You have a certain batch of surprises that you like to accept, and others that you don't approve of. You like surprises but not the unexpected.

Human life is full of the unexpected. You didn't know in years past where you would be now, did you?

Perhaps you consider the unexpected as disappointment. Or perhaps it has exceeded your dreams.

But never mind, you have the beautiful present in front of you, and it is a live broadcast. No one knows what is going to happen this minute. Adventures are like that.

You may have forgotten that your life is an adventure. You may have thought it was a chore or a mere repetition of the day before. But you are on a soul-searching heart-drenching adventure, and each day is an escapade. And each day furthers your growth.

You are growing enormously. You are growing in My direction. You grow towards Me. You are gaining more awareness of Me. You think of Me more often. Your memory is coming back. And, oh, how I like to be remembered.

Remembering Me is noticing yourself. Looking at Me is like looking into a mirror that reflects your intrinsic being. I am a mirror that helps you see beyond the boundaries of your form and the details of your self-imposed world.

When you think of Me, something opens up inside you. Something already there is stirred. That is awakening. Your recollection of Me wakes you up.

I tell you again and again not to hold on to things, but now I tell you to hold on to Me. Hold on to your new thoughts of Me, for with them, you are reminded of how I swirl within you. You are reawakened to your possibilities. You hear Our song. No matter how faintly in the distance, you begin to hear the music that We make. It begins to resound within you, and you are not the same — that is, you are not what you previously thought.

You dared not think before, and now you dare, and a whole new world opens up before you. You are beginning to spot your magnificence, and you are beginning to seek it and to seek expression of it.

You have always wanted to be important, and now you find out that you were always what you wanted to be. You always wanted to be more than the world acknowledged, and you always were. The world may not note you yet, but you are beginning to note yourself. You are beginning to grasp what you and I are made of. You are beginning to explore what is beyond the boundaries of the world.

This is true exploration.

It is not a new path you travel on. It is an old path that you had forgotten about. And now you have stumbled on it, and now you find your way, and you faintly remember where you have been all along.

No longer do you want the expected, because, even a moment ago, you expected too little. Now you can anticipate greatness. Now you can expect greatness. You will go to it. You will grow to it. Greatness is just around the corner. You merely have to discover that which already fully is.

Soon you will recognize your capabilities. Soon you will recognize that you, sitting where you are, are the entire universe. When I say all is contained within you, I do not exaggerate. The whole contents of the universe is carried within you. You are pregnant with it, and you roll around in it, this universe that is of your making. The sky is not far away. Heaven is right here. You are the discoverer of it.