The One Who Carries You....

God said
The dividing line
between happiness and sadness
is a very fine line.
Happiness and sadness are right next to each other,
just the way Godwriting and ordinary writing
are right next to each other.
Side by side. There is hardly any distance at all.
In both cases, you have awareness,
and you lean your awareness to the left,
or you lean your awareness to the right.
Each is a direction you take.

Have an intent to go in the direction you favor.
You can stand closer to happiness.
You can sit with it, carry it with you like a purse.
I well understand that it seems
that events in life affront you or befriend you.
It seems to you that your sense of well-being
is dependent upon the nature of the events.
When your awareness goes by outer events,
then you are like a bouncing ball
and give away all jurisdiction over yourself.
Or you see yourself as an orange that some unnamed juggler juggles.
Or you see yourself like a tennis ball,
batted from one end of the court to the other,
hardly able to keep up with what is happening.

When I gave you free will,
I took this changeability into consideration.
Without free will, you would automatically be happy
regardless of the exigencies of life.
Exigencies of life will be present, for in the relative world,
perceived life changes moment by moment.
It will not even stay the same for two seconds,
and it is those changes that you call the exigencies of life.

You may even be a prima donna whose face changes
dramatically depending upon the accolades poured on her or withheld.
You are not meant to be a prima donna nor a chameleon.
You are a Human Being, designed and made by God.
You don't have to change the expression on your face
according to the scenery and the weather.
You can know that your destiny is to stand tall,
regardless of countryside and the storms that come and go.
You can be happy without being elated,
and you can be sad without being aggrieved.
Equanimity is available to you. It is a choice you have.

The One Who carries you carries you high
regardless of what seems to be happening in the world.
The One Who carries you never lets go of you.
If you fell from the highest mountain, you would be caught.
If you fell into an abyss, you would be lifted.
Apart from your body and your worldly life,
you cannot fall. You cannot even skin your knee.
Your body carries My genes, but I carry you.