And I will say it to you over and over again, so long as you keep trying to make me into a God
who needs something from you.
I tell you this: I need nothing from you. Do you imagine Me to be such an impotent God that I
would need something from you and not be able to get it? Do you think there is something
that I want to have happen, but that I just don’t know how to make it happen?
If I needed you to go to Seattle, do you think I’d be wholly unable to get you to do that?
It is not like that. It is like this. You tell Me where you seek to go, and I tell you how to get
there.
Humans have been telling God for thousands of years what kind of life they’d like to have.
You’ve declared to Me, and to each other, that you wish to live long lives of peace, harmony,
health, and abundance. I, in turn, have been telling you for thousands of years how you can
do that.
I am telling you once again, here. Therefore, let those who have ears to hear, listen.
Yes, but as I said, sometimes people don’t want to hear that. Some people have not liked the
parts of our dialogue when You’ve gotten political, or controversial on social issues. And it
isn’t just God we don’t want to hear from. I learned that when I was in the media. I had to
tone down a lot of my own opinions when I got on the radio. Larry LaRue was the first of
many bosses to tell me that.
I worked for Larry for about eight months, and then I got another break. Though today, I
wouldn’t call such an event a break,” because today I know that there is no such thing as
“luck,” and that life proceeds out of your intentions for it.
That is good. That is important. It is vital, if you’re going to have a friendship with God—a
real, working friendship—for you to understand how God works.
People are forever calling the good outcomes in life breaks, luck, coincidence, serendipity,
fate, or whatever. The bad outcomes—the hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, sudden
deaths—they call “acts of God.”
No wonder you had this idea that you have to be afraid of Me. Your whole culture supports
the idea. It is reflected in everything you say, and how you say it. It is everywhere in your
language.
Now I will tell you that what you call the good things that happen to you are also acts of God.
No two people meet by chance, and nothing occurs by accident.
Do you imagine that Larry was sitting there—just the right person, at just the right time, with
just the right attitude—by a stroke of luck?
Consider the possibility that you and Larry did not meet by chance at that time, on that date,
but that, like a supporting player standing in the wings waiting for his cue, he marched on
stage, said his lines, and made his exit. And the play, your play, went on, just as it always
goes on—just as it is going on right now, with you writing the script through your every
thought about tomorrow. With you directing the scenes with your every verbal command.
With you acting them out with your every deed.