Jack, you're right

Dear Jack,

You're right about Lauren!  Even when she was very young, she knew better than I did. The thing is she really did! She was always smarter than me! It's true.

A little of my history:

I was the youngest of five, and I assure you I didn't do the bossing.

I am also short which doesn't help either. I read somewhere once that when there are three people talking, and two are tall, the short one gets overlooked. I rest my case.

Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish being bossed around from being taken care of. I like to be taken care of, but I don't like being bossed around! I welcome suggestions and ideas in certain areas, but there are certain areas where I do not welcome advice. I am appalled as a matter of fact.

I will give you some examples of what I deal with. Unbelievable as it is, there are people who must think I am utterly without a brain, to wit:

A friend was coming over for dinner the other night, and she became ill and couldn't come. I was sorry she was ill, but had no difficulty with a simple meal being canceled. But then my friend said: "Why don't you invite X in my place?"

I ask you, Heavereaders, do you see what I mean? I am well able to think of whom I want to invite if I want to invite. I can also eat by myself and save some of the food for tomorrow. It is my food, and I can do whatever I want with it. I bet you don't get this sort of unasked-for advice in your life.

After my friend and I hung up, I realized I should have said, according to yesterday's blog entry: "Do you want to do it?" Meaning, of course, did she want to invite X over to her house. But, no, I didn't think of that. I think I rather squawked in response.

Second example:

I am without the use of a car now that Lauren has moved to Chicago.

Another friend who has a car, by the way, had the gall to say: "Now you can walk to the store and get exercise."

Amazing how that had never occurred to me, huh?!!!  Erstwhile friend will never be allowed to drive me to the store, I tell you that.

Now, tell me really, do you ever get that sort of nonsense?  Jack, I know you don't. Does anyone else? Am I the only one in the world?

With Heavenletters™, it's quite a different story.  99.9+ per cent of the time, I am given credit that I don't deserve. And, yet, even so, there are very rare occasions that qualify as invasion!

Do you believe that every once in a blue moon, there is someone who writes in that a specific Heavenletter is incorrect! We're not talking simple difference of opinion here! We're talking about the person's "improving" the Heavenletter! This is the truth!

The most recent was that the whole tense of Heavenletter #3156 God's Voice Singing through the Universe http://www.heavenletters.org/gods-voice-singing-through-the-universe.html should be present tense because the Great Ones still live. I know the Great Ones still live. I'm sure God knows that. Only the past tense refers to a time when the Great Ones walked on Earth in their past physical bodies.

But, okay, I can be philosophical about someone's opinion and be above the fray.

However, this person posts Heavenletters, and she was letting me know that she corrected the Heavenletter to her standards before she posted it, and she was adamant that her way is the right way and that she has every right to edit Heavenletters as she sees fit any time she pleases before she posts them anywhere she pleases because she gets her instructions from God who doesn't care about copyrights and whatever else I care about etc.

Whatever I might say to this person wouldn't make any difference. Still I wish I had said: "Do you want to do it? Do you want to take over all the responsibilities of writing Heavenletters?"

The thing is that she might have said Yes!

Notwithstanding all my grumbling, I know how very very lucky I am. I know my good fortune. I thank God for all my friends as they are and for Heavenletters and this blog and how my whole life is more wondrous than I could ever have dreamed of in a million years.