Some people have real troubles, beloveds, in terms of Earth concerns. What you yourself consider trouble may be a sniffle compared to what some people contend with. Your biggest problem may not be a problem at all except that you would prefer something other than what you have. Some people really do have something else to prefer.

It is not that I suggest that you compare yourself to someone else. It is that I point out that you tend to shore yourself up with troubles which, although inconvenient or unwieldy, are not much on the trouble scale. This is what I wish to disarm you of. You have experienced this. You have had a great disappointment, perhaps, a broken romance let's say, and it is devastating to you, and then your father dies or your child may be deeply ill, and then the broken romance is not, after all, so high on the scale as you had previously thought.

Everything in the world is relative. In the scheme of things, in terms of the big picture, even that which is considered real trouble, is not so big as it looks from the side of the world.

Sometimes it seems that you have a tote bag for troubles, and you keep thinking you have to fill it up. No, you want to empty it. You want to keep it empty. Or get a tote bag with a big hole in it so no troubles are kept or sorted out or mulled over.

Sometimes it seems that everything, even when it does not trouble you excessively, does give you concern, just the same. Is it not possible that you could get along without worrying or fearing? Would you really be lost without something to agonize over? Can this be a simple habit that you would do well to do without?

How etched in you is it to consider troubles as part of your life? Throw all your pains out the window. Occupy yourself with something else. Develop a hobby rather than a worry. Take up knitting, or take up sports. Find that which you like to involve yourself in, and involve yourself. Find something to do that serves someone. Worrying serves no one. Lamenting serves no one. Regretting serves no one.

You don't need to aggravate over that which serves no purpose unless it is to make you feel forlorn.

You are hardy. You are not a hot house rose who cannot take a change in temperature. You are a hardy dandelion or a tree of much renown. You have been through enough difficulties, and now there is no need to curry more. Consider that you have had your quota. You are finished with trouble now. You see further and higher. Without trouble on your mind, there will be less trouble for everyone, not only less for you, but less for everyone.

Trouble is behind you. You do not need to reacquaint yourself with it anymore. Unburden yourself, beloveds. Unburden yourself of the sense of burden. Travel lightly. Be light-footed.

Will you admit that you have held trouble closely to you and nursed it? You have made room for it. You have coddled it. It almost seems that you have made trouble your reason for being. You may say: "No, God, I don't want any trouble."

Then I say to you: "Why have you catered to trouble, been on the look-out for it and brought it close to you as if trouble needed you to keep it close, as if trouble were an avenging angel who needed you to nurse it. Trouble doesn't need you, and, surely, you do not need it."