Gloria, please try to remember the original thought before you read my thoughts here. Maybe there is an original copy of this message that has the answer.

Anneke, I have been proofreading the published Heavenletters and Gloria suggested I also follow along here. I think she is out looking for a place to move to. I hope she has the answer because I am as bewildered as you.

I can't figure out what the original thought was. The words "of the" seem totally out of place and don't fit with either what comes before or what follows. If this was being retyped from another copy, the eye can jump around from line to line, but that may not be the explanation here. My first image from the word "telescope" was of an 18th century sea captain looking at some distant object, but that didn't seem to make sense. Then I thought about looking thru a telescope the wrong way, and that made even less sense.

Then I thought about an astronomical telescope, and that made more sense in context. If you look at distant objects, you aren't actually seeing them but their light, which might have been emitted billions of years ago accorfing to science. So in a sense time doesn't actually exist as we usually think of it when you are looking thru an astronomical telescope. If the sun went out, we wouldn't know it for eight minutes or so, with or without a telescope.

But even if that is the sense of this passage, how to fix it? I don't know. If I absolutely had to come up with something it might be "If you look at your life as if through a telescope, . . ." But that still isn't really clear and I would have no idea how the above garbled sentence could have come about. It might almost work as well to take the whole sentence out as unfixable. I'm assuming that the context of the whole message would not point the way to a better solution.

This is one of those things that Gloria needs to decide. I would suggest translating all the rest of the message and waiting to see what she has to say. Hopefully a quick and easy fix.

For purpose of finding a practical solution to this enigma, I agree with Nancy's proposition. But it is a real compromise. I support Charles's reasoning: what is the connection between the conclusion of the non-existence of time and the act of looking through the lens of a telescope? God is very elliptic here, in fact too elliptic: we can only speculate...