HEAVEN #2194  The State of Your Heart

IT MATTERS NOT so much what you do. What matters is your state of mind as you do it. Rather your state of heart. You could do everything magnificently, but if your heart and what you say or what you do are not aligned, your act belies itself. Your state of identification is not hidden. Anger will be known. It may sneak out on tip-toe. It may be smoke escaping, but anger, so long as it burns within you, will override your best presentation that tries to say otherwise. Trying to paint a picture of love is a poor painting. When you feel anger and you answer sweetly, illness forms.

The answer isn't to vent your anger, nor is it to dissuade anger, not to cover it up, nor to mollify it. In a week or month or year, it is likely that the anger will no longer be there. It will have faded away on its own because now you see your inflammation more clearly for what it is: a sudden flare-up of ego. Within the interval of time, ego has soothed itself enough so that its anger recedes. You are no longer so preoccupied with ego and fostering its anger, so now it doesn't have such a comfy place in you. Anger has outlived its welcome. It can only park itself somewhere else.

There may well be solid reason for your anger, and you always are sure of that.

In time, your anger diminishes because your perspective changes. What has changed but your perspective? Well then, change your perspective now. Change your perspective ahead of time. Be a wise owl who sees from a height.

Even in the most dire circumstances, you are not a victim of another's view. That is fallacy. They are victim of their own perspective, and you are a victim of your own. Enough of ego. Enough of anger. Be dispassionate, beloveds. Be impartial sooner. You can do it.

Another's anger belongs to them, not to you. Let them deal with it. You are not going to work it through for them. All your intelligent explanations will not assuage their ego. You are not responsible for their ego. Their ego, their distress, their anger, that is their responsibility, not yours. Nor are you responsible for theirs.

Your own anger is one of the hardest things you have to deal with. A subsidiary of ego, anger is always a front for it. Ego has conditioned you to respond. It has conditioned you to feel spleen rather than heart. It has conditioned you to feel gall in your throat. Have not My children served ego well? Have they not danced to its tune?

Because you sense another's reflex of anger, it doesn't mean you have to pick it up and make it your own. Sometimes the anger you feel is not your own. You are really picking up the power of another's thoughts. You are feeling their feelings, not your own. You are feeling their discomfort. They have thrown it at you, and you have caught it. It has become a virus. Anger is a viral infection.

Wordlessly, you made their anger your own. Now, wordlessly, your waves of understanding can evaporate their anger. Get the anger out of your system, and they may no longer house theirs. Whatever is thrown at you, you do not have to catch it. You can let it pass by you. Embrace others' love but not their anger.

HEAVEN #2188  When You Pick Apples from a Tree...

CONFLICTS COME BECAUSE of struggle between the heart and mind. There is a tug of war going on because you want to do everything right. And you want everyone else to do things right. Only you don't always know what is right, even when you think you do. Please don't worry so much about being correct. You don't have to be right. If you have to be right, you hesitate in life. You are here to live it.

When you pick apples from a tree, you just have to pick. You can't decide ahead of time which ones will have worms and which ones won't.

So, in life, you make choices. You simply do not have all the information necessary to make premiere decisions. Your mind does not have all the information. You heart may know, yet your heart has been so subjugated to the mind that it may be hard for you to know what your heart is saying.

For certain, your mind cannot know. The wisest decisions are not always wise. Decisions considered foolish may be wise. Decisions, however, are not so weighty as you have thought. Decisions are a dime a dozen. You may think they set the course of your whole life. In some cases, from one point of view, that may be true, for, of course, if you choose to sail on a ship, you are bound to the ship. You can't get off in the middle of the ocean.

Yet wherever you find yourself, wherever your body is located, you have access to Me. In that sense, it matters neither where you are nor what decisions you make. Despite surroundings, you can be only in one place, and that is with Me.

To be with Me is the outcome to be desired. The name of the ship you sail on then doesn't signify. That you are with Me is established. Your awareness is another thing.

Come to Me now in your awareness. Know Whose heart you reside in, and take Me into yours. Cradle Me in your heart as I do cradle you in Mine. We are One. That is the decision to make, and that decision will carry you in life. It will set your course.

No decision you have to make is to stymie you. A decision isn't such a big thing as you have made it. It is a little thing. Turn left, or turn right. Go straight, or go back. Stride or stumble. No matter, you are a traveler on your way. You will get to where you are going. You are marching to Heaven.

I have called you, and you will come. That you have no choice about, beloveds. Your choice is when and how, but not what. You will find out your true location. You will rise to great heights and know where you are and Who loves you beyond all reason that you can see. It is reason enough that I love. You do not need to prove yourself to Me. I have all the proof I need in My heart, My heart that I have given to you. Your heart is My heir.

© 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.