Imagine yourself smiling as you watch your children sleep. So too does He watch over you with absolute love. Regardless of what you choose to see as true, regardless of how you view Him or dream of Him, He waits patiently for you to awaken. You might scream or kick Him, but He understands that you dream, and that you are simply reacting to a dream. He embraces you with perfect love and acceptance. He strokes your head, and although you sleep, you feel His love. And deep within, although you sleep, you are grateful for His love. My friend, you will awaken! And when you do, you will awaken to a place you have never left.

Some of you have a difficult time believing that God loves you unconditionally. You look at your life, having experienced pain, guilt, anger, suffering, envy, lust and jealousy, and ask, ‘How could God really love me if I am all those things and more? How could God lovingly hold me in his arms while I experience such emotions?’ Remember, God is looking at you while you sleep. He also knows what you are like when you are awake (yes, we are still talking about God, not Santa Claus). He created you in His image. If you choose to believe God knows you not, then allow as true that God knows Himself. If He knows Himself, then he knows His image and if He knows His image, then He at least knows the truth about you.

You know the illusion you have chosen to create for your life. God knows who you have always been even if you don’t know who you are now. My friend, you dream, and in this dream you have made yourself into a character who can experience emotions such as pain, guilt, anger, suffering, envy, lust and jealousy. Yet, dreams and illusions are, by their very nature, temporary. In fact, your dream is but a blink of eternity’s eyes.

If you have not yet given birth to a son or a daughter, imagine creating such a being. Imagine the absolute love you would have for him or her. Now, imagine yourself suddenly judging or even hating this perfect creature because he or she chooses to blink. This is what you believe God could and is doing to you. Can you now begin to conceptualize the scale and magnitude of your illusion?  God’s love for you is changeless and eternal, and this life is a momentary blink in eternity’s eyes. Would you judge or hate your creation for blinking? Would God?

My friend, if God does not judge His creations, why would you ever want to judge them? God loves His creations, and if you do anything but love His creations, you will have a feeling of separation. The opposite of love is fear and fear is manifested through judgment. Judgment is the basis for separation, which is the ego’s goal. If you judge a brother or sister, be it in thought or action, you will create a sense of separation, which then results in feelings of guilt. Inwardly, you feel guilty because you judge what God loves and sees as perfect. If you judge what God loves, then, by definition, you have judged yourself. If you judge yourself without knowing that you are doing so, then you will create confusion. Once you experience enough confusion you will create a chaotic state.

A life lived in chaos and confusion will not bring about peace of mind and joy. Your tolerance for chaos and confusion may be high, but it is not without limit.

There comes a time for all of us when we say to ourselves, ‘there must be a better way, a better, more productive answer than chaos and confusion.’ And as you begin to question yourself, you start to awaken and remember your trueself. You realize and remember that just as confusion and chaos are the result of meeting your brother or sister with judgment, so too are peace of mind and joy the result of meeting your brother or sister with acceptance and love.