You are the same Being night and day. Whatever the appurtenances of your surroundings, you are the Being you are. In sun or shadow, you are My Being. In peace or aggravation, you are My Being. Appreciate Our Being, and you will be at peace.

Inasmuch as you are magnificent Being, why do little incursions jostle you? Someone is rude to you, and you are distraught. You drop your pencil, and that is an annoyance. Beloveds, consider all the occasions when you are treated well. Consider all the times of the day you do not drop your pencil.

Cry over spilt milk once, not twice. Cups and lips do meet most of the time. What is the relationship of your imagined fears to their appearance? Imagine otherwise. Imagine reaching the top of the mountain. I can see you here. I can see you standing beside Me. I can see your eyes absorbing the wonder of the vista before you. I can see you as a giant of love. Giant of love, you are gentle with those who are not yet as tall as you.

Why be aggravated because someone is short-tempered with you? Are you annoyed because you are tall and someone is short? Would you not like to pull someone up to your height? How would you do that but gently? Would you prove to someone that they are short and need to be taller when you can just lift them up by the swell of the love in your heart?

You swat flies, but Human hearts, no, don't.

Let go of annoyance.

You are a freewheeling agent. When you are not attached to what occurs, gears are not caught and wheels spin easily. Consider your aggravations like sticks stuck in the spokes of your wheel. Well, what is aggravation but an interference with the cycling of love? Why would you allow anything to interfere with the rotation of Our love?

The harder the situation, the more cause for love. No one outside you is to set boundaries on the love in your heart. Your heart is not meant to be upset by snippets. Your heart is not meant to be upset.

You are not on Earth in order to be disgruntled. You are on Earth to rise above trifles. You are on Earth to rise to your natural height. You are on Earth so that you may grasp Heaven. The rungs of the ladder to Heaven are not made of annoyance and self-righteousness and other such piffling things. Irritation will never get you to where you want to be. It won't get you out of where you are either. Annoyances don't go away because you are annoyed with them.

All the annoyances in your life are arrows pointing you to another direction. When was it ever that resistance was the way to meet life? You are not to fight that which bothers you any more than you are to fight that which gives you love.

The cure for your own aggravation is to be less aggravated. Compassion will take the place of aggravation. How can aggravation enter where there is compassion? Compassion isn't soupy emotion. Compassion is understanding. It is not making excuses for another. It is simply not dancing to their tune.

When a short person cannot reach the top of the refrigerator, you are not impatient. You find a stool for them to step on, or you lift them up in some way. You do not scorn them for their lack of height. And so when someone is short on patience with you or lacks general courtesy, then look for a way to raise them higher. You have many occasions for this. Learn how. Do not wait for someone else to be gracious. You are the one to be gracious. Life will afford you plenty of opportunity to meet annoyance with grace.