The Beginning of Faith
Gloria to God:
Dear God, now the most invigorating time of my day — talking to You.
God:
Do it more often.
Gloria:
I used to do it every afternoon or evening also.
God:
No need to schedule. Do it when you want a lift. Do not retreat to Me. Rush headlong to Me. I am your Partner in everything. Wherever you go, I go.
Gloria:
And where you go, I do too?
God:
It is the same.
Gloria:
But —
God:
If We are One, We are One. One indivisible, inseparable, a united Two that's One. No need to understand.
You are My cohort. Consider yourself the tail of a comet, and I the Comet. Or consider it not at all. Just know. Take My word for it.
Gloria:
Priscilla called yesterday with such great writing from You. She mentioned that she had been plagued with doubt. I told her I had had plenty of recurring doubt. Now I don't much, but I could if I put my attention that way. Now I go along and pretty much don't think about it one way or the other.
God:
That is the beginning of faith. You ride on a platform of God, and you don't pay mind to details of where the platform comes from or what you are doing on it. Not thinking much about it is equivalent to living in the present.
You could call it flying in the dark, but the truth is that it is flying in the Light.
You know you are guided, and you follow. You may not see, but Someone ahead of you sees, and you keep going.
Faith is not faith. Faith is knowing Me. I do not have to be understood, questioned, second-guessed when I am known. When you love yourself, you know Me, for We are One.
Gloria:
Dear God, I feel more and more that I have no choice in anything.
God:
That is simplicity. You made a choice to follow My Will. What is left for you to choose now? You have chosen. And the Will you chose is your own.
Before you chose Me, you chose the choices others made. You know what I mean. Now you have come to your own path. You are on it. You do not dabble in others'. You do not dabble.
Gloria:
I sense that the Ask God Workshop this Sunday will have a different make-up. The one before was like eager baby birds with their mouths open! In this one, most of the people don't have computers and haven't been bolstered by reading Heavenletters.
God:
Each class is of a different complexion. Each class is made of exactly the right people at the right time. Consider each new aspiring Heavenwriter as a prong, and there are many prongs going out to radiate in the world. Different-sized, different-directioned, but all prongs of the Hub.
I play a piano. My fingers move quickly and steadily. I am everywhere at once, and I select certain piano keys at certain times. I have played certain notes for certain people, and they will attend the workshop this Sunday as called. They come for themselves and for others and, most of all, they come for Me, and I will be there, for you all gather in My Name.
Gloria:
Dear God, I feel that I haven't caught up to myself yet!
God:
You haven't, but you have caught up to Me, and part of you is left behind like old baggage. You caught a train, and you are on it, and the train you are on goes straight to Heaven.
The train stops now and then to let others board. Those on the train reach down with their arms to help others up.
There really is only one train to get on. And there isn't much to do but help Me.
Gloria:
When someone signs up for HEAVEN, I am lifted. When they don't, I'm down. I want to get over being up and down.
Of the two people who LOVED Heavenletters so much, neither has come forward to subscribe. Several people used up their two-week complimentary subscriptions, and none has signed up or even commented. I go to the Heaven Association post office box every day, and it's empty, God.
God:
Gloria, it will be easy for people to subscribe. As I have told you before, it is no business of yours. You do your part, and I will do Mine. I have My functions, and you have yours.
I trust you to fulfill your side. Can you not trust Me to fulfill Mine?
Heavenletters will have many Heavenreaders. Ask God Workshops will have many baby birds eager to lift My words from the ether and command them to paper.
Worry not, for I am with you, and I guide others.
I will find the subscribers. Heavenletters will be barraged with subscribers from all over the world. I ring a bell, and they will come.
As you enter your day today, consider Me your car keys of life. Insert Me into your day, and the motor will hum. You will go places and find yourself there in a wink of an eye.
I am the Key you hold. Use it. Turn it. Hold it. Remember it. A thought of the Key works as well as the Key. A thought of the Key is the Key!
Have a day.
Love, God
Later…
Gloria:
Dear God, will you give me comfort tonight?
God:
I send a thousand angels to you with sweetmeats and flowers. These angels are flower fairies, weaving flowers in your hear, strewing your bed with roses, and singing lullabies to you, their voices so soft that only your genes can hear.
And I am here Myself to supervise the comfort given you. I dance in your heart, and I kiss your eyes so they are renewed.
I pull fatigue out of you. I replace it with morning dew.
You will drink a revitalizing tonic as you sleep, and when you wake tomorrow, you are new, waking for the first time to a new world.
Rest in My arms tonight, and you are comforted.
Ask your other questions in the morning when you wake to a new horizon.
All My children who sleep are cradled in My arms. I visit each and leave sweet thoughts like sugarplums.
I leave reminders of Me. Perhaps I am the dream you can't quite remember. Perhaps I am the thought that eludes you. Perhaps I am your thought not yet voiced or sung but rolling around in your heart, waiting to be formed and recognized.
Night is a blessing of love.
It is a covering of silence.
It is a dimming of the light of thought so thoughts may rest as well as body.
Entering sleep is walking through a door barefoot.
You leave shoes and other paraphernalia behind. A Stalwart you sleeps and rests and absorbs the music of dreams and the nourishment of tomorrow.
Hail to sleep, a messenger of Mine, sent to comfort you.
Are you comforted?
Gloria:
Yes.
God:
In the morning I shall awaken you with daylight-dreams called life and adventure and discovery and new thoughts, and you will awaken renewed, energized, and eager. Remember for Whom you sleep, and for Whom you wake.
Remember the love of the universe, and take it for your comfort.
And so now, Good night, and pleasant dreams of Me.