The God I know
The God I know is not flashy. I like Him this way. A simple friend Who is always with me and just talks to me and nudges me every once in a while. The God I know loves, yet He doesn't make a big deal out of loving. His love is just there strewn everywhere.
With the God I know, there is no thunder and lightning. There is no phenomenal vocabulary such as names of ancient civilizations or unusual names of God from millions of years ago or striking examples of life in the future mixed with crystallines and star dust. Maybe there are those things, but He doesn't talk about such things to me. The God I know just tells us that life will be good, very good and what we can do to make it better. And that is enough to know. I haven't yet caught on to all that and applied it yet.
God uses a simple speech and doesn't get astronomical or esoteric, the God I know. He is not way out. He is way in.
He is such a down-to-earth level-headed simple God that sometimes I forget He is God Almighty! He becomes like an ordinary God. By ordinary, I don't exactly mean ordinary. I mean not flashy. I mean natural, not phenomenal. And He talks to me (I hear Him) in ordinary language.
He talks to me in an everyday way. He is just God with a one-syllable name in English and German and in Dutch and other languages too. In French His Name is made of two-syllables yet Dieu is short and almost seems like one-syllable.
In the Croatian language, God is simply Bog. Isn't that wonderful? Don't you just love that? God doesn't require a movie star name.
Of course, God is beyond Name. He is Nameless. He is Vastness. He is beyond everything. He is beyond gender. He doesn't care what gender we choose or none at all. Instead, He cares about us.
He is a Miracle Worker, yet the God I know works quietly behind the scenes. He does not call attention to Himself. Without flurry, He just arranges everything. He makes the bed, so to speak, and tucks us in when we are already asleep. We expect it. We are not at all agog.
The God I know isn't a Master Magician. How can I say that? I can say that because, although He creates a beautiful sunrise and sunset every morning and evening, He doesn't stride out on stage and make announcements or take bows. He is just quietly backstage, getting everything in place, laying out flawlessly whatever has to be done. He is a simple Master of Creation.
The God I know wouldn't capitalize His Name or Creation. He is a humble God. Creatiing was, well, just natural.
We capitalize His Name, His Creation and all the referent pronouns out of our respect.
I am only in awe of God when I think about awe. Most of the time, I am not in awe. God is just with me, right beside me.
I don't usually write essays about God as I am doing this minute. I usually let God speak for Himself.
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Sounds like God made this latest move with you.
Dear Gloria
I have missed you and Heavenletters. Thought to come by to say hi. Hope everything is well with you.:)
I open my arms and send you a big hug with lots of love..:)
Please never give up the great job you are doing..please!
Love,
Oldooz
Beloved Oldooz, our dear Farsi translator and Godwriter who took the workshop in Istandbul, how I have missed you and longed to hear from you. Please come here often, and tell us how you are and where you are now and what you are doing. Will you please?
And everyone who received your translations is longing for more of them. Would you like me to start sending you the English ones again? That would make me very happy.
As long as this gift God has given me, I can only continue, dear Oldooz. Of course, it's still good to receive your encouragement as well.
Did you know that Effendi was here and his wife and daughter have moved here! Effendi will be back in late December.
Did you meet Selin in Istanbul? There is a baby shower for her this afternoon at Ann Clifford's house. I don't know if you met Ann in Istanbul. Katie will be here. Deidre had to be out of town. I will give your regards to everyone.
Loving you,
Gloria
I Like that you have a not flashy God. It makes sense that he/she created a lavender lovely in orange crocs like you!
Good morning Gloria dear,
You have been talking about the same God that is mine.Not complicated as God is somtimes discribed, but simple and understanding and so easy to talk to. My God does not get angree when you disagree with God he just smiles and in the end you find God was right after all and still smiles. Oh is it not wonderful we can have those conversations with God and God with us and always smiling. Love you and all. Jack
Good to hear some news from F.F. I knew Effendi was there but didn't know that his wife and daughter have moved there. So they finally made it. His daughter must be happy now, she seemed to love living there.
I remember Selin.. really happy to hear her news. Please give my love to her and her husband.
I'm still here, living in Iran, busy with a translation project which I've been working on since June. I'd be happy to go back to translating Heavneletters into Farsi but I'm really overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do.
Always grateful to Heavenletters, you and Heaven Admin.
I'll return here again...:)
Till then...
It is fascinating and wonderful how The-God-Each-of-Us-Individually-Knows is the Same yet Different. God created each of us on a unique vibration, a unique note, a unique aspect that He wants to experience and express through us.
When that vibration or string or chord is pintched, I recognize it immediately. It is a great feeling that pushes me to constantly throw bridges between minds and hearts. Translating for me is building bridges between languages, hearts and minds. Building bridges between our fragmented knowledge. Spirit loves to expands and interact. Bridging is pure interaction. It is also teaching and giving.
Someone said that God is as close as your hand to your wrist. For me, God is everywhere, including within me. As I center myself in meditation I listen for the voice of God. A favorite spiritual tool for me is writing letters to God, much like your Heaven Letters. It's so nice to find like-minded people writing on the Internet. Blessings, Sherry
I love how this came out Senora. This post would fit nicely into The Little Things.
Thank you, One.
I almost forgot about The Little Things! You don't forget anything!
There is another installment about God coming up!
When i read what you wrote, i understood what you were saying but i have had a much different experience sometimes. I would say for me maybe 50/50. Of course you were just describing your experience, but i thought i would comment that i have found things to be a little different. Not in a bad way. But just as real for me i guess is that there is a wrestling at times. There does seem times that things are far from clear. Things i believe He gives me that leave me a little bewildered and sometimes a little more poetic or abstract. Many times it doesnt stay this way but sometimes it has, yet i think He has deffinitly given me a trust in Him that it is for my good if things are'nt yet clear.
But the bottom line is when i hear people describe what you have described it makes me wonder if you realize that He may also be in the things that are not clear, not simple, not plain. Because like fine art, and music etc, there is a beauty to things not always being clear and concrete. Sometimes what is seen is not worth seeing. I do believe he created ambiguity but i wouldnt say confusion. I do think many things are poetic and closer to performance art with a purpose and expression that is meant to lead to something else and is not an end in itself or a mere concrete conclusion. And i hope by stating these things im not coming across as saying you dont already know these things, i'm just not sure because of sometimes what you write. This isnt meant to criticize. And i dont think you take it that way, but my i need to mature in how i write somtimes. anyway, for what it's worth.
This is beautiful what you say.
God has said something like: Confusion is good! Confusion shows we're getting somewhere!
When we "know" everything...
This blog is personal. It isn't meant to be the whole story by a long shot.
Where do you live, etc.? Do you subscribe to Heavenletters? They matter.
With blessings and love,
Gloria
Hello Gloria,
i didnt know he said that confusion is good.
i looked it up and yup, there it is.
Heavenletters continues to surprise.
yes i signed up about two years ago.
but my other laptop went down 6 months ago.
so ive been offline for that long, now i have a new one.
i love heavenletters.
i guess, actually... heavenletters loves us.