Gloria to God:

Dear God, I sense You have more to say on Rudolph's behalf?

God:

Tell him it is not his responsibility to take on his mother's suffering. She takes a pleasure in it that he does not. She has her own choices for happiness as does he.

He remains kind to her, gives her attention, but not at the cost of his own hide.

As he communicates more with her through the mail, he will feel more that he has done his duty, and he will feel more free.

Rudolph feels obligation heavily. It is better not to feel obligation. Sending his mother little reminders of his love for her is good, and he will feel lighter from it. But it will be good for him to change his feelings about obligation, to turn obligation into choice.

Rudolph is a kind man. A heavy sense of obligation makes him feel compressed. He can put on a heavy overcoat or he can wear a light jacket. That is his choice.

If he chooses the light jacket, he will feel more free and therefore more loving.

Rudolph can choose to make giving his mother attention a lighter project. Have him consider it a search on his computer to find another way to do the same thing.

I pour My blessings of love on this man, and ask him to remember My unfailing love for him, and that I ask for his happiness and relinquishment of his enormous sense of duty and responsibility. I wash away his holding on so tight to his perceived duty for his mother's happiness. He is a good son and will continue to be, but he is under no obligation to suffer. All will be well.

Gloria:

Dear God, we are having such rains with such thunder and lightening, and it's been going for so long. It is like rain avalanches.

God:

You feel frightened?

Gloria:

It is scary. And what does it mean?

God:

The balance of earth is rearranging itself. Consider these storms a beneficent thing. Heavy downpour is washing heaviness away. The rain is not punishment.

Gloria:

Is Heaven crying?

God:

There are no tears in Heaven. There is only joy, so that metaphor cannot be true. If you like to think it, that's fine. You can also think that Heaven is washing the skies. And I like that story about thunder and lightening coming from My rearranging furniture in Heaven!

Gloria:

Well, God, I sure like You!

God:

To like and love is much better than worrying about downpours. Think about liking and loving Me instead.

Gloria:

I cannot put what I am reading in A Course in Miracles into any words but its own. It is about not having to defend and about being generous with Your love, but that is not quite it.

God:

It is good enough.

Gloria to Mother Divine:

Dear Mother Divine, what will you say this morning?

Mother Divine:

You can consider the rain my washing my hair! You can consider it water poured from a pitcher with holes in it! You can consider it adding water to clay! You can consider it a pouring down of God's love.

Gloria, you even take the rain personally! Look how serious you are!

I suggest that you thank the rain for coming. Rain knows when to come. Would you like to regulate it? Rain once a week? Light showers twice a week? Just the right amount of rain every night? the right amount being a measuring cup of your design? What else would you like to control?

Don't you have enough to do? I keep hearing you say you have too much to do, and here you are, wanting to take on the rule of the universe. No, thank you, you do not qualify.

Have I put you in your place? Do you have a better view now of how silly you are?

Gloria:

Yes.

Mother Divine:

Are you smiling?

Gloria:

Yes.

Mother Divine:

Good. That is how to deal with rain.