4-30. When you are ready to accept the endless Mercy of God, tears will fall down like rain from Heaven. Not tears of pain. Tears of the purest Joy as you remember that God has Loved you since before time began.
The vengeance of the ego and the Mercy of God seem oppositional, at least when they are approached from a perspective that is inspired by the ambit of this world, one based in and debased by a belief in limitations and their presumed value. Nothing that is composed of a perspective that presupposes any validity of or value in limitations is able to present to your awakening consciousness the Truth of the Mercy of God, for it is so overwhelming and so infinitely applied that there is nothing that can transpire that cannot be a subject of its forgiveness through the application of Truth to all that occurs, no matter now unconscionable the event might be at the time that it arises from the foaming sea of possibilities that is the chaos of the world of form. That much occurs that is “wrong” or “evil” is not contradicted by the Mercy of God. That is not understandable to the ego, for the ego must seek out retribution for any and all offenses, a tit-for-tat recompense for affronts affecting the ego’s outrageously fragile constitution, as if inflicting some form of exacting remediation on the offender will alter what has already come to pass. The ego is not forgiving in the slightest, for equanimity in the face of calamity and pertinence in the application of magnanimity are not at all familiar or familial attributes of the ego or its brethren. The ego demands justice, but in a formulation that is wholly constituted upon a presumption of separation that has no validity at all. Because the ego can only regard All That Is as isolated from what the ego believes itself - and by inescapable extension - you as well, the ego must consistently insist that only through “an eye for an eye” punishment can any form of just work be performed. But what is that, when it is regarded from the Sight of Love? What is lost when one demands that another suffer as they have, as if retributive punishment is an applicable salve that can heal any wound at all? It cannot. That is not the way. That is the methodology of the ego, and it is circumspect in its desire to avoid the most logical centrality of its presentation - namely, that the suffering of another will serve to assist you to recover from what was wrought against you. Yet when the Truth of Giving and Receiving is realized and accepted, all that is the quandary of misplaced rage is undone, for truly, all who commit harm in any manner effect it against their own constitution as well, injuring themselves in ways often so severe that recovery seems inapplicable or even impossible. That they too are Forgiven is Certain. That you can be as God has always been and will always be - able to transform the partialities of forgiveness as the ego attempts to understand them into the infinite Mercy of God - is not anywhere near as guaranteed, for to be as this, all that is afflicting within the sphere of understanding that is the “justice” of this world must be released. That those who commit harm are harmed themselves by their own hand and with their own voluntary volition is already a certainty that needs no inquiry. But to observe this occurring is not possible, for all of those processes of internally-applied reflectivity of outwardly-instigated cruelty are not for any other Child of God to evaluate. They are wholly and inextricably processes that worm themselves ever inwards, towards the heart of the attacker, drawing them ever closer to God, even though to those that have turned wholly to their imagined darkness, their Light appears as the most unimaginable pain that any soul could ever be expected to endure. That is a great reversal of the Mercy of God - that they are unwilling (but never unable) to forgive themselves for what they have done is in no way restrictive of the Forgiveness of God, but to them it will be, for God will not force upon any Child of God any tenderness that they are unwilling to accept for themselves, primarily and completely. Equally as your ability to release all that is vengeful in your evaluation of any whom you believed to have “wronged” you grows ever larger with each passing instance of transcendence, your willingness to realize that these Mercies of Truth are applicable to you as well grows every more certain. We are frequently our own worst critics. Yet it is not our hearts that bid us to behave as such. All of these affectations of the ego are applied incorrectly to the consistency of your heart, as if your choice to be unrelenting in your condemnation of your own error must be shared by your soul. It most certainly is not, and within that Truth, you can begin to extract ever greater levels of rest and respite from the unrelenting nature of the ego, for the ego will not extoll your virtues to you - that is a process that must be accomplished through a genuinely applied review of what has actually transpired, rather than your elected perspective which is often wholly skewed towards absolutely applied misconceptions that become overwhelming in their seeming ability to describe a summary whole that is not at all who you are, in Truth. That which accompanies a complete release of all that is condemnatory of others is equally a respite from your own desire to see yourself as anything less than whole, for you are as you were Created to be, without any regard for your own willingness to transform the sight of the ego, limited in infinite measure and wholly inappropriate for conveying to your awakening mind the Truth of Love, into the Sight of God, one which Sees only Light and recognizes only Unity, despite all of the surface level differentiations that seem so very valid and supportable from a perspective of isolation. The tears that will rain down from Heaven will not be conciliatory or condemnatory for any of the Children of God. They will always be inspired by the joy that accompanies a complete release of all that is believed to be transitory, for the nature of Creation is to change, whilst still remaining exactly as it has always been - a framework within which all that is of God can Experience all that is possible, including the presumptive proposition that it could be possible to be separated from God and cast out of Heaven into a world that bears no obvious reflection of the Peace that is innate and Complete. Forgiveness is absolute - nothing is withheld and no Child of God is absent its Grace. This is inapplicable to others if you will not accept it for yourself, for that which you steadfastly refuse to Receive, you cannot Give. That is the nature of the Unity of Creation and it cannot be subjugated unto your will, no matter how much you wish to effect the ravages of judgment when no such evaluation is applicable. You are welcome to attempt to refuse or refute any aspect of Creation that appears to be inapplicable to you. You will be incorrect in doing so, condemning yourself to the ever-longer reapplication of an error that is so very ancient that it is barely expressible within the terminology of time as it is understood in the world of form. But nothing will actually occur, for your free will was not granted to you so that you could formulate a rationale that could suffice to explain why it is that the Love of God is to be applied in partialities, rather than as it actually is - Completely and without any exception. Acceptance of this Universality of Love is difficult indeed, at least when your mind is just beginning to Awaken to the Truth that your heart has guarded for you since the eternity that was your Home was left behind, allowing time to begin to unfurl in front of you as a path of seeming exile from Love. Nothing was lost when you chose to believe that it might be possible that Creation could be imperfect in any way. But you certainly did believe that such an error could be possible, and so was a great variety of worlds were constructed to allow you all of the time you would ever require to explore all that might be implied by your error, although the only conclusion of all of those journeys would be that you would Return to God, not humbled by your mistake or humiliated by the time that lapsed while you dwelled in a darkness of your own creation, for even unto this process has infinite and complete Mercy been Given by God. You are already Forgiven for believing that it could be possible that you could be anything other that the unique and infinitely valuable expression of the Totality of Creation that you are. Nothing more than this is there to release, but by doing so, all that is not of God will be set aside and forgotten, for only the Light is Real and all that is not of Truth is nothing at all. Acceptance is the key. Your heart is the gateway. God awaits your Return. Mercy assures you of your Safely. Love is the Light that will guide you upon your path. Unity is the reason you will never fail. Begin whenever you feel is best for you, Child of God. Because you never left Heaven, when you Return is wholly inapplicable to your own personal Grace.