I hear you. I know what’s going on with you. I know the turmoil you tend to find yourself in. I also know you don’t have to have suffering. You feel you do have to have it. You tend to feel that, that life is about suffering, fear of suffering beforehand, regret of suffering afterward, suffering, suffering, suffering.
You own nothing, beloveds. You don’t even own suffering. It doesn’t belong to you.
Your heart suffers, your beautiful loving heart. It suffers from its love being turned off. You turn your heart off, and you call that suffering. A constricted heart holds on to suffering. Unconstrict your heart, and you will not hold suffering to you. You will not squeeze suffering dry. You will free your beautiful heart from suffering.
In your efforts to protect your heart, you imprison it. Protect your heart from the imprisonment of your protection. In your very desire to protect your heart from suffering, you make it suffer. An unconstricted heart does not feel broken. Only a hardened heart can break. No longer harden your heart. Do not make it rigid. Free your heart from conditions you have imposed upon it. Do not propagate coldness, for, in so doing, you make your heart weep. Allow your heart to be the warm voluble heart it was meant for.
Open that heart of yours, and close it not even once more.
You know what I mean. You know what closing your heart feels like. Freeze your heart no longer. Not even once more. Let nothing affront your heart. Let your heart be the sun, and let your heart shine.
The yellow sun needs no protection, nor does your heart, the Queen of My Heart. Change your allegiance from suffering to love. Let your heart love anyway. No matter what, let your heart beat. Let your heartbeat be Mine. Let it be right out there. Let it be hurt then, and you will prevent hurt from accumulating as in the past of even a moment ago.
You have a thought, and you perpetuate suffering upon your heart. Your heart is not made for suffering. It is made for joy. If you can recall thoughts that cause your heart to flinch, you can recall thoughts that open your heart and let it suffer no more. A closed heart is a suffering heart. It is a heart handcuffed. Let go of the heart police. A stiff-backed heart is no heart at all. An upright heart suffers. Let your heart be free to love no matter what. You can keep your arms by your side, but not your heart. Your heart must be allowed freedom. Do not tell your heart that it has been bold or foolish. Do not tell your heart anything. Let your heart be mobile. Let your heart be itself.
Through thick and thin, let your heart be. Take cues from your heart, and not impose on your heart. Do not tell your heart that it has been victimized. Don’t tell your heart that there is danger. Encourage your heart to beat. A rigid heart gets hurt. A soft heart doesn’t get injured, except as you say it does. A softened heart rolls with the punches. Put your fists down, beloveds. What you fight is your heart’s love.
Someone doesn’t love you any longer? What does that have to do with the state of your heart except as you say it does? Give the hearts of those who no longer love you – or never did – their freedom. Do not enclose hearts. Let your heart be free, and let all hearts be free. Another’s heart will roam, or another’s heart will stay. In any case, let your heart be happy. Choose not suffering. You have My love without cease. Have a heart for your heart and do not hamper it because of this or that.