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#5591

Hi Gloria,

I have something new to you. Please see below letter #5591, I have some question about this sentence:
He sees newcomer squirrels as possible thieves and lets in only so many and no more and feels virtuous as he protects his country from men, women, and children, as if somehow he is royalty and comes first, as if he is privileged, and others are not.

According to the letter: He, the squirrel, protects his country. My question is if "men, women and children" are from his country and he protects them as well together with the country, or the "men, women, and children" here means newcomers from somewhere else,and are actually kept away by him?

Actually I am confused by the phrase "protect his country from men, women and children". Please give me some clues.

Love
Cat

God Has No Gated Communities
Heavenletter #5591 Published on: March 16, 2016
God said:
Be quick to say Yes to helping others whether you like the people or not. Any other person is you yourself to the core. In truth, everyone at your door is you.

Don't be so quick to put love aside because of what you imagine is self-interest. You might willfully allow your heart to die on the vine as you turn your back on another version of yourself. It is yourself you turn your back on.

Why would I, God, listen to world news? I have My own ear to the ground. I have a version of life different from yours and different from the version the world at large itself portrays. The biggest difference between the world and Me is that the world tends to live by fear while I choose to live by love. I banish no one. I don't jump to conclusions. I do not slam doors. I open hearts. I bless. I welcome.

I offer refuge. I do not pick and choose, even as you may think I sometimes discriminate against you.

I do not make up rules and procedures. If someone needs admittance, I give admittance. If someone needs help, I give help. If someone needs hope, I give hope. I set no limits. I do not say that only people who look like me can come into My gated community. I have no gated communities.

I do not make up or conclude fear stories of all the detrimental things that could happen. When people flee for their lives, I let them in. I do not see that they are a danger to Me. I offer them a room in My inn. I am not exclusive. I am inclusive.

The world I envision has no borders. There is one country, and that is the whole world. All are welcome. The extant world, as it appears, is squirrelly. A squirrel buries his possessions so no one else can take away or diminish his hoard in any way. He keeps them to his squirrel self. He sees newcomer squirrels as possible thieves and lets in only so many and no more and feels virtuous as he protects his country from men, women, and children, as if somehow he is royalty and comes first, as if he is privileged, and others are not.

And this is how some greet the world. Some see their space conscripted. Some see danger wherever they look. To all intents and purposes, they say:

"Stay away. I am sorry you are fleeing for your life, yet you might take away what is mine. I will let a few fleeing souls in, yet, for my own survival, I must lock my gates. Whether you live or die, I cannot allow surplus on my ground. Starve to death somewhere else. Be slain in the land you came from. I am my brother's keeper, and I take care of my own. I not take care of people from other places who could bear malice to innocents such as me. I do not discriminate. I discern. I am wise. I protect myself and my own as any red-blooded person would do."

I will tell you, dear ones, that selfishness is not the lay of the land any longer. Selfishness is not something to be proud of. Love is the lay of the land. If you want survival for what you see as your own, then open your hearts.

I have been known to say: "Let My people go." Now I say: "Let My people in."

I say to you: "Let My people in."

Beloved Cat

First of all, let me tell you that two new subscribers to your Chinese translations signed up this morning. Hurray!

Your question about No Gated Communitries is worth of attention.

Here is the quotation you wondered about:

He [a squirrel] sees newcomer squirrels as possible thieves and lets in only so many and no more and feels virtuous as he protects his country from men, women, and children, as if somehow he is royalty and comes first, as if he is privileged, and others are not.

Here is what I would say now for clarity and will edit the Heavenletter right after submitting this post:

I will change "from men, women, and children" to "outsiders."

Does this change make the passage clearer?

This Heavenletter is talking about those souls who are "in" and those souls the world considers "out." The truth is that some of us are luckier than others. We may be more fortunate, yet this makes us more fortunate at this moment. That doesn't make us more worthy. God tells us not to judge. Separation is judgment, a kind of snobbishness.

Cat, thank you for keeping me on my toes!

Again, thanks for two new subscribers to Chinese Heavenletters.

May you be blessed.

With love, Gloria

Department of Immigration

For those who have been in situations like those which God is referring to in this passage, you know what "screening" means (Gloria, you remember South Africa...0h! Sorry dear, it is an inside joke). I could talk to you in length of the absurdities of immigation laws in numerous countries. I won't quote any specific example, 'cause I could get into trouble with immigration with the country ı am residing in actually...

In the end, there is always a good reason to justify 'screening'. That is where a country's ego is concerned.

Beloved Normand, how

Beloved Normand, how wonderful to find your comment.

For newer translators, let me bring you up to date on Normand who for so many many years translated Heavenletters into French and was an administrator and served as a blessing to Heavenletters and to me. He also wrote a fabulous blog that often as a spin-off of Heavenletters. His blog is profound. Words Beyond Us http://www.wordsbeyond.us/

Just to explain about South Africa, the local office told me I was all set to remain in South Africa. The main office in Pretoria, however, decided I had to leave in two weeks. No explanation given. Immigration doesn't have to explain. I didn't want to leave.

Ultimately, it has to be that the decision came from higher than immigration, that my time in South Africa was up because life decided there was something else fir ne to learn. I don't quite know what that is, although there is no doubt I have grown.

Yes, Norman, screening sounds snobbish -- judgmental. The particular sort of thing that God speaks of here does seem timely.

Ego seems to come from fear, mass ego from mass fear.

Clear

Gloria,

Thanks for your clarification. And welcome to those two new Chinese subscribers.

Lots of love and blessings

Cat

WElcome to these two new Chinese subscribers

I join my voice to yours Cat, to welcome those two new Chinese subscribers. Sorry "Wǒde Zhōngwén 马马虎虎。

并欢迎这两个新的中国用户。
Bìng huānyíng zhè liǎng gè xīn de zhōngguó yònghù.

Welcome to China!

Hi Normand,

Sorry, I didn't feel well yesterday, the equinox day, so I didn't see your message.

Gooooood to know you are a serious student of Chinese, although I am not a serious student of English :).

I traveled a lot in China. Are you planning your next trip to China, if yes, please let me know, I would like to meet you, and your partner. I am in Beijing. Hope to see you guys someday!

Blessings and love
Cat

我会很高兴见到你在

我会很高兴见到你在北京.
I spent the equivalent of 6 months ( within 2 years) mostly in Shenyang (Liaoning province) but I visited Beijing( Chángchéng), Xi'an (bīngmǎyǒng), Shanghai and Hong Kong. Would you mind sending me your email through Gloria?

While I was in Shenyang, i met a Chinese translator of Heavenletters. His name is Leon.

再见
zàijiàn