You are, My wonderful one. In more ways than you could know. For everything that you see
is a reflection of you. And if the mirrors of life show you distortions, it is a reflection of your
distorted thoughts about you.
That gets me back to where I was before we got off on this tangent.
There are no tangents, My son, only different routes to the same destination.
I was asking you how I can have a friendship with myself. You said I can know God when I
know my own soul; that I can have a friendship with God when I have a friendship with
myself. And
I asked You how I can do that. I thought I had a friendship with myself already.
Some people do, some people don’t. For some people, at best what they have is a truce.
Maybe what You said about a large ego being a sign that I do not like myself is true. I’m
going to think about that.
It’s not that people don’t like themselves completely. It’s just that there’s a part of themselves
they don’t like, and so the ego compensates by trying to get other people to like them. Of
course, they don’t show the part of themselves they don’t like to others until this growing
intimacy of a relationship makes it impossible not to. When they finally do, and when the
other person acts surprised, and maybe even negatively, then they can assure themselves
that they were right about this aspect of themselves being unlikable—and the whole circle
continues.
It’s a very complex process, and you move through it every day.
You should have been a psychologist.
I invented psychology.
I know. I was just kidding.
I know. You see, “kidding” is a thing people do when they— You’re right. Enough. I was just
kidding.
You make me laugh, You know that?
I make you laugh? You make Me laugh.
That’s what I like, a God with a sense of humor.
Laughter is good for the soul.