Gloria to God:

Dear God, my daughter did not get this wonderful job that we both were sure was hers. We were in shock when we heard. I prayed to You to help her deal with this, that You help her find a job she likes, and help us with financial support.

Then Karen made me realize the importance of asking You the right question. What I need to ask You is to help me release this to You and not put my energy into it.

God:

Yes. What possible good can your emotional investment add? You were always taught, and learned, that emotional investment is desirable, that emotional investment is how to love.

Now you know to give your daughter over to Me and give yourself over to Me and situations over to Me and keep yourself free of emotional entanglement. Emotional entanglement pins you to the problem you want to release.

Update from Kerry:

I look forward to Letters from God with such anticipation and love them so much. This has been a week of enlightenment, healing and so much LOVE. I attended a Heart Of God 9-hour workshop on Saturday and feel altered and so touched by the healing and heart opening that is still happening! The beauty and the pain all co-mingled, and I felt the courage to walk right up to God with my fears and was bathed in such incredible light!

I then went to meditation last night and felt some pressure to attend the intensive in San Diego. I did not commit and was at peace with saying I was not ready. No anxiety, no fear.

My Heart is so touched by others' courage, as well.

I feel the need to talk to God and ask him a question or two.

Kerry to God:

Dearest God, I have spent much time with two of my dearest friends this week as they say goodbye to their loved ones (one's mother, and one's father) who are leaving this plane of existence.

God, I feel so helpless in my efforts to comfort them and to tell them things they will carry in their hearts. Can You help me with this? It seems to be part of my "Job" here on Earth to sincerely HELP with grief. While I easily write comforting words and poetry, it is a challenge when it becomes face to face. I need Your help, dear God.

Thank You for answering my prayers; they are always answered, and I am so in love with You…This is such a vulnerable place to be, but I want to help and soothe their aching hearts…Especially when they ask WHY?…Why the unnecessary suffering, why the choice to die this way? My heart is so full, but I need some Earthly guidance.

God to Kerry:

My dearest Kerry, you can cure nothing. You cannot fix another's heartache. You are not the mender. I am.

This is important for you to remember. It is not your job to heal others. That is My job.

What you do for your friends face-to-face is to listen. Let them talk. Say you are sorry. Your being there for them is enough.

In the compassionate writing you do, in that case, your words are your being there. Being there is the comfort you give.

The desire for good for others is enough, dear Kerry. Desire their good, and leave to Me.

You are striving to heal your own heart, dear one. The question WHY on the earth level is still an unanswered question in your heart. You don't argue with it, but it is not answered for you.

You know that the loss of your beloved son has meaning and purpose and that choice and contract were part of it, but the other side of your loving heart simply cannot understand. No one's can, dear Kerry. A huge mathematical equation that traced the evolution of your beloved son would not answer this for you. On the human level, it is unanswerable.

On the divine level, it is simple. On the divine level, there is no loss.

Talk to Me anytime you want, for I am your Comforter. I am the Comforter you want to be for others.

What has given you your strength? Let others who grieve ask you for the Source of your strength, and then tell them your story. They will listen, and you will also. And I, too, listen to you, loving Kerry.

Spread your joy.

And I thank you for your love. I carry your prayers in My heart, and I never forget you.

Diane to God:

Dear God, I want to pray for little Katie who is beginning chemotherapy today. Katie is the five-year old adopted granddaughter of my next door neighbor. Katie was a happy, healthy, bright child until a few weeks ago when she began having pain and dizzy spells. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma that is moving rapidly through her body.

I don't know what to pray for, for I know she is in Your hands, and all is as it should be. So what do I ask for?

God to Diane:

Pray that Katie know My love. Pray that her parents know My love. Pray they know that Katie goes nowhere without Me.

You are very perceptive, Diane.

You know all are in My hands, so what more is there to ask for? Can there be more than that? You are right — there is nothing to ask for, and yet…

Pray that the parents can know the good in everything. Pray that they know there is good in everything.

Pray that they know there is no death. Pray they know the spirit leaps to Me and leaves an empty coat behind.

Pray they know it is all right to mourn. It is all right to be human. It is all right to cry their tears.

Right now the family feels such tension. They wish their daughter to live in health. They wish to continue as parents to her. They want their dreams alive. And they want to bless Katie's leaving if they have to.

Pray that their burdens be lifted from them.

Most of all, pray that they know their child is My child. She is in My care, and I love her and will tend to her needs. She is safe with Me.

Gloria to God:

Dear God, after these heartfelt questions and your love and wisdom, I feel ashamed to bring up my small issues. But my question keeps coming up, so I will ask it just the same.

When "everybody" thinks someone or something is wonderful, and I don't, what do I say? I have recently been bombarded with questions like: "Why didn't you go to this particular person's talk? Why don't you love this person? You must be making judgements etc."

God:

Why do you have to say anything, dear one. Why does it bother anyone that you chose not to go and choose not to adore this personage?

You do not have to answer to any human being. You owe no one anything. You owe no action, no answer.

You owe to yourself and to Me to be in your truth. You don't need to follow any one but Me. Love where you love. If the whole world goes to the right, you don't have to. Hold to your heart, and don't let others wound it. Your heart belongs to Me.