Glory to Me in the Highest! You have long sought the Highest when it is you who are the Glory all along! Yours is the Glory forever.
If you could only recognize and accept a little of the Glory you are. If you had even a glimpse, a mere trace, of how Glory-filled you are, how happy you would be. The whole of the world rests in your palm, and yet you hold your hand out begging for a tuppence of peace in your life.
You want Me, you want love, and another name for what you want is peace. How you crave peace in your own home and in the marketplace. Think of a world in which peace reigns. Think of your home without an inch of friction. But the existence of non-peace arises not from the world or from your home. Non-peace as well as peace arise from your heart. Peace or lack of peace exists in your heart. You know this is so.
The enemy is within. This is a poor quavering enemy within. He is hardly worth the time of the day, and yet you bow down to him many times during the day. He has another name, this culprit, and his other name is fear. He is really a wimp, or he would not exist always in the shadows. True, he has a loud voice, and he assumes great ambiance.
Trade in fear for trust. Trust is quite another matter. Oh, if you would trade in fear for trust, beloveds, how happy you would be. What dancing there would be in your heart. Your heart would sing: "The wolf at the door is gone. The wolf of fear is dead. Hurray. The wolf and witch of fear are dead. Hurray. Hurray for me, and hurray for the world. The wolf and witch of fear are dead."
When fear leaves, negativity of any kind has no place to hide. Everything untrue tiptoes out of your heart when fear slinks its way out. All the other tentacles of negativity in your heart are but the fingers of fear. Look at all that gunk leave your heart. Fear's departure is long overdue. It has overstayed its welcome. You could have kicked it out long ago, only you thought you had to keep it, that fear somehow was part of survival.
Now that fear has gone, what is left? What can cohabit in your heart when negativity has made its exit? You and I, beloveds.. We can be known as the Oneness of Love and the Oneness of Peace. We are what is left in a heart where fear has vacated the premises.
Fear was an arrogant ogre all along. It made a lot of noise, yet fear was a lot of to-do over nothing. Fear was a muscle-man pumped up with steroids. Beloveds, stand up to the hollowness of fear. Fear doesn't begin to be a worthy adversary for you. Fear is a shadow, beloveds, and one that chases you. Shadows are only shadows. No matter how big they may appear, shadows are phantoms. Like a phantom lover, fear has hung around you, eating off you, stealing your warmth in order to bolster itself. Fear has done a pretty good job of it. It has been twisting your arm right along, and all along, fear has been nothing but bluster. Now that We have gotten fear to size, he can fit through a keyhole. He can leave as you will. Fear is no bigger than a cowardly thought. .
Say: "Adieu, fear. Adieu."
Say: "Welcome, God, love and peace. Put your feet up, and stay a while."