HEAVEN #2355  One Universe Under God

YOU HAVE HEARD that you and I are One. It is hard for you to really believe.

There is part of this idea that appeals to you. Wow, what an opportunity, what a promotion, to take charge of the world! Sometimes you have wanted this, to make the world in your own image.

On the other hand, it is a great disappointment for you to imagine that one such as you could run the Universe! When it comes right down to it, you would rather not. You would excuse yourself. You would find an excuse, too busy, too much to do to keep your own head above water. You simply couldn't fit it in, and you would have an appointment to run off to. "Thanks, but no thanks, God," you might say.

In your heart of hearts, you would think: God has to be much greater than I. Oh, please God, be all the reverence for life that I hold you in. Be far seeing and omnipresent and Great Love. Be God. Let there be no substitute.

As much as you have suggestions to give Me on the running of the Universe, as much as you sometimes know better than I what should be happening, you nevertheless are appalled at the thought of your having the responsibility and authority to wield the world. You would hand the Universe back to Me, as you conceive of Me and the Universe, as fast as you can. The actual idea of your running the universe is a hot potato you would drop in an instant.

"God," you would say politely, "better the Universe stay in your hands. I really do not have a high enough regard for myself or any other human being. Here, I beg you, take the world. You created it. You maintain it. Let me just be a cog. I would only mess it up. My decisions really aren't so great. Here's the world back. I think I'll go to a movie, or play tennis. You see, God, I don't really know what I want to do this next minute let alone beyond that."

By your response, you reveal that you know neither yourself nor Me very well.

Here's the thing, beloveds, you have been running the world. You have been creating it and maintaining it. You have been wielding it. By your thoughts, you have bounced the world up and down. You have been jumping on a mattress of the world, and the repercussions of your jumping are felt everywhere on the mattress, on every corner, inside and outside. The sound of your jumping is heard far and wide.

You are, in effect, ruling the Universe. Did you really think you were not? Did you really think that your thoughts didn't travel? Did you really think you were an isolated speck on Earth? Beloveds, you already steer the Universe. You may not be looking, but you are steering. You are trafficking on the road of the world. You barter, and you explore, and by your thoughts you divine the workings of the world. You set the boat of the world adrift, or you tow it to shore. With every thought, word, deed, you set the course of the world.

Know that this is a privilege. Hold your head high. You create the world you live in.

Soon now you will begin to perceive the might that is within you. You are about to burst forth like a bird in song. You will know that you do hold the holy reins of the universe. You will know the power I have vested in you.

You will know Who you are, and you will know that you and I are One, one inviolable God, and that you have never been anything else. No matter how humble, the universe is your home, and you sit on its throne. We can even say that you are the Universe, beloveds.

HEAVEN #2352  Offer Your Heart

DO YOU REALLY THINK there is anyone I love more than you? If you think so, then you are also saying that I am capable of loving more and loving less. I cannot love less. I have one child, and I love My child. You see many children, and you categorize them, put them in piles, and put yourself in a pile by yourself, and perhaps feel forlorn or perhaps feel haughty. Beloveds, I can only love with all the love I have. I do not discriminate. Not at all. How could I? How could I possibly denounce one child of Mine? If the world's perception were correct, and it were so that I have billions and trillions of offspring, which one child could I love less, and which one could I love more? I love. It is as simple as that. I love. I love this one, and I love that one. I love you.

I have no choice in the matter, you understand. But even if I did have choice, why would I choose to leave even one child loved less than all the love I am capable of? That's the difficulty with the relative world. The world thinks of more, and it thinks of less. It sorts people right and left by all kinds of arbitrary standards - great silliness it seems to Me. Of course, it seems nonsense to Me. To sort people by clothes? By color? By nation? By gender? By profession? By deed? By anything at all?

You might say in defense of your position: "But God, what about murderers? Why would you love them as much as you love a saint?"

And I would say, with a smile of course, does a murderer need less of My love than a saint? I might also say that a saint recognized My love more than a murderer ever did, so, if I could love more, I would then love the murderer more. But as it is, I love equally. I would not have it any other way, while you purse your lips and say that a murderer deserves punishment.

I would say that one who murders needs to perceive differently. I would also say that one who judges and condemns one who murders also needs to perceive differently. How you perceive affects what and whom you perceive. If you wish to remove the concept of murder from the world, then remove the hardness from your own heart.

Besides, have you not also had on occasion, murder in your heart? What separates you from your brother, beloveds? Cain slew Abel, his own brother. He thought his brother was loved more than he, and that he, Cain, had been loved less. Anyone who slays, slays his brother. He foolishly thinks he can kill a hurt within himself by ending the life of another. What lack of understanding one who murders has! He has no understanding at all.

If you think you are better than another, if you think you are more worthy than another, if you think you deserve more and that another deserves less, you also lack understanding. Gain understanding more than retribution. This makes you wise.

There is much said about forgiveness in the world. Yes, of course, forgiveness wins the day over unforgiveness; yet, often, when you forgive, you put yourself in a higher place than the one you forgive. When you forgive, you are not to be like a King or Queen who bestow favors. You are to be a humble brother who offers his heart to one who needs it.

© 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.