HEAVEN #2424  What Is Your Heart's Longing, Beloved?

UNTO ME, SURRENDER. What is it you surrender? All that which is not yours, all that which does not fulfill you, all that which distracts you from your very Being.

I do not ask you to give up your will. Not at all. I ask you to find out who you are and so discover your will. Whim and will are not the same. Desire and will are not exactly the same. There comes a time when you'll will to follow My will because you know that is where your destiny and happiness lie.

You may have been fighting your own will all these years. You may have convinced yourself you want to go one way, when, if you let yourself see, you would see you wish to go in quite another direction. You may be seeking wealth in the world, and no matter how much wealth you amass, you may find you are drinking from an empty cup.

You may seek fame or romance, and you get them, but deep in your heart there is a place where you fear to tread. You haven't let yourself note that you want to be a missionary in China perhaps. You perhaps thought you wanted to be a queen of the world when that is not even close to what you truly desire, and that which is My will for you.

You may think you know yourself very well, yet you have been skirting the issue of yourself. You have sailed on a ship and stopped at every port except the one you really want. You have hidden the port of entry from yourself, you find all matter of excuses not to get off the ship you have been sailing on. It is not unheard of that you might go to great lengths to disguise your destiny from yourself. And from others as well. You may have gone to great lengths to hide it, and so you keep up a false front.

Your destiny is not something foisted on you. It is your deepest desire, and you may be afraid to spot it, and so you entertain yourself with other thoughts and activities.

Beloveds, you have some nice surprises in store for you.

Even when you have been on the right track, you may have been dipping your toe in the water rather than diving in. You may have done everything rather than plunging yourself into the current of life's stream that calls to you. It is not exactly that you are hard of hearing, yet there is a part of you that pretends not to hear. You distract yourself seeking comfort perhaps and not seeking the joy that is yours.

Perhaps you have been like a Hobbit who loves a simple home life, and yet a great adventure is waiting for you, a mission that only you can fulfill. You have been stalling, beloveds.

You do not have to know the name of your exact assignment beforehand, yet you can begin to read the signs. At least, you don't have to pretend them away.

Beloveds, there have been clues planted for you all along the way. Hansel and Gretel knew about leaving bread crumbs while you seem to have been oblivious to the bread crumbs that have been left for you along the way.

What is your heart's longing, beloveds? What call do you hear even so faintly in the distance? What is it that you are not hearing? Be silent a moment, and listen to that singular beat of your heart. It is a tom-tom giving you a message.

HEAVEN #2436  In the Recesses of Your Mind

DO YOU KNOW HOW sometimes a song enters your mind, and it will stay for as long as it wants to stay, and you cannot dislodge it? It may be a song from many years ago. Unbeknownst to you, it was dormant and yet vibrating within you until it started to sing itself out. How powerful are those songs that have entered your bloodstream and never left.

And so is it with thoughts that recur. And so is it with every book you have read, movie you have seen, TV show you have watched, commercial you didn't really listen to, newspaper you hardly read, and yet every word and tune you have heard - all are marked down. They are somewhere there in the recesses of your mind.

Consider that you have two sections in this reservoir of your mind. One contains negativity, and one contains joy.

The world is rife with negativity. You already have enough of it. Joy may have to be pursued. The first thing for you to do is to lay off listening to the news which is so often dire and dreadful. By vacating negative news, you give more room to joy. Pursue positivity. Run from negativity as you would a fierce lion.

It is easy to think it doesn't matter what violence or horror you expose yourself to, but the ashes are long-lasting. Negativity soaks in and is hard to wash way. Negativity is a stain, like blackberry juice, and it leaves its mark.

This is not for you to worry about. Nothing is for you to worry about. All worries are of the past. Drop the past now with your intent, and by-pass current negativity. You don't need to open the door to more. It is no little thing to absorb negativity. It scars you.

At the same time, there is much you interpret as negative that you don't have to. Negativity carries a great weight. All the losses you perceive weigh heavily on you. Remove the idea of loss, and much negative weight lifts.

When loved ones move on, think of all the love and the beauty instead of loss.

Sense of negativity is a feeling. You are not feelingless. You are feelingful. Pay attention to what feelings you fill yourself with.

Is it possible you don't have to focus on the war-torn world? You say you would eradicate war single-handedly if you could. I am telling you how. It is not burying your head in the sand to not read about it nor hear about it. When thoughts of war disappear from enough minds, and feelings of anger and outrage are not paramount and reduce themselves, how will wars be fought? What will fuel them? Enter an arena of peace in your mind, beloveds, and you will add to the peace in the world.

Do you scoff at what I say?

Negativity multiplies itself. Positivity does too.

Multiply what you want to multiply, and subtract that which you want to subtract.

This is simple arithmetic We speak of now.

Add peace unto your heart. Leave off strife.

Come, pick yourself up from the rubble of your thoughts and enter a park of greenness and joy where there are only thoughts of joy and none of danger. Become upscale in your thoughts, beloveds.

Let negativity lie where it lies. Do not embrace it. Big or little negativity is still negativity, beloveds.

It is clutter. You go to great effort to remove clutter from your closets. Don't pile up the closets of your mind. Let negativity go. You don't need it. Embrace freedom instead. Let the song of My beautiful words echo through you.

© 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.