About "experiences"

Experiences come when they come, and they don't come when they don't come.

Just last night, someone I met recently told me that she had had no idea about spirituality. She said that she used to be a self-serving person, grumpy, negative, fault-finding.

Five years ago she was in bed and suddenly, so unexpectedly, she saw brilliant bright light AND a sense of being lifted up above the bed.

Of course, the experience lasted for a short few moments. Then it ended and was over. It was such a surprise to her.

No words were said to her during this experience, but the message she got loud and clear was that she was to become a nice person. So simple! And so she has. She said she loves people now, and it matters to her to simply be nice and helpful.  For five years now, she has been.

She also felt, as a result of her experience, that she has a higher purpose, that she is supposed to do something good for the world, and she doesn't know what it is. "I have a real purpose here on Earth. Only I don't know yet what it is."

But just that is wonderful, isn't it? What a wonderful thing to be looking for -- a purpose! A way to serve God and the world.

Of course, it seems to me that being a nice person is a wonderful purpose, and, yet, with God, there is always more.

Before Heavenletters™,  I didn't have a sense of purpose, nor was I looking for a purpose.  I was just bobbing around in life, thinking about myself, my happiness or my unhappiness and all that.

Yet somehow, miraculously, now I have a purpose, and it is Heavenletters, and it is Godwriting™. It seems to me that a purpose was handed to me.  Of course, I grabbed it too.

God in Heavenletters makes it clear that we don't have to have experiences. See Heavenletter #465, Then What? http://www.heavenletters.org/then-what.html  It would seem that experiences come on their own. Innocent is the way. Spontaneous is the way. Striving is not the way.

A time did come, however, when I did so want to know God. Well, does anyone want to be ignorant?!!