God said:

Optimism is not superficial. It is not pie in the sky. It is one of the most supportive tools in life you have.

Optimism is success-oriented. It is the opposite of pessimism. Pessimism is denial of what life could offer you if you were open to it.

Pessimism, upheld as realism, is definitely playing the odds that you see for yourself as not so hotsy-totsy. Odds are often not good, yet where is it written that life must be made up of playing only fabulous odds? In this way, you may well keep great opportunity away from you. Don't count yourself out so easily.

You may think you are super-intelligent to point out to yourself and to others how unlikely the chances may be of hitting your target. What do you care if you have a one in a thousand chances to win when you win? For sure, if you don't go for it, you won't win.

Let's consider for a moment that in having the courage to go for what you want regardless of the odds in or out of your favor, you are stirring nature. You give life an opportunity.

If you give up on yourself beforehand, you set a low vibration for achieving. If you have an idea to start a business, let's say, and everyone in the world says your idea will never work, and you give up on your idea, what are the odds of achieving your dream? They are nil.

This happens every day. Someone listens to someone else, and gives up his dream.

God said:

Know your own significance. You are valuable. You are entitled.

You don't have to tiptoe around yourself. Have no worries about disturbing world beliefs for others. Who has the right to take away even 1/8th inch of what is meaningful to you? You are the decider of what is worthwhile to you. No one is to repress what is vital to you.

Next week, you may find yourself drawn to something else. Who says you must stay with something all your life? If you are drawn to something all your life, you are drawn to it. If something new pulls you, then something new pulls you. Your heart is your enabler. No one has the right to decide your path or paths for you. Only you. You are the one who leads your life.

You may not always feel self-propelling. Sometimes, Life itself seems to pick you up, toss you up in the air, and where you land – there you are -- perhaps a great surprise to you!

One way or another, your destiny will find you. Or it will not. If not, be your own self-mover. Do hand-stands if you have to find your way in the mist.

Your life belongs to you, and your life belongs to Me. The long and the short of it -- in the final analysis of your life – I am your Destiny. You will knowingly wind up with Me. We are pinned together. Our connection is secure. There is never a time Our connection is not. From a human point of view, you may resist knowing Our Connection, yet this is to no avail. We are Forever One.

God said:

It's really true that every day is a day of new birth. Each day is a renewal. Cells replace themselves. You may have a new thought or two. You do something differently. No human being today is the same as yesterday, and tomorrow you will grow more. You have no say about this, you understand.

No need to think of this as aging. Physical changes are more like the changing of the guard. Physical changes are an appearance, yet, of course, Earth Life itself is altogether illusory.

What an advertisement Life on Earth is. Life on Earth goes all out. You give it your everything, and all the while, it is a group fantasy, somewhat like the game of Telephone where everyone speaks hurriedly and no one hears quite the same words, and, so, conversation is garbled. It is a fact that everyone hears his own version of life.

Life is certainly an interesting matter. Life is like a run-on sentence. There is no end to Life, no matter what transition you are going through. Life is the topic that happens to be before you in all kinds of amazing colors. Indeed, Life is a piece of work. What storytelling you live amidst! Life is a Master of Tales. Life is a run-on story, a story that goes over hill and dale, reaches high in the sky, and also goes under arches and underground as well. There is nothing on TV or in the best novel that beats the Circuitry of Life. Fiction does do a good job, mind you. Fiction gets your mind off your Life that sometimes seem to you to not be quite good enough.

Wherein hangs the tale?

God said:

There are loved ones you care about who drive you up the wall, is this not so? If you didn’t care deeply and hold a vested interest, it’s possible they wouldn't drive you up the wall. You may see their repetitive behavior as self-destructive, and yet you have heard Me say to keep your hands off. You don’t know if you are capable of being silent.

Let Us say that your husband is a master procrastinator. To almost everything you may say or request, his refrain seems to be:

"Not now," or, "Later." And later is later and later.

It is as if your husband is a collector of undone deeds. You are not talking about his mowing the yard. He could be out of work, and you may be concerned about his getting off the couch and looking for work. You are so worried.

You understand what I mean when I say to let him be. You know that reminding him that time is wasting doesn't help either you or him. That's just it – nothing seems to help.

You are not someone who can just sit on your hands. You can’t possibly smile and pretend that everything is all right. Has your husband given up? Is he wasting his life? Is he possibly ill? You have worry on top of worry.

The fact, so far as you can see, is that his joy in life lies lounging on the couch, watching TV and letting life slide.

His reactions are hard for you to take. Somehow, you and your husband have become opponents.

God said:

On one hand, you don't ask enough of life. You settle for too little. On the other hand, you demand too much. You are affronted when life takes a turn you are opposed to. Every now and then, from being placid, you become ferocious and stamp your foot at life and refuse to tolerate it. You can turn on a dime, dear ones, so affected are you by what you perceive as an attack from life.

You are not always at extremes, yet at any moment, you sometimes are.

Would that you could weather storms without so much drama. If only you would.

I am not telling you that you must always placate life. You don't have to be a Yes-Man to life. On the other hand, it behooves you to know when to return to joy and let go of stamping your foot.

It really is for you to move on and to move upwards. You can leave uproar behind you. You can come to peace within yourself. You don't have to drag out emotional pain. You can have loved and lost and still go forward.

Beloveds, in the long run what choice do you have? It’s not better to profess to being long-suffering. You do better to get up from suffering sooner.

If you could cut your suffering and shorten the length of its acuteness by 10%, would this not be in everyone's best interest?

There is a misunderstanding in the world as to need for grieving and the meaning of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a given. Suffering is not. Both suffering and forgiveness are choices.