HEAVEN
#2561 Throw Away Your Lists
DO YOU HESITATE to leave smallness behind? Don't
want to let go of those little irksome things that consume so much
of your attention - what do you want them for? Why are they precious
to you? They must be precious because your go over them again and
again in your mind. From smallness, you are certain that someone did
not treat you well. They said something that was a slur. They were
unkind, thoughtless, biting, perhaps cruel. It was not right. You
were not treated as a child of Mine deserves to be treated, for you
deserve to be treated only with love.
Beloveds, as you harbor still the feeling of powerlessness that the
experience had lent to you, you are not treating yourself with the
love you deserve. You saddle yourself with an unkind word as if it
were a loan hanging over you to repay. You jump on the opportunity
to add this slur to the pile of accumulated hurts. Even though the
hurts were small, the pile is big. You heap the past over you, stone
after stone, pebble over pebble, grain of sand over grain of sand.
Blow the past away, beloveds. I beseech you to not keep it any longer.
Through ignorance, someone put you in the wrong. It was their ignorance.
Must you make it yours? If someone wants to martyr themselves, I suppose
We can say it's their privilege. But not you, not you, dear, please,
not you.
As you come closer into your awareness of My Presence, what kind of
a list would you bring Me? I do not believe you would bring me a list
of faults, the ones you see nor the ones others may see in you. You
would not bring Me a list of the past history of all the affronts
and offenses against you. I do not believe that you would leave even
the serious ones at My feet. I do not believe that you would greet
Me with grievances of the past. I do not believe you would greet Me
with a whole list of dreams deferred. Nor do I believe you would greet
Me with a list of all of your personal errors. Why would you keep
such a list at all? If it is not good enough for Me, it is not good
enough for you.
Consider now what kind of list you would bring Me. What are some memorable
items that might be on your list for God?
I
would love to see a long list of kindnesses, yours and others. I would
love to see a long list of all the people and events that inspired
you. I would love to see a long list of all the beauty you have seen
on Earth. No item too small. A fallen leaf would serve well.
Your list would not need to be of perfection, for in the relative
world, there is none. Even a perfect peach is not perfect. Or We can
say its perfection changes from minute to minute.
Do not think that change is less preferred to permanence. In the relative
world, there is the apparition of time and space, and time and space
are changing all the non-existence time. Everything is shifting in
the relative world. That is its nature. So seek and find the goodness
of change in the world. Beloveds, now you have the privilege of changing
your mind. Change your mind about the past. Let go of that which was
not valuable. It didn't serve you then, and it doesn't serve you now.
The past may not have been illustrious, but the past is past. New
opportunity is before you now. You even have the opportunity to let
go of the past and all its accrued hurts.
Nor do you dwell on the beauty of the past, for there is new and greater
beauty before you. It is just around the corner. Throw away your lists,
and just meet Me with open arms and open heart, for here I AM.
HEAVEN
#2569 Mother Theresa
YOU ARE NOT TO PUT yourself
and your needs over anyone else's, nor are you to put anyone else
and their needs over you and your needs. As you grow more into the
light, that will no longer be a question for you. You will do and
give only because you want to. Beloveds, this will mean that you serve
all. Your serving may not be in the way you may have been taught.
It doesn't mean you will give the shirt off your back. It means you
don't have to do anything, and yet you will find yourself serving
greater than yourself. You will not think so much about what belongs
to you and what belongs to someone else. You will no longer weigh
your actions so much.
You won't think: "I will be a very good noble person, indeed,
to give this person the shirt off my back. I want to be a good noble
person, so I will." You will just automatically know what to
do and when to do it. You might find an occasion where it is natural
for you to give your shirt to someone. On another occasion, you won't.
On the surface, the same situation, and yet you will not give your
shirt. The impulse will not be there. You will somehow just know whom
to give your shirt to and whom not to. You won't be thinking about
how anything looks nor about what is right or not right. You will
simply give from your heart. Either way, you will not waver.
You won't be trying to be generous. You simply will know to give here
and not there. You won't think yourself wonderful in one situation
or not wonderful in another. You will not be thinking that you are
doing good or not doing good. You may not consciously know that it
is good for you to give to one person, not for your sake, but for
the sake of the person. By the same token, when you do not give, it
will also be for the sake of the person that you do not give. You
will come to a place in your life where you will naturally know what
is beneficial to do for another and what is not. It will be automatic,
just the way now you would put your arm out to stop a child from running
into the street when a car is coming. You will have no hesitation.
There are other more subtle situations in life when you will know
when and what to give and when and what not to give.
And it will always be in service. You will know your place in the
cosmos. It is not always a favor to do a lot for someone, but sometimes
it is. You will just know when your act is of true benefit to another.
You will not try to be everything to everyone.
Mother Theresa gave of herself. She did not give up anything. She
did exactly what she wanted to do. To not give her service to the
world would have been a great sacrifice for her. Mother Theresa gave
and gave, but she did not take away from her self. She was simply
being herself. She did not strive to be Mother Theresa, for she was
Mother Theresa. She had simply grown to that stature.
Whatever is for you to give in the relative world, your love will
go with it. And your love will also go with what you do not give.
And, equally, in your presence, everyone will receive great blessing
from you. This will be automatic too. You will not be able to help
it.
©
Gloria Wendroff, 1999-2008, All Rights Reserved
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.