Remember often what you are here on Earth for. You must know by now that you are not here for your body. You are not here for possessions. You are not here for wrangling. You are not here to compete. You are not here to win arguments. You are not here to get A's in tests any more than you are here to flunk tests. You are not here to be on best behavior or worst behavior.
You are simply here for your joy and for the joy of others, which is another way of saying that you are here for Me. I am at the top of your list. In fact, there is no list. I am the Whole Story.
Joy is paramount, yet it is not a pursuit. It is a result, beloveds. You are here for Me. You are here on Earth on My behalf. This means that you are here to learn to accept the love that emanates from Me and to learn how to give it all over the place. Pure and simple.
You may have sometimes thought that you are here to protect yourself and to avoid conflagrations. To avoid anything is not the same as creating harmony. You want true harmony, not only an appearance. Whatever obstructions may exist in your heart, they have to go. Love is not happy just to float on the surface. Love wants to fill your heart all the way. Love wants to blaze a trail of you across the Universe.
Sometimes you feel you have arrived, and then, alas, sometimes you feel far from love, and yet I am so bold as to tell you right to your face that you possess all the love that I do. Because My love stationed within you may not be available at a given moment does not mean that you don't have it.
The thing in life that makes it hard for you is that the ground rules seem to keep changing. True harmony seems to exist one moment, and then the next it's gone, and you don't know how or where. In terms of the relative world, you live on slippery ground. Your house is jerry-built.
And yet, underneath it all, is a magnificent beautiful foundation. This foundation is never shaken. It remains true. And it remains true within you. Even in the middle of an earthquake, your foundation cannot be shaken. That which is called God is your foundation, and I have been planted within you. I am within you. You are the carrier of Heaven and all that Heaven entails.
Your body can quiver, yet the God in you is unshakeable. Whatever you may feel, nothing can shake the Truth of you. Nothing can wound it. Nothing can exile it. No matter what you — the you you imagine you are — may go through, the God in you is impervious to it. Therefore, you are impervious. Nothing in the extant world can make a dent in you. Your body can be hurt, your feelings can be hurt, you can experience loss, and your body can die, yet you are never ever vanquished. You are eternal. You are not here and gone tomorrow. Body, yes. You, no.
You are never ever without Me. You are never ever away from Me even for a moment. What you may think and what Reality is may be two different things, for your thoughts are fickle, and Reality is staunch. Beloveds, you are Myself on Earth. You are Me and nothing but Me. You are, of course, a marvel at disguise. You fool everyone. You fool yourself. And yet there is the Knower within you Who is never fooled.