God said:

Everyone loves being favored. Nothing wrong with this. Enjoy to your heart’s content. If the world adores you, then enjoy this adoration while you're at it.

Here’s the thing: You don't have to be adored by the world. You don't have to be in the limelight. It is also perfectly all right to be ordinary and unnoticed in the world. What you think of yourself truly matters, for how you think of yourself is what your life amounts to.

You can also be the unobtrusive valet who walks around in the background. You don’t have to be the focus. You can just as well be the valet as the man who is served. You don’t have to be the star of the show. There really isn’t all that much to it. Anything you must have rules the roost.

It comes right down to this: What matters most is who you are and not plaudits or what you seemingly possess.

Fame is short-lived, and what do you have when you have it? What you are is yours. You belong to your Being. You are yourself, and this is wonderful. Regardless of anything else, you are God's Child. You are definitely My Child.

Be glad that you made it this far.

When there is a time you see yourself set above others, know this is just a flash in the pan, and get over it.

When you yearn for something out of reach, it seems awesome. When you do have it, it’s just another something to deal with. That which you sought, as soon as it is in your hand, may seem cumbersome. You might have to even brace yourself for it.

God said:

You may be at My feet as you ask:

“God, please let my family win the lottery, or, in some way, God, get Good Fortune to come forward so that we may be next in line for wealth. Now, as I ask You this, it doesn’t feel right to me ask You this, for this could be my ego asking. It’s not that I have not worked very hard, God, yet something doesn’t feel really right for me to ask You this.

“So, I say it differently now. Dear God, may my family and I fulfill whatever is ours to fulfill? Have we somehow blocked our very own desires? Has something within me squelched my family’s very desires? If we have a blockage from some fear or threat within us, then, something within also has to unblock what holds us back from fulfilling our nethermost desires. God, please help us to recognize great sustaining happiness. Let us be grateful for all sweet breezes that blow.”

Yes, I answer you, why wouldn’t I? It would be My pleasure. Some people have to wait awhile for their will to blossom or their True Will to come from another direction. Perhaps you have to wait. This is something that comes from a reason of your own. This isn’t something that I ordain. This is something that you enjoin.

Here is how I suggest you get up every morning:

Get up with the idea in your mind that many blessings are on their way to you.

Go to sleep every night with the same sort of idea in your mind. Think:

God said:

You know, it is fine to sort things out in your mind, yet you also have to know that everything in life is not here for you to organize. Life isn’t accounting that follows a certain format. Life isn't like that. The way Life plays out is how it’s supposed to play out. You are part of a plan bigger than you imagine.

Life in the world does not usually follow a straight line. Life in the world more often than not goes every which way, and you don’t know what this Life is going to give you until it has cast itself before you.

Life isn’t as predictable as you might like. But, hey, that’s life. Life isn’t rigid nor must you be. Life is to accept. You are to get up and move right along. This is Life.

Today may well not present the weather you favor. It may be too hot for you, too cold, too many puddles or too dry. Mostly, you have the weather you have, and you do just fine in the weather whatever it may be. The weather is what it is. The weather is not meant to disconcert you or ruin your day.

We know that Life can startle you in unexpected ways. You are in a state of shock, yet, what is there for you to do but to keep chugging along? The fact that a train is derailed doesn't mean you have to be. Whatever happens in your Life, you still have Life. It may not be the Life you had yesterday, yet, nevertheless, you have Life.

God said:

What is important to you simply may not be important to someone else. What is important to someone else may simply not be important to you. This is what life in the world seems to be about -- all these contrasts and even contradictions.

Someone loves fishing. You may not be someone who would like to put a worm on a hook, nor would you take joy in catching a fish. Who is to say you must or must not like worms or fishing?

Someone else grows a moustache, and you would never grow a moustache, yet, if you were alone on a deserted island, by default, you would grow a moustache and a beard to boot. You never know.

Something may matter a lot to someone else but not to you. He has his life, and you have yours.

Let it be glorious that everyone who has Oneness with Me – and that is everyone -- can make all kinds of different choices in the world. Let it be glorious that there are enough choices for everyone around the world to make. Silly, you are not authorized to put a friend on the carpet because his life choices do not agree with yours.

Let it be glorious that there are different ways of thinking and liking or not liking, preferring or not preferring a myriad of colors, for instance, and a myriad of sports and a myriad of minds and a myriad of books and myriad cups of tea. Let Us applaud that there are many right ways to make a cup of coffee, and you are free to brew coffee as you like, and so is another free.

God said:

If you cannot accept that you create your Life, perhaps you can accept that you contribute to your Life in the Process. Your thoughts speak for you. You may expect your Life to change while you stay the same. By and large, like it or not, you mastermind your life.

You would prefer not to accept this idea. You prefer to stay an innocent party. That’s just what you are, beloved, an innocent party. You don’t see and don’t want to see that you carry at least some responsibility for your life.

I’ve said these two points before in a hundred ways:

When you complain and complain, certainly you will have more complaints to complain about. When you are grateful for the goodness granted you in the world, you will have more goodness to be grateful for.

There is a sense in which you may feel that Life owes you a living. You may feel that Life is remiss in how it has treated you. You feel that this entity called Life should treat you with kid gloves. Certainly, this great factor, Life, could give you money as well as to someone else.

You may be thinking: "Wouldn’t it be nice if Life took care of me carte blanche?" Life does take care of you. You are taken care of you. You are here, aren't you?

You may not want to have to earn your keep. You may see those who do not take care of you the way you would like as scoundrels while they may well see you as a wastrel.