God said:

When it comes down to it, after the bon-bons, after all the wonders that the world offers, after your wildest dreams may come true, comes your longing for Me. Even when you don't know what your deepest longing is for, it is for Me.

There is a fulfillment you want more than anything, and this fulfillment is your Union with Me. This deep desire spurs you on. No matter how often I may tell you that We are already One, you want to KNOW Me as a Special Delivery. You want to know Me for yourself. You want to receive Me signed, sealed, and delivered. You want me intact.

You would like My arrival certified. You want to sign for Me. You want Me delivered to your door clearly, exactly, with no possible error or any smidgeon left out. You want bells to ring and horns to blow. You want Our Union to be unmistakable. And you want it to be noted with confetti pouring from the sky in a Grand Outpouring of God all for you.

This can happen. It has happened. It is likely that all this you crave, you will want to appear as a Great Occasion. We can't really even call it an occasion. You will settle for an occurrence. This momentousness is not typically an occasion or even an occurrence. It is more likely that this occurs the way tea steeps. Tea is not steeped all at once. You might even be the last one to notice. You don't have to notice. It is all happening right now.

God said:

Nearer to Me are you. You are catapulting to Me as We speak. You are moving faster and faster to Me. You are moving so fast that you do not even feel you are moving. You may feel that you are not moving at all, that you, in fact, are staying frozen in time, as if you are from the Ice Age.

You hang from a precipice of time; your engine is running full-blast, and you are the last to know.

"Where oh where is this Enlightenment I hear about," you plead. "The prospect of being enlightened is held out to me like a carrot at a distance, a carrot just beyond my reach. Once and for all, when do I get mine? When is this talked-about Enlightenment actually going to be mine? Let's get to the chase, God. I am glad for everyone to get Enlightenment, just so long as I get mine. Maybe someone has become enlightened, yet it ain't me. What takes it so long?"

Beloveds, Enlightenment isn't something you get. You don't own it. You don't possess it. Enlightened is something you already are. It is your Being. You are IT, yet, to you, the State of Enlightenment feels so far away, that it might as well be out of sight.

What keeps Enlightenment away from your beleaguered awareness is the sheerest silk or even the sheerest mosquito netting you can imagine. Enlightenment isn't missing. It is you who are missing from this Truth of you.

God said:

How you look at life makes a huge difference in how your life plays out. This is not a new thought. You can give Me all the reasons from here to Tuesday why you don't think this is so. Perhaps you were a positive thinker once, and your positivity got smashed. Now you call yourself realistic as if the pessimism for what passes as realism is a great thing. Predict the realistic down-side, you say, and you proudly wave the flag of the down-side.

Beloveds, what do you want to bet on? That you are doomed to mediocrity or worse, failure? There is no failing when you give life a whirl. Get away from limited thinking. Everything does not have to turn out as your heart's desire.

Look, if you want pumpernickel bread for your sandwich, and you get rye bread instead, do you have a conniption? Hey, you got bread. You got a sandwich. You don't have to make a big deal of it. Tomorrow is another day. And today is not dark because you didn't get rye bread. On the other hand, you don't want to predict that, realistically, you likely won't get what you want.

Of course, there are bigger matters in the world in which everything is a comparison and, alas, your true love turns out not to be your true love. Okay, you were mistaken. What you wanted to be true and what seemed true – wasn't true or wasn't true for long.

Are you a bigger fool to have ventured and lost (as you see it) than to have pushed away the possibility of your true love to begin with?

God said:

To move your life in a direction you want, feel better first.

Feeling that you are in a slump, depressed, discouraged doesn't help you move your life forward. Feeling in a slump tends to keep you where you are.

Your feet are get caught in quicksand, and you can't move, and so you prep yourself for struggle. The quicksand you are stuck in is the morass of your thoughts. You may say to yourself over and over again: "What a terrible situation I am in."

If only you could push a button that would take you to feeling better, then better news will arise.

So, here again, you have to look at a dismal situation, and look at it differently. Let's say you lost your job. You panic about loss of income, and you allow your sense of worth to flatten itself. You have been dealt an unkind unfair blow. You see an enemy who did not do right by you. Do not make yourself into a victim extraordinaire. Do not believe it.

Look at this dire situation differently. You must look at it differently.

For instance, you have been dismissed from the company where you work, shoved out, of no use to the company you gave your whole heart to abundantly and loyally. Kicked out. No matter how unjust and how unwarranted, now it is goodbye. So long, you're on your own now.

Now you are to get out of the precise small picture and enter a larger arena beyond the boundaries you wrapped your heart and mind in. Arise.

God said:

How wide is wide, and how tall is tall? How high is the sky? How vast is Infinity?

A mother may ask her young child, how much do you love me? And the child widens his arms as wide as his arms can reach and says: "This BIG."

In a dandelion that a child presents to his mother, he is presenting her with the whole Universe. A child really knows Infinity better than he knows the finite world. What is there for the child to learn on Earth that he doesn't already know but the finite? From the whole array of knowledge, the child comes down to details and measurements and reduction of scale and becomes learn-ed in the world, yet true learning is something to be sparked not studied.

A child remembers Totality, and then what he is formally taught gets to be reduced to limits of one kind or another. Much of the learning on Earth is less rather than more. Instead of Fullness, there comes to be a sort of filling up that does not come near to Fullness, a crowding as it were, some sort of sand in the gas tank and a grinding of gears.

Learning is meant to be joy. The child wants to grasp fistfuls of knowledge. Imagine how a child learns language so magnificently and so easily, and how eagerly. All that is integral to learning language, all the fitting of the tongue and aspirations of the lips, and the ears give an encore. When someone can learn language and all its ramifications, he can learn anything that he desires to learn.