Gloria to God:

Dear God, I don't know what to ask You this morning. I feel content to just be with You.

God:

That is a reflection of My joy in being with you.

Gloria:

There's someone who has done work for HEAVEN, and as part payment or inducement for having to wait to be paid, he has a free subscription.

This person has told me he gets lots of emails, skims HEAVEN, and doesn't seem to find much to connect with. He hasn't asked that his subscription be discontinued, but I wonder about continuing it when it's undervalued.

Is his appreciation less because he didn't pay for it? Am I having too many expectations? Am I being controlling? Is it better that I just continue sending it and pay no mind?

God:

All of those, Gloria, all of those. I will release your attachment. Let this person be free, and you will be free. Not everyone values My creation, but that doesn't make Me think of withdrawing it.

Whether this individual sees it or accepts it or not, HEAVEN has played a good part in connecting him to Me. In other words, through HEAVEN I have pulled him to Me.

HEAVEN is about My lovingness and My reaching out to My children. It is about My availability. I do not stand on ceremony. I do not play hard to get. I just am. I do not have ego or pride or hurt feelings. Why then, do you?

HEAVEN does not belong to you. Did you think it did?

Your role is to take My words down, type, and disseminate them, to make them available as I make Myself available. I am not available to some. I am available to all.

It is not your place to weigh how much HEAVEN is valued when received. It is your place to impersonally, neutrally, send it out.

I assure you that not one word of it is wasted on anyone. If someone tore it up or stomped on it, it still holds its value.

HEAVEN is My heart in words. The paper is nothing. The print on the screen is nothing. I am everything.

The words are My thoughts concretized. My thoughts exist regardless.

Free yourself from owning HEAVEN. You own by giving. Don't give tit for tat. Just give. No strings, and that is what the individual you refer to needs to learn also.

Gloria:

Karen has suggested that it would be good for me to pray for people. I'm not sure I know how to pray, dear God.

God:

Prayer, like HEAVEN, exists beyond words. Consider prayer to be an act of heart in which you turn the person or situation over to Me. Free them to be with Me. Hand them over to Me.

If someone has an illness, for example, give him to Me for healing. I heal. You can't. You can run around all over and do everything you can, but you cannot heal. I do the healing. Doctors do not. No man can.

You cannot make it so that Ginger is free from dependence on insulin, but I can. Ask Me.

When you turn someone or something over to Me, that is prayer.

With prayer, you stop owning. Prayer is not a tribute to Me. It is in giving over your possession. You deed to Me.

Prayer is not your holding on to something. "Fervent" makes conditions. Prayer is not fervent. Do not pray fervently. Pray easily. You mentally move a person or situation from one place to another.

You pray for Ginger as you move her out of your smallness into My greatness.

Whose hands should she rely on, yours or Mine?

Prayer is surrender. In prayer, you surrender to Truth.

Everything you do for little Ginger, you do for Me. I have hired you to love her and grant her happiness. So it is I Who manages her care. Do you understand?

Prayer acknowledges Truth. There is more than body. You as individual govern nothing. That is why control must be given away. Control is a pretense, and pretense creates strain. Pretense is a lie.

Prayer is more than reaching out to Me. It is giving to Me what you value. Prayer is a gift to Me. Before prayer, you carried weights that were not yours to carry. With prayer, you deliver the weight to the One to Whom it weighs nothing.

Gloria:

Dear God, in prayer then, if I give over to You, that means I do not try to control the outcome?

God:

Yes.

Gloria:

If I pray that you cure Ginger so that her body can make its own insulin, is that an incorrect prayer?

God:

It is a limited prayer. Better to give Ginger over to My care. Pray:

"Dear Almighty Father, here is our little dog Ginger. I turn her over to You. She is Yours anyway, but I relinquish the illusion that I know what is right for her. I very much want her to live in good health without the need for insulin shots. That is my desire and my need. If You, in Your vision and wisdom, choose otherwise, then I ask You to take away her fear of the needle and any pain it causes her. I thank You for insulin. I thank You for putting Ginger under our care, and we know that she is, above all, under Your care.

"Help us to know how to make her life richer and help her to know You Who loves her. I remind Ginger that You are her God, and that Lauren and I are Your helpers.

"I pray that Ginger knows what a gift she is to us, and how much we love her and appreciate all she has done to teach us the way of Your heart.

"We thank her for all You have taught us through her. And we thank You for listening and loving us and our friends, and may everyone know the sweet intimacy of Your love, Lord."

Gloria:

God, in this prayer the singular "I" kept turning into the plural "us". At first I thought it was Lauren and me, and then I thought it was more.

God:

It is more. The "we" is all My children. You speak for all, as all speak for all. Your offering of prayer is an offering of healing for the world, don't you know that?