You Are the Ocean That Makes the Waves

God said:

When life doesn’t seem right to you, then make yourself right with life. Life is not a mistake. It cannot be a mistake. The playing out of life may seem like a grievous error to you, but life, funny mix that it is, knows its way. Life does not fly blind. Life knows what it’s doing. Someone – probably you -- ordered scrambled eggs, or someone didn’t, yet you find that scrambled eggs are being served to you. They were brought directly to you and put in front of you. They are for you to eat. Requested or not, the eggs are yours. Eggs came to you.

You can protest all you like. Nevertheless, life has taken its stand. Somewhere, somehow, knowingly or unknowingly, you ordered those eggs. In any case, they are yours now.

Life is not always under your jurisdiction, and yet…

Perhaps life is a quilt you made long ago, and you simply have forgotten that you stitched it. But, no matter. It doesn’t matter how or why or when. The stitches are sewn, and you hold this seeming patchworked quilt in your hand. Of course, this is relative life I am talking about. It may well seem accidental, even purposeless. Nevertheless, you know what a strong force life is in the world. Even though the quilt was made a stitch at a time, it is vast, this quilt of life.

It certainly feels like the waves bounce you around. Nevertheless, you hear tell that you are the Ocean, and you are making the waves. The waves may hit you in the face, or knock you over, or be the most wonderful waves you ever dreamed of. Regardless, they wash over you. You understand, there is no disaster. Life unfolds as it unfolds, and, to your mind, worst of all, it is temporary, or, best of all, it is temporary depending upon your inclination or disinclination.

From your perception, life is unfair, and, yet, life can only be what it is. The eggs are yours, and you swallow them.

In one way, I am telling you to come to grips with life. In another way, I am telling you to lope over life. Even when you think life has a finality, it keeps going. You, who are alive, are alive. There are no dead ends. There are no catastrophes. Even when catastrophe seems to be looking you straight in the eye, it does not exist. Life is vast, and you cannot really measure it. Life is immeasurable. How can you figure out something that, the minute it arrives, it is already moving away? The skyline does not stay the same. It keeps changing. Sometimes you feel that life is a joke played on you, or that you are the joker. Beloveds, you are a player in a field that often feels muddied. The mud will dry, and you will dust yourself off.

Sometimes you decry that life doesn’t pause to take a breath, and sometimes you are glad that life roves and doesn’t stay the same. You want this, and you want that in the same breath.

Sooner or later, you come to the realization that life as it is in the world is not for you to figure out. It is not your puzzle. Life is yours, yet not your puzzle. Glance at it. Skim the surface because the surface is only surface. The surface is more like the fake poker game that is played in the front room. The high stakes are played in the back room. The real stakes are played in the back room. In the back room, everyone has money to spare. In the back room, everyone wins. In the back room, everyone starts over and wins.

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It doesn’t matter how or why or when

When I enter this room in the morning that holds the day's Heavenletter, I make a point of leaving all I know by the door. Of course, I'm not always successful or only to some dregree. Pain, for instance, makes you cling to what you think you know, as does pride, as does fear or repressed fear and any number of other things. Anyway, on entering this room, there it is, today's Heavenletter. I marvel at this clockwork precision. Next I may wonder whether I'm open enough today to be touched. Did I leave enough of the old by the door to be filled with something new?

Immediately, there is a suggestion: make yourself right with life. I have always thought this is about thinking better thoughts and feeling better feelings, somehow pumping them up from I know not where. I used to be quite unsuccessful in this and quite unhappy – until I found that to make myself right with life I only need to stop my running comment on life. Of course, you can't actively stop it like a traffic cop. So I asked my mind to be silent. I said: "Let's imagine the bliss of silence together." It seems to be developing some taste for it.

I do not ask any longer whether I did or did not order scrambled eggs. Sometimes I even remember to forget calling it scrambled eggs. I don't know how to describe the huge relief of not commenting on life so much any more. One day I will stop commenting altogether or at least be free to do so. … to your mind, worst of all, [life] is temporary, or, best of all, it is temporary depending upon your inclination or disinclination. Yes, whatever we say, it's all just inclination; what a pity that we try to sell mere inclination as a depiction of how things are.

Will the mud dry, will I dust myself off? I don't know and I seem to care less and less. What I care for more than ever is the immediacy of present experience not reduplicated in thought to make it "scrambled eggs" or "tournedos Rossini". Sooner or later, you come to the realization that life as it is in the world is not for you to figure out. Yes, sooner or later. In my case, later.

Who is setting the goal?

Do I create the waves or do I put up with the waves? Is there really something that we call an event, something that takes place or comes exclusively from outside? Or did I pre-scrambled the eggs that were served to me without my asking for them?

What is going on in the back room?

I think this Heavenletter contains a beautiful and powerful teaching. It is saying —this is my interpretation of course— that no matter the event which seems to happen in front of you or outside of you, you can decide, even before any event happens, what experience you want to have. Without even trying to anticipate events, or to analyze them after the fact, your goal will determine your experience of any situation.

It is to say that clarifying your goal belongs at the beginning of every situation because it is this which determines the outcome. In other terms, your experience will determine the situation. In the ego's procedure this is reversed in the sense that the situation determines your experience, which can be anything. Ego does this because it does not know what it wants you to experience. Ego does not set any clear-cut positive goal at the beginning of a situation it just seems to happen to you and it makes no sense to you until it has already happened and you try to piece it together and give it meaning.

God is teaching that your goal determines a situation's meaning for you, as well as the experience that you will have. He is taking you to the back room where everybody is a winner. What does He mean? Probably He means that He is always here and that the real outcome of any situation must be Peace. This is quite apart from the way people perceive situations in the outside world. If you experience Peace in any event or situation, it is because you have accepted and extended this Truth in your awareness. You recognize that you see a situation truly when the result for you is Peace. "In the back room, everyone starts over and wins."

HL 3774

Thank you, Normand and Jochen, Your complementary entries enrich and deepen my experience of this HL.

life is only surface

"You understand, there is no disaster. Life unfolds as it unfolds...
There are no catastrophes. Even when catastrophe seems to be looking you straight in the eye, it does not exist...
Life is yours, yet not your puzzle. Glance at it. Skim the surface because the surface is only surface."
I have always suspected that staying on the surface of things with a certain graceful lightness of being is indeed deeper than all the important and vital problems life seems to put before us. After all maybe Marie Antoinette was right when she said "if people do not have bread they can eat croissants".

Yes, yes, yes, dear Emilia,

Yes, yes, yes, dear Emilia, let's have croissant with café au lait!

life is only surface

Quote: After all maybe Marie Antoinette was right when she said "if people do not have bread they can eat croissants".

I don't meant to turn this into a history forum, but historians largely disagree on whether or not she ever said anything of the sort. Most translations use the word "cake" though....as in "...let them eat cake."

on the surface

You are perfectly right, Chrysanthemum, it was my...superficiality in translating.
I hope Normand woudn't mind to eat cakes.

I would still have

I would still have croissants! But I am forgiving for cakes!

Dear Emilia, next time I go to Italy, we will have croissants and café au lait. Are you in Milano, Roma, the Abruzzi,…? Last year I was in Sicilia, but I know you live up north!

late breakfast

I would be delighted! A globetrotter like yourself should come once in a lifetime to Rome. I spend part of my time there, the other part is gone, I don't know where.

I've been three times to

I've been three times to Rome including when I went to Sicily. Rome will always be a delight.

If you both come to

If you both come to Argentina, I will make fresh wholesome butter croissants for you. Sweet, savory and plain ones. Here they are called Media Lunas, and was so named after an encounter between the Austrians and Turks. Nothing compares to fresh from the oven media lunas, fresh coffee (or tea if you like) in the early morning, out in the country.

How about including one with

How about including one with every Heavenletter!

That's sounds delicious! You

That's sounds delicious! You can count on me and yes, please, some fresh strong coffee and raw milk. I imagine a country so wide and wild.

Indeed croissants are half

Indeed croissants are half moons (media lunas) and the half moon appears on the Turkish flag.
I missed a trip to Argentina last Christmas because I could not get any flights available at that time. But Argentina and Brasil are still on my agenda. Pero no sé cuando todavía, acaso antes dos años.

Please come to Argentina

Please come to Argentina when I'm there! Aiming for by early 2012, maybe sooner.

I certainly will.

I certainly will.

Senora, you're in charge of

Senora, you're in charge of the tea. You also get the difficult task of having to taste test the media lunas the minute after they come out of the oven.

Count me in! I'll make the

Count me in! I'll make the sacrifice! Yes, I will test the media lunas fresh from the oven!

THANK GOD

No more puzzles or imagination to live in a world that was safe.
I hit a homerun, THANK YOU

You are so welcome, beloved

You are so welcome, beloved Karen.

Scrambled eggs, scrambled Life"

In any moment of NOW our life is what it IS.

Sure, we sort of planned and hoped it would be "easy over" but it may have turned out scrambled no matter how you planned.

It turns out for all of us that we end up living each day as it comes. Let Gloria tell you how to live it with God consciousness. It more fun.

George

Living In the Moment

Dear George,

Beautiful said. Living in the one eternal moment fully immersed in the Joy of The present sounds like a never ending holiday to a Divine Paradise:) Thank You kindly for sharing... You have taught us to Adopt a new Lifestyle and attitude towards the life we wish to lead. Much Love and Light

kaye

scrambled eggs, scrambled life

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we. For such as we are made of such we be.

YOU ARE THE OCEAN THAT MAKES THE WAVES

OUR BELOVED FATHER-MOTHER GOD CREATOR, SUPREME BEING OF LOVE AND WISDOM AND ETERNAL PEACE AND LIGHT

When YOU ask us this question : "how can you figure out something that, the minute it arrives, it is already moving away?" I must

admit that I am so befuddled, I feel completely lost, because life is a glorious gift in so many ways, and yet, it's always changing.

and moving on in its inimitable way.

I can understand it when you say, "come to grips with life", but then you say, "I am also telling you to lope over life". My only reply

to this very well meant Heaven Letter is, "I wish I really GOT this!!" . And with that reply, I probably ought to have just ignored

this one. "Skimming the surface of life", as YOU say, "because the surface of life is like a fake poker game played in the

front room" and also telling us that "the high stakes are played in the back room, where everyone has money to spare and everyone

wins. In the BACK ROOM -everyone starts over and wins." I do wish I understood this metaphor. Perhaps that's because I don't

understand poker. IN ANY CASE, I LOVE BEING CHALLENGED BY THESE AMAZING LETTERS, AND THIS MAKES ME

REALIZE HOW MUCH OF LIFE I DON'T COMPREHEND. THE GIST OF THIS LETTER IS, I BELIEVE, THIS : "MY CHILDREN, YOU

ARE NOT TO FEEL LIKE VICTIMS, BECAUSE YOU ARE CREATED TO BE AS POWERFUL AS THE OCEAN, AND BECAUSE I

LOVE YOU QUITE BEYOND ALL HUMAN COMPREHENSION."

Eternal Moment in Your Heart, Lord

Dear Lord and Gloria,

Thank You for another Heart Loving Letter. The most beautiful and all important message Your Letter has blessed Us with is.. the only moment that truly exists is this moment. The present second stretches and It becomes the Back Room where all are winners in Your Loving Heart, Dear Father.

Thank You Beautiful Lord and Beautiful Gloria. This letter has been repeating itself in my Heart the entire evening.

Much Love and LIght