God said:

Sometimes you feel you cannot stand even one more moment of whatever it is you are going through. The situation is intolerable to you, beloveds, for you have judged yourself a hapless helpless victim. Do not judge. Do not judge yourself a victim. Do not judge yourself a martyr. Do not judge.

By far and large, you are a self-announced victim of your own thoughts, or you might prefer to say because of your lack of foresight and your preponderance of innocence. Yes, this is also true, yet it is wiser for you to consider yourself responsible for the situation you got yourself into and responsible for continuing to serve a self-imposed sentence of victimhood. You are the announcer of your own wounds.

If something is intolerable to you, why continue to carry its banner?

Do not think that I am saying life is a breeze. I say you are the one setting the price you pay. Beloveds, do not pay by suffering. Suffering is off-track. Do not accept suffering as a fact.

Often you think you trade one suffering for another. Sometimes you think if only. There are so many if only’s. Somehow, one way or another, you led yourself into a trap. You may think you fell into it when you may well have shoved yourself in.

Life is made of choices. Much of the time you have no idea what you are choosing and, sometimes, not even that you are choosing.

God said:

If you would accept that you are My Beloved, what would there be for you to ever worry about?

If you would chose My way of thinking, what could the matter be?

When you, My children, believe in your own beating hearts as much as My heart, what fears would you have and how many would you act upon?

When you have more confidence in your thoughts and the world’s thoughts than you do in My thinking, what are you thinking, and what are you predicting, and what are you cultivating?

In God you would like to trust. In God, you would love to trust, yet when you trust fear more than you trust Me, what do you expect?

Of course, you would gladly accept trust in Me if only you could. Without trust in Me, beloveds, you trust the mayhem of the world, that which you see, and that which you hear about and read about. Generally, mayhem is more noticeable than peace. To your eyes, peace is more of a blank slate or some kind of non-entity. Peace doesn’t hold the barriers that skirmishes do so it is not quite so easy to point out peace.

After the last World War – the world was innocent nevertheless – when peace was declared, there was dancing in the streets! What a Glory Day that was from war to peace. Peace was a stand-out.

Alas, peace became old hat and wasn't as dynamic as it was at first. Alas, other troubles grew and the momentum of peace showed down and was not so clear to see.

Can it be possible that My children look for trouble more than they look for Peace? Could this be?

God said:

You have some stipulations about Life. You will go along with much of Life. At the same time, you protest certain arrangements, as if Life has no authority to settle things for you. You would like some binding rules and escape clauses. You would like to tell Life a thing or two about its wrong choices and endeavors regarding you. You stamp your foot. You are certain that Life is not to be the way Life is as you see it -- unpredictable, unstable, and unwarranted.

The fact is that Life can be any way it happens to be. There are no laws against what you protest. Life can get you in a bind. What recourse do you have? There is no escaping life. It’s bigger than you. Life isn’t trying to get you, or get you in a bind. Life is really minding its own business, yet, there it is: Life is bigger than Life.

If you only knew, you, too, are bigger than Life. Life kind of strong-arms you. Life does not always have manners. Life is a big guy, a muscle-guy. Life doesn’t ask you or anyone for permission. It doesn’t ask you to say how you feel about how Life is going. Perhaps you are just caught in the middle. In any case, it seems like Life is arbitrary. Yes, Life has its own way of removing or adjusting whatever may seem to stand in its way.

God said:

To be created by God, to be beloved by God, to live in God’s Garden and to take a journey on Earth and to return to Heaven – this is a golden once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to stir happiness on Earth. It would be happiness if only My children would relish the opportunity. Instead, the opportunity may brood fear. You may even mourn the opportunity as if the opportunity were a hot potato that causes fear and trembling or numbs you or puts you to sleep.

You may have more trepidation than joy. How do We change this? Where have you been?

Young children in the world know how to have joy. They excel in it.

How come stress and strain enter into My beloveds’ lives? Does it enter without your realization of it? Are you taken hostage by life? Where does all this fear come from?

How can it be that you would run away from life? You would like a way-station, a little out-of-the way retreat for a while, a pause so you could recuperate, and then go back to battle. Is this how you see life sometimes?

What are you battling? The generation of your dreams? The risk of them? I have to ask you: What is the risk to your dreams in your daily life? Is it daily life that gets to you?

God said:

Often, when you experience a nose-dive of self-confidence and sense of success in the world, it can well mean you are just ready to take off.

The airplane of your life swoops you up, and, behold, you are zooming forward. The darkness of the night that captured you so dismally was simply the darkness before the dawn. Dawn exists.

There is an horizon before you. Whether you see the horizon’s light instantly or not, the horizon is there for you to cross over into the Bright Light of God.

It is like My Hand lifts you up at a dazzling speed, and you whiz past that bump that seemed to hold you crestfallen. You are your own inspiration, or you are your own crestfaller. Don’t be crestfallen. Rise to new heights. You are geared for new heights.

Be ready to take off. Be ever-ready to take off. Boost yourself.

In life, you are climbing a ladder. Even one rung at a time works. At the same time, you are getting ready for the ride of your life. Life is meant to be the ride and rise of your life.

We don’t care so much what the world thinks of you. We care what you think of you. We don’t care what the world makes of you. We care what you make of you. By We, right now, We mean you and I. We mean where Our Antenna are. Anyone can diss anyone. This is not what We’re about. We’re talking about your eyesight and Mine and what matters to you and what matters to Me, and, therefore, Us.

I often ask Myself: