The word "upbringing" is an interesting word. In truth, you are the upbringer of yourself. You have parents who set you in certain places and taught you certain things in certain ways, but you are the upbringer of yourself. And you never stop upbringing.

I too am an Upbringer of you. What do you think I'm doing all this while? I am bringing you up to Me. I am bringing up your recognition of yourself to yourself. I raise your heart to Mine. I raise your spirits. I bring you up to My eye level.

You are instructing yourself at every moment. You are telling yourself something. You are promoting or demoting yourself. Up and down you yo-yo your heart.

Your upbringing is your heartening of yourself. Make nice to your heart. Tell it that it is okay. It serves you well. It has always served you. Now give it a boost. Give it a little credit. A pat on the head. Give it little recognition for all it does for you. Selfless servant is your heart. What does it do for itself? It is all for you.

Your heart is heart-bound. It is not ego-bound. Yet your heart aches when you infringe it with ego. Then your heart feels like an orphan. A stalwart orphan who keeps going, but an orphan nevertheless. For whatever reason, you sometimes neglect your heart that is so loyal to you.

Uplift your heart right now. Imagine it cupped in your hands. Now lift it up as an offering to Me. Hold it high, and your heart breathes in and out in joy. It becomes young again. It is back in the harness again, and happily wants to do its work.

Return your happy heart to its place in your chest, and know it for the treasure that it is. Honor your heart. Located in the center of your chest, but it is never put away. It is always out, working for you and for Me.

Assuage your heart. Encourage it, for it is the encourager of you. Reciprocate a little. Oh, your heart has been so bereft of your acknowledgement.

You knew I was housed in your heart, did you not? I, Who Am Everywhere, am also located in your heart. I am not limited to your heart, but that is where you will find Me, and it is where I find you. Your heart is a meter for God. I am stirred in your heart, and you are stirred.

Make your heart very approachable. Your ribs are not meant to cage it. Only to support it. Your lungs are an apparatus for your heart, an extension of it. How mightily heart and lungs work together for the good of all!

The physicality of your heart is not the essence of it. I am the Essence. I am what it is for. Your heart in Mine, and Mine in yours, there, here, the connecting point. The heart is Our center.

With every beat of your heart, We are expanded. In and out We go. We go out to the world, and We take the world in. We take the world in to bless and refresh it. What is the beat of your heart? What is its pulse? What does it say, and what does it hear?

Let Us synchronize Our hearts. Let them beat as One. Let them set the tone for the world. Let the world follow the beat of your heart. Give the world your heart so that the world can follow Our beat.