Gloria to God:

Dear Almighty Father, Julie sent an email last night, and she loved your long poem of the other day about Heart and Mind, and she wants to compile a collection of Your poetry!

God:

And why not?

Gloria:

I'm all for it. Some people love your poetry above all, and some others don't. Lauren calls Your poetry "lists"!

God:

They strum certain strings in your heart. All My words do. They open up Our connection. They widen it, make it fuller. Each writing and reading of My words reverberate in your heart. As you continue, vibration from yesterday still hums in your heart as a new vibration is added until, until your heart is a whole symphony orchestra playing in rounds.

Gloria:

You told Caroline to read HEAVEN every day rather than two or three days' worth at one time.

God:

That is like taking small meals during the day as opposed to one large one. Reading HEAVEN each day makes it more digestible, though there is nothing to digest!

Read, and let the love wash over you. It is the love, not the meaning of the words. As you catch the words, your heart is softened. Each time your heart gets warmed, more love stays, more recognition of love stays. You catch more of the spirit of My giving. HEAVEN is made of My giving, you understand, and your receiving.

Let My giving soak into you.

My words caress you. Let them reach you so your heart becomes tender.

A tender heart is one that tenders more to other beings.

It has more to tender.

A hurt heart recoils.

I soothe your heart.

You have been a wounded warrior. Now you will be a healed lover.

Once healed, you are healed. No more wounds need occur. They only come invited, and it is attachment that invites them.

An unattached (to the outcome) heart heals others by its signs.

When you open a window, all in the room breathe the fresh air. You cannot open a window for yourself alone.

Your heart is like a window. Love is the fresh air, and it reaches everyone.

First, receive love, and then it is yours to give.

Allow love in.

The giving of love is simply exhaling. Inhale first, and then all is taken care of.

Don't cover your heart.

Bare it.

Set it on the table.

Heap up the table with your heart. Serve from it.

Without the heart, there is nothing.

Love yourself first. Love yourself, and you know Me because I live in your heart.

Try loving Me within yourself.

If you knew you carried a diamond so huge and so beautiful as I am, would you not carry it with a straight back and bright eyes?

You carry such a treasure within you. You must know that in order to know yourself.

You are not a carrier of an empty envelope. You are an envelope filled to the brim. What you contain is Me.

You carry Me around all day. When you know that I am Who-you-are, then you can deliver Me.

In every contact, you are delivering something. Might as well be Me.

Deliverance is already yours.

Remind yourself every day that you are Mine, and I am yours.

What a combination. I give you My love and My wisdom, and they are yours.

I am sewn into your heart.

A heart full of Me feels only love. I did not short anyone.

Recognize your heart full of love. I am not a piece of your heart but all of it. Do not mix Me up with the mind's ego.

Take care of My love in your heart. That does not mean to protect it but to pay attention to it. Say:

"I carry God. I walk around with Him in my heart. My heart is God's. How well He must think of Me to give me His heart to carry.

"That is the gift He gave me for my journey. He gave me His inheritance so it would be mine.

"God's heart beats within me. What a treasure I carry. There is no other treasure like it. It is the only treasure.

"I hold God's heart proudly. In what other way could I carry it?

"If I can half believe that God has given me His treasure, my life is changed and Heaven known.

"I want to be and to shine the pure love that is God's in me.

"I want this light in me to shine so that all know it and are heartened.

"Please help me to remember Who-I-am and what You have given me. That is really what I ask of you, for that is all that there is. And with that all, truth is revealed. Truth is my worth. All lessons in life are to teach me my worth, which is another way to say to teach me of Your worth.

"You are my worth, and You are worth everything to me.

"I am a greater person when I remember You and what I mean to You.

"My greatest prayer to You is that I remember You, and, thus, myself.

"Thank You, God, for creating me. Now I will be what You created instead of an image I made up. Now I will honor myself, for You love me, and You do not love amiss.

"Thank You for being my treasure. I will spend You well, and so get to know You, my Father, the King of Heaven."

Gloria:

I always feel ridiculous to say anything after the beauty of what You say…but yet…

I gave a ride to a woman yesterday, and I was telling her about HEAVEN, Love Letters from God, and she thought Heaven was a better word than God, as though Heaven were greater than You or better than You or more important. I was so surprised because, of course, I never thought of the possibility!

God:

God and Heaven are words. You can say Heaven is My estate, or that Heaven is the territory around Me, or that all of Me is Heaven, or experiencing Me is Heaven, or you can say Heaven and I are interchangeable.

To you, Gloria, you love the person of Me. To your passenger, she loves the condition of Me. I and Heaven are a state of fullness. You cannot have your concept of Heaven without Me, or Me without Heaven.

Or, you could say, I am Being, and Heaven is the benefit of Being.

I am not a person nor is Heaven a place, but if you like to think of Us that way, it is fine. Think of Me, think of Heaven, and you arrive.

Thoughts of Me and Heaven are thoughts of joy. The more you think of joy, the more joy you will have. Think of Me and Heaven enough, and you will know only joy.