Never in My Wildest Dreams

I may have already told you this:

For many many years, I wanted to write fiction, yet I wasn’t any good at plotting. I remember saying to myself, “Oh, if only someone would give me a plot.” I said that idly, just a passing thought, much in the way I might say, not expecting anything, “I wish I were taller.”

Then so many many years later, God turns up! It’s not exactly that He came to give me a plot, but He sure does give me words far better than any plot. Heavenletters™ did appear, and they keep coming. I do wonder. I have to wonder if all our requests do get answered somewhere somehow along the line.

Now here’s another example of where I had an idle thought long long ago. And now it seems to have come true without my having urged it to happen at all. What is that expression – “when you least expect it?” Maybe this is an example of the letting go that God in Heavenletters speaks of so fondly.

Anyway, when I was in college, I loved the theatre, and I loved reading plays. My love of plays never stopped. For many years, I used to take books of plays out of the Forest Park Library in Springfield, Mass. There was an anthology of the Best American Plays for each year that I would read from cover to cover. Well, I just loved reading every play and all about them. The library here in Fairfield, Iowa, doesn’t have those anthologies on its shelves.

I remember once thinking, “I love plays so much, I wonder if I should be writing plays.” Just that thought, thought only once -- "I wonder if I should be writing plays" -- and never thought about it again until…well, until about a year ago when something reminded me of the unattached thought I had had so many years before: “Maybe I should be writing plays.”

Here’s what’s happened:

There is a little book that Heaven Admin and I both liked very much. A year or so ago, Santhan said, “Would you like to make a play of it?”

I said Yes. I said yes without hesitation, not because I wanted to do something more, but because, of course, I can only say yes to one who always says yes to Heavenletters and me.

As soon as I started working on the play, I discovered that writing it was my deep deep desire all along. I wanted to so much. There sure can be a world of difference between the conscious and subconscious mind, mine, that is.

As soon as I started working on the play, it was exactly what I wanted to do. The play really wrote itself! It asked to become a musical! A musical! I wrote lyrics! I liked thinking that I was destined to play a part in contributing to this play.

If Santhan hadn’t the idea, if he hadn’t offered it to me, I would never have thought of it. Santhan and I collaborated, of course. It took only two weeks (part-time) to write, and I never wanted it to be over.

Life does seem to know what it’s doing.

Soon a lovely lady from Massachusetts started composing music for the play. She composes music pretty much the way I Godwrite! She wrote that the play is a gem: “Contemporary issues of power, class, sex, in-laws, betrayal, jealousy, and fall from grace, not unique to our times, find their place in this timeless tale.”

Yes, this play definitely has plot. Only when I read what the composer above wrote did it dawn on me that a plot had indeed been given to me! Two idle thoughts from long ago – a plot and a play -- had definitely manifested. This is too amazing!

The idea of producing this play and touring with it for the good of mankind all over the world never left Santhan’s mind. Nevertheless, this has to wait until the time is right.

Recently, the play came into focus again when Pablo, one of Santhan’s top workers in Argentina, emailed that he had, on his own initiative, translated the play into Spanish! “Spanished” the musical is what Pablo said!

Pablo also wrote: “This musical mobilizes and entertains me. The script is solid, joyous and very easy going. The plot and characters immediately grab one’s interest, and the places where action takes place are accurately described. I have been studying film making, including directing, producing, lighting, editing, sound-recording, writing, practicing with actors and watching millions of classic movies! I have read hundreds of scripts during my life, and my humble opinion is that it would be a pity not to perform this story.”

Some day you have to read what Santhan writes about this musical that was totally his idea (and maybe God’s!) Reading what Santhan wrote is like reading a Heavenletter!

And now, are you sitting down?!!

Imagine this, someone has come forward who is looking to fund worthwhile media projects! Can you believe it!!! How could all this happen!! Of course, the deed isn’t done yet, and we have to wait and see, but isn’t that a nice development! Who could dream all this?!!! Not I!

I am beginning to accept that even our tiniest inconsequential obscure thoughts have a way of meeting us by and by. Our thoughts, even the idle ones, are indeed powerful.

Before anyone tells me not to count my chickens before they hatch, I have to tell you that I am someone who – well, actual manifest results aren’t necessary for me. They're just not. I'm perfectly happy in dreaming of them. The curtain going up on Broadway couldn’t give me more happiness than working on the play has already given me. I'm happy enough just knowing that opportunity knocks!

The fact is that Heavenletters™ alone have given me more happiness than I could ever have dreamed of, not even in my wildest dreams.