3-63. Like a pendulum, life can swing to and fro, seemingly without reason at times. There is a balance. This balance is God. Release into divine guidance whenever you are unsure which way to turn.
Ah, waywardness. In what direction should you turn? What is the best or most appropriate next step? What is it that you are to do, how are you to perform such work, and what will be the outcome? All of these questions are, oftentimes, meaningless. The ebb and flow of life can appear random, and indeed it often is. But the final direction is certain - to release your so deeply cherished beliefs in all that is unreal, so that all that is of God and of Love can be Remembered, never to be set aside again in favor of all that the ego offers - all of the pain, the loss and the fear of an existence that seems so devoid of overarching meaning, a life lived in shadows and darkness, a pointless existence that has no value or definition. All of this is but the subliminally accepted programming of the ego, manifest in thought patterns that are often so rote and unconsidered that they are considered to be “normal”, when they are anything but. The rhythmic intensity of life should never be used as a justification to dissuade you from the pursuit of Truth, for all that is of materiality is not at all consequential for the Path of Light that is your final journey Home to God. It is not necessary to assign meaning to all that occurs, for the absence of acceptance in the face of chaos serves nothing other than your ego’s ultimately futile attempts to propose why it might be that the exact manner in which the events of this world play out must be representative of an error within the Plan of God for the Salvation and Unification of all of the Children of God, joining again in song for and in praise of their eternal and infinitely beneficent Creator. God is the literal, proverbial, metaphysical and rationally unexpoundable definition of balance, converting all that is chaotic into all that can be opportunities for learning and growth. All that is Given unto God is Given unto you as well. As such, when you offer Trust in God, you learn - albeit slowly for so very many - to trust yourself as well. For there can be no definition or description of the world of form that is accurate that excludes God from any and every interaction, for wherever it is that your heart travels, you are still wholly within the Kingdom of God. That is a concept that flies in the face of the ego, for the ego is absolutely determined to carve out some niche of Creation that is absent the Love of God, thereby overthrowing God, and then casting God out of the Majesty of Creation, and finally surplanting God with fear, a proposition and a goal that is laughably meaningless and profoundly pointless. Yet the ego will not falter in its unobtainable quest, for the ego must have a justification for its continuation, and what use would you have for an ego that was absolutely incapable of being correct about anything at all? Ask for the Guidance that you seek, whenever you are beset or bewildered by a challenge that seems unanswerable, and have faith that you will be provided with exactly the information you need. But be made aware by your own understanding of the mysteries of God that the knowledge that you request may not be presented in a manner or after a fashion that is readily intelligible, at least without some amount of practice in the interpretation of the Voice of God, for God is not at all inclined to substitute the Will of God for your own. Simply because you are being provided with the Guidance that will clearly, easily and consistently allow you to elect the decisions that are always the most appropriate for you, do not entreat God to make the final choice for you. That is an attempt to subjugate your Free Will to God, and that will not do. To move forward effectively within a schema of Creation that is wholly based upon a directive of co-creativity with God, you must accept that you are responsible for your choices. God will not magically shield you from the consequences of elections made that are clearly incorrect, inapplicable to the situation at hand or that are out of alignment with the Truth of your heart. That is not the Way of God, and that is not a part of the Path of Light that you seek to locate and travel upon. Divine Guidance is often subtle, not because it is not ever sufficiently clear and measured in its presentation, but because you have likely not spent a great deal of time in your life surrendering to the Will of God. And why would you have? What is it about this world or the illusions of the ego that dictate that the correct answer to a problem is to surrender and allow yourself to be Guided as is most appropriate for you? Is that the application of Free Will as God knows it is best utilized? Yes, indeed it is, for that is the point at which your Will becomes Unified with the Will of God, and you are able to progress with certainty and restfulness, while still retaining all of your individual power to elect what is best for you. Guidance offered need not be guidance accepted, for God will not seek to transform you into an automaton of Divinity, unwilling or rendered incapable of freely granted elections, mechanistically controlled and directed as a puppet of Creation, rather than as the co-creator of all that is yet to unfold that you are and must continue to be, endlessly. To surrender unto God, when you find yourself to be presented with the requirement for a decision that is not readily apparent, or one that is challenging, is not at all the same as surrendering your own Free Will, for one is to work with God in a cooperative relationship that is very much accurately reflective of the impetus for the creation of Divine Guidance, and the other is an abject abrogation of all responsibility, replacing it with apathy and ennui. What is it that a genuine co-creator of God would elect? Clearly there can be only one choice that is appropriate, and only one decision that is deserving of the Love of God. To be Guided is not at all to be controlled. To be out of control is merely to allow your ego to take over the direction of your life, proceeding on ego-autopilot as it were, allowing reactivity and subjective malice towards others and yourself to be the primary motivational mechanism of all subsequent decisions. That is neither healthy nor respectful of yourself or others, for when you behave as such, you are reckless with your own heart and inconsiderate of the hearts of others. Inversely, be cognizant that congeniality is not all that is cracked up to be. To be polite while still containing within yourself resentment or unresolved expressions of displeasure serves no one, for unto those that would harm or belittle you, appropriate amounts of reprisal and rebuttal are most appropriate indeed. In the same vein, when you step very far away from your own heart, be not surprised if the universe begins to conspire to redirect you as is appropriate, including aligning you with situations that are unpleasant or disdainful to varying degrees of severity. That too is the Guidance of God, but in an inverse form - one not always requested consciously, but rather desperately announced by a heart that is witnessing the rapid disjunction of your mind away from anything at all that could possibly represent a Path that is appropriate or useful in any way at all. The Guidance of God must be requested before it will be presented, but there are a great many ways to call upon God, and there are a much vaster subset of possible responses that will be employed, may of which will appear to be subtle and difficult to understand. Practice will allow for much more rapid and effective elucidation upon the actual Guidance that is offered, shortcutting vast swaths of time and massively increasing your patience, both with yourself specifically and with this world of form, generally. To release the ego and trust your heart is one of the bravest and most beautifully courageous choices that any Child of God can make. Do not doubt the infinite power that can be accessed when Trust in God and Faith in Love become your guiding principles, for through their Light, all that is hidden will be brought to the forefront of your awareness, dispelling all darkness and building ever higher a structure of certainty in God and trust in yourself which will repel all further inclusions and impositions by the madness of the ego and its fervent desire to injure you through fear, the power of which is given by you to the ego - never the reverse.