Gloria to God:

Dear God, yesterday I saw part of a religious update on PBS. Two things stood out for me. One was that someone is suing a state that has established a minute of silence in its schools. That seems unbelievable to me, God. It seems absurd. A minute of silence is protested!

The other thing was in another state or city, high school students have started to assemble at one end of the basketball court or the football field to say the Lord's Prayer together. It is from their volition that they do this. They don't make anyone do it. It's not something the school has declared. And yet someone or something is out to stop that.

Why does what someone not want seem to take precedence over what someone does want?

Am I judging again?

God:

The world will balance itself out. Even from noise will come silence. All these protests about attention on Me, protests even on silence that might harbor Me, are static noise. And some good comes from that static.

Does it not call attention to Me? Does it not get Me, implied at least, on TV? Doesn't it help you to know how you feel and where you are? There was a time you would have taken no notice of that religious news. In real life, way back when prayers were first banned from public schools in America, you thought that was weird, but you didn't think much about it. Now you do. So another gift from the protestors is that your alliance with Me is identified and strengthened.

And, so, don't get up in arms. Be grateful to the protestors for getting Me into the spotlight and strengthening hearts for My love.

Gloria:

Thank You.

Dear God, My favorite thing is right now, talking to You, listening to You, writing down Your words. What You say thrills me, and the miracle that I actually hear You thrills me. But the rest of my life does not thrill me so much. It seems to Me that there are plenty of people who enjoy life a lot more than I do.

God:

Maybe they do, and maybe they don't. But that has nothing to do with you.

What you want to know is: Can relative life live up to your spiritual life with Me?

And I say, Yes, it can.

When you start thinking the way I do, it will.

Only small thoughts keep you back from adoring every impulse of My creation.

Didn't My way of thinking just now about the protestors of a public God make life better? More enchanting? More possible of good?

My way of thinking threads gold through the seams of life.

Put on My vision, Gloria.

Wear the glasses of truth-seeing that I wear.

My glasses do not create illusion. My glasses undo illusion.

Appreciate everything.

Maybe you can't love everything, but you can appreciate it.

Right now you are appreciating the bricks on your wall. Suddenly you are aware of hands that laid each brick, and you are almost aware of what the brick-layer so many years ago was thinking and the love with which he laid each brick, for it was the homeowner himself who created your home with his hands and heart.

Gloria:

Dear God, you are right. But even with that appreciation, I feel pain. I feel sadness. A hundred and fifty years or so ago, someone built that wall, and now I'm looking at it and sheltered by it. The owner left earth, and he left his home behind and eventually to strangers who buy and sell his land and his home and don't even think of him. I didn't until this minute.

God:

Yes, such unattachment he had. And that is what you must learn. Leave everything behind for others. And you leave it with the love that you also put into it. And you make no demands on the people who follow you.

This is how I, God, look at it. It was My love that built the house. It is My love that lives in it. No one can take away My love.

Even the opponents of silence in schools and on the playing fields are My love.

They are proclaiming Me in their protest.

They cannot protest against what does not exist.

The golden thread of My love sews invisible seams, for in My creation there is no separation. There was no tear to begin with. This is a seamless Creation you live in. And your relative life is to point that out.

The man who built the house you live in is you.

The protesters of silence are also you.

The students who call for prayer are you.

And the silence is you.

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Bev to Heavenletters:

Dear Heavenletters, Marianne's questions and God's answer (9-24 and 9-25) were especially powerful for me. I think that God sent a lot of healing to all of us in these letters. Having the two days separated gave me the "space" to let it sink in deeply!

Abby to Heavenletters:

Dear Gloria, Jona, and Heavenreaders, September 26's question from Jona and God's answer were really appropos for me! I had just come from Bible study when I read it, and I want so much to print it out and bring it with me next week when I go there again. I am trying to learn as much as I can from this Bible study, but when the teacher asks me what I believe, I am inclined to tell him quite frankly.

I am debating whether I should tell him that I get letters from God. But that's to be discussed with God very shortly here.

Anyway, thank you Jona, for your great question, and thank You God, for your great answer!