Dear Jochen
I think that the meaning of the passage is that we are taught to think of God as love, from that comes our inclination to believe that all love belongs to God and not to humans, then we see sufferance and unjustice and we doubt that love exists.
Love
Emilia

Jochen, this passage seems a little obscure to me too. I wonder if I left a word out. It could be -- I don't know -- that it was supposed to say...as One who loves, but Who really loves YOU seldom.

I also wonder -- your guess is as good as mine -- that it could have been meant to be: You are more inclined to think of Me as THE One Who loves...

Or it could be that the words as written are exactly what God had in mind, and He wanted us to ponder.

I also like Emilia's thoughts on it below.

Dear Fodunrin,

I am not sure whether I have heard from you before. In case you are new to Heavenletters, let me extend a very warm welcome to you. And if you have not already done so, will you tell us where you write from, how you found Heavenletters, and perhaps something about your life?

The situation you are describing is one that probably many of us share to a greater or lesser extent. At least I can relate to your plight, however different the circumstances may be. How can I be more loving when situations and people seem unlovable? I have no answer except that love seems to grow when we truly want it to grow. Slowly perhaps but surely.

Here is a Heavenletter I find particularly helpful for this:

A Giver of Love
Heavenletter # 1789 Published on: October 14, 2005

God said:
Beloveds, in the times when life seems dire, when, to your mind, there is no doubt of the authenticity of woe, then this is exactly when more love is required, and more love is called forth. This is when you reach into your heart. Give love always anyway, yet in the times when love is most needed, give more. Love is the only thing there is to give, so give it.

Reprimands don’t help. Remonstrance is a waste. The only thing that can put an end to the need for love is love. When love is needed, you must give it. Even if you have to pull it up from your bootstraps, you must give it. It is yours to give.

Too much time is taken in regard to deciding whether to give love or to abstain. There is no decision to make. Forget about deciding. Make one decision, and make it once, and give love. You know by now we are not talking about stand up and shout love. We are talking about the sending of love from your heart.

Some might call this prayer. If you like the idea of prayer, then in your heart pray that I help you to see in a new way so that love from your heart can naturally pour. Pray that you will see neither deserving nor undeserving. Pray that you will be able to give love from your heart always regardless of any circumstance.

A rose offers its sweetness no matter what the weather. If a rose is thrown in the garbage, it still emits its sweetness. And you are a Human Being who emanates love. Never say that there is a situation that you don’t know what to do about. You know what to do. You do what is called for, and what is called for is that you give love. You must find a way to donate love to the cause of peace on Earth and good will to men and women and children and the blessed animals that roam the Earth.

There never is cause for you not to give love. Love is always called for. There is no situation that supersedes love.

If you are about to be hanged, and you love no man on Earth, then love Me. If you cannot love Me, then love that you lived a life on Earth. Death is the same to all, regardless of the method or time. Love even that you are, even if only for another moment, a sentient Being on Earth. Love that you will have full awareness of greater than you have allowed yourself to know . Love that you are more than your body. Love that innocent hands made a rope. It could have been used for mountain-climbing, but now it is going to be used for you. As you let go of your life, let go of hard feelings. Bestow a mite of your love on those who chose, not to love, but to end your life. Love enough to ask Me to take away their pain.

What is the merit in cursing? What is the merit in protesting? If the wolf has got you in his claws, lie down and love the wolf for he is merely being a wolf and doesn’t know anything else. You, on the other hand, do. You are a Being who knows enough to love. You know its value.

Be a giver of love in life and in death. Be a giver of love because there is simply nothing else for you to do.

Yes, dear Hege, let's create an new history! I love that!

Absolutely, you are going at your right pace. Creating a website is a technique for growth of consciousness, I believe. When I first started Heaven's site, just the writing, having an idea of what should be in, took me, I'm embarrassed to say about two years! Then a college student put it up. And then Heaven Admin came along and transcended all boundaries, and here we are today.

Thank you for posting on Heaven's site, beloved Hege.

Oh, dear George, where do you read in our Heavenletter, how God „talks about the energy of righteousness expressing power in the form of love“, as you express it in your comment?

Let me say, what I read, and what I translate from this Heavenletter, as to „energy of righteousness and might“.

God says, there is something to transform for us. Something around our wars, to transform it. Something about our war within, about our jihad, something about our ignorance that we „would not know God, if God were not inside us“, something about our ignored identity being here on earth, something about our being God. Around all this is energy, heaped. This energy we are advised to transform into love.

„May My children transform the energy of righteousness and might into the energy of love.“ Righteousness and might are related to great pride and uniforms, to the signs of wars, to the wars within and to the wars outside, which are created by us, by me and you, right now. Yes, we create wars right now. God speaks about our, the reader's, responsibility for creating wars, wars around the world.

And, in the last paragraph, God talks about another force which we can and may change. About the „force of anger“; anger, which is still there, when a war - a war inside or a war outside - is stopped. „When a war is stopped, peace is not gained.“ There is still anger after our inner and outer wars. We might probably let reduce itself to petulance – this is not advisable; we might do something unadvisable by reducing; or, we have done something unadvisable by reducing anger to petulance. Rather God advices: „Let the force of anger become the force of love.“ We can change forces, that's what I am reading. 'Be clear, you have still anger after having inner and outer wars, Beloveds. Will you please change anger into love, then?' - that's what I am reading.

Tell Me, beloved George, can you think of something better to do? Change forces.

We can let become the force of anger the force of love.

And there is, among others, another subject related to inner and outer wars in our Heavenletter - whether they are ongoing or whether they are ended: it is ..... excitement. We may call excitement love. Excitement gives us causes, gives us proud sense of self-righteousness, „as though declaring war itself, as though declaring our ignorance itself that we 'would not know God, if God were not inside us' is a victory“.

We compete with ourselves by saying, God is One Who Loves, by saying, God is a Great Lover, by saying seldom: God is One Who really loves. By saying seldom: There is nothing else with me, in me, around me, through me, than this 'who or which really loves me and who or which really is loved by me'; I am the only existing love and beloved.

God is not a writer, We might say; God and you, God and I, melted in One, are writing this Heavenletter #2853, and We did it. Did we ever write something in our douzens of years, which we did not understand after writing, but, which we could understand, when we re-read it later on, perhaps some days or some periods of our life later? I suppose, we did it. Did we ever write any line, which did not come from inside? Our Heavenletter says: I, God, am inside you. Everything, we wrote and we are writing and we will write and express, is God.

Thank you, dear George, reminding me what I had read, when I had read Heavenletter #2853, reminding me what else I can translate from what I had read,

Theophil

Beloved Carmen, yes, it is very beautiful how your heart belongs to God.

There is an entry in the Godwriting blog called Just Give Me God. I think a lot of us feel that way to one degree or another. If you would like to read it, it's here:

http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/just-give-me-god-values.htm

God bless you, beautiful soul.