God's response to how two good people can see so differently
Gloria to God:
Dear God, I am so embroiled with ego. Today X sent me her opinion of an answer from You to her personal question, and she seemed to know more than You. I can hardly stand it. I tried to not write back to her, but I did a little. Why oh why did I do it? Do I have to have the last word? I am so over-extended, and so over-involved. I have so much to do and still I spend time on emails that, time and time again, are wasted. Why can’t I just let go of my emotional impulse to explain. Why can’t I just drop it.
God:
You still have to defend. Whether it is yourself or Me or someone else that you defend, you have your sword drawn, ready to cut off someone’s head! I exaggerate to get your attention, Gloria. The point is that when you defend, you are striking out at someone. When it rains, you don’t feel you have to pull out your sword in order to stop the rain. Maybe you pull out an umbrella to keep the rain off.
Let’s put a little beautiful umbrella at the entrance to your heart so you are not so affected by what appears to you as ignorance. It may very well be ignorance, yet that isn’t the point. The point is that it is unlikely that you are going to change anyone’s mind unless he is open to having his mind changed. Probably the person who went into detail disagreeing with Me or you or anyone wants to change YOUR mind. My dear Gloria, does everyone’s match have to light your stove?
You have so well let go of 95% or so o f your physical possessions, can you not let go of educating others who do not want to be educated? When will you leave more to Me? No one has to agree with Me. Why does everyone have to see eye to eye with you?
Gloria: Only because I get rankled.
God:
And that is just what We are working on. Do you choose someone else’s thought or Mine? If you choose Mine, why devote energy and heart to others’ thoughts? Are you making their thoughts more important than Mine? Why go to the errant thoughts of others and try to delete them? Keep My thoughts. Drop theirs. Let them not understand. They are still My children.
Yes, you don’t have to respond to everyone. You do not have to correct anyone. You do not have to engage with anyone or everyone. If I gave you a dollar and asked you to spend it carefully, would you spend it on things you don’t want? Why, then, do you spend the energy I have given you on what you don’t want? You just perpetuate the whole disagreement. So my real and final question to you is not what makes you have to be right, but why do you have to debate the rightness? Often no answer is the best answer.
Yet I do not like the idea of your simply restraining yourself. I truly want you to let go of the whole thing from start to finish. Stop pouring out so much of yourself. Don’t answer all emails. And don’t get into differences of opinion.
Become a little ignorant yourself. If someone knows better than you or Me, let them. It is not your concern.
If I ask you to spend one day without answering even one email, even the most wonderful positive ones, can you do it? If I asked you not to even read one email that comes to in a day, can you do it?
Gloria: It would be very hard if I am at the computer.
Comments
Thank you, God and Gloria, for this reminder. It reminds me of one occasion when I wrote to a highly spiritual lady, whose opinion I appreciate very much, and I complained about my situation and said other negative things. Well, her answer was: I took note of your distress and your opinions. Period.
I felt truly disappointed and even angry, because she didn't comment in any way. Only later did I realize that had she commented my words, she would only have confirmed my negativity, giving it energy. As difficult as it was to accept it, I now know that she was right. This way, my negativity was returned back to me, and I learned - at least to some extent - to let it go.
Welllll Ok, so I won't expect emails. I might just have to go over to your place and help you with something instead...
Dianita, you do know that this was not in any sense about you. If you should ask God a question and then point out to me how He was mistaken, then you would know because now I won't say a word to you.
You are welcome to come over any time and not even have to help with anything, just be here and be fun.
Hi Gloria, Oh yes God is alays right. I had some arguments with God years ago and in the end I had to swy I can never win an argument with you. A good friend of mne, tells me off about someething I believe and experienced and tells me it is all bungcum, Fine I agree we disagree and still be friends. I sometimes disagree with others but let them be why argue it is a waste of energy. Sometime someone on thee Radio or T. V. says something that to me sounds like blasphmy, well let them I ask God to help them and if the do not want Gods help Also fine. In the end all will be going home anyway as God so manny times tells us so Dear Gloria, be loving and helpfull as an Angel which you are Love Jack
Dearest Gloria,
I love and appreciate EVERYTHING you do for this Sacred Work. I just want you to listen to God and please TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! I wish I lived close to you so that I could possibly help you...
Namaste,
Nancy
Where do you live, Nancy!!!
I live in North Carolina where the clouds are consistently heaven sent.
Namaste,
Nancy Ciasulli
Oh, Gloria I love this! "does everyone's match have to light your stove?"
God, and Heavenletters has done so much for you and many of us, that when someone asks for help, and then questions the answer (when it comes from God),our first instinct is to have a knee jerk reaction. How dare they question an answer from God?
It reminded me of a conversation I had last week with one of our contractors, who I asked to go back to the job and take a look at what was wrong, and correct the problem. He then asked me exactly what was wrong. As soon as I began to explain, he interrupted me to give "his" perspective. So, I stopped him and said "if you know what to correct, why did you ask me, and if you don't, why not let me finish, so that you will."
He was so intent on giving me his perspective, that even though he asked a question, could not let me answer it.
Who knows, maybe this person (who wrote the question to God) already knows the answer, but didn't want to believe it. Now they need to let it percolate through them, until it becomes part of their reality.
And if they don't, well, we do have free will after all on this planet earth.
In light,
Lynda