Gloria to God:
Dear God, why isn't disentaching my heart from where it wants to go, why isn't that a form of control?
God:
Is letting a kite go control? No. Holding on is control. Releasing is not control.
Gloria:
But aren't I controlling my heart? My heart wants to go somewhere, and I pull it back.
God:
Let your heart go where it goes. Just don't lock it in place.
Gloria:
I'm certainly feeling better, dear God, but my heart is still too heavy and raw.
God:
Only a stubborn heart feels heavy and raw. Hearts are meant to be light and to enjoy.
You grew up thinking hearts were to suffer, that a good heart suffers, a worthy heart suffers.
But a heart is to flow, and when it flows, it is light and joyous.
An anchored heart gets heavy. So let your heart spin.
Do not disentach your heart by force. Simply ask Me:
"Dear Almighty Father, I release this person or persons to your Almighty care. My heart got stuck in someone else's light. I ask You to release our hearts. A heart needs only You. When I think I find my salvation and my validation in another, I have strayed from You. My heart belongs to You. I love others through You.
"I do not insist in having my way.
"Attaching to another human heart is never enough.
"Only You are enough.
"I give You my heart. You assuage it.
"It is not my heart anyway. It is Yours, the library book called my heart.
"My heart is a messenger from You.
"Your heart in mine knows not selfishness because selfishness is not love.
"Selfishness is demanding.
"Love is giving.
"My heart joined with Yours frees all hearts and holds on to none, and none holds on to mine. My heart soars and goes ever higher in a spiral to You.
"My heart is a golden bird of love. I do not cage it. It set it free.
"My golden heart seeks to free other hearts. It asks to own none. It asks to love all.
"By myself, I am unable to do this. With You, it is easy and natural to do.
"So, dear Father, I give You my heart. I ask You to include it with Yours. I ask You to fill me with your love and light so my heart can visit other hearts and leave messages from You.
"I do not own other hearts. I do not even own my own.
"In fact, I own nothing. I free everything.
"I free the world to its dance of folly.
"I free myself from everything the world has taught me and I learned.
"I free the sun and the moon to their course.
"I free everyone who ever hurt me, or so I thought.
"When I free another, I free myself.
"Only someone free can do Your Will to the Highest and Fullest.
"My body can stay in one place, but my heart cannot. I send my love with everyone who leaves my heart, for anyone who entered it enriched it.
"When I release another's heart from bondage to mine, I find that I do not love them less but rather that I love them more.
"When I say, 'I want to hear this person's voice once more, touch the hand, say a few more words,' I am not releasing them. I cannot tell a bird to go and, at the same time, tell it to stay.
"As I release my heart, I release other hearts.
"My heart is God's agent. Love is God's agency. God gave me His heart without holds on it.
"I thank You, Heavenly Father, for all the hearts you have sent my way. I treasure them and, yet, do not keep them. I give back the treasures of their hearts. The treasure does not belong to me.
"Hearts are travelers on a journey. I pack them a lunch, and send them on their way and wish them Godspeed."
Gloria:
Dear God, am I really ever going to solve this one?
God:
Let Me solve it. Turn over your distress to Me, and I show it to you for what it is, which is nothing. Release your heart to Me, and I will show you what a heart really is.
Release your friend's heart to Me, and see what happens.