5-11. All that God asks of you is already done. The time and space you believe you need exists only so that you can remember that because you were Created by Love, Love is who you are, now and forever.
What it is that you are asked by God to do is actually nothing at all. But to the ego, that is so hopelessly confusing and so seemingly contrived, being formulated from a basis upon which the ego cannot find any purchase at all, that the ego simply rejects such a simple conclusion out of hand and without any regard for what it might imply, for the ego cannot possibly be expected to understand what might occur after it is dissolved, and so it believes that no such cessation of its power over your mind will ever occur. How very incorrect it is indeed, but that is of no matter, regardless of the efforts that the ego will expend in a futile attempt to hold your attention to its beliefs, simply because all that the ego holds so close is nothing at all, and so it must be disintegrated and finally released, for there can be no other resolution of an error other than its recognition as a misperception, allowing it to be set aside in favor of what would be a more appropriate framework from which to regard All That Is. That you are asked to release illusions is without question. How exactly you will first embark upon such a journey of inwardly gazing recognition of all that never was Real at all is not quite so unquestionable, for there are many routes that can be explored and a great variety of methodologies that can be employed to begin to disassemble the errors of the ego, allowing for it to be separated in a piecemeal fashion so that with each section that is unbolted from the whole and held up to the Light of Love, its opacity is recognized and then surrendered, for each is not at all influential in isolation, yet when they are all regarded as a single assemblage of misperception, their import and effects can be potent indeed. What the ego is, in a beautifully simple explanation that does not capture the misperception that will ensue when it is accepted as a substitute for the Truth of your Unity with God, is but a belief in the necessity of separation, as evinced by the arising of a physical body that appears to be irredeemably disparate from other material manifestations of Creation. Such examples are held out as self-evident, simply because they are - at the lowest, least energetically potent and most stagnantly stale level of Creation - obviously and clearly separate from other aspects of Creation. That is not in question. You are not a tree, for if you were, it is unlikely that you’d have any ability to understand communication in the manner of humankind. Yet you are equally not isolated from treekind, as if you are occupying one type of material embodiment and they must be some other form that is irreconcilable with you on a level of experience and reality that transcends all that is physical. Recall that matter is but concentrated - or metaphorically - crystalized energy. There is a direct and inalterable relationship between amounts of matter and their corresponding energetic potentiality, in that they can be converted into pure energy through a relationship that is well established and that does not alter. So is it completely appropriate to describe you as a physical being, or alternatively as an energetic being who is temporarily experiencing what it might mean to be coalesced into a form that has a very high energy density, along with the corresponding stagnancy of materiality that must accompany the temporary assemblage of energy into physical form? Which is more directly descriptive of your final form - or lack thereof, if you accept that energy is the baseline from which all that is material is formed. Yet even that inquiry does not go far enough, for there are levels of Creation that have no bearing upon anything that is of the physical world, but it is illustrative of a line of thought that is beneficial for countermanding the rote supposition that simply because you occupy form, you must equally be restricted by its nature. You are not. Consciousness does not arise from the organizational patterns of the neurons that comprise your brain. The desire on your part to participate within the world of form has an influential effect that allows for your vast amounts of awareness to occupy a form that is fitting for their execution - never the opposite. Awareness Creates - matter reflects. This is so very simple indeed, but utterly inexplicable from the perspective that so dominates the world of form today, for there is an inherent presumption of the necessity of creation that flows from the origin of the material universe, which of course was initially in a state of near perfect homogeneity, into the arrangements of matter as we see them today, with places of high density and low entropy, all the way across the curve to locations with little matter at all and very little energy that can be employed to perform any action at all. Where do you sit on this spectrum of the manifestational patterns of the physical world? Certainly towards the side of organization and energetic transformation. But is that all that you are? If that were to be true, what of Love? What is Love, if there is but the molecular structure of your body and all of its corresponding processes? Certainly no one who has experienced love in anything more than the most tangential fashion would argue that physical existence is all that there is to life, for there is a feeling of completion and a certain ephemeral peace that accompanies the heart-based sensation of love that so clearly transcends all that is material that only the most hardened cynics and shameless liars could claim that it affects them not at all. In between is the vast majority of humanity, touching upon the sanctity and surety of love in many forms but often not understanding to wit what it is that they remember so very well, even if those recollections are dim and infrequently trusted to be what they actually are - evidence of the Love of God, experienced in partiality but equally serving as landmarks upon a journey back to the Unity of Truth that is All That Is. What are you asked to leave behind? Solely all that was never anything more than a dream of separation that has had no effect at all. Are you to lose in this process? Are you to be stripped of anything at all that is of value, so that you must sacrifice to be granted access to the Kingdom of God? Not at all - not now and not ever. All that is of loss is of the ego. All that is of Love is of God. Nothing is to be taken, for you have never gained anything at all whilst you have dreamed that it might be possible that you could be forgotten by God. Instead, you are requested to be sufficiently brave to believe that it could be possible for you to be Loved Completely and without limit, no matter what such an acceptance might entail for you, for there may be much that is affective of your general state of mind and relationship with your own beliefs about your True Nature that will need to be shed if you are to genuinely be ready to release all that is restrictive of your own personal Light. That is not to say that it is difficult - is it hard to see clearly? It the night of the ego so overwhelming that you’ve surrendered any hope of daybreak? Is the desolation of a belief in separation so profound that no further interest in reunification with God still thrums within your spontaneously joyful heart? Certainly not, for all that is of those presumptions feed only themselves, growing more powerful because they are sustained by assumptions that have no justification. Created by Love, you cannot help but to be what and who you are - a Child of God, the eternal Beloved of God, and the Perfection of Truth now experiencing what it might be to believe that you are anything other than what you have always been. Nothing is lost when shadows dissipate, for they were but the interactions of beliefs that are no longer valued and the Light that they attempted to obscure. Trust again that you will be shown the way to go Home, for that is a promise that will be kept and a path that will be clear, just as soon as you are willing to accept that you while you may know not your own True Nature, God always has and God will demonstrate to you, in every manner that is most appropriate for you to experience, just what your Nature truly does entail.