This is a Heavenletter™ which gives me a strange feeling of imminence as if watching an archer slowly drawing his bow. Something will happen.

Apart from this general feeling, I really love this:

Let go of the idea that an untoward experience happened to you so you would learn a lesson. Of course, you may well have learned a lesson, but do not presume that an experience happened so that you would learn a lesson. There is more to life than lessons for you to learn.
 
I have always immensely disliked all the talk of life being a school where we learn lessons incarnation after incarnation until we finally graduate. It sounded so wrong, but I was unable to determine why. Except that it always smacked of trying to please some higher authority.
 
When you live your Oneness, you will always serve the All.
 
I don't know what this means, but it does sound beautiful. So perhaps I know after all.

Or take Light of Being. What is my Light of Being? I don't know, but the very expression reminds me of the greatest works of art we have: something seemingly unreachable and yet so close.

[There is a sentence in the first paragraph that does not want to come into clear focus for me. Bear in mind that which you may perceive may not serve you. Señora, could you perhaps paraphrase it for me?]

"Let go of the idea that an untoward experience happened to you so you would learn a lesson".
Well, that's the moment to look over all the life. In a new way.

More than I read this Letter, more I have the feeling it is not like precedents. There's something else, I don't know what, that amazes me. Words are the same.
It's like God had change the tone of His voice. There's something different, no more, no less, different.
It seems to me like God would tell us things between the lines and I don't understand what. I'm confuse about it. Can someone help me?

Dear Spirit, This one is difficult, but I am determined to understand. Today I

want to truly know, understand that I CAN allow what occurs in my life to RECEDE. And then,

I am determined to realize that no matter what befalls, GOD IS SERVING ME, AND

GOD IS SERVING ME WITH LOVE DIVINE!

Jochen, I add to Gloria’s sentiments and say that I, too, always value your insights, ideas and questions. At the risk of publicly making a fool of myself, I am going to provide a long-winded response to your question about the phrase in this HL: “Bear in mind that which you may perceive may not serve you.” I do not think, as I read the comments, that the problem lies in the semantics of the words chosen nor your command of the English language which is quite superb. I love Gloria’s answer, it starts us down the right path by considering, with a great story, how perceptions can be mistaken, but I think there is much more yet hidden in this simple phrase which may merit further discussion.

There is some ambiguity in the word “perception,” because it includes not only what we are focusing on at the time that we are perceiving something, but also the perspective we bring to what we focus on, including our attitude, beliefs about, and the meanings we take from what we are seeing. So, if we focus on a traumatic event and what we perceive is painful, the experience of pain may be telling us that what we are focusing on, in the way that we are focusing on it, does not serve us. I will follow Gloria’s lead and provide a story hoping to provide a clearer image of what I am trying to say. (I said this would be long-winded :) )

Lets take, for example, a TV report of a recent terrorist bomb exploding outside a hotel. We see the destruction as the camera pans the ruins. We see the bleeding and broken children being carried out of the area. We see the tears and hear the sirens and our imagination leaps into the scene and we feel the pain that we read in the faces of those on the screen as if we were there, at least for a period of time. And we know how heartbroken the families of the dead and mangled will be, we have felt it before, and we feel some of it again, as we watch.

Empathy and imagination are wonderful things and they serve the victims well when the emotion they engender moves the witnesses of the event to bravery and compassion in aiding and comforting the injured. But when we feel the excruciating pain as we watch the scenes in our living room, our response may not serve us well. Our pain just adds to the burden of pain this event just brought to the world. Notice, though, that the word “may” not serve you well was chosen here rather than “does not” nor “will not” serve you well. Why “may” instead of “will“?

I think this ties into other parts of the letter which point out we can and do change or feelings by changing what we focus on or choosing to view what we see from a new perspective. We can change the channel to a more uplifting program. I think this strategy works best, for us folks who are very empathetic by nature, when we can trust the message in other parts of this letter that tells us that ultimate good comes from every event, even though we usually do not see it. With this faith, we can switch the channel without merely suppressing the outrage, anger and sadness we were responding with before changing the channel.

As an alternative, we can also continue to view the same news report but change our focus to reflect on the rescuers, police, firemen, ambulances and the hospitals and nurses, etc, who we can also see in the images or we know to exist and to be aching to help in any way they can. We can see these rescuers as manifestations of the deep source of love in all of us. We can even begin to reflect on the love at the basis of the bomber’s actions. (I see it as love that motivates someone to lay down their life to further what they believe is the need of the social group they are part of and who feel there is no better way to help. Misdirected and twisted love, but love as its base, nonetheless.)

Or we can try to envision what the letter says is “behind the scenes.” Potentially, even the deaths of the “victims” can be viewed as an heroic choice these souls make as a means to help the world understand that a terrorist’s bomb is far from the best way to attain what we want and need, the huge pain and suffering helping us by spurring us to look for better answers.

Or, to my way of thinking, the best option may be to respond to the event by utilizing our power of intention to surround the suffering victims with love and fostering the healing of their physical and emotional wounds, providing a different but very real assistance to not only the victims, but the rest of the universe in the process. This may be the best way to “perceive” these events since we are assured that focusing on the Divine leaves no room for pain and suffering in our hearts.

My, my, I hope all this was more useful than the two sentence response that I first started to write.

With the love of a strained and hopeful heart…Chuck

So often we can't find the switch to turn on our Light of Being and thus find ourselves in dark places. That's ok for your spirit but at time the ego is in confusion and gets upset and angry. Turn on TRUST.

My dad walked around the house at time singing: "Life is like a mountain railroad, with an engineer that's brave, keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail." and of course he would go on and sing all ten verses of that precious song. We learned to think about the words of the song as they became the substance of our lives. Life's like that

Read this letter slowly, let it sink in.

George getting sleepy

George, you are such a remarkable and fantastic person. Your stories are so instructive. Would you ever consider writing a sort of autobiography that could be filled with your wonderful stories and even more wonderful insights? I'd bet good money it would be a best seller and I know it would be a real gift to your readers. Nah, on second thought, I'd rather be selfish and just keep looking forward to what you have to say here, writing a book might just distract you from this forum :)......Chuck

Dearest pitta, Are you a dreamer? I think not. I think it is most of us who are dreaming and you are seeing and speaking Truth. George has been blessed to have had such wonderful guidance from his father and you are doing the same for your children.

Looking forward to a more peaceful future......Chuck

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God said in Oneness
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