Jessica:

Dear God, I'm having a hard time moving through some things. My sister, a loving, patient, kind teacher, has had to quit her job coaching troubled teenagers because she is being paid below the poverty level.

She has come home in tears every day since she made the decision on Monday. Her schoolkids are upset, and were willing to all chip in money if she would stay. All of her kids hugged her after the meeting when she told them she'd be leaving in two weeks. She has told some of the more troubling cases to call her if they are in need. She has always felt that teaching children is her calling, but the poverty consciousness in that field is prohibitive. What is going to happen to these children no one has time for? Everyone seems so hyped up about the problems of our youth, but no one is willing to pay those who want to help.

It breaks my heart to see her cry and hear her talk about her kids.

I guess my question is why is it presently a choice of financial safety or following her heart?

Thank You, God, for your wisdom and guidance.

All my love, Jessica

God:

My dear heart-filled Jessica, your question begins with yourself: "I am having a hard time moving through some things."

Jessica, kindly write back and tell more about you. What are you moving through?

In the forming of a question, light comes in.

Your letter ends with the question: "Why is it presently a choice of my sister's financial safety or following her heart?"

My dear Jessica, the world offers either/or choices. I do not. I offer everything. Your sister can have financial safety and follow her heart. Perhaps attention is going onto the disparity of what she gives and what she is paid rather than on her desires. There is a way for her to follow her heart direction and make decent money, and attention can go there. Sometimes My children get drawn into an all or nothing mode.

Write back, have your sister write back, open your hearts more. Say what is going on with you. What is your story? What is your sister's whole story? What is her name? What are your ages? What kind of coaching was this? Where do you live? Does your sister have another job waiting for her when this one is done? And what is your own heart moving through? What situation of yours does your sister's despair rub against?

Be sure that your sister knows that the children who have been in her care will be all right with or without direct contact with her. Tell her to keep loving them as she frees them. She must know that I will guide them and her.

The value the world sets is often askew. You all know that.

Tell more of your story, dear Jessica. Make your question full, and I will answer you fully with an answer that is for you, your sister, and all the readers of HEAVEN.

Gloria:

The Science of Creative Intelligence says that, within the question, lies the answer.

God:

A question is a settling down. Questions can run on top of the tarmac, but questions that go deeper reveal more truth.

Revealing is opening. Disclosure opens.

Discretion hides, and is therefore a form of control.

In the barrage of daily life and all the input that comes at you, you want to winnow your questions. Start at the top and see where it takes you. Find the question beneath the questions.

Nancy did that very well. Just with doing that, she ended denial and took a giant step forward.

Now, Gloria, you have a question simmering. Do you know what it is?

Gloria:

No.

God:

I will wait.

Gloria:

Well, I do think of something, God.

Bev wondered if there were some way to report in Heavenletters the miracles that come our way.

For example, at the Ask God Continuing Ed workshop before last, Caroline, who has three children, mentioned that she hadn't had a washer/dryer in a long time. Bev said, "What kind do you want?"

At the next meeting of Continuing Ed, Caroline announced that a family member had bought her a brand-new washer/dryer.

Sandra's husband is up walking.

Mardi Gras is the company that makes paper towels that tell you to forgive others and look for the good in them.

And so on.

God:

If We can answer questions in Heavenletters, We can also report the nice, natural happenings called miracles. I suggest that Heavenreaders send in theirs.

Gloria:

Heavenletters just had a nice one. Ken Orsow, a master musician/composer and Heavenreader, offered to compose music just for Heavenletters!

God:

Music of the Heavens.

Gloria:

God, I have wondered how anyone even begins to write beautiful music. Is it a little like Godwriting?

God:

Yes.

Gloria:

Painting? Works of art?

God:

The same. It is going to deeper levels and finding Me there.

Work on top of the tarmac is hard. But at each layer, it is easier. At the deeper levels, you don't do much but receive. It is the difference between forced labor and whistling while you work. The difference between mining for gold in a desert or in a rich mountain lode.

Gloria:

I am thinking of Jessica's sister, and I guess I am thinking that life can be hard.

God:

Don't depend so much on life. Depend on Me.

Gloria:

Julie wrote an interesting email yesterday. She said You often tell us to look up, and she realized that You mean that literally as well as figuratively, for she has been near-sighted all her life and always looking at the ground. Now she is physically looking up, and something good is happening for her from that!

God:

Where you look is key. Look up, and you are in Heaven. What you look at becomes your reality. What you choose to look at.

That is why it is a great idea to focus on miracles as well as questions.

Miracles are like dandelion puffs that float around and then alight.

Keep looking for the miracles. That's how you make them.