Gloria to God:
Dear God in Heaven, so far I do not seem to be able to love without attachment, without clinging, without my needs. In theory I know that love is not need, or needing, or needing to be needed, and yet that is what I do.
Please help me to love and not attach. Please help me to be neutral to all but You.
God:
Being neutral is not a question of protecting the heart, yours or another's.
Neutral is your attention on Me.
Neutral is walking with Me.
Neutral is putting no Gods before Me.
Neutral is being rather than doing.
Now you walk through life without accumulation.
You collect no trophies. You hold on to nothing. You do not hold up the world nor does it hold you.
Walk with Me, and nothing clings to you. Walking with Me is fast. Walk with Me, and you cling to nothing.
Attaching yourself to others for love is stopping at wayside inns instead of moving into the palace.
Gloria:
I do not know how NOT to stop at the wayside inns.
God:
Ask yourself what you want. That is how you do it. Do you want to attach yourself to Me or to something along the way?
At first when you come with Me, it is for yourself. Then you find yourself coming with Me, and you don't know why. And then you find yourself coming with Me for Me. That is when you are not swept up or held down.
Go for the real lollipop, Gloria.
Your heart is not a piece of pie to be divided. Your heart belongs to Me because I am its other half, no other.
Put your stock in me.
I am the Validator.
You walk in a House of Mirrors. With Me you find the way you in and so the way out.
What you personally want or think you need are traps set for you. You think you can lose something or never have it, and so you invest in false stock.
Look not to people for love. Looking for love is a lot of work for nothing.
Remember what you are here for. You are not here to collect hearts for yourself.
Love is not snapped in or strapped in. Love does not own or be owned. Love belongs where it finds itself.
Your heart is hurting right now because you hold on to people-love for dear life. Love, like a butterfly, is not the same caught in a net as it is alighting on a leaf.
Invest your energy with Me, and you will not have to steal another's.
You did not see this coming. If you were looking to Me, it would not have come. Attachment is illusory, and I am not.
Nothing is changed. You have been betting on hobbled horses all your life. That is what attachments are.
Gloria:
Dear God, I still really don't know how to love without attachment.
God:
Gloria, there is no how to love. There is love. There is no bond to love, no manual.
Love another human being for Me, and you will not be attached. You do not "have" anyone anyway.
If you are attached, you have to become unattached, and the human heart thinks that hurts.
Gloria:
My heart feels cramped.
God:
Uncramp it, and let love flow.
Gloria:
I do not know how to care without being involved.
God:
Involvement is giving or taking. Love is neither. Love is being. Love is not measured or boxed.
Gloria:
What about commitment?
God:
Commitment is not obligation. Commitment is to Me. Pledge your troth to Me.
Marriage is a contracted arrangement. Love is not.
You have felt that you are going in too many directions all at once. Now, come with Me.
Gloria:
Dear God, I still don't know how to care without caring, to love without being attached, to be involved without being involved.
God:
That is what you are learning. Put your faith in Me. That is the same as looking to Me.
You are a sun, and your rays shine out from your center. Your rays do not glom onto one direction, making a bump in one area and a gap in another.
The sun shines equally. What it shines on does not make it shine. Its nature is to shine. It shines from inside.
Karen once said that "Faith in yourself is faith in God". Have faith in yourself more than in another, and you will stay intact.
When your light focuses on an individual above others, your light is weakened.
Be a pure full sun. Look not for answers in others. Look not for solace. Look not for love. Look for Me.
Anything else is stolen, and will sooner or later leave you bereft because it never belonged to you.
Gloria:
Is this co-dependency I'm going through?
God:
I don't know co-dependency. I know it is good to depend on Me and no other.
Gloria:
In a way, I feel I was sort of set up; I was invited in, and now I'm not.
God:
No one sets up another. One sets up themselves. It is like taking a potion. You take it, and it wears off, and you are reminded of your strengthened connection to Me.
You flounder in an ocean. I offer you a rope. You see many beautiful strings, many gold and shiny, but there is only one rope that will hold you.
Let your love shine from your center, and you are indeed in My image. Love. Not this one, that one. Be love.