You are My refreshment. Did you ever think of how you nourish Me? You are My occupation and My feast. You occupy My heart, and you are My opportunity to view My love. All of creation is that, but it is you who needs My attention the most. This free choice I gave you has you in shackles, for sometimes you are afraid to move. You are fearful of making a choice in case it's the wrong one. But a wrong choice is more often better than no choice at all. There is a balance between rushing in and delaying.

Non-choosing is a choice, but it is a choice to delay. When you debate for a very long time, you are practicing avoidance. Then you are waiting for someone or something else to come in and make the decision for you, and then someone or something else is responsible for the turn in your life, and you can blame them if aught goes wrong.

Of course, We are assuming that you know what is right and what is wrong. You have your ideas, and very definite ones they are, but your ideas are fallible, as you have learned. You don't know as much as you like to think you do. You like to fool yourself. It is a hobby of yours, wouldn't you agree?

Let Us think a moment of what you have considered power to be. You have thought that the power of the world was power. Money, imposition, authority, government, but all of that is illusion. You think the man in the boardroom smoking a cigar has power. He has the illusion of power which you have bought. He is nothing but a man with a cigar in a boardroom. He feeds his sense of power, and you feed his sense of power with your sense of helplessness, and so it goes.

One of the things I am helping you with, all of you who read this, is to have more courage. It takes courage in this day and age and society to have courage. All too often you were kept after school as a child when you had the courage to say what you thought instead of giving the predicted answer. Society seems to like to corral you one way or another for wheeling your own way, and yet society craves what you have to say.

I do not teach disobedience. I teach obedience to truth. Sometimes truth is called higher power. But truth is not elite. No one is higher than another in the realm of kings.

You have thought you were in the realm of paupers sprinkled with a few kings, but you were mistaken about that. There are a few who wear royal robes, but the robes do not make a king. They are but robes. They are but guise.

When I tell you that you are a king or a queen, you get nervous, shaky actually, and hope no one is reading this over your shoulder. I do not tell you your entitlement in order to boost you. I am not adding anything to you. I am telling you what is.

A true king does not order others around. A true king attracts others to his divinity. Christ was such a true king. And you all do have your little circles. Perhaps they have been too small.

Come out from hiding.

You have to claim your title.

You have been skirting the issues.

You do not have to change the outer.

You have to allow yourself to be who you are.

You need more respect for yourself. Then you will have more respect for others. Then you, full of grace, will be gracious to all around you. No more bluster. When you know your kingship or queenship, you have no need for bluster.

So be you simple and royal today. You have a territory to tend to. You are a simple gardener in the world. Help Me garden. Help Me nourish a starving world that needs Us very much. The world cries out for what We have to give, and so now We give. Our awareness embraces the hungry of heart and soul. Skip over the physical for a moment and bless all alike, those who thwart you and those who extol you. Bless My kingdom. Bless the realm of kings in which you walk. Bless the ground you walk on. Bless all the walkers on it, and you will give them the courage you long for, and before long, you will be courage incarnate.