Often, what is easiest is best. Yet not always.

It is easier to reach for the candy than it is to cook a meal. It is easier to stay sitting in a chair than it is to get up. And so on.

I would like you to take life easy, yet I am not saying that making life easy has to mean taking the line of least resistance. Easy and line of least resistance are not always the same. Sometimes taking the line of least resistance creates more snags than it erases.

But harder is not always best, not by a long shot. I have noticed, My beloveds, that you have often chosen the hard way. Perhaps only later do you see you chose the hard way, and maybe not even then do you see. What I am saying is that sometimes you make your life harder than it needs to be. Harder doesn't mean more virtuous. Perhaps you have thought so. Harder may mean nothing more than harder.

It is better perhaps to get away from thinking life is either easy or hard. Let Us not speak then of easy or hard but rather of lovely. Let's make life lovely for you and for others. Let's consider you of royal lineage, which you are, and others of royal lineage, which they are, and create a world of such loveliness that no one would want to be anywhere else, not even if you gave them free tickets.

It may be easier for you to see how you can make life a little more gentle for others than it is for you to see what you can do for yourself. So let's start with others then. Let's smooth the path for others to walk on, and you can walk on it too.

There are areas in your life that you cannot take hold of and change, even though there are exceptions there too. You cannot change the date of your birth or whom you were born to. You cannot change your height or the color of your eyes. What you can change is how you feel about these characteristics. Beloveds, why should you care about them anyway? Caring about them can only nail you to the past, as if the past stands beside you or even in front of you. The past stands nowhere. The present stands everywhere.

Today get up and out of your chair, and do something lovely for someone. Think of someone or many that you can give a little service to that will give them happiness. Maybe offer your seat to them. Maybe smile. Maybe pick them a flower or pinch their cheek. Give the world some delight, beloveds. Surprise the world. You may surprise yourself. You like a good surprise now and then.

Consider that today the world has been presented in black and white, and it is now for you to color it in. It is now for you to illuminate the world. It is now for you to enhance it. It is now for you to light up the world so that it is seen, really seen, in My light, beloveds, in My light.

If you have to choose between polishing your shoes or the world, polish the world.

If you have to choose between putting lip gloss on you or the world, apply gloss to the world. Make it brighter and rosier.

If you have to choose between applying a blond cast to your hair or to the world, make the world golden and never mind your hair.

You are here for the world, beloveds.