You do realize that I am always thinking of benefit to you. I am not thinking of benefit to Myself. You know I don't have ulterior motives. What is there that I could gain anyway? What is there that I don't have? I have everything. Well, perhaps not everything, for I do not always have your happiness. I have your happiness sometimes, but not across the board.

I should rephrase this. I don't always see that you perceive your happiness. My eyesight is good, so it must be yours that isn't. You don't always perceive your happiness. This may be because you look for your happiness to come to you from outside. The world does not always give you a bouquet of roses. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it gives you accolades. Sometimes the world carries you in its arms, and sometimes it drops you and lets you find your own way back to happiness.

Your inner joy isn't really hidden from you. It's always there. It never leaves you. We could call it your Inner Being. It is never absent. The thing is, you look for happiness to land on you. Beloveds, no one can win the lottery every day. No one is ever carried on the shoulders of the world and cheered every day. Sooner or later and again and again, the world lets you down.

Your Inner Being knows only happiness. Not excitement but a quiet quality of happiness. We can say that your Inner Being is the Myself in you. I, residing in your heart, am happiness. Happiness isn't the right word, of course. Joy isn't exactly right either. Well, love must be the right word, yet it is love quiet, love without an object, just the quality of love that resides in your heart. It never wavers.

But you are looking outside, beloveds. You just haven't been looking at that strong vital inner core of you. If you want to find your eyeglasses, you have to look for them where they are. You have been looking where many things are. You have been looking where disappointment is, for the world provides that. You have been looking for where provocation flourishes, for the world will readily supply all the provocation that anyone could respond to. The world may provoke your anger, yet the anger is yours that the world provokes. The world also shows you love. The same way that anger is yours, love is yours. If you didn't have love within you, you wouldn't know it in the world. In the world you find snatches of yourself.

Inasmuch as the happiness gained from the world is often excitement, you couldn't sustain constant excitement. The world wouldn't be doing you a favor to constantly blast you with great tidings. You would burn up in the flames of excitement.

Even in turbulence, there is that still place within you. It is only within you. Enjoy the joys of the world, but count on the inner peace, the inner love, the place of stillness within your heart to sustain you. Nothing can go wrong in the heart of your heart where I reside. Find that haven within you, and you bless the world, the same world that doesn't always bless you.

But isn't that the thing to do, beloveds? To give what you want to receive? Haven't you always known that really?

Whatever your talents, no matter how gifted you are, what you have to give is the warmth and stillness of the inner light from your heart where I reside. Give Me away, beloveds. Blow my blessings all over. Blow on the dandelion puff of My love, and let its stillness land where it reaches even unto the far corners of the Earth. In any case, without trying, the love from My heart within yours escapes and lends itself to the world that craves it.