Gloria to God:
Dear God, a HEAVEN reader asked what happens when people get mad at You?
God:
Perhaps they have no one else to get mad at. Their hurt, disappointment, and anger have to be displaced somewhere because they cannot contain it within.
How virtuous a human being feels when he shakes his finger at Me! But everything serves a function. Even when someone does battle with Me, he is trying to make a connection with Me. His heart is trying. He is trying to be heard, but he cannot hear Me. It is like he dials a phone number, lets it ring a second, and then his finger hangs up the connection. He talks into the phone, nevertheless, and makes his speech. Of course I hear him. I see his rantings for what they are, a human cry for understanding and love and wanting his will to be fulfilled.
He is like the toddler who wants his way and stamps his foot and says he will run away. He does not understand why he cannot have what he wants to have, and he expresses his frustration because someone bigger than he has blocked his desire.
This is not to compare a human being's desire for the continued life of a loved one, for example, to a child's desire for a ride on a fire truck. The frustration, partial vision, inability to understand, and the apparent injustice are the same.
As to what happens when someone beats his chest against Me is that he beats his chest against Me.
My love for him on the train of eternity he rides doesn't waver. My feels are not hurt, and I certainly am not "put out" by the display. I am aware of it, but what I see is a part of Myself hanging on to a train as best it can at that moment. My love surrounds him, as always.
I look for and await the moment when he puts his hand in Mine. When he sees My hand offered to him. When he looks beyond the body. When he looks beyond the hull of earthly life and glimpses an horizon at the tip of his fingers. When He feels a touch of My love for him. When he feels a touch of his love for Me. When he begins to turn his head towards Me. When he dials and lets the phone keep ringing. When he unplugs his ears. When he takes off his mask. When he says, "Hey, God, I want to know You." When he steps into today.
Gloria:
Dear God, when someone wants me to ask You a question, and the question is theoretical, or they see it as a good question to ask but it is not really their heart's question, it's hard for me to ask it of You. I feel wooden sort of.
God:
Give Me an example.
Gloria:
Someone says, "Ask God about Y2K," and I don't want to. If they say, "Ask God what's the way to deal with a difficult parent," I have resistance. If they say, "Ask God what on earth I can do to get along with my mother," then I want to ask You right away!
God:
Two things here.
One, you deal with particulars. You do not know how to generalize or abstract. You relate to the specific.
Two, you deal with relationships and feelings. You deal with personal. You deal with questions of the heart. That is what speaks to you.
Unless you pick up the heart value of a question, you wonder why it's asked. That a question may be a good question isn't enough to trigger you.
Here's what you do. When someone asks you, "Ask God about Y2K," say, "What makes you want to ask that question?"
If they say, "Just curious," you sense that they don't really care about the question. Then you are unable to ask Me from the truth of your heart, and that is what you want.
If they answer you, "I am so afraid and confused. I don't understand things like war and Y2K, and I feel powerless," then your heart runs to ask Me on their behalf.
If a question through email sits before you and you cannot ask anything of the person just then, ask yourself, "Why does this human being ask this question?" And there may be the beginning of a question to Me.
You do not have to ask every question brought to you, but you can try to put yourself in the reader's shoes and respond to his unexpressed heart.
Gloria:
Dear God, I feel the same thing about asking you questions based on A Course in Miracles now, for without the passages, my questions just sit in the air. The grip of love isn't there. Christ's exact words make my heart sing, but a thought from A Course in Miracles by itself does not.
God:
When you have a deep heart question related to A Course in Miracles, you will ask. Otherwise, you are trying to teach. A Course in Miracles can educate, but you cannot.
Continue your daily reading, and Christ's words will become a part of you.
Gloria to Mother Divine:
Dear Mother Divine, will you bless us all with your love this morning?
Mother Divine:
It is only possible to bless all. Like mountain climbers, you are all connected. When one is helped, all are.
When one child of God is blessed, all receive the blessing.
And since God gives only blessings, all are blessed. Since God gives only love, all are loved.
When Christ rose to the heighths of his humanness, he made it achievable for all.
How it is achieved is by taking off the shackles. Jesus was the God man for what he removed. He removed blinders. He removed others' thinking from his own. He closed an imagined gap between him and his Father. He separated the wheat from the chaff, and he emerged a whole man because of what he discarded.
He appeared naked before God, without subterfuge, without opinions, with aspirations. He appeared before God as willing clay, unmoldable by the world, but bending in God's hands. And that is what all want and all will have.
Gloria:
Mother Divine, Karen said that questions themselves create a powerful shift in someone. Is it the person's having the question? Is it his voicing the question? Is it his voicing it for someone else? Is it hearing his own question in someone else's?
A book I have read says, "Within the question is the answer." What is a question anyway?
Mother Divine:
Questions are a quest. "Seek and ye shall find." Questions are the seeking. A question looks for something. It is a grand thing to ask a question. All questions are saying, "Teach me, God, for I don't know."
Karen is correct that the question causes a shift. Or, perhaps, the shift causes a questions!
When someone can hear another's question, it becomes his own. It is good to not know all the answers. That is a beginning.
Gloria:
I have another Karen-related question! Karen thinks I channel. I don't think I channel. I think you and God talk to me, and I hear. God called me a funnel once, and I can accept being a funnel. I like being a funnel, but I don't funnel. I don't do anything like channeling.
Mother Divine:
You are hung up on a word. You associate channeling with a séance or a formal effort and procedure while your receiving what we say is simple, effortless, and natural.
If you are uncomfortable with a word, you don't have to use it.