Addicted to Emails
Dear Heavenreaders,
Obviously, I love your emails, and I love to answer them. I have always loved the personal, and I seem to have a Dear Abby gene. And hearing from and answering the beautiful people who read Heavenletters seems to fill my heart.
If I have to have an addiction, I’m glad it’s an email addiction.
However, email takes a lot of my time and energy. Too much. I have vowed a hundred times to stop responding to every email. By 8 a.m. the other morning, I noted I had already written 37 emails. Probably ten were necessary Heaven business. Others were responses to the heart. Meanwhile, other Heaven matters sit in line and wait.
Your emails are wonderful and well worth reading, no doubt about that. So how to keep you writing and still keep me happy and in touch?
Aha, there is a solution – two! The blog and the Heavenletter Spiritual Community Forum. Two wonderful places for your emails. So simple! So organic!
Instead of emailing me and feeding my addiction, you post your comments, and I won’t have to quit cold turkey. I will read what you write on the forum and on the blog. I will be able to peek at everything you have to say, and I will be spared withdrawal symptoms, twitching and all that, plus many hours a day.
There are other good reasons why posting is good.
Your comments and responses will uplift others, and others will have a chance to know you and to respond to you.
You will be letting other readers know that real people like you care about Heavenletters, which, if you’re reading this, you probably have already let other people know.
Your postings give Heaven’s site more hits and get us higher up on the search engines!
I kinda think we all benefit from your posting.
It’s easy to post here, isn’t it?
For the forum, have you noticed the Add Comment link at the end of the text of every day’s Heavenletter?
Press that link, and it will take you to a box where you can post what you want to say. (Several people have mentioned that the program tells them that their name is already taken. Must be a bug. If you get that message, just change your name a little. Use just first or last name or something else that will get you in.)
There’s even a place on the forum to post when you want technical help!
This entry might have been twice as long if I hadn’t come across this on
http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/elist.htm Addressing this same issue, Karen Bishop wrote:
“Although I appreciate and read every letter I receive, I am unable to respond to them. Know that you are greatly valued, acknowledged and cared about.
Comments
Dearest Gloria,
the addiction is reciprocal! You know I stopped emailing to you so often since Mojahmedia started sending out the translations. But I must say it took me some time to get over the addiction to your wonderful and encouraging answers. They made me feel as if I were the only person in the world you were writing to. Your replies on the forum and on this blog seem perhaps a little less personal, though not less loving. But I think you did well in pointing this out, as otherwise we wouldn't know that you had so many emails to reply to.
With unconditional love,
Paula
Beloved Paula, how understanding and supportive you are.
It is true I have been focussed on the beautiful emails that arrive and very caught up in answering them and neglecting other Heaven matters.
Apart from that, every email is so interesting and so valuable that I am sure that every Heavenreader would be interested and would be enriched from reading each and every email that comes in.
Sometimes I feel like one of the Three Musketeers. Somewhere along the line, it became essential and natural that it be: "All for one, and one for all."
Amazing, when you consider what a selfish person I definitely was. I am learning that it is not all about me. It is very little about me. Even my email addiction has been a selfish thing.
Of course, sweet friend, at the same time as I want everyone to "go public", of course, there may indeed be times when it is necessary to email personally. When someone has a personal question for God, for instance, and they don't want to make it public, then, of course, it makes sense for them to send their question privately.
You have worked how many years for Heavenletters, Paula? You are like a partner. That puts you in a privileged position.
I know very well how often you take responsibility for Heavenletters on the Heavenletter Spiritual Community Forum and in this blog. I know how you look out for the well-being of Heavenletters and all the subscribers. Please know how much this is recognized and appreciated.
God bless you, Paula. You are one of the angels on Earth.
With love,
Gloria