Annette to God:

My dear loving God, I would like to ask You about genetically-engineered foods. It is a concern to many people these days. Is there any real danger of getting ill from unwittingly eating genetically engineered food, for example, when traveling or eating at the homes of others, who may not be so careful about food quality?

The reason I ask at this time is that my husband and I are planning to visit my relatives in Florida soon, and I want the experience of dining with my relatives to be a happy one, free from care, both for me and for everyone else, but I know few people are as careful as I am about what they put in their bodies. Need I be so concerned? I don't want my attention divided by concern about whether or not the food is safe to eat! And even if the person who cooks and serves the food is not able to be so loving, isn't my awareness of Your love all I need? Does this also apply to eating at public places during travel?

Also, I have a related question about eating meat. I'm a vegetarian. I don't even like the smell of red meat. However, during my visit with my relatives, it is possible that I will be dining with at least one person who will be eating red meat. Most of the others, including perhaps even my husband, will probably eat chicken or fish. I don't want to be unkind. I don't want to make my host feel she has to make special exceptions for me at meals (for example, by having to buy and cook a larger quantity of vegetables). Is it OK for me to eat chicken or fish under these circumstances, if I bless it with Your love?

God to Annette:

My blessed child, the body does not control the mind. The mind controls the body.

If the mind tells the body that it is bad to eat a particular thing, the body digests that thought.

The mind creates illness.

Certainly you have choices, and they are yours to make. You can be vegetarian or not. You can choose to eat non-genetically engineered foods or not.

But if you think that eating is a dangerous activity, you send that signal to your body. If you tell your body that eating a particular food will injure it, how well do you think it will digest it? It will reject it to one degree or another based on your sentiment, based on your indictment.

The same way, your body will welcome the foods that you do and know what to do with them, and will send out the message of love to all your cells.

You are not alive for so much consideration of your body.

Your body is not a child to be spoiled and made fussy.

If you had a child, you would tell it to eat what you give it. If you had a child, you would tell it to eat what it is served, whether in a restaurant or another's home or your own.

Treat your body as you would a child then. You give it general directions, and then let it go out to play. You do not oversee every action. You let your child be.

Annette, I have seen parents who will choose or discard each friend their child makes. They decide that this friend is a good friend for their six-year-old, and that that one is not. And the mother may have cut her child off from great enrichment by separating the child from its natural inclinations.

Treat your body as your child.

The awareness of My love is all you need. And more faith will come, dear one.

Annette, you are aware now that you have tried to control your life very much, and now you are easing up on that. Even your questions today show that. You are considering the possibility that you can travel and visit family and eat what they eat without being struck down.

Why do My children feel a need to control so much, even down to every mouthful? It comes from fear. And fear comes from thinking you are all alone on your own and must fend off all the dangers that surround you. But now you know Me consciously, and you have answered your own question in the asking of it.

Yes, you do not need to be concerned with what you eat under any conditions, special or otherwise. Yes, you can eat out and enjoy the food. You can eat in your relatives' homes and enjoy the food they serve, whatever it is, and whatever their consciousness is. You have My blessing. Indeed, you have My blessing.

The key is enjoy.

You have freedom, dear Annette.

You have freedom to enjoy.

You are not a prisoner in life.

You can break all the boundaries.

You are free.

You are free to choose what you will eat. But choose from love rather than fear.

Abby has asked previously about bio-genetically engineered foods. Perhaps she can send you the answer I presented then.

But for you specifically now, Annette, I would like to say that the closer to nature something is, the closer to nature it is. Natural is good. It is closer to nature to eat the whole grain itself rather than a flour pounded from it, for example, and yet you eat bread and call it the staff of life.

Air is good. Fresh air is most desirable. But you cannot spend your life deciding that you will only breathe fresh air and devote yourself to seeking it. You live indoors, and you live with artificial light, and you wear clothes. My children need to live life rather than seek perfection in it.

Material life moves ahead. Some things last and some fall off. Make your choices about altered foods as best you can, and don't let attention on things outside of you consume you. Don't let anything consume you. Rather, let Me nourish you.

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Margaret to Heavenletters and God:

June 13's Heavenletter was a hum-dinger. Diane's question/sharing of her epiphany really helped me a lot, and allowed me to give over to God something I was having a very hard time giving up.

Thank You, dear God, for that beautiful reply, and thank you, dear Diane, for letting me piggy-back on you once again!

Bev to God:

I loved what you said in yesterday's Heaven:

"I fill your hearts up, and you empty them for each other and find your own renewed."

I remember the times when I have felt such Oneness with You that I could feel how You were actually doing everything. I never felt tired, limited or anxious. I wanted the feeling to last forever. I will now think of my heart being full of You and everything I do coming from there.