Lift up your head and know I am God. Know I am the institutor of you. You were born from My heart. You are a beautiful soul on Earth dressed up as a Human Being. Yet neither your soul nor your physicalness is separate one from the other. It may be hard for you to reconcile these two aspects, but not for Me.

I know that you feel that the Humanness of you is a lesser aspect, inferior, and yet, I have to tell you that you excel. To be a Human Being on Earth is a great privilege that you have, and it is a task, I know that. And yet you rise to the occasion very well. Please do not belittle yourself for being in the guise of a Human Being.

It is a great assignment that I gave you and that you accepted, and it is easier to be a Human Being with a Great Soul than you have thought. The Soul is the Soul, and the Human is the Human, and they interact. You are never without your soul. Your soul accompanies you everywhere. You are never without it. Honor your soul, and honor the Human Being it inhabits. No matter what sorry state you may see yourself in, honor your Humanness. Do not disparage it. You are very brave. I congratulate you on your courage.

Now your soul is rising to the ascendancy of you. Without even knowing it, the Human side of you will be listening more to your soul. Your soul has been around far longer than your body, and so it has a wisdom that you can hardly imagine. Your soul is happy to be your soul. It is very happy to accompany you everywhere in everything. Your soul would never want to be without you. Recognize your soul's love for you. Forgive yourself for being a Human Being. It is all right. You were called on to come to this theater, and you came in service to Me. Is that not a wonderful thing?

You took me seriously, and now I ask you not to take that which you call life so seriously. When you take life less seriously, you will not judge it and yourself so much.

Right now, as it is, you have set yourself up as a fall guy. You keep setting the rope up higher, ensuring that you will not be able to jump over it. Give yourself some leeway. Do not restrain your soul.

Your soul is in love with you. Just as I do, your soul thinks you are terrific. It would love to see you have a higher opinion of yourself, not to exalt your ego but to exalt the God Beingness of yourself that you certainly are. Stop being dismayed by the costume you wear, and no longer disparage it. We have long known that in the eyes of the world, you are not perfect. We know the world assigns you to a state of imperfection from which, if you let the world guide you, you will never recover. Listen more for what your soul and I say to you, and you will have a better impression of yourself.

You don't need to be impressed. You just need to refrain from listening to the world so much. Love the world, and do not be overcome by its assurance that it knows what it is talking about. The world does not begin to know what it is talking about. This is no offense to the world, for it is a lovely manifestation. Only, the world is not for you to take so seriously. Bless the world and bless yourself, and know that your soul and I accompany you everywhere. You are never out of Our keeping nor are you so far out of step as you seem to think. Blessing you are.