Godwriting Moments
@font-face { font-family: Verdana; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 11pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 11pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 11pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } DIV.Section1 { page: Section1 } There is a Heavenletter™ that will come out February 2, 2009. 2009! Annette tells me it will be Heavenletter #2992. That's almost #3000. This may be hard to explain, but we already have 4,000 Heavenletters so #3000 will really be #5000! Can that be? Did I do the math right?
It took me almost three years of writing down Heavenletters before it occurred to me to number, or even date, Heavenletters. Unbelievable, isn't it!
But that wasn't what I was going to write about. It was this particular #2992 and the courage writing down Heavenletters sometimes takes.
Some take more courage than others. It's not that Godwriting™ is scary by any means. Godwriting is freeing. However, there are some subjects that feel risky, even dangerous, to me. I would stay away from them. God has no such reservations!
Sometimes in a Heavenletter, so a Heavenreader tells me later, God is talking physics! It's a good thing I didn't know this when I was writing down the Heavenletter. Because of my ignorance of physics, I would have felt nervous.
In the upcoming Heavenletter #2992, God has a different interpretation of the Garden of Eden. I personally see the Garden of Eden as a sacrosanct subject, all opened and closed, yet God sees from a perspective different from mine, and He has no trepidation about anything! I have heard that there are places where angels fear to tread, but not God. What a God! He'll go anywhere. Nothing is off limits to Him.
Heavenletter #2992 also begins with a few paragraphs that are obscure to me. I don't think they're about physics, but they might be. When God talks about matters that I am quite frankly ignorant of, I feel timid, and yet, such Heavenletters do arise. Do I really think that God needs me to know what He's talking about?!
Most of the topics of Heavenletters I am quite conversant with -- all the emotions, the trials and tribulations in human life, sadness, judgment, arguments, irritations, losing a job etc. God does take over, but at least, He is giving dictation on subjects that are known to me. Even though I am going along for the ride, I feel more comfortable when I have some familiarity with what God is talking about.
Sometimes I also have had a theory, one that comes and goes, and one that I don't really have a handle on. That possible theory is that I go through whatever I go through for the sake of Heavenletters, that perhaps I have to experience the whole range of humanity, if not in fact, then emotionally. I have never been in prison, but I feel the desolation a prisoner must feel, and so on.
That is not to say that I don't have my own stuff, yet sometimes I feel I have everyone else's stuff too.
This is a blurry theory, but it's kind of like I have to be the very human common person, not in order to Godwrite, because anyone and everyone can Godwrite, but in order to Godwrite on such a range of subjects and in order to feel compelled to write down a Heavenletter every day.
And then I wonder if it isn't that I have to experience what others experience but, rather, that we all experience alike anyway. Maybe it's everyone else who is experiencing, in one form or another, what I do. Perhaps we are all One even on the level of plain old humanness.
I wonder.
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I look forward to the Ground Hog Day Heaven Letter. It is always of interest to me when God gives His interpretation of a story or a statement.
There is the literal interpretation, which is probably where most people function, and sometimes God tells us what really happened. There is what you might call the allegorical interpretation, which comes up with meanings that are maybe where your soul might want to hang its hat.
And then sometimes God gives a spiritual interpretation that as often as not leaves me scratching my head a bit and wondering if maybe God isn't pulling my leg or watching to see how I react. You might call it The Rest of the Story.
Supposedly this all makes a lot more sense on the other side. I guess in anticipation of this coming Heaven Letter in a couple of months I'm thinking, "This oughtta be good!" But it's all good.
You know how rich and elegant your writing is. It reminds me of a beautiful tapestry, Charles.
This makes me think that tomorrow I should give a sneak preview of this Heavenletter.
Very interesting topic, Señora! I have sometimes wondered, Are there things God cannot say through Gloria or, for that matter, me? I remember reading long ago some channeled material in which the author quoted God as saying about the author herself: "She doesn't let me talk about this yet. We'll get there, but she isn't quite ready yet."
Certainly "we are all One even on the level of plain old humanness." If there is Oneness, nothing can be outside of it to make two. But there appear to be different filters for things we don't feel comfortable with and therefore try to avoid. "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." So, yes, the art of a true Godwriter, probably not learned the first day, is to let God say whatever is on His mind. Which is to say: Lend yourself tho whatever your soul/spirit wants to say, no matter how contrary it may seem to what your persona has been taught and agreed to take as true, appropriate, sacrosanct etcetera. We all have these areas, but isn't it always an exhilarating experience to watch God walk where angels fear to tread? Personally, I don't think that angels fear to tread anywhere. We do, and for very good reasons. Ego fears, and ego tends to trample. Ego wants God at arm's length. And yet I feel I love Him the most when He gets really outrageous. That's where I really want to be too, even if I'm still afraid of it.
Yes, all human experience is experienced by every "single" one of us. We know more of it today than we did yesterday, and we will know more of it tomorrow -- until we can only say, "Yes, I am what you are."
[Gloria, I don't understand "all opened and closed" in this sentence: " I personally see the Garden of Eden as a sacrosanct subject, all opened and closed..." Could you explain it to this non-native speaker?]
Well, you certainly stimulate me to say many many things! What a talent this is that you have!
My thoughts, Jochen, mine alone so far as I know.
God can say anything He chooses through anyone.
Because I have certain insecurities doesn't mean that God does.
You know, Senor, I have so many thoughts here, I think I will save it for a blog entry.
Now to get to "open and closed." It might be said about an investigation: "It is an open and shut case." That expression is meant to say that everything has been said on the matter. It is finished with now. it is a conclusion that has been come to. "Cut and dried" might be another expression that more or less says the same thing.
I would shy away from subjects that I'm ignorant of.
As Charles said, God comes in with metaphor, and He opens our hearts and our understanding. And the particular Heavenletter I refer to here does that.
If, for instance, a Biblical scholar said something to me, or asked a question, all I could say is: "I don't know."