Ah, I never tire of coming through this place.  It never fails to make me smile when I see this beautiful pond sitting here, amongst the tall trees.  Its pristine waters are surrounded by rough rocks and sickly looking algae.  But do you notice how the water is clear and crisp?  Do you recognize something familiar about this pond?

It could resemble how many see me.  So many see me as rough and hard, something that they must endure to reach the cool and welcoming center. 

There is a great misunderstanding on your planet, one that has sadly endured to the current day.  Many believe that they need to do things to earn my love.  This is the view that many religions take.

Before you ask the obvious question, I will answer it.  You were going to ask me which religion was the true one, correct?  I am going to tell you a great fact that very few are aware of.

I do not care about your religions.

Does that shock you?  Does that make you shake your head in disagreement?  If so, I am not surprised. 

Perhaps I should re-phrase that.  I do not care which religion you choose to follow. 

Religions are humanities attempts to explain what it once knew.  At a time in your past, you were with me in your true home.  Then you came to earth for a time, and as a result, you have temporarily forgotten your true home.  Yet, at your core, you know that you are more then the world around you.  You know that while you are in this world, you are not of it.

This knowledge that you are something other then the physical world has led some to create organized systems in an attempt to explain what you once knew.  In these systems, you have tales and revelations that explain the world around you.  Each system is different.  Some say that you have fallen from heaven, and you are trying to find your way back to my graces.  Others say that your current life is but one in a series of lives that you are living in order to perfect yourself.

Again, you ask me, beg me, to know which one is true.  I will tell you this my child.  All of humanities religions have elements of spiritual truth in them.  But no one religion is correct. 

You ask what elements are the truth?  Don't worry, that is easy to figure out.  In your holy books, simply look for the passages of love.  Look for the passages that speak of love, that are from love, that are filled with love.  For my strongest, ripest fruit is love.  This is my only fruit.  From love comes all that is good.  The man you knew as Jesus said it well.  He said that the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Look for the passages in your holy books, any of them, that feature these qualities. 

And if you find these qualities in passages, you will know that they are true!  For these traits are mine.  In me, there is no darkness, no deceit, no lies.  In me, there is only love.

However, I want to tell you my child that there are passages in your books that have nothing to do with me, and do not reflect me at all.  The passages that have nothing to do with me are the passages of fear, hate, anger, separation, condemnation, damnation, and threats.  These passages can lead you astray.  It would be good of you to be careful when reading your holy books.

Though I do not care about what religion you follow, I do care about the condition of your heart, for that is all that matters.  Good religion can lead you towards what you would call the greatest religion-the spirit of pure love.  If this happens, then you will be far ahead on the path to me.

But bad religion, the ones that teach fear, can greatly slow your progress towards me. 

Do not tremble at my words dear one!  There is a simple way to know which passages in your holy books are true or not.  Many find the tree test to be quite helpful.  In this test, look at the fruits of anything spiritual, and see what the fruits are.  Are the fruits love, peace, acceptance, tolerance, forgiveness, and gentleness?  If so, then you have found spiritual truth!

If the fruits are fear, confusion, anxiety, anger, hate, separation, condemnation, or any other fear based feelings, then it will be in your best interests to turn and walk away.

I would recommend that you use this test on every spiritual book, communication, or idea that you find during your life.  Test everything you encounter, and you will know what is true or not.  If anything is love based, it is from me.  If anything is fear based, it is not of me.

Therefore, let's begin a list, one that we can review later on down the path.  This list will be of helpful advice that you can use.

Test everything spiritual you come across in life.  If it is love based, it is from God.  If it is fear based, it is false.

Hmm?  Yes, I can sense what you are going to ask.  Feel free to test this book.  Test it to see what its fruits are.

Are you ready to move on?  I admit that this pond is nice, but there is so much more to see ahead!  Are you ready?  Then let us continue!

*

As we leave the pond behind and continue through this forest, think about the pond.  Do you remember what I said when we first came across it?  How the pond, and the rocks surrounding it, were similar to how some people see me?  Now is a good time to go into that subject.

As I have said before, humanity has many misconceptions about me.  Religions carry the first of these misconceptions.  What is this misconception?  The idea that my love is conditional.

So often, religions say that you need to do something to earn my favor.  And until you fulfill those requirements, you are not "saved."  So while I watch you as you try to fulfill those requirements, I will still let you come to harm and let you die without "salvation."  

My beloved one, I want to tell you this right now.  My love for you is unconditional.  I have loved you since the moment I created you so long ago.  When I formed you, when my gentle hands shaped you, and gave life to you, I loved you dearly.  You were my creation, my child.  In all of heaven and earth, there was, and is, nothing like you.  You are a gift, a treasure, a jewel to outshine all jewels. 

You are special and precious to me.  You are my own, and as Gollum would say, you are "My precious."  You are indeed precious to me!

Nothing you can ever do, nothing you can ever say, think, or believe, will make me not love you.  I love you no matter what you do.  I love you no matter what you believe, or what you think.  I have loved you every second that you have been alive, in physical form, or in your spiritual form.  And I make this promise to you:  My love for you will never, ever diminish.  As long as I exist, my love for you will never fade. 

And because I will live forever, as you will, my love for you will never end!

I smile when I see you attempting to find me in a religion.  I know that you are trying to begin a relationship with me, and I am most pleased!  When you try to find me without being in a religion, I still smile and am most pleased!  For a relationship with me is one thing you can have if you are in a religion or not.

But what will that relationship be like?  When you first begin your relationship with me, you were probably filled with fear of me.  No doubt you have heard stories of my wrath, my fury, my anger.  My child, do not listen to these tales.  Simply turn and walk away from them.  I do not get angry.  I do not get frustrated.  I do not glare down at you with the fury of a thousand suns.

You humans have the amusing tendency to project your own features and characteristics onto me.  You believe that I, like you, can get angry, frustrated, and upset. 

Yet I am not a human.  I am life.  I am love.  I am not a giant bearded man sitting up in the clouds.  I do not have a physical form, for I am infinite.  I do not even have a language! (though I am talking to you via human words in this book, and am using terms that are more comfortable to you.)  I am the great force, the great life, the great being.  I have none of your human characteristics, save those of love. 

I am not upset by anything you may do.  As I have said before, I will never abandon anyone.  I will never turn from anyone.  You may not know this, but everyone has had my favor, my grace, before they even took a physical form.  And that includes you.

You are all my creations, and I never create an imperfect creation.  All of you are perfect in your own ways.  It may not look like it, but all of you, at your core, are perfect.

And because you are my creations, I will not abandon you.  Unlike a child who may leave a model after it has finished making it, I never leave my creations.

I will now tell you some very important words, one that you need to hear.  I do not care about your theology, as I have said before.  I care about your heart, as I have said before. 

There is one thing that is more important then all the rules, all the commandments that your religions teach you.  There is something that I am more interested then, then what you proclaim to believe.

I am more interested in how you love.

For love is the key to heaven, the key to moving on, and the key to me.  Love is what saves you, not belief in a man or a faith.  Love is what will bring you to heaven.

Do you believe this?  Love is universal.  Love is not limited to a religion, or to a theology.  Love is for everyone and everything, because I am love.  All the good religions say that love is the most important thing you can do.  The Christian bible says that love is the most important commandment, and it is correct. 

Love is more important then theology. 

The theology I teach is very simple.  The theology that I proclaim to the world is unconditional love.  Love without strings attached.  Love without requirements or conditions that must be met.  I am unconditional love, and this is my teaching to the world.

Love one another.  Love everyone as you would love yourself.  This is the most important thing you can ever know!

Love is all there is.

If you love, you shall live.

Love creates spirituality, and love leads you to me.  It's as simple as that.

You do not need to be religious to come to me.  If you know love, you shall know me.  If you love, then you know me!  If you show love to others, then you are walking and working with me.

You need not fear me.  I love you so much that you truly have no idea how powerful that love is.  I will never strike you down, I will never make you suffer for a mistake.  I will never, ever, do anything like that.

I am your friend.  I am with you all the time, at all hours of the day.  When you are at work, I am with you.  When you eat dinner, I am with you.  When you sleep and dream, I am with you.

I am the friend who will never leave you.  I am the friend that is always there to give you a shoulder to cry on.  I am the friend who offers you support and encouragement.  I am the friend who gives you moral courage and strength.

Let me give you a saying that is very true.  You may recognize it, but not in the form that I will give it to you.

Love is the way, Love is the truth, and love is the life.  No one knows God unless they love.

If you know love, and you know me, then you have unlocked the first great door in your path that leads to a loving relationship with me. 

If you realize that I am a God of love, then you have learned a great lesson.  I do not get angry, nor am I wrathful.  I do not need your worship, I do not need sacrifices from you.  I am simply love.  Love is all that I am.  Nothing more, nothing less.  If you know that your God is a God of love, that God loves you, and that you have nothing to fear from God, then you are on the path to great wisdom, and on the path home.

But you may wonder how you may be saved if you are not religious.  I will tell you.

When your physical body dies, you will go where you fit in.  Though how this is done is very complex, I will put it in simple words that you can understand.  If you are a kind, caring person, then you will go to where you fit in.  In that case, heaven.  If you love, you go where you fit in, and you will go to where there is love.  This system is designed so that everybody, no matter what religion, has the opportunity to come home.

If you are not a loving or caring individual, then you will go to where you fit in.  In that case, that would be hell.  But even then, it is not too late to turn around.  We will go into this later on down the path.

When you come home, you will have a life review, where you will see everything you ever did on earth.  You will see how you affected others, for both the good and the bad.  You will see and feel what they felt as a result of your actions towards you.  If you loved them, you will feel that love.  If you hated them or mocked them, you will feel that terrible sting. 

Therefore, you will learn and grow if you love.  You will advance and expand your mind if you love.  If you love everyone, then you are truly walking with me, and you know me. 

Though we can go into much greater depth, I will simply boil it down for you.  This is the first great truth, one that you should know.

God is love.  God loves everyone unconditionally.  No one has to earn God's love, for they already have it.  And no one can loose God's love.

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How are you doing so far?  I hope that you are doing well, that your mind is calm and relaxed.  Did you know that when you are relaxed, I can talk to you easily?  So often I attempt to send messages to people, only to have them blocked by a busy mind.

Look around you, and see the glorious trees that we walk through.  See how tall and thick they are.  Their roots go deep, their bark is thick and firm.  They stand tall and majestic.  Yet notice how they are not proud.  In a forest filled with thousands of these trees, none of them compete with each other.

Each tree is majestic, tall and powerful.  Yet they do not compete with each other.  They do not attempt to attack each other so that they can get more sunlight.  Each tree is fine where it is.

Such would be your ideal world, if only everyone could realize that they do not compete with each other to know me. 

Notice too how the trees are still and silent.  Very rarely do they speak.  Often do they listen.  They listen and watch.  The trees always receive my messages, for they have a still mind and a calm mind. 

Do you observe the lesson here my beloved?  The trees hear me when they are calm and still.  My messages come to them clearly.  So it can be with you.  If you are like the tall and majestic trees, if you are calm and quiet, then you can hear me.  You will hear my whisperings of good cheer and love.

Yet, many people do not have the patience to do so.  So many want answers right away in their busy lives.  Let's use the example of a doctor to illustrate this.

Let's say that I am the doctor, here to help you and make you feel better.  You, along with your fellow humans are the patient.  I am here twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year.  My help is free, as is my advice. 

Yet my patients are very impatient!  They come in, they want a cure, and then they leave within a minute, barely enough time for me to get my stethoscope on!  And when they leave, I cannot help them.

Here is another tidbit of wisdom for you.  If you want to fully experience my miracles, you must be willing to listen and work along.  A doctor needs time to get all his equipment in order, to figure out the right doses before he can cure the patient.  Such it is with me. 

If you want me to work for your benefit, then you must be willing to wait a while when I gather my resources to cure you.  Sometimes that can take only a day or two.  Sometimes it can take a week.  In extreme cases, it can even take years.  But do not despair.  When it takes a long time for an answer to come to your problems, it simply means that I am working hard to make sure the details are all worked out.  I am making sure that my answer comes to you in its most perfect form.

If you learn the virtue of patience, then you will see more and more of my miracles.  You will begin to experience them more often.  If you learn not to expect an immediate answer to your questions, then you have done yourself a great favor!

So many wonder if I hear their prayers.  I tell you this my beloved, I do hear your prayers.  I hear each and every one of them.  Yet there have been times when I do not appear to have heard you.  There have been times where I have let you down.  Why is that so? You ask.

The topic of prayers is a tricky one, but I want to start out by saying this.

I hear all prayers, and I answer each one perfectly.

Does that surprise you?  If you know me, then you won't be surprised.  Your prayers are windows to your soul.  When I receive a prayer from you, I look at it and see what it is you want.

Say that you are asking me for a new house.  That seems fairly straight forward.  I get this prayer a lot!

How then, do I answer this prayer?  When I look at you, I see that you want a place of your own, a place that you can call home while you are on earth.  That is what I see.  I see that you are asking me for a place of your own.  Therefore, I begin to work on answering your prayer.

After you have asked your prayer, keep your eyes open.  I often send you small signs that I am working on it.  It may be a thought, the words in a book or a newspaper.  It may the overheard words of a stranger, the words in a song, or a sign that you see while driving.  When I speak to you, it is in the little things.  Through words, images, books, movies, people, etc. (remember to test if they are love based!)

But there is a piece of knowledge that I would like to share with you.  It is said that I know what you will ask me before you even ask.  That is true.  I know what you ask me, even before you speak.

Because of this, I have already answered your prayer.  Everything you want, everything you need, is already on earth, waiting for you.  All you must do is seize it.  Even when you ask me for something, give thanks for it, because I have already given it to you.  You simply don't have it yet.

I tell you this loved one.  You are the greatest obstacle to your own prayers.  If you are impatient or demanding of an immediate answer, then you are most likely going to be disappointed. 

But if you are patient and trusting, then you will not be disappointed. 

I will say it again.  I answer each prayer perfectly.  Sometimes however, the answer you get may not be the one you are looking for.  Let's use the house example again.  You ask me for a house, and then you go back to your everyday life.  Months go by, and nothing happens.  You wonder if I heard you.  Yet, during this time, you get a small nudge, a feeling that you should go out and look.

That feeling is me, talking to you, guiding you.  If you act on it, and go out looking for a house, then already your prayer is close to being finished.  If you go out, find a realtor, and work with him or her to find a house, then you are getting even closer to your goal.

In the end, after looking and working for a house, you get one.  Your prayer has been answered.  But notice something here.  You did the majority of the work yourself.  I just nudged you along. 

In doing so, you learned about self-worth, work, and working with other people.  So, in a way, I did answer your prayer.  In the process, I helped you learn some valuable lessons that you can use. 

If I could say one thing in regard to prayer, it would be this:  The answer you get may not be the one you want or expect.

When you pray, I send you what you need most at that time.  I send you what is most beneficial for you.

Perhaps you have had financial trouble.  Perhaps you have been in debt.  You ask me for help, and I give it.  I nudge you into working to pay it off.  I whisper that you might want to stop using those credit cards that you abuse.  I encourage you to work hard to pay off your debts.  But even as you are working, I too am working with you, guiding resources towards you that you can use for your benefit.  I do not leave you without resources when you work.

In the end, when you are finally free of your debt, look at what you have learned.  You have learned the value of wise spending.  You have learned that you have the power within you to solve your problems.  I nudged you and sent resources, and that was the answer to your prayer.

My answer was helping you to learn that you can solve the problem with my help.  Don't expect to get off something without working on it.  That very rarely, if ever, happens.  By taking control, asking me for help, and working on your problem as best you can, you are doing wonderful things! 

It takes great courage to look at your problems and work on solving them.  So many these days do everything they can to avoid their problems.  They blame others, deny their own responsibility and avoid work to solve the problem.

Let's say that your house is threatened by a fire and you pray for me to protect your house.  Yet, your house burns down anyway.  Where is my answer?  My answer may not have come yet.  But because you lost things you valued, you get the opportunity to realize to count your blessings, to give thanks for what you have.  You will need others to help you.  And when you accept people's offer of help, you can learn that people are more important then possessions.  As a result, you are stronger then before, and you are better off. 

Often the answers to your prayers are lessons. 

But when you ask for my help, I start nudging you towards your problem, whispering in your ear that I am with you to help you fix your problem.  When the two of us work together, when you are open with me, then we can solve any problem.

When you are open enough to let me know that you need my help, when you are open enough to let me work through you, then there is nothing you cannot solve, no problem that cannot be fixed.

*

Our walk has been gentle and smooth so far, is it not?  I chuckle when people are surprised at how easy this path can be.  So many expect me to make them break their backs toiling away for me.

These people do not understand me, or my nature.  As I have said before (you have been paying attention so far, haven't you?) so many see me with fear covered eyes.  They see me as the great cop in the sky, waiting to bust them for whatever misdeed they have done. 

So many see me as punishing.  Ministers and priests say that I must punish people for their "sins".  They say that I weep when I send sinners to hell, even though I love them.

I want to come clean with you, and the world, right now my child.  I do not punish.  I never punish anyone.  Instead, I love.

I do not punish.  I love.

I will never, ever punish you for anything.  In my eyes, you are all perfect, innocent children, making simple mistakes as they walk around in life.  It is not in my nature to punish my children.

I am not surprised if you cannot take this answer.  You believe that I must punish mistakes.  Why?  Do you expect a mother to spank her toddler when it fails to walk on its first time?  Or the time after that?  Or the time after that?

You are all still learning how to walk, and I do not punish you when you fall down.  I never send any soul to hell (or to heaven for that matter).  I will never send anyone away from me, to be separated from me forever.  The notion that I will cast some away from me for all eternity is wrong!  I love everyone too much to do that.

You ask why I do not punish, and here is my answer.  You all seem to do a pretty good job of punishing yourselves.  You can wallow in your misery for years, for decades.  You love punishing each other for trivial matters.  In your world, judgment is very common.  In my world, there is no judgment. 

Did you notice how I said "I never send any soul to hell"?  The reason why is because you send yourself there.

I have made it so that each person, regardless of religion, faith, or creed, has an equal chance to go to either heaven or hell.  The simple factor in deciding where you'll go is how much you love!  As I have said before, if you are a kind, caring, and all-around good person, you will go to heaven.

If you are a cruel, unkind, and all-around unpleasant person, then you can go to hell.

I make no judgment whatsoever on anyone.  I let my children go where they want to.  Sometimes they may go to an unpleasant place, and it breaks my heart to see them there.

Do you think I am happy when some of my children are in hell?  So many think that those in hell have been eternally abandoned by me.  Yet they are not.  I never stop working to help them get out, but we will come to this later on down the trail.

The point I want to make with you is that you never have to fear a punishing God.  I am a God of love, not a God of punishment. 

A good way to look at this is that you will reap what you sow.  If you truly want to be punished, then it will be by the fruit that you reap by your actions.  If you are hateful, then you will be hated by others.  If you are judgmental, then you will be judged by others.

Can you see what I am getting at?  You, not me, bring "punishment" upon yourself.  There is no such thing as "The wrath of God".  It does not exist. 

I am always forging, always willing to forgive you of whatever mistake you have made.  Even if you murder and butcher millions (which will bring you untold grief later on), I am still willing to forgive you.

Many of you see me as your big parent in the sky.  I am not your parent.  I am simply your creator.  And because you are my creations, I do love you so much!

But do not make the mistake that this means you are free to go off and do whatever you want, knowing that I am ready to forgive whatever it is you do.  If your civilization followed this model, then there would be anarchy and chaos. 

What it does mean is that if you do not fear me anymore, then you are free to go and make the world a better place without fear of me punishing you.

In your world, look at what you are trying to achieve.  The general desires seem to be world peace, love, and acceptance.  Those are noble goals, ones that are well within your reach.  But you will not reach these goals by sowing bad fruits. 

The bottom line in the idea of a punishing God is that you, and the world, will reap what you sow.  If you go out sowing hatred, exclusiveness, superiority, and fear, then you and your world will be in trouble.  Sowing these seeds yourself sets you down a very hard path to me, one that can take ages to overcome.  If you sow superiority, hatred and fear, then there is a very good chance you may find yourself in hell.

But if you sow anything that comes from love, then you are doing well!  You are helping to make the world a better place!

Here then, are my words to you regarding the idea of a punishing God.

God does not punish anyone, ever.  A person punishes him or herself by the fruits that they have sown via their actions. 

 *

I sense that you are thinking about what I have just said.  That is good.  Doubt, uncertainty and pondering are good signs.  They are signs that you are thinking, that you are not taking everything you read to be truth. 

Think about what you have read.  When we are finished with this path, think about what you have read.  Think about everything I say.  Do not take it as fact, as truth.  Test it.  Think about it.  Then test it again.

Let us take a short break next to this lake.  Let us sit by the cool water.  Let us sit under the majestic trees, who shade us with their branches.

Sit for a moment, and listen to the sounds of nature around you.  Listen to the birds chirping their songs.  Listen to the gentle breeze going through the branches.  Listen to the sounds of nature.

Do you hear them, my beloved?  The forest is greeting you.  Nature, in all her beauty, is saying hello.

The natural world is ready to greet you at a moment's notice.

Ah, look my beloved!  Over there, in the trees.  Do you see them?  The large numbers of people walking down that path? 

Who are they, you wonder?  Those people are Christians.  They are walking down one of the most used paths in this forest.  That path is very well traveled.  Ah!  I sense another opportunity for a lesson here.

Have you though the question yet?  Who is it that built all these paths through the forest?  Was it me?

No, it was not me.  But I was the one who inspired them.  I inspired the brave souls who went through the forest, creating these paths that many walk upon even now.

Notice my child, how wide the path of Christianity is.  Who made it?  If you answered Jesus, then you are correct.  But I ask you this.  Do you understand exactly what Jesus did?  If you believe you know, please stop for a moment and think about it.

Do you really know what Jesus did?

I am here to tell you, and I will tell you now.

Who was the man you called Jesus?  So many believe that he is the savior of the world, and in a way that is true.  When Jesus came to the earth, he was giving everyone a path back to God.  He gave you an example of living that you can use to understand me.

It sounds very simple, and it is.  Jesus was not being driven by his ego when he said, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the father except through me."  What he was really saying was, "If you want to know God as I know God, then follow me.  Live the type of life that I have lived.  Follow what I have taught you, and you will know God."

What was it that Jesus taught?  Again, that is simple.  Jesus taught about the overwhelming importance of love.  He taught that love is the most important commandment, and he was correct.  All the great religions teach this.

What type of life did Jesus live?  A life of love, acceptance, tolerance and forgiveness.  Therefore, if you follow Jesus's lifestyle, then you are following in his footsteps.  You don't need to be a Christian to do this.  You can be from any religion and follow in the footsteps of love.

If you follow in the footsteps of love, then you are "saved". 

Again, love is more important then religion.  Love is more important and more useful then Christianity, or any religion for that matter.  If you love others, if you love life, and if you love yourself, then you are on the fast track to heaven.

Let me put in another way that might be helpful to you.  Jesus understood that he and I were one, just as I am one with you.  Jesus knew that the people of his day would not be able to accept that.  Therefore, Jesus invited all those who couldn't believe in me to believe in him, and follow his lifestyle of love and acceptance.  His offer has been accepted for thousands of years.

Love is light.  Light is God.  God is in Jesus as God is in everyone.  Therefore, if you follow Jesus, you are following me.  If you follow love, then you are following me.  If you follow the will of God (love) then you are following me.

Let me continue.  Loving others is the same as being a disciple of Jesus ("By this [love] all humans will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.")  Loving others is the same as following Jesus (And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.").

Jesus taught the truth, which is law. The law is love.  Love is God.    

Jesus=love=God.  All three are interchangeable. 

You will not get to heaven by worshipping Jesus.  You will not get to heaven by obeying a book.  You will get to heaven by following the truth, and the truth is love.

It is an intricate circle.  Loving your fellow man is the equivalent of loving me and following in Jesus's footsteps.  Loving me is the equivalent of following Jesus.  Following Jesus is the same as following me.

Do you get the picture now, little one?  Do you understand Jesus now?  He "saved" you all by being an example of how to live, and how to get to know me.  He taught the overwhelming importance of love. 

Jesus was a role model for all of you.  He was an example of how you can all live, if you so choose so.  As Jesus was my son, so are all of you my sons and daughters, if you wish to put it that way. 

Was Jesus an utterly perfect human being?  That is not important.  I will tell you that while Jesus was a very highly evolved spirit, he was still in the body of a human, and thus occasionally made mistakes.  He learned and grew, just as you have done.

But know that Jesus did not make mistakes when it came to love.

Look now, and see how many continue on that path through the forest.  Yet many are not sure of why they are walking that path, or what they need to do is walk it.  Many are afraid, yet in time they will see the truth of love.  Does your Christian bible say that while fear is the beginning of wisdom, perfect love casts out fear?  Therefore, those who fear me on are on the path to the wisdom of love. 

Because so many love seeing quotes from the Christian bible, let me continue with some of extreme importance.  These ones, in particular, should be very useful, beginning with the most important quote in the entire Christian bible:

Love is the way to eternal life (Luke 10:25-28)

God is love (1 John 4:16). God is the Source of love. God loves everyone in the whole world (John 3:16).

Is that clear enough my child?  I can't see how much clearer I can say it!  Here are some more passages that speak of the good news for the world!

God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (1 Tim. 2:3-4)

And all mankind will see God's salvation. (Luke 3:6)

[God] is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)

For men are not cast off by the lord forever.  Though he brings grief (for your information, this is not true), he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. (Lam. 3:31-32)

No plan of yours can be thwarted. (Job 42:2)

I am surprised that more people do see the connection between the salvation of all, and how my will cannot be thwarted.  Therefore, if I want everyone to be saved, do you think my will can be thwarted? 

I'll let you think about that for a moment.

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Are you finished?  You have been given a wonderful gift, the knowledge that all will be saved.  And the proof of that is in one of your most popular holy books no less!

I hope you see the lesson here my beloved.  Love is the way to eternal life.  And I am love.  And my will for all to be saved cannot be thwarted. 

Take comfort in those words my beloved.

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As we sit here, look at the other paths around us.  Do you see the other large ones?  Those are the paths of other major religions.  If you look closely, you will see the path of Islam.  You will see the path of Buddhism.  You will see the path of Mormons, and so many others.

Now, do you notice something else about all these paths?  All of the paths that religions walk lead back to me.  They all head towards the mountain.  Yet so many do not see this.  Many believe that their path is the only path to me, that all other paths are false.

I tell you this my beloved.  All paths will eventually lead to me.  Every path will lead the person to the mountain.  While some paths may get a person there quickly, others take an extremely long time to get to the destination.

Do you see that the Buddhists and the Christians are walking on very similar paths?  Both are quite close to each other, and both are heading towards the same destination.  They just happen to see their path differently from each other.

And see, little one, all the other, smaller paths that are between the religions.  These are individual paths, carved by those who have walked on them and come home to me.  They are always open to others.  No path is ever closed. 

Right now, you are walking on a path that has been walked by another. 

There is a lesson here that all would be wise to learn.  If all the world would learn that all paths eventually lead to me, then there would be much more acceptance, and much more tolerance between all the peoples of the earth.  No more would religions bicker about each other, sometimes resorting to violence.

The best religion is the one that encourages and supports, not the one that dominates and controls.  Have you heard that the kingdom of heaven is within?  This is a true statement.  One cannot find heaven, peace, or love, unless they find it within themselves. 

Good religions take that desire to find God and support it.  They nourish it, encouraging that desire to grow.  You will not raise a healthy rose by controlling and dominating it.  You will make it blossom by gently supporting and encouraging it. 

Do you remember what I said earlier, about how fear is the beginning of wisdom?  Right now your religions have much fear in them.  Fear is the weapon that they use the most, along with threats.  Have you noticed how many followers of religion are afraid of new beliefs? 

Do your best to be compassionate to those who attack other beliefs different from their own.  For they are very afraid, and trying to find their way.  They are so afraid of change that they will do anything and everything within their power to stay where they are. 

Yet love drives out fear, and love is wisdom.  Those who fear have not yet found love.  Those who fear me fear punishment.  Yet love has nothing to do with punishment, and I am love. 

Those who fear will find the way eventually.  Even as you may have feared, you are now growing into the ways of love, and love will replace your fear.  Even the religions and the churches will find love, for even as they are afraid, they are growing wise and they will learn love.

You are all one body, one group, one people, regardless of color or creed.

You are all coming back to me, some faster then others, and some more wise then others.  Be compassionate and gentle with each other, for each person you meet is fighting a hard battle.  It can be hard to find me and understand me.  But I am not hard.  I am love!

You are all, at one time or another, frightened of me.  You fear, and you want love.  When you see those who are afraid, be love, and you will help them.  Support and encourage them.  Nudge them gently towards my all-accepting love. 

You have the possibility to change a life forever if you gently guide others to my love!