Beloved—

You come to Me in halting steps.  You think of Me as you do another being in your world, arms crossed and at odds with you.  You are prepared to receive a blow to your heart.  But it is otherwise with Me.  I am the Gentle One.  I am the One you know best of all but are not sure about anymore. 

I am your True Nature.  In spite of all the things you feel about yourself and the world that whirls about you, at the deepest center of your being is peace.  It is a peace not known in the world that whirls about you.  In fact, the world that whirls about you is in your mind, is but an illusion about yourself. 

You want to come to Me and wrap yourself in love and absolute acceptance.  You can do this if you look within. Trust in your ability to imagine. Trust the subtle thoughts of your mind.  Trust what takes place in yourself and need no consensus. Trust. Trust. Trust Me.  Trust yourself as Me.  We are one and we can be in peaceful harmony even while there whirls a world of fantasy and seeming turmoil about you.

You wonder how to come to Me and bask in the radiant warmth of My Life as all about you others cry out in pain.  It is to their pain that the love you share with Me brings answers, but not as you know answers in the world that whirls about you.  Answers from Me abound in you.  You are afraid of this dialogue.  Come to it nevertheless…it will expand in your heart until the time when all resistance is gone from you.  You will hear this quiet knowing, you will know this quiet voice, you will remember who you are and all harm you have feared will be declared null and void, for it never happened.  Never.

I am you in the best of yourself.  You are Me and all that I am.  Be assured, Beloved, there is nothing separating us. Trust the quiet Quiet that your mind can imagine.  Trust your imagination.  It will make Me real to you.

Dearest One–

Come with me to the magic garden in your mind.  In your quiet mind you will find peace and all things worthy of contemplating.  I am the One you seek and I whisper tender Words that are more than words.  I whisper life itself, and it will fill you and expand you to vastnesses of beauty and joy that you can dream of and delight in and never lose.

Beloved one, in each moment, in each breath, I am with you.  I never look away.  My light never dims.  I am always at hand, supporting, under-girding, guiding, showing the clarity of the path ahead that you travel to discover ever more of who and what you are.  Your life is a precious self-discovery, one created to have you know Me and find fulfillment in simply being.

Yes, your life is a constant self-discovery.  Constant is the flow from within to fill your outer world with the song and dance of your uniqueness in Me.  Each moment, each moment, each moment, I am here.  There is nothing else but my Presence.  Feel it in yourself as you softly quiver to the Smile that I make within you to tell you of the joy I have in you being one who reveals I am here.

Believe only this, Beloved.

You have come to the Garden where you truly live.  I wait softly with the loving creatures who know your true heart and your desire to remember who you are.  Answers grow all about us.

In quiet moments like this one, where you and I meet in the midst of the images that float about you, is found the very Substance you seek.  Together, we bring you deeper riches than can be imagined. 

Yes, you can take this time from Time and look away from all that is forced and illusory.  You can have the precious retreat of your own thoughts, your own mind.  You can be your inner mind, for it is there that you meet up with what is Real. 

Beloved, how close you and I are.  How deeply steeped in truth of being is this Moment that makes no noise nor seeks to be heard.  It holds the Feeling that makes all feelings of otherness disappear.  Come to your inner Garden and drink from its well, and be well.

How long you have thought it could not be.  How long you have thought you must only look on the disconnected world without.  Your private oneness was denied you in the attempt to play a social game.  But Life is otherwise, is it not?  You are the beloved, and you know now that I have never gone away.  I am breathing you; I am filling you; I am the very strength that keeps you upright and enlivens your impulse to give forth and to desire.  I am Life and you are alive within Me. 

Beloved, we are one.