Gloria to Mother Divine:
Dear Mother Divine, two more things about yesterday's topic I'd like to say: 1. Karen reminded me that one of the things that God does through these writings is to help people remember that they can communicate with Him themselves. 2. What difference is there if Jon reads aloud to me from God's writing to him or from God's writing to me?
I also would like to mention that Nancy wrote that the last two entries made her want to put more of her attention on God and to think about praying.
I just want to add that in one game of golf, Jon thinks of God about seventy times!
Mother Divine:
This is the beauty of nonresistance to God. It is called surrender. What you surrender is your stress and strain. So long as you think you can fix life and everyone in it, you store up sorrow for yourself.
When you know that it is God Who feeds you, provides remedies, removes habits, changes settings, makes miracles — When you know that there is no credit you can take, that you are the bystander on the field as well as a player, that you are the game itself —
When you know that God raises the sun in the morning and closes it at night, that He twinkles the stars, that He fathered you and everyone else —
When you know that you are a beneficiary and God is the benefactor —
When you know all these things, then you relax yourself into life like into a tub of warm water, like a bird that flies from one twig to another in perfect serenity, like a traveler whose arrangements are all taken care of — then you are free.
When you stop trying to improve others, hold on to the past or harness the future, conduct the flow of life, pronounce virtue and harbor it as a flag, organize others, determine your will, think you know everything — when you stop all this, then you will know something.
When you hold your hand out to life, when you receive rain or shine, when you alight on love, carry nothing, offer everything — then you are in Heaven.
Heaven is Paradise. You bring it with you.
Paradise is a field of love where poppies grow, where hearts expand, where souls meet, where God lives.
Heaven is a leap from where your feet are to where your heart always stirred.
Heaven is the setting for love. It is the place and time of it.
It is the movement of it.
It is the heralding of it.
Heaven is a swelling of the heart.
It is the stream of life.
Heaven is awake.
It is a magnet of hearts.
It is a lodestone. Everyone is drawn to it.
It is right now.
It hovers in your heart.
Heaven is right beyond a door you closed. Open it. Take everyone with you. Keep no one out.
Sentence yourself to Heaven. Lock yourself in where there are no locks. There is nowhere else to go.
It is everyone's destination, source and destination.
You have never flown far from it. It is never out of sight. Always within earshot. You hear its song. You see where it lies in the distance. Go to it.
Heaven is like communicating with God. It is always within your reach. You just have to realize it is and venture to accept it, to throw away what you have learned about yourself from the world, and to accept God's version of you. If you cannot accept it as truth, at least accept it as a possibility of truth. Then usher in Heaven as you are ushered into it.
Heaven is like a big heart. There is room for all.
Your Father in Heaven welcomes you. Please come in. Won't you sit down and stay a while? Take off your shoes and all the burdens you thought you carried. Leave them at the door.
Leap across the threshold. See how easy it is. Tell your friends.
Gloria to God:
Dear God, what is there to say but God, God, God!
God:
There is nothing to say but simply to be. When you can be, when you are, when you are without subterfuge, when you be who you are, when you live who you are, when you see all as it is in Heaven, then what more do you want?
When two become one, what is there to add?
When you bask in the sun, bask in the sun.
When you are offered Heaven, accept it.
Given an apple, eat it.
All is given to you.
Accept that one truth, and your whole life will take on new light.
Your life will change because you will leave no room for fear. The space fear leaves gets filled with love. Love is pure. Fear is tainted love. But love cannot be tainted, so fear is an illusion like all other illusions.
Love is truth, and it is truth that you are My beloved.
I wish to engage you in a journey with Me. Come along. It is not far. It is close at hand. In fact, We are already there. Just notice, Pay attention. I am within you. There is no distance to travel at all. Just look. Open your eyes — or close them — and see Me. I am the heart of you. You go nowhere without Me, and I go nowhere without you. And so We are One, enjoined in love.
Come join with Me. Join Heaven. You belong here. Step right up to Heaven. You are already a member. You are also staff. And you are a guest in Heaven as you are on earth. You are a guest in your own Home. You are guest and host. It is a funny thing how you and I are everything.
Be. Be Mine. In love, We are.