Making Music for God

God said:

Beloveds, I hear you. I hear you say:

“Dear God, what a God You are. You don’t despair. You don’t lock any doors. You unlock the doors within me that I lock to myself.

“I put myself into a trance as if the Meaning of Life can only be temporary. The temporary may be likened to a coat of many colors that I cover my soul with. I make this coat all-important, as if I have no say about it when the actuality is that I have all the say in the world about it. I hold this coat to me and wrap it around me as if it were Life itself.

“I am indeed wrapped up in the surface of Life, as if this surface is all that there is. I cover myself up from Reality. I hide myself away in a pocket. I look not into the Mirror of Myself. I fritter my Life away.

“Of course, You would say that I uphold fiction with my every breath. I wrest fiction from the world and call it my own.

“Does this mean I carry a false self that I reveal to the world even as I try to cover up the falseness of me with various ruses? When I look into a little mirror of myself, I must see an illustration of myself, even a cartoon of myself. I would like to look at myself in a clear mirror and see my reflection as You, God, do see me.

“Sometimes I don’t feel that I exist. I just hang out here in Life, refusing to get on with it. I persist in the illusion that I am a mere hollow tube when I am to be a flute for You, God.

“I would love to make Music for You, God. You say I can, yet, really, how can I possibly contain such wondrousness as You suggest? I would take off my old wrappings if I could. I would stand before You as You. I cannot presume, for presuming strikes me as arrogance supreme.”

Now I, God, say:

To let go of your wrappings is Great Humility. Was Christ arrogant? Were all the Spiritual Great Ones arrogant? No, they were the Essence of Humility. They spoke of Me in Gladness. They carried My Brilliance.

I speak matter-of-factly: The Brilliance of God is also yours. When you are remarkable in My Light, you don’t have to personalize it nor dance around it. When Light shines, Light shines.

The Bright Yellow Sun does not remark about his prowess. The Bright Yellow Sun simply shines and serves the whole world. He sustains it. The Sun does not regard his Bright Light as if he owns it. It is simply for him to shine. He shines Himself in service to Me and also in service to you, for the Sun knows not of separation.

You, on the other hand, have beheld separation. This is immodest arrogance. Shine in simple service to All That Is. It is arrogance to declare that you are suffering. Your arrogance does a song and dance. You cry Wolf.

Restart yourself. Distinguish responsibility from blame. Blame comes from adhering to the past. Responsibility is right now.

Look not for cause, for cause leads to fault.

Expand your horizons. You have a heart to soar with. Keep your eye on Me. It is not new that your attention on Me is for you and not for Me. Come, know Me for your sake. Look at Me, for the Grace of this Great Universe is greater than you perceive it. You have suffered foolishness very well. Accept wisdom now. Let go of withdrawal from the Fullness of Life.

Step up right now to claim your Self as the Son or Daughter of God. This is your right. This is the seat I offer you, and that you are to accept. No longer demure about what I hold for you. Anything less than your Full Acceptance of the Fullness of Life is false modesty. Be true to yourself and true to Me. Reach higher. Appear before Me. I have been waiting for you. Come now.

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arrogance

I have always wondered why God would use a word like "arrogance". I still don't get it. How can this be explained?

Dear Rover, would you

Dear Rover, would you clarify your question more? Why do you wonder why God would use it? Please say more.

Looking forward to your response. You are entitled to your question. I would love to know what you mean, dear one.

Dear Gloria, I have searched

Dear Gloria, I have searched several dictionaries and thesauruses for a meaning of "arrogance" that is not a put-down, finding none. When we humans use the word, it usually is critical and judgmental, and there is no way someone will respond favorably to it. Okay, after initial rejection and given enough time to reflect, we may eventually get a sense of why someone called us arrogant and we may even (at least secretly) concede it's not altogether wrong. Usually, though, calling someone arrogant does not have an encouraging effect but only boosts resistance. Secondly, arrogance seems to imply a certain intentionality or even willfulness, and I'm simply unable to see how this applies to "beholding separation" and "declaring suffering." Both may be objectively wrong and there is no doubt that arrogance comes from seeing separation, but in itself, seeing separation is not arrogant, just a terrible hereditary error.

So I thought that when God uses the word, there must be some other meaning to it, something constructive and elevating. That was my question. Thank you.

At first in this

At first in this Heavenletter it is the generic you who speaks and says:

“I would love to make Music for You, God. You say I can, yet, really, how can I possibly contain such wondrousness as You suggest? I would take off my old wrappings if I could. I would stand before You as You. I cannot presume, for presuming strikes me as arrogance supreme.”

The questioner here means to be humble. Is humility the antonym to arrogance? The questioner feels that he would be arrogant, even rude, to say that he himself is equal to God.

The generic you also poses this:

“To let go of your wrappings is Great Humility. Was Christ arrogant? Were all the Spiritual Great Ones arrogant? No, they were the Essence of Humility. They spoke of Me in Gladness. They carried My Brilliance.”

God's Use of the World Arrogance above:

"The Bright Yellow Sun does not remark about his prowess. The Bright Yellow Sun simply shines and serves the whole world. He sustains it. The Sun does not regard his Bright Light as if he owns it. It is simply for him to shine. He shines Himself in service to Me and also in service to you, for the Sun knows not of separation.

"You, on the other hand, have beheld separation. This is immodest arrogance. Shine in simple service to All That Is. It is arrogance to declare that you are suffering. Your arrogance does a song and dance. You cry Wolf.

"Restart yourself. Distinguish responsibility from blame. Blame comes from adhering to the past. Responsibility is right now.

"Look not for cause, for cause leads to fault.

"Expand your horizons. You have a heart to soar with. Keep your eye on Me. It is not new that your attention on Me is for you and not for Me. Come, know Me for your sake. Look at Me, for the Grace of this Great Universe is greater than you perceive it. You have suffered foolishness very well. Accept wisdom now. Let go of withdrawal from the Fullness of Life.

Step up right now to claim your Self as the Son or Daughter of God. This is your right. This is the seat I offer you, and that you are to accept. No longer demure about what I hold for you. Anything less than your Full Acceptance of the Fullness of Life is false modesty. Be true to yourself and true to Me. Reach higher. Appear before Me. I have been waiting for you. Come now."

Dearest Rover, if instead of the word Arrogance, would you feel better with the word Bold or even Brazen?

I may not altogether get your question. Please pardon me if I am not anywhere near responding to your question.

I agree with you that the word arrogance doesn't have a great connotation. I must confess I have on occasion I have admired arrogance and wished I could be so bold. I guess I just don't see arrogance as nasty!

Now I had people write into me who wrote ub to tell me that I had misused a word, and they were correct. I suppose if they were incorrect, I might label them arrogant. Maybe.

I have, however, also had some people write in to swear at God and call me not nice words. Now I might clearly see them as arrogant in the word's worst sense. I could also see them as misguided and misunderstanding. I could also see them as foolish. I could also bless them and not see them as "bad" guys at all and so on.

God referred to one kind of arrogance as immodest, which also implies to me some kind of modest arrogance.

God also asked: Was Christ arrogant? I took God to mean that He was saying that Christ clearly was not. Of course, there were those who considered Christ as blasphemous and crucified him.

There are different degrees of arrogance and shades of connotations to it. To some arrogance might be a word equal to the negativity of sin. Rover, I think there is a scale.

Thank you for your question. Did I get anywhere near addressing your question, dear one.

Loving you, Gloria

Dear Gloria, let's try to

Dear Gloria, let's try to keep it simple. The God I have come to know and love in and through Heavenletters is an easy and loving one, not a punishing, criticizing and reproaching one. He has Himself said so many times.

For me, arrogance is a word that has no love in it, that's the simple background of my question.

Beloved Rover, for you, the

Beloved Rover, for you, the word arrogance has not love in it. God has love behind every word He says.

Gods isn't spurning us. God isn't punishing us or shipping us off to Purgatory. He isn't coming down hard on us. The God that I have come to know through through His blessings carries no arrogance or resentment whatever. He isn't trying to aggrandize Himself. He isn't trying to lord over us. He simply is saying: "Here's a faster way to Joy."

Of course, dear Rover, we all feel as we feel. There are other ways available to us to feel. We don't have to see only one way. We can let go.

Loving you, Rover

Yes, I guess that's the best

Yes, I guess that's the best explanation possible. (And I'll try not to hear "ignorance" when I read "arrogance".)

Dear dear Rover, I may just

Dear dear Rover, I may just be a troublemaker! What is so bad about being ignorant!

Yesterday we were all more ignorant than we are today. Ignorance is so close to innocence.

Loving you,

Gloria

Very good. That's what I

Very good. That's what I wanted to express. Being called ignorant is so much easier to accept. Nothing bad about it. And close to innocence, yes. Whereas arrogance...

Thank you for your Patience

I step right up and claim my Self as a child of God willing to let all conditions go and I Soar in the Freedom of Love.

And thanks to you,

And thanks to you, Christine, as well!

Making Noise

"I put myself into a trance as if the Meaning of Life can only be temporary."

God just summed up my life in the first clause. Just now, I talked to God personally, something I don't do enough of due to insecurities. It ended in three sentences. Soon afterwards, my sister called, asking me something routine. Minutes afterwards, I open my computer, and was thinking, "Did God send my sister to me today?" I was tired, I thought there was no point in much. Three sentences wouldn't do justice to me. I needed to do something.

Before doing that something, I thought, let's go to heavenletters. I was told to open the community tab by a suggestion in my mind, and look at.."uh, whatever, somewhere from 2nd-6th comment". And by this time, the 2nd-7th comment is from this title, "Making Music for God".

And that first clause just said everything that was there. I put myself in a trance, all the time, and I always asked why it couldn't last. But I guess, it doesn't matter that way. It matters as long as I would believe in myself, and everything else.

Dear Hui,It strikes me that

Dear Hui,

It strikes me that you are a Flute for God. You certainly strike chords for me, dear one! Yes, if we would believe in ourselves -- the world that surrounds us would be NEW. It would be the world we desire. Thank you.

I forgot to ask you, Hui.

I forgot to ask you, Hui. Would you tell us the three sentences you heard from God?

No.

I have memory difficulties, Gloria. After every conversation, I simply forget what God said to me. At best, for five seconds or less, I'll still remember the topic, but it's been more than half a day now. But maybe the three sentences was of encouragement, as I was not feeling mentally well.

Beloved Zhi Hui, with

Beloved Zhi Hui, with Heavenletters, you know, God tells us to let go. Doesn't matter. It's okay.

You have a great attitude, dear friend.

A Heavenletter comes through me when it is written. I read it over many many times after that.. I proof them etc. And yet then later, I have no recollection of the Heavenletter whatsoever. It's like I had never seen it!

When it comes to Heavenletters, my feeling is that their vibrations do remain with us on a deeper more subtle level. God's Words are doing their job! They really do their work on a deeper level.

A thousand blessing, Zhi Hui!

Love, Gloria