HEAVEN #2585  The Eternal Song

"GOD SAID." God doesn't really say. God loves.

I speak with the love in My heart for all the beautiful people on Earth strewn before Me.

You may think it is haphazard where you are in the group photo of life in the world. Beloved, you are exactly where you are meant to be, exactly in the right spot, only you are not where you think you are. You may think you're in the back row, or on a very edge, perhaps even cut off. These are impossibilities.

You must know I see this photo better than you do. I took it! Everyone is seated in front, smack in the center. You are in front, right in the center. Forget the facts and possibilities you know. Forget facts. Facts are the impossibilities. Just listen to the Truth of My heart now. Hear My heart beat now.

My heart speaks to you. The love from My heart nuzzles you along. Whatever your form may be, you are nuzzled by My heart. Be you a human being, puppy, elephant, giraffe, sand on the beach, I nuzzle you with My love. I can do nothing else. My heart can do nothing else. You are powerless in that you are susceptible to My love. You cannot escape. My love is far and wide. My love finds you, and brings you back.

Do you not know that I breathe you in and out? Do you not know that I am your very breath, and you are Mine? Of course it is My breath that breathed life into you, and I breathe you still. This is My reward. This is renewable, Our love. I am the Great Source in life, and I recycle Myself through you.

Do you not know that I live through you? I am the Parent who enjoys everything you do. I enjoy watching you at work or play. May there be no difference between your work and play. May one meld into the other. May Joy be your name. Take the temperature of My heart, and what can your life be but joy, and what can you be but My joy?

Shake out those old thoughts from your head. Renew yourself. Recycle yourself. Rise up to the forefront of My heart. There is a place waiting for you. Not actually waiting for you, for you are already embraced in My heart. You save your own place, for you are already sitting in it.

Never mind who or what you thought you were. Join with Me now in My thinking. Hear My heart beat. That is My thinking. My heart beats for you, and it is you I think of. You, beloveds, are the Eternal Song in My heart.

When you hear Me speak to you, you are hearing the rumble of My heart. From this infinite beat of love, you pick up the vibration, and the vibration assembles itself into thought and resonates through you into words. Of course, you hear from Me. The sounds you hear are Mine. My heart beats a drum, and you know the meaning of every throb of My heart. Your heart translates My every beat. You hear with your heart. The beat of My heart is love, love itself. And the beat of My heart is translated into words. Every beat says, "I love you." That is My refrain. I say it not once nor twice but eternally. That moment will come when you hear My words to you, My words to you repeated again and again, repeated infinitely, "I love you. I love you. I love you."

HEAVEN #2591  Just Being On Earth

I THINK TODAY I will just smile at you and enjoy My lovely creation. Today you and I - We will just amble wherever We amble. There is nothing We have to accomplish today. All We have to do is to be, and to be in each other's company. We hold hands and take a stroll today. It matters not where. We have no business to take care of, no lessons to learn. We have nothing to do but point out the sights. We can ooh and aah.

There is nothing that is urgent. There is nothing that can't wait until tomorrow. Today, there is no pressure. Today, procrastination cannot exist. All We have to do is to enjoy. It's not that We HAVE to enjoy. If We think We have to, already the joy is less. So there is nothing We have to do today. We have no To-Do list, no shopping list, nothing We have to remember today and nothing We have to forget. Today will simply be the day it wants to be, no shackles, no boundaries, a day in the open air, the sun on Our back.

We don't have to play, and We don't have to work. It is possible that the less We strive, the more that is accomplished. Today, in any case, we take away all effort, all striving, and intensity, all rushing. Our mind-set removes all worry, tension, fretting. Where can these enter when We are sitting under an umbrella at the beach? Or perhaps We are sitting on a branch of a magnolia tree, swinging our legs.

Today We laze in the sun.

Today We sip cool lemonade or hot chocolate, whatever We prefer. It is not even that we have to prefer. We don't mind what the day serves. It's all okay.

Today We seek no diversions, nor do We run away from them.

Today We can be like children and play in the sandbox or in the mud or in the pool. We don't care which. It makes no difference to Us, for whatever We do today, We do together.

Together on this day, time does not exist. We have no consciousness of it. We are not even conscious of timelessness. We are out of time and in a lazy bliss today. We are aware of joy, and that is about it. No promises for today, no expectations, no explanations. The day will speak for itself. This is a day that will go down in history because it is a day for joy only. No determinants were decided on. No menu planned in advance.

Today We eat when We feel like it. No schedule to adhere to. Hurray, today school is out. There are no jobs to go to. We sit on the swing in the backyard. We don't even have to swing. We can swing if We like, and We can just sit if We like, for today is a day off from anything that weighs our days down. We have taken a day off today.

A day like today may become like a pattern. Let every day be like this. We will get done what is necessary to get done, but what, beloveds, what really has to be done? Let Us enjoy at work and play. Let Us enjoy as if there nothing more important to do.

Enjoy this day off with Me, beloveds, and then you will be rested for tomorrow, and enjoy tomorrow too. No longer will there be days of effort and stress and strain. What possible use for them can there seriously be? What cannot wait, or what cannot be done as We skip along singing a Day Song, happy for its unfolding. It opens itself to Us as a rose opens itself. We will be in full bloom today. We will be like the full moon, silent, content, not doing much but being there in the sky, only We will be silent and content not doing much, just being on Earth.

HEAVEN #2597  The Truth About Enlightenment

THERE HAS BEEN the idea rampant that, as your consciousness grows, your path will be strewn with roses. Certainly, your path will be strewn with roses, but that does not mean you will tread a path without thorns. It means the thorns no longer dominate in your mind. Your path has already been strewn with roses, and now you will notice them more, and you won't mind the thorns so much. Life will be rosier, yet not every moment. There will be more roses, yet not every minute. Yes, your life is transformed, yet really it is you who is transformed.

Sometimes people have the idea that as consciousness grows, everything is golden, and that you can attract only golden people and golden events, that ordinary life can no longer grab hold of you and shake you. There is some truth here, but not exactly, not any more than the cover of a book always tells you what's inside.

Brightly lit, you can still trip on the sidewalk. You can still have a rash. A snowball can still be thrown at you, and it may not always miss. Not everyone will know Who you are. I don't want you to be disappointed, nor do I want you thinking you are not enlightened because of this thing or that.

There is great difference in your life, but the real difference is in you and how you perceive and respond to your existent life. You lead a blessed life now.

Yes, your life will be newly lighted, and you will attract more light into your life, and yet there still may be slippery ice.

If you are an enlightened detective, crime is not erased. If you are an enlghtened garbage man, there will still be garbage.

Of course, you may change careers.

Newly lighted, you will still have to do dishes. There will still be slush in the streets.

If you are banking on enlightenment to give you an easy ride, you are looking at enlightenment in a limited way. Enlightenment is given to you, and you see the world in a new light. Along with the dazzle you so desire, you will find that life is not so much about you as you may have thought and wanted. Your surroundings may be the same. You may not amass riches. You will still need to sleep.

You will not find great joy in being the only one enlightened in your neighborhood. Enlightenment truly is not about your personal life and your personal fulfillment. It is not about how wonderful you are and how blessed you are. Enlightenment is a gift, yet you will find it has to do with responsibility and service to mankind, and this will be joy to you. As a lighted citizen of the world, now the Universe is your arena. Now you extend far beyond the kitchen of your choice or shiny or scuffed shoes.

If you are seeking enlightenment for yourself alone, you are barking up the wrong tree. If you are looking for medals, you will be disappointed. Instead of looking for enlightenment, how about looking for Me?

It is good to be a seeker, and you are a good seeker. Seek now not for gain, not even the gain of enlightenment. Seek to enjoy and to give while you walk along your path to enlightenment. In fact, I will go so far as to say to forget yourself. I am not saying to sacrifice yourself. I am saying that in the moments in which you are happy, you are not thinking about yourself or even about being happy. When you are creating art or music, or a beautiful meal for your family, for a little while, you forget yourself. At these times you are operating with the full power of the universe behind you. You already know what enlightenment is, or you would not desire it so much.

© Gloria Wendroff, 1999-2008, 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.