Sometimes the contrast in life is overwhelming. Not life itself, beloveds, but the contrast. All in the same day, you can feel high, and you can feel low. Sometimes you feel elevated to Heaven, and other times you feel like you've been through the ringer. I do not minimize how life strikes you, yet I must persist in telling you that you are the same through thick and thin. Granted, you don't feel the same, yet you are unchanged. You weather storms. Wet, you are still you. Walking through the mud, you are still you. The sun shines regardless of the weather, beloveds. Whatever you walk through, you are still you. Even in darkness, the sun is shining, and you come out dry.

You may see yourself as a symbol of victory or despair, and yet you are neither. For a while, you are an actor who plays the part of a victor or victim or even a bystander, and, yet, through it all, you are you. And you are a Child of God. And you are in My care. Even when you feel blind-sided, you are in My care. My eyes are upon you, and My eyes are love.

I do not discount your troubles, yet you know I see differently from you. You may feel you are on a treadmill. I know you are walking on the firmament of Heaven. You may feel lost, yet I know where you are. Why, beloveds, you are right here with Me. You may feel adrift on the Ocean of Life. You do not quite fathom the compass you are going by. I see it.

You may not be aware of the magnet of love that pulls Us together, yet I know how close We are. I know. I have not doubt. Ah, beloveds, of doubt you have plenty. Run out of doubt, beloveds. You have used up enough of it. Let it wash off with the rains. Come into the tent of love in which We dwell together. Without cease, We dwell together. There is no other place for Us to dwell.

There are many made-up places. A circus has its roots in fantasy. A circus seems real. It is physically real. You take your children there, and then you leave the circus. There is always a circus going on somewhere, and there is always the sun shining everywhere, even when it is not visible.

The sun is never daunted. Forty days of rain, and the sun still knows it is shining, and it knows it will come into your view as well. It is not that the sun sits out the rain and waits patiently. The sun is shining all the while. The sun knows what it knows. The sun doesn't know in theory. The sun lives what it knows. To the sun, there is no distance from itself to its light. The greatest deluge doesn't deter the sun. The greatest deluge does not dampen the light of the sun. And the sun knows this.

The difference between you and the sun is that you believe in rain more than you believe in sunlight. What is and what you believe are not always the same. And so there is a discrepancy. Of what value is this discrepancy to you?

You may feel that you carry a two-ton load on your shoulders. Take that weight off. The sun is shining on your back. The sun weighs nothing. You may think that you can't escape shadow, but that is only the world, beloveds. Only, the world.

It is the sun that you cannot escape. That's how it is. It doesn't seem this way to you, yet shadows are nothing. The sun is everything.