3-19. Because you were Created by Love, what you Are is Love. Be grateful for your Creation and you will vibrate in Harmony with the Mind of God.
In this world, gratitude is almost always applied - and perceived - within a relational and transactional framework, one in which any particular person is expected to, or does, feel or express gratitude only in relationship and with regard to some measure of materiality. Those are not expressions of gratitude that are at all reflective of the Love of God. Genuine Gratitude is experienced not because of the presence or absence of any particular situation, possession or person, but rather because it is an expression of a realization of the Truth of Love. This is Gratitude for its own sake, which is to say that it is gratitude enjoyed because of All That Is, not all that could or could not be. Transactional gratitude is dependent, and as such it is neither universal nor guaranteed in any manner at all. Gratitude of this form is based upon receiving, or in rare instances, giving, that which can be possessed. Love cannot be owned. Love cannot be distilled, bottled and transformed into a commodity. Love is Free. Love is unbound and relentlessly wild, forever altering in its expressions and mechanisms of understanding while still retaining an unadulterated and inalterable core of certainty. Love extends beyond the boundaries of all that is temporary, a Light of universal Truth that is available to all but accepted by very few, at least as of yet. Nothing of this world for which anyone could possibly be grateful enjoys any of these qualities. Nothing material can be said to have any genuine permanence at all, for all that is of form serves the formless Void of Creation, examples of universal creativity that stand as effective expressions of the Divinity of God, but that are not now and will never be separate and whole in and of themselves. Yet this desire to laud and approve of material items, an insane investment in vaulting them above their formless Source, is manifest and rife within this world of form, for what can be appreciated that cannot be sensed, at least with the material apparatuses of the body, and what could possibly be venerated and appreciated above all that is temporary when such jubilant adoration of the permanence of Love has no direct expression or replication within the world of form? Is it not massively simpler to strive for possessions, power, wealth, adornments of the body and vast structures that automatically convey an appearance of value, rather than to turn within and to respect and revere that which can only be Experienced, but never shared or even proven to exist to another who has, as of yet, elected to turn within as well and discover the mysteries and potentialities of their own heart? Of course it is much more readily apparent that the items of this world should be admired, for they can be experienced by others and as such, they can be replicated, defined and demonstrated as proof of “value” acquired or “power” coalesced by a few limited individuals who hold themselves out as being the commanders of such opulence. But what is it that they control? Assemblages of stardust now taking on useful or seemingly beautiful forms? What it is that they can carry with them out of this world, when their inevitable time to retire from material existence calls them Home to God? What then will they wield as inarguable examples of all that they have acquired during their time in this world? What is it that they can claim to own, when all ownership is but temporary and all Beingness is eternally permanent? What would you be grateful for, if you were to look again upon this world of form with eyes lit anew with a reflection of the Truth of Love? Would you genuinely continue to desire to hold out anything that you’ve owned as being representative of value, when it was always the Experience of Love, in whatever form it might have been available to you within this world, that has defined all of the genuine usefulness of this great panoply of possessions that you have held sway over? Gratitude begins with a genuine perspective of Truth, not with a desire for acquisition. Those that wish to have more, in Truth, have lesser and lesser still, for their greed and lust for endlessly increasing wealth cannot serve their hearts in any manner at all. Surrounded by opulent excess, they feel ever more empty, for all that they own or control can only serve them to the extent that they wish to be allowed the permission they refuse themselves to feel the richness of the present moment, streaming forth from All That Is, requiring nothing and providing all of the Peace and Certainty that any and all hearts request within the darkened night of the ego’s rule. Gratitude for what you are, which is of course a unique and irreplaceable reflection of the Divinity of Love, is all that you actually require to be at Peace, no matter what your material situation may, or may not, actually be or represent within this world. Gratitude for your possessions, beyond the limited awareness of their utility - if they enjoy any at all - is the hollow pursuit of those who remain willing to be blind to their own hearts. Follow them not, for they do not know the way Home. Follow instead the quiet certainty and reverence of your heart, now freed from any lust for acquisition and control, a revelry of equanimity and a lightness of allowance, one that can reveal all that your ego has sought to hide and all that your mind has been so aggrieved to forget. The Harmonic Resonance of the Mind of God is Love. Gratitude for this most highest and clearest of all Harmonies is the process of acceptance and revelation of Truth that will alter all that you thought possible, allowing you to shed all that was not of Truth, carrying you ever higher, towards a centered Peace that will extend beyond all of your prior illusions about and conceptualizations of what is actually Real. Gratitude for your Creation is a necessary component of the release of all fragmented and temporary beliefs in that which may be, accepting instead All That Is in the place of the vision and import of the ego, so eternally destined to see only that which is material, which must also be that which will always degrade, disintegrate and then finally disappear entirely. Love is not as this, Child of God. Love will not alter, no longer how long you wish to live in a state of awareness that attempts to deny its Light. Gratitude for the unwavering power and spaciousness of Love will allow you to take it back up again, as you did before the necessity for time began, so that you can become ever more willing to look to Love for all of the answers that you have for so long believed must instead be found in a belief in separation that was never reflective of anything at all. Be Grateful, dearest Creation of God, for you were never separated from all that you sought, you merely looked downwards to the plains of desolation that are the eternal fiefdoms of the ego, instead of upwards towards the Light of Heaven that has remained ever vigilant and accessible. Gratitude for All That Is will transform all that is yet to transpire for you, allowing you to enjoy a corrected perspective from which all that is important, and all that has always been your eternal Salvation from suffering, pain, regret and loss, becomes ever present and universally accessible to you, no matter what it is that you previously believed to be true. Be Grateful for your Creation to an extent and with a fervent commitment that matches that of God’s Love for you, for you are deserving of all of the care and compassion that the Infinity of Love can render unto you, both for your Salvation from illusion as well as the Salvation of all of your Brothers and Sisters who still sleep, dreaming of a life within a body that is wholly defined by the limits of material existence. Know for them the Gratitude and Certainty that accompanies a surrender of all that is untrue, so that the Love that spans all of the necessity of time itself can fill your heart with a joy that passes so far beyond all understanding that this world could ever apply that it must be Experienced to be first manifested, and then later appreciated to the same extent that you are appreciated by God as the unique and Perfect component of Creation that you have always been and will always be.