This life you live is an opportunity for greatness. Adjure to it. No matter what you may think, you are rising to greatness.

If greatness is a ladder you climb, you are climbing it. This is an extension ladder you are on, and when you reach the top, you find there is higher yet to go. And so you keep climbing.

Others climb the same ladder with you, and as you climb, their climb is made easier.

You are one who ventures where no one else has gone. And you are one who cares about those who seemingly come after you and before you.

Each Human Being has his own style of climbing, but everyone climbs the same ladder. With every step you take, the ladder becomes sturdier for everyone else. In this way, it can be said that everyone gives a helping hand. You pull others with you. And those you pull up bolster you. The ladder is steady. You can be secure on it. There is nothing else for you to do but keep going up it.

Of course, in truth, there is no climbing. We could just as well say you are remembering. Realizing. Something dawns on you, and it becomes first a possibility and then a certainty. This dawning cannot come from outside you. It can only arise from within. No one can convince you of it.

We could say self-realization is like a foreign language. Others can speak it. Others can help you learn it. But no one can learn it for you. You are the one who must catch on.

Or We could say it is like learning to read. A teacher may teach, but learning how to read is your discovery.

Getting back to Me in your awareness is just as natural as eating and sleeping. No one had to teach you those. They are something you always knew. But when it comes to Me, you got distracted from Our connection. We could say you got blindsided.

We could say that I am the ladder you climb, and I am the One Who helps you climb the ladder, and that I am also you, climbing the ladder of Myself. We could say that We are so entwined that it is impossible to extricate you from the ladder or the ladder from you. There is no pulling them apart one from the other. Welded are We.

Anywhere you turn, you turn in My direction. I am here, everywhere. That is Our arrangement. Together We breathe. Together We are One.

The simplicity of Our Oneness — puzzling to you — is amazing. That it is so simple is amazing, and that you puzzle over what is already in your hand is even more amazing.

That you deny your Beingness is as incredible as an apple's denying its appleness. Or an apple's denying that it grew from a tree. Or water denying that it is wet.

You swim in an ocean of God, and you ignore, supercede, disregard, scoff, downplay the very buoyancy of you. To deny yourself the mutuality of Our love has to be the greatest illusion ever perpetrated on earth.

Why deny yourself awareness of your Source? Sooner or later you will come to it. Why not now, My beloved? Why wait a minute longer?

You may say it is up to Me, and that you have been waiting. I am telling you that you are a lamp that is lit. Why then do you wait for Me to light you?

You are in My embrace now. We are Love now. You do not wait for what has already transpired.