God said:

Methinks you do think too much. With your thoughts, you may be like a dog chewing a bone. You can't get enough of chewing your thoughts. You ask yourself such questions as:

"Why am I in a slump? Why can't I be happy and stay happy once and for all? Why must I analyze so much all the time? Why do I think I must figure out my life? Why can't I just live my life in joy and not question it? What is it exactly that I believe I must know? Do I have a gene in me that insists I question? Questioning has been a way of life for me to analyze and find fault, hasn't it?

"Couldn't I be a comfort to myself rather than a poser of questions wherein I go round and round and not really get anywhere? Oh, yes, every once in a while I have insights and breakthroughs, and I begin to think that I've arrived, yet the outcome of my being so sure I've arrived is that I seem to be knocked down again sooner or later and find myself in shambles.

"What makes me think I need all the answers? I love to live in rain and in snow. I love to feel alive and beloved no matter what the weather. I long to become a grateful human being in summer and winter. What is this within me that I think I must be well-received all the time everywhere, and be so disappointed when I am not?

"God states that He loves me, loves us all. Can I not then be content?

For many, many years now, a movement popularized by Oprah, Gratitude has been a buzz word. There is in fact such a buzz around it that it often falls upon deaf ears.

Many of us, including myself, have become desensitized to the concept of gratitude. This is not to say that I am not grateful. I live in complete gratitude each and every day. It has just taken me some time to learn to be grateful toward gratitude.

I would even call myself a gratitude junkie now. When I wake up each morning I thank the day and the sun and my soft cotton sheets. I thank myself for being me. It may sound a bit strange but it comes so naturally to me that I’m no longer trying to be grateful I just am.

You do not need to fret about becoming whatever it is you need or want to be. It is and always has been within you. Just believe. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/it-has-always-been/

It is true that from the perspective of unity consciousness what you do for another serves the whole. Why then do we advocate self love so much? Because it is through embracing yourself, your divinity, with acceptance and love that you will finally be willing to include yourself in that whole, and accept the love and assistance that has always been there for you. It is what shifts you into giving yourself permission to receive and see yourself as equally worthy and deserving. The universe has always been there for you, it is your own willingness to see yourself as worthy of the experience of that love that has been lacking. Simply put, it is your self love that will open the floodgates of a deeper experience of all love, for it ends your self-imposed separation. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2016/08/09/daily-message-tuesday-august-9-2016/

God said:

You live your life. You don't set out to be a hero. You don't become a hero ahead of time. In a trice, you may become a hero, even as you never began to know you had it in you.

Everyone has the makings of a hero within. It takes some opportunity for your heroism to appear. It is another person or persons who bring you the opportunity to bring out the hero in you.

There are also the little daily occasions that lead you a to silent heroism. You are not a martyr. You are not. You are not long-suffering. You choose to give your heart to calm others. You may not even call what you give as patience, for it seems natural to you to bestow peace upon others. You see your life as an occasion for Vastness of a kind wherein you respond calmly to those who may appear temperamental and impatient with you. You see others in a different light from the way you used to see others in, for you are not the person you used to think you were.

Perhaps it is enough to say that others may see their own hasty reflection in you. They may be impatient or even intolerant with you, whereas you may see your own reflection in them. Now you are able to give them the regard for themselves they long for.