God said:

You may need a break from responsibility for a while. Even if your work is the dream of a lifetime, you may still need a day off from it. All of your life is your responsibility. There is something waiting for you to make happen. You don't know what. You have taken your responsibility seriously. It may mean everything to you. You may feel indispensible.

It's not that you think the world wouldn't go on without you. Of course, the world finds a way to go on without you. Perhaps it is you who can't quite get along without your work. You don't remember what a vacation is any longer because of your involvement in work. There is more to life than all work or all play.

Meanwhile, it behooves you to get along without work every now and again, particularly when you feel work hanging over you. Sometimes you need a new perspective in recognition of yourself and your identity apart from your work. Sometimes you really desire to just be yourself, even when you are unsure what being yourself means. You may wonder who you really are. Is work your I.D.?

Are you perhaps something other than work or any other title assigned to you? Perhaps you are beyond any title assigned to you or that you assign to yourself. You also exist without a title.

If your work is pounding nails, take a break from pounding nails. There is no question about it. As it is, a bell rings, and you are off to work.

God said:

I ask Myself:

Why would anyone turn away from Me? Why would anyone presume to make a break with Me and think it smart? Yet there are human beings in My Created World who choose to turn their backs on Me. Can you believe it? Only human beings, for there are no other beings who put love aside and deny Me. Only human beings go on such a tangent. Only human beings target Me rather than love Me. To love Me is natural. No creature spurns Me. Human beings, however, presumably feel high and mighty or very unappreciated and may transfer their shaky egos to Me push Me away from their hearts.

The meek shall inherit the Earth. The word meek means without boastful ego. 

This is the down side of Free Will. Yet there is always an upside. The upside is that there is opportunity to look again.

There are those who are sure I am a hold-out Who takes from them rather than giving to them. There are those who turn away from Me. There are those who snub Me. There are those who curse Me. There are those who foist the responsibility for their lives onto Me, as if disappointing them were My joy. There are those who exert negativity towards Me. They do not yet know that God is not far away in the sky or on another planet, but that God is God within their very selves. A person's disavowal of Me is his denial of his own self. When someone feels bound to cast Me away, it is himself he casts aside. He seems to feel a need to picture God an anti-God verily in opposition to him.

God said:

Come out of the darkness you have made room for. You may well have enticed the gloom, as if the weight of darkness was your due or that the darkness would somehow make you worthy and burn off the dross that, with a sinking heart, you may believe you are.

Goodness knows that the world can pummel you and convince you that you are far less than you seem to be when the Truth is that you are far more than you ever dared to dream of. Start dreaming now. Swim out of the doldrums.

The doldrums are not worthy. The doldrums are not worthy of you. Don't believe anything that the doldrums tell you. And don't be angry with the doldrums, for somehow or another, you invited them into your range of motion. You are also capable of showing the doldrums the door.

You are capable. Set your sights higher. Scale the heights. You are part of the stars that exist even beyond those that you presently see. You are beyond your imagination. You have been pulling weeds when you are to embody the stars. Look to the stars. The stars are your interlocutors. The stars and you are made of the same light, if you only knew.

Actually, you do know, yet you have blanked out on this. You have convinced yourself that you couldn't possibly be the light that extends so far and lights up the night skies.

Even as you have been called the Light of the World, you never believed you came from the Stars. We can say that the Stars are the reflected Light of Your Father God or Your God, as you prefer. In any case, the Light of the Stars more than become you.

God said:

There is no time like the present. If time existed at all, there would be only the present, but, of course, time simply isn't a factor in Infinity. You can't break Infinity up into pieces or installments or shapes of any which way.

If time did indeed exist, it could only exist in this particular moment that is on its way out as We speak. Every so-called moment is replaced like one zooming bee after another. Imaginary time is so fast that it is instantly overtaken. Time is a zipper that goes up and goes down.

There are countries which declare at certain seasons that you turn your clock one hour ahead or one hour behind, and no one blinks an eye. Full knowing that time is fast or slow according to how you feel about it, time plays its game and hoodwinks you.

So time retracts or bursts ahead. Time is declared, and everyone obeys the clock as if time were the Holy Grail.

Time is a dominant feature. Time is like a religion that no one would show disrespect to. All the world is on time according to the clock. It is a ritual, to look at the clock, and check it often. Time has got you by the neck. Who can forsake time in the world? Everyone bows down to it.

At some time or another, time will become defunct.

Nor does space exist. Only as it is agreed upon, does it. It is measured. Space is bought and sold and bid on. Space can be cleared, and space can be full. And someone can be spacey. 

God said:

The life you desire does not come from extreme effort. The world, as it appears, may say that you must work hard for everything. Yet working hard is not enough. As a matter of fact, working hard is often too much, for it wears you down.

Much of the good in life you receive arrives without effort. It happens. It just happens. You may not even have been looking for it. It pops up in front of you.

Clearly, it is not your effort that makes the sun shine and the rains to come. Ideas that come to you do not arise from strain. Straining prevents ideas from arising. When ideas arise, they pop up the way a daisy pops up. Joy often seems to arise as a by-product. You may well not have set up joy as your main objective and have been striving for it. How do you strive for joy? Joy and Strive are not in the same ball-park.

In order to chop wood, you applying yourself, and it is physical effort, yet chopping wood can feel good to you. By the same token, many who exercise in the gym apply themselves, and they sweat, and, yet, they enjoy themselves. It feels good. They may or may not have an object in mind, and yet the exercise of itself gives satisfaction.

Nor is it supreme effort that gets you out of the pit of despair. How much can your will and determination bring joyful treasure to you?

If you find a diamond ring in the street, finding a diamond ring may have been the last thing on your mind until you stumbled upon it.