What Heavenreaders teach me

Dear Heavenreaders and Translators, I wonder if you know how much I learn from you. I mean, really learn from you. I tell you it's humbling.

One of the things I am learning from you is patience because you show me so much patience. Maybe patience is the same as being able to relax, and you relax me.

I will give you a couple of concrete instances of when you saved the day:

When someone sends in a personal question to God, I always send a note right away to say that I have received their question and that they will receive God's answer within a few days. I always do that without fail. It's important. Otherwise, how would someone know that their question had arrived?

One day like any other day, I was glancing over my Inbox, looking for something, and came across an email from weeks before. It was from someone who had asked God a personal question. Somehow I hadn't seen it, and I hadn't answered it. You realize that this person had made her donation and sent in her question at least two weeks before and had not heard one word back from me.

I tell you frankly, if I had sent in a question to God – TO GOD – paid my money and hadn't heard a word back, I would have been miffed.  I tell you further, it wouldn't have mattered to me if the person had forgotten or it was general unresponsive policy -- I would have been having a fit by then.

I wrote to this lady right away, and I apologized.

She emailed me back right away. She simply said she knew I would answer when I could, and the time would be right.  The delay was no problem for her.

I don't remember this lady's name. I wish I did. I would like to be sure she knows how much her simplicity and trust did for me. I wish I had remembered this back when Iowa Telecom kept me on the line for an hour and a half, and I blew my stack. This lady would never have done that. She would have been a lady every inch of the way.  I want to  be like her.

Another  example concerns something I was impatient about. Let's face it, I think everything is important and earth-shaking and has to be fixed and fixed right away. Come to think about it, I am always impatient.

I was feeling impatient and wrote to a friend and said how impatient I was feeling. My nice wise patient friend wrote back:

... there is only good will and well-being... I can feel your patience. Patience during your years as a teacher at school, in your family, in your kitchen, in the bus, with the weather, with you, with the words, with those you did not love very much, with pets, with growing and planted flowers, with your fingers, even with God .... and now the same in the present.

Do you see what I mean? I have no choice but to learn patience.

Maybe patience is the same as innocence. It is not getting ahead of one's self. Maybe patience says, as God in Heavenletters™ says, "All is well.  I'm here. What can the matter be?"

Heavenreaders and Translators, when you came here, you didn't know you came to help me grow, and yet you do, and now you know and that I thank you.