Gloria to Mother Divine:
Dear Mother Divine, what would you like to tell me this morning?
Mother Divine:
You are spinning on top of the world. You pirouette. You spin so fast, the world spins faster, spun by your toe. You spin the world. It spins so fast, it is still. No seeming motion.
All in the universe is spinning and seems still. All vibrates. All is light.
Shadows are imagined interruptions of the spinning. Shadows are a vertical line intruded, like a shadow of a stick that takes your eyes off Heaven. You look down at your feet, and your spinning becomes uneven. From looking down, it does. The spinning becomes uneven, not from the stick and the shadows that are imaginary, but from your looking down at your feet.
Feet are followers of the mind. The mind does not follow feet. But trudging through life is following you feet. Feet may trudge, but hearts must not.
Hearts must spin and spin light. Hearts must rise to Heaven, and then feet will be light, paths lit, desires assured, fulfilled, and smooth.
Feet hold you to earth. Bless them. Hearts hold you to Heaven. A ray of light from the top of Heaven to the soles of your feet runs through you and balances your being.
Look up, and you will be balanced. Look down, unbalanced.
You are not plucked by an unseen hand from joy to sadness. You look up, or you look down.
Earth is spun off from Heaven. Too much attention on earth pulls your heart down. Earthly pleasures are like a siren who tempts and seduces you and then abandons you to loss and dismay.
But you know all about that.
What you didn't know, until you did know, is that all that is necessary is to look up and let God look at you. Receive His light in your eyes, and the world is transformed by that light of God's in your eyes.
The world is well-lit by God.
The downtrodden look down. There is no vista there. There is just underfoot, and you want to be under Heaven.
Look high, and you will be on high.
Gloria:
You don't mean to look ahead, do you?
Mother Divine:
Looking ahead and looking back keep you where you are. Where you are then is where you were and heads you nowhere.
You are a spinning light and are not made to stay still.
Gloria:
I saw a small part of a movie on TV — The Man Went up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain. The gist of it was that the townspeople wanted their hill to be 1,000 feet so it could be called a mountain. In order to have their hill qualify, they pulled buckets of earth to the top of the hill.
The project united the people, but I couldn't get the point of the pride in it.
Mother Divine:
Pretense lulls the seeking heart. Pretense is like a new bicycle. It keeps your mind off what you are missing.
Gloria to God:
Dear God, I am coming to the end of the Workbook Lessons in A Course in Miracles. It is a 365-day workbook. At the beginning, it seemed like the end was so far away. I think it teaches patience, a day at a time. And then I near the end, and I wonder how I can get along without it. This is the second time I have been through the workbook. Well, I will excerpt from what is titled "The Final Lesson".
A Course in Miracles, The Final Lesson:
"Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons. As to Him we give our lives henceforth.
"It is His way that everyone must travel in the end…In the dream of time, it seems to be far off…
"Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world…
"It is our function to remember Him on earth…
"We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised…We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream…
"We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us learn His lessons…
"[God says:] 'This is My Son, and all I have is his.'
"Those are His own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these Words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in Eternity."
God:
Gloria, life in the world is the course in miracles.
In Heaven are no miracles because full joy is full joy, and full love is full love. From where or how can a miracle arise in Heaven?
The miracle on earth is forgiveness, that sweet letting go of imagined woe. Accompanying this sweet letting go is acceptance of the peace of Heaven.
Unforgivingness is resistance to truth. Unforgivingness holds on to a red toy fire truck and says it is real.
Forgiveness is the melter of hearts. Hearts must melt, or they become barriers. Hearts are meant to embrace. Stiff hearts hurt themselves. Hearts, soft and tender, merge with other hearts, and find their happiness. There is no exception to this.
Unforgiveness is self-righteousness, and what a distancer that is.
When someone feels alone, abandoned, distressed, you can be sure he has tightened his heart against love. A protected heart, reinforced, armored, barred is a heart that suffers.
An opened heart lets love in and lets love out. It expects nothing but its own flow. The flow is its protector. The openness frees the heart from pain.
A flowing heart does not capture other hearts. It does not hold them to itself. Holding stiffens the heart. Freeing other hearts frees its own.
What is seen as a miracle is a natural occurrence. It seems heightened so you can begin to expand your heart and believe in Me and in yourself. What is seen as a miracle is a pointer to Heaven.
Only bounded stiff demanding hearts can break. Hard hearts get hurt. Flowing hearts free other hearts and own nothing but what is in their heart, which is My love flowing in and out.
Gloria:
Please know that after You say something, although I may go on to another subject, Your words sink in and I hug them and thank You so much. I don't say that every time, but You know I do cherish everything You say.
So, on to another subject. The morning after my focus got clear and other energy was out of me, I got out of bed and ran to the mirror, sure that I would look different! I was surprised I didn't, because how could I feel so different and it not show?
God:
But it will show. Your features won't change. Your presence will. You will carry Me more fully. You have more confidence in Me and your grasp of Me and the power of me within you. You grasp me with your heart. Your presence will reflect My presence.
Facial features? It is the vitality behind facial features. Not your height, weight, or age. What are they? Snippets, like the hair cut from a golden crown, dropped on the floor, no longer pertinent.
I am the Golden Crown. Your body is the snippets. My Golden Crown does not wear out, tarnish or fall from grace.
Later…
Gloria to God:
Dear God, I got incredibly wonderful survey answers back from Nancy. Her comments could not have been more positive. She did a lot for my heart, and she had some dynamite ideas. When all the responses are in — I'm guessing by Wednesday — I will compile the answers and see what we come up with, and where to go from there.
God:
Just keep going, dear Gloria.
Gloria to Mother Divine:
Dear Mother Divine, I started to get random thoughts again today, unnecessary, unproductive thoughts. I wonder if I have other people's energy attached to me again. If so, I would like to request that you and God remove it from me, return it to the sender, and return to me any energy that I may have pinned to them. I'll do a few more things to remove this energy.
Mother Divine:
It's better now; do you agree?
Gloria:
Yes.
Mother Divine:
Now enjoy your evening, encouraged by God's and my love.