Gloria:
Dear God, in Margaret's question to You yesterday, she mentioned Your being a God of Heart, and I wonder if we have an interpretation of that different from Yours.
God:
I am not a God of pity. I feel sorry for no one. How can I when I see My child's flame of light shining so brightly? How can I when I see the truth of you and the truth of the angels who surround you?
I do not wish a single child of Mine to experience what you call suffering.
A God of Heart is not a doting grandfather who loads you up with candy. (Margaret would say now: "Hey, God, having a loving faithful husband isn't exactly the same as candy.")
I don't think it is good for any one of you to suffer. I don't think that I have to teach you lessons that are good for you regardless of how they pain you. I don't second-guess you all the time. Although I do know better than you what will make your light shine for all to see, I do not superimpose My judgment over yours.
I do allow My children to make their own mistakes, and I do pick up the pieces.
I do care for your evolution, and happiness is the way to it. I do care for your happiness, and I strew roses in your path.
Gloria:
God, why does one person seem to have a golden life and another one's life is wracked with hardship?
God:
Everyone's life has the gold and the tears. The thing is to get wrapped up in the gold, not the tears.
When Margaret unwraps herself from the pain, when she focuses on her blessings, she will multiply her blessings, and her hurts will fade.
When your disappointment in your life is paramount in your mind, when you look at the unfortunate hand you were dealt, you stay in that card game when just outside is a deck of cards filled with aces.
I suggest that all of you write a list right now of what you can thank Me for. Or, if you're mad at Me right now and don't want to thank Me, make it a list of what you are simply grateful for. If you do not feel particularly grateful, then make it a list of what you do not feel so bad about.
Your whole energy will change. You need to do this, too, Gloria.
Gloria:
I will. Now, God, why does one good person have a loving loyal husband and another good person doesn't? Karma, and maybe the world, would say it is somehow their fault.
God:
Karma is a balancing act, but karma is not necessarily all your own. Maybe that was Margaret's husband's karma.
I want to tell you that karma is a word in great favor right now, but often it is seen as a philosophical defeat or as a lucky fluke over which you have no responsibility.
Better to think of karma as the choices you have right now. You have the choice to be happy. That is up to you. No matter what befalls, you can rise above it. That is karma.
Heaven awaits you. Just look up. That is karma.
Angels guide you. What karma!
Translate the word karma into blessing.
Say: "I have God's blessings. This is God's blessing. This is an offering from God. No matter how it seems to me, it is mine to do with as I like and then await other blessings, no matter what their appearance."
As incredible as it may seem, each child of Mine has chosen his hand of cards. It was not foisted on you.
You chose it for a reason, not for no reason, and now you play the hand you dealt yourself, and have fun.
It's only a game of life, the sport of Kings, a play on earth.
The world's judgment says it is bad that a husband leave. The world clucks and tut-tuts, but how do you know it is bad?
What if the world had written a different script, and it was considered bad that a husband stayed and good when he left?
I am a God of Heart and not intellect. Be you a child of heart and not intellect. Intellect imprisons you. Heart frees you.
Consider the possibility that most of your beliefs are self-righteous and incorrect.
Consider the possibility that the events in your life don't have that much to do with you.
Consider the possibility that you wrote your own script and now you can rewrite it.
Consider the possibility that I love and guide you and always have.
Consider the possibility that you have been mistaken in everything you thought.
If you can imagine that, then you can start anew, and take off that sack you have been carrying on your shoulders and replace it with none at all.
You can remove that dark cloud you carry, and replace it with a lovely crocheted shawl that lets light in.
Consider that today your whole deck of cards is scrambled, and you get all aces, and everybody else does too!
Consider that you misread your cards before.
Consider that you chose to see the cards you did.
Consider that no hand was dealt to you, that you pulled out the cards yourself.
Consider that maybe you are not on earth here for yourself but are here to build a pyramid to Heaven.
Consider that I enjoy you.
Consider that I am benevolent.
Consider that I am a Caster of Blessings, and you are a catcher of My blessings, and that your karma is to catch them!
Look today for the love letters I send you in the form of people. Each person you meet has a love letter to give you. Perhaps, if you look in your pocket, you will see love letters that are yours to give.
How many? How many can your heart contain? These love letters from God, given to you to deliver, bear no name on them. They are earmarked for everyone you meet, for you are a deliverer on earth of My messages from Heaven.
Although Heavenletters is not a forum for comments, I am impelled to share with you this email I found this morning. — Gloria
Nancy to Gloria:
Wow! Gloria, what a great question and what a great person Margaret is. Tell her Thank you for sharing her trials with us. I am cheering her on. I sent this message to two of my friends. Margaret is so honest and real. One cannot help but love Margaret. I love her and I want her to be really happy.
Is that because I see myself in Margaret? Is that because I have told myself all my life that, darn it, I CAN do it myself? I don't really need anyone and I certainly don't need God! I am God anyway, aren't I? God is in me so I am part of God. But the God that expressed His love for Margaret would be the God that I would like on my side as well.
I sent this message to my brother David. He has worked so hard all his life and gets nowhere. He is feeling old and tired. I would like to see him soak in the tub and have a fun life. I also sent this Heavenletter to my friend Sue in Boston who is worried about her daughter who has a lot of depression and is sometimes suicidal. Her son has left for California and her daughter for New York City, and she feels very much alone and no longer in control. I hope Margaret's question and God's answer will help her.
Now that people are sending in their questions, Heaven seems livelier. Do you think so, Gloria? What a nice trend. Thank you for all this inspiration. I think of God a lot more than I did before and I am trying to look 'up' more.
Gloria to Heavenreaders:
Yes! I love the interaction. It's also a break to have someone else sitting in the hot seat! Keep your questions coming!
Until we have chat groups up on the Web, if anyone would like to correspond with other Heavenreaders, please give me permission to print your email address here, and I will gladly do so.