God said:

It’s not precisely that the world needs more love. The world can use more Recognition of Love.

Love has been mashed like mashed potatoes. Why not have love in its proud state as it comes down the shoot from Heaven? Love pure, love not all pushed down.

Leave love alone. Let love be. Love does not have to be told what to look like. It doesn’t have to be fairy-tale. You do not have to buoy yourself on fantasy. The thing is that you may feel that real life is grungy and not so nice. Let love be joy to your heart.

Here’s the thing: You don’t have to take love too seriously. Love can just be love. You can be loving. You don’t have to look for fireworks. Look for a pulsing heart that is glad for the fireside of a warm heart.

Hail to the heart who knows its place in the world. Where is the heart’s place? Why, it is everywhere. Love does not have to be jazzy or spectacular. Love can be simple old-fashioned love. It doesn’t have to be amazing. It can even be an everyday kind of love. It can be received just as a day is received. Love can be given, and love can be accepted. Love is for all, not only a select few.

Love needs not embellishment and extraneous tinselly decoration.

Here is how to love: Right now is how to love. Find that trace of love in your heart and strew it around. Hand it out. There is enough for all.

God said:

If you want peace in your life, you can have it. If you want storms, you can have them. You can have whatever you want.

You wanted Me. You got Me. Long before you knew the words for what you wanted, you wanted Me, just as I wanted you Who art My Very Self.

You know a simple word like peace. You know a longer word like equanimity that means the evenness of peace. You can bring to you whatever you want, long or short.

Maybe it takes more than asking in order for you to receive what you want. Maybe what you have to do is to decide what it is you want.

If you want equanimity, if you really do, if you really do choose peace over emotion and drama, the likelier it is that you will have it.

If you can have ups and downs, you certainly can have life on an even keel. If you like upset more than you like calmness, you can have upset. If you like calmness more than you like upset, you will have calmness. What do you want? What do you most desire? Whatever you call to yourself, you can have. It’s yours.

If you are sailing a sailboat across the Ocean Blue, you pull the sails in the direction you want to go. If you want the squalls, you lean one way. If you want the calms, you lean another way.

Here’s what you need to know: The calms are not doldrums. Have you perhaps thought they were? Have you perhaps thought that a life without sturm und drang would be stilted, boring, and ineffectual? No, not at all. Such a life will be enlivening and thrilling. Great wonders will come along with such a life.

God said:

When a deed is done, do you stew about it, or do you move on? You well know that the thing to do is to move on, yet this is easier said than done.

A wrong was done to you thirty years ago, let’s say, and you may well not have let go of it yet. You may have handcuffed yourself to this old offense, and you keep it warm. It is a slow burn.

Whether it is something wonderful that happened to you once upon a time, and now it is no more, or, if it is a cruel blow that happened, you can’t keep reheating it. If you have a wound, you don’t keep picking at it. You may be absolutely right that what happened to you never should have happened to you. The thing is it did happen, and now you must let it go and move right along. The past is nothing to keep vibrating within you. Let it go.

The way you step out of the ocean on a wonderful summer day, this is the way to step out of the past. You step out just like that. You dry yourself off, and then you go home or perhaps out to eat. Certainly, you don’t keep repeating stepping out of the ocean as though it were a chant or a football replay.

If there is a part of your life that isn’t happy for you to think about, why keep mulling it over? And if there were a very beautiful part of your life and it is no more, why hold onto what is no longer? Why relive it to make yourself sad? Why do you want to be sad?

God said:

Odds are that you see offense where there is none. Odds are that you see a picture from your past rather than a picture from the present, and you unconsciously react to the picture you see in your mind and not to what is before you. The person before you, somehow, reminds you of your mother or your father or a sister or brother who didn’t value you. You continue to feed on the past sacrilege of you. A pattern appears in your life, and it’s hard to shake. You feed upon what once was. You are looking for justice from an innocent party.

On the other hand, someone can take offense at what you say, and you are standing there with your mouth open – “Wha…? I absolutely meant no offense. I wasn’t putting you down. I had no such idea in my head. Not at all.” Now you feel discounted because the person you were talking to transposed an earlier offense from his past onto you and faulted you.

And, in turn, when you are offended, your interpretation is also far off. It is like there is a little camera within your mind that overlays the actual snapshot with a camera shot from the past that was and should not have been.

Will you admit that you are sometimes too quick to take offense? You can trace what triggers your upset. What offends you falls into certain categories, most often in areas of your competency.

God said:

You do not want to be beside yourself on Earth. Beside yourself, you are distraught. You want to be beyond your small self. Yes, get beyond whatever limits you have set for yourself. You can go way beyond yourself into the farther reaches of the Universe.

What can stop you? What can stop you from transcending your outer limits except for timidity, fear, fear of boldness, fear of being disappointed, fear of failing, fear of being ridiculed. Most people mind very much what others think of them. It doesn’t even matter who it is, a stranger on the street, anyone innocently or not so innocently who sets a lesser worth on you. Tell Me, please, what is there you cannot be afraid of when you set your mind to it? What are you afraid of?

Of course, you don’t want to pander your life to anyone, flotsam or jetsam, or anyone notable or worthy. You can love people without having to please them. Consider all the people in the world who have surpassed discouragement, stuck to their guns, and struck a milestone.

Who dares to say to you that you cannot do that which you desire to do?

What is all this that you must have your feet on the ground as the world purports that to be? What a dreary process. You can have your feet on the ground any day of the week. Why limp around when you can fly?

Maybe this is all I want to say today. Maybe this is all that there is to say. Yet I think of something more, yes, for you to take in.