God said:

For today alone, promise yourself that you will not complain about even one thing. No complaints, no criticisms. For this one day, do not let a word pass your lips that you would not be glad to have on the front page of the newspaper. In fact, for this one day, do not watch the news or read the paper.

No cluck-clucking over the news or the state of the world. No relating harrowing experiences or an injustice done to you or to anyone. No crime statistics. No shaking your head at anything.

Observe a day without finding fault. Oh, sure, you can always find fault without hunting for it. Today, take a day off. Abstain. Make today a fast day from discussing woes.

In effect, pat the Earth you live on, and make nice to all the diverse people who share this Earth with you and call each: “Good soul, good soul.”

See the world and its population the way you see your puppy who just can’t seem to get enough love from you, and who, without trying, just wants to pour vibrant surplus love on you. Treat the world and its population with some of the way you treat your puppy. Be a treat to the world.

Just for today you are trading in plaints for what can be called appreciation. If you can’t express appreciation today, then seal your lips.

For one day, give freedom from criticism to this world. See what it feels like.

God said:

How can One God be Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omni-benevolent and made of Divine Simplicity? None of these are thinking abilities. I do not have to remember. I do not make a list. I do not add to a non-existent list, nor do I check items off. This is not an accumulation for Me. I am not an accountant who wears glasses to read the small print. My capability is not a trick. It is not a parlor game. It is not learned. This is how it is. A Moment of Infinity reveals all. In one second, all is known.

You have glimpses of this All-Knowingness yourself. You know your Self. And you know through and through what is called My Self if you but dared to own it and own up to it. As it is, you may let My capability slip through your fingers.

I zero in on all of My Children in one Second of Infinity. I do not have to remember, nor do I forget. You may choose to call this Simple Awareness of Mine the Mind of God, if you like, yet this is more like the Heart of God, the Realization of God, the Love of God for All of Creation which is ultimately My Very Self which you ultimately are. All the Awareness I AM, you ARE. Otherwise, what else can that We Are One possibly mean?

It is not that you have Me. You don’t have Me. I am not something you picked up at the corner store. You are My Very Self. We travel in Infinity together although there is simply One of Us, One One.

God said:

Leave yourself alone a little bit. I ask you to stop picking on yourself for every little thing you do or every little thing you don't do or don't do perfectly. Accept the ordinariness of imperfection in the world. You are not separate from anyone else. Everyone has bungled more than once. You are good, and let your goodness be the star you follow. You do not have to be perfection, not in terms of the world, you don’t.

In Heaven, you leave fault behind you. Faults find no haven in Heaven. You are not in Heaven to review your faults, nor are you on Earth to go over a litany of faults, as if you are to make a collection of them. Faults aren’t Truth. Oh, the world may say so. The world primarily can see only one side of the coin. The side of that coin that the world typically sees is named facts.

The concrete world is made of boundedness whereas you are made of boundlessness.

Listen, living in a bounded world is going to make you strong. When you find yourself in a pit, you have no choice but to climb out.

You are not meant to flagellate yourself as if a whipping will make you strong and teach you something. You are not a miscreant, beloveds. You do not have to absolve yourself for living your life as best you know how to at a particular moment. You make some mistakes, no doubt. That was then, and this is now. Now you don't look back.

You are growing every minute. You are going to soar. You can and will astound yourself with all the hidden treasure you are. You must know by now that all treasure lies within you.

God said:

Let Me remind you that We are seeking Self-sufficiency. You are My child, yet not My helpless infant.

Of course, I provide. In all Truth, I am the only One Who does provide. I am God from Whom all blessings flow. You are to honor others. You may be a great receiver, yet be cautious as rating yourself as a Prime Receiver of My Goodness even as you are.

There is no Best of All God’s Children in the Land. Be busy giving of your love to others than to be so in awe of the heights you like to think you have reached!

You are not exempt from responsibility to plow your own fields. You have no place nor time to think you know the whole score, and others -- or even one other -- does not.

I have One Child. Of course, you are glad and grateful when I come to your aid, yet, by all that is Holy, I don’t want you to be lazing around waiting for Me to rescue you. I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: Beat Me to it. Take initiative and get out there and make happen what you want to have happen. Rely on Me, yet don’t wait for Me. Get out there and work to serve Me and all of Humanity. I rely on you.

I do not raise you to ask Me for everything. I do not raise you so that you think you are entitled to special favor, and, that others, perhaps, are not so entitled. Be glad and grateful, and yet don't sit on top of Mount Ida and think you know more than others. Do not sit around thinking that you are more highly evolved than another. You might be surprised, beloveds.

God said:

Sharing your place in the Sun is one kind of generosity. Some of My children find sharing the limelight a squeeze on themselves. This may be insecurity displaying itself. You may like to help someone move forward, and then, when you do help, you may begin to feel as if you are being tailed. You find you are not so happy to pat the seat next to you and say from your heart: “Welcome. Sit here beside me.”

You battle yourself, feeling you don’t want someone else to have the glory you have when, to your mind, you may not see that they merit it. You may wish you could feel this, yet you don’t. You may feel that you represented yourself falsely.

Everyone is not equal to you in some way or another. Then you say to yourself: "Oh, if only I would not judge. Oh, if only I would not own. I have to wonder if I am not one of those people who has to be the Fairest of All. Is this why I feel cramped at sharing with this person?"

You may feel that this other has encroached on you. You really don’t have to be the best of all, best anything, yet you simply do not see this person and you as equal. This may be what is so hard for you, the need to present yourself as loving when you really are not, could this be?