HEAVEN #2268  You Are Free

IS IT REALLY SO IMPORTANT that everyone agree with you about anything or everything? Even when you are absolutely right, how much does it matter? What is your vested interest that you must have agreement? Give everyone their free-wheeling space, and have yours.

When you complain to someone, you are waiting for their agreement. Is their agreement really such a weighty thing that you would wait for it? What is it that you need confirmed? And why do you need it anyway?

Serve others, and don't ask for much. Opinions are opinions, and that's all they are. Here today and gone tomorrow. You may not even agree with yourself tomorrow!

That is a good thing that you can change your mind. Change it often. Reach new levels.

Not everyone agrees with Me. You may not. This is your freedom of will. I gave it to you. Now it is for you to give freedom to everyone. In theory, you love freedom for all. In actuality, you are not so sure. Not that you would infringe on anyone. Oh, no, you only want to be agreed with. You only want to enlighten others, bring them to their senses and your way of thinking.

This is a losing battle, beloveds. It is not winnable. Even if you win, you have won nothing. A nod of the head, a word. This is what winning an argument is made of. Don't argue, and you will not win nor lose the nothing at all that is at stake.

Get on with your life. In life, it is like you are taking a walk. If someone wants to walk with you, you are glad. If they want to take a different walk, that's okay too. You may meet at a certain corner down the road anyway. Or you may not.

When you no longer require someone's compliance or agreement, that will be a wonderful thing. As you release others, you release yourself. No one has to conform to another's thoughts. Thoughts are up for grabs.

Even if you are an employer, maybe you are the one who has to change his mind. But for that you have to listen first. And if you are an employee, you will have to listen and oblige, even when it makes no sense to you.

It is not compromise I speak of. It's just that everything may not be the way you want, or even the way it should be. And your lack of agreement does have to be a stumbling block. You don't have to make a fuss about it. You don't have to get in a huff. Of course, there is a certain line beyond which you will not step, and that is up to you. That is your freedom of choice. You always have a choice, beloveds. It's that you don't always know what you are choosing. It's that sometimes you choose ego over everything.

• You are free to be hasty,
  and you are free to take your time.
• You are free to disagree,
  and you are free to drop it.
• You are free to be anything at all.
• You are free to cry,
  and you are free to laugh.
• You are free to create tension,
  and you are free to create peace.
• You are free to give all you are worth,
  and you are free to give nothing at all.

Your choices will come according to the step you stand on. Climb higher, and you will see farther, and, when all is said, you will make choices good for all on all levels.

HEAVEN #2267  Within the Realm of Possibilities

LOOK AT DIFFICULTIES in a new way. Think not of them as problems. Think of them as questions to find answers to. Think of them as bells ringing in Heaven, telling you that there is a call for your imagination.

Consider how good problems were to Einstein. If there were not questions unanswered, what would there have been for him to solve?

Of course, at the same time, nothing has to be solved. Life only has to be lived and loved.

In life, you have to be working at something, beloveds. There has to be something you focus on. Solving problems is a good thing to focus on. This is not focusing on the problem. This is creative thinking.

Sometimes you feel you are up against a brick wall. Then suddenly a new way appears! The brick wall is no longer there, or you found a way to go around it or over it or under it or through it. The wall opened in some way, and you are no longer blocked by it. The problem disappeared.

When it comes to relationships, what you have to solve is something within you. As you grow to greater heights, you will see the person who bugs you in a more compassionate way, and the whole present mechanics will change. The other party will change because something opened in you. In truth, beloveds, you have been your own brick wall. Now walk through.

Solutions abound. New ways of thinking abound. And what are solutions but new ways of thinking? And what are problems but old ways of thinking: You simply can't be thinking as you have always thought.

What an amazing idea, to think that you have to change the way you think! How beautiful that you can change your thinking. Regard all the new things you do. You paint your walls a new color, and it's not a big deal. You lay down new floor tile. You change light bulbs! So, then, change the light bulb of your thoughts. This is how problems disappear. Change how you look at them, and they are not the same.

Many difficulties remove themselves without interference from you. Others are like kaleidoscopes. Turn them in your mind even the slightest degree, and a whole new configuration appears, and you find a gate opening up. Roses climb it, and you walk through whistling a merry tune. This is how to work through problems.

One way or another, My children seem to be good at finding problems. They ration themselves out a few a day. They frown and fret. And when the solution appears and the problem vanishes, they find another one or two to take its place. Yes, you might feel lost without problems.

When someone disappoints you, why is that a problem? Is it not theirs, not yours? You feel something was given, and then taken away. Begin to feel that something else was given. There is always a blessing in it. Not always easy to see, but always there. Just as I always am, blessings are as well.

When you see a problem that continues to bother you, something you're not doing, for instance, because, when all is said and done, you bother yourself more than anyone else does. When you procrastinate, as an example, you have to get up and do something. If procrastination is your difficulty, then get up and speed past it.

Everything is within the realm of possibilities. Everything is within the realm of your possibilities.

© Gloria Wendroff, 1999-2007, 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.