With Divine Purpose

God said:

To have peace, there must be honesty. Pretend peace isn't peace. It is good you want to live up to your ideals, but a pretense of living up to your ideals is a far cry from living them. I know you want to feel loving, and you don't always feel loving. Sometimes then you have gritted your teeth. I know it is not easy for you. You don't want to dissemble. You don't want to pretend what is not, and yet you do not want to have anything in your heart but love. And so you drum up love, and you try to maintain equanimity, or We could say you feign it.

Perhaps you tell yourself that you must mask your true feelings. Certainly, sometimes it makes sense to simply be polite. You do not run around telling everyone everything that bothers you. Certainly, you want your attention on the fair and fine in life, and yet, you cannot always tamp down your feelings, swallow them as though they do not exist. Not forever can you.

You would be perfectly happy to transcend what ails you if only you could. Meanwhile, you may stifle your feelings. Is it not a law of physics that steam expands? That it cannot be closed up forever?

And so your feelings cannot stay bottled up. Despite your good intentions, your feelings will burst out - in tears, perhaps, or in anger and words you later wish you hadn't spoken.

Perhaps it will be good to assign a time, perhaps once a week, when you and your loved ones will meet to amiably discuss what you are feeling, and what your loved ones may also be feeling. Such a regular meeting sets up a framework where your feelings and needs can be addressed amicably. Such an assigned meeting takes the sting out. It is friendly and easy-going. It is not a confrontation. It is a meeting that acknowledges that both of you are vulnerable human beings and that sometimes you are subject to frustration. It is a meeting that allows for openness and the effusion of pure hearts.

It becomes not a question of who or what is right but rather what is going on.

What a wonderful thing such a meeting would be in the workplace. Employer and employee meet one on one to discuss what each can do for the other. Such a meeting recognizes that there are needs that can be met. It recognizes the value of open safe communication. With such meetings, there will be no need for flare-ups. With such meetings, employees will not be complaining, nor will employers. There would not be a need to complain. There would be no talking behind one another's back.

Think, if instead of parent teacher conferences, there were student teacher conferences, one on one. What if the teacher asked the student: "What can I do to make our classroom meaningful to you? What can I do for you? Please tell me, and I will do it." What need for outbursts would there be in the classroom then? What need would there be for outbursts at all? Who would want them?

A simple thing, an arrangement whereby two sentient beings meet to see how things are going and what can be done to make them better. Two people meeting with a common goal. No longer are they stuffed into the roles of teacher and student. The teacher isn't controlling the student, and the student has no need to rebel. Two caring individuals meet. They express. Perhaps they laugh. They breathe better, for two hearts are meeting with divine purpose.

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When roles are relinquished

When roles are relinquished and power is given back to the One who is the Source of all Power (and that Power is Love and Peace that flows from Love) there is true peace and harmony within and without. I was reflecting this morning on my role as a parent and forgave myself for the times when I was controlling and not hearing the needs of my children because "I knew what was best". They are almost 21 now and it is never too late .... and I also realize that I planted many seeds of love and faith within them to sustain them during their life's challenges. I also laugh at how I bumbled at times when I was so unaware of the Divine Source which now is at the center of my life and will continue to bumble...the difference now is, it is easier to re-set my course. And Heaven Letters is one of the blessed resources God has sent to my life to help me stay the path....Thanks be to God and Gloria! (and Dr. St. B who suggested I come to this amazing website).

When roles are

When roles are relinquished...

That says a lot, dear MarySunshine.

I am grateful to Bernie for bringing you here. I feel like I have known you forever.

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Hello Friends,

God said to have peace
And be perfectly happy
With divine purpose

Love, Light and Aloha!

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Thank you for sharing this ....A letter from God to me beams its truths in answer
to my questions...