4-13. Let your heart gently open as a flower of pure Love. Being gentle with yourself will transform your world into a garden of peace. When you are ready, you will see that you were, and are, forever safe.
The ego is anything but gentle. It is a cruel and harsh master, one that demands allegiance and supplication to its vociferous requirements, but one that equally offers nothing in return - a fool’s errand indeed, when the dictates of the ego are pursued and the Peace that accompanies a complete surrender to the Will of God is mistaken as some form of work or effort expended to achieve a goal or resolve a situation that is complex in any way at all. The ego is painful in both application and practice, for it is the final result of a belief that spawned an entire world, one that must have as its primarily foundational principle a presumption of separation from All That Is, manifested in a great variety of forms, signaling nothing at all but being representative of a patterning and acceptance of illusions taken up in the hopes that there might be some value to what is believed, or perhaps some resolution that can be achieved once all is allowed to be shattered and dismembered into its most constituent subsections of material reality. Deconstruction of all of materiality into its most base parings of indivisible particles has yielded great and important discoveries regarding the structure of the fabric of material reality, yet never has the most animatory force been quantified in any way at all - namely, the aspect of the Love of God that Created all that was requested by the wayward Children of God who wished to believe themselves absent the Truth of Unity and were thusly provided a proving ground upon which they could stand, shouting upwards in vain about their apparent lack of support and guidance, when it was always by their intentionality and through their application of disbelief that all that they surveilled gave to their wandering eyes the evidence that they’d created for themselves an as endlessly recursive and self-justifying verification of an error in Creation that never actually came to pass. All of this is not at all difficult to disentangle and dissolve back into the illusions from which it was first fetched from the ether and assembled as a form of justification for a presumption that was devoid of rationality in any manner at all, but indeed the process of release is oftentimes experienced as challenging indeed, for all assumptions must be set aside and all that is Real and contiguous with God must be Remembered. That is a process that can be perceived by an Awakening mind as frightful indeed, for there is a great faith that must be uptaken in the place of the ego’s madness and endlessly iterative prevarications, a fantastical undoing of all that was presented as evidence of itself, and a rationality that is gathered up from the depths of the heart - not from the mists of the mind so confused as to the Nature of Reality that it might choose to believe that Creation was an Act of Love that was effected absent their own participation and voluntary surrender to what was Created to be a temporary home until they could cast off all of their accepted burdens of misperception, so that they could be at Peace again, filled with the respite from struggle and strive that can only be finally effected through a complete Acceptance that Peace is not just inevitable - it is Guaranteed by God in the highest, eternally and perfectly. This is a surrender that appears to require some form of “giving up”, some loss or sacrifice, but that is only because the ego cannot understand the nature of giving and receiving as being both singular and dualistic, as well as disparate and Unitary, all at once and all within the exact same moment of time. This appears to be contradictory in a manner that is unresolvable from the perspective of the ego, but that is simply because the ego is condemned to operate within certain and specific limitations that are of the ego’s own creation, for all that is illusionary cannot be possessed of the ability to transcend its own presumptions. That is of no consequence to your heart, for your heart cannot be bound by error in any way at all, no matter how confused your mind might become when you attempt to use rationality and logic to untangle the web of misconstrued perceptions that you enjoined yourself within as you dreamed of a life that must be lead in a body, and that must, perforce, end when your body fails - as it must and as it should. That is the opposition of Truth effected through the lens of bodily perception, and while Love cannot be actually contradicted in any manner that has any application at all to anything that is actually Real, certainly your ability to be a genuine and absolutely unlimited creator of your own reality will bind you to what it is that you wish to be true, for just as long as you remain willing to live in lies and the deceit of the ego, when the Love of God remains accessible and overwhelmingly Perfect in any manner that you could possibly be employed to summarize what it is to you to Experience the Unity that is your freedom from all that is temporary or temporal. Being so harsh, the ego has but one response to all that ails you and the ego - rage. This anger has no justification in Truth, but it is the ego’s only weapon against the Return of the Light, and so it is employed endlessly and fruitlessly, producing bitter harvests of the greatest poison that will cripple your heart and afflict your mind with reasons for hatred and fear when it is the Will of God that you share within the greatness and Light of Creation that is always available to you at any time, without any regard for your willingness to surrender and to set aside the infinitely foolish notions of the ego and its endlessly blindness. To be gentle with yourself, and specifically with your heart, is to be in a state of allowance and Grace - not one of resistance and fear. This is a great reversal of the ego’s though-systems of perception and self-justification of a network of presumptions so fundamental to and constructive of your world-view and beliefs in the nature of reality that they must be gently undone, one by one, so that they can all be set aside eventually and allowed to no longer fester within you, for it is only through your support of their most afflicted offerings of unreality and displeasure with All That Is, seen so incorrectly through a lens of awareness that has no foundation in Truth that it cannot provide you with any genuine assistance at all, that they continue to thrive and grow within a garden of Peace that is the Home of God - not of the ego’s fallow fodder. Allow your heart to lead, for long has your mind wandered through fields of beliefs so withered and faint of faith that they have done nothing at all to nurture your own positivity and acceptance of the possibility that Reality might be far more vast and infinitely more Peaceful than you’ve ever had the strength to allow yourself to believe. There cannot be any attack within the Kingdom of God, for all is at Peace and it is only the insane that imagine some form of retribution against their own personages in some bizarre misappropriation of reality for their own purposes of justifying why it might be that they are destined to be set upon and destroyed, used as a rationale for preemptive attack against their imagined assailants. None of this is reflective of Love - it is all a perversion of the thought-systems of the ego, and it is meaningless in all manners that can be applied to its analysis and evaluation. Allowance breds ever greater levels of Faith in Love and Trust in God. Allow this allowance to be tested first by your wavering and uncertain hand, for you will not be disappointed in the results. Faith will win out over all that is of the ego, for Love Knows you as you are, not as you imagine yourself to be. That is all that is required to be accepted to allow for the greatest undoing of all that was illusionary and deceitful of the ego to be released and for its accompanying space to be refilled by the Universe of Love that is God. Safe you are and safe you will remain, forevermore just as you have always been - a beloved and infinitely precious Child of God who dreams of a world of separation and loss when no such reality is reflected in Truth. Accept but that you cannot and will not ever perish, and all that is tempting of the ego - all of the fear, the pain and the regret of a life that must end will be forgotten, for there is but the eternal continuum of Love in all of its expressions, a part within which you play that cannot be fulfilled by any other Child of God. Be accepting of your Freedom through Love, for you are Safe within the Heart of God and inexpressibly guaranteed of your place within Heaven, for you have never left the Kingdom of God - you have merely dreamed that such might be possible. Yet after realizing your most elementary of errors, what is left but to Return, through the acceptance that is innate when your heart is opened and your mind follows accurately and faithfully, just as it was always Created to do? There is nothing more that need be done, Child of God, yet from all of this, All That Is becomes actualized again through you, and all that will be will unfold, just as it should, exactly and completely within the Perfection that is the Will of God.