Diane to Gloria:
I am so touched by God's response to Bev about her relationship with her mother. How wonderful to let her mother be where she is, a lesson I learned with Molly.
A term I learned recently in my gratitude group seems to apply — Divine Discontent — the darkness that brings us back to the light. The darkness which gives birth to desire for connection.
Bless you, Bev, and bless your mother, too.
God:
Divine everything, Diane.
Gloria:
Dear God, Kathy doesn't have her own computer. She pays someone to mail Heavenletters to her. Because it sometimes takes a week or more before she receives a batch, I read Your answer to her question to her over the phone. She did smile, God. She even laughed. But then she said, but what do you do when you love someone so much?
I mentioned what You had said about loving lightly. That was an earthshaking revelation that really sank in to both of us.
And now Tina writes on the same subject:
Tina to Gloria:
Dear Gloria: I think this selection from God is good for the web page:
"You learned from your mother that the more you mourned, the bigger your love was, and to love big was important. You also learned that to love and suffer were synonymous.
"Now is time to unlearn that.
"Gloria, love lightly. To love deeply doesn't necessarily mean to love truly. Loving deeply often has tentacles.
"Love your father lightly. That is what letting go means. Love what he meant to you. Love him like a beautiful rose. When the rose dies, you do not enshrine it. It gave you its beauty while it could, and you accepted it, but you cannot hold on to it…
"…Certainly you don't have to accept everything. But you don't have to weigh everything either. When you convince or instruct yourself that something is worthy or unworthy, you are holding on to the past."
Gloria, that is POWERFUL stuff!
I spent close to fifty years believing that growing closer to God meant weighing EVERYTHING and making black and white distinctions between what was good and what wasn't. My control issues were always fueled by thinking judgment was everything to do with God.
God just keeps bringing the message of neutrality on home. But it feels like a revelation every time. The truth never gets stale. It has an everyday freshness built right in! What a concept: eternally fresh.
God to Tina:
Ah, Tina, how well My child learns! How well My child hears. How well My child heeds.
Now sit back, and go forward, dear Tina. Let your intellect recede.
Gloria to God:
Dear God, there is someone whom I'll call Ralph. A mutual friend told him about Heavenletters, and Ralph requested a two-week subscription. He decided not to subscribe. He declined because he was too busy. I'm not even sure that he read any of it! But that's okay; that's his business.
Over the weekend he called me four times! He lives out of state, called me long-distance twice Saturday when I was out of town and twice Sunday when the workshop was going on!
I called him back after the workshop. He had some questions. He had had a session with Karen, and she had said that he can ask You for healing on his own. He said he agreed with that, but, at the same time, he said that his prayers to You could not reach Ypu so well as Mother Theresa's. He said his prayers twenty years ago could not have reached You, or Your answers have reached him as well as they could now. He said that a person's physiology had to be developed or cleared out before prayers could be "good".
Apparently he wants something from me. I think he wants me to agree with him! But I didn't agree. I said what I have understood You to say, but, whatever I said, Ralph said, "I agree with you BUT…" I finally said, "BUT you don't agree with me." And I told him that Heavenletters would answer his questions. I told him anything I was saying, I got from You in Heavenletters, and he should subscribe.
God, why is he so eager to talk to me and not want to read what You say?
My second question is: I started to feel not so sure. I too started to think that Mother Theresa would get better results than either Ralph or me!
God:
That is the world's thinking, Gloria.
To Me, My children are equal. I listen to each equally. I answer equally. I could have a recording if I wanted to, but I answer individually.
There is no connection to Me that one has and another doesn't.
Gloria:
But —
God:
Everyone has it. Not everyone uses it.
Everyone has a telephone. But you have to pick up the phone and dial. And you have to keep your ear to the receiver.
All prayers are answered.
Some of My children only listen for the answer they want. If they don't hear that answer in the form they want, they don't hear it.
Judith heard My answer in a dream. She might have blocked my answer with her intellect had she been awake.
I hear all prayers. I acknowledge all prayers. Everyone's prayers are just as good as another's. That's what playing no favorites means. No one is more My child than another. Talking to Me is not a big production. There are no requirements beyond being My child.
Do some have more faith in Me than others? Yes.
Does faith require a certain physiology? No.
Do you need to prepare for faith? No.
But you have to be doing something until you decide to accept faith. So do what gives you happiness.
Gloria:
Is this the same thing as when You say that everyone can learn to Godwrite?
God:
Yes. They have to want to. They have to desire, ask, receive. And that's what Ralph has to do.
Ralph is feeling uneasy because some of his beliefs are being shaken. He wants you to shake them back. He doesn't want just anyone to shake them back. He wants someone who is actively connected to Me to reaffirm his belief systems. You are right. He did not want to hear your answers. He wanted to hear you give his answers.
And that is exactly what happens to Me, dear Gloria. I can talk until I am blue in the face. But someone has to want to listen.
And many are fearful of claiming their own power. For a time, they prefer to believe they are powerless. It seems safer.
Ralph hesitates to read Heavenletters because he does not want his belief systems rocked.