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Heavenletter # 5138 ... two unclarities
Posted December 10th, 2014 by theophil
>> In the fifth paragraph from below, third sentence at its end, there is one space too much.
>> Let us look at the last paragraph. Does its second sentence really need a question mark?
In love,
Theophil
Beloved Theophil, yes, an
Beloved Theophil, yes, an extra space. Whenever you see an extra space like that, please go ahead and fix it. It couldn't be anything else but an extra space.
I know just what you mean about that second sentence in the last paragraph.
What’s the value of winning a race when you do? When you win the race, is the joy equivalent in depth to the fear of an unknown that made you over-extend your self?
Once we spoke about a new kind of punctuation mark to replace a sentence structured as a question but which leans toward being a statement, as it is in this case.
In this case, I'm not positive what the answer is. At first, logically, I thought the answer must be No, the fear was greater than the winning, but now I'm not so sure. Well, I think fear may be more long-lived than the joy, but the immediate joy must be so momentous that it erases the fear.
At some point, dear one, I gave into the grammarians and decided to be "proper" and just be technically correct. Anyway, the most important thing is the heart in God's Words, do you agree?!!!!!!
Similarly, I don't always want to put an exclamation mark after a grammatical exclamation.
So, yes, let's leave it as it is, dear one.
Thank you so much.
new reading
When I now - one day later - read ... When you win the race, is the joy equivalent in depth to the fear of an unknown that made you over-extend your self?, I would never question the question mark. Even not if I had not read the further comments from above and below.
I read this sentence this morning as a smoothe invitation, to weigh the joy equivalent to the fear actually, and then to declare what has been the case in my so-called past as to joy next to fear of an unknown.
In a Heavenletter issued soon we will read ... I, God, acclaim everyone, for I see beyond the costumes My children wear. I do not dishonor anyone. I honor everyone as My son or daughter, and I see your Light which is Mine whether you or anyone in the world sees it, for I see Myself in you, and now I ask you to see yourself as I AM and you are. There are no accidents in life at the same time as everything is a kind of accidental because My children do not know what they do. Human beings have not caught on to the full extent of their thoughts and actions.
It has to be that I have grown from yesterday to today, knowing more now what I am doing while reading presently.
Reading wants actualization in my life.
In love,
Theophil
Beloved Theophil, you always
Beloved Theophil, you always add a dimension.
Tell us more of what you mean by "Reading wants actualization ...." Will you kindly?
In the quotation you gave from an upcoming Heavenletter, I believe I saw a typo!
There are no accidents in life at the same time as everything is A kind of accidental because My children do not know what they do.
Does that A belong there? If it does not, will you kindly fix it?
Blessings!
actualizing
What did I read while reading over the first time? Did I read, that something made me over-extend my self in certain times, as I had fear of an unknown? More probably not.
What did I read while reading over the first time - - how I may form an equivalence of my joy in depth with my fear of an unknown? Did I read during my first reading, that it is to me to find out, in which shape that equivalence is for me, when I am about to win a race?
No.
So, I had not read, that the “you” at the beginning of the sentence is including me. I abstracted me. Because I cannot embrace the assertion until I had looked through and until I had brought about the said equivalence.
Did I read during my first reading, that the challenge now is for me, to remind, how it is or how it was, when I took part in a race? When I took part in a particular race. It is about a particular race, indeed, where I am about to win. Did my joy stay constant meanwhile, or did it wane, according to how much I wised up, that I was about to win? Was my joy dragged into a sort of comparison, while still in the course of the race, or afterwards? Into a sight, comparing my joy in depth with my fear of an unknown, for instance of a conjunction, that I may not win next time, or of a conjunction, that I will get into a shortage of strength soon afterwards? Was the joy of being about to win the race underrun by an undercurrent, something else might have a minor certainty and would prevail soon than my present state of certainty, that is, the certainty, being about to win?
Was I clear about while my first reading, that God's message about my joy, about joy, about lessened joy strikes the core of being and of my being, which is, growing into light and into the direction of light? That I collected myself increasingly, in order to learn, how a scope of joy is related to a scope of fear of unknown, yes, just in those moments, when I am overtaken by a state, which promises me joy in the first instance – at a race, at a splendid performance of a piece of music, at a line painted exhilaratingly out of my brush hand, at a joyful coming together with another.
It was an eventful night, which followed the first reading.
Not in a direct meaning. It was not, that the lines of this Heavenletter did not stop to cross my mind – it was an eventful night otherwise.
And I had to portray and to outline the next morning, what these explanations are and what they were in my life. There are utterances of a human, of God, of me, which cannot be taken in, if I do not confide in them and if I do not move into them, above all making them alive, as to say. There are statements, like: “You have blue eyes”, while I have brown ones. There are statements farther, like: “We are about our whole life, to know and to become acquainted with Light, to go through Light, to heap Light on Light, to reflect Light, and to be more and more Light.” That assertion – I am to make it alive.
For sure – while doing this, speaking and reading words are lending a helping hand, meanwhile sounds, by which words are fed, are very helpful.
Words – and reading words – are animated.
They are from the present. They “are not to skip over or to just get through” (Heavenletter # 5131 from today).
Children will tell us, how they immerse in words and how well and how much making us forget what is not fitting us the words of our mother are. God's words do the same.
Words and sounds, syllables and morphemes are activating, on their own terms.
As animated words and sounds, they carry wishes and irrefutable echoes, they carry outstretched arms and hands desiring to accept and to grasp them, with them.
Words which we are reading – they wish to quicken my life, this is their life and their impartial way of living.
And this, they did yesterday.
They are enlivening, regardless how much I become aware of their proclivity and innate desire to strengthen my life, and of my desire towards light and simple clarity of grace.
Beloved Gloria, yes, grammarians are not to choose one question mark or six exclamation marks, these marks are having their place in a sort of superordinate-ness, and we will write them down in a let us say flying and wafting state.
How much this question mark at the end contains, how much - in … “What’s the value of winning a race when you do? When you win the race, is the joy equivalent in depth to the fear of an unknown that made you over-extend your self?”
Really, how much. Thank God.
Be blessed,
Theophil
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The quote is from a Heavenletter written 5 Sept. 2014, it is not yet posted on the website. The only way to fix the typo is to fix it on your computer, dear Gloria.
You bring up such
You bring up such interesting points, Theophil. In addition to being an artist and musician, you are a writer!
Language is vast and such a sense of touch as well as sound, it seems to me. There is, indeed, something about language.
A few years back a very interesting group contacted me, and they had, not a new language but a way of not being tied to the rules we have used, not exactly how it was in Shakespeare's day when people could spell in whatever way they chose yet with a freedom.. As a I remember, no paragraphs and a lack of punctuation so people could interpret as they chose and not as they were told to. At the same time, I couldn't quite grasp what they were doing. I really wanted to understand, and they were smart. By this time, they threw me out because I didn't grasp it, as if they were a sorority that I didn't merit and, therefore, wouldn't accept me because I wasn't elite enough. They had contacted me through Heavenletters which they had honored and thought I would have been smart enough to grasp the whole thing on my own .
Obviously, I've never forgotten this experience and still don't understand what was going on or why this group wouldn't give me the time of day after that, including the people who had seemed to be friends. .
There is no doubt that grammar rules and such are restrictive. All the energy that goes into learning them. I was an English teacher! Of course, the classes and I had fun with it. For instance, in a 7th grade class, certain students would write down a list of adjectives of their choosing. Others wrote down nouns or proper nouns. Others action verbs, adverbs etc. Each child, one at a time in the order of a sentence, read out the top word on his list. The result was a grammatically correct sentence that could only make us laugh. "A red elephant kissed the stubborn newspaper..."
Theophil, what typo is it you are referring to now?
... who else is kissing the stubborn newspaper ...
It is not foreclosed that Charles or Luus or I are kissing the stubborn newspaper.
Your way of teaching is really fun, and, at that time, avantgarde.
I can imagine, it is a vicious or bad feeling to be invited by someone or by a group, and to be treated by them, as you described it. I feel with you ... people who seemed to be friends.
As to the typo. Three format boxes further up you wrote:
"There are no accidents in life at the same time as everything is A kind of accidental because My children do not know what they do.
Does that A belong there? If it does not, will you kindly fix it?"
This quote is from Heavenletter, written 5 September 2014, second paragraph from below.
In love,
Theophil
I don't know why this has to
I don't know why this has to be so complicated. Aside from all the grammar and rules, a question mark is there to indicate a rising inflection or intonation at the end of the sentence when spoken aloud, and that indicates to the listener that it is a question.
And this has to be in accord with the meaning of the sentence. In this case the basic meaning of the sentence reads "Is the joy equivalent in depth to the fear?" That seems to me an obvious question with the voice rising at the end, and I think Gloria must have heard it that way. The rest of the sentence is just added on to give more meaning and detail to the basic question, but it's still a question with rising intonation at the end.
I notice that at the end of the sentence is "your self" as two words with a space between. Ordinarily this would be written and understood as "yourself". To say "your self" is quite possible and may in fact be what God intended to say. It makes a subtle difference in how you would read it aloud and in how an astute listener or reader would understand it. To most people it would probably just seem an error, if they noticed it at all. Again this gets back to what Gloria actually heard.
Yes, I do believe that God
Yes, I do believe that God meant to say your self.
One lesson I'm learning is that, because of time restraints, I have to let go of the idea of perfection. I have always tried to do my very best, and that takes so much time. The most wonderful thing I do and the quickest is to receive Heavenletters! And, of course, I'm energized in the process.
Gloria, it doesn't matter so
Gloria, it doesn't matter so much if you let something slip because more than likely we will catch it. In this case it wasn't a slip but could have been, and my concern is that God not end up looking bad.
This wouldn't be a concern with your blog for example, because most people reading it know that people make occasional mistakes and it's not a big deal. With Heavenletters it is a big deal, or at least that's how I feel. You're doing great and there's no one else to answer questions such as mine because you are the one hearing it. You're doing great.
God won't mind
Dear all,
God tells us time and again to not be a fault-finder. He won't mind. He loves us all and all the effort that is put into Heavenletters....
from heart to heart, namasté, Anneke
You are right, beloved
You are right, beloved Anneke. God is the most understanding and receptive of all. The nicest Boss we could ever have.
Beloved Charles, I know just
Beloved Charles, I know just what you mean. We all want to do our very best for God, give it our all. No doubt about that. We want excellence and to present God to our very best.
Everything is important to me. I deeply desire God's words to be free of any kind of error, and I am so grateful to you and all the others who feel the same way.
At the same time, of necessity, I can't do it all. Life, however, is giving me the lesson: "Just do it. Get it done."
Therefore extra glad for the beautiful participation you all so generously give. Special thanks for filling the need.
Theophil, any day I can look
Theophil, any day I can look back and see that I have grown some, even if tiny, I count it a victory and a blessing. Maybe we are closer to being plants than we realize. It is always good to know you are there helping keep watch.