Life in the world, as you see it, is a mixed bag.

You could be a saint, and your house or cave could still be over-ridden with ants who bite you.

Did you perhaps think that saints always have it easy? Did you think you are the only one on Earth whose life seems to do a number on you? Do you think everyone else is spared from annoyance and woe except for you?

Life also bestows blessings. It behooves you to accept everything life hands you and not read too much into it and be laid low. Hidden within every what you see as a set-back lies the hand of God, and God gives only blessings no matter what you make of life and what you say about it.

A blessing does not have to be a wish of yours come true. A blessing can also be a hard-time. From what you see as adversity, you may grow amazingly. Some day you may even see the blessing in it.

There is a story about a boy who was lame. The world considered this inability to run as an adversity. Yet the lame boy who couldn’t run away learned to face everything.

I have said this before, and I will undoubtedly say it again. You may see Me up in Heaven where everything is wonderful, and you may see Me as I sit on My mountain-top plotting what well-chosen difficulties I can make for you. Disregard these thoughts. I don’t plot at all. My aim is always directed at more than you. There is a whole configuration of life. I will make no apologies for how something seems to look like to you in your perception of the world. You and I both wish you would immediately see as I do.

Dear Ones, don’t think that I don’t understand how you feel. I understand very well how you feel.

But, look, if anyone of Us is going to have to expand his or her perception, it won't be Me. Did you really think that I have to switch what happens in life? When something that occurs in life that makes you happy, you are ready to accept what you see as My plan and fruitful for you. When something occurs in life that seems punitive to you, naturally you don’t want it and would erase it. You would banish it, and you might want to re-educate Me, or even want to banish Me from your thoughts, as if you could.

When you despair at My ever learning from you, it’s very possible that I am in your thoughts more than those who stick with Me through thick and thin. Does this make any sense to you? Those who purport not to believe in Me, sure focus on Me a lot.

Would that those who love Me focus on Me as much!

So much depends upon how you read occurrences in life. Whatever you may think, you do play a part in your life. A big part. Your life is your doing, beloveds. You are not without responsibility for your life no matter what. At the same time, how innocent you may be of your responsibility.

Naturally, when your life is what you call good and is just the way you like it, sometimes you don’t mind taking credit, yet you disallow responsibility when you are sure no one in his right mind would ever call such an experience to himself or herself. You are part of what may be a grand experience. You are not really an umpire of a baseball game where you can cry, “Foul,” and your Will be done.

Please remember, you do well not to interpret Me as if I am blaming you. Blame does not exist in My heart. I do not follow a track of blame. There is no way My heart can get itself around the concept of guilt and blame. Nor could I or would I heap blame and guilt upon you. Of course, I understand your innocence.

Whether you believe it or not, I am a God of Love, and you can see only so far as you can see.