5-22. All that you thought you wanted, you did not, save but one request which contains all of Heaven in its asking. You want only Love. Because you asked before time began, it has already been forever Given.
Everything that the ego requests is temporary, transient and translucent to Truth, for it is all oriented towards that which is of materiality or other affectations of limitedness, and so what is requested will always fail to suffice the final desires that must be, by their very nature, resolvable and understandable only with the ambit and scope of Love - never via the wanton abandonment of hope that is a finally relinquishment to your ego’s infinite blindness that is committed when you forsake your heart in favor of a relegation to materiality that apparently obscures All That Is as some forgotten dream, now so very lost that there can be no possibility of its rediscovery. Love is not as this. Love asks for nothing at all, for it requires no allegiance or supplication to its veracity, being wholly Complete just as it is, utterly unconcerned with your errors of perception or unwillingness to believe that it might be possible that you could be Loved beyond all limits by a spirit and a Source of such infinite Power that all that is temporary and immaterial to your final release from illusions is not just unimportant - it does not actually exist at all, in Truth. All that is of desire is equally of the ego, for what is there to want when All That Is has already been granted to your outstretched and awaiting hands, a promise of Salvation from all that is illusionary that is dependent upon nothing at all, for it is unconditional and irrefutable, although from the perspective of the ego it is just as impossible as it is certain, when this guarantee is regarded appropriately from the level of the heart and with a modicum of Faith so small that it is virtually nothing at all. Desires are adhesive in their most base nature, for they endlessly request ever more, never satisfied by their immediate extinguishment upon the acquisition of whatever it is that they most immediately request, for after one fixation is gratified, there immediately arises yet another to take its place, an endlessly unfolding and ever increasing cycle of recognition of the possibility of possession, the subsequently unfolding quest to obtain such a bauble, and then the painfully temporary satiation that accompanies its acquisition. Yet from each that is obtained, and even more terrifically blindly - without regard for the mechanisms employed in its retrieval - more is requested. That is the nature of the ego, and it will not alter. The ego is a hollow void of nothingness, knowing not its nature and desirous of endless satisfaction not as a means to any conclusion at all, for the ego is a literal dead end when it is appropriately regarded, but rather as a distraction that sustains itself, forever altering into new and more bizarre configurations so that you will remain distracted from the simple Truth that there is nothing at all that is genuinely needed, for Love is always Given and so all else is but temporary alignements of form, all conditional upon certain mechanisms of sustainment and support, signifying nothing at all because they are neither eternal or infinite. Love is not as this. Love is both Eternal and Infinite, precisely because it is applicable to all that unfolds, no matter its surface level of presentation or the presumptions that you desire to impart upon it, as if your judgment is capable of being complete when you do not have access to all that there is to know about any particular occurrence or the intentionality of another Child of God when they interact with you in manners that are either comforting or confrontational. And yet, you need not know all that there is to know about anything at all to be assured that everything serves the highest becoming of all that you can be, when you are ready to set aside your desire for littleness or unimportance, for while you may not be the savior of this world of form or its final and most profound prophet of infinite wisdom, that in no way denigrates your value to God or distorts your utility to the other Children of God with whom you interact on any level of direct connectedness and honest communication. What you ask for, if even if you know it not and perhaps do not even, as of yet, realize that this is what you most desire, is but the reassurance that you are Safe with God, and that you are assured of a continuation and a sustainment that is not conditional or predicated upon the completion of some rote set of pandering genuflections to a set of proscribed and ritualistic procedures, all of which are promised to entitle you admission to Heaven, when in Truth, you have never left the Grace of God. This Truth is so very antithetical to the nature of the ego that it is not at all possible to “know” your guarantee of Safety within the Heart of God, for imaginings and constructions of the mind, all generated by reflections of what you have come to know so far, are all much too limited and conditioned upon physical circumstances or their lack thereof to be able to allow you to release beliefs in impossibilities so that you can be genuinely free within even the briefest of present moments. It is through your heart that the promise of Salvation from illusion is fulfilled, and it will be rediscovered and rejoiced within to just the extent that you are willing to believe that such a state of Grace is not just obtainable - it is actually your current and unconditional Creation-right, to haphazardly coin a new phrase. Love is a guarantee of Salvation from illusion because Love is Eternal, and all that is not of God is not continuous with all that is Infinite. Being temporary and inexorably temporal, all that is of form will fade and disappear in time, after all of its utility has ceased to be relevant to any Child of God. Yet after that great undoing of all that was assembled to assist you with exploring all that it could possibly be to be within a state of separation from God - which, of course, was never True - what will remain? The Light of Love will still stand, ever Perfect and beautifully clear. The Truth of God will still be available and understandable to your heart, always exactly correct and unchangeable, for all that is of God is equally of Love, and so there can be no separation from your soul and the Heart of God - there can only be your unwillingness to believe that you are, somehow and so very vexingly conversely, undeserving of all that you Are, in Truth. What it is that you request is Peace. Yet you already have it. Love has not forgotten you, but you have most certainly believed that it might be possible for you to forget God, for if you had never imagined that such an impossibility could come to pass, never would you have found any utility for a journey into form so that you could explore all that it might mean to you to be distinct from all else that lives, some misformed island of individuality that has been so horrifically misinformed by your own ego that you have elected to believe that distinction is the operating principle of Creation, when it has always been but Unity that has guaranteed that Salvation from blindness is both Certain and inevitable. Before you set out to explore all that might be implicated within a misperception of Creation that lead you to believe that separation was something that you deserved, you requested Love. Pleaded for at a “time” before there was any necessity for time at all, what you prayed to receive was Given - endlessly, purely and without any reservation. Now, all that remains is for you to continue to explore all that it might mean to you to be distinct from Love and separated from God, so that once you have discovered that such protestations of the ego and pronouncements of fear are meaningless, what is was that was Given before there was even a beginning will be Remembered as existing today, tomorrow and for all of the days yet to unfold within all of the lifetimes that you still desire to explore. What was requested was Love, and because it was your True Nature, it was Given and it is yours, forever and perfectly. Accept your heart as your singular Guide to all that remains to be understood and all that is necessary will disappear, for because there is Love, there is Peace and there is Light, eternally and perfectly.