to Me, and it is not possible for Me to ever leave you. And the one you loved who left the physical world, he or she is with Me. What more would you want for your friend? Be happy for all your beloveds who are no longer at the way-station. They have come Home. They left you physically, and yet they haven't left you. You also are Home, only you aren't so sure. Why, when you pinch yourself, you feel the pinch. You know, for a fact, that you are on Earth. The fact is that you can be in two places at once. In deeper fact, you can't be anywhere but with Me. You float on My love. You are never anywhere but with Me. I have told you that time and space do not really exist. They are a mirage. Joy is one of My attributes, and that makes it yours. Joy is yours, not for the asking, but for the taking. Take it. Wrest every inch of joy. Make it yours. Love and joy go hand in hand like Jack and Jill going up the hill, except, in your case, you have already really reached the top of the hill. Here We are.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 24, 2010 - 8:24PM #37 | |
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HEAVEN #3468 Pick Out the Gold, May 24, 2010 Perhaps you are having the time of your life, and you don't realize it until later on. Has this not happened? The life you reflect on today was so wonderful, only you missed out on it at the time. You might say that, at the time, it wasn't all golden. And, yet, now you see the gold, and your face is lighted. So pick out the gold from today. There is something sweet and golden in your life today. It is there. If you are in a bad mood, and you insist there is not, I tell you there is. And if you cannot see that today, then you may be being stubborn. Even if you are bedridden, there is light shining in your window. There is someone who tends to your needs with a smile. There is a voice that you like to hear. There is something. Even if you are bedridden and in pain, and you don't see any light, be a light to someone who enters your room. How well I know that there are many excuses for feeling glum. You would say reasons. I will say excuses, and I will further say that there is no excuse for you to be grumpy and not shine light on everyone. There is every reason to shine light. Others need it, and the light you shine shines back on you. This is simple arithmetic, beloveds. 1+1=2. We can also say this: 1 = 1,000. When you light up one face, your face is lighted as well. Yes, We're agreed. And the face you light lights another, and so it goes on and on. There is no end to the golden light you can start in just one day. Let Me tell you something else. Do not wait to feel love before you shine it. What you may feel is not who you are. I have told you that you are love. So be love even when you may not feel it. Be love. Be it. Be love. This doesn't make you a fake. You ARE love. Be straightforward love with a smile. All it takes is a smile, a little welcoming. You don't have to let everyone know what irritation you may be feeling or what stray thought you may have. You are not putting on a show. You honestly do want to love. Beloveds, why would you not welcome every child of Mine? You do not have to hang out with every one of them, and yet you can be a good sport and greet everyone. Don't think that you have to be so honest as to let everyone know they peeve you. Simply toss out a smile, a simple word, the way you would toss your hat into the ring. Shed a little happiness around you. Is that too much for Me to ask? What would it take for you to be a glimmer of light today? What would it take for you to be to others what you want others to be for you? Simply do not get hung up on your preferences. All are My preferred. You are not letting go of your integrity to give a simple hello from Me. You might be letting go of petty resentments or whims or letting go of you-know-not-even-what. Even when the sun is not out, you can shine. What if today you have only happiness-bearing words and expressions on your face to give everyone. What would that cost you, beloveds, and what would be the reward for you, for the seeming others and for the world, and for Me? Be a blessing to everyone, and, in so doing, bless yourself and All That Is.
"Gratitude is the music of the heart its chords swept by the breeze of kindness"
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| 3 years ago :: May 26, 2010 - 1:40AM #38 | |
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Who doesn't this one apply to??? HEAVEN #3469 The Past Served You When It Was the Present, May 25, 2010 God said: All that you know does not light a candle to all that you do not know. In one sense, all you have to know is that I AM. All the evidence and proof you have to support what you already know is verbiage. It is the past. What matters now is what you would call the Unknown. What you already know with such confidence is world knowledge. World knowledge has its place, yet it can go only so far. It is My understanding that you want to go deeper, closer. You want to go deeper and closer to what you may call the Unknown. To Me, it is the Known. For practical purposes, We will call it the Unknown. Take everything you already know as you would stick a wad of chewed chewing gum in a gum wrapper and throw it away. Set it aside, and start listening to the Unknown. When you think you already know all you need to know, you have kidded yourself, and you have blocked revelation. Your existence is not about what you know. It is also about what there is for you to find out. We are entering a new world. What do you want to hang on to old thinking for? Past knowledge doesn't belong to you anyway. You spotted it. You glommed on to it. Now you let it go. You free it to recede and let the new sunshine in. You do this, not only for yourself, but for the world. Letting go of the past is letting go of the past. The past served you while it was the present. What are you learning now? The relative world is all about change, and now it is for you to accept change. A synonym for change is the word new. Put some of the attention that goes into new household appliances, new cars, new technology, new design into new thinking altogether. Your identity is not meant to be tied up in all that you know. The street cleaner is as much a master in life as the college professor. Accumulated knowledge and perceived expertise are not everything, beloveds. We are talking about love, and love for yourself. Know less, and love yourself more. Know nothing, and you will know how to love altogether. Consider the beloved dog at your feet, and you will know what I mean when I say innocence shines. Changing your thinking means to change your ways of meeting the world. If the world is to grow, you have to grow. I am speaking of evolution, beloveds. If you want to evolve, make way for the new. I mean the new you. You don't want to resist your advancement. You want to welcome it. Let the light bulbs go on! May they go on all over the world and reach to Heaven. Do not misunderstand Me. Ignorance is ignorance. Ignorance is not the same as innocence. There are those of My children who believe they cannot progress. They make conclusions such as the refrain: "This is how life is. It can't be otherwise. I can't be otherwise." It is ignorance to accept yourself with such finality. That is being stuck, beloveds. Moses' brother stuttered and was called on to speak before crowds. He was called on to do it. He did it while he felt unready. You can change your ways. If you have been sloppy, you can be neat. If you have been afraid of the dark, you can get over it. It seems to be endemic that My children long for more and yet want to stay the same. I ask you once again: "What are you waiting for?"
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| 3 years ago :: May 26, 2010 - 10:12AM #39 | |
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In each heart is a placed called heaven. All we have to do is listen. Wisdom is there for us to find. Let it be that we take the time to see.
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| 3 years ago :: May 26, 2010 - 11:10PM #40 | |
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HEAVEN #3470 Dimensions and Timelines out of Your Sight, May 26, 2010 All-loving am I. God Almighty has given you the right and might over yourself. When I gave you free will, I did not abdicate My love. I abdicated My rule of you. This freedom allows you to come to Me unbound, of your free will, of your desire, of your decision, of your say, of your initiative, of your intent, of your liking, of your making it happen. Even when I come in and seem to intercede, you have, at some point of your life, made your willingness known to Me. With all that being said, granting your every wish is for genies, beloveds. Neither you nor I grant your every wish. Some wishes are fulfilled on other levels or layers of desire. Sometimes, only sometimes, the desire is its own fulfillment. You may well not agree with this. I will go on and make another point, and then come back to this. In the days of Greek mythology, everything was in the hands of the Gods. Now I tell you that everything is in your hands, or, I should say, in your heart. I do not mean to say that the death of your loved ones is a desire of your heart. There were certain ground rules laid out when I gave you free will. Birth and death are two of them. A long life may be your desire, and along with your desire, comes aging which you may not like. There is a wider scope than your personal desires, or even your world desires. And now you say, and say quite rightly, that perhaps you desired to have a child and were unable to conceive. Or you didn't want a child, and yet you conceived many. You ask Me how do I explain what certainly looks like desires unfulfilled or events against your will. We can say that it is a confluence of a multiplicity of desires .Certainly, there is no explanation that will satisfy you, beloveds. I want to make it clear, for example, it does not mean that the one who conceives or does not conceive is more or less loved than the other or more deserving than the other. The why cannot be explained in terms of your understanding. At least, I don't know how to explain it. In world terms, it is inexplicable. Beloveds, fulfillment of your desires does not mean that even your desires to understand will be fulfilled on Earth. Do know, although it may not give you comfort, that your desires are fulfilled on a dimension or timeline that may be out of your sight now. It could even be that the child you desired was born to someone else. Sometimes your desires are fulfilled, yet not the way you had in mind. Some desires are contradictory. Some cancel out others. Some desires are carry-overs. And then you ask Me, what about earthquakes and such. Were they desired? Of course, in world terms, an earthquake is considered a terrible thing. There is grievous injury and much that is not understood. A balancing act is being performed. Something is toppling over. No one desired an earthquake, and yet the quaking of hearts and the fomenting of thoughts can beckon earthquakes. That which you do not desire also befalls. And you do not see My love in such events. You wonder, how can damage that is abhorrent to you occur in a world that God says He loves, and, furthermore, that God says that human thought and emotion contribute to you? This is the same God Who says that there is no cause. And, so, beloveds, come to the reiterated theme of desiring good for all and keeping your heart and mind higher than you previously believed you could. We shall leave it at that.
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