Kerry to Gloria:

Dearest Gloria…This season has been a difficult time, as you know, for many Heavenreaders…I have been sustained greatly by God's messages of wisdom and Love. So much is also "undone" for me. Then, I read HEAVEN and realize that the miracle of healing is upon me, and things like unwrapped presents and a messy house are not such a big deal!

I print out and save Heavenletters. They have become so very important to me…I will take a GODWRITING workshop as soon as all this hoopla is over with and the New Year begins…I pray for focus and calm!

God to Kerry:

My blessings upon you and all My children.

Lauren to God:

Dear God, what is the significance of the New Millenium?

God to Lauren:

Time is a record that man keeps.

The planets and seasons are always changing.

That is nothing new.

What will make the year 2000 so auspicious is the world's thinking that it will be. All your thoughts of this year as special create it special. This is an example of how life follows your will. And how I do.

This will be a spectacular time for the world and Me.

And what is the world and Me? It is you. So it will be a spectacular time for you. My children will be raising their sights and pulling more of Me to earth. By your looking up, you will pull more of Heaven down, or earth up! Earth up, or Heaven down, what will the difference be? There is no up and down anyway!

All that Christmas promises will come. Peace and joy on earth.

Margaret to God:

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for all Your wonderful words of love and encouragement here. They have helped me immensely.

One of my concerns is with the ridiculous and excessive level of competition our culture has created around Christmas. On the one hand, we promote it as the season of peace; it should be soothing, but of course it is anything but.

I am scared. My children will be with me for Christmas (my daughter from college, and my son from a drug rehabilitation center), and I worry that they will find the time with me boring and unfulfilling both materially, socially, emotionally and spiritually.

There won't be tons of presents, quite the opposite. There won't be loads of relatives and friends stopping in, either. It'll pretty much just be the three of us for 24 hours. We'll eat some good food, visit a little, maybe watch a movie or play some games together.

I feel sad that I haven't provided dazzling, wonderful, exciting and memorable holidays for them or myself these last few years since my divorce, and I'm irritated with myself that this outrageous holiday pressure bothers me year after year, when mostly I know better than to take it seriously at all.

Thank You, Beloved Father. Just the thought of Your attention is healing to my silly knee scrapes. Still, I love to hear Your answers, too.

God to Margaret:

Dear Margaret, My special friend.

What the world makes of Christmas is its business. What you make of it is another. There is nothing Christmas has to be. And give your children more credit. They will take their cues from you, dear one. Allow Christmas to be what it is in your heart. Think of Me, think of Christ, think of love, joy, and peace. Start now. And remember that I will be there with you.

Margaret, at this season in which you feel you must be happier than you are, you are thinking of what you don't have instead of all that you do. Start counting your blessings.

There are mothers whose children are far away or indifferent. There are mothers whose children have left their bodies, and the mother is bereft. There are women who have never had the children they would have wished to have.

There are children who do not have their parents. There are mothers and children who have no home to feel bereft in, who will not have your wonderful food and the material gifts that you think are so few.

Looking at it another way, there are people who will be surrounded by family members who will exchange hurt feelings and disputes as well as wrapped gifts, and they would love to be home with just their children and have a quiet peaceful Christmas, visiting a little, watching a movie or playing some games together, just being the three of them for 24 hours.

Write a letter to each of your children in which you pour out your heart. A grateful love letter to each. Maybe have it rolled up and tied with a ribbon as a surprise next to their plate.

And maybe your children will do the same for each other, write what they love. This is a great gift. Many do not know how much they are loved nor how much they love.

As regards material things, you know that the pleasure they give is short-lived. Yet to address your need to give more, what would you give your children if you had the means? Would you give your daughter a car? Your son a computer of his own or what?

Cut out pictures from a magazine of what you would give if you could. Find a picture of the car you would give to your daughter, paste it on a card, and give it to her. And so on. Find pictures of what you would give yourself, dear Margaret. A vacation in Rio? Give it to yourself. Maybe your children would like to do the same for you and each other.

Play a game where you write down a happy time with your children and they have to guess what it is. And you do the same for them. Or a funny embarrassing moment.

Have a tiny present you put in your children's beds that they will discover when they get under the covers.

Perhaps your children could have a friend come over in the evening to play Monopoly or some such, and you play, Margaret. No one goes off to their room. Make it fun, Margaret. You are such fun.

These are just ideas, Margaret. The main thing is:

Start a family tradition now. Make this day a memorable occasion now.