Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 377

Everything that emanates from Me is a gift

18th April 1847

[1] You would like a certain congratulation again, namely for your friend and brother Anselm H.-W. – but behold, what once applies with Me, that applies always and eternally. I am not to congratulate everybody, like silly people, for the birthday or name day. For only stupid people do this, who cannot give anything or mostly do not want to give anything, if they could also still give something, or those who want or at least would like to get something for congratulations.

[2] But I, Who can only give and not take anything from anybody, since everything is Mine anyway, which any man ever imagines to possess, cannot congratulate anyone, because everything that emanates from Me is a gift and impossibly ever a congratulation!

[3] To whom could I well wish some real happiness and not give it to him, but, as I said, merely wish it, as humans do? Or how could I congratulate someone some happiness, as if he had not received it from Me?

[4] But, if you would like to give something to somebody, and then went yourself to the gifted and would like to congratulate him on top of it, because he was so happy to receive such a lucky gift from you – wouldn't you therefore first have to laugh at yourself for such great stupidity, and should the gifted not consider you a near lunatic, if you would congratulate him yourself on top of that for what you have given him? This can sure be done by others, but not by the donor himself.

[5] But if it were already with humans and among humans very ridiculous and stupid to do such a thing, but what kind of face would it have only then, if I, the Lord and sole true Giver of all good gifts, did such a thing? Would not all the cows, oxen, calves, horses, donkeys and sheep climb up all the tops of the trees and laugh at Me together with all the world? Behold, behold, to demand such a thing from Me is in fact still very silly and ridiculous of you.

[6] I surely want to and can give A.H.-W. something, as I have already given him many things; but for a congratulation, such a gift should not be looked upon by you or anyone else; because as I said before, I can only give, but eternally never congratulate. Thus here also follows a gift, but no congratulation.