Whatever you may long for, you are longing for more meaning in your life.
Whatever the name of what your longing calls you to, your real longing is for love, more love.
Whether it is a new car you crave, a new home, a new dress, a new dress size, the love of your life, children, health, wealth, happiness, it is all search for love, for the sustenance of love, for proof that you are one who is loved, and loved more than you used to be and even yesterday. It is as if you feel you must accrue love, for somehow love has been lacking. Somehow the love given you has been anemic, scanty, too sparse, insufficient, lacking. You are a Being who must know love. You are looking for evidence in the world that you are, indeed, loved and, indeed, worthy of love, and capable of love.
The world could send you centurions. It could send you a thousand balloons. It could throw wreaths upon you and bouquets beyond measure. The world could kneel at your feet and put you on the cover of magazines. It could anoint you the most favored in the world, and still it would not be enough for that yearning ribbon within you -- this streak of yearning within you knows that all the plaudits of the world are not enough for you, and, no matter how much proof you are given, you are not convinced nor satisfied.
All My words that repeat how loved you are, how dear and essential to Me you are, how blessed you are, that you are My One and Only still leave you wanting. It must be that you do not believe nor accept. I think you do not quite hear Me, beloveds.
Or your ears hear Me, yet the depth and extent of the wholeness of My love for you does not penetrate through your thick skull, beloveds. You may even say to yourself, “God loves me. He loves me, me right here. He loves me.” But you say it more as an affirmation, a wish that perhaps if you repeat it enough, it might come true. The thing is: It is already true. It was never untrue.
Ridges in your heart have to fall down so that your heart can feel the rushing flood of My love. Obedient to your listless mind, your heart keeps backing down. Your mind puts little floodgates in your heart in an attempt to have love start and stop, for you want to measure love’s flowing into your heart.
Beloved, all My love is already in your heart. Without My love in your heart, you would not be alive on Earth. Do you really imagine otherwise? Think of what it would mean to you and the world if you could but recognize that all the love in the Universe and beyond bides in your heart. This love awaits your recognition. It cannot come from the outside, beloveds. The best the world offers is still too little.
All love resides within you. Love from the outside is no more than a snap of the fingers. It is for a brief moment. It cannot stay. The best it can do is to point to a piece of your heart and stir it.
You know by now that the way for you to drink deeply of this love that is already yours is to give it away. It is My love filling your heart, and all you have to do to fill your heart to overflowing is to give it away. The more you crave love now, the more you are beholden to give it away. And if there is no one you feel right now that you can give your love to, then try giving it back to Me, and see what happens.