Often heard before in Heavenletters, today this sounds to me like the last piece completing a vast mosaic. I recognize this piece by the resistance it engenders. How often have I looked at this mosaic, always thinking that the missing piece must be something else, something big and deep. But no, I simply don't want to let go of my rightful rejection of certain behaviors in others.

Dear Author of Heavenletters, You are right when You say there are things I don't want to respond lovingly to. On the other hand, there can be no doubt that fighting them will never lead anywhere near to where I want to be. Who set this trap? What makes it so hard to understand and accept that no amount of fighting, arguing, persuading and teaching, no amount of fire or diplomacy, will ever lead to the peace we so long for? There is a choice to be made: Change the world or love the world. As it is, I want it to change so I can love it. One day, not too far from now, I will be glad it doesn't work that way. But today I feel more than a little frustrated. And I also feel like laughing out loud.

Dear Jochen, I share your "resistence" and your "frustration" today. No diplomacy, no arguing, no teaching can change the state of affairs. And how to love this unpleasant state of affairs? We are told "simply" by rising above. Forgiving ( a word that I do not like ) is letting go which is rising above like a balloon, we are not even required to understand "It is perhaps you who has to get beyond even understanding. What is beyond understanding?" . But how to rise above, how to go beyond even understanding? By desiring it? By wanting to cultivate just "good feeling in your heart"? And "Irrespective of everything else" coudn't it become a form of cinycism or anaesthesia? I want to have clear in my mind that this "everything else" is nothing but ego's playground and therefore a trapping illusion bringing me only woe.
"What do you want to happen? What do you want to declare?" I want to declare the end of this world of confusion.

Dear MAESTRO, CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE OF LOVE,

Yes, I do know what You say here is quite correct. I am the one who has to rise and I am
also to raise my sights. and to step onto higher ground! I am trying to understand what
YOU MEAN when you say I must get beyond understanding. I know that is so True
however. I shall step up onto a higher step today and peace will somehow follow. THANK YOU, MAESTRO for this healing HeavenLetter.

Hello,

Well, I'm new to Heavenletters, and I'm surprised by... recognition.
If it's okay to you I tell something?

A couple of years ago my love Linda died, afer an extreme period with lots of suffering.
As a means to get grip of my life again, to easy my mind in whatever ways I could, after the funural I started writing and... well, you now probably feel where this is leading to :-))

I felt that I had to write perfectly honest, or a least try to be so. That was very important to me, maybe caused by the deep emotional periods and situations we had gone through, one becomes more open and what others think of you is not so important anymore. All this daily noise and stress, what everyone is running after... That's not what Life is about. There are more important things in life. Maybe you need to experience something really tough to start appreciating that.

So I wrote about what had happened, what it had done to me, how I felt, what I was doing, I expressed my thoughts, my doubts, my questions and I did so by writing a letter to Linda. Call it some kind of diary, but for me it was my letter to Linda. And what I discovered is that when I had certain conflicts inside me, doubts, difficult thoughts etc... I could start write them down, but of course as soon as I approached to a certain point, a problem I was dealing with, that would be somewhat difficult to discuss if Linda where still alive... I hesitated, didn't dare to write on.
Who knows what would happen if I wrote that down... :-))
You understand I think.
But I thought, 'well... whom am I fooling here? YOU know my thoughts anyway, no matter what I do, writing it down or not, so why shouldn't I write them down.'

But still it can be difficult and while thinking about this, I wrote down these thoughts too, that I was afraid to write about what I was trying to write down... Thoughts can be so complicating :-)

But I found that I could kind of bypass the hot part, trying to change my perspective, writing as if looking from high
above, or from the eyes of someone else. For some reason that made it easier to write about it, making it less personal so to say.
But to my surprise... after a short while I then noticed that I had already written down exactly what I was dealing with, WITH the answer to my thoughts between the lines! Whatever I was dealing with... I got the answer I needed.
So the blockage was gone too.
And I thought, 'Well... was THAT so difficult to write down?" Apparently so, but not anymore.

This happened a lot to me since then, and it still does, and I'm now convinced that whatever happens during writing this way, if you are trying to be honest in what you write, you get answers, and a communication is started with... Above.

Namaste,

Wim

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Hello Friends,

God said it is you
To give some understanding
And make way to peace

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