You seek joy. Of course, you do. You seek joy, and you seek importance. You seek meaning. You want to be fun-loving and meaningful, and you want your life to be fun and meaningful. And, yet, so often, too often, the joy and meaning you want elude you.

You run after joy and don't find so much of it. You chase meaning, and often are disappointed.

The meaning is life. Life is the meaning, and the meaning is love. Seek to know love. Let that be your importance. You are a seeker of love. Rather, set your meter for giving love. Let out all the love in your heart, and you will know joy, and you will know the meaning of life. You and I are the meaning. We are the meaning and the joy.

I am within you. All the meaning and joy and love are within you. What you find outside of you is what is inside you. You are a mighty crater filled with meaning and filled with joy. You will know much more when ego gets out of the way. Ego requires having to have. Love requires having to give for the joy it perpetuates.

Ego is needy, and so it plays on your perceived neediness. Ego puffs you up for a while. You don't require being pumped up. You do not need a special delivery package. You need to be the sender. Ego is like an advertisement in the mail. All advertisements sound good, sound beneficial, sound imperative. Advertisements convince you that you must have whatever it may be that they want you to buy. All you really need is you and Me, the two of us as One, as you explore life and all the surprises it will bring.

You can be certain of surprise. You can be certain of Me, and you can be certain of you, yet not always in the sense of the actualizations you would wish. You have a sure thing in Our Oneness, yet you would like to be surprised only in the ways you would like to be surprised. Surprise parties aren't what you always want. You want guaranteed surprises, signed on the dotted line.

Meanwhile, life is made of surprises, ones you like, and ones you don't like. In any case, you can be sure that life holds surprises for you. There is not a lifetime without all kinds of surprises, some you welcome, and some you do not.

Start bending your surprise quota, beloveds. Exercise. Become flexible. Look at your surprise muscles grow! Why, you will take everything in your stride. Whatever life requires of you, you bend down to pick it up or you rise to reach it. Consider life a tree you pick fruit from. In life on Earth, even an apple tree can bear a pear or an apricot or a hickory nut. Not always what you had thought.

This Heavenletter today is a lesson in exercising the dance of life, doing all the steps with great alacrity. Look at the legs of your life leap. See the rhythm of your arms. See your waist bend. See your hair bounce. You are a dancer in life, and now you sing life's songs, and your voice is beautiful.

No longer do you practice lament. Your lamenting days are over. Your dancing body is so flexible, there is no resistance, no stiffness. And so, with your voice, your voice hits the high notes. You are meant for the high notes of life. I speak of you, yet never forget that you means We.