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 <description>&lt;p&gt;We can say that there is a spool of thread unwinding. As it unwinds, the thread spirals down. This is one way to describe the unfolding of life and the seeming cycles of spring, summer, autumn, winter — the cycles of everything. That yielding spool of thread is always smoothly in motion. The thread descends like a double helix, and it rises. In My metaphor, it is perpetual. There is no end to the thread. There is no need to put it through a needle to sew the Universe. The thread is circular unto itself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Life is like a water wheel. Endless motion within such great Stillness. See those wheels of life go. The motor is running, and yet there is no sound. The motor is always running with or without sound. In the same way, you always are. Whether silent or noisy, you are. When you are asleep, you still are. And so it is when the body drops itself from the equation. This seems catastrophic to you, I understand, and yet, even in death, you don&#039;t miss a beat. If there were a cardiogram or such to hook up to life as I speak of it, you would irrefutably see that life is on a continuum. There is no interruption to life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And life is free-falling even when there are no accidents. Life is destined, and yet it is spontaneous. And yet, in one sense, there is no destiny because life is never-ending. So, then, life is a process, and one you don&#039;t quite understand. You are not expected to understand, beloveds. You are just expected to run with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If life were your legs, you would run gloriously, effortlessly, eternally. Watch your legs take flight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If life were a hammock, you would lie there and at the same time be hacking out a living.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If life were a mother, it would nurture you, and you would be satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If life came in cycles, as it does, you would make names for every nuance of it, which you have.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If life were a letter, you would open it. And life itself is a Heavenletter, only life is in a language you do not fully know how to read.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As it is, life is life, and you live with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Life has its own evenness, yet you bounce in it, up and down and around and around. Life is your starting-off place, and you are an acrobat of life. How tensile and flexible are your muscles! You do somersaults in the air. You reach the stars and hand them to Me. You are the one who leaps, and it is yourself you leap over. And you are the leapingness itself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is nothing you are not. Therefore, you are Everything. You are, in fact, Everyone! You are on the Board of Directors of the Universe, this one Universe that is of such a scale, you cannot fathom it. And yet, you are at the bottom of it. You constructed a lot of this We call life and all the connotations that go with it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are the bouncing ball, and you bounce it, and you are the bouncing. What is there you are not?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now you take a leap and decide what you will discover and what you will be. You will take a leap with everything. That means you will leave where you were and bounce to somewhere new, to a new realization, perhaps, or to a new world or to a new beginning. There is no leap too big for that heart and mind of yours.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who and what are you going to be today? And what will your day be like? Praise it, and see what you will see.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:00:07 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;What you think you want and what you truly deep-down want may be two different things. You already know you have in the past desired something or someone, and you didn&#039;t get what you had your mind and heart set on. Perhaps a thread of you understood that you were better off without that which you desired, but you wanted what you wanted and you did not want to believe otherwise, is this not so? At the time your dream broke, you were devastated, and later you may have found yourself relieved. Now you know that what formerly was a great disappointment and loss to you was a blessing all along. How blessed you are for what you receive and what you do not receive. How blessed you are.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, you may have wanted to open a certain kind of business, and as fortune would have it, you did open the business you so desired. Soon you discovered that, no matter how much you had wanted this business, it wasn&#039;t really for you, and you were not for it. You had started in a certain direction, and you kept going. You wanted it because you wanted it, and it really wasn&#039;t what you thought it would be at all. You went the long way around only to finally stop and go another way altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It might have been nice if something had stopped you sooner.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When it is a man or woman you deeply love and you are left at the altar or some such, no matter how much you saw this as a loss and bemoaned it, now you see differently. Now you can&#039;t even conceive what it was you were thinking — what were you thinking? If all your previous desires had been fulfilled, happiness still would not have been yours. You were banking on matters that cannot be banked on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everything in life seems to spare you from something else. It is not always supreme when your heart&#039;s desires are fulfilled. You don&#039;t like finding out that you were barking up the wrong tree. Sometimes you have been like a monkey who can&#039;t let go of the vine he is swinging on. You hold on because you are holding on and you don&#039;t want to get off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Certainly, you have discovered in life that everything you wish for does not come to pass. There was a time when you thought whatever you desired with all your heart would, of course, come true. Little by little, one by one, your fingers were plied off that dream. Now hold your hands out, palms up, to see what is poured into them — perhaps treasures you had never thought of, perhaps dreams you had not the foresight to dream of.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whatever dreams may come, they serve a purpose. And whatever dreams do not come, they also serve a purpose. The whole Universe is at your feet, beloveds, like a shoe salesman, trying on shoes for you, smoothing the way for you. The longest way around may be the short cut; the shortcut may be the long way around. How are you to know, beloveds?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So amble along in life. Love what you love and don&#039;t hold on too tight. Give your dreams a chance to breathe. And don&#039;t let go too quickly either. Dream. Don&#039;t hold tight, and don&#039;t be hasty and throw your dreams away either. Gravitate away from dreams that you think your life depends on, as if without it, you are bereft. Dream your dreams, and let people and let life follow their own stream of divine dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:56:55 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Let today be a triumph for you, triumph in the sense that you walk through it with your head held high and joy in your heart. If you have an enemy, it is your own thinking, and today you go beyond the limits of your thinking. You step over a beautiful horizon, and so you enter Newness, and you are amazed. You are amazed at how easy life is.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now you throw away the idea that life was ever hard. It was only an idea. It was an idea that cost you much. Life is not hard. Life is easy. It always comes to you, and you walk through it. In your walk through life, do not predict brambles and muddy puddles. Predict paths showered in rose petals. Predict your being carried by angels of God. Predict your walking on air.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obstacles are of your own making. Obstacles are not what stand before you. Obstacles are your interpretation. You have had the idea that you are to walk straight ahead. You have stood by that idea. So when there is a pinnacle before you, you want to beat it down. You object to its being there when, all the while, it is a pinnacle you are to climb, or it is an arrow that points you in another direction. Really, beloveds, what is so terrible about that? What is so terrible if there is a nice policeman who tells you to take another road? Tell Me, beloveds, what is so awful about that?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is so terrible when you receive a letter you don&#039;t want? What is so marvelous about receiving a letter that you had planned in your head? Certainly, you like that. You like it when you order apple pie and the servants of the world bring you apple pie. You don&#039;t like it when the same servants of the world bring you a vegetable soup, or even a potent energy drink, or a medicine that you didn&#039;t want. The whole thing is that you didn&#039;t want.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, now, chums, become a good sport. The sun still shines. There is a rainbow after the rain. What is it that you are holding on to that you can&#039;t tolerate a departure from? What is so vital about catching this train and not another? What is this urgency you have that makes you insist that life follow your plan?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What if there is no set cut and dried resolution to your life? What if your life is made up as you go along? So what if your life is edited! So what if life isn&#039;t exactly as you had decided it should be? What has necessitated your stopping in your tracks, and having an interior tantrum?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perhaps life is serving you a better menu. What if in the soup you didn&#039;t order therein lies a diamond? Better you don&#039;t throw that soup away. You don&#039;t want to miss out on that diamond. Perhaps that diamond looks like a piece of coal to you. Perhaps you looked too fast. Perhaps you didn&#039;t see what lies beneath the piece of coal. Perhaps you are too hasty.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beloveds, and if you find that the piece of coal winds up being a piece of coal, are you not still you? What do you think you have lost out on? What it amounts to is that you have more to look forward to. Looking forward is a good thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look forward to life&#039;s rendering itself to you as it wills. Remember, life has gifts for you. Look within. Accept. Enjoy what is in your hand, and then go on to open the next gift. There will always be gifts for you and more and more and faster and faster. See gifts, beloveds, and no longer obstacles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A gift has been given to you.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:54:42 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;In every Heavenletter, in one way or another, I say to you to get out of the past. I say to let attachment go, for it holds you back. It ties you up. Attachments become reins you put around yourself. With attachment, you hobble yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attachment is always of the past. It is a holding on to the supposed past or to an idea that you like to keep. You don&#039;t want your ideas shaken.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When you are attached, you are closed, not open. When you are attached, you are closed to change. There are changes you favor and other changes you will not permit, even when they have already happened. You like your ideas to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What else do I always tell you? To not take offense. To not take anything personally.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is really true that the sun doesn&#039;t go around the Earth. The Earth circles the sun. It seems like the world revolves around you. You do have a say in the circling of the world, yet you are not its center. The sun is. Ultimately, whatever transpires in life affects you as you say it does. Of course, you counter that by saying that you are realistic. You follow common suppositions and call them realistic. Beloveds, it is not realistic to take things personally. It is futile. Taking offense goes nowhere. It circles around yourself, and you are ensnared in a trap of your own making. Offense, once taken, is hard to get away from. When you take offense, you give offense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I tell you to go higher. I tell you to look upwards. Enough watching where your feet go. See further. See higher. There is a lot of unexplored territory out there. Explore it. Let your heart and mind travel to new pastures. Get off the ground. Do not glue yourself there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Expand rather than contract. Give rather than hold.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember Me and remember Truth. Forget what you have learned. Learn anew. Be careful of what you let into your mind, for what you see and what you learn may hold you captive. What you have learned, beloveds, is of the past. Yes, please, free yourself from the past. Expand your horizons. You are a big person now. You have insights. No longer mumble what you memorized. Have vision instead. See for yourself, beloveds. See.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Come to Me. In your heart, come to your awareness of Me, for I am your deepest Self. You look for signs of Me in life when all the while, I am within. I am your heart of love. I am you. You are I, only you are enclosed in a body, and you set the physical as a limit. Indeed, you have allowed the physical to circumference you and hold you tight in its bonds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Know how free you are. You are free to realize Our Oneness. Realize that more than some of the other things you have realized.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Consider new possibilities. Allow them. Attend to what you favor. Let go of what you do not favor. Remember My promises to you, for My promises I keep, and so must you keep yours. Do not take words lightly. Let words mean something. Stick to your truth, and say what is your truth and not something that is not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Go forward to My promises, and they will be fulfilled. You will fulfill them. My promises are beautiful and true. Go toward My promises, and you will reap what I have planted for you. Go toward less than My promises to you, and you will reap what you go toward. You will reap your thoughts. You might as well nurture great things and let the little ones go by the wayside.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember always My love for you, for that you can know. You can know My love which is indisputable, even though you do dispute it. Come closer to My love, for it is yours. Savor it now.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:52:03 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>It Is a Miracle That You Can Weep in This Creation I Have Made for You</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I know it is valuable to look within, yet when sadness pursues you, look outside. Look, the sun falls on the trees just as it did before you were sad. Look, new flowers have blossomed! The air is sweet. The sky is a blue cloak over the world, and white clouds glide by like swans. Look not at your sadness but out beyond yourself. How can you live in this world I have painted and maintain sadness?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even if you look out, and it is raining, what a painting that is! Go outside and get wet. Feel what it is like to be outside in the rain. Listen to the rain. Embrace the miracle of rain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is a mammoth miracle that you can weep in this creation I have made for you. Yes, I understand, you perceive that this and that happened. Nothing happened, beloveds. All that happened is that something you desired to happen did not. That sums up your tears. Life did not go according to your plan. Let life be, while you go ahead and be happy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;True, the outer world seems to make you happy or unhappy, yet it is you within that conjure happiness or unhappiness. You are a magician. You can transform outer events into anything you want. It is like you can put an apple pie in the oven, and it comes out a sour cherry pie. Or you can put a sour cherry pie in the oven and then take out a pecan pie, dripping in sweet syrup. It must be you are a magician. You can turn any one day into many things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even when you feel heartache, will you imagine that today is a meal you serve to Me? I sit down at your table, and I am ready to eat whatever you serve Me. Will you serve Me crumbs of a day, beloveds, or will you put together a good meal for Me? Even if you don&#039;t have much food in the house, will you not do your utmost for Me? Will you serve Me with tears or will you serve Me with a smile?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I do sit down at your table, and I do eat the food you serve. I read your mind. I feel your heart. Will you give Me your best? Will you? Even sad, you can fill up My plate with joy. Yes, you can. Your step can be sprightly, or you can mope. How long can you mope when you remember I am your Guest? I am your permanent Guest, beloveds. I guess you could call Me your Boarder. I live with you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We can say you are the waves of My Ocean. I also ride the waves you present to Me. You are part of Me, a dear part of Me, and I would like you to make waves of happiness for the whole world to ride on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I ask you to get out of your moods and come into the Truth of Our Love.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Imagine you are giving me a bicycle today. Will you not take it out of the garage and shine it up before you give it to Me? Would you not feel better when you do that? You would not want to give Me a dingy dusty bicycle, I know. In the same way, will you give Me a spiffed-up day? Will you take the day out of its doldrums and shine light on it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We know it&#039;s only a day, and yet it is this day. Will you wrap it up like a bouquet? Will you make it a gift for Me? Will you make it a letter you write to Me? A dayletter. I give you My Heavenletter, and you give me your letter. We write back and forth until the day comes when you don&#039;t know who is writing or who is receiving. We will have gotten onto the same page so much that all days are beautiful, and you will know, come what may, that each day is a beautiful treasure We present to each other, and so it is written.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:36:11 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Little Miss Muffet</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;What happens when you become attached is that you tie things together in a particular inaccurate way. You may tie yourself up too tightly in how another conducts his life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When a great love comes into your life, you feel more worthy than you did before this great love came into view. By the same token, when a great love leaves your life, you feel less worthy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are not worth more nor are you worth less. Your worth is not dependent upon someone else&#039;s appraisals or preferences at any one given moment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is an error to think that your merit goes up or down according to how others choose to lead their lives. You feel you gain, and you feel you lose.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The sense of gain always carries with it the sense of loss.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some people you know mean more to you than others. Some of these people in your life are called husbands or wives or significant others or parents or children and so on. In a vast sense, who stands beside you is irrelevant. Where they stand is irrelevant. You are not a dance teacher who choreographs other dancers&#039; positions and roles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The dance of life is extemporaneous. Positions change at will. No one considers a dancer&#039;s steps as untenable. And yet you sometimes have considered others&#039; actions in their own dance as unforgivable. You may have been the Maypole they once danced around, and now they dance somewhere else. Nothing has happened. They are dancing in another scene, and now must you too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You don&#039;t condemn a dance partner for dancing with someone else or for choosing a dance that is not of your choosing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You cannot set the tempo for others&#039; hearts. Hearts have their own beats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No more are you the orchestra leader of hearts. No orchestra member is at fault for playing the instrument he plays. Each instrument is allowed to sing as it sings, and a string instrument is not faulted for being a violin instead of a cello, nor is a string instrument faulted for not being a drum.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yet when it comes to people, you sometimes have certain expectations that they sing the song you wish, and sing as long as you say. You become distraught when a ukulele is a ukulele. You expected too much. You demanded too much. You may have thought a ukulele was a violin. You expected and demanded what a simple instrument could not give, and you fault the instrument for being what it is. It doesn&#039;t make sense, does it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And yet you would insist that people be all you want when you want when they are only simple instruments that cannot always play the song you want. You dreamed they played it once, yet it was your own heartbeat you heard. Perhaps they were once able to play your favorite song, and now they have lost their touch, or perhaps they have lost their will.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whose will should someone follow, beloveds, yours or his own?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What do you make of other people who would tell you what you must do and be and when and where? You might call them martinets. You are appalled at the idea that there are those who would be so bossy. You dismiss them from your list. And yet, you, when you demand that a loved one continue to love you, or that anyone dance to your bidding, what are you but a martinet?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have no right to tell another heart what it must feel and what it must do. You have no right to obligate another&#039;s heart. I well know that the world tells you that you do have every right. The world may even tell you that you have been wronged.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That you have been disappointed is fact. You would not be weeping now if you were not disappointed. Get up from your disappointment, beloveds. You have no business sitting here like Little Miss Muffet on her tuffet eating her curds and whey. Get up now. Let Me wipe your tears. Go to your fridge and find some sweet cream, and then rejoice in life and never mind what you think someone should have done. Come dance with Me now.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:04:46 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Let the Bells of Freedom Ring</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Letting go is of the paramount importance. I would say it is to be your theme for the upcoming months. Why would anyone hang on to anxiety? Why would anyone set themselves up for heartbreak? Your insistence that something has to be the way you want and not another way is a great source of heartbreak. As much as you don&#039;t like to think so, that makes you the source of your own heartache. I do not say you are the cause, for there is no cause, beloveds, except that you fervently believe something has to play out the way you perceive it should. When it plays out without deference to your beliefs, you are appalled.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beloveds, I do want you to live happily ever after. I do want you to be happy this moment. I don&#039;t want you to feel wounded. When you do feel hurt and bereft, rather than your begging Me to change other minds and hearts to suit you, I would suggest you ask Me to help you let go of your hurt. Just don&#039;t honor it anymore. So that you will not be aggrieved, let go of your perceived need of it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When you were a child, it may have been the end of the world for you when you didn&#039;t receive the red fire truck you so wanted, even worse when it was given to you and then it was lost or stolen or somehow damaged beyond recognition. What you felt then, you re-experience and feel now. Only now your grief isn&#039;t over a toy or even a real object.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What you have done, beloveds, is turn people into objects. You see one or more loved ones as occupying certain places in your life. You see they must stay there, the same way your red fire truck was supposed to stay yours as it was, the same way you see beloveds as having to be yours, having to stay in one place and not move in any direction that you do not ordain ahead of time. Yet it is no secret to you, beloveds, that no one is to be your pawn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Beloveds, do not think that I belittle what means so much to you. I know the depth of your heartache and what you think you have lost. I know what your holding on to an idea costs you. It costs you peace. It costs you comfort. It costs you your sense of well-being. Your entrenched ideas steal joy from you and substitute grief in its place. You have had the entrenched idea that something must remain as it is, that if it leaves, its leaving is unallowed. I do not uphold your holding on. I do not uphold your holding on so tightly. I do not uphold your holding on to the degree that anyone&#039;s departure derails your heart from the track of joy and love it is meant to be on. Do you understand Me better now?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let everyone and everything good be free to come to you. Let everyone and everything good be free to go on its merry way. I ask you to give up pain and suffering, beloveds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Loved ones leave. Whether through their own choice or their leaving the Earth plane, loved ones leave. Be gracious. Allow those you love to be their own free-wheeling selves to follow their own destiny. You cannot hold them to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The name of the game of life in the world is change, beloveds. The change now for you is to give freedom a blessing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let freedom ring. Let loved ones be free to stay and free to leave according to their hearts and their destiny. You are to keep no prisoners. Regardless of how the world may see it, no one has done anything to you. You are not less because someone left you. You have great opportunity to be more.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Whatever you are afraid of, there is no need for you to fear it. That you are afraid of your own shadow is very true. When there is no death beyond the body, what is there to fear? When there is no loss, what is there to fear losing? When you don&#039;t own anything, what can you lose? Paths cross back and forth. Because a path is temporarily out of your sight does not mean the path is lost. What you perceive as loss is merely a dip in the road.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is nothing for you to lose. And, if there were, you can&#039;t lose it. You can&#039;t lose what exists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may say, &quot;Well, I can lose opportunity.&quot; In terms of the world, that is so. And it is also only in terms of the world that there can be any loss at all. I realize that you live by the terms of the world you live in, and so you experience loss and regret and all kinds of anguish.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Picture yourself striding across the Universe. You see many sights along the way. The sights still exist even when you have gone past them and they are no longer before your eyes. They are still there, just not right in front of you. You have moved along.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In terms of the world, a love can be over. It can even turn into hard feelings. In My terms, love cannot be over, and it can&#039;t be turned into anything else. Love is love and exists whether it is pasted onto any particular individual or not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You do have love. Love is what you do have, beloveds. Love is yours. The object of your love is not yours. Love your loved ones with all your might, and release them from your possession. Along with possession comes control. And it is your sense of need of control that ties you up in knots. Beloveds, you cannot keep your finger on every pie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even when you are a great pianist and people pay to come see you, you take your fingers off the keys. You take them off quickly. To make beautiful music in life, it is the same. You have to take your fingers off the keys of life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the same way you free whales, now you free love and life. Let life and love adhere to themselves and not be obliged to conform to your ideas. Your ideas are controvertible. Love is much more powerful than your ideas, which change often and yet need to change altogether.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, forget your ideas. Forget your old beliefs. You have had many things backwards. Admit to yourself that you do not know all you have liked to think you know. You do not need to hold on to past thoughts. Why have the idea that you have to know everything when you certainly don&#039;t. Let go of the stands you take. They get in the way of your evolution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes life won&#039;t be the way you want. Sometimes you may have to do what you must do and not what you sincerely want to do. Move on in life, beloveds. You can&#039;t move on and still cling to old ideas. If you are entrenched in your ideas and your appraisals, then you don&#039;t get out of them, and you stay where you are.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may have to let go of what you think is right and what you think is wrong. Confess, you don&#039;t always know what is best for you and for others. Open yourself to new ways of looking at the world and at yourself. Open your heart and mind. Be your own hero, beloveds, and do what comes next and spare yourself from your old thinking.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:51:18 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;If there were no attachment, there would not be suffering. If you could take even death of beloved ones in your stride, where would attachment live? Because of Human attachment, you think something terrible has happened when a loved one dies. You mourn the whole concept of death of the body, as if the existence of the body were everything. I know that death of the body is big for you. I know that suffering is big for you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attachment is not the same as love, beloveds. Love transcends attachment. Love does not possess. Attachment is attachment. You have thought to yourself many times: &quot;I cannot live without this person.&quot; That is attachment, beloveds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Attachment makes your loved ones some kind of property, like a treasured gold coin that is your lucky piece. How could you go on without it? Of course, the gold coin is only representative of your good fortune. It is like a placebo. And so it is with your beloveds. You think they are necessary to you. You think they are the cause of your happiness, and in death or in leaving in any manner, they are the cause of your unhappiness. You put too much at stake upon their existence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, yes, of course, your loved ones are important, and they are important to you. Their being important to you isn&#039;t exactly the same as your being dependent on them. Your dependence is a thought you have attached yourself to. It is like luggage you carry. You attached a leash to a suitcase. You attach a chain to a loved one, a golden chain but a chain nevertheless.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your life is dependent upon you, and your life is dependent upon Me. It is not dependent upon anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and love for all you are worth, and be not attached. Attachment says there is something you HAVE to have. It seems brutal to you to say that you don&#039;t have to have your mother or father or husband or wife or son or daughter, yet that is the case. Love is not bounded. Love is not a lasso. Love exists on another plane. Deep inside, you really know that. Deep inside, you know that love is more than worldly. Deep down, you know that love is much more than ownership.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Being connected to a loved one is not the same as being attached. Two souls meet, and if souls had eyes, I would say that their eyes lit up in recognition. The souls lit up in recognition of the blessing each would bestow upon the other. With love, there is no list of demands. Love exacts no requirements. Love does not become attached. Love lets go. Love removes all the cages from the heart of man and the heart of woman. Love removes cages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The one you love is not to be put in a cage. Your love is to free him. And if your loved one flies away to another country or to another dimension, you give your loved one the gift of freedom. Free as a bird, your loved one flies away to his destiny. Bid him adieu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You send your child off to school, and you blow kisses. And if your child should leave the planet Earth, then it is for you to blow kisses the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can love without attachment, beloveds. When you are without attachment, you will not have losses. Life on Earth will not hit you over the head. You will not have blows in life. There will be goodbyes, but not blows. There will be love extending beyond all borders.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:40:55 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Referring to the Heavenletter right before this one, I do not mean to say to always follow your whim. I am saying to follow your heart. Your heart is a good rudder. But in no way do I wish to imply that you do only what you feel like doing when you feel like doing it. You may not feel like going to work or school. You may not feel like getting out of bed. That doesn&#039;t mean you always wait until you feel like it. Please tell Me I have clarified the difference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are not always obligated to follow the dicta of the world, nor are you always obligated to follow your whims. There is a fulcrum between being responsible and doing what the world expects of you. So, beloveds, I say that you do not have to be an upright citizen all the time. You do not need to be a paragon of the world&#039;s virtue all the time. So, go ahead and follow your whims on occasion. Do not be hard on yourself. It&#039;s only life we&#039;re talking about, dear ones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are not really talking about how you appear to the world and what the world would make of you. You don&#039;t have to go against the world either. You follow a bigger star than whim. The light you follow does not have to be the world&#039;s. World reason isn&#039;t to come before your own. The edicts of the world aren&#039;t meant to count more than you. Whims may be of the world, beloveds. If the world showed you an advertisement for something, and you want it, it likely is the world&#039;s whim you are listening to. If you had never heard of whatever it is, you wouldn&#039;t want it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I understand it is not always easy to know what your heart is really saying and what is whim and what is an argument of the world seemingly at stake. It is not always easy to know. You have been doing the best you can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In terms of the world, you won&#039;t be right all the time. You won&#039;t be wrong all the time either. So we come back to there is no right, and there is no wrong. There is life, beloved, bare-faced and in disguise, and so you do the best you can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What you can always know is that you are My child, and We are bonded and unbounded in love. We are a wonderful mix. We are the M&amp;amp;M&#039;s of the world, and yet We are Oneness Supreme. There is nothing that We are not, and We always are Oneness of Love. We are united in the world, and We are united in Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You don&#039;t have to understand all I am saying, but you can know I am saying something wonderful. I am saying I love you, and you are saying:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;I love too. Despite how it may appear, I love the world too, and I love You, God, Who are the deepest part of myself. You are My Self.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh, how beautiful it is to travel with You, dear God. How beautiful to be in this Assemblage of One. How beautiful to be in the world with You as My Star and in Your Image as you so lovingly crafted me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;From now on, I swear off of suffering and bewilderment. From now I don&#039;t care so much how things seem. I care that We are One, and I am blessed and I am grateful to ride along with You on this ship called life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:38:33 -0400</pubDate>
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