Yikes, I see what you mean!

Right now I'm just thinking out loud, dear Anneke.

Is God speaking of all His children here? We are all made from the same cloth. We are all One. And everyone we see is a reflection of who each one of us is.

Now I'd like to see the whole Heavenletter. I will save this and come back.

Okay, here is the whole Heavenletter of The Wiring of the Universe. Sometimes the title alone gives a clue. Once in a while! This one sure seems to.

The Wiring of the Universe
Heavenletter #4824 Published on: February 8, 2014
This Heavenletter has not been published yet

God said:

Made from the same cloth, you link arms with reflections of yourself. The reflected light extends around the world and back again. You are a spiral who encircles the world that is often spoken of as God’s World. It is My World in that I created it, and it is your world because you are the Created and live in this world.

It is an honor to be created in My Image and to be chosen to inhabit the Earth. Notice I say inhabit. I do not say inhibit. Circling the world isn’t enclosing it. It is an ever-widening spiral you spin, and the spiral is made of your light. How splendid how you spiral and bring the whole world with you to sing.

What is the weather of the world today? I look at you, for you are like a weather vane of love. Equate happiness with love. Oh, the happiness you give. You are alive on Earth to brighten Earth and all on it. I compare you to the Sun. I also sometimes compare Myself to the ever-present Sun that lights the sky by day and whose light continues at night as it reflects itself on the white Moon, the Moon that is only happy to reflect the sun. Nor can the sun be any happier to be reflected. “Take all of me,” says the Sun.

The light alone, reflected or direct, is the wiring of the Universe. Light passes itself around voluminously. Light lights the heart. The volume of light is turned up. We can say that light refurbishes itself. Light is self-sustaining. Once sunlight has shone on you, you reflect it. Light never burns out. It ignites itself again and again. Soon you will see that all is light. We can call light energy, for all is energy, and all is love. How entwined is all of life. Light casts no shadows. There is no interruption of light. It is a continuous spiral. More than glances are exchanged when eyes meet. Light is given, and light is received.

What is a smile but an acknowledgement of light? Sweet are the smiles in passing. Exchange smiles, and no one is a stranger.

What if you have known everyone before? What if, with everyone you meet, it is not a first meeting but a reunion? Even if for only a moment in passing, you have acknowledged your Oneness. What else is there to acknowledge? When you see someone for what seems like the first time, it is a re-connection. It is an embrace. It is a welcome back, this exchange of light. Something drew you to each other.

If you literally bump into someone, it is an occasion. Bumping into each other makes sure you notice each other. Nothing more than, “Excuse me,” may be said, yet something more, something great, is taken care of, perhaps a contract. There is no need to figure out what the transaction actually is. It is enough. Something has been taken care of. A promise fulfilled itself. Metaphorically, you shook hands.

Even when you try to avoid a chance encounter, you cannot avoid it, or, if you do, the seeming other will show up again until a hello is exchanged and remembrance acknowledged even when you have no conscious recollection. A glance is exchanged and duly noted.

More than you possibly grasp is going on all the time. You are dancing on stage, beloveds. The stage is Earth, and you do-si-do. And that is enough, and that is okay. Souls have touched, you understand. And, so, My Will is done.

Now let me look again to see what else supports the first paragraph. I think I see what's going on now. Please do not think that I ever analyze a Heavenletter this way. I absolutely don't. I want to be sure I'm clear. I think the first sentence is missing a phrase in order to make it hold together.

Yes, God is speaking of the conglomeration of all of us as One.

Okay, He said:

Made from the same cloth, you link arms with reflections of yourself. The reflected light extends around the world and back again. You are a spiral who encircles the world that is often spoken of as God’s World. It is My World in that I created it, and it is your world because you are the Created and live in this world.

You, all of the supposed diversity who make up My One Child, are made of the same cloth. You link arms with a reflection of yourself, your One Self.

Anneke, I would like to come back to this to find the simplest way to make this clear with the fewest number of added words. Hold on, please.

Evocative is the key word in what I am trying to say here. That first sentence is not trying to inform the intellect as much as it is speaking to the spirit in the way that poetry or music does. The whole Heavenletter is evoking the spirit of Oneness. You might say the whole body of heavenletters is evoking the spirit of Oneness, but to my perception this one in particular is sounding that note.

I think that Gloria pretty much sums up the meaning of the first sentence when she says, "We are all made from the same cloth. We are all One. And everyone we see is a reflection of who each one of us is." So maybe the difficulty is in the expression "made from the same cloth". Maybe that is not so self-evident in meaning as it seems to me. I would be very interested if Anneke translated what Theophil wrote in German back into English as she understands it.

And I would be very interested in how Gloria would add words to the first sentence to clarify its meaning. More than ever, I don't think the first sentence should be changed in its final English form, but if the meaning isn't clear I think we should puzzle it out.

I think of how physicists say that if you travel far enough in a straight line, you come back to where you started. That may or may not be so, but I have always pictured shining a flashlight out into the night sky and if you wait long enough it will light up the back of your head. Obviously not true literally but maybe related to what God is saying here.

An example of what God is talking about as to reflections can be experienced when someone can change the whole tone of a group of people by injecting either relaxed humor or tense anger. But here it is not just us and others reflecting each other, but the larger idea that all these others are actually ourself, and we are all One in God's Self. Cut from one piece of cloth, one and the same.

Gloria, the sense you have of the sentence hanging may be connected to the idea of pronouns needing an antecedent. It is considered bad form to start a sentence, "Having gotten soaked to the skin, she finally came in out of the rain." Who is "she"? There's probably a technical name for that but someone else will have to provide it. It would be considered better to say, "Having gotten soaked to the skin, Jennifer finally came in out of the rain." But the Grammar Police probably would hold out for, "Jennifer, having gotten soaked to the skin, finally came in out of the rain."

The sentence today sort of has that feeling but I don't think it is the same thing. This is somewhat related to Luus's problem with the sentence starting with "It". What is "It"? Both sentences have that slight sense of something unstated hanging out there, an implied antecedent, but I think both are understandable in context and just examples of God's style.

There is something called an anticipatory reference that may apply. Arcane points of grammar make my head spin tho I do find it interesting. I wish Normand would apply his analytical mind to some of this. I used to hang out on a copy editors' forum, and for all the style books and rule books quoted, the bottom line usually was that something either sounded right or it didn't sound right. That can vary with the person.

Anneke, I see what you mean about the German translation. Probably a lot gets lost in a double translation so I would suggest setting it aside and starting over. If Theophil had trouble with the sentence, it probably means the sentence is difficult for many.

To me, the meaning of the sentence in question is plain, but it is given more as poetry than plain English. When I try to put it into plain English, I run into trouble. Let me try anyway.

1) Other people and you are all the same underneath, you are all a part of God.

2) Other people and you are all reflections of God.

3) You and all others you meet are One in God's Spirit.

I wonder if you don't understand what "made from the same cloth" means. To me it seems like it would translate literally into any other language, but maybe it is an expression or idiom that is peculiar to English. It's like if you would sew a pocket or a sleeve onto a shirt cut out of the same piece of material so the two would match exactly. A father and daughter might both like birdwatching because they are both cut from the same cloth.

This must be very exasperating for you. It seems like it should be simple and here we are going round and round. Maybe if you try to explain more just what it is you don't understand, it might help.