Even in Deserts, Flowers Bloom

God said:

Even in the deserts of the world, flowers bloom. And everywhere hearts bloom. In the most dire circumstances, hearts triumph. Even in the most auspicious circumstances, there are hearts that do not bloom. It must be that they refuse to.

Truly, all the circumstances in the world are not the key that prevent you from happiness, nor do all the circumstances give you the happiness you and I both want you to have. In the midst of plenty, there is sorrow. In the midst of little or nothing, there is great happiness. Can you argue this?

There, now I have proven to you that you, and you alone, are responsible for your own happiness. No longer can you blame unhappiness on what is going on around you. Surely, life does give you some perks, and you are gladdened. And, surely, life gives you some blows, and you are saddened. Even so, all the drama, favorable or unfavorable, is not the king of you. You are the king of you. You are your own glad tidings. You are the one who pulls you up, and you are the one who pulls you down.

You seem to have allotted yourself a certain amount of happiness and no more. You have put limits on how happy you can be and under what circumstances. The circumstances are innocent. They hold no grudge with you. It must be you who holds a grudge with them. Circumstances do not make or break your day. You do. No longer hold circumstances responsible for how you feel.

The outside world of circumstances is not meant to be the determiner of you. Circumstances are not the decider of your happiness or unhappiness. Free yourself from that idea. By what right do circumstances ration your happiness? Circumstances have no right except for what you deed to them. There is no need to form a partnership with circumstance.

Circumstance is what surrounds you. It is like the weather. Certainly, everything affects everything, and yet you are the receptor of your own life. Never were you meant to be a victim. No longer assume the role. You are not at the mercy of every circumstance. No longer blame circumstance. No longer blame at all. Just know that you are the director of your own movie.

You are not happenstance. You are a God Being that stands above all.

True, you are a human being, yet that is no excuse. Human beings are the kings of the world. Human beings are God Beings.

Do not give your power away in excuses. Aren't you getting a little tired of excuses? Right now excuse yourself from unhappiness. It is too weighty. Unhappiness is heavy on you. When you are unhappy, you pull the whole world down. When you are happy, you pull the whole world up.

Do you have free choice or not? Do you want free choice? Surely, you don't want your life dictated by the suffrage of circumstance.

Have you predicated your happiness and your life on circumstance? You have, haven’t you? And when you have, you have made yourself a bouncing ball, tapped up and down, at the mercy of the seeming hand that bounces you.

You are your own sovereign being. Be it then. Be the sovereign of your life, and allow yourself to be happy. Grant yourself happiness. Give yourself the entitlement to be happy no matter what.

Do not think I am telling you that sadness is forbidden. Sadness is okay. You can even be sad and happy at the same time. Be happy that you can be sad. It is all right. Only don't settle for sadness as though you deserve only sadness. Gain equanimity. You can do it. Neither happiness nor unhappiness is the making of you. I am the making of you.

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I agree w/ much of this

I agree w/ much of this heavenletter. We can learn to be happy in many different circumstances or shall I say "happier." Living in Miami, I was very unhappy. I'm not a city girl and the high crime was much for us. Our car hit twice in drive by shootings and my husband robbed at gun point. We both had to work 2 jobs and then some to survive the extremely high cost of living. I tried to be happy there but happiness in the fullest sense of the word eluded me. I was able to move to the Southwest 2 years ago and am incredibly happy! My heart sings w/ joy. So, I think circumstances can contribute to the "amount" of happiness we are enjoying or not enjoying BUT I have to agree that I could have been happier in Miami had a chosen to be. Hindsight is always 20/20. In the midst of that stressful situation, I didn't see the little things and ways that I could have increased my happiness and joy. Now, that I am relaxed and calm, I see more clearly that I could have been "happier" than I was in Miami. Having said that, nothing in the world compares to my inner joy being in the Southwest. I feel like I've been here before. I intuitively knew my way around the little town we live in. My husband still gets lost when driving around here and he has a keen sense of direction and I'm known for not being able to find my way out of a wet paper bag : ). The country, the mountains, the relaxed lifestyle, farms, low cost of living.... gosh, there is just so much to be grateful and thankful for. I feel so good inside and I wake up feeling calm and relaxed.

Dear God,

Thank you for my happiness. I agree that I could have been happier in Miami had I chosen to be. I understand that circumstances are only a part of the equation in being happy. I just thank you for so much for my wonderful life in such a wonderful place.

Much Love,

DesertRose
Our thoughts are powerful and creating our next precious moment

free choise

"Just know that you are the director of your own movie". Your story, dear DesertRose, shows also that we can always change our circumstances.

Dear Emilia, Yes, I very

Dear Emilia,

Yes, I very much agree!!! Now, my choices are all designed to support what really makes me happy in life which is having TIME to just enjoy life :). I was able to move across country because my sister gifted me with funds to do so. It was the greatest gift. It did take guts though. We didn't know people when we moved here, and were unfamiliar w/ this part of the country. However, it felt right and we just did it. We moved here w/o jobs, etc and trusted God. Flipping the script or directing our own movie is a wonderful adventure. Now, life flows so much easier. The stress just melted from me. Now, when something uncomfortable happens, I don't freak out, but just calmly figure a way around the obstacle. I used to live in high-alert status 24/7. Now, it's kinda funny actually, I don't feel a need to direct the movie consciously. I just want to enjoy being in it : ).

DesertRose
Our thoughts are powerful and creating our next precious moment

A new recipe

Voila, this Letter is the recipe for life!

Dear Desertrose, circumstances don't mean life-style, I think. I agree with you when you say "also in Miami I could...". Certanly, everywhere. But like always, the difference is in the gradation; our soul sings with the nature, our soul needs Earth to grow. For someone there is no difference, for someone else the difference is enormous, like you and me. I live in a hamiet of a small town. It's just too much big to me. I dream open spaces, mountains, rivers, small house, horses... but I am happy also here. I dream a world without cars and with much much smiles. This summer I will put a little table and chairs out of my door for everyone who pass here and want meet other persons. Sit down, lemonade and much smiles. Do you think it will work?

Dear Pitta, I believe it

Dear Pitta, I believe it will work amazingly! I am hearing you about circumstances don't mean life-style. When in Miami, we had to work 2 jobs each to survive and still it was difficult. We were so tired and there wasn't time for fun as there were no days off. Life was about survival. Here in the Southwest, I have more days off than work days as the cost of living is so much better. We live in a small town where crime is extremely low. It's beautiful here. I've never been happier in my whole life. I feel like I belong here and I'm finally home. When I look back on my experience in Miami, I see that I made it worse for myself by thinking so negatively. Yes, the crime was high and we were victimized several times while there. However, could I have walked in the park, gone on a picnic, and spent a little more time at the beach? The answers are all yes and those things would have increased my joy and happiness.

I understand the point God is making in the Heaven Letter as I have a friend who has bone cancer. She is a relatively young woman. She seldom complains and has great faith and JOY. I'd say she IS a happy person. She lives on Social Security and finances are very tight, but again, she is a happy human being. That happiness comes from within her. She is just not a person that allows anything or any circumstance to get her down. I've heard those that survived atrocities like Auschwitz (sp?) say that their survival was due to their attitude and what was going on w/i them.

I think the key is in attitude, our inner self-talk, and a choice to look for things to be grateful for. I could have used more gratefulness when in that stressful situation in Miami. I had a wonderful husband, wonderful fur kids, we were surviving, I was able to work at home, and we did have jobs.

Once I found inner peace and extreme joy and happiness, I'm quite protective of it. I've found that many of my choices are designed to protect it and enhance it. Two quick examples- I made some tough choices in the last year to eradicate some relationships from my life that were causing drama. The people themselves were not bad or anything like that but the "mix" between us was toxic and life is too precious to deal w/ the drama. Another thing, hubby and I have decided that we'd enjoy owning our own home and land. We were considering both picking up extra jobs to make that happen. However, BELLS sounded loudly in my Spirit NOT to do that and to decide what is more important to me and us. I sat hubby down for a talk and we both decided time to together, days off together, family time is all more important than things to us. We'd still like to own a home and decided a better way was for me to increase a little bit the hours I work and for hubby to do a little Ebay business at home. Choices all designed to protect our happiness and joy.

I really like the feeling of feeling happy, calm, relaxed, and just knowing that my environment supports that.

DesertRose
Our thoughts are powerful and creating our next precious moment

Even in Deserts Flowers Bloom

Dear Maestro, and Prime Creator, When a person says he loves you and you know in
your heart that she just doesn't or can't , how are we supposed to feel? Oh, they wish they could
but they can't. In cases like this, it is my great wish that they would not say they do, for
it rings so hollow!

Now I am trying to equate this with the desert and that it blooms. I have lived in the Sonoran
desert and the things that bloom there are breathtaking! The desert just can't help itself
it truly blooms the most beautiful blooms. The trees that bloom in Tucson are spectacular
and the cactus flowers are glorious. The heat in Tucson is intolerable, yet people try to adapt
there, by air-conditioning everything.

I am choosing today to be the sovereign of my life. That's what you're saying. I will be
happy today about myself even when people who don't love me say they do. And that's the
end of that.

the very love?

Dear Marymoon,

to my experience people who tell they love even if they can't or don't, aren't story-tellers. They simple belive love is what they feel for they don't know what is love and never did. They think their little bit sensation is love.
Once one friend of my told me: don't look at words, don't belive them; look at actions, what really is, this is true. Actions never could fall you.

Our happiness and our circumstances

With Desertrose, Emilia and Pitta, I think this letter addresses fundamentally important issues in our lives. The comments, as they work through the implications of the message in our lives, expand the message and take it in new and very useful directions.

Desertrose, I think your comment about moving to a new city and state highlights one of our choices to improve our happiness, whether it be to move our home, leave a relationship, or an unpleasant work situation, etc. Often this is an option and it makes loads of sense. Your story is a wonderful example.

This letter also addresses situations where we cannot, or for some reason choose not to, move ourselves to a new set of circumstances. Some of the comments discuss how we can choose to change ourselves and how we are never the victims of these circumstances. I would like to ask two questions, here, to carry this discussion a little further.

Isn’t it our often unexamined assumptions about our lives, the nature of God and the nature of the world that determine whether we are happy or unhappy in any given set of circumstances?

Aren’t the Heavenletters an extended process of reframing and reforming these assumptions toward more friendly and functional ones? (At least as one aspect of their impact.)

If the ideas in these questions are accurate, we should all be benefiting enormously as we read and enjoy the magical content of these letters.

One more comment. Obviously, there is yet another level of complexity to the interaction between our circumstances and our emotional response to them. As Desertrose adds at the end of her comments: “Our thoughts are powerful and creating our next precious moment.” And, as illustrated so well by the comments, above, who we are helps to shift our local circumstances toward the better for all involved.

I am delighted this Sunday morning to be able to participate here with such lovely and insightful people………..Chuck

2 Heavenletter Haikus for

2 Heavenletter Haikus for you

Hello Friends,

God said in your life
Drama is not king of you
You are king of you

God said be it then
For you are a God Being
That stands above all

Love, Light and Aloha!

 

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