All that I am, you are. All that you are, I am. You are precious to me. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/precious/

Dear Ones, please understand that as your grow and evolve it is a process – one that happens one shift at a time. We urge you to be kind and gentle with yourself through that process!

So many of you learn a new concept and then expect yourself to be absolutely perfect in the implementing of it. For example, you will learn about the correlation between your thoughts and your reality and then you will pressure yourselves incredibly to have no negative thoughts at all and then berate yourselves when you cannot comply to that immediately.

It is unreasonable and unrealistic to expect yourselves to master anything new immediately. You would not start piano lessons and be upset that you could not play Mozart right away, would you? Your growth, like the growth of all things, is designed to be gradual – a beautiful unfolding that is the result of new choices and accumulated practice. Perfection never has been, and never will be expected from you.

If you wish to make big changes in your lives, understand that it is by adding new things, new ideas, new explorations, that you open the door to start shifting into the experience of more of those things. That is what first sets the intention, adds your action to it, and through your practice, starts to anchor the energy of it. And by doing it bit by bit, before you know it you will have become far more comfortable with it, and it will have become part of your natural habits and choices. It is important to remember that no one is grading your progress!

God said:

You are here on Earth for far more than to survive. Survive has taken on the meaning of barely making it through, just getting by, going through great trials perhaps, running through a gauntlet, or crawling through a desert and not dying of thirst. Surviving, as it is understood today, isn't much, perhaps hanging on by your teeth. In My book, surviving isn't meant to mean hanging on by your teeth.

Super in Latin carried the meaning of super, over, above, more. Vivere means to live. Survive meant far greater than mere survival. Let's substitute the word thrive. It is My desire that you thrive on Earth.

I put it to you that you are to enjoy your sojourn, not make the best of it as it is understood, but to have a good time as you learn the ins and outs of living on Earth. Making the best of dreariness is not My dream for you. My dream for you is opening up the sky for you and embracing you to Me and Our Kingdom of Heaven.

Set your sights higher. You are meant to lift the world. You can do this by living in Joy, in Joy for the good of all. By no means are you to relinquish Joy – to give it up or to never have it as if this were by some stretch of the imagination good for your soul.

There is no merit in lackluster. There is no merit in suffering. There is merit in Joy. How can you give Joy unless you have Joy within you to give?