Beloved one, let us speak on a topic you know very well; at least, the words you know very well. We will speak of the Father: to trust in God. But in order to do that, you have to know who and what God is, and down through the ages, God has been defined in many different ways.

For a long time, you believed that God was separate from you. God was out there, somewhere, judging you. This is what your holy ones and your learned ones told you, and you needed to follow all of the rules and behave yourself; otherwise, there would be some kind of horrible retribution forever, even past the knowing of time.

So you had to follow all the rules and behave as the holy ones said you had to behave, or you would suffer forever. And because you felt these ones to be in authority, and knew of what they were speaking, you followed. When they said to jump, you jumped, and when they said to sit, you sat, and when they said to kneel in prayer, you did.