Writing advice comes in brilliant colors

The color of recent superb writing advice given to me is orange.  I have not always been so quick to accept advice. However, when there is such simple profound advice as I was given, who could not welcome it? Anyway, I knew I needed to look with new eyes.

I am calling this beautiful advice orange for several reasons:

Orange has been my favorite color for a long time. This advice needed to be a bright striking color because the advice cracked my thinking wide open the way a Cecil B. DeMille epic cracks open the sky during  a major revelation! Besides, I had this stunning photo of an orange car to use!

As a matter of fact, this picture of the car came from the very site of the remarkable lady whom I have to thank for pointing me in a new direction.

For at least ten years I have struggled with putting Heaven books together. The writing down of Heavenletters™ comes so easily. And the compiling has come so hard.

You have no idea how many years and how many times and in so many ways and on so many topics I've tried to organize Heaven books. We had some great ideas and great help from great people such as Margaret Weiner, who worked on a grieving book and, yet and yet...there was always something I could not quite put my finger on.

Magda Cermelli http://www.Lightworker.it who sponsored the Godwriting™ workshop in Turin, Italy, last year, made a CD of  seven Heavenletters. How simple.  Instead of trying to organize so many Heavenletters onto one CD, put just seven in. So much more manageable. I loved that, and I thought: "We will make a series of 7-Letter Heaven books. This will be a snap."

Dr. Chuck Gebhardt volunteered to focus on putting together 7-book Heavenletters for us.  Chuck is a master at picking out 7 powerful Heavenletters on a single topic that go great with each other. Chuck worked on grief, purpose, relationships, as I remember.

Yet, as good as these books were,  something was missing, but what?

Then Carol Adler came to the rescue. Carol is a long-time Heavenreader and Godwriter from Phoenix. In a very few minutes, Carol helped me to see what I simply had been unable to see for myself.

Carol made three major solid points.  In her instant insights, Carol got me to see a whole new way, and her insights uplifted and inspired me.

Here is the gist of what Carol said and the three mistakes I was making:

1. Heavenletters are great works of art, and they stand on their own. Great works of art do not need any explaining. The energy from Heavenletters is multi-dimensional and quantum. The energy from explaining is two-dimensional and flat. Explanations cannot come anywhere close to God's words. Leave commentary out. Great works of art do not need any explaining. Explaining becomes clutter.

2.  Gloria, you have been compiling books on subjects. Life is never about topics or subject matter. Life is always about PEOPLE!

3. By compiling books on isolated subjects rather than on the person, in this case, the person who has experienced a deep loss and who is grieving, you have been limiting what Heavenletters you can include and the help that the book can give. There are SO many Heavenletters on varied topics that will inspire people who are grieving, topics such as gratitude, love, freedom, etc.

Then Carol, genius that she is, showed me what to do and how to do it:

She said: Focus on a person going through grieving. Then re-read the HeavenLetters randomly, and the right ones will choose themselves.

The right ones will choose themselves! How I love this!

 Doesn't God all the time in Heavenletters tell us to follow our hearts? And here I have been, struggling to put His books together, using my objective left brain to choose the Heavenletters when, all the while, I could be using my heart, be happy, and just take Heavenletters that feel right for those who are mourning. And which one of us isn't mourning when we come right down to it?

Now I see I had been trying to take the beautiful Infinite and squeeze it into a tight, logical, and finite box where it couldn't fit.

Thanks, Carol.

http://www.caroladler.com/