My son, I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given wonderful words to write,
who have never written them. I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given
wonderful songs to sing, who have never sung them. Do you want the list of people to whom
I have given gifts, who have never used them?
You have used the gifts I have given you, and if that isn’t something to be thrilled about, I
don’t know what is.
You have a way of making people feel good about themselves, just when they’re tempted to
start feeling bad.
Only with those who listen, My friend. Only with those who listen. You’d be amazed at how
many people are in the I-am-not-to-feel-good-about-myself trap, or the nocred it-is-to-come-
to-me belief system.
The trick is not to do what you do for acknowledgment, but rather, as an expression of Who
You Are. Yet, to be acknowledged for Who You Are does not make you less of that, but only
makes you want to experience more of it.
The true Master knows this, which is why the true Master acknowledges everyone for Who
They Really Are, and encourages others to acknowledge themselves as well, and never to
deny, in the name of modesty, the most magnificent aspects of the Self.
Jesus announced himself and declared himself unequivocally to all who could hear. So, too,
has every Master who has walked your planet.
Therefore, announce yourself. Declare yourself. Then move fully into the beingness of that
which you have declared.
Re-create your Self anew in every moment of Now in the grandest version of the greatest
vision ever you held about Who You Are. In this will I be glorified, for the glory of God is the
glory of you, expressed wondrously indeed.
Do you know what I like about You? You give people permission to feel the feelings they’ve
always wanted to feel. You give people back to themselves.
That’s what friends are for.
How could people not feel optimistic—about themselves and about the world—with someone
like You around?
You’d be surprised.
Well, I’ve always been optimistic, even before I knew You as I know You now. Even when I
thought that God was an angry, punishing God, it still seemed like He was on my side. I grew
up thinking that, because I was taught that. After all, I was both Catholic and American. Who
could beat that? We were told as children that the Catholic Church was the one true church.
We were also told that God looked with special favor on the United States of America. We
even stamped “In God We Trust” on our coins, and in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag we
declared ourselves to be”... one nation, under God. ..“
I considered myself very lucky—being born into the best faith, in the best country. How could
anything I do go wrong?