You Are a Strong Being

Heavenletter #2889 Published on: October 22, 2008
God said:

You do not have to be as emotional as you are. I am not talking about how much you express your emotions or not express. Whether you keep your emotions to yourself or not, you have them. You have an abundance of them. Love, which is beyond emotion, uplifts your life. Anything but love pulls you down a notch or two. You know what it is to feel weak with emotion. Anything that is not love is less, you understand. Bear in mind that I do not speak of love as an emotion. Love is its own thing and beyond categorization.

All the emotions you experience in one day disrupt your happiness. You would be happy without them. You would be happy if you were not shocked, disappointed, upset, disillusioned and so forth. Even if you did not get so thrilled and excited and stayed on a more even keel, life would be smoother. If only you would not be shaken by whatever wind blows. If only you would not. If only you would keep the peace of love to you and the awareness that whatever transpires, it is all right, even when, in your terms, it isn't. There is a myriad of things that you consider inappropriate, wrong, unbearable, and so forth.

Someone stomped on your flowers. Someone pulled out what they thought were weeds, and they were your favorite flowers, and you are bereft. It can't be right that this happened, and you may be right about that. Nevertheless, you have to skip right along and not let downward thoughts drag you down. Your garden was stomped on, but must your heart be too? Must you then stomp on your heart, beleaguer it, taunt and torment it?

Whatever it is that happens does not have to pull you down. No matter how serious a matter it is to you, you have to find a way within yourself to let go of it. Have a shorter memory, beloveds, when it comes to matters that disrupt your joy in life. Even the very serious matters have to evaporate, as they surely will.

There is so much in the world that you see as dreadful. You may take losing your purse as seriously as you would take losing a limb. You can find many occurrences a day to keep you away from your rightful happiness. The numbers of little and big hurts a day are monumental. We must do something about this.

It sometimes feels to you that you have no skin to protect you. You sometimes feel you have no bone structure to hold you up. Please stop seeing yourself as a weakling when it comes to what you see as assaults on your life. Your life is yours. It is not for someone else to pick at. Your life does not have to be at the mercy of events around it. It must not be, or you are wounded time and time again. Do you see how you wound yourself?

You are not an emotional weakling. You are a strong Being. You would not have survived this far unless you were strong. There is just too big a time lapse between an event and your recovery from it. You know you will recover. You always have. You are not so vulnerable as you think, only you are slow to rise above. Let's speed up your recovery.

Announce to yourself: "I am strong in life. I am not so blown about as I once was. Every little pin prick does not have to pierce my skin. Whatever occurs, I allow myself to feel the sting for only a moment, and then I find something else to focus on. When I am at a loss as to what to think of, then I will then think of God. Awareness of God and awareness of baser thoughts cannot sustain themselves at the same time. It can't be done, and I can't afford it. I will look upwards to God. I cannot be so foolish as to keep looking downward at what causes me pain. Well, of course, I have been so foolish, and now I choose to be God-driven instead of event-driven. I dismiss all my debilitating emotions now. I am done with them. I say to them, 'Begone!' And then I move on down the road."

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Standing Strong or Fight or Flight

On October 22nd, 2008 sasha (not verified) says:

So true! Thank you Gloria for the wisdom and encouragement. I was in an emotional storm triggered by fear until tonight when my heart opened with love and compassion but every time I do that my parent hurts me again. But I keep opening and trying. But what to do when they have financially and emotionally devastated you? Seek restitution or forgive and forget? I have not yet succeeded in that. But I don't want to have more of an energy drain of fighting them.

I understand what you are

On October 22nd, 2008 Gloria Wen... says:

I understand what you are saying, beloved Sascha.

Am I right that you are advanced in Karate?

It seems to me that I have read how energy is handled in martial arts. What do you do?
My understanding is that you conserve your own energy.

And when the match is over, you walk away.

For wrongs of the past, there is no restitution. If you somehow got restitution, there would be no victory in it. Restitution does not undo.

God always says to rise above. The fact is you are above.

I personally don't know how it's done, yet somehow it's necessary to let go of the past and not carry it with you. You belong to travel light. And somehow the past is to not to follow you.

With love and blessings,

Gloria

P.S. I was just going over the Heavenletter written down yesterday, and here's the ending of it:

"It is obvious that you do not retaliate for a wrong, for then you keep yourself in a lower energy level. We are talking about energy, beloveds. We are talking about a wave length of energy. To retaliate, or to prove someone wrong, or to make excuses for yourself or for another is not where you belong. What do I say? I say to jump a notch. I say to go higher. No matter how right you may be, no matter how wrong the seeming other may be, your instructions are the same. Go higher. Go from a different angle. Get out of the mire.

"It may not be right that it has snowed. It wasn’t supposed to. It shouldn’t have, but it did. And now it is for you to shovel the snow or plow it. Somehow you make your way through the snow."

Sasha, Will you Help Me Out on Something?

On October 22nd, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Sweet Sasha, I need your help!! I'm doing an "experiment".

I "referenced" this Heavenletter for you. Please read it and let me know, if it "touched" your heart regarding the situation you verbalized?

You Are Here to Rise
Heavenletter # 1645/May 22, 2005
(Just type in the title in the search engine.)

Welcome to Heavenletters, sweet one!!
Bonnie

your rightful happiness

On October 22nd, 2008 Jochen (not verified) says:

A child of God is not different from God, so He says. How come a child of God gets hurt? Does He? How come a child of God expects again and again that her or his flowers will get trampled? Does He?

Oh, let's have the full catalog. How come a child of God, not different from God, thinks it is natural to encounter again and again things he or she dislikes, dreads, resents or abhors? Why does a child of God put up with having to do things he or she hates doing; and with having to be or to behave certain ways that don't feel natural to him or her? Why does a child of God struggle to meet expectations? Why does a child of God, not different from God, try to be a good boy/girl and to please? In short, why does a child of God put up with any unpleasantness whatsoever, even thinking it's necessary and unavoidable? Why does not a child of God live in joy and peace and ease and absolutely carefree the way God does from Whom she or he is not different? And why, finally, is it not the most natural thing in the world for a child of God to take from God's table whatever she or he wants, be it health, vigor, lying on the beach, the famous red sports car or even happiness, even love?

If there is no real difference, then what is the perceived difference? Am I still clinging to that ancient malediction that was never spoken by God, the one about pain and strife and the sweat from my brow? Why would the children of God speak such utter nonsense and even believe in it? Why does a child of God believe life has to be fraught with unpleasant things? Ego? Isn't "ego" just another smoke screen in the end, a euphemism for.....

Could it be that a child of God believes that love, though wonderful, beautiful and whatnotful, is really rather toothless, the cream topping of an otherwise harsh, grim and arduous existence? Could it be that a child of God does not really believe in the power of love and that therefore its praise is sung so profusely and endlessly? Could it be that the children of God do not trust that love can take care of everything with not a single exception?

We must do something about this. This is such a sweet way of putting it, dear God. But as You have said many times and as George repeated yesterday, love is not something you do. Love is, and love is always already what we are. When I have tried everything else and found it ineffective, what is there left to do but to decide that God is right? When I decide that God is right, whether I really believe it or not, I will then, in whatever transpires, return to thoughts of God. When I am at a loss as to what to think of, then I will then think of God. I will simply take His word that I am love and able to remember that I am love. I will not beg or supplicate or entreat ever again. I will not be clever and try to worm my way into what is rightfully mine. I will think of God, eagerly anticipating love to reveal itself any moment.

All perfectly useless, my

On October 24th, 2008 Danilo says:

All perfectly useless, my dear Jochen: these are just thoughts, and after a minute, you've forgotten them and you'll be that you're always been, only with an another cubic meter of conceptual rubbish. You will simply clinging to the concepts that support unnecessary hopes to be and become. Being and becoming who? Words, concepts, are like mirrors, and they are not things elsewhere; and to climb on the concepts, it's climbing on the mirrors: you will simply slip over to every new step, day after day, year after year... Turn back and have the courage to face all your deception.
To live comfortably, there is no need for words of God. Only desperate egos clings tenaciously to something, anything, even the words of God, but to cling it, don't save them, because they have simply used God, their idea of God, to flee their fear and support their need for pleasure and emotions.

If you mean to say that you

On October 24th, 2008 Jochen (not verified) says:

If you mean to say that you are living comfortably, Danilo, that's very good news for me. It's all I care for, and I'm not being sarcastic at all. Let me, desperate ego that I am, cling and fear and need. It's all I know how to do it. I'm sure it's all right although, of course, I can't prove that. Ciao, dear.

Danilo, Re: Practical Applications of Redundancy

On October 24th, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Hi, Danilo!!
Hmm...perhaps it's true already!! That telepathy as suggested/promised is "kicking in". It seems you took the words right out of my mouth. Thank goodness, because I am new to Heavenletters, and nobody listens to me...yet.

However, consider this "bright aspect" of the situation. Some of us inspired by real life, then write our ballads. Where would we ever be without someone to sing them?

And then to take this observation even further into hilarity: If the ballads were ever incorporated into a Musical Production, they would need a choir. Perhaps, some would sing the verses, and others the chorus. Jochen would be the Star of the Chorus Singers!!

And oh, just think how honored one would be, to have Jochen sing one's refrain!!
I just figure we've all got our "Right to Whatever..."

Quite Pleased to Meet Cha!
Bonnie

You ARE a strong Being. Or you would not have survived this!

On October 22nd, 2008 angel iris (not verified) says:

Dear beloved...

This is very important news beloved! We are the onces that can make the difference..we are the hands and feet of God! Lets believe in our value!

Let us thoose for a loveway of looking at our events in our lives. It is not WHAT happens in your life..... it is HOW you deal with it, that make you realise who you are right now .....see our own beauty.... your own love..... be your highest self!

That is who you are that is the tool that is usefull in this world at this moment..Right now!!!!!

Let us light up the world with our light!!!

Love angel Iris

Jochen, Angel Iris, what

On October 22nd, 2008 Gloria Wen... says:

Jochen, Angel Iris, what beautiful responses. What you wrote brought me very close to tears.
God bless you.

Rungs of a ladder!

On October 22nd, 2008 George Mon... says:

Often the Heavenletter writer give some very usable advice that can affect our consciousness if we repeat it to ourselves.
The writer lovingly says: "I am strong in life. I am not so blown about as I once was..." Then the thoughtful writer suggests:
"I dismiss all my debilitating emotions now." Does this stuff work? Try it and see how well it works to shift the manner of our thinking.
You'll see that the writer's last comment is true: " And then I move on down the road."

George romping down the road with Aloha Light

George, You've Got A Secret...

On October 22nd, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Aha, Sweet George hang on there just a minute!

You've got a secret you've tantalized us with, and I'm (gulp!) brave, so I guess I'll be the one to blurt out the question:

We know, and oh so love what a Darling you are. And we swoon with your Love of your Lady. So...before you go galloping off, we Ladies want to know what it was about Queen Darling that captured your heart so!!

Okay, there...I've said it.

Knees Knocking,
Bonnie

George's SECRET

On October 22nd, 2008 George Mon... says:

Bonnie Darling:

In 1943 while staying in a USO while being a medic at an air station in California I had a stomach ache and asked one of the volunteer girls (age 17) if she could find me some pepto bismo. She grinned and flashed her big brown eyes as she hunted and found what I needed.
She never stopped trying find what I needed. She met my ship when it came to dock in San Diego, she sang to me, took me to her mother and father who gave me a room for my own in their home. (alone) Her very last words, when she knew they would be her last were: Now cuddle me!" We cuddled for two hours until she dropped off to her eternal sleep. She was 81 and I was 82. That was two years ago. She was thin, even in child bearing but that's not important. She loved me and she loved herself in the most simple, thoughtful ways. We both loved classical music, the same books and enjoyed camping. We enjoyed being together and shared our questions about life. We meditated together, loved together, and were bonded in love's dearest ways rearing our three children. Even now I swoon with love and gratitude for the princess God permitted me to have for 64 years. I have a bit to go before i rest. Each moment is eternal JOY. So, Sweet Bonnie, now you know my SECRET!

George smiling at your knocking knees

George...Beautiful, Just Beautiful!!

On October 22nd, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

For once, I am struck speechless...

Your ode to the Queen of Darlings brought tears to my eyes, me to my knees, and warmth to my heart.

With quiet respect, Thank You.
Bonnie

"We Must Do Something About This"

On October 22nd, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

"We must do something about this."
WE, God, did you say WE? Therefore, I know I am not all alone when I'm in this “down” state.

Most unfortunately for me and the “traditions” I was raised in, this was GROSSLY overstated.

It was a theme: God is there when Life seems “down”. There were even hymns, that would rival any Blues (as genre) songs at their best (now, that's an oxymoron!) in their wailing and whining of Life's emotional downside.

However, fortunately at some point my “odometer” clicked over, and I realized I was playing games with myself. I stepped back from the situation/s enough to realize that I was sub-consciously “acting out” that programming.

Somehow, I had gotten it in my head that God was to be found ONLY in the “dumps”. So...naturally bubbly me would "set myself up" to fall down. I craved conscious contact with God, and this is "where it's at", this is where I found it. I had "bought into" that belief.

This was a biggie-wowie revelation to me!! And I was SO embarrassed in front of God. It was a very humbling experience, to say the least.

On that day I made a promise to myself and God that I would always CONSCIOUSLY “invite” Him/Her to all my “parties”. All my happy days, mellow days, celebrations, walk-in-the-park days...

And that did it for me. “POOF”.

Lovey,
Bonnie

Emotions

On October 23rd, 2008 Marko says:

I admit that I find it hard to reference love as beyond emotion. The very emotions that bring us down also bring us uP.

I find that even seeming bad emotions of sadness or hurt, longing are very beautiful and are often can actually be positive emotions depending on perspective.

We are often taught "Don't feel bad" when it's actually ok to do so, in fact, to feel our feelings good bad or other, especially the bad, we pass through them quicker and if we desire, we can sustain the good ones longer.

When people are taught to be ok with bad feelings they have less of them as a result! They feel and honor them and let them go allowing more good feelings/emotions to reside.

Emotionless love may have a place in the future advancement, but for now, I'm happy to have all my emotions good bad etc.

Of course, I choose to live and breathe the good emotions as a majority of my life, then the bad ones so to speak can be given a voice much earlier and easier and set free sooner.

Of course we want to focus on the good emotions and not be taken in with the drama of the bad. That's a reminder worth heeding.

Marko Practices the Craft of Love

On October 24th, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Marko,
The emotions you addressed are indeed beautiful and/or healthy. They are more like sentiments and are sometimes (wisely) not long-lasting. They are like songs that drift through our head and reflect/label Life with healthy words.

Re: Emotionless Love
The definition of Love that has been given me is: That inspiration that engenders one to create win-win situations. That definition has "worked" for me very, very successfully, once I “got it”.

That Love may or may not be “emotionally charged” depending on the situation-at-hand and my PAST associations that might overlay it so as to distort or even over-enhance it. These could “abort” the win-win (manifestation of LOVE) I am hoping to create. In that case, I have learned that it is in my and “the other's” best interest that I “step back” from the situation or “step up” to a “higher consciousness.”

I recall in one of your Comments your emotionless expression of Love when you said something to the effect that your purpose was not to engender ill-will, but to encourage open-hearted dialog.

That tactic is one “tool” in The Higher Consciousness Toolbox—it works!! When I read that, I thought to myself, “Now there's a lady as smart as me!! LOL!

Thank you for being where you are,
Bonnie

Hey Bonnie

On October 24th, 2008 Marko says:

Hey Bonnie, I like Win Win situations!

A priceless obervation,

On October 23rd, 2008 Jochen (not verified) says:

A priceless obervation, Bonnie. God will only be there for you when you're down, the more down the better. When you are "naturally bubbly", your immune system will geht over that someday. When you're not (i.e. when you have forgotten you are), it can get a little difficult. How did you overcome your embarrassment?

Thanks for sharing this.

Inviting God to everything good - yes, that's what He suggests Himself:

I am inevitably with you. I know that. It is you who may not quite know or believe or accept or even really imagine that I am with each and every one of you every minute, and yet it is so.
If you had never seen a sunrise or sunset, if you had never seen the moon and the stars, you might not believe in them either. But when you would say, “Good morning, Sun!” and say, “Hello, Moon and Stars!” you would begin to feel the possibility of their existence. The vibration of their name would stir their existence in your heart, and you would feel closer to them and know them more sweetly.
You don’t have to be formal with Me. You don’t have to follow a protocol, although you may. It’s perfectly fine to say, “Hi, God.” Say it to yourself as often as you think of it. Say, “Hi, God, You still here?”
When something wonderful occurs, say, “Wow, God.” Or say, “Thanks a bunch, God. That was a homer.” Or say, “Well done, God. That was my cup of tea.”
And when you eat a piece of candy, say, “Yum yum, God.”
And when you pick a flower, say, “Beautiful, God. How did You do this? How did You make this flower? How did you make so many of them? And how did You provide one for me? And a lapel as well to put it in?”
http://www.heavenletters.org/when-something-wonderful-occurs.html

Jochen, God's a Good Sport!!

On October 24th, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Dear Jochen,
For some reason your posts are always so powerful to me. Maybe I resonate/identify with that "I insist on knowing the TRUTH" motivation I perceive in you. I like to share "what I learned so far", and "check it out with you", because you are also a Diviner of Truth (Wow, that just "kicked in").

Regarding my “embarrassment”...it's like being embarrassed in front of one's “Creator-in-residence” who is also one's “best friend”. God graciously shrugged it off and said, “Whatever it takes...”.

He didn't indicate that he was chuckling behind my back at the time. However, He might have been, because now we both look back on it and laugh!! How about that?!! He/She loves us beyond what we could ever imagine!!

With Warm Respect,
Bonnie

Yes, as if embarrassed in

On October 24th, 2008 Jochen (not verified) says:

Yes, as if embarrassed in front of one's Creator. It's strange. It's silly. And realizing that is not sufficient for everyone. You understand that estrangement is not possible and yet you feel it. The perceived split is within, not between. Please complete the sentence "Whatever it takes..." for me. Thanks, Bonnie.

Jochen: How to Ride a Bike

On October 24th, 2008 Bonnie (not verified) says:

Dear Jochen,
This is "good for me" to verbalize how I came to be where I feel so amicable with God. I know it, but I have never explained it verbally, so it's a lot like trying to describe how to say...ride a bike.

What I believe today is radically different than the “tradition” I was raised in. I have always from my childhood known that God understood me, THAT I knew in my heart, not a flicker of a doubt about that ever. I just didn't understand Him. Well, I narrowed down my “tradition” to the “red print”, that was all truly all I could honestly endorse.

I followed the "red print" literally as far as I could take it all by myself (and I'm female!). I would NOT recommend doing that to anyone in this day and age, it was a fiasco!

But when that chapter was over, I remember the day quite well...I had exhausted all the “copying”/following I could do as a female (silently!) and I looked at God and said, “Well, you and I have been together for a long time. What's next?"

At that point, I learned the difference between God and "Man as Gender Representation" of God. God is Invisible, thus God is above Gender. WHATEVER IT TAKES...no matter what “miserable contortions” I found necessary to rid myself of “what I was taught” about God that somehow, “didn't add up for me”, God was there, walked me through it. Bless His Heart!!

God is Him/Her now. Just as we Humans Beings demonstrate characteristics of both parental gender roles without blinking an eye, God can be a Nurturing Mother and a Provident/Protecting Father. An “all-in-one” entity. And because we live in the 21st Century instead of the 1st, it can be that He's my Big Daddy or my “Girly” Mom. Oh what a relief!! Most of the time, I like the Creator aspect best...”Creator-in-Residence”, how cool is that!! Custom made me.

There were plenty (some quite hilarious) apparently NON-FATAL (I'm here, typing this letter last time I looked!!) other adventures/chapters/escapades, but this was the most important one for me. After finding out what/who God was not, I “settled down” and begin the most wonderful and on-going relationship of discovering who my Creator is. And, what "guarantees" more enlightening to come: As Humankind's consciousness of the Universe becomes greater, so I become greater...

So, does this “ring any bells” for you?

With Warm Respect,
Bonnie

Dear Bonnie, my bell tower

On October 24th, 2008 Jochen (not verified) says:

Dear Bonnie, my bell tower seems to be constructed quite differently from yours. But your words are very clear and to the point. Thank you again.

3 Heavenletter Haikus for

On October 23rd, 2008 Alohalight... says:

3 Heavenletter Haikus for you

Hello Friends,

God said Beloveds
Love is beyond emotion
Love is its own thing

God said in your terms
Keep the peace of love to you
Whatever wind blows

God said to say this
"I will look upwards to God.
And be God-driven."

Love, Light and Aloha!

 

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