More About Godwriting

Does one have to practice Godwriting™ regularly to get better at it? Is there such a thing as “better at it?"

This is only part of One's question and comment under Not Even Noise. Here's how I see it, beloved One.

Every time we Godwrite, it's the first time! We're innocent babes when we Godwrite.  It doesn't matter whether we have been Godwriting every day for ten years or have never Godwritten before -- we're all novices.  Godwriting doesn't take cleverness. If we're clever or smart or are sure we know what God will say or sure we have Godwriting down pat, if we think we're expert at it -- we're probably representing too much of ourselves and not enough God.

What we can know is that God is ever-present. He is eager for us to listen and to write down what we hear.  He is there every time. He isn't going to make it hard for us. He is not asking us to do anything but simply listen and dare to write down what we hear without analyzing it or debating it.

Here is what Rumi wrote:

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

And here is what David Hawkins wrote — it’s like a poem.

The skillful are not obvious.

They appear to be simple-minded.

Those who know this know the patterns of the Absolute.

To know the patterns is the Subtle Power.

The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name.

As would be expected, God in Heavenletters™ too states this theme. This is one of my favorites:

Fairy tales are full of stories where the older brothers refuse to share their lunch with a little old man or woman on their travels. The youngest simpleton son shares his lunch, however, and he wins the princess and the castle. The simpleton son does not share with a reward in mind. He shares because he cannot not share. Simple innocence shares. It counts neither costs nor reward. Innocence is too simple to think there may not be enough to go around. Innocence knows no lack.

 Okay, so there is no getting better at Godwriting. God save us from getting better at it!

Bernie Siegel told me that the word Kaballah means Receiving. Godwriting is receiving. Godwriting isn't knowing all about anything. It's finding out.

I would compare Godwriters to children on Christmas morning. The children are going to open up their presents. They don't know ahead of time what's inside them. They have to open them up to know. The joy is in finding out what's inside.

So, Godwriters are innocent like that.  They listen, and their listening is opening the gift of God's words.

At workshops, we do warm-up exercises.  They loosen us up.  They're enjoyable. I don't want to say that they get us in the mood because we don't have to be in any particular mood in order to Godwrite. Maybe the warm-up exercises get us out of a rut and break us out of some our boundaries. I'm quite sure they do help to get us out of our usual left-brain thinking.

At the same time as I offer these warm-up loosening activities, not one of them is necessary. Not one.

Regarding the process of receiving Godwriting, Bernie told me that the Kaballah suggests lighting candles and incense. Candles and incense are lovely but with or without candles and incense, we can Godwrite. Godwriting requires nothing but to sit down with the intention to hear the subtle whispered Voice from God and then to write down what we hear.

So, One, my answer to your question is, no, we don't get better at it. In fact, as much as we are able, we don't want to think about better or best at all. We don't want to rate our Godwriting favorably or unfavorably. Of course, One, you already know that.

What we do gain is more confidence. But we don't even have to have confidence in order to write down God's words.

It's better not to even ask ourselves: "Can I do it?" There is nothing for us to do. That's the point. God does it, and we, simple receptacles, receive it.

Better not to ask:  "Will I hear God's thoughts today?" Of course, you will. Not because you're good at it, but because God is good at it.

Sometimes when we're Godwriting, the words fly fast. Sometimes the words amble. Sometimes Godwriting is the greatest experience in the world. And sometimes it doesn't seem like much of an experience at all -- it's just Godwriting! But, of course, it's God's writing, not ours.

This line from the Gita seems to fit right here:

Make me an instrument of Thy love, O God.

Oh, there is so much I would love to say, and I want to say it all at once. And that's one reason why I have not known how to organize the How to Godwrite book.

Tomorrow we'll look at more of One's question. Thank you, One, for opening up this topic.