How kind I am. How giving. How generous. There is never a moment when I am not giving to you. Why would I give in order to take away? And what is there that I would take from you? I give unending joy and love. I, God, am not a taker. I am a Giver.
You think I take away from you. I take nothing from you. I know that it seems to you like I do. That is because, beloveds, you still believe in loss. You do not have object permanence. If you do not see it, and if you cannot touch it, you think it has gone. What I give to you, once given, is forever yours. It so happens I forever give. If you think of Heaven as above you, then picture how I pour down all boons upon you in an unending stream of love. The stock of My love never runs out.
And then you think: “But, God, I have lost one loved one after another. I have lost jobs. I have lost courage. I have lost books, and I have lost money. I do not have what I have lost. I do not have what I cannot find.”
My dearest child, where does anyone or anything reside anyway but in your heart? Know the fullness of your heart. I am not giving you a palliative. I am not saying that your heart does not feel wounded. I know your heart feels wounded. When you believe in loss, what else can your heart feel? I say you are coming from an Earthly perspective, and that your Earthly perspective is a limited perspective. Such perspective cuts you off from the corral. Being cut off doesn’t mean that the corral does not exist.
We can look at this in many ways. We can say that what was before you was never before you and that only the illusion of Reality was before you. We can also say that loved ones and lost articles are always with you whether they are physically present or not. We can say that you cannot lose what is yours. We can say that possession and loss are equally illusions. We can say that your feeling bereft is another illusion, an illusion that you honor deeply. We can say that your emotional pain, no matter how profound, is as much an illusion as any other and that, therefore, you do not have to keep it. You do not have to keep it to you. You do not have to keep your precept of loss.
The idea of possession of things or people is a wayward thought. The thought that anything belongs to you is fallacious at the same time as the thought that everything belongs to you is true. You cannot lose that which is yours. And nothing and everything are yours.
In any case, it will be good for you to see from new perspectives, to at least give credence to the idea of other ways of perceiving. You can trade in old tin for new. You can trade old tin for gold! Old thoughts are slipping from your grasp, beloveds. Ah, yes, you can lose old thoughts. You can lose attachment. You can lose the concept of need. You can believe that there is nothing to lose even if you could lose.
You cannot lose Immortality, Infinity and all those real things that you tend to think of as nebulous and far away somewhere when they are right here before you. I am right here. And you are right here with Me.