Abby to God:

Dear God, I have another question.

I have been reading over Your wonderful words about Christ and the Bible. I understand why Christ lived, but I want to understand why he died the way he did. Was it meant to immortalize him? I think that it did. Please tell me the meaning of this part of the story.

With regard to the school, my mom and I have been trying to figure things out. Well, my mom has been. She's been calling the school and crunching numbers and talking to my dad about it to see if he can help.

Even if this doesn't work out, I appreciate all that everyone is doing to try to help me. Isn't my mom a wonderful person? And I know my dad really does try his best at everything he does. He has such a load to bear.

Thank You for giving me my parents who gave me my life.

Margaret to Heavenletters:

Thought you would want to know, we (Abby's father and I and Abby) worked out a way for Abby to go to DePaul next year! It might just be for the one year, but we shall see. She can go, and nobody has to take on any extra debt. What a relief to all of us.

God to Margaret:

Well done.

NOTE: Margaret is Abby's mother. — Gloria

God to Abby:

You're welcome.

It would be hard for someone not to give you what you want, dear Abby. Your parents and the school and Heavenreaders and I all wanted you to have the school of your choice.

Here's a delicate point. I helped. I gave all the ingredients, and then there was free choice. I blessed you all, and what came about came about through human volition and good will. Or, you could say, the Human Beings involved followed My Will.

But My Will was not such a fine point as to say: Abby must go to DePaul. It was more general. If I had specified that this must work out one way, where would have been room for My children's free will? As it was, your mother chose, your father chose, you chose and so on. A soup was being made, and each of you threw in something of yours, and so a beautiful soup was made.

So had this worked out another way, had there been another resolution, that too would have been fine, for love begets love.

My gratitude goes to each of you.

It was the same for My son, Jesus, the Christ. A whole configuration led to Jesus' death and the shape of his death. I did not say, "My son must die on the cross."

I did not say that he must be killed. I did not say: "This must happen to Jesus this way so that he can be immortalized." I did not say that Judas must do this or that. Again, like the soup, the ingredients were there. They were stirred a certain way.

Judas may have felt compelled, but he had choice. He may have been caught up in a drama. He may have regretted his part. But, nevertheless, he had free will, and he chose a certain course.

Jesus also.

It was not his death alone that immortalized him. It was not the manner of his death. It was not even how he faced death. It was his spirit and beauty, his choice of Me and his emanation of Me during his life up to the last minute. Jesus was not caught up in his body. And he was not caught up in the actions of other bodies. He was neutral. He was caught up in Me.

The death of a body is not momentous to Me the way it is to you. Nor was it to My son Jesus. Surely Jesus' death made clear the insignificance of the death of a body because Jesus above all revealed that he had not died. It is the Christ soul of Jesus that lives, and this was felt and is felt.

Not by all then, and not by all now.

It is not commanded that all adore Jesus, not then or now.

All will come to Me one way or another. And that was what Jesus wanted, that all should come to Me as he did come to Me, that all should know Me as he did know Me. That was his purpose.

One could look at Jesus' life and death and say: "This shows you all the good that comes from loving God. It is no good at all. God didn't save Jesus at the end."

That is too simplistic, but it is an interpretation. My point is that how to look at Jesus' death also remains as a choice.

Had he died as an old man in his bed, his death would not have been so dramatic, so memorable, but it is yet his life and his consciousness that would have brought immortality to the world's eye, not his death.

Death of the body comes to all. Life of the spirit continues for all.

Jesus' life told the story that God walks on earth, that all can know God as Jesus did, and that God loves all as he did love Jesus and that all can love God and be with God on earth as in Heaven, Abby.