Why do we have to reach out to you before you reach out to us? If you really are an all-knowing
God, then you must know when we need help. If you really are an all-merciful
God, then you must be willing to offer that help – without our asking. If we are already on our knees, bent over in
utter defeat, why must we grovel even more and plead with you to rescue us? If
you are an all-loving God, why don’t you love us enough to help us without us
having to beg you?
And while we’re at it, what do you say to those who would
tell you, “I have called out to you,
and you have not been there! Do you think I have not asked for God’s help? For
God sake, why do you think I’m so desperate! I’m so desperate because it seems
like God has let me down! I’m utterly deserted here. And I want none of it
anymore. I’m done. Finished. Through.”
What do you say to that
person, huh?
I
say...
I want
you to consider now the possibility of a miracle. There is a reason why you
have not experienced receiving a solution from me, but that reason is not
important in this moment. What is important in this moment is for you to
consider the possibility that now, right now in front of you, there is an
answer. Open your eyes and you will see it. Open your mind and you will know
it. Open your heart and you will feel that it is there.
I
say...
Only if
you call out to me in absolute knowing will you be aware that your answer has
been given you. Because it is what YOU know, what YOU feel, and what YOU
declare that will be true in your experience. If you call out to me in
hopelessness, I will be there, but your despair may blind you, and block you
from seeing me.
I
say...
Nothing
you have done is so horrible, nothing you have had happen to you is so beyond
repair, that it cannot be healed. I can and shall make you whole again.
Yet you
must stop judging yourself. The one making the strongest judgment is you.
Others may judge you from the outside looking in, but they do not know you,
they do not see you, and so their judgments are not valid. Do not make them valid by taking them on as
your own. They have no meaning.
Do not
wait for others to see you as you really are, for they see you through the eyes
of their own pain. Know, instead, that I
see you now, in wonder and in truth, and that what I see of you is Perfect.
As I look upon you I have but one thought: “This is my beloved, in whom I am
well pleased.”
I
say...
Forgiveness
is not necessary in the Kingdom of God. God cannot be offended or damaged in
any way. There is only one question of importance in the entire universe, and
it has nothing to do with your guilt or innocence. It has to do with your
identity. Do you know who you really are? When you do, all thoughts of
loneliness disappear; all ideas of unworthiness evaporate, all contemplations of
hopelessness transmute into the wondrous awareness of the miracle that is your
life. And of the miracle that is you.
And
finally, my beloved, I say...
You are
surrounded in this very moment by a hundred thousand angels. Accept, now, their
ministrations. And then, pass their gifts on to others. For it is in giving
that you shall receive, and it is in healing that you shall be healed. The
miracle for which you have been waiting has been waiting for you. You will know
this when you become the miracle that another
awaits.
Go
then and perform your miracles, and allow your death to be the moment of your
greatest glory, not an announcement of your greatest sorrow. Use death as a
tool with which to create, not with which to destroy, with which to move
forward, not with which to go back. In this choice will you have honoured Life
Itself, and allowed Life to bring you your own grandest dream, even while you
are living with your physical body: peace within your soul at last.
