God said:

Don't think I tell you to dismiss the world. I exalt you to love the world. Just don't make the world your God. Do not worship World Palaces. Do not give the world dominion over you.

Obey the laws, and be true to your Self. True to your Self, you are true to Me. By Self, I mean your True Self. I do not mean your personality. Enjoy your personality, yet not be overtaken by it.

Just as you do not know what life may bring to you, you do not know what wonders you are yet to perform. Of course, it's not exactly that you perform wonders. You ARE the wonders. You wield the wand of wonderfulness. There are treasures within you that you have no idea of. These treasures humble you, not inflate you.

Treasures may fall from your hands. They may fall from your tongue. You are a Messenger of God. The treasures may be silent. They may appear as invisible. Right now, most of these jewels in your possession are invisible to you. It is like you have squeezed your eyes shut.

Jewels from you will venture forth. Rubies and diamonds will fall from your love of their own accord. They know when and where. You don’t have to know. You are an instrument of My Love and Will.

All this I planted in you. Blossoms know when to blossom. According to its season, fruit knows when to appear, and it is beautiful. The world is beautiful. Life is beautiful. You are beautiful. Beauty is made of love.

God said:

You are the arbiter of your own happiness or unhappiness. You may not yet be at that place within where you can allow yourself to be happy under many situations. You just are not. You may have never been. You may have always been bruited around by the winds that blow.

You may not believe you will ever be in a great place of equanimity. Yet, will you admit to yourself, that you can be closer to the ideal, and, that by getting closer, you will bless yourself, your family, and the whole world?

Tell Me, dear ones, what can be worse than carrying deadweight along with you into the hereafter?

Start with just a few instances. If someone disappoints you, you don't have to be crestfallen. You don't have to be upset. You don't have to disown the person. You don't have to anything.

If someone doesn't like the way you dress, is that your problem? If someone doesn't like you or doesn't seem to like you, why make that a federal case? You don't have to carry someone on your back, nor do you have to turn your back on anyone either.

To love one another doesn't mean you have to be everyone's great pal. Follow your happiness. Drop off unhappiness. Let go of it. What do you want it for?

If you had noxious materials in your house, you would get them out of your house. You would get them out right away. Now, get rid of what has been obnoxious to you in your mind. You don't need it, so why keep it?

God said:

The refrain of life as sung on Earth is loss and gain with an emphasis on loss, so it appears.

Who goes to court to sue for a mistaken gain in income? No one sues a car company for the car's exceeding the anticipated gas mileage. No one sues anyone for delivering an unexpected third baby, nor would they!

No one complains about winning a billion-dollar lottery. No one complains about finding a $20.00 bill on the sidewalk. No one complains about gain unless it's a gain in weight or clutter.

There is plenty of complaint when someone loses his eyesight. You would too, understandably, yet where was all the gratitude for your eyesight all the years when you had the good use of your eyes?

In these days, age is often seen as a decline from strength, yet age often is a gain of wisdom and, sometimes, a gain of great wisdom and great goodness of heart. You really can't say you haven't learned something during your ride on Earth.

I am making a case for abstinence from sense of loss, abstinence from your seeing loss, seeing the absence of someone dear to you absconded and kidnapped to Heaven as an offense to you. Actually, you may see loss as something you own and of great value being stolen from you by stealth and by no right. You wouldn't mind being the exception to the rule and be immortal even in terms of this physical life on Earth.

There are two things to remember here, dear ones. There are reasons for the term of your body. What you see as death has merit behind it.

God said:

Dear Ones, you do recognize that you go up and down according to your mood? You do notice this, don't you? What changes how you feel so quickly but these nondescript moods that wrap you around their little finger. They lead you by the nose. You can be on top of the world one minute and the next, you are a heap on the floor. How your moods fluctuate without a by-your-leave.

Life in the world is ever-changing, yet that doesn't mean you are to be affronted at life as it appears. You were not born on Earth to get up in arms because you feel that something precious has been denied you or taken from you that you are sure shouldn't have been. Turn now to see what has been given unto you. You may not take it in your stride, yet it is for you to accept.

Your heart plummets when your personal life takes a turn you do not like.

Inasmuch as you don't know the answers to all your questions anyway, why attempt to determine that your life or anyone else's life is good or bad, right or wrong? You do not have to feel that you are afflicted with life. You don't know how that which you are certain must be incorrect may benefit you in ways you cannot think of. What makes you think you are assessing life correctly when you give life a low rating?

Dear Ones, you are not the arbiter of the world.

God said:

You live your life. You don't set out to be a hero. You don't become a hero ahead of time. In a trice, you may become a hero, even as you never began to know you had it in you.

Everyone has the makings of a hero within. It takes some opportunity for your heroism to appear. It is another person or persons who bring you the opportunity to bring out the hero in you.

There are also the little daily occasions that lead you a to silent heroism. You are not a martyr. You are not. You are not long-suffering. You choose to give your heart to calm others. You may not even call what you give as patience, for it seems natural to you to bestow peace upon others. You see your life as an occasion for Vastness of a kind wherein you respond calmly to those who may appear temperamental and impatient with you. You see others in a different light from the way you used to see others in, for you are not the person you used to think you were.

Perhaps it is enough to say that others may see their own hasty reflection in you. They may be impatient or even intolerant with you, whereas you may see your own reflection in them. Now you are able to give them the regard for themselves they long for.