Peace be with you, beloveds. It is your choice. Have you perhaps thought that peace was not your choice? Peace is a quality within you. You are choosing peace, or you are choosing agitation. Consider yourself as a beacon of peace, and peace will radiate from you. When you consider yourself as put upon, you radiate that too. You can radiate more than you have been. You certainly can.
Will you, once and for all, radiate peace and good will and love?
If you have felt that you are sitting on a seat at a hostile interrogation at a police station, will you switch to a picture of yourself in a comfortable chaise-lounge surrounded by Me and a thousand angels? We attend to you. We pull you higher. Do you not favor this?
You may have had the idea that what you think isn't important, yet it is tremendously important to Me and to the world. My desire is for you to change your thinking and therefore the thinking of the world. This is what it comes down to. This is what I am asking of you.
At every moment, you are forming a picture of the world, and the picture you perceive is snapped by an invisible camera, and that camera sends the picture it takes around the world. You see it on covers of magazines, and you see it on TV. Your picture of life is broadcast.
The world and how the world appears are your responsibility. It is your responsibility because I am talking to you, and you know better than to sow troublesome seeds. Sow seeds of sunflowers instead. Disseminate peach blossoms. Sprinkle the world with pictures you are proud of.
Your mind is like a camera. You are the photographer. Attend to what photos you take with the camera of your mind. There are things that exist that are not worthy of having their picture taken and passed around, do you agree?
There is great goodness in the world. There is plenty of fodder for a smiling world for you to take pictures of. Look for kindness, and you will find it. You will find it under every barrel. Even in circumstances of great unkindness, there is also kindness to be found, to be highlighted. True, an unkind act is not kind, yet it provides a great opportunity for others' kindness to shine. Even in ashes there can be gold.
The thing is that the camera of your mind is to photograph what is beautiful to the heart. The beautiful is right there too. Have the courage to see beyond strife. Have the courage to see peace and to spread it. I am asking you to be a soldier who has his empty palms up and no weapons hidden and whose eyes see deeper than the surface traffic of life.
Will you do as I ask? There are already many who do not hear what I ask and so continue to play the popular chords of bad times or hard times. Will you kindly get off that bandwagon? Will you convert the world's thinking?
Yes, first you have to convert your own thinking. When you are driving, it is easy for you to switch from one highway lane to another. You just look carefully and turn the steering wheel.
In the case of switching to another highway of thought, you don't have to look carefully. You just have to do it. With old thinking, consider that you have been going down a dead-end street, and now you go onto a super highway where all the cars will follow you.