I befall you. No matter what else befalls, I befall you. I AM.

You are never without My protection, My guidance, My attention, and yes, My love. You are not certain about this because you believe you are your physical manifestation, and you go by that. You go by your prowess in the world, as if that is My blessing on you, as if you need your body and the physical world in order to be blessed by the God Who made you, as if you are unblessed in what you call death or woe.

You believe in death and woe more than you believe in anything else. But death of the body and woe are small potatoes next to eternity.

What is this endless eternity, you wonder. What is so wonderful about it, you ask. You cry out, Why should eternity be considered more than the constant perturbation of regular life? You feel that stress and strain in life are eternal, and you would just as soon turn them in. Well, you can be done with them.

Furthermore, you might even trade reversely, eternity for security and success in the world right now. You might give up eternity for time-out now.

But you do not need to give up anything but all the past associations of thought you have made. The concept that life is pain has long been supported. The world upholds the concept that what has been will always be. You have upheld it too.

You see, you have believed in eternity, only you forgot what it consists of. You packed the right suitcase with misplaced belongings.

Pain and all that do not belong to you. They are external to you. Do not clutch them. Pain is not precious. Separation is not precious. Fear is not precious. They are not eternal. Why do you treat them as though they were?

Whatever transpires, it is the world that attaches pain to it, and you have bought the promise of pain more than the truth of Truth. Pain has been more accessible to you. It has been more noticeable. You have even felt it was your due, but it is only your prerogative. Free your will.

You do not have to escape the world. Change your thinking about it. Start thinking anew. Now you will honor yourself more. You will begin to think more Realistically.

Life is not a long howling tunnel.

It is a privilege. Start reminding yourself that it is. It is a favor that has been bestowed upon you. It is a gift given to you to spend. Not sit out, not endure, not get over with, not undo, but spend. Consider your life a huge bank-roll, and you can do with it what you like. You have unlimited backing. Your funds will never run out. You have good credit. Spend your paper money, for it is backed by gold. Endless gold.

You are not disposable. I created you. I made you forever. Wherever you find yourself in the outer world, you are not outcast. You are child of the universe and you are child of God. You are Heaven's child. You cannot fade. You are My eternal creation.

Give yourself credit. You are a butterfly. Your wings may be gossamer, but your ability to fly is inviolate. It cannot be wrested from you. Do not lay yourself down in defeat. There is no one on earth mightier than you. No one can fly higher than you. This is what you forget and forget again. You are made in My image.

You can rise as far as your eyes see, and you can rise higher than that. You rise in increments because you believe that is how it is done. Who taught you that?

The elevator does not have to stop at each floor.

You do not need to unwind yourself slowly.

Take off your heavy shoes.

Be light-footed.

Lift up now.