Jochen's words
I want to plaster Jochen's words from the Heavenletter Spiritual Community Forum this morning everywhere. I picture a poster with Jochen's photo and a few choice words of his on every billboard across the world!
It's time for God's words in Heavenletters to be known everywhere. My question is: How do we do it?
Here is what Jochen posted:
Today it strikes me as something deeply mysterious that we have God's words every day and then perhaps ponder them and then, although in widely different parts of the world, chat about them as if we were sitting around a table in the shade of a tree – let's take the old pear tree in my garden.
What was so difficult about God's words for all those millennia? We obviously need a few years to shake off those millennia and hear God's words as straight as they come, but then, where are they? What a time we are living in! Having the right view or faith or the wrong one … is over. It's over!
We read, some of us feel moved to mention what stands out for us, and we grow a little every day without making growth a project or production. Something not yet "grasped" today may become clear tomorrow, some not-yet-enough growth can suddenly be reached any day.
I'm not quite sure what my words are about. I guess they are simply words of appreciation for Heavenletters (and team) and for everyone who contributes by posting comments and responses.
And then Jochen added:
I have worked with most of the spiritual resources around over the years and found them all deeply inspiring – and they will remain inspiring for many, I'm sure.
Personally, however, all of that, all of it, dropped from my hands when I found Heavenletters, I simply left it with not one backward glance. It's just one of the things that can happen, and it may happen with another source for someone else. No one can tell, and discussing the advantages of one source over another, or even comparing them, is way beside the point, at least that's how I see it. So please bear in mind that I never mean to say that any of my views is objectively correct.
I will add that, for me, Heavenletters are something else altogether and incomparable.
But let us not discuss why that is so. It's hopeless. I just wanted to add another of those many possible perspectives.
Why aren't Heavenletters more well-known? There are many great things out there, but why aren't Heavenletters out there?
I have a friend, Jon Wright, who moved to Florida many years ago, but every few years he comes back to Fairfield and says hello. Jon, incidentally, is from the original 16 Heavenreaders! Jon came to visit yesterday, and he asked the same question -- why aren't Heavenletters a household word? Jon had lots of advice which I welcome and certainly think about seriously.
I have been just waiting for a big breakthrough to happen, kind of waiting for God to do it. Maybe I need to take initiative. I'm not sure. I go both ways on this.
But. anyway, I envision posters with Jochen's photo and some of his beautiful words plastered everywhere, and then millions of people will know about Heavenletters and come read God's words every day and post on the forum and the blog.
Comments
Dearest, in a recent forum topic, "Making Heaven CD's and Books", you said something that was as if spoken from the very depth of my heart. You said, "I began to feel that maybe Heavenletters were meant to just fall where they may." You were speaking about sorting and categorizing Heavenletters for publication in book form, but for me the wisdom of your words goes deeper. What if Heavenletters are really meant to just fall where they may, period?
Okay, God often says: "Do what gives you joy, do what you love doing." So if spreading the word is what you love doing, it will simply be joy for you to do it and you will not feel responsible for the success of your joyful effort. What if there is no "should" and "ought" etc? Or is there?
Beloved Jochen, I will tell you something about myself. I tend to take an opposite position. I mean, if you had said that I should get out there and make things happen, I might give you all kinds of reasons why I should just relax!
As it is, I am sure I have to give more thought to my responsibility for making things happen for Heavenletters. I believe God has also told us that we are his arms and legs. I sure don't want to let God down.
Jon lives in Florida, and he came to visit, and he zeroed in on Heavenletters. I really do think he's on to something, Jochen. My attention has been on Heavenletters for twelve years, yet I feel I may have been asleep at the wheel.When am I going to get serious? I have been enjoying, yet I haven't been paying attention. It may be I need to look at more over-all progress and perhaps not so much at short-term goals. Perhaps I need to learn to set priorities.
I think that Walmart provides a great service for many people. Sam Walmart wasn't content where he was. He kept expanding and expanding. He didn't sit around waiting for expansion to happen.
That's the sort of thing I'm feeling, Senor Jochen.
Ah, Señora, if you "tend to take an opposite position", it shouldn't be too difficult to frame suggestions in a way that makes you do exactly the desired thing ………
Yes, God says quite often and in many different ways that we are His arms and legs. But what makes us so sure we know what He wants HIS arms and legs to accomplish? The point is, we don't. Except for one very clear and simple thing He keeps repeating: love.
To repeat, I'm not saying it's wrong to "get out there and make things happen". But I do believe that "should" and "have to" isn't going to work in the long run.
And finally, what if you did an absolutely immaculate "job" asleep at the wheel? When now you find there are things you may want to change, why berate the past? If you are able to pass on God's words, that may not mean you are The Perfect Human Being (our own imagination anyway), but I'm sure it does mean that nothing is terribly wrong.
Sam Walmart nows why he is selling goods and not gods, I'm sure.
I hang out on another forum which is Christian in name and has knife collecting as its common thread. It includes people from a Hindu background and atheists and a wide range of self-identifying Christians who are knowledgeable and rarely agree with each other. In that most there are maverick in their thinking, I would expect at least some to recognize the Voice of God in HeavenLetters. Not so.
There has been mention several times on this forum of a large body of writing from the nineteenth century which I consider to be the most explicit Word of God available anywhere on this planet and which I would expect some here to recognize. Not so.
I never push these things on people, just mention them at what seems like an appropriate time, state my personal opinion of their worth, and give an example along with the means to find more. No one ever pushed them on me. All it took was enough showing to catch a little gleam of light to make me dig out the huge diamond lying underneath the ground.
Every now and then someone I mention such things to will also start digging, but not often. Jesus told the story about the farmer sowing seeds, many of which fell on rocky ground or got eaten by birds, but some of which fell on good ground and produced much seed in return. The farmer didn't have to do anything to make those seeds sprout other than try to get them in good ground.
Sam Walmart pushed his way into the American market place all the way to the top. He has provided massive employment and inexpensive goods for the lower economic levels of society. At the same time he has left behind the wreckage of countless downtown business areas and small family businesses which were crushed in the process.
I acknowledge such aggressive competItion as part of the world system but look forward to the time when it no longer is necessary to breathe that air. I would prefer that HeavenLetters not add to the pollution. I suspect there is a fine line involved here, perhaps one better recognized in the heart than in the brain.
Getting up seven days a week and writing down a message from God which anyone in the world can receive if they want it bad enough is NOT doing nothing. In my opinion it is the most important job in the world at this time. In the world system, the most important jobs result in wealth and fame and immense power. In God's system, the most important jobs seem often to result in obscurity and poverty and a hard row to hoe.
Dear Gloria You were talking about the first 16 original heaven letter readers, How many Now? your expansion is bejond believe. Besides heaven letters get also distributed through others in their newsletters Like our friend Russ Michael and how many you do not know of read heaven letter through your translaters? Keep doing what you are doing unless GOD tells you different. I tolled you only yesterday, I believe, You are a Giant. Do not "think" about how you could expand heaven letters I think GOD is doing a marvelous Job Love to All Jack
You guys are all so wonderful and supportive. What a team you are!
Jack, I am reminding myself every morning that I am a giant!
Charles, we don't know when or where seeds we have planted will sprout. The thing is you planted them.
Jochen, thanks.
It is hard to add useful comments to what has been written, above, but I want to add two things. One is that it is hard to imagine how much more you could be doing, Gloria, than you are already doing quite superbly. The other is to re-emphasize a common Heavenletter theme that appears next to the theme that love is what matters. When love motovates our actions, what we do we do with ease.
Food for thought, Chuck! I could be doing more vital things and less of what is incidental.
And, yes, it's true what God says about the motivation of love. Thank you for reminding me, yet I had better pay attention to where I put my attention and non-existent time!
I'm catching up with my dose of Godwriting blog posts. What a joy!
A moment ago my mind was on this very same subject. I was wondering if we who take care of the technical details and "network reach" are doing all we can do.
I'm somewhere in between the two colors of thought in this thread. From where I see, availability is more important than publicity.
The active part of the Heaven team is to make sure the meal is served and available to those who are hungry. In my world, from where I see, there are so so many hungry ones. I only know of one way to take care of hunger; to make sure that all the hungry ones have unrestricted access to a divine meal. Heavenletters contain all the nutrients (vitamins. Caring, Love, Gratitude ...etc). It is a complete meal that fully satisfies. What else would Heaven's kitchen be dishing out!
Nobody can be forced to eat. The kitchen is always open. Will you please let all the hungry ones know there is a kitchen serving divine food?
It doesn't end there though. One can be fed until the hunger has gone and the strength is regained. Sustainability? Surely dependency on Heavenletters for nourishment is not the purpose? Enter Godwriting.
Lets learn from that farmer and place the seed on fertile ground. Senora, you won't be hoeing any hard rows on my watch!
One Love
p.s As an "aside"...
...recently I had the opportunity to stay with some folk in the remote mountain region of La Cumbre, Cordoba, Argentina who use antroposophy to guide their lives. On Sundays they have a group sharing activity during which a passage from the bible is shared and discussed. This last Sunday the passage had to do with Elijah, John and Christ consciousness. I distinctly remember that I was not satisfied with my understanding of the passage and the perspective of the group. After an interesting experience, what came to mind...Elijah represents the one who calls out and listens for the response. John the Baptist represents the unshakable devotion and Christ represents union or oneness.
With a big smile I playfully suggest reading Heavenletters is the calling and Godwriting is the devotion. What comes next is your business!
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