4-12. Love expands. Forever growing outwards, offering only hope and change and light. Let your heart connect to this endless wave of renewal and forever leave behind all worry, regret and fear.
The Nature of Love is expansion - endless, infinite and perfect newness and Light in all things and at all times. That is not at all the nature of the ego, for the ego is the embodiment of stagnation and turmoil now made manifest in form, determined to counteract the effects of Love by causing you endless worry, regret and fear. What is accomplished when you attempt to involve yourself within the ego’s structures, so seemingly crystalline and solid, but which are in fact composed of the most fragile foundations which require your endless reinforcement? In Truth, nothing occurs, for you divest yourself of the Majesty of Love and instead invest your time in the pursuit of nothingness, calling it form and value, when it is incapable of having any genuinely transformative effects. You can continue as this, if you wish, for just as long as it suits you, for God will not oppose your Free Will. Yet why? What is gained from regarding that which is not and requesting that it be made real and whole, as if a phantom can be rendered into flesh for you to venerate? What is it that you desire to find in the ego? Some form of supplication to a master that is infinitely unideal for you, one that wishes only to see you as a subject and loyal servant that can only be drained of all of their vitality until they are so worn out that they cannot possibly stagger forward for one moment more? What is it that the ego is offering that you wish to partake in, and more importantly - why? Has fear wrought pleasure for you? Has regret fulfilled and uplifted you? Has worry left you reassured and certain of your situation or its possible resolutions? What is gained when all is given to a tyrant of your own making, a fearsome ruler who demands all allegiances but offers no loyalty to your own best interests in any way at all? All of these inquiries have but one singular resolution - nothing at all. Nothing is granted unto your awaiting hands when you take up with the ego and attempt to entwine yourself with its masquerade of perversion, for the ego does not exist and you can barely be said to be present when you are preoccupied with all of your concerns. Yet there is another way, an alternative Path that is open at all times and that holds the absolute certainty of correctness and accuracy. That is the Path of the heart, and it is yours to elect when you are ready to trust again in yourself and your own instincts, for while you can attempt to divorce yourself from what you know to be best, you cannot sever the infinite and eternal Connection with God that runs through the very center of your heart. Sleeping it may seem to be, and inaccessible in a manner that has no resolution, but all of that is simply untrue. Practice was needed to ignore its pleas for attention and its guidance offered in kind when it was needed, and so it may be necessary for a period of time to pass during which you learn again to trust in what you know to be best, toddling at first on unsteady legs, uncertain of your balance and perhaps toppling over at times, regressing into past patternings that were imprinted upon your mind from a much younger age. Little in this world that is of value is instantly mastered, for repetition and reinforcement are of great value when you are attempting to undo, or rather unlearn, all that the ego has forever held out as the appropriate manners within which you should engage yourself when you are faced with adversity and strife. That this world of form can be difficult is not in question. What is at issue is your desire to react from rote patterns that you learned, perhaps at an age when you had little ability to appropriately filter out that which was not at all best for you. Simply because some particular situation or your reaction to it has “always been like this” does not at all mean that you are bound to continue down such a path of painful countenance. You can alter your perception of what is, or what is not, at any time, because you are already Free. This Freedom is not exclusive to you - it is an aspect of the Freedom of God to Create just as is best, and so it is an integral principle of Creation Itself. Being as such, you can no more alter or constrict your innate unlimitedness than you can wish gravity to be undone and then float away from the Earth’s surface. That which is intrinsic is so because it is what is best, or most efficacious for the overarching structure that is Created. A material universe without the influence of mass creating a distortion in the fabric of space and time itself would be of little use to any inhabitant. Just as this, Creation absent Love is a pointless endeavor, for one cannot be separated or distinguished from the other. They are axiomatic and innate, and this is very well indeed, for Love will never fail you, even though the ego most certainly will - because it must. The ego cannot stand in the face of the Light of God, but you needn’t worry that it will be destroyed or no longer accessible to you, for the ego will remain in its darkened cave of dissolution while you venture forth, back to God and to Love. The ego is a mask of your own creation, one worn in support of a presumption of separation from All That Is that was never real. It has utility, but no inherent value. Being but an affectation of its own creation, the ego is neither “good” nor “bad” - it simply is, just as gravity cares not for your interpretations of its implications. Gravity exists because it has utility, but it has no moral imperative. The ego is as this - a useful illusion to be worn when interacting with others who have yet to shed all that they believe so that they can be shown by God what is actually Real, but not an enemy to be slaughtered or a war to be waged. You cannot battle an illusion - you can only see through its nature and then transcend all that it offers, for it is all a fool’s errand when you chase the ego, as if you can step upon your own shadow and then inflict pain. Look again to Love for all of the Guidance and support that you believe you lack, and with patience and practice, it will become ever more clear that never were you cast into this world to be punished or isolated from God - this material existence was elected by you as a means to explore what it might mean to be separated from God, only to be finally resolved with the Experience of your Unity with All That Is, a blinding flash of the greatest healing possible, an infinite moment within which all that is illusion is seen through and all that is the Light of Truth is accepted, perfectly and completely. Do not despair, believing that you are incapable of Returning to God. You can, and you will, but it is your choice when this Miracle of Reunion will occur. Love already knows the way to go Home. Your ego knows nothing of what is Real, for it does not actually exist. Choose what it is that you would genuinely have, if all possibilities were accessible to you and infinite amounts of time were available, for that is exactly the situation you will find yourself existing within when you elect to trust your heart completely.