Nancy L.:

Dear Gloria, Heavenletters continues to feed me spiritually. Bev's recent question was very meaningful for me. As much as I try to turn things over to God, I am still trying to control a great deal. But I think of God a lot, and I feel His love and acceptance. I also still am trying to win others' love, but I do always remember His words: "Do less, BE more."

I feel very blessed recently. I am loving my pottery. Tom helps me so very much. He told me that the next equipment I am going to get is a slab roller!

Gloria:

Dear God, it so wonderful to see evidence of Your workings in other people's lives.

God:

You are seeing evidence of their releasing their own workings. I haven't changed! They have.

Gloria:

So change is up to us. And yet You do it!

God:

I am revving up the motor all the time. You just have to hop in.

Harvey to God:

Dear G-d, this has been a very hard week.

Today I see people harsh with each other at work, tempers flaring, and I have to wonder out loud: isn't this all supposed to be walk and talk? Enjoying the breezes of each other's comfort and support as we all work together? I know we all have to go through what we do, but it hurts to see friends lose their composure, hurt other's feelings, and coolly explain that that's how they are; it's their temperment, or their body type, or they didn't sleep well last night, or they're hungry, as if they are innocent of responsibility for their moods and how they treat other people. They validate their unkind responses, and that is supposed to make it all right.

I can't see the world through rose-colored glasses when it's not rose.

G-d, I am looking for some understanding and guidance on why things are the way they are.

I will always have my idealism, and I wouldn't settle for anything less, but I see lifelessness where I should see life. People around me seem to have lost the bounce in their step and the twinkle in their eye.

It's not so much that something is wrong — it's that I expected so much more.

The community I live and work in seems to take life too seriously. It's not that I'm being critical — I'm not — I want people to experience the joy they claim they're having.

Are people forgetting You?

Love, Your son, Harvey

God:

My dear son, people are remembering Me.

Your heart is disappointed, and sometimes you wonder if you are the only person left in your environs — and further than that — who still looks for "something more" to happen and to be in this lifetime. Your heart sometimes wonders if you are the only one left who is still waiting for Heaven on earth to be alive right beside you. And your heart is sad for those who have left off caring and who are seemingly strewing themselves along the wayside. You are sad for the loss of their dreams, and sad for you, yourself, who wants to participate in something great rather than in a daily grind where hearts and vision don't seem to matter.

And deeper in your heart, you fear that you, too, will become bereft and lose your heart of goodness and harmony along the wayside, for what if bitter is more true than sweet, and gray is more true than rose? Then what? Then you stand at the edge of a cliff with nothing below but emptiness and sorrow and lost dreams.

Fortunately, dear Harvey, rose is true and gray is false. Your dreams are true, and smallness is false.

Sometime ago, long before you were a Heavenreader, I wrote about blessing the flaws, and this is what I say to you now. Bless the flaws and bless the keepers of the flaws, for in that silent blessing, you are blessed, your heart eased, and more truth is known, and more love shared.

Count your blessing that you are a good-natured person. All are not so fortunate. Give others the blessing of seeing beyond where their focus presently is. Caught in the net of the surface of life, they flounder, but you will not.

Now, you recall that when the body is rested, everything seems to go better. Your body rested, your mind is clearer. Your heart beats to a different tune. What seemed dismal in fatigue seems brighter in a refreshed body.

You know what I am leading to. You are caught in the fray, dear Harvey. You are needing more rest. Your tired body is more affected by disharmony than your rested body would ever allow.

Draw away a little from the blunderings at work and return to the big picture that is dimming before you. Never mind what you see around you. See Me.

For I am there. Will you look for Me?

Skip beyond the daily accoutrements. Ask Me to help you with what you want. You want more time for yourself and your family. You want less pressure at work. And you want life to fulfill its golden promise. Keep your eye on what you want, dear son, and don't you take the minor skirmishes so seriously.

I am here. God is in Heaven and on earth. I am within you and within all, in those who are distressed, and in those who do not know they are distressed, and in those who step beyond.

I paint a white sheath around you, dear Harvey, so that dissension at work will not affect you so much.

I would like you to care less about what other people at work think of you. You do not need their love. You have Mine. Does that ease your heart?

Working hard is one thing. Working hard to earn love and appreciation from others is another.

I regard you highly. Regard yourself the same.

You need nothing. You have everything.

You are God's beloved son.