HEAVEN #2014  The Orchestration of Life

EASY DOES IT. Resistance doesn't do it. Resistance is resistance. It oftentimes gives you the opposite of what you want. If you want a smooth path in life, walk on it. You don't need to scuff your shoes along the way.

If there are puddles, lift your skirt and go through the puddles. Or walk around them.

When you think life has to be according to your plan, you grab a situation as if it were an opponent when it is only a puddle. As you grapple, you turn a puddle into a mountain, beloveds. Engage instead. Make friends with the mountain of your imagination that seems to block your path. Make life easy to come to you.

You may know the ways of the world, but that doesn't mean you always know the orchestration of life. Your mind knows only so much. Your eyes see only so far. Go along with life, and see where it takes you.

You want instant gratification, beloveds. In your insistence, you may waste a lot of time, the very thing you are trying to save. You most certainly will waste energy. It is not that you have to gain patience. It is not a question of patience nor impatience. It is a question of your allowing life to take its course. You determine yourself. You cannot always determine life. You may direct yourself, but you cannot always direct life. It does not have to do your bidding.

Life may not follow your schedule. If it were up to you, a seed you plant today would grow before your very eyes very much like Jack's beanstalk, and you would like to climb it right away. Life may go too slowly for you. You try to hasten it, yet you may be the one who has to slow down.

Your plans are only your plans. They are not the map of life. They are your fantasy, beloveds. Sometimes fantasies come true just as you picture them. Sometimes they weave and wind and take more threads than you imagined.

When you think something in your life is taking too long, the delay is your fantasy. You can do everything under the sun, and still sometimes life is going to amble along at its own pace. Who is off-schedule? You or life?

When you are going to catch a train, there is a printed schedule you can go by. Life does not provide you with a printed schedule of fulfillment of your desires. You can write one of your own, but you are guessing. Your timetable is not a contract that life has signed with you.

It's true that life serves you. Often it serves you like a mother. She serves you food she wants you to have rather than the Oreos you would prefer. Or she gives you two cookies, not twenty. Or she says, Tomorrow.

Consider life a meeting you attend. It may not follow your agenda.

The way to take life by the tail is to let it lead.

Go for what you want. Persist. Do not give up a noble aim. And also do not resist the play as it unfolds. Resistance is giving your power away. Do you begin to see?

Your choice is not to be lackadaisical or adamant. You don't have to be one or the other. Just know that you are learning.

When you surf, you go with the waves. You are surfing life, beloveds.

HEAVEN #2041  Preconceived Thoughts

THERE IS NOTHING you have to know. Your mind is cluttered with all you know. Know less. Be less proficient. Know nothing. Then all the past is gone. All the presumptions, the attitudes, the evaluations, the judgments - all gone. Then you become a receiver of the Universe. Your head is clear, your eyes, your ears, and then you see with clear vision, and you hear with ears and heart and mind open to hearing.

It has long been promulgated on Earth that you are supposed to know a lot. This very learning and the knowledge it accumulates is cumbersome. For then you have to do sorting and resorting and buying more file folders and squeezing in more thoughts into your mind. Better to open your mind, beloved. Fling those mental folders away. It is enough to be alive and greet the sun.

All the accumulated knowledge cannot go everywhere with you. Like worldly goods, you will have to leave it and take openness instead. Another name for openness is love. You will bring all the love in the world with you. It weighs nothing. It fills hearts but takes up no room. Knowledge often surmounts love.

Any idea you had a minute ago is a preconceived thought. Preconceived thoughts weigh you down. They are hurdles you have to jump over. What do YOU think? You don't know what you think because your mind has been crowded with thoughts that came from somewhere else. You were applauded for all you gained of passed-on knowledge, and no one told you to think your own thoughts. You were given one scale to weigh things on. You were not allowed time to ask yourself what you thought. Your thoughts were downplayed. They weren't considered of much importance now, were they?

Yet what you think and what you feel are of the utmost importance. What is your mind for but to think your own thoughts? Your mind is not meant to be a suitcase packed-full of remembered items that you probably won't use. You keep track of them because you have been instructed.

But at any moment you can walk into the horizon without any luggage.

You are on Earth for discovery. Why do you have a third eye? It is for looking within. The energy of all knowledge is contained within you. Outer knowledge is not inner knowledge. What you are discovering along your path in life is what you do think and what you do feel and what you do make of what you think and feel. Certainly, there are Red Cross workers along the way, but they do not hold your hand forever. Pretty soon you let go of crutches and canes, and you surrender to yourself. You surrender to your majesty. You discover the seeds of knowledge that were planted within you. No longer do you buy packets of knowledge from here and there. Now you invest in your own education.

Certainly, you are in the world to find your way around. Streetlights are lit, and you use their light. Street signs are there. But you do not make streetlights nor street signs responsible for your reaching your destination. You are the true conductor who takes you where you always wanted to be.

First you find out who you are and what you think and what matters to you, and then you find out what is palpable in your life. Whether it's called career, enlightenment, service, education, its real name is love, simply love. This is all you have to learn. You are learning, and I am teaching you.

 

© 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.