Gloria to God:
Dear God, in Your answer to Kathy yesterday, you indicated that she needs to invest more of herself in what she does rather than dabbling. I am trying to understand. In a way, she seems to invest too much of herself, or give too much of herself away.
God:
She gives herself away to the winds. She needs to invest more of herself in herself and in Me. That goes for you too. That goes for just about everyone.
Gloria:
I come back to the delicate line between being responsible for myself and to You, and doing and not doing, and allowing You to do. I wonder if I will ever get that straight.
God:
Getting it straight is trying to control. Control is not faith.
Gloria:
Dear God, well, I would like to sit back right now, and just listen to what You have to say.
God:
If you could only believe in My love. If you could only take a little leap of faith. It is such a tiny leap. You hold on so tight. The lifeline I give you does not have to be held on to. It holds you. I hold you. You can struggle, or you can let go. What are you afraid would happen if you let go?
Would you fall off the earth?
Would the sun not rise?
Would you disappear?
Your ego would disappear. Your ego would take flight. Your ego would leave you and Me, One Love intact.
Ego keeps you out of My light.
Ego is a tension rod. It keeps in and it keeps out. It bars the door.
Release ego, and the door opens.
Ego just fools you anyway.
Ego can't close My door anymore than it has anything to do with opening it. It is just that the shadow of ego blocks the view. Surely it cannot block Me, Gloria. But it overshadows in that it takes your awareness away from Me to it. Ego is a trickster. It keeps you in its sway. It waves its cloak, and you think there is really something there behind the flashing cloak. Time and time again, ego fails you, and yet you believe in it.
Ego becomes a surrogate for Me.
If given the choice, would you choose ego or would you choose Me?
Gloria:
You.
God:
And yet that is the choice given to you many times a day, and without even thinking, you slip under the spell of ego.
Ego is like a boil. Your attention goes on it. Ego pesters you, you know.
Ego promises you joy, and gives you pain. It dangles a jewel in front of you and pulls it away at the last moment. Ego dances away laughing as it leaves you weeping.
Christ said that you cannot have two masters. You cannot worship ego and God. You cannot worship the world and God.
Gloria:
But isn't the world Your creation?
God:
You are My creation. Honor yourself. I created the ingredients of the world. I gave you the earth beautiful and the seas and the suns and the movement of earth. The rules man made in his pseudo-governing of the earth are not My edicts. My edict is love.
I gave My children freedom to choose and freedom to make mistakes. Mistakes in the relative world are rampant. That is why you have to see beyond the world. It would be pitiful to see only so far.
Turn your attention toward Me, and you will see more, see further, see greater. See beyond.
The truth is love. Whatever is not love is not truth. Not truth is ignorance. Truth is knowingness, and untruth is unknowingness.
Gloria:
But beneath the unknowingness, beneath the mistakes of the world, lies truth, lies You?
God:
Everywhere.
That is why the relative world is illusion.
The truth is that My light reigns everywhere.
But My children buy into a lesser grant.
They take too little.
Accept more.
My light is limitless.
Why refuse it?
Why take substitutes?
Why take less?
Greediness is really the taking of less rather than more.
You cannot be greedy when it comes to Me.
When you are aware of Me, you want all to have Me.
By giving Me, you gain Me.
You cannot keep Me to yourself.
I am incapable of being hoarded; therefore I must be shared.
At no one's expense.
At everyone's reward.
When you offer your hand, it must be returned.
It cannot leave its source.
Nor can you leave yours.
I am your Source. And I am your Object. And I AM, I AM.
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Gloria to Heavenreaders:
We've run low on questions! Would love to have yours!
God to Heavenreaders:
Communicate with Me. If you have never sent in a question before, now is the time to ask your own, which is also everyone's. If you have sent in questions before, now is also the time to share your energy in the liveliness of questions. Questions stir the heart and unmuddy it. I know you have them. Share Me with your questions. What would you ask Me today?