Your Left Shoe Cannot Fit Your Right Foot

God said:

You can know that there is a reason or reasons for everything. You don't have to know the reason. From the branch of the tree that you sit on, you cannot see that far. Even if you could see that far, you probably wouldn't grasp what you saw. The point is that you do not have to know any reason. There is not quite cause and effect, nor are events random. Asking Why isn't quite the right question, for the answer will not be right for you either. An answer will not assuage you. The question Why repeats and repeats itself.

There is a tendency for you to think that if you understood why something occurs, you would feel better. And yet an answer would not satisfy you. You would argue with it.

The thing is you do not have to okay what occurs in life. You don't have to give your approval any more than you have to give your disapproval. Occurrences in life are occurrences. They occur. That's about as far as you can go.

Naturally, you want something to make sense to you. From the level of your mind, there is no sense. Explanation cannot solve your heart's woe. We can say that your mind is like your left shoe and your heart is like your right shoe. Your left shoe cannot fit your right foot and so on. Why bark up the wrong tree? I am not really asking Why, you understand.

When you ask Me why you were born, I tell you that you were born to love. I could ask why you ask. I could ask: Are you so dissatisfied with life that you insist on answers, and, furthermore, you insist on answers that you want even when no answer is the one you want?

I make no mistakes, beloveds, yet if I were to say I had made a mistake, that would not assuage you.

It comes down to this: You have to go on the premise that what occurs, no matter how you protest it, is in the best interest of all, including yourself. Yet this is very hard for you to accede to. How can what you don't want be a blessing, you ask yourself. It is unfathomable. You crave the details. You can't quite take My word for it.

Man is like the king in Greek mythology who daily rolled a huge boulder up a hill only to see the boulder roll back down again. This was his life throughout Eternity. He could not stem the rolling back of the boulder any more than you can roll back events in life. You ask, "Why did this happen? How could this happen?" Perhaps the king in the myth continually scratched his head and asked himself: "Why can't the boulder stay up where I put it?"

Persistence is a good quality, yet there are times you have to pause and take a different direction.

Get on with it, beloveds. You do not have to protest what cannot be changed. What you can change is yourself and how you deal with the past. That is what we are talking about, the past, isn't it? Why questions come from attention on the past.

Make peace with the past. Do not keep the past alive. You have enough to take care of now. Now is waiting for you. Now wants to engage with you. Now is right here before you. Live not in the past, for you have the present to live in. There is a stairway before you. Look up. Stop looking back. Take a step up. Even when your foot doesn't know what it is climbing to, lift your foot.

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An answer I needed

It comes down to this: You have to go on the premise that what occurs, no matter how you protest it, is in the best interest of all, including yourself.

We have to take this on faith. For now, we cannot know why this is true.

Chuck tells us this truth so well!

Chuck: and in half my words!

George

Occurrences in life are occurrences. They occur." That's it.

After 87 years my heart admits that this is God's way, it is Life's way.
"It comes down to this: You have to go on the premise that what occurs, no matter how you protest it, is in the best interest of all, including yourself. Yet this is very hard for you to accede to. How can what you don't want be a blessing, you ask yourself. It is unfathomable. You crave the details. You can't quite take My word for it."

But of course, our heart shouts: "Why, for God's sake why?" During the Second World War I saw 30 to 40 men drenched with aviation fuel and saw them go up in flames and their friends dragged them over to sick bay. I helped the ones still alive to be more quiet with morphine. My heart didn't have time then to say: "why Lord?" "What's the answer Lord?"

"Man is like the king in Greek mythology who daily rolled a huge boulder up a hill only to see the boulder roll back down again. This was his life throughout Eternity. He could not stem the rolling back of the boulder any more than you can roll back events in life. You ask, "Why did this happen? How could this happen?" Perhaps the king in the myth continually scratched his head and asked himself: "Why can't the boulder stay up where I put it?"

Reading this excellent Heaven Letter will help our inner place of understanding take all of this into our daily consciousness. It really will.

George

Reverse Thinking

What we have to take on faith , God considers it as the essence of life. The instant we ask questions, we put ourself into an "out of life" position. What if what we'd call "faith" is translated in God's terms as "service"?

Death around us (especially death of the young ones) is probably the extreme illustration of the question "God, how could You do this?" Death seems always inappropriate. Is this inappropiateness the result of our seeing life as a succession of events or happenings rather than as a journey?

God sees our life as a contract, the contract which is service. Those who die seem to place upon us a burden, a burden of sorrow. If God said that death was a gift, then our anger/sorrow is not justified. The fact of death is not to be turned into a question of "Why could You let this happen" but into a response from us: what do I do in response to what is seemingly death?

Each death we witness is an opportunity given to us to examine who we are. What if we considered the death of loved ones as a gift to us, the gift of service? Faith is not blind thinking, it is life's way of thinking. Are we questioning life or joining it?

So helpful, Normand. Thank

So helpful, Normand. Thank you.

 

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