It is not your fault that you did not use God. How can you use that which you do not hold?
It is not your fault that you did not help God. How can you be helpful with that for which you
have no use?
And it is not your fault that you did not thank God. How can you be thankful for that which
cannot be helped?
Yet today is a new day. Now is a new time. And yours is a new choice. It is a choice to create
anew your personal relationship with Me. It is a choice to experience, at last, a friendship with
God.
Everybody in the world wants that. Everybody who believes in God, anyway. We’ve tried our
whole lives to have a friendship with You. We’ve tried to please You, to not offend You, to
find the real You, to have You find us—we ye tried everything. But we haven’t followed these
Seven Steps. At least, I certainly haven’t. Not the way You’ve got them laid them out here.
So, thank You. But may I ask You a pointed question?
Certainly.
Why is gratitude necessary? Why is it so important that we thank You? Why is it one of the
Seven Steps? Are You a God with such ego needs that if we do not show You our gratitude,
You will take away all good things?
On the contrary, I am a God of such love that by showing your gratitude, you will receive all
good things.
That sounds like a backward way of saying the same thing. I have to show my gratitude in
order to receive good things.
You do not have to, it is not a requirement. Many people who seem not the least bit grateful
enjoy goodness.
Okay, then I am totally confused.
Gratitude is not something I require. It is not an ego salve, a greaser of the skids, an oiler of
the wheels. It does not make God more likely to be good to you next time. Life sends you
good things whether you are grateful or not. But with gratitude, life sends them to you faster.
That is because gratitude is a state of being.
Remember when I said, “Thinking is the slowest method of creation”?
Yes. I was very surprised by that.
You shouldn’t be. You perform all of your body’s most important functions without thinking
about it. You don’t think about blinking an eye, or taking a breath, or beating your heart. You
don’t think about perspiring, or saying “ouch.” These things just happen, because you are a
human being. That is, a human, comma, being.
Yes, I remember. You said earlier that some life functions and experiences are created
automatically, without any effort, at the level of experience called subconscious. Is this where
we create most effectively?