A Course in Miracles, What Are the Levels of Teaching?:

"The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same: to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other."

Gloria to God:

Dear God, this explains those who begin a spiritual practice, how Karen came into my life. This explains everything!

God:

Love explains everything.

Gloria:

It's like a master plan train schedule that works like clockwork. All the things that happen are inevitable, it seems.

God:

What you do with them is yours. Meditate now, and then come back and we'll talk some more.

Later…

Gloria:

Dear God, I meditated, and I'm back. I fell asleep and had such vivid dreams about someone from the past and his children. In the dream, his two little girls who are still seven and eight while I am myself now, lit candles in a little room for me as such a nice surprise. And then the older high school daughter who in real life so many years ago had been distant came over to me and gave me a sweet kiss. I started to cry in the dream, remembering her tears at her mother's funeral.

And now I'm crying, which I have sort of wanted so I could release some of the tension I've been feeling.

God:

In that dream you resolved some of the past, and you said goodbye to it. You know it's closure.

Gloria:

Dear God, I wonder if the daughter in the dream is a symbol of Lauren and her return to sweetness?

God:

In dreams, Gloria, you can have any interpretation you want, and it is true. It is your dream.

Gloria:

Dear God, Ginger is digging into my notebook so I can hardly write!

God:

Go feed her and Sunshine. We will talk more tonight. Meanwhile, I go with you. Carry Me in your heart. Let My heart sing in yours. What matters the surface when you have Me singing within?

When Karen says she wants you to not take things so seriously, she wants you to put things in a proper perspective. You do that by carrying awareness of Me in your heart.

I have promised you peace and happiness. Feel them descending on you now. Feel them all day, within you and without.

The sun shines for you. Angels and birds sing for you. And I sing in your heart.

Gloria:

Dear Mother Divine, I would like to tell you three nice things!

1. I have an answering machine that takes full-size tapes so I can record what Karen says when she does a session. The answering machine wouldn't rewind properly or fast forward. In my trying to figure out what was going on, I let the tape I had in there play for a while. The tape turned out to be from maybe ten years ago when Alan Reminick did my Jyotish astrology. This is what I heard (and had forgotten):

"You will be writing spiritual things."

I said in the tape, "But I write fiction!"

And Alan repeated, "And you will be writing spiritual things."

And he was right, and that came true.

2. Today, a lady whose name I can't remember, came up to me and said, "Ministers administer God's Will."

Why would I have heard those few lines from the tape and why would that lady have come up to me except that I was to be reminded and reinforced?

3. Karen didn't pull any punches. She said I was controlling too much, and that's causing my tension. I'm causing it.

How many friends in the world are there who really tell you the truth? And this one not only does that but happens to know a lot!

Mother Divine:

How many friends indeed!

Gloria:

I will say more about what Karen said in the morning.