Gloria to God:

Dear God, Karla does a Christian Centering prayer or meditation. She says she feels the floor slipping away under her — I sense she slips into another dimension — and then catches herself. She asked me to ask You what this is. And I have known a similar experience also, especially when I really think I'm about to fly, but the very awareness of it seems to dispel it.

God:

Karla and you both know what it is. It is fear of shedding what has seemed to bolster you your whole lives — the "solid" floor beneath your feet, the ways of the world, how you've been taught to take hold, to make your life fit proscribed parameters, and so on.

It is easy to know the words that God is Love and God is your Refuge, but it is hard for human beings to lift more than one foot off the common ground at a time.

So many lies have been told to you, so many levels of human communication you have experienced, so many opposites; therefore, you believe Me BUT. You believe in Me, but WHAT IF…

You remember about faith the size of a mustard seed and what such little faith can do, and, of course, you want faith, but faith cannot be ordered. So I suggest you approach faith from the other end. You don't have to hold on tight. You don't have to hold on at all. And you do not have to slip into Heaven during this meditation or the next.

Just be with Me and Christ and Mary. You can play with us outside the Gates of Heaven. We will be there. It is not urgent that you rise to Heaven's heights right now, for that is what you have felt as slipping.

Just do your meditations, and you will come ever closer to Me. One day, when you are not looking, you will see that I have been carrying you off the ground right along. You thought you were still sitting in your lotus position or on your chair. But in an instant you will look down at the floor you thought was slipping away from under you, and you will see all the light the floor is made of, and know that that light is all around you, as firm above as below, and it is called Heaven.

Gloria:

Dear God, I thought of asking You about my finances, and I just couldn't drop from Heaven to finances. I couldn't. Then it occurred to me that Your answer above is the same answer You would give to me about finances. I don't need to have the bills in my hand any more than the floor under my feet.

God:

I provide for you, but you want more than finances. You want the reckoning. You want to know that so much paper wrapped in a ribbon or rubber band will appear tomorrow at noon, and how much it will be, and what denominations, and how often it will come.

You want the details. Although you think details don't matter to you, they do very much. You are in many ways like a lady with a shopping list who goes into the store and wants to find every item on her list so she can check off each one. You want a defined checklist of financial accounting, as if a piece of paper is your salvation.

Money does not have to be green. It can be many colors. It has many shapes and forms and arrival points. It comes from many directions seemingly, but it is always from Me. I have told you this before.

Love comes from this person or that, in person or on email, or a walk in the woods, or a movie, or a chance encounter, but it is always from Me. You do not always know from whence love will directly come, and nor do you know where and when a purse of gold will reach you.

Even those who count on a weekly pay check, sometimes it's not there, the job is gone, the company folds etc.

Gloria:

And some who don't even believe in You, will blame You for their lack of paycheck and not credit You when they have it.

God:

I don't mind. And any attention on Me is good. I will find another avenue for that soul to have sustenance, and then he may forget all about Me again.

Like many families, I am looked to in a time of need, or special occasions, and then I am allowed to recede to the background.

But you know that I am forever in the forefront.

You are light. You are surrounded by light. And in that light your wherewithal is contained and will issue out for you like golden leaves on the ground.

Flowers bloom in the spring, and finances will bloom for you. All will come to you. All is already yours. Put your attention on Me, not on how and when and how much. Your feeling to not ask Me about finances was correct! It was not necessary at all. But it is also not necessary for you to refrain from asking me either, even if it is needless.

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 338:
"I am affected only by my thoughts…in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear…his thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them and exchange fear thought for a happy thought of Love. He crucified himself. Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

Gloria:

Dear God, how often a reading from A Course in Miracles upholds just when You've been saying.

God:

Truth is One.

Gloria to Mother Divine:

Dear Mother Divine, what thoughts will you sprinkle my way?

Mother Divine:

Happiness. Let me sprinkle happiness today, and where is your happiness, Gloria?

Gloria:

In my thoughts.

Mother Divine:

Just so. As the sunlight warms you, thoughts do also. And what is your happiness today but writing God's thoughts, walking your little doggies, writing emails, sending out more query letters for HEAVEN, eating a little? What else is there?

Notice that your happiness as noted above requires nothing coming to you. The happiness is in your sending. Love for Sunshine and Ginger makes you walk them. Love for your friends makes you write to them. Love for the world makes you send out HEAVEN to agents and publishers. And your love for the world as it comes to you in food, your for the farmer who grew it, the soil it grew on, the truck driver and supermarket who brought it to you. I am convinced that it is all in giving.

Or maybe it is in receiving. You receive my thoughts now but, in receiving, you are giving, so it comes to this: there is no difference. All are one. You give to yourself, you receive from yourself; it is all the same. All the same God giving and receiving in one motion.

Gloria:

Dear Mother Divine, this morning I feel like I could write all day!

Mother Divine:

You could. But now you will do your meditation. See if you can forget to notice the floor slipping away!

Later…

Gloria to God:

Dear God, Karen called me today to tell me that the sores on her neck are better!

I had seen Dr. Kevorkian's closing argument on Court TV, and I was torn for the man. I felt his sincerity and dedication. I asked Karen about him. She said it was no accident that I asked her, something about his picture on TV being a conduit. Well, she saw that he was a spiritual brother of ours, and Karen spent time healing him, with me along for the ride. She said we were making amends to him for past-life karma. She spent a lot of time healing him.

I asked Karen if it was wrong for him to put someone out of his misery. She said that is between God and him.

God:

Everything is between My Son and Me. One cannot know for another person. The same act and circumstances may be correct in once instance and incorrect in another. Motive is, of course, a big factor. In man's law, often room is not made for distinctions.

Gloria:

God, I know I couldn't send anyone to the death chamber, and I don't think I could even send anyone to prison for very long. The trial and all that goes with it is punishment enough.

God:

You don't want anyone to suffer.

Gloria:

Nor did Kevorkian. He had guts and took a strong stand.

God:

He is an example of not being intimidated by what someone else or the whole world may think. You helped heal a past-life part of this gentleman by bringing him to Karen's attention, and that is enough to know for now.

Gloria to Mother Divine:

Dear Mother Divine, what would you like to say?

Mother Divine:

Karen is to deal with heavy stuff. Karen takes care of this, not you. You did your part, and now put your attention on God. Meet with Him in your meditation and continue to serve Him with your heart. Attention on God serves Him well. Attend to God, for that is what you do.