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Where Emotions Come From
You feel emotions with your body. A trauma is a blow. You are laid low. You have the wind knocked out of your sails. You are red hot with anger, or your anger seethes, or you are blinded by it. You are giddy with joy and electrified with excitement. Laughter expands your ribs, and joy expands your heart. You feel thrills and chills. You feel emotions physically, and you already know which ones encourage health.
God's Golden Child
You are such a Golden Child of Mine that it is My desire that you always be honored, made welcome, treated well, treated most graciously, and be given the respect and regard that a Divine Child of Mine is entitled to and must have. There is something in you that must have respect and regard from others. It is unnatural not to have it. Something is off. It doesn't feel right. It is hard to take.
One Petal from a Tree
How beautiful is one petal from a tree! How beautiful is one tree. How beautiful is one Human Being. Oh, the beauty! A Human Being is a delightful sight. Think a moment of what it is to have a Human Being before you. It is like having the Kohinoor diamond. The only thing is that when you have the diamond in front of you, alas, you are often in ignorance of the value. That must be what purgatory is, beloveds — to have a treasure and not know its true value. Imagine thinking that a diamond is a bauble! Imagine thinking that the Kohinoor diamond is glass!
When the Walls Come Tumbling Down
One day of all-around good nature will do the trick. The world will settle down. To say the world will settle down is another way to say it will rise. It will rise high simply because no one that day took offense. No offense given and no offense taken.
Someone might say the wrong thing, might look at you askance, might break your favorite china cup, and you won't be crushed. You will keep singing your good-natured song. Why not? Why should an error take away your good spirits? Why on earth should anything take away your God-given good nature?

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I cannot tell you how much Heavenletters mean to me. Some days I could cry for the beauty of the words -- other days I laugh out loud -- and yet others I gasp with realization when I read them. The greatest gift these Heavenletters bring, I think, is the emotional responses we have - emotion ... e-motion ... energy in motion. They get us moving!