Your Vocabulary

God said:

Remember what you are here for. You are not here for gossip. You are not here to inflate your ego. You are not here for others, and you are not here for yourself. You are here on Earth for Me. Consider Me the North Star over your shoulder. Look up at Me, and you will not dispense your life in pettiness.

Often you think pettiness is important. Sometimes you like to swim in it. Sometimes you call pettiness problems. You know you make much of them. That is the pettiness.

Life really is not about problems. You certainly think so, or have thought so. You have thought the sum of your life is your problems and your solving them. There is no them.

Problems are in your thinking. When you think something is big, it's big. That's the long and the short of it.

You think life is a series of problems for you to solve. Or you think of it as lessons. You even call it the school of hard knocks.

All appears as you think it does.

I do not tell you to bury your nose in the sand. But I tell you that you can have your attention on greater than problems.

Problems — that which you see as problems — fascinate you. You even like to watch other people's problems on TV.

What is gossip but attention on someone else's problem that you somehow relish?

Hands off other people's problems! You are not the solver of them. You are not the savior of other people. You can help other people, but you are not to delude yourself that you are a savior of them.

Everyone's life is his own. It belongs to the person who lives it.

You could solve someone else's problem, and they would still have it. They have to do a double take on their life. Their problem exists within them. It is not on the outside. It is not the situation, though you certainly convince yourselves that it is.

When a friend comes to you with a problem, don't take it on as yours. Be professional. Be like a lawyer who listens. Then he says a few words. He does not let the purveyor of the problem attach to him, nor does he attach himself to the perceived problem. And it is the person he talks to, not the problem. He doesn't tell the problem to go away. He does not shake his finger at it. But in his presence, some of the person's sense of problem disappears.

So do not you attach to your friends' problems. Don't make them yours. You have enough that you call your own.

You can waste your life swept up in problems.

Notice some of the things you talk about. Notice where your attention goes.

Consider your real purpose, and get on with it.

There are subdivisions of purpose. Take care of them, but keep coming back to your main purpose.

You are here in life for something greater than solving problems.

In fact, eliminate the word "problem" from your vocabulary. Don't even call what you see as your problems as opportunities or challenges because you kid no one, least of all yourself.

When a rock blocks your way, you climb over it or go around it, or perhaps you go a different way. It is only a rock. It happens to be there where it is. It didn't set a trap for you. It is an innocent rock that happens to be in your way.

Keep your eye on where you are going, and keep climbing. The thing is to get past it.

There is One for you to ask for help, and there is One Who gives the help.

Listen to the words you commonly use, and take note of them. Throw some out. Never use them again.

Problems are problems so long as you think they are. You do not need help. You have help. You are not powerless. You are powerful. The King's child has great power, but he has to know it, and he has to use it.

Do not enjoy your problems so much, and do not enjoy talking about them so much. Hand them over, and go about your business for Me.

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the long and the short

I really love the wryness of this. So funny, so true.

Life really is not about problems. You certainly think so, or have thought so. You have thought the sum of your life is your problems and your solving them. There is no them.  
  Problems are in your thinking. When you think something is big, it's big. That's the long and the short of it.
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You are here in life for something greater than solving problems. 
  In fact, eliminate the word "problem" from your vocabulary. Don't even call what you see as your problems as opportunities or challenges because you kid no one, least of all yourself.
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Problems are problems so long as you think they are.

I tried to protest, of course. Aren't there real problems -- health, relationships, money...? If I don't call them "problems", if I don't see "problem", won't they persist or get worse nevertheless and simply demand to be dealt with?
  But seriously, If I refused to call anything a problem and to view and experience it as a problem, what would happen? I'm not so sure any more. Perhaps problems need a landing pad, and if I don't provide one......... Hmm, this is new to me, but God says, "What is not possible?" I guess there would be simply some action or perhaps inaction, but it would no longer come from thinking "problem" or from thinking "solution". There would be no worry involved, no fear.

You do not need help. You have help. You are not powerless. You are powerful. The King's child has great power, but he has to know it, and he has to use it.
  Do not enjoy your problems so much, and do not enjoy talking about them so much. Hand them over, and go about your business for Me.

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I read this Heavenletter some time ago and liked it very much, but forgot to print it or make some note. Trying to locate it again now proved difficult. The key word I remembered was "problem", so I tried to find it in the list of "Related Topics", but it wasn't there. Since "problem" is a word of considerable frequency in Heavenletters, I didn't have much hope to easily find this Heavenletter via the search functions provided on this site. But I was lucky, it came up as the very first of many many hits, probably because it has "problem" twenty-seven times!
  When I opened it, I took a look at the "Related Topics" and spotted "concept of problem", a phrase that I was then able to find in the list. I also saw that there are quite a few "concept of ..." entries with their key words not appearing as separate entries in the list. So, for now, if there is a term I can't find, I will look unter "concept of ..." But I'm sure every important term will have its own entry in the finished list one day. To all who are working on it: Thank you so much! And please know I'm not complaining.

I just found out I can use

I just found out I can use the search function of my browser, and it will give me any term anywhere on the list in no time at all. Wonderful!

More on the long and short of it

Jochen, when I read this letter I felt like protesting too. We are accostomed to seeing "problems" all around us.

If we focus on the positives that we desire: "You are not powerless. You are powerful. The king's child has great power, but he has to know it, he has to use it." It would seem that the key is to not get sucked into emotional battles over problems and solutions but rather to focus on what we want to see in the world and in so doing mobilize the King's child's great power! We acknowledge where we are. We visualize the world we plan to see. We dispassionately recognize some "rocks" that may be in our way, trusting that they will be efficiently dealt with by the universe in its response to our loving intent.

 

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