HEAVEN #1988  When Hearts Close

WHEN SOMEONE SEEMS to close his heart to you, don't mind. Sometimes someone turns their heart off, puts shutters up as it were, and keeps you out. They cannot accommodate the light of your sun at this time. For a while, their heart just can't get warm, just like sometimes you shiver in bed no matter how many blankets you cover yourself with. So their heart shrinks away from love.

You know how sometimes you cannot focus on learning trigonometry or following the directions of how to put a bicycle together? That's how sometimes someone's heart just can't focus on love. Their heart becomes a turtle that goes within and cuts itself off from the outer world. Or their heart becomes a snail hiding in its delicate shell. Their heart is sealed for a little while, or a long while. Because their heart is sealed, it doesn't mean that you have to close yours. You just have to respect theirs.

At these times, the love in your heart has to be so great that it can allow someone else to close their heart. Maybe they have been out in the sun too long. Maybe they are putting a band-aid over their heart. Maybe they are taking a deep breath. Maybe they are doing the best they can.

This points to the importance of your not taking anything personally. Even if it is personal, you can't take it personally. If you do, you are affronted. If you don't take it personally, you are not affronted. Compassion comes from not taking another's seeming heartlessness personally. If Christ had seen lepers' wounds as an offense, how could he have healed them? If your heart bleeds because someone else's does, how much compassion can you have then when you are nursing your own wounds?

When someone has to withdraw from the arena of your heart, then bless them. They are healing. Only they are healing in a way different from the way you want them to. That is all that is happening.

And if someone wants to divorce themselves from you, they don't have to think about it the same as you. They are free to withdraw, and you are just as free to be unscathed as you are free to be scathed. Beloved, wounds are not something you have to catch as you might a cold.

Sometimes what you perceive as love - as given to you - hops around like a jumping toad.

Can you be a little glad that someone's personal love had visited you? You can be sorry that it did not stay, and yet, you do not have to mourn its passing. What is passed is passed, and you cannot make it prisoner. You are also freed. Certain parameters that were set up no longer work, and so now you need different boundaries or, better yet, none at all.

Love without freedom is not love at all. Captive love is not love. No one is beholden to you. No one. No one on Earth is beholden to you. Only I am beholden to you in the sense that I can do nothing but love and be with you. I am beholden to Myself. To be away from you is not even a thought I can contain. It is beyond My imagination. If I am love, I am love, and I am naught but love. I do not know fickleness. I am not a God of moods. I am a God of love, and there is nothing else I can be. And why in Heaven would I ever consider anything else? I know what I AM. The only love you must have is Mine, and that you have, beloveds, that you have.

 

HEAVEN #1986  What Ruby, What Diamond?

WHEN YOU FEEL a moment's envy, you are feeling that you lack. You are feeling that someone else is the favored son, and you are not. You can never lack Me, beloveds, nor My love. Success in the world does not mean that one child is favored over another. That is what you think, isn't it? You have always been alert to make sure you receive your fair share in the world, and so you spot lack and point to it.

Success in the world is nice, but it is irrelevant. It is not the aim of your life.

Instead of incurring envy, radiate love in your heart. Love another's success as if it were My blessing to you. You cannot lack My blessing. You are Myself. All are Myself, and I do not compete with Myself. What I give to another, I give to you. The world may not agree, but, then again, the world would not.

There is also nothing for you to compete for. As in tennis, one shakes the hand of the other, win or lose. The one who met his match congratulates the one who made a higher score. That is all that happened. Someone got a better grade on a test than you. Is that really so important?

When you feel a twist of envy in your heart, congratulate the one that has something that you want. The twist of envy is merely saying: "I want that." Even when you may not really want the success, you will tell yourself you do, and that you don't want to miss out. But what you really want is the love that you feel accompanies the success. Love counts, and that love you have already. It cannot be otherwise. Sure, you can hang the phone up on Me, but I am still on the line nevertheless.

You do not have to choose your awareness of Our mutual love over success in the world. You can have both. What carries you, however, is My love. Pick up the phone. Hear My love. Take it, and make it yours. What ruby will you envy then? What diamond will shine as brightly as your awareness of My love? You can wear a bright diamond on each finger, the world can fall at your feet, every prize can come to you, and yet without your awareness of My love, you carry an emptiness, for something then is indeed missing, not My love, for no one is without it, but your awareness of My love. Without this awareness, the world's acclaim is not enough. It does not begin to be enough.

Remind yourself you are not here on Earth to win something, and yet, you cannot lose. You are here to give the love I give to you. With your awareness of My love, you cannot take second place. There is no second place in My heart. Accept this. No one is loved most of all. All are beloved.

Become the most generous person in the world. Be King and Queen to the world. Knight people. Be gracious to them. Remind yourself that you are an emissary for God. You carry My wand, and you bless all with it. Whatever else befalls, that is success, and it is yours. The brass ring is within your grasp.

Do not give your rightful inheritance away, for there is nothing to equal it. Do not abandon love for money or anything else that passes for gold in the world.

 

© Gloria Wendroff, 1999-2006, All Rights Reserved

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gloria Wendroff always loved reading, writing, and inspiration, but she never gave much thought to God - let alone dreamed that a time would come when she would hang on to every word of the Best Storyteller of All. Not until after forty-two years of wandering did she become conscious of a desire for God. Then it was another twenty more before she began to hear a whisper. Now, looking back, she can see a tiny hint here or there but nothing to prepare her for what was to come.

After teaching creative writing, English, ESL, and business communications, writing boundary-breaking resumes and a monthly job advice column for many years, she learned and taught meditation, traveled Europe, studied in Thailand and India, and discovered God back in America. Of all the messengers along the way, two were movies! One was a photograph. At least one was a book. And, of course, many, many were people. There was no one great epiphany. There were many great ones and some little ones. But, suddenly - ah, there was God. Ever since Gloria discovered God, she has been receiving and sending out God's words every day via email, giving free readings of God's words across the country, getting God's personal answers for people who want them, helping others dare to do their own Godwriting? in workshops, making CD's, and getting Heavenletters, Love Letters from God, Book One, published - all with an ear to the Still Small Voice and bringing earth closer to Heaven. To find out more about Heaven Letters, visit www.heavenletters.org.