Hello, whoever you are. In truth, you are Myself. I created you. In so doing, I made you in the image of Myself. Not a false image, no, not at all, nor a weak image. Certainly not, yet you have projected an image onto yourself that does not come near the true image of yourself. Of course, I would not make any weak image, certainly not a weak image of Myself. Why would I? To what avail? Certainly not for amusement. That would be playing a joke on Myself. I value Myself. I do not diminish Myself. Yet you diminish yourself.

You have gone very far away from the Truth of yourself. You take yourself too seriously, and yet not seriously enough. Maybe you think you are a joke, and that the joke is on Me. And yet I do not see you laughing, or laughing very much, or laughing enough. You take yourself too seriously, and maybe not seriously enough.

Taking yourself too seriously is making yourself too important, all this without catching the depth of your importance. You overplay your role and yet trivialize yourself. You don’t really admire yourself. You make a good show of it. You pump yourself up. Then you pop the balloon of yourself, or the world does, for it is ludicrous of you to swell yourself with pride and overlook the love I hold you in. Sometimes you play the role of love, and yet your heart and mind are elsewhere. You are quite an actor. You have convinced yourself. You bow down to an image of yourself that is not true while you overlook or scoff at that which is true.

You may even think that I live in a fantasy world, and that you live in the real world. You may even be sure that you know more than I do. Ignorance is like that. Ignorance pulls the curtain down on yourself. You look for the bright stage lights to shine on you when you already are a star in Heaven.

Isn’t it a shame that you deny your true light? You are dazzled by stage lights and not so impressed by sunlight. Stage lights shine on you and on a few others, while the sun shines its light on all. You have desired the spotlight. You have desired even a few moments under the bright lights. And then what do you have but blurred vision for a while? You don’t even have a tan to show for it. All you have is a minor memory of what is called your day in the sun, but which was really your day under the stage lights.

You are, indeed, a great actor. Now I request that you be a Great Human Being who looks beyond himself and perhaps looks to brighten the world and shine light on others. It is hot under the spotlight, and the light is artificial. Let’s introduce the sun that shines for all alike.

You are a star of the firmament. Is that not enough?

The Great Ones were not seeking fame. Had they been seeking fame, they would not have been Great Ones. The Great Ones were not looking to be in the limelight.

They would have just as soon not been in the limelight. They would have preferred to be offstage as they introduced you to the true sun that lights the way to Heaven and sings a prelude, sings an overture, and shows you yourself. The Great Ones did not seek anything but to shine My light so that you might see. The Great Ones wanted you to have more than an inkling of the magnificence of who you truly are, truly are, truly are without subterfuge, without aggrandizement.

They wanted you to look into the mirror of yourself, and say, “This I am, God’s Divine creature created for the glory of all.”