An Excerpt from July 27, 2008

No explanation necessary other than: My comments are in this color and God's responses are in this color.

So what’s on your mind?

You and Oregon.

How so?

You are worried.

I am always worried. I am not sure that your attempt to comfort/calm me works. Discussion about Oregon often make me feel anxious and often – frustrated.

What you mean is that it causes you to hope. Do you really fear to hope?

I guess I do. No, no that’s not right. I know I fear to hope. Or maybe I like to hope in secret.

You fear to hope because you do not want to be disappointed again.

True enough. Is that such a bad thing? I found it easier to stay in the moment and just let it unfold if I don’t get quite so involved.

How can you not be involved?? After all, it is you who is going to receive the book.

I will be glad – honored beyond belief – to receive your book. It is the process of getting there that I am not enjoying. I would have to check my past writings but it has been at least three years and maybe even five years that we have been discussing this. Many times I have gotten my hopes up only to be disappointed. I would rather wait until it unfolds rather than be disappointed – again. Frankly, you are not very accurate in your timing.

I beg to differ. My timing is perfect as everything about me is perfect. It is your interpretation of my timing that is inaccurate. Be that as it may

EXCUSE ME! I hate to interrupt

You don’t hate to interrupt anymore than I do. (Irony intended.)

Be that as it may

Cute. You are being very cute this morning.

May I continue?

Heaven forbid that I interrupt your interruption.

In these many writings you have, indeed, named specific times that I would be moving and I am still here.

I can answer this in two ways. One, I will remind you that you receive my message through your filter of reality. It may be your who is projecting these time lines. You often speak of your feelings of a timeline. I often go along with that because it serves my purpose or more accurately, my purpose of the moment, my purpose of that one writing.

That feels like such a bullshit answer. Never try to bullshit a bullshitter.

Trust me. I am the ultimate bullshitter. As I am the ultimate of anything and everything. You have no idea what my bullshitting looks like – trust me – I have not and am not currently bullshitting you. But I will remind you that I will use every means available to me to communicate my message – and yes, that means I would bullshit you if I deemed it necessary. I would even lie to you.

Stop. Stop right there. There is no way that anyone reading this is going to believe that God just said that – that God would lie if necessary. God does not lie. Period. God is truth. God does not lie.

You are correct. God does not lie but there can be truth in a lie if it serves my purpose. If telling you that you are moving in the spring or fall or whatever season I state is not true in the moment that I tell you so but serves the purpose of preparing ultimately for that trip – does that not serve the truth of purpose?

Let’s just say that I get that – and I’m not saying I do – but if I did – then how am I to trust these writings? How am I trust that I am actually going to retire and move to Oregon at the first of the year? How am I to trust these writings? How am I to trust that I am hearing the voice of God?

You can’t. I’m making all of this up. So are you. You are making this all up. Don’t you remember this from the Conversations With God material? We both are making this all up. We are holding this conversation because that is how you created it.

I should offer an explanation about God lying. This writing was ten pages long and this is another excerpt from this writing.

I guess it is time we discuss the statement you made earlier.

Yes, I guess it is. You understand why I said I would lie if necessary?

It took me a bit because that statement is contrary to my beliefs and my experience.

Really? Maybe you miss the point of why I said it.

Ok. Okay. So I admit that I have thought you have lied to me at times.

Not in the moment of hearing my words but when certain events have not come true?

Exactly.

Do you remember our discussions about being a prophet and being a false prophet? Do you remember what you learned about being a prophet from other sources as well?
That if a prophet gives a reading – that is receives what he receives – and that information is used to change the circumstances that reading was about and the prophecy does not come true then the prophet may be appear as a false prophet but has served his purpose nonetheless. He spoke the truth in the moment.

Stay tuned for other excerpts.