NOTE about God's answer below: Tina's question to her "Dear Beloved Source of All Love and Creation" was about her vocal chords which were severely damaged by illness a few years ago. She used to be quite a singer. She considers having surgery to repair her vocal chords, but wonders if surgery would be depriving herself of divine intervention. She also talked about her attachment to her former husband. The following is excerpted from Tina's own personal Godwriting. — Gloria
God:
Tina, Precious Singer of Praise to Me:
Yes, Robert came to teach you how firmly your mind has been overshadowed by belief that something must be healed. Dear Tina, you cannot be My true and faithful servant and messenger when you are compromised by belief that something must be healed. Hearts must be thrown wide open to radiate My Love. If the mind is constantly seeking evidence of illness and disorders which need intervention and healing, be alerted to the reality that the human intellect is bypassing the Heart.
When you have the urge to ask questions with operative words like "depriving" and "intervention", control is afoot! The intellect has been gripped by a sense of lack, and the driver is unconscious.
Sweet Tina, you have been so long operating on your gentle mind and trying to heal it. Rest! Bask in My care. My Christmas gift to you is Joy. There will be beautiful music. Angels don't have paralyzed vocal chords. Be the gift. Be the instrument. Allow Me to play you, and you will know joy this season of New Beginnings.
Begin life anew, in the truth that all is truly in My Care. All is wellness. There is no divine intervention. Intervention only exists in the mind of one who has lost faith in My Perfect Love.
Gloria:
Wow, dear God! You are amazing. How clearly You appear in Godwriting. How clearly Your truth rings a bell.
God:
Truth is known.
Gloria:
There is no divine intervention.
God:
When it goes on all the time, it is not intervening. Fear blocks the daily flow of My love. It is that simple. That is why faith is so important. Faith and fear do not co-exist. One erases the other.
Gloria:
Nancy mentioned that her husband might be laid off. She said something about having faith that You would help her husband find a new job.
God:
Having faith in Me is bigger than in a husband's finding a new job. That is a limiting desire. The only way Nancy — and most — know of income is through a job. That is too narrow a desire. Limiting is always controlling. It is seeing only one way. It is hard for Me to be limited. It is contraction. You cannot contract God. The boundless is boundless.
Gloria:
I am the same about my daughter's finding a job.
God:
And you are aware of how weak that thought makes you feel.
It is like healing as in My answer to Tina. Thinking that healing must take place is questioning My Almightiness. Thinking that husband or daughter must find new job and that I will provide it is not faith. Simple awareness that I will provide is faith. How I will provide, you leave to Me. That is faith.
Details are best left to Me. That is faith.
Gloria:
But, meanwhile, it's better to look for work and not just wait.
God:
Look for service to Me.
Gloria:
Yes. But I was talking to someone yesterday who loves to serve You. When she was in India at the ashram of a lady saint, she saw the poverty of the devotees. They wore rags and trusted that food would come, and she could not live that way. Now she is happiest in service to a spiritual organization here, and equates that with "no money". Service, but no money. Service=no money.
God:
She needs to equate business with service. She still has disdain for money-making although she values money. Even the manufacturer of shoelaces is giving great service to My children who need shoelaces for their shoes. The company that provides telephone service serves My children. You used to coach people on finding work. Garbage men serve Me as well as priests. All is service.
You have to be doing something during the day.
Gloria:
But it is so easy to write Heavenletters, and now I don't want to help people find work.
God:
This is where I placed you. The lady you speak of places herself. Ego, in her case, doesn't want to do less than work carrying the name spiritual. She can find spiritual in work named business. She feels an ordinary job is a sacrifice. She feels she will be less. With faith in Me, she can scrub floors and feel as worthy.
Gloria:
She has scrubbed floors.
God:
This lady looks at her concepts of spirituality more than she looks at Me.
Gloria:
I had no idea what today's HEAVEN would be about.
God:
I did.
Gloria:
I do have a question I wanted to ask You.
God:
Ask.
Gloria:
This has happened with two people recently. They want me to ask You questions on their behalf. They are happy to have them published here, but they want their names changed to protect their privacy.
God, is it my control that makes this not seem right to me? The idea has been that if someone doesn't want their name used, then the standard rate for personal questions applies.
In both of these cases, I feel they are being silly. I mean, no one is going to know it's them anyway, and nobody cares if they did!
I would change, and I do, names of other people involved. And, if the questioner were having an extra-marital affair or something and her husband reads Heavenletters, I would change the name without question.
Otherwise, it just seems to me that something isn't right to disguise the asker's name. Am I the one being stubborn or are they?
God:
The question here isn't your stubbornness. That is another issue.
The question here, and what bothers you the most, is the fear that their desire to hide their identity indicates. Of course, it is ungrounded. All fear is. All fear is. But, in these cases, it obviously is.
If their fear is greater than their desire to ask, or if they don't wish to donate to Heaven Association for a confidential inquiry, then that is their choice. Maybe they don't really want their questions answered.
Invite them to an Ask God workshop, and they can ask Me themselves in total privacy.
Gloria:
I have.
God:
And eventually they will come.
Today we have gone from faith to jobs and money and secrecy and back to faith. As I am the answer to questions, so is faith. Faith is looking solidly in one direction. Fear is looking anyplace but.
It may be that the fear of looking up at Me surpasses all others, and that fear is fear of one's own lack of worth. It's funny — you believe you are unworthy, and are afraid I will confirm it. The falsest fear of all, because I will proclaim your worthiness. When you accept your worthiness, fear will flee. When you accept your worthiness, you will know truth. When you accept your worthiness, you will be faith.
Faith is inner knowing. It is knowing We are One. Know Me, know yourself. Know yourself, know Me. We are One, indivisible, but multiplied. We can multiply, but not divide. We are One magnified. We are One Magnificent. We are a magnificent whole. Holy are you. Divine are you. Worthy are you. You were born worthy. I ordain you worthy.
I ordain you My beloved blessed holy child. You.
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Nancy L. to Gloria:
Dear Gloria,
Wow! What an email from Karen! She told you, didn't she? Even called you Hammerhead. I, too, worry about money. I'm a hammerhead too. What a message to trust and have faith, and ask.
Julie to Gloria:
Dear Gloria,
Oh, this thing of faith! I struggle every day to have more and be in God's presence instead of the world's influence. I appreciated the message today from Karen. When you know Karen you can sure hear her talk through her email, can't you? Don't you just wonder how it could be so easy to heal one's self? Guess it is the faith of a mustard seed idea.
Sandra to Gloria:
Dear Gloria,
Thank you so much for sharing Karens e-mail with us. Reading her strong words of faith make it seem so easy. Also she reminds me that faith is not an intellectual or head game.
Gloria, this has got to be the hardest test of our life. We really believe, want to believe, or don't believe. Pick one. Then after we pick, it doesn't seem to hold.
I can really identify with what I call whooshes of fear.
You know how people have personal trainers or coaches? I think I need a God teacher with me all day to keep me focused.