HEAVEN #2789  People Who Care About You

YOUR MIND IS like a reporter, only the most biased reporter is more objective than your mind.

Your mind colors everything. As an example, when you listen to the presidential pre-election news in the U.S., when you are a staunch Republican, you listen one way, and when you are a staunch Democrat, you listen another way. Whom you are for makes a phenomenal difference to how you think. If you are for one or the other, you don't even want to hear what the other side has to say.

If you are pro-gun laws or anti-gun laws, you just want to hear your side promulgated. You really don't care to hear the other side, as if there were only two sides in the first place. When someone opposed to your view is talking, you will disgruntledly turn the TV to another channel.

So much for objectivity. You might as well confess that you don't have it.

Now, I am not saying that you must have objectivity. No, I don't say that at all. What I do say is that you must admit, if only to yourself, that you come loaded with bias. Your mind is most often made up before you begin. Is that not true?

In the larger issues, no one really cares too much what you think. They want your approval and your vote, but, otherwise, you don't matter to them. How would they care? They don't even know you.

But those you live with and those you work with and those you are friends with, they really do care what you are feeling and thinking. When there is an issue with those close to you, will you consider putting your biases aside and listening for a while, letting the other person have a say while you listen? For the sake of both of your hearts, you've got to.

Truly, it is not that you must agree. It's just that you must listen because all hearts need to be listened to, at the least, to be heard. Better yet, to be understood. Oh, what a wave of relief there is when someone understands what you have been trying to say! When people listen to you, they help you to know what you mean. They give a great service.

When you do not or will not give your attention to what others are saying to you, you cut off their hearts. You know the feeling of having your heart cut off. You don't like it.

It does not cost you anything to hear what someone else is feeling. It doesn't cost you anything to listen, to care enough to listen, and to listen without interruption. Will you do that? No longer cut off hearts? Will you let people say what they have in their hearts and minds to say? You know, of course, whatever the issue and how important it may have seemed, it may have been a big to-do about nothing. You may even find that, when you listen, you are both saying the exact same thing!

When you talk to Me or write to Me, I listen. I listen with My ears and I listen with My heart. You know I do. You can talk to Me as long as you want. It is a great service I give you, to encourage you to collect your thoughts and clarify your feelings.

And now, will you give an extra few minutes to let the people who care about you reveal their hearts to you? And will you let people know you hear what they are saying and that you respect them enough to listen, really listen?

HEAVEN #2798  Move On Now, Beloveds, Mov On

WHAT IS IS that you think you are missing from your life today? What is it that you think you need? What obstacle do you feel you face?

Regardless of all that weighs on you, here's what to do: Imagine that you already have what you think is missing. Whatever it is that you think you need, consider that you have it. Whatever obstacles you see, consider that they are behind you.

Now move on as if all your concerns were already remedied. Yes, as if already remedied. Really, I ask you, what else makes sense? Surely to fear and aggravate is not sensible. When you meet an obstacle, it is sensible to step over it. Step over it in your mind.

When you have a difficulty engaging with a certain person, do not pick up where you left off. Start anew. Have you had the idea that everything has to be settled between you before you move on? There does not have to be a resolution before you continue in a better light.

I am not telling you to hoodwink yourself. Beloveds, I am saying not to let anything stop you from moving forward. I am saying that attention on what you see as difficulties holds you back. I am telling you to move forward.

I am not telling you to run roughshod over your feelings or anyone's. Acknowledge, and move on. You do not have to pick up all the pieces and put them back together again before you move on. Even when you have a sore toe, you can walk. Even in darkness, you can open your eyes. Even in ignorance, you can get up from where you are.

No matter what the circumstances, you can get up from them. You must get up from them, or they hold you back. You can be what you want to be regardless of anything surrounding you. When someone is rude or unkind, certainly you don't have to be. You don't have to let anyone or anything hold you back from the shining light that you are. Have you already forgotten the golden light I bequeathed to you? I took goldenness from My heart and placed it in yours. I intended you to be My shining example. I intended you to radiate My light for all to see. I didn't intend that you wait for better circumstances.

If you are ill and confined to bed and cannot move, in your mind, you can still get up from your sickbed. You must, or you hammer yourself in place. Even if you are ill, you do not have to see yourself as incapacitated. I'm sure you understand what I mean. Even the lame shall walk.

When you read between the lines of what I'm saying, you understand I am saying that you are not bound to the concepts of the world nor to any diagnosis. While you are alive on Earth, you are not limited to your body. You always were greater than any body.

When you read between the lines of what I'm saying, you understand this is yet another way I tell you to get out of the past. You had a skirmish yesterday? That was yesterday. Why carry over hard feelings or any kind of disturbance? The last I knew, today is another day on Earth. It is not meant to be yesterday. Yesterday is over. Today has begun. Today is your opportunity to start off fresh, and so I ask you to use today for all you are worth.

© 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.