Most of our negative perceptions of different aspects of life (work, illness, relationships, thoughts, etc) are the results of programmed instructions. In a computer, a program is a set of coded instructions that enables the computer to perform a desired sequence of operations. But the set of coded instructions is meaningless without a purpose, which resides in the programmer's mind.

The ego is the master programmer of our (mis)perceptions and actions through our personal mind. And as a master programmer, it has a purpose and only one: to weaken the mind. Since almost the totality of our seeming burdens come from the fact that we are in a body (physical, emotional, psychological, metaphysical), it is through the body that the ego exercises its power to separate (even attack) the mind from the body and that is where the ego's program executes itself through our body (brain, hormones etc.)

Our body, through the ego's running software, then tends to be the mirror of a split mind which induces sadness and illnesses of all kinds. Illness is the result of split purposes, because it is the opposite of wholeness.

If we want to change the program, in this case, we should think about changing the programmer. Because we have to change the "meaning" or the purpose of the program. This purpose or meaning is to see further, to relinquish all attempts to use ego's software, because it is totally unreliable and it crashes often.

The only purpose comes from God because God is the only Unified Purpose and Meaning and the only One. Our programming task then consists solely to fill God's requirements for Real Purpose and Meaning, which are His and Ours by Inheritance.

A fly is buzzing up and down my window pane, up and down, up and down. Plop. After a little rest, it resumes its attempt to follow its instinct toward the light, buzzing up and down, up and down. It can go on for hours. Some die. This one, following some unidentified impulse, suddenly renounces the light, heading into the relative dark of my room, flying some arabesques and then out the wide open veranda door.

We, on the other hand, are free to choose a sensible course of action, aren't we? We don't have to depend on dumb luck, do we? Well, all I know is that wrong conclusions, made too long ago or at too young an age to even be remembered, can develop into quasi-instinctual blocks. You really don't know why you do whatever it is you are doing, you only know you have to do it. There is not even a way to question it, it's so obvious that you have to do what you are doing. I mean, do you ask the open sky to be other than blue?

That's how obvious the most impractical and nonsensical things can appear to us. And that's when we have to just go on a little more and then to die like a fly whose buzzing power is spent; or when some little opening inside allows God to slip us a message. This is where, to my mind, choice begins. In most other case, according to what I see in myself and around me, freedom of choice appears to be a rather theoretical construct since it would necessitate some awareness of alternatives which simply isn't present in so many cases.

I would like to add that, even when we become Heavenreaders or something similar, God's wisperings still don't necessarily make it into our heads and hearts. As always, I can only speak for myself, of course, and I know that what is called the common denominator in this Heavenletter has remained virtually invisible to me for years. How much more compassionate we need to become toward ourselves and everyone! How cautious in making suggestions or propagating procedures and solutions.

Funny thing is that only yesterday I commented on "my cross" somewhere else. Here, God says that I won't like what He is going to say about the common denominator, and it's true, I still don't like it:

I do not say the difficulties are not there. I say you are holding on to them too tight. You may hold on to them for dear life, as though if you did not have them, if you were not singled out for this suffering, you would be without complaint and what would be the theme of your life then? You might be bereft without your cross to bear. You have held it to you as your destiny for so long. You keep lying under it to feel crushed by it.

The description is accurate, even the irony is okay. I'm still not comfortable with it. But after that little hitch, when you start having some awareness of what you are believing and doing, the only sensible course of action is to No longer extol the exigencies of the situation you find yourself in. Now you even have a chance to change your perception. A chance you did not have while buzzing up and down your window pane.

Sweetest George, we haven't read from you since quite a while. Is everything ok?
Just let us know. We miss you.

Big Hugs.

This is a magnificent teaching! Thank you for reminding us to broaden our perception, to "RISE UP OVER" whatever situation we are in, to see the bigger picture. So often we are self-blind and do not see what we have chosen as our ego identity. Thank you for nudging us to look with clearer vision.