God said:

Gentle. Be gentle to the world. Encompass the world with gentleness. Be tender love to the world. Give forgiveness before the event, and you will not take offense. Give forgiveness to everyone for everything. Giving forgiveness means that you will not take offense.

Sometimes you take offense before the offense. If you can cry before you are hit, you can love ahead of time as well. Your choice.

All of the world has not learned how to be a friend in advance. Much of the world has learned to be on guard, ever alert to prevent their being stepped on, trampled, offended.

Of course, I say it is better to be alert to embracing the world. It takes courage at the beginning to welcome everyone to you, sight unseen. Must it be scary to give acceptance ahead of time?

Some of My children, because of what they were taught or picked up somehow somewhere, learned to be ready for skirmishes. They had an aim in life to keep themselves safe from being taken advantage of. They learned to tense up, ready to be on the look-out for lack of respect.

Ah, pretty much, what you look for, you find. Look for reproach, and, by and large, reproach will be waiting there for you. Assume appreciation, and odds are appreciation will be lined up for you just as easily as well.

In any case, expect that which you desire.

Love is the most powerful force in your Earth plane existence. It does not matter if you take baby steps or quantum leaps…..the only thing that matters is that you love. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/the-only-thing-2/

Constraining yourself creates discomfort, as your soul is always seeking to grow and expand. Attempting to constrain others, will create discomfort in your relationship with them and will ultimately cause them to have to reject you in order to honour the freedom the soul is seeking.

Dear Ones, control simply cannot get you where you want to be, not for yourself, and not with others. Do not be afraid of freedom for it is freedom that will flow you right to your deepest desires and truest connections. The days of holding yourself back, keeping yourself small, and letting fear rule your life are over, and being replaced with creation, expansion, and embracing experience. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2016/06/24/daily-message-friday-june-24-2016/

God said:

The Sun clears the way for you. The Sun enters your heart and lights it up. In your mind right now, pick up the Sun in your hands and scoop the Sun into your heart. The Sun will fill your heart, and happiness will be yours.

There isn't anything you can't do with the Sun Emblazoned in Your Heart.

Where did you think the sun belongs if not in your heart? Vitamin D is all well and good, yet a blazing unmistakable sun in your heart is the Mainstay of a Bright Golden Orb from every heart shining out to every heart. This is love. This is You. This is what your heart is meant for – to send beacons of light, Light Crisscrossing from Heart to Heart.

And, of course, imagine too placing the Light of the Sun into your mind as well. When it comes to the Light of the Sun, your heart and mind are One, perfectly balanced and in tune with each other. Lit by the Sun, there is no argument between heart and mind. The heart and the mind don't tug at each other, trying to find themselves. Heart and mind are in perfect harmony. When there is harmony, where can disharmony exist?