A Habit of Godwriting

"One of the many things I enjoy about Godwriting™ is that there is no pressure to Godwrite. There is no routine. You always said, write only when you feel to. I find that very liberating and unusual, yet it feels just right.""

Well, beloved One, I did not quite say that! I hope I didn't say that! I hope I didn't say: "Write only when you feel to!"

On the other hand, I can't tell anyone: "You must write every morning." I can't insist on it. Godwriting is not an obligation.  Obligation doesn't work. I hope I wouldn't pressure anyone into Godwriting. At the same time, I can't say enough that it's a good idea to have a routine of Godwriting.

I mean, we don't wait to brush our teeth until we feel like it. We also don't give great thought to brushing our teeth. We don't have to ask ourselves: "Hmm, should I brush my teeth now?" And then have to make a decision about it.

Somewhere within ourselves, we make the choice to Godwrite. I think it's easier to make the choice once, and then it's made. Having to decide every time can be wearing.

It's just simpler to brush our teeth every morning and every night. And if we want to brush more often, that's fine, too. We don't HAVE to, yet we may want to.

The thing is: If we waited for an impulse to brush our teeth before we did, how often would we brush our teeth!

Yet the practice of Godwriting has to be a choice each of us makes for ourselves.  I think we are really saying the same thing. You wrote regarding your yoga practices:

I noticed that I only receive the fruit of the practice when I practice! There is something about choice here. Initially I chose to meditate. Now I find the that the choice has less and less to do with it, like how a tree “chooses” to bear fruit and give shade. Those two qualities, fruit bearing and shade giving, are part of the trees nature. What I feel is that meditation becomes part of my nature.

I think there is something that has to make a choice and as that something gets less, so too does the choice. That “something” could be called awareness. When the awareness is greater, there is less to choose and more to be.

Does one have to go through a process to Godwrite? Like should I make a decision to put pen to paper and listen? I think the nature of my awareness resonates with some kind of decision to practice. By making that decision to Godwrite I am empowered to shift things in my life to make space for Godwriting. Maybe that would be the process for me before Godwriting becomes a part of my nature.

 Are we not saying the same thing!

Then you ask:

Is Godwriting a choice for you? Is it a practice for you?

Beloved One, I have no choice. I am compelled. At this point, I would not know how to live without Godwriting. I get out of bed in the morning and run downstairs to Godwrite. For someone who would say she doesn't like rules and routine, I sure love to get up to Godwrite. I love doing it first thing. I love Godwriting, and I love talking about Godwriting.

Yet if it were not my practice to Godwrite, would I have come to love it so much?

What do other people get up for? To have breakfast, I suppose. So Godwriting is like my breakfast.

But not only do I get up to have my breakfast, I'm in the privileged position of making a breakfast of Godwriting for a family of thousands who like to read Heavenletters.

It helps to have an audience. Please don't think that I Godwrite to please an audience.  I Godwrite on God's behalf. Yet knowing that others may be waiting for God's words is also a great motivation and adds to the joy, and the fact is: Godwriting is meant to be shared.

I have to wonder, if there were no readers of Heavenletters, would I write a Heavenletter down every day as I do now? I don't know the answer. I do know that I am enriched by writing down Heavenletters and knowing that others get some good from them.

In line with the idea of sharing, I have strongly encouraged people who have taken  Godwriting workshops to send in their Godwriting. It was Bev Allen, a consistent Godwriter, who thought of the name Heavenpetals™ for individual Godwriting.  Isn't Heavenpetals a great name? You can find examples of Heavenpetals on this blog.

For the most part, Godwriters have been shy about sending in their Godwriting. Once we can get an online Godwriting workshop going, I'm thinking that people will get accustomed to sharing their Godwriting with other Godwriters on a special site.  I could weep for all the beautiful Heavenpetals that haven't been shared.

Now, getting back to the idea of Godwriting on impulse, sometimes an impulse comes. It comes as if by itself without asking for it. I can be doing dishes, for example, and then an impulse comes, and I must stop doing dishes and run to the computer to write down what wants to be written down. I love this when it happens.

There have been days when two Heavenletters come and sometimes three. It's wonderful when a Heavenletter pushes its way through like that, when the impulse is so strong and unmistakable. Yet if I waited for such an impulse before sitting down to Godwrite, I think Godwriting would be sparse. It's definitely a good idea to get into a habit of Godwriting.

And you had one more question:

The words flow regardless of where you are, what your state is, or the environment. Was it always like that?

Tomorrow, okay?

And I look forward to more of your questions!