Gloria:
Dear Holy Mother, what will you to tell me this morning?
Mother Divine:
You slept in my arms last night. You covered a lot of ground. We traveled is what I mean to say. We traveled back and forth. You saw the beauty of no space and no time.
Gloria:
Dear Mother, why don't I feel wonderful then?
Mother Divine:
You are lagging. You hold back. You haven't chosen happiness. Do you perhaps feel you are not worthy of joy?
Gloria:
That could be. Is there total joy? Does anyone have it?
Mother Divine:
Yes. Total joy does not mean free of aggravations along the way. It means God is vibrant and recognized in your heart every minute. Where God is is joy.
Where is your heart? On the gross relative or with God? Where do you, my child, choose to put your heart?
Aggravations do not have to aggravate. You can let them sink their teeth into you, or you can see them for what they are.
Choose joy. You go to a party, and you go up to someone to talk to. You can go up to Joe or to Fred. Which do you choose?
It is the same. Do you go up to Joy or to Sadness or Irritation? Tell yourself to go up to the one you want.
Of course, you can switch back and forth, from Joy to Sorrow, from Sorrow to Joy, but Sadness doesn't need you. It has many followers, whereas Joy is looking for partners.
Go with Joy or go with Sorrow. You can leave the party with whichever one you choose. Either will go with you willingly.
Sorrow is a disappointment, however. You find it is a lagger. It goes around, not doing much, not going anywhere.
But Joy introduces you to her friends, and she is a dancer, a sharer, and she shares a lightness with souls. Joy likes to live life, relish it, make a toast to it. La Chaim!
Gloria:
Dear Mother Divine, I wonder if it is better for me to capitalize pronouns referring to you, as I do with God? I have not been.
Mother Divine:
It is not necessary, dear one. It is for you that letters are capitalized. They are a way for you to show reverence. Capital letters don't matter to me at all, and I know your reverence, so don't bother.
Later…
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 286:
"The hush of Heaven holds my heart today… Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine."
God:
I am God who speaks. There is naught but My Love in the whole world, if Truth be known. But Truth is not known, and you see non-love and cruelty, and pain and suffering. The thing to do is to put your attention on the love and the evidence of it.
That is why inspirational works are helpful.
Look to the good.
Mother Divine:
This is Mother Divine speaking.
Sweet is our love. Sweet is the flow of love. So gentle, so easy, so air-like is our love. So water-like. Almost not a passing from one to the other. More like an immersion. More like a oneness.
Love is a sweet fragrance. That is how light it is, how permeating. It is in the air, and it lands everywhere.
Any drop of love benefits all. One drop of love uplifts the mainstream of life. The time will come when all will know all love, and nothing but love will be known or heard of.
"Hate? Anger?" they will say. "What are they? Why would anyone want those? Why would they have them? And keep them?"
How absurd is anything but love! Why would one want anything else?