God said:

When you are in tumult and you feel urgency, consider saying: “I’d like to think this through and get back to you this afternoon.” How about responding rather than reacting?

When you react, you are in what is sometimes referred to as a “Godawful hurry!”

When you are in a panic -- panic always has the better of you -- give yourself some of this imagined time to withdraw. Take a walk. Go into the woods. Give your heartbeat a chance to slow down.

Thank God, panic, which is a form of self-pandemonium, doesn’t last forever. Panic backs away. It goes somewhere. You may think that panic is a natural reaction. Natural carries a different connotation to Me.

Natural is more like catching your breath. Give panic a chance to reduce itself. Does panic come from adrenalin soaking in? No matter how masterful panic may be, a state of panic doesn’t last forever. Panic is like the huffing and puffing of the big bad wolf at your door. Don’t let the big bad wolf in.

Is the antonym of panic Peace?

Peace likes itself. Peace unto you. Peace is a cool mist. Peace settles. Peace is like a comforter that wraps you with its warmth at the very time it cools you down. You do understand how panic is hot and cold at the same time? What a constraint panic can be. A sense of panic cannot see beyond its nose.

In the relative world, there are opposites. If panic exists in the world, its opposite also exists. Peace is the other side of the coin. Peace is worth paying attention to. Bow down to Peace, and panic will fizzle out.

God said:

By now is it a surprise to you that Life doesn’t always suit you? In fact, it may appear that you very well expect Life to let you down. You may gripe about Life’s uncooperativeness. I request that you not be affronted by Life to the extent that you may give yourself over to discontent.

Surely you may feel that Life must stop tripping you up. If only Life would not be so ornery. Ah, if only you would give Life a handshake.

You may feel you are up against it in Life and that it has always been so. You may feel you are banging your head against the wall or giving up on the equipment you are using that is out of hand. Your computer, your car, for instance, won’t do as you wish. You identify this as frustration. You are fit to be tied, yet what good does this do you or anyone?

You may find Life obtuse. You may infer that Life is out to get you, that too many of the people in your Life are obstinate, and one-sided. Where is your friendly attitude toward Life? You carry an image of Life that doesn’t suit you. Life doesn’t sit right with you. You are certain this shouldn’t be. Your frustration mounts. You are sure that Life is to open doors for you right and left.

You seem to have one of two main interpretations of Life – smooth-sailing or dreadful interference. Something catches in your craw. Life bombards you. Day after day, you catch yourself in a trap. Frustration wraps you around its little finger. You may throw down your hands and say to yourself: “What else could I expect anyway.”

God said:

Understand that in the State of Oneness called Heaven, whatever you call faulty or inadequate does not exist. Questions do not even exist. Faltering does not exist. Oneness exists, this is what all you want – Oneness. If there were a less or a more -- Oneness would be the most.

In Heaven, as in Oneness, there is no quantifying. There is no qualifying. There are no ifs, ands, and buts. There are no ins and outs. There is no easy and no hard, though, of course, everything is how you look at it.

In Truth, everything is easy. There are no obstacles. There is no interference. There is nothing to interfere with. There is nothing to contradict, and no one to do so.

There is Oneness, and no one to contradict. There are no dispersions. There are no debates, no arguments. There are Soul Strings, so to speak, all set to create their own Harmony. Yet, Holy of Holies, there is no Harmony that does not exist altogether in the first place.

Are you confused? This is good. Confusion is not True, yet it lets you know that you are missing something in a Reality of Truth within which you cannot miss. You question rather than accept. You are busy making a mountain out of a molehill when you are in the midst of the Height of Oneness. You are at the Peak of Oneness while you imagine you are on a flattened mesa looking for an alternative of one kind or another.

God said:

Rather than thinking of all the qualities that people are not, credit people with what they are.

In terms of the world, no one is perfect. No one else can fulfill you. You have to fulfill yourself. There are great people you can rely on for a great deal, yet not one you can truly rely on for everything. Who told you that you were supposed to find people who will fulfill everything for you? Where did this idea come from?

Fulfill yourself. You are no one’s baby to nurture all day long.

When you rely on yourself and Me, of course, you are hitting the nail on the head.

From the Earth view, there is no one you can’t find fault with. Someone’s veritable weakness, as you see it, may well be the other side of his veritable strength. In any case, it is not for you to reformat your friends and family and co-workers and bosses or the man on the street.

It’s definitely time for you to set yourself straight, or you will be a thorn in your own side. Do you see the Truth in what I’m saying?

It is not for you to be THE critic of the world. Let people be in peace. There is much fault to find with someone who is a perfect critic of the world. You would not be so disappointed in others if you did expect them to always please you. Recluse yourself from being a master of finding fault.

For some or many, it seems like a hopeless task not to see fault. It’s not like you keep looking for it – or is it? There are little things that just set your nerves on edge.

God said:

“To thine own Self be true.”

Ah, you would love to be True to thine so-called Own Self, and I would love you to be True to your Royal Self, so why don’t you live this in fact?

The bare answer might be that I know Who you are while you have not as yet caught on to Who you are. This is true so far as it goes, yet running at the same time on a deeper hidden level, you do know. You do, and you don’t, and yet you do. I guarantee that you do. You will recognize yourself as sure as rain.

Perhaps, if, in Life, you had not been told things like: “Don’t be foolish,” you might have accepted the Truth of Life long ago, and the whole world would be different.

Heretofore, you simply may not have been able to see. Perhaps you have too much sunlight in your eyes. Perhaps the Sun is too blinding, or, perhaps, your Inner Light is shaded over, as if you are safer in darkness than you are in Light. Perhaps you tremble at the possibilities that might fall your way. You might think you prefer to be a wanderer than to settle down. You are not so sure that you are ready and willing to say Yes to your Greatness. Your take on Facing Life carries a connotation of discomfort.

What if you go for your Greatness and still not be worthy of it, where would you turn then? Or not following through on Greatness for any reason or for none?

Along with privilege comes responsibility. You were not looking for more responsibility.