I saw a movie I liked a lot, Amal. 

In this movie, an orphan girl in India routinely begs. It is a racket — she has a boss etc. — yet, nevertheless, this is how she can eat. I do not know what else this child without anyone to love her could do.

It seems heartless not to give when someone begs, and it often doesn’t feel good to give either. Just reading about it, I feel guilty either way.

Even writing about this, I do not feel good. Writing about Franklin’s Garden felt so good, and I loved to read about his garden over and over again, and read over the comments again and again and look at the photos, too.

I feel the opposite writing this to the extent that I wonder if I should post this blog at all. God clearly tells us to focus on that which is uplifting.

The movie Amal is uplifting because Amal, the main character, is such a beautiful simple amazing serving soul.  Begging plays a very small part in the movie. The movie is really about giving service which Amal is just naturally wonderful at.

I wrote to God about this weighty subject, and He said:

God:  Remind yourself that problems of the world are not solved on the level of the problem.

Gloria:  You did not create begging.

God: I created capable people to see beyond where they see now. Consciousness is all.

And then in a Heavenletter™ not yet published, I found:

If you are a thirsty man in a desert, how are you going to find water for yourself when you believe that others must come to your aid? It is true that all are brothers, and all help one another, and yet each man must help himself. If you are thirsty and you see no solution but another’s coming to your aid, then you have limited your possibilities. If you are sure there is no other way, you have made it so. If you believe that water has to come to you from someone else’s hand, what water will you find on your own?

I remember how in Mutant Message Down Under when the Aborigines walk in the outback, water was a question of survival.  They believed they would find water, and so they did.

God further said:

Discouragement is understandable, yet it is not meant to be a way of life. Discouragement breeds discouragement. Have courage instead. Break the bonds that bind you. Open your heart to yourself. Blame no one. Rise.

What would I do if I were in a situation where I had no one and nothing?