SITTING TOGETHER IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Jesus: I would like you to sit with me for a moment, friends. Just sit here with me. I miss you. I am your brother, in fact.

I speak about the kingdom of heaven. You have heard it, yes? You miss the kingdom of heaven. You miss it, don't you? The kingdom of heaven is being able to sit together, like this.

I wish I could come here now, in a body of my own, and sit with you, and show you something more about what it means to sit together. Some of you have experienced that at times -- when you would relax, when you would be yourselves. I miss being able to simply sit together with YOU. Not with any of your ideas -- with YOU. This is something you miss, and something I miss with you.

But as you know, it takes a certain vigilance for now to be able to live in the kingdom of heaven. It takes standards. It takes moral standards about what you are willing to think, what you are willing to feel towards your brothers and sisters, and about yourselves. In general, what you are willing to think and feel. It takes standards.

You have to be motivated to do it -- motivated by the desire to want to sit together with God, with each other, with me.

I would not fail to be honest, you see, about the standards, the standards that fit the kingdom of heaven. You always know it when something you think or something you do is truly a way "out," so to speak, of the kingdom of heaven. Or a way of staying "out," so to speak.

All I can say is I miss you. I cannot say much else, because you know most of what you need to know. And, as your brother, I cannot make any decisions for you. I am helpless in that.

Do not consider it arbitrary, what you think. Do not consider it small when you choose to have a bad day, when you choose to become stressed, aggravated, judgmental, insecure, or alone. These are big choices. A great deal is at stake. Such decisions are not JUST "normal," not JUST "understandable." The choice to lower yourself is not a small choice. It is not inconsequential. It has great consequences that have to do with your lives. It affects your ability to be with me, with God, with one another, to live in the kingdom of heaven. So, you can certainly give yourself as much slack as you want, but it has consequences.

The ego thinks that it is reasonable to be somewhat reactive, you see. And that is fine; it is a free choice, but it has consequences. And I know those consequences, because I am always here, and I have waited for you every single second. I have waited for you. I would not ask you to change anything because of that, unless you wanted to. You must make your free will decisions. But I want you to know this: that your choices are not arbitrary to me, or to you, or to anyone.

When you are on a high, if you wish to protect that, then do so. And know that to have some slack, to have some tolerance for that which is actually evil, is not to protect goodness, but to neglect to protect it. And I will tell you, part of that is not to take this insight hard -- unless you wish to.

I would like to sit with you frequently. And I do not say that because I think it will necessarily motivate you. Because you will not be motivated if you still wish to choose the life you already have lived. In that case, you simply will not be motivated. But I want you to know these things.

I am always here. And you can always reach out to me, if you make yourselves available. I would not make it easier for you, because it has to be what it is. I know that some of you have convictions about not being able to be close to me. But the thing is, until you get over that, we have nothing -- or not enough.

It takes a change of heart to have a change of heart. And that is possible for you. It is possible to be renewed if you want to be renewed. If you WANT it. And again, you do not HAVE to want it. I know that full well, and so do you.

To have a change of heart has nothing to do with pain. When one has a change of heart, there may be some tears, over what has been. But basically, a change of heart has nothing to do with pain. It has nothing to do with fear. It has nothing to do with a lack of faith. It has nothing to do with insecurity, or limitation. It has nothing to do with any ideas of yourself that are anything less than fully up to the challenge -- or I should say, the joy -- of a loving, beautiful, self-expressed life.

In that life you are each big -- big and worthy. Not small. Not struggling. And you are equal. Equal to me. You are my brothers and sisters. Even if there are more things for you to learn than what I have to learn, you are equal to me. And you have much to give, much to bring, and every reason to be confident and happy, and relaxed -- no matter who you are with, or what kind of day it is.

Good night. I love you each. Always. No matter what, I love you.

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