Green Pastures

Heavenletter #3267 Published on: November 4, 2009

God said:

What is going on with you today? What perplexes you? What soothes you? What made you decide that you needed soothing?

Who slighted you today, and why does a slight matter so much to you that you must aggravate over it?

Someone was selfish today. He put his selfishness over your selfishness. He took away your chance to be selfish. Your selfishness was undercut. Why do you give this a second thought?

What exactly is the matter that you are so sure it needs to be fixed? Beloveds, it is not for you to make the world a-right.

Be a teacher who finds that which to welcome in her students. Be a teacher who does not look for the children's inadequacies. He looks for that which to love, and, if not to love, to like. He looks to build the child and not take him down a peg or two.

Just as you are My child, consider the world as your child and help it to grow. Pointing out the world's errors emphasizes its errors. Pointing out its benefits helps the world to swell in joy. Give the world some joy.

And to the person who slighted you, perhaps he needed to put himself first more than you needed to. Is that to be grumpy about? Be glad that you got along without your selfishness being paramount. Be glad that your need to be first was less than his. Is that not cause for celebration?

And if you were unable to celebrate at the moment, the moment has passed, and now why would you have someone else's thoughtlessness impact on your mood and life now? Why would you carry the thought around with you, even carry mental conversations around in which you set the other person straight. You carry on an imaginary conversation where you make sure the other person knows he wasn't nice to you, that he wasn't considerate of you at all.

Beloveds, let Me tell you once and for all, it is not for you to educate others to their failings. What commandment is that?

Instead of carrying even a twinge of hurt about what someone did or did not, said or didn't, have a thought about Me. Isn't that better? Look how your aura changes. Do you feel it? How simple and easy is a thought about Me. Fill the air with thoughts of Me and step out of the grievance stage.

Now, someone might say: "But, look, God is berating you now, isn't He? Isn't He pointing out the error of your ways? Isn't He correcting you now?"

Then you could answer, "Why, yes, but see how God does it. God is loving Me. When I want to set another person straight, my motive is not love. My feeling is not love. My intention is not love. God is coming from love, and I am coming from perturbation. My motive is to rid myself of my perturbation. God is not perturbed. Not in the slightest. Somehow God has a way of telling me what's what, and I am glad. God does not beat me up. He does not shake His finger at me. He points to My happiness and would take away my belaboring someone's error. God is putting His love on me the way a mother puts a hat on her child."

You could further answer, "Why, God is talking to me the way a mother talks to her child the first day she sends her child off to school. 'Be nice to the other children,' she says. 'Don't fight with the other children. And when you come home from school, I will have a warm cup of cocoa ready for you.'"

Am I not like that? And do you not feel better now, having been lead to green pastures?

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Some thoughts

On November 4th, 2009 Chuck Gebh... says:

Some ramblings about certain passages in this letter.

“Be a teacher who finds that which to welcome in her students. Be a teacher who does not look for the children's inadequacies. He looks for that which to love, and, if not to love, to like.” Isn’t this a wonderful guide to all our relationships and interactions? Look for the good, ignore or don’t even see the unpleasant. Emphasize and support the loving and the positive and the constructive.

“He looks to build the child and not take him down a peg or two.” We can look to build, strengthen, reinforce, support, stimulate and reassure. And here is the promised natural result: “Pointing out its benefits helps the world to swell in joy.”

“Instead of carrying even a twinge of hurt about what someone did or did not, said or didn't, have a thought about Me. Isn't that better? Look how your aura changes. Do you feel it?” Think about feeling auras. Isn’t this an enormously powerful thought? Don’t we usually ignore the feeling of the aura that surrounds people? Yet doesn’t everyone have such an aura, and can’t we learn to feel it more clearly? Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems a skill we need to re-learn and re-acquaint ourselves with.

Just some thoughts…..Chuck

Feeling auras.

On November 4th, 2009 Normand Bo... says:

You're so right Chuck. Train our inner eye to see beyond appearances, not only the physical, but the emotional and the mental ones. Imperfections are just appearances and appearances are only absences to be filled with Light. Then seeing will become loving.

You know, Normand, until you

On November 4th, 2009 Gloria Wen... says:

You know, Normand, until you and Chuck commented on auras, I seem to have been surprised -- astonished really -- that God spoke about auras! Seems a little esoteric for God! :) I must read Heavenletters more carefully!

Do we train our ability to see beyond appearances? Or do we simply have the intention and desire to see God in everyone, and that's how it happens? I wonder if we even have to have the desire and intention. Won't it all happen naturally anyway?

I'm wondering if seeing beyond surface appearances isn't the same as not judging. Hmm.

Jochen, what Heavenletter do you find that addresses this?

There are 23 Heavenletters

On November 4th, 2009 Jochen (not verified) says:

There are 23 Heavenletters that have "aura", Señora, mostly used as synonymous with "God's light" and "love".

I don't know how to search for Heavenletters that specifically address this. But my very personal and subjective impression is that the idea of "training" is alien to Heavenletters, at least in the sense of habituating ourselves to something that is not, or not quite, natural for us. What I hear is: Believe in the desires that bubble up from deep within, and you are right in the middle of the path that leads to where you want to be. There is nothing to learn for you. Getting out of your own way is not a skill. You "make" it happen by desiring it, by leaning there.

Or much shorter: To my mind and heart, what you say in your second paragraph is precisely right.

trying and training

On November 4th, 2009 Emilia says:

What about "trying" not to judge, isn't "trying" a sort of "training"? It is not natural for men being non judgemental, we have to "try" to be aware of our judging and "try" to understand and transcend that attitude and one day, maybe, it will become natural to accept everything as it is. Are there Heavenletters where God uses that verb "to try"? Of course the "trying" comes from the desire to become what we want to be. I conclude that it is better to catch the general meaning than to focus on single words.

I believe you are touching

On November 4th, 2009 Jochen (not verified) says:

I believe you are touching something very important here, Emilia. In Your phrase "It is not natural for men being non judgemental", what if we replaced "natural" with "normal"? What if being nonjudgmental is our nature after all? In that case, we would "only" need to remember it, no trying, no training necessary. Could our proclivity for trying and training be an expression of our lack of trust in our own nature? Of our unwillingness to believe in its basic goodness so often averred by God?

I ran a search for "training" and want to share two of the results I found particularly nourishing:

Behold the Garden
Heavenletter #2283 Published on: February 24, 2007

God said:
See as I see. Speak as I speak. You are in training for this. As you meander through the halls of life, consider how I would look at this, and how I would look at that. Consider what I would say at this juncture and that. You are seeing for Me. You are speaking for Me. You are breathing for Me. You are alive for Me. You are the journeyer I have sent out to send Me postcards.

For All to Hear
Heavenletter #2365 Published on: May 17, 2007

[...]

...I do believe that you have already chosen to come to Me, only now you imagine you are a little adrift. You feel like a hitchhiker when there are no cars in sight.

Of course, you need no transportation to Me, you who are already in My heart. You just think you have to do something. You just think there is a journey to Me, and that it is arduous, as if you need training for it. All you have to do is to approach. I will do the rest.

Yes, Jochen, our True

On November 4th, 2009 Emilia says:

Yes, Jochen, our True Nature, which is Divine, is nonjudgemental because it knows everything and fears nothing. We should only remember Who we are and everything would fall into place naturally. That could happen suddenly and unexpected, but, for what I know, there must be first a change of perception, from an ego based thinking to a soul based knowing. I think God in Heavenletters is gently changing our habits of thinking and of seeing at ourselsves and at the world, He is "habituating" us to think differently and higher, according to our true identity. If training is habituating ourselves to do something not natural for the ego and the mind, then we are in training. Of course we believe to be in training as far as we believe to be our ego.
Words can be tricky, but talking is amusing!

Yes, Jochen, our True

On November 4th, 2009 Emilia says:

Isn't that better?

On November 5th, 2009 theophil says:

Dear friends,

I read this paragraph differently.
The sentences make my life simpler and easier, not more complicated and more elaborately.
The jumping-off point is "Have a thought about Me", instead of carrying a hurt about what someone (God and myself included) did or did not, said or didn't say.
The matter of aura is behind "Have a thought about Me", which is the main point.

Of course, we can discuss what aura is - in doing this, do we remember that this item is discussed since about 3000 years? Is it, that we, when we discuss aura definitions, stay on the grievance stage? Were the disputants of several hundreds of years a bar to themselves?

God says - you will see changes in your aura, when you have a thought about Me. We will "become" seers.

When we are in a crowd, God says, it is not about observing the crowd, or observing myself as to what I can possibly see while looking at the crowd. It is about: Have a thought about Me, when you are together with other people - when you like to see more - when you like to observe so-called other people - when you like to see art - when you go out - when you feel that who and what you are now while observing the crowd is not who and what you really are or who you want to be - when you choose to be more than you perceive now - when the crowd offers you a chance to see more.

It is about Me,

be blessed,
Theophil

Beloved Theophil, you turned

On November 5th, 2009 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Theophil, you turned my attention back to God, and I am grateful.

Oh Theophil, thanks, many

On November 5th, 2009 pitta says:

Oh Theophil, thanks, many many thanks! What beautiful words, from your heart, the really sense I did.
Have a thought about Me, yes.
Blessings
pitta

Dear Gloria, I am not a

On November 4th, 2009 Normand Bo... says:

Dear Gloria, I am not a "psychic" and I cannot see or decode auras. What I think is that when we "analyze or evaluate" people, we certainly do not "vibrate". Tonight I was in a crowd at a Performing Art Festival opening. Observing the crowd, I said to myself: «How can I possibly see God in all those people?». So I thought there must be some kind of training. Or at least, on a one to one relation basis, even a conflictual one, we can change our sight to see what unites us rather than what separates us (this is certainly the same as not judging). And this create a vibration because it has to come from the heart, not from the mind. I imagine that Vibration as a frequency may express itself (or not) as light (aura?) to be perceived by a keen eye (which I don't have). I wonder then if this can happen naturally or is it an art or a science? God should give us a 101 crash course in the matter.

am always love you

On November 4th, 2009 carmen (not verified) says:

dear God,
thank of your words,
your words like a bread for me evry
morneng am wake up from the bed,
my thought you are like a meror for me,
just like i can see you in my eyes smil on me,
and am thankful you are not gone in my thought,
am so glade you always in my heart and my mind
and am always love you,,

More about "auras"

On November 4th, 2009 Chuck Gebh... says:

I never would have anticipated the interesting reactions people have had to the word “aura.” I wrote my comment last night, and this morning it occurred to me, before I read the comments above, that what I wrote might be misleading. It occurred to me that we now usually use the word aura to mean a color or glow that is supposed to surround people and which signals their level of vibration. Recently, the word is used a lot concerning the experience of people reported to be “psychic.” I don’t think this is the meaning of the use of aura in this letter, nor is it the meaning I intended.

There is a different meaning of the word that preceded this more recent usage. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary gives its first definition of aura as: “A subtle sensory stimulus surrounding a given source.” To me, the stimulus is often a feeling. I think we all are aware of this feeling. As I describe my some of my experiences of it, perhaps you will agree. I remember times I have walked into a home and felt peace and contentment in the air, even before the occupants appeared. At other times, I have walked into a room where tension was so thick it felt like you could cut it with a knife. Invariably, there was conflict and enmity present in this room that seemed to hang in the air. Alternatively, have you ever heard someone saying something that created a strong impression of discordance about them, only later to discover they were misrepresenting what they really felt or what they knew to be true? I think we tend to misinterpret these kinds of experiences, ascribing them to our responding to subtle physical clues rather than what may be actually happening: an intuitive responding that transcends the physical.

If I am right that we do have intuitive responses to auras that surround people, I suspect we often either ignore this input or the physical cues tend to distract us from paying attention to them. If this thesis is correct, it is just a matter of re-directing our focus to begin to get into the awareness of this natural source of information. Changing our habitual focus may take some effort, but I wouldn’t call it training.

Either way you look at it, though, auras are a fascinating topic.

Wishing love, peace and fulfillment to all…….Chuck

More, more about auras

On November 5th, 2009 Normand Bo... says:

Without uselessly pushing lengthy discussions about auras, the word "aura" comes from latin and greek which basically means "air" in the general sense of to 'blow and to raise' ("aerial, aero- but also artery, meteor, etc.). Let's simplify by saying that aura is a sort of invisible breath, emanation, or radiation and by extension a distinctive but intangible quality that seems to surround a person or thing.
It is known scientifically that objects and of course, persons, emit radiations in the atmosphere ("a sphere of vapor"). What is sure is that the phenomenon can only be generated by a vibrating source (and everything vibrates in the Universe). Vibrations can be "coded and decoded" in the electromagnetic spectrum.

So Chuck, I think you are right in approaching the aura phenomenon in terms of ambiant atmosphere, something intangible that "perspire" from people and surrounding objects. I also think, after Gloria's interrogation and Jochen efficient research that God really means to use aura in that perspective. (Just try to re-read the passages that Jochen has extracted for us). And of course, the "quality" of the vibrations emitted will have a direct impact on the quality of the atmosphere.

And finally, to had a "finishing touch" to that dialectical exchange on "to train or not to train", I would refer to what musicians and acrobats have to go through to access to that simplicity, easiness they show when they master their art. It looks so simple, so natural, effortless. And that is what is meant to be. The training resides in "deconstructing", releasing built-up resistances acquired through education, beliefs, fears and over all basic human conditioning.

When we walk to God, we already have achieved this deconstruction. Our training is to make the first step, which is to really desire to make it. And this goes much, much deeper than it appears at first glance.

Everything in this perceived

On November 5th, 2009 Jochen (not verified) says:

Everything in this perceived 3D world has to be acquired through hard work or training, through some sort of doing. Some of us are aware of the fact that there is more to even this 3D world than meets the eye, and some of that more is called aura and lumped together with lots of other things as "information" as if the color of a kingfisher's head when it breaks through the water's surface was just an electromagnetic phenomenon. And God says that He has given us and is giving us everything, everything, every single moment – not like a piano we then have to learn how to play but like a piano plus the music plus the playing. How strange we simply refuse to believe that. We so long to receive, to be given, yet not for one moment do we stop in our physical, mental and spiritual treadmills to take a closer look at what's in God's vendor's tray. Yes, it's there in my own heart, this not believing in a creation where everything is given. No, I prefer working for it. How disappointed I must be! How disappointed we all must be that we insist on working, on training, on pleasing, on doing things right instead of taking from our Father's table as a child of God is entitled to do. Thank God that is ending now. We will simply start entertaining the possibility that everything is already granted and given, and through that alone we will start seeing that it is actually the case.

2 Heavenletter Haikus for

On November 6th, 2009 Alohalight... says:

2 Heavenletter Haikus for you

Hello Friends,

God said feel better
Fiil the air with thoughts of Me
How easy is that

God said Beloveds
Look how your aura changes
Coming from My love

Love, Light and Aloha!

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