Let Yourself Be

God said:

I would like it if you did not find so many faults in yourself. You do not have to be faultless, nor do you have to be faultful. Desires are good, and it’s good to want to attain. At the same time, let yourself be imperfect. Otherwise, you are running an uphill race.

In terms of the relative world, odds are you will never have the perfect figure, the perfect house, the perfect husband, the perfect wife, perfect children. Isn’t that all right? Why struggle so much when you don’t have them? You may not be content, but must you be discontent? You may not be satisfied with everything as it is, but must you be dissatisfied? If everything is not perfect, does that mean everything is terrible? Can you not be okay?

There is a quality called equanimity. In equanimity you are balanced even when you experience extremes. May you seek and move forward, and yet not pick at yourself.

When you were six, you wanted to be seven. You always wanted to move on. Meanwhile, you didn’t chastise yourself because you were six. It was a reasonable desire that you be seven, and yet you did not berate yourself for being only six.

Sometimes you are very difficult to please about yourself. You will not be pleased. Either you sleep too much or not enough. Either you are too firm on your own ideas or you are too influenced by others. One time you are too stingy and another time too lavish. Do you know what I mean when I say you are hard to please?

It is as if you will not be pleased with yourself no matter what. This is what I mean when I say to let yourself be imperfect then. Better to be imperfect than a slave to perfection.

Everyone has areas that they are better at than other areas and other people. Some people are immaculate and some are messy. Be immaculate or be messy. Please love yourself just the same.

You may not be good at higher mathematics, and you have come to terms with that. Math is not on your list of things you have to improve. You have learned to live with it, not in defeat but by not focusing on it, by letting it go. Sometimes it seems that you probe and test yourself on other things more than is tolerable.

If you are tall, you accept it. If you are short, you accept it. You don’t harangue yourself about your height. But you do harangue yourself about any number of things. Are they really so bad? Are they really worth your energy?

Is it possible you could just be happy with yourself?

That doesn’t mean you stop living and growing. It just means it’s okay to be the live person you are as you are today. It just means you don’t whip yourself daily for not being more. You will be more tomorrow, yet meanwhile this is today.

Pat yourself on the shoulder once in a while.

It’s okay you didn’t make the perfect pie. It’s okay you did or didn’t do something today, whatever it is. The world will go on. Will you kindly remember that you are God’s beloved and give yourself some slack? Otherwise, you will always be tense. Fault yourself for being tense, and let go of all that makes you tense.

You have been picking at yourself, and, really, you are okay. So what if your hair is limp today? So what if you didn’t do everything you meant to? Please, for My sake, love yourself a little.

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Hello Friends,

God said for My sake
Please love yourself just the same
Give youself some slack

Love, Light and Aloha!

LOVE YOURSELF THE WAY YOU

LOVE YOURSELF THE WAY YOU ARE....
wauw..yes its true we haunt ourselfs being perfect!!!! It is a big releave to know we can let down our shoulders a little and not trying so hard to carry the whole world around our neck....
Lets be inperfect AND happy the way we are! Love Iris

so True...real advice that

so True...real advice that doesn't add any vice...very, very nice...mike

"Will you kindly remember

"Will you kindly remember that you are God's beloved and give yourself some slack?"

Great line..can't wait to use it. Thank you God!

Today's Heavenletter with

Today's Heavenletter with its focus on self acceptance and not finding fault with
ourselves, really has helped me on a day when I was really down on myself.
I asked for Inner guidance to help me and found comfort and guidance in today's
Heavenletter. Thank you from my heart. Bernie

I'm so glad. Thank you, dear

I'm so glad. Thank you, dear Bernie.

Post often, will you?

A wonderful Heavenletter

A wonderful Heavenletter !!!!!

Will you kindly remember that you are God’s beloved and give yourself some slack?

Many many thanks - it is such a wonderful feeling reading these sweetes words of God !

Love
Berit

Dear Angels, Whoever you are

Dear Angels,

Whoever you are behind the heaven's letter desk ,I would like to thanks you all for keep sending me heaven's letter that encourage me to live my life as it is.

Blessing and regards

hfrd_2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com

Beloved Friend, thank you

Beloved Friend, thank you for giving us the opportunity to thank you. It's very dear what you wrote.

First there is God. He is behind all this. He gives us the heart and the energy to share His words and His love.

The other cast of characters are Annette who archives all the Heavenletters. She is doing a beautiful job, keeping them for posterity.

Then there is Heaven Admin (Santhan) who provides this forum, the Godwriting blog, the server, the sending out of Heavenletters, everything you can imagine and more.

There are all the beautiful translators in so many beautiful languages who, from the goodness of their hearts, translate Heavenletters.

There are the readers of Heavenletters like yourself. By virtue of your reading, you spread the high vibration of Heavenletters. New Heavenreaders come here because you bring them. The Heavenreaders are of the essence.

There are many newsletters and e-zines who also publish Heavenletters and help to spread them through the world.

I am privileged to receive God's words and share them, to give Godwriting workshops. I am so fortunate.

And, yet, it is all God, dear Hussein.

Am I correct that you are from Indonesia?

Will you kindly tell us more about yourself, dear one?

really, you are okay

Please, for My sake, love yourself a little.

If I felt okay, what would not be okay in my life, who would not?

Not a single thing or person in all the universe would be less than absolutely perfect if I felt okay, not even a painful death. Feeling okay myself, all is and are okay for me, how could it be otherwise? Okayness is lacking without to the the exact extent it is lacking within. Yes, external loveliness also is the exact measure of internal loveliness, thank goodness. But, You see, once it becomes clear that all the endless, thousandfold, invincible not-okayness out there is 100% projection, I cannot help trembling a little more than a little. Is that how hostile I am to myself? There is no doubt it is.

So much more work to do. And I'm tired. Sorry for leaving all the trouble to You.

Hi Jochen....

Jochen...you said at the end:

"...You see, once it becomes clear that all the endless, thousandfold, invincible not-okayness out there is 100% projection, I cannot help trembling a little more than a little. Is that how hostile I am to myself? There is no doubt it is.

This may be so Jochen...and yet contained in these words...your words...is an inescapable solution:

Because it is not what is really out there in the world...or even our thoughts from our inner world that matter so much. It is how we respond to them. So...Contained in this huge "not-okayness projection" is an invitation....to view all of this not-okayness...as okay! Does that make sense? Again...we are not condoning it...but...we can make internal peace with all of this "not okayness". As we do this again and again and again...our attitude about the "not-okayness" sofens...And eventually...we project less aand less not-okayness into the world and more okayness.

Another way of sayingall of this is to embrace all of our moments throughout our day...regardless of the content. e.g.: If a little precious child of ours came up to us and told us all kinds of tall, fanciful tales...even horrific ones...would we not still love our child...and embrace our child.

This is an invitation to treat all of life like our small innocent, precious child...that is maybe seeking a little attention...and underneath that...some love.

Many blessings and much love to all, Jim and Jimi.

"...So much more work to do. And I'm tired. Sorry for leaving all the trouble to You"

My sense is that our trouble...what we consider to be trouble...is not even seen by the Divine.

Jim, I think what you are

Jim, I think what you are saying is true. Like Heavenletters; like, for instance, today's HL #3490.

I have written quite a lot in response to your loving words, only to find that my own writing isn't resonating with me, so I deleted everything.

There can be times when you are thoroughly tired of true things, all the true things you felt so enthusiastic about. This is one of those times, a time of awfully true things that simply won't come to life for you.

any idea?

The same, Jochen, I am tired of "true things". I feel my (dis)learning process is to an end, but I am still caught in "reality" and I also know it is all right. So now I am pondering what to do. Since there is no right or wrong I try at least to be original. Maybe I will lock myself in a room until new news.

Well, my idea for you would

Well, my idea for you would be to at least ensure a functional internet connection.

Myself, I would much rather be everywhere than nowhere. But if the first choice can't be had, after some time the second one seems good enough.

God said: "Ride it out." There is going to be another tide lifting us off our sandbank. Be ready.