3-13. Measure nothing by what this world holds dear. It is not even a shadow of Truth. Look again with your heart and you will Know you are Loved.
Absolutely everything that this world will hold out to you as precious, valuable and important in any manner at all has never been and will never be. All that is of this world of form, this materialistic set of accoutrements that can accompany you but for such a short period of time, when regarded from the perspective of All That Is, are but pieces of iron most expertly gilded in silver and gold. They are not of any genuine value, for all of them must eventually disintegrate and degrade into the base materials from which they were formed. What is there to revere within all that is temporary? Are you temporary? Are you a minor player in a cosmos so seemingly inattentive to you that you can perish while the world carries on, wholly unconcerned with the cessation of your apparently fragmentary existence? Do you want to be so unregarded, so ignored by the fates and so apparently irrelevant that your passing does not merit so much as a single wave upon the face of the Ocean of Love that is the Heart of God? If this is all that you wish to believe of yourself, then accept that as your destiny and lay down, Child of God, for this material universe is not a place that is possessed of the ability to be genuinely concerned with what does or does not occur within the structure of your personal experience of its continuum. That you might hold certain physical possessions dear is not relevant to their actual value. They are not genuinely valuable, for all that you need and all that you can truly love is not of this world of form. Can you hold a hug in your hands? Can you carry the preciousness of a child’s genuine affection and love for you within a satchel that you string across your back, to carry with you long after they have left your care to become the adult that they were always going to be? Can you covet a passion of your heart, or render it into form to be admired by others, demonstrating to them the importance of that which infused your soul with purpose so that they too can share in the joy that you knew when you manifested the highest becoming and Light that you could possibly be? What are you to take with you from this world, when your body fails and you must cast off the mortal coil, as we all will when our time comes for us all? What is this world but a tool to be used and then set down when its utility has sufficed? To see otherwise is to attempt to hold up illusions in the place of the Truth of Love. This world is not inherently valuable. It is neutral - a place of conjunctions and partings, arisings and subsidings, creation and destruction in an endlessly unfolding wave of alteration and transformation. This world is a place within which you can learn why your precious belief in separation was never of any value at all. Measure nothing of genuine importance by what this world will speak to you of, for this world does not yet know the Truth of Love. This world is in love with abundance and massive overconsumption purely for the purpose of presentation, ostentatious glomming on of more and more possessions, as if the only goal of material existence is to sit upon a tower of gold high enough to see beyond all of the other towers that others have so ruthlessly accumulated. Who wins in such a contest of greed? Nothing is gained and all is lost when the value of anything is measured in physical terminology. This is not the way of the heart. Your heart asks not for possessions but rather for experiences, ones that cannot be bought, earned, bargained for or stolen from others. To Experience the Peace of God requires first a genuine willingness to relinquish the peace of this world, which is eternally a cursory peace predicated upon the accumulation of wealth far more vast than any rational person could possibly claim to genuinely need. The Truth of Love is not and will not ever be accurately reflected within anything material, for it is far too vast and much too grand to be bound by material possessions. The values of this world are fully directed towards ever increasing amounts of wealth. Yet wealth of this sort is reflective of nothing at all, for all that is of this world can only decay and disintegrate back into the base structures that were employed to create the more complex arrangements you see before you now. This world is not possessed of Love in a manner at all reflective of your heart. Your heart knows this Truth, even if this world cannot as of yet abide with such a usurping of its tenacious hold on your attention. So, look again. Reflect upon that which gave you the greatest peace, joy and timeless certainty. With any measure of sanity at all, you will discover that it was always only Love that fulfilled and sustained you. It was not your “things” which pleased you but only the beliefs in your own worthiness that you felt reflected in your ability to possess any particular item that provided a temporary measure of value to your conception of yourself. Yet that was not you. You were not bound or defined by that which you acquired or anything at all that you lost along the way. You are not your body, nor are you that which you ruthlessly grasp, fearful of its disappearance and the desperation that may accompany what you might describe as a tragedy. You are Loved by God in infinite and perfect measure, always. Nothing that can be gained or lost can alter this Love. Nothing that can be judged as valuable or worthless by this world can affect or alter this Love. You need not hold to anything material at all any longer, for you can step beyond all physical limits at any time. You need only be willing to accept that the Love of God does not alter, dim or disappear simply because the circumstances of your life change. The Love of God is eternal, complete and perfect in every way. Nothing of this world can ever be as this. As such, look not upon this world with dismay when items are lost, or with joy when other accumulations of base atomic materials, no matter their utility or complexity, come under your jurisdiction and control for such a short while indeed. You need them not, for you are Love, and within Love, all that you desire to Experience can be had. You need only relinquish all desires to have or to not have to be free of the previously perverse possession that possessions can wreak upon a belabored soul. Let all of those judgments and reflections of value fall behind you, for nothing of this world can be correctly or appropriately used to evaluate your value to God, for you are Loved beyond all limits, and that is all that you have every genuinely needed.