Gloria to God:
Dear God, I realize that yesterday, when I was asking You about conscience and different cultures, maybe I wasn't asking from my heart, but rather asking either what I thought was a "good" question or what might have been someone else's question, and wasn't really a question that I cared about that much, more an idle question.
I say this because, when I ask You a heart question, I feel something different when Your answer comes. I FEEL You answering; I feel You answering me, not answering just a question; I feel Your love coming right up at me, almost like my heart sweetens with your answer. But when I ask You a more intellectual question, I feel the answer coming from You but more from a distance.
God:
And, so, the importance of a question and where it comes from. The more your question comes from your heart, the more your heart is filled with the answer. It is that simple. Truth is not fact. Truth is heart. Information informs. A quest for information gives you information. Information is narrower than truth. The more you open your heart, the more your heart is filled.
Gloria:
Yesterday I kept getting the image and the words: "Christ stands strong." I realized that Christ stands strong in You. He was so enormously strong in Your love.
God:
That is what purity is. Great strength of great love. When the nonsense goes, what is left? That is the Christ in you. Your truth. It is said that Jesus had great faith, but what he had was beyond faith. He had totalness of Me. The light he carried and gave was My light shining fully in him. That was all.
You feel some of that same light radiating in you right now. That light is your strength. My light is your strength. Your only strength. There is no other. Not wealth, not success, not friends, not acclaim, not youth. My light stands alone. Christ did indeed stand strong. He stood with Me.
He accepted My light. Candles didn't do it for him anymore. He wanted the Sun, and he took It.
Have and enjoy all the earth things you want. Just don't put your faith in them. They are flowers floating down a stream. They are passing flowers that give you their passing joy.
There is only one thing in the world that is yours and that you can hold on to forever. It is My light.
In fact, you are lit right now. Pulling up the shades is discovering the Light that already shines on you. Pull up the shades all the way and let the Sun in. Move the drapes aside. Open the windows. I am tapping on the panes. Let Me in.
Gloria:
So now the question: How do we open the window for You, dear God?
God:
Think it. Want it. Imagine letting Me in. Imagine letting Me fill your heart and soul with My light. Imagine I fill and surround you. Imagine that with every glass of water you drink, you are drinking My light. Imagine everything you glance at gives you back My light. Imagine every tap of your fingers on the keyboard filters My light in through your fingertips. Imagine that every sound you hear is a whisper from Me, and that the sound of My voice brings you My light. Imagine that My light is the only thing in the universe that exists, and that that is what fills you. Imagine that, and you will be coming closer to the truth. The truth is that you are filled with My light.
You are made in My image. What does that mean? It does not mean that your physical body represents Me. Hardly.
YOU represent Me. And what is that YOU who reflects Me? Where is it located?
Gloria:
Dear God, I was flipping through a book written by a physician, and he was talking about heart cells. He believes that they have memory. He said that the heart is far more than a pump. I felt that he was really saying that the soul exists in the heart, and that You exist, although he did not mention You.
God:
He was saying that a heart has a life of its own. It has purpose. It does keep your body going, but there is more to it.
You reach and receive Me through your heart, and the heart that We speak of here is more than a machine. We could say that the heart is an experiencer and disseminator of My love. The heart is a center of My love. It is a waystation. A holding place. A distributor.
When your heart feels sweetened by My words and My love, it spreads that message through your bloodstream to all your cells. That message is My light. My light tells your cells: "God is here." If your cells did not receive at least some of that message, your body would not exist. [But do not think that when the body dies that that love has been withdrawn. No. The message has shifted to: "God wants you to leave this body and come to Him." It is still a message of My love.]
Good health is the message: "God is here." And the message goes out to all of your cells.
The heart hears this message.
The mind is often the last to know.
When emotions other than love push their way in, when the mind yells other messages louder, the basic message is blocked, cut off, rerouted, deafened. But the message is still there. The light is still there. It does not shut down. It is merely forgotten for a while.
I am a strong force in your life. I am the force of your life. Keep the window of your heart open to Me, My light, My love. When your heart is fully opened to Me, the other stuff cannot get in. When your heart is partially closed, or wary, the other stuff comes in. The more open your heart is, the stronger you are, and the more vulnerable to Me.
So just be aware of Me as I work through you. I am in the palm of your hand. Press your hand to your heart, and know I am there. Your heart pulses My love and light through you.
When Jesus said, "This is my blood," he meant that everything is the light and love of God. Everything is it and contains it. Bread as well, for how could it nourish your body without My love in it?
Let this be a day in which you recognize that all matter is My light. Let this be a day in which you recognize that you individually and collectively are made of My light, and that is all you are made of. Accept this, and your life will be transformed. What is self-love but awareness of that?