Friends and Family! September 8 Notes from Papa via Paul Gray

To my much-loved and highly adored child, who is also My very close friend,
I call you My friend because you are! I made you My friend and that will never change on My part. What I want so much in My relationship is for you to see Me as your friend and relate to Me as friends.
It’s hard for you not to think of yourself as My servant… but you aren’t and I never think of you as a servant. If I needed to have something… anything… done, I can make it be so with a thought! I don’t need servants… but I want friends! That’s why I created you!
Servants do things to keep their master from getting upset, but friends do things for each other because of mutual love and affection. Most servants do just enough to get by and then complain about their master to fellow servants. Friends delight in finding over-the-top ways to surprise and delight their friends because they love to see them enjoy life.
Servants have rules, codes of conduct, lists of tasks to perform and high expectations from their masters. Friends live freely, motivated by mutual love.
We are friends! I have made you My friend and taken away all your sin, transgressions and shortcomings, forgiven them in advance and don’t hold them against you precisely so that you can know and have total absolute assurance that there is never anything between Me and you in our loving friendship!
You have to know that, otherwise you’ll be afraid that if you somehow mess up, I’ll punish you. But there is no fear in love, fear has to do with punishment. So, I have removed any reason ever for you to fear Me.
We are friends and family. That’s the best and closest relationship ever. That’s us!
~Love, Papa.