Gloria:

Dear Almighty Father, forty-four years ago today my earthly father died. That was a sad day for me, I tell you.

God:

Yes. I know. And that is such a pure example of the pain that joy can bring. You would not have missed out on your father for anything, would you, to be spared the loss?

Gloria:

No. It was worth anything to know my father. I cannot imagine my childhood without him.

God:

The physical body of your earthly father dropped and let his soul soar. The love that is your father's and yours is no less. Love is no less, and has naught to do with physical presence on earth.

Love exists unto itself. Not a drop of love is wasted or lost.

Your suffering comes from demanding, insisting, believing that love has to stay in the same representation, form — stay still.

But love does not stay still. Love stays, but does not stay still.

In this case, Gloria, your love for your father expresses as loss, and that is your pain, and that is your suffering. Love, like anything else on earth, is in process, moves, grows, and, in the case of death, you feel that the love eludes you.

Right now, you feel your father's soul presence, right now, don't you?

Gloria:

Yes!

God:

It is there, and you feel his love for you, strong, eternal, and unbinding.

And your father sees and feels your soul presence, radiant, pure, and he sees not the forlorn weeping body. He sees your light, and what else is worth seeing?

Your father sees your purpose and your fulfillment of it.

Think you not that he feels proud, or rather its heavenly equivalent — joy — that his daughter Glorinka writes the words of your shared Heavenly Father, and promotes Me to the world? The glory of that does not escape your father.

Your father is on to other things now. He is not a butcher and father on earth, waiting in a store for you to come in. He is a worker in Heaven and awaits you here, and you will be fully here before you loose your body and leave it wherever it lies. Both your earthly father and your Heavenly Father await you.

You know that the former physical ties won't matter. They don't matter an ounce. And your souls weigh even less, but they count the more, and they are the truth of you and your love and Mine.

Know that your father has great happiness here, and I know you bless him to it.

I know that you would not have wanted him to stay on earth for your sake alone, is that not so?

Gloria:

Yes.

God:

Had you known what you know now, that your father was ready to leap to Heaven, you would have blessed his journey and encouraged him on his way.

I know you know all this, and still the hole in your heart, the one your daddy filled, hurts powerfully any time you look at it. So let it be.

Weap for your father and rejoice for your father, and rejoice for the blessing of you on earth.

Release your father now. Know his love undiminished, and get on with your work for God Almighty.

Gloria to Mother Divine:

Dear Mother Divine, I sense you wish to tell me something?

Mother Divine:

I want you to know my presence as you mourn for the past of your father. I want you to feel my love and know that I oversee your earthly father as well. He knows my love and that of his Heavenly Father's, and so your father knows more contentment than do you.

Do you think not then that your father is in good hands?

Gloria:

Yes. I know he is.

Mother Divine:

And do you think that you are not?

Gloria:

No. I know I am. I know I am fortunate, and I am so very grateful for you and God. I thank you very much.

Mother Divine:

So then, what is the weeping? What loss has occurred?

Gloria:

Just the illusion of one.

Mother Divine:

Yes. When sorrow envelops you, take it as a reminder to recall God and me, and We will whisk away the sorrow and replace it with peace.

Feel my rosy glow in your heart and feel it swell and heal. Feel my love flowing through you and surrounding you. I give you today a rose of my love. Carry it with you always. This is a forever rose that blooms in your heart now. It is an ever-blooming rose. The warmth of your heart nourishes it as it reminds you of your Heavenly Mother Divine and your Father God.

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 293:
"All fear is past and only love is here … all the world shines in reflection of [present love's] holy light…"

Gloria:

Dear God or Divine Mother, who would like to comment?

God and Mother Divine:

Both. In unison. What have We been telling you but that? Only love is here. Only God's light. Whatever else you see is dropped vision and mistaken.

Holiness is.

Love eternal is.

God. You. One.