Chuck Asks a Question

"When you sit down to write, do you have questions in your mind and have specific topics that concern you or do sort of say: 'Hi there, God, what’s up today?' Do you allow yourself to become a blank slate, or do you have specific intentions about the day’s writing?"

Chuck, I'm going to say that the answer is Both!

At the beginning of Godwriting™ for me, it was always my questions or my expressing what was going on with me. I always spoke first. I would pour my heart out, and then God would speak. Then I might speak again and God would respond again and so forth. Early Heavenletters™ were always conversations. Heavenletters were my questions and also became the questions of Heavenreaders. Heavenletters were very personal. That's how it was for a couple of years.

Then on November 17, 2000, there was HEAVEN! #1 11-17-00 The New Series of Heavenletters: God Speaks. That's when God said that Heavenletters were no longer to be built around personal stuff. God was going to speak first.

Here are excerpts of what God said that day:

Today you will sit back and be receptive and learn.

Today you will put yourself aside and listen to Me.

You do not need your agendas anymore.

You have been attached to your individuality, and now you will make way for Me.

You will go higher today. You will leave your past behind. You will not depend on your past so much anymore. You are making way for Me, and to do that, you (that which you imagine to be you) must get out of the way.

That is all you have to do. Move over. Then you allow Me.

Today get out of the way of yourself.

You are not the topic.

I am the topic.

Today you are learning what Thy Will be done means. At present you dig the earth with your fingers, and all the while there is a huge Mover at your disposal. You shovel with a stick when you only have to allow Me to open the earth. You draw fantasies with your stick and complain about what you have fantasized and question it and worry it from every which direction and ask for every description and analysis of it so that your will can be done, and, all the while, your will is a little stick.

Join with My Will and come from a higher wider place of great Truth and great Love. Do you really think the finite can overtake the Infinite? Be not attached to your small world. Open to Mine.

Please don't think that God was saying we should refrain from writing to Him about our personal stuff. He wasn't telling me or you that. He was saying that now Heavenletters -- just Heavenletters -- were going to be His agenda and not any individual's.

That was a little startling to me, but from then on, I kept my little self out of Heavenletters.

Now when I sit down  to write down a Heavenletter, I have no idea what the Heavenletter is going to be about. It's like I take a big breath, and just let it roll. I write down the first words that I hear and then keep on.

Even so, there are times when there is something on my mind, and God seems to come in and address what is going on with me without my asking. Although a Heavenletter is for all  of us, it sure seems to me that God sometimes comes right in to set me straight on something. Do you know what I mean?

Concurrent with Heavenletter writing, there is also my personal Godwriting. This is where I go into my little stuff which, of course, usually feels big at the time.  I have loved doing my personal Godwriting. It's like checking in with God every day, and sometimes He says my name, and that is always sweet. It was definitely my desire to do personal Godwriting.

Little by little, it is less my desire. I have even had resistance to it. It's like I just don't want to talk about whatever it is I'm going through. Sometimes it felt like I was looking for a difficulty to write about, as if I have to have something troubling me to ask God about. Of course, sometimes, too, I write about wonderful things that are going on, and many of the personal Godwritings are centered on gratitude. It's just that Idon't want to go over my same personal issues over and over again. I'm tired of them.

Interestingly, the day I'm writing this blog, April 26, is the day Heaven #3075, There Is Vastness, came out. Here is the beginning: 

If you could let go of the little things that stick in your heart, how blessed the world would be.  I am speaking of the little peeves, the little events that capture you. 

That's pretty much what my personal Godwriting often was about.

Now I don't do personal Godwriting every day. Many days I do. When I have skipped personal Godwriting and come back to it, it feels so good that I have to ask myself: How can I ever miss even one day of it?!!! And yet I do.

When I sit down to write the day's Heavenletter every morning, I have no reservation. I just get right down to it in a kind of businesslike way!

And that's how my response to your question, Chuck, is that I do both. I don't exactly ask: "Hey, God, what's up today?" but I just wait for God to say something.

Thanks for your question, Chuck.