Gloria to Heavenreaders:

Diane wrote a beautiful letter asking God about her little daughter and her own overwhelming sense of responsibility. In her letter, Diane mentions that her daughter is physically challenged. I take the liberty to describe what I know of Molly's physical impairment so you can understand the extent and feel Diane's heart with your own.

While Molly was in the womb, the umbilical cord was wrapped in such a way that Molly's nutrient supply was cut by half, and her prenatal development was impaired. From the moment she was born, it was touch and go for Molly.

Molly is a beautiful little girl with huge eyes and brown curls, and she is very bright. She speaks well, has a sense of humor, and endears herself to everyone who meets her. But her body is frail.

The last I knew she could not lift her head on her own. There have been times when her breathing has stopped and she has been resuscitated.

Molly's parents have done everything on earth for her.

She is Diane's sixth child and only daughter.

Diane to God:

Dear God, this is about my fear. My Molly, my three-year-old who has many physical challenges, has had a very good summer. Today she is coughing again. She has had many bouts of bronchitis when I have feared for her life.

When I saw her having a hard time breathing this morning, my heart clutched with fear.

I am crying as I write this. I do not understand this. I know if she should die she will feel tremendous relief, have a great welcome-Home party, and be with You. Of course I will grieve, but I have such a strong connection with Molly since she has been in and out of her body so often that even her death does not seem like such a big transition for me.

So what is this fear and sadness? Is it about me trying to be God for her? Is it about my surrender to You? Is it about becoming like a child?

And is this really OK to be as a child, because today when this came to me it felt like such a relief. I want to be a child again. I want to have fun, and play, and trust that all is well, and not feel so much responsibility.

Will you help me with my questions?

Your eternally grateful daughter, Diane

God to Diane:

Dear Eternal Daughter Diane, you are very perceptive.

Molly is such a great part of your life. She was born to a family who knows the privilege and blessing of having her presence and her love. She is a great soul in a small body. She has brought you joy and opportunity for supreme growth.

She occupies your heart and time. Never is there a moment when she is out of your awareness. Always you are thinking how to reward Molly and make her existence on earth better for her.

You are right that you need not fear for Molly. How clear it is that she is not her body.

And yet the frail temporal body is most precious, and it is hard to think of her without it, and your being able to relinquish her care.

Thoughts of Molly's transition have hung over you since her birth, and these thoughts devastate you. With the devastation, a natural human mechanism steps in; you start to placate your mind with how it will be when her soul rises back to Me and she is so clearly and fully in My care, and the responsibility is no longer yours.

The responsibility for her soul evolution never was yours, but you are the mother heart and hands that have held her hours a day and loved her and taken care of her human needs in supreme love.

You have also suffered for her. All your imaginings of her possible future on earth have wounded your heart, and you have felt sometimes that you are selfish to wish her to live.

The great fear and the great conflict is: wishing Molly to continue on earth for your sake and hers, and then wanting her, truly for her sake, to return to the holy heart of God. If only you could know what is for her sake, then you might not despair over thoughts of life without her.

You know, Diane, Molly will occupy your heart always, but you also wonder what kind of mother contemplates her daughter's return journey to Heaven, no matter now imminent it might be. And, as if that is not enough, your thoughts have gone to your life afterwards with a certain exhilaration, and what pain that causes you, dear Diane. Diane, dear child of Mine, how could you feel otherwise?

What mother has not thought of her child's human death with anguish and yet, at the same time, fantasized the aftermath? What mother, even in the easiest of circumstances, has not thought of her high school days when she was carefree?

You have been a mother six times, Diane, and you are a good one. Good mother and good human being.

How kind you would be to another mother in your shoes. Please be kind to yourself.

Cry your tears and then wipe them away. Cry them again and smile through them. All on earth is temporary, Diane.

It is not only okay to be a child but to be My child.

You are all children out there in earthland.

What does any of you know? Which of the tallest can govern his life and that of his children? Not one.

So abdicate the throne now. The responsibility was never yours. You took it on.

Even as you take daily care for that light of your life, that Molly, the responsibility is Mine. Give Me the mantle you wear on your shoulders, for it is not yours, and it never was.

Throw off that mantle right now, and give it to Me. Make a ceremony of it in your heart.

In place of that mantle, I give you a delicate hairpin that reflects My love. I barrette one of the same onto Molly's hair as well.

When you release Molly to My care and release your own hold, Molly will be stronger. Molly can breathe on her own.

Molly has her own choices and her own life.

She has learned of Me through you, Diane.

You have been her umbilical cord to Me, and now she is with Me. Whatever happens, she is with Me.

Do not torture yourself worrying any longer how long her body will live.

Molly lives.

Enjoy the moment with that great gift.

Take whatever freedom you can find now, and go out dancing or for a class or whatever gives you recreation. You can leave Molly with her father or a friend or an aunt with a clear heart.

When you have relinquished your responsibility and given it to Me, it will be easier for you to leave her with others. Molly is as dependent on you only as much as you think she must be.

Let her share her love freely with others.

Let them love her in their way, not yours.

Whether you are in Molly's physical presence or elsewhere, love is not changed.

Molly does not suffer, Diane.

You would love Molly to be carefree as a child and to be able to play and romp. Molly is here for other play.

Molly feels responsible for you, dear Diane, so you must teach her by example that she is not.

Make a little ceremony of Molly's releasing you to Me, no longer making herself responsible for you.

I will be coming into your awareness frequently, especially in the next few days, and you will note how I am responsible for you without a heavy sense of responsibility. Responsible love without sense of responsibility is joy.

And you were made for joy, dear Diane, and you are My joy.

Continue to share your life with Heavenreaders and spread your joy, for it is theirs.

Do not be frightened, for I am with you, and with your daughter, and with every soul on earth.

Look at the big picture and not the details.

Stay with Me.