Breathtakingly Beautiful!
Lovely, Paula.
"A poem can only touch what is already yours."
Namaste,
Jo

--- Gloria <TheHeavenLetters [at] heavenletters [dot] org> wrote:

Quote:

You all must know that I am biased about
Heavenletters! I am simply amazed at them every day.
But I've got to tell you that Ebook 16 is worth its
weight in gold for Paula Launonen's foreword to the
book alone. Paula translates Heavenletters into
Italian. As you can imagine, the care that goes into
translating Heavenletters has a great effect on the
one who translates. I am so in awe of Paula's
foreword.
 
Okay, I'm going to reprint it here. Tell me if it
isn't one of the most beautiful things you have ever
read:
 
FOREWORD
 
When Gloria asked me to write the foreword for an
e-book, the first quick thought that came into my
mind was that I could not be up to it. But then I
realized that it was not about me but about God and
Heavenletters™, and I remembered God's words:

 
     "What you say and what you feel are meant to be
the same.
     There is not to be a dichotomy between your
heart and your
     words. Above all, you do not want to kid
yourself."
              [Heaven #1818 Your Heart and Your
Words]
 
I can't remember exactly how I found Heavenletters,
I think it was through another website during a
period in my life when I was reading anything and
everything I could find on God and spirituality. I
used to sit at my computer passing from one link to
another, trying to fill the longing I felt in my
heart. Oh, there were many beautiful and profound
messages, many complicated ones. I used to print
them and use every free moment to study them. But
nothing seemed to quench my thirst.
 
I was looking for something special, something
called 'love', but not the conditional love of the
world. I clicked on all the links containing this
word. And I think this is how I found the 'Love
Letters from God' and these words:
 
     "It is yourself you have been searching for all

     this time. I am yourSelf. God is the way to
God.
     There is no path to God but God Himself. That
which
     you seek you are, so intimate are We. What can

     Oneness mean but that? Oneness is not
two-ness."
                   [Heaven #1571 Throughout
Eternity]
 
I immediately felt the urge to translate
Heavenletters into Italian, to make them available
for as many people as possible. I wanted to share
the profound truth of love I could feel in these
short but significant letters. The truth of love I
finally recognized:
 
     "You recall that the word love as I use it is
not prettified.
     The love I speak of is a state of
consciousness. The world
     is seen through the consciousness of love, and
the world
     appears in a different cast. Oh, to see the
world through
     the eyes of love!  Seen through the eyes of
love, the world
     forgives itself for its infractions against
itself."
                   [Heaven #1559 States of
Consciousness]
 
I still continued to read many spiritual messages,
until I got to a state of mind where all the words
started to seem useless to me. But, as always, God
was a step ahead of me and wrote:
 
     "Word meanings fall short. Words are only a
     representation. They hardly represent what they

     really mean to describe. Even great words for

     great things do not begin to express their
greatness.    
     Definitions would imprison what is beyond
imprisonment.
     Even the word God is a small representation.
What
     word can possibly express the Vastness of the

     Created and Uncreated? What words can begin to

     describe you? …Yet words are not random
ink spills.
     And yet, your consciousness makes of them what
you will.
     Perhaps all of life is like an inkblot test.
All of life
     is what you make of it." 
                   [Heaven #1577 Pull Down the
Vastness from Heaven]
 
Now I cannot read complicated spiritual messages.
They just won't 'enter'. Heavenletters use the
simple language of the heart and yet are full of
knowledge and wisdom. There are some days when I
read Heavenletters even without a faintest idea of
what I am reading, but I know that the vibration of
Love penetrates my heart and the words are stored
for a future need.
 
Translating Heavenletters is different from reading
them. I need to absorb the deep sense of every
letter and understand the true meaning of every word
in order to be able to convey the original message
to Italian readers. While translating the first
e-book, I realized that God does not stand still
giving us always the same beautiful words. I saw
that there is a subtle guiding thread. Through
Heavenletters God keeps holding up a mirror in front
of us, reflecting back our true selves. And as we
keep looking into this mirror, step by step, He is
bringing us ever closer to Him.
 
I still have my dark moments, but when I do, I know
that God is always there. When I finally got to the
point where I found the courage to make a personal
question to God, I was literally trembling. But God
knew even this: "…no need to tremble," He
said, "I am the remover of trembling."
 
Now I realize that I was actually afraid of
revealing myself to God, or of seeing myself as I
was. Through a series of personal questions, I have
passed from the fear of an angry God to a communion
with the real God, who is only LOVE.
 
Heavenletters is the vibration of Heaven on Earth,
and ever more people are finding it. And I think God
was talking about the people who are contributing to
spreading Heaven on Earth when He said:
 
     "Angels and saints walk on Earth. They are not
famous,
     or they may be famous but their angelness and
saintliness
     is mostly unknown. They are not recognized for
who they are.
     They simply keep going about their work for Me.
They are
     so in love with My Being that they can only do
My Will.
     To them, sweeping the street or being a movie
star is
     the same. They know full well that I am their
Audience,
     and their attention is on Me the same way that
the Earth
     revolves around the Sun, effortlessly,
ceaselessly, and
     endearingly. Their hearts are at My beck and
call, and
     this is their happiness."
                   [Heaven #1553 Saints and Angels]

 
I sign this with all my heart,
 
Paula Launonen, Translator, Italy
 
 
 

From: Kirt
[mailto:TheHeavenLetters [at] heavenletters [dot] org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:26 AM
To: TheHeavenLetters [at] heavenletters [dot] org
Subject: [HeavenLetters Board Heavenletters™
Comments] New E-Book Available

 
Hello everyone!

HeavenLetters' newest E-book, Could the Earth Be
Other Than Round?, is now available!
(http://www.heavenletters.org/ebookorder.html)

Blessings to you,
Kirt

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