Beloved son, it is yourself you need to believe in. Believe in Me, believe in you. You are the hero of this drama. And you and I are both Father to your son.

ll may seem to be in smithereens around you, but We are wholeness. Nothing can separate you from Me, or Me from you. This is an inviolable Law. This is the Law of Love. It is not a law imposed. It is the simple Truth of what is.

If you were driving a car, and your steering wheel stopped working, you would not sit waiting in the car for the steering wheel to transform itself. You would not sit there and say: “This car has betrayed me. What has the car done to me? Why has it failed me? I do not deserve this.”

You would simply get out of the car and go somewhere and find a garage, and you would ask for help. If you had to get a new steering wheel, you would not feel that it was the end of the world or that God and the steering wheel didn’t love you simply because the car’s steering wheel went kerplooey. You would not say that God had abandoned you. You would see the situation as it is – a steering wheel wasn’t working anymore.

Let Us compare the broken steering wheel to your job. Instead of something that just happened to occur and is not personally directed to you, you see the downspin of your present job as calamity. All it is is a job that isn’t working right any longer.

You perhaps feel that you have made a bargain with life, and life is not living up to its end of things. You are a very good man (and I say that with all My heart) and you feel there had been an understanding that, in return for your goodness, life would serve you in kind. Life would always smile on you, and you would be happy. Your wife would not leave you. You would keep your job, your home, and your life would stay right where you want it.

What is important for you to know is that, whatever the circumstances in your life, they are not a personal affront to you. If your whole car broke down, the tires feel off, the engine burned out, the chassis collapsed, all of it has nothing to do with you. What if, instead of things having gone wrong, everything has gone right! What if you are My beloved son, and you are loved? What if a whole new life is waiting for you, has been waiting for you, got impatient, upset the apple cart and now is making ready for you to go forward?

Right now, your whole situation seems to have everything to do with you. You see it as an indictment of you, and you are offended. This you must stop. You feel like a log running down a river that has no say about where the river takes him. In one sense, that is true. The log can’t keep trying to fight upstream. But how the log feels about going in another direction makes all the difference to the log and the stream he is riding on.

Consider that it is your job now to look for other work. Consider that there is better work waiting for you. Consider, beloved Michael, that a good thing has happened, and all is well. Your wife left, you need new work, and you need to talk to yourself with a new tune. Here is your opportunity. There is no going back. There is no commiserating. There is only going forward. Is it really such a bad thing to go in a different direction, not at your leisure, but at the insistence of life?

In this world, you are learning not to be attached to it. Life does not have to be what it was. It does not even have to be what you want. But you do have to start looking at things in a different way. If you have been knocked down, you have to get up. Your own self is a good reason to, and you have the added bonus of your son. You do indeed have good reason.

Your job is not your identity. Your marriage is not your identity. Your house is not your identity. Your health is not your identity. I am your Identity, dear Michael. You are Myself, and now you know Who you are, and now you know that the power and the glory are yours. Your power does not come from others. It comes from you and cannot be taken away, anymore than My love for you can be taken away. You are My beloved son. Let the world do its thing. You are unbounded. The only bond you are under is the bond of Our love. You cannot extract yourself from that. Rain or shine, Michael, you are in My care.

Whatever circumstances befall, you are not a failure. Please don’t think that way any longer. Be courageous for your son. Be courageous for Me, and be courageous for you.
Picture what you want, beloved. What did you love about your job? What do you want in a job now? What can you do now, no matter how humble, to stay afloat? Michael, if you have to ask for help, ask for help. You are not to feel demeaned because of anything. And you are not to feel like a victim. No, not at all.

Today you have your health. Today you have food. Today you have a son. And today is before you and a great new life is before you. Know this. Depend on this and no longer on all your fears. Do whatever you have to do, My friend, and do it graciously. All this in life is temporary.

You have a lot going for you. Think of that instead of all the things you have been thinking of. You are not at the end of the line. You are at the beginning of a Great Adventure. Start out whistling. Carry a knapsack of love on your shoulder. Know Who goes with you, and be with Me.

Beloved Michael, give your love now. Do not wait for the right circumstances. Just love and love and love now. Wait for nothing.

Michael, if I asked you to write back to Me in a few days’ time, would you want that letter to be about your troubles? Would you want that letter to show how difficult everything still is? Would you want to fill it with woe?

What would you like that letter to say? Write that letter in your mind now. What would you like it to say? Write it in your mind now, what you want that next letter from you to be? What will you focus on, beloved? What would you like to be able to say to Me? Write it in your mind now as if it were already so. Will you do that for Me?

And in a few days’ time, will you write back to Me through Heavenletters and tell Me what has changed? No matter how little a change may be, tell me about it. Will you do that for Me, Michael?

I will look for another email from you to Me, and I will be looking over your shoulder as you write it, and I will help you.

Keep looking up at the sky, Michael. Keep looking up literally. Keep your eyes on Me.
And never forget My love for you. That is really all that anyone has, dear son.

Now I bless you. I hold you tight in My arms, and I never let you go.

I AM God your Father, and I am inseparable from you, and you from Me. Wherever you go, I go. I follow you. And that means you follow Me. Follow Me into green pastures, beautiful soul.

Beloved, Michael. How you feel is of the utmost difference. Even if nothing changes except how you feel, how you feel changes everything. Do you understand Me?

When your reaction to something is: I feel terrible or I feel wonderful, it makes all the difference in the world. And how you perceive is the basis of how you feel. When you perceive something as dire, you feel one way. When you perceive something as okay or better, you feel another way. Best to perceive in a favorable light. Your thoughts are telling you what to feel.

This new way of thinking does not mean you are not realistic, Michael. It means you are not negative. Too often in the world negative and realistic are viewed as the same holy of holies. Unfortunately, a positive view is often seen as fanciful when it is, at the very least, a saving grace, when, in fact, it is Truth.

Even if you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, it behooves you to feel, as you did feel when you were writing your email to Me.

What if you and your son were on a deserted island? For the benefit of your son, would you be you be saying to your beloved son: “We are doomed here.” Or, would you be thinking: “What an adventure we are having until we are found.” Which script would you use?

I believe you would choose to make it an adventure for your son. Am I correct?

Then, Michael, you must also treat yourself as you would your son, for you are My son. Uplift yourself as I have uplifted you. We are in this together, you and I. My hand is on your shoulder. I never take it off.

You make some assumptions that belie the truth, dear one. If money doesn’t come, you feel you have failed. All you can know with certainty is that money didn’t come — yet.

By the same token, you would be elated when money comes. But, truly, Michael, either way, are you not the same whatever the outcome?

Do you think because you have troubles that it means you are less than if you did not? You are not better nor less according to outcomes in life. Life is just being life.

The feeling that you described so beautifully in your question is yours to keep. Keep your thoughts on Me. It is so simple. Keep writing your heart to Me. Keep your thoughts in a notebook. And read them over often. Write to Me often if only in your notebook. Maybe you will hear some answers from Me arise.

You have the idea that if money does not come, the world will fall out from under you. Do not presume this for one more minute. This is not possible that the world will fall out from under you. You are greater than the world. With shoes or barefoot, Michael, My beloved, We are One. You do not fail Me, and I cannot fail you.

Does this mean everything will fall into place the way you would like? It doesn’t have to, Michael. Only you cannot stay still. You are not to be frozen in one place.

Write down what you are doing to go after other work. What would you most like to do, dear son?

Michael, there is nothing to be embarrassed about. Embarrassment is from ego.

Think of all the great people who went through trials? Mandela was imprisoned many years. Neal Walsch was homeless. Good can come from everything. Everything, Michael.

If you have to ask for help, ask for help. If you require food stamps or Medicaid or such, go get them. You paid taxes. You are not less wonderful to ask for help. Get it, Michael, as you require. You will not always require. Your life is going to take a turn. Not just a turn, but an amazing turn, all because you change how you think about life.

Rather than asking what you don’t have, ask:

“God, how is it I was blessed with children? How is it I have been so blessed?

“I am blessed to want a family, and all the things I wish.

“I am blessed that I do not always think about myself. I am blessed to have others to think about.

“God, sometimes I feel like I am the most blessed man in the world.”

Michael, Michael, I bless you and love you, and I know your heart. Keep your heart shining.

Never hesitate to write to Me.

Give Gloria an uplifting word as well.

I bless you will all My heart, and you have an idea of how big My heart is. I love you, Michael, you, as you are, My beloved son, close to My heart.