Gloria to God:
Dear God, what would You like to tell us this morning?
God:
The whole universe is shifting. It is not My children alone who shift, who move into another notch in the direction of Heaven.
A parade is moving towards Heaven, be its name known or not.
Gloria:
Someone had asked the question: "Would you ask God what the meaning of the astrological Grand Cross is that we supposedly moved into on August 11?" Your reply was: "Why do you want to know?" Was this question about the shifting you refer to now?
God:
All questions are about yourself. Let them be that.
Gloria:
Sandra wrote that she is asking herself the questions you told her to in regard to her losing weight.
God:
Questions are spurs to growth. Questions of yourself bring honesty to your doorstep. The closer you get to truth, the closer you get to Me. Uncovering truth is uncovering Me.
You can always ask yourself: "What is my real question?" Or: "What is it I don't want to surrender today? What falsehood? What defense? What pretense? What detour am I on?"
Ask Me. Ask yourself. Refrain from asking others. The responsibility and discovery are your own.
Gloria:
Jon has some ideas on how to promote his golf instruction; I guess some other people shot down his ideas.
God:
This is what the world does. It points out impossibilities. It tells you why not. The world is rife with No.
Public opinion is no opinion at all. Public opinion is public judgment. It is logically labeled fear.
The world tells you to stay in the same place.
Nature makes you shift.
Ask your real questions, and ask them of the One Who can answer. Do not ask for guarantees. Ask yourself, "What is my real agenda here? What question do I shy away from? What am I afraid to know and, therefore, ask?"
When you dance, you have to lift your feet. You have to move. You do not ask ahead of time: "Exactly where will my foot touch the floor? Will there be a squeak in the floor there? What if I should lose my balance? What if I take a wrong step?"
Better to take a "wrong" step than no step at all. Better to dance with life than sit on the sidelines. You can lose your balance on the sidelines as well.
Don't let your intellect drag you down.
Another good question to ask yourself is: "How much do I want this? Why do I want this? Do I want this? Am I looking for reasons to do, or reasons not to do?"
When you started meditation, you did not ask anyone for their opinion. You knew very well the answers you would get.
When you started HEAVEN, Love Letters from God, you started it from the fullness of desire.
Nothing gets started from the fullness of fear.
Gloria:
God, this brings me to a question about "supposed to". Yesterday a lady told me she had gotten her former job back, and now she knows that she is "supposed to" be there.
I hear "supposed to" a lot, and I wonder why it rankles me.
God:
Why do you think?
Gloria:
Well, it's like there is only one answer, and the responsibility isn't the person's own somehow, like finding your way is a question of finding the X put there for you, rather than deciding your own X and putting it there.
God:
It is both. You decided your X, and you found it. Work for Me is inevitable.
You hitched a ride, let's face it. You got on the car with the X. You got on the car your heart wanted in answer to Mine.
Supposed to? Say you were lucky.
Perhaps when people say "supposed to", they are really saying: "Look, God is responsible for me. Look what He did for me. He gave me this chance. He put me here. God loves me."
That is not untruth!
What bothers you about "supposed to" is a simulation of surrender where surrender may not be.
They say: "I am doing God's Will" while they may be looking for proof of it.
They could perhaps more truthfully say: "I didn't know what else to do. I'm glad about this. I hope it's God's Will. I hope there is a God, and I hope He favors me.
"Supposed to's" have become cliché.
Clichés rankle you. Always have.
They are a pat answer, a plausible commendation impossible to argue with.
Never mind other people's clichés. Come back to yourself.
Gloria:
Dear God, what is the difference between judging others and saying what I don't like? When I say hearing "supposed to's" rankles me, am I judging?
God:
You feel some untruth, and you are uncomfortable with contradictions and your own contradictions and questions it stirs.
When someone says, "I got this job, and I know I'm supposed to be here," say: "I'm happy for you."
Today, find three occasions to say: "I'm happy for you."