Diane to God:
Dear God, what a delightful and perfect answer! You always have me laughing and crying.
I feel like I am blazing new territory for myself, and there is some fear, so these words are very encouraging. Thank You. I love You.
Gloria:
Dear God, now — Diane is an appreciator.
God:
She is. She is an accepter and a recepter and a transmitter. She is My child.
Gloria:
Continuing about comparisons, dear God, it seems impossible to be alive and to not compare.
God:
Do not confuse making choices with making comparisons.
When you are in a state of pure love, you do not marry every man who comes along. You choose someone.
Gloria:
How on earth does one make a choice without comparing?
God:
When you are truly aligned with your heart, your heart makes the choice, not your intellect. The choice is made. It is not so much choosing one over another. It is noticing whom your heart has chosen.
Gloria:
Is it that comparing brings in the past?
God:
It brings in opinions from the past.
Gloria:
I have been thinking a lot about family programming and the endless programming of the society we grow up in. All the prejudices. It seems inescapable.
God:
But it is escapable. Remember Me. Remember love. Remember Christ. Remember peace. Drop off anything else.
Gloria:
Here's a comparison: For a long time I was reluctant to ask You questions for other people, and now it's my favorite!
God:
Perhaps you will begin to see the difference in noting change and comparing.
You did not say one way was better than another.
All of earth life is change. That's what it is.
Gloria:
I have heard that earth is only one of many places for life. Is that true?
God:
Life on earth is life. Other life may appear different.
Gloria:
Another dimension?
God:
That's how it is expressed.
No matter what the manifestation of life, it comes from Me. What is true for you on earth is true everywhere.
Truth is truth, no exceptions. I am the One Father of All. In truth, there is no place except in My heart.
Gloria:
Are You busy, God?
God:
No. I just am. Unless you consider love as busyness, I just am. I am not like you with too much to do.
Gloria:
Is it the fact of being in the physical that makes me feel I have too much to do?
God:
Doing is in the physical. But you are the decider of what your doing seems like. You can make it slow and easy by following My footsteps. Note how the stars move and all that they accomplish. I do not see rushing. Of course, the stars are not indecisive.
With faith in Me, you do not rush. From where would you rush, and what would you rush to, when you go along with Me? Follow My pace. Do not do all the weaving yourself. Let the Ultimate Weaver help you. If you try to weave everything yourself, you will get worn out. Ask for My help, breathe a sigh, and you can let go of it.
Gloria:
I wonder sometimes if we bother you with too much trivia?
God:
Put your attention on Me, and you will not be involved with trivia. Trivia is only that which is without heart. Everything of the heart is significant. Everything of the heart has importance. Be in your heart, and ask Me to move it. And I will.
Gloria:
Dear God, what would You like to say?
God:
I would like to say how glad I am of the progress all Heavenreaders are making. Are you aware of it, My children?
You may glide over My words, but they heal you nevertheless.
What do I heal you of?
Faithlessness.
Hopelessness.
Fearfulness.
Fear — you know what that is.
Hope. Hope is in an interim step before faith.
Hope beckons you forward. It helps you go toward faith.
Faith has its steps as well.
There is the glimmer.
It is not hope any longer.
You see something.
And you walk through faith, and more accrues to you.
One day you will notice that you are immersed in faith.
Where do you or faith begin or end?
Where do you, and where do I?
Faith is awareness of Oneness.
Faith is not something you reach outside of yourself.
Faith is knowing inside.
No one can give it to you.
You discover it.
You already have it but covered up.
Remove the guises.
Come to truth.
And then you are pure faith.
This is a course in faith.
It is for all levels.
For the struggler, the beginner, and the adventurer.
You grow in faith.
Faith is inner knowing of God.
Faith doesn't stand still.
It moves out like perfume from a rose.
A rose of faith.
Yes, you are becoming roses of faith.
A bouquet of faith.
A circlet of faith that embraces the earth.
Faith in Me is faith in yourself.
It is easier to have faith in Me than in yourself.
But you can't have much of one without the other.
You have to have it all.
Have faith in Me, and have faith in you, for you are My child.