God said:

            The world sees suffering. Suffering is an attribute pasted on. Also passed on. Call suffering ignorance. Would Christ see ignorance? It is the greatest compassion to see My children as they are, not as they, in their ignorance, think they are.

            So many of My children are caught in the past, as though what they have always thought must be what they continue to think, what their parents thought must be their thoughts, that what the world thinks must they think. The world says compassion is witnessing and taking on another’s suffering. I say, Don’t take it on. Don’t see it. See truth. Communicate truth, not suffering. Uphold suffering? Concede to it? Give up truth for it?

I say, Erase suffering. Don’t delineate it, analyze it, nor accredit it.

That is not the same as ignoring where someone is in his perception. But it is not to get caught in it. It is not lack of compassion to go beyond suffering to Truth.

When a child cries over a toy fire truck broken or taken from him, you do not sit down and weep with him. You give him a hug, and you know that his suffering is not real. You know that the truck is a small thing in the lode of life. What he really wants is your love anyway. He wants a vision bigger than his own.

This you must give.

Certainly it does not have to be words.

Words may well not work. Probably won’t. You cannot talk someone out of his hold on suffering.

But commiseration, sympathy, and pity are poor things. Poor unfortunate substitutes for truth. Silence is better.

Where are you going to put your attention? Where do you? The other person has choice, has made a choice. Make yours.

Put not your attention on suffering. Put your attention on Truth. My children are immersed in the ignorance of suffering. Suffering is a costume. Nothing more. One can choose to suffer or not. You can choose to wear suffering or to wear Truth.

Do you suffer when it rains? You know the Sun is there, not revealed at the moment, but there. The Sun is shining. That is ultimate. Rain is temporary. Tears are like rains that fall. You cannot cry forever. Rain stops.

Cease to think that suffering is virtuous. It has no virtue beyond turning your attention to Me. But joy can bring you to Me faster.

When you weep with another, you are making your individuality supreme and are wasting your energy. I do not weep with My children. I make the Sun to shine instead.

If you are steeped in someone’s suffering, how does that help him get out of it?

Which is bigger? Suffering or love? Suffering or vision? Feeling sorry for yourself or another is not big. It is enclosing. It is limiting. It is not a great thing to feel sorry for another. It is a small controlling thing.

How do you benefit another without the cost of your own hide? Give My love, not your own. Leave alone what was. Let it be. Choose now. Be. Be. Pure being does not weep. Pure being knows only the beauty of itself expressed everywhere. Remember eternity. Remember the ocean does not weep for its waves that lap the shore, for it knows they come back.