Making Heaven CD's and Books
Between God and Heavenreaders' posts, I learn so much.
Recently Magda, who is sponsoring the Godwriting(tm) workshop in Turin, Italy, has had some wonderful ideas, ideas so simple and so great that I have to wonder how it is that I get an idea in my head and can't seem to see beyond it. At least not until someone like Magda says something that breaks me out of my one way of thinking.
I'll tell you what I mean. I spent years with printed-out Heavenletters spread all over my floor, trying to sort them into wonderful categories. Goodness knows, we have enough material for many dozens of books.
One example is a book on Death and Grieving that Margaret from Iowa and I worked on, especially Margaret, and we just couldn't get it right, or what I thought was right anyway. What goes where and how do we find the right place for something to fit when it can fit in so many places? What are the categories within categories? I began to feel that maybe Heavenletters were meant to just fall where they may. In any case, I couldn't seem to manifest my vision. I think now that I was perhaps too ambitious and was biting off more than I could chew.
I came to the point where I thought that Heavenletters would just have to be free-flow. God doesn't organize Heavenletters according to categories. He doesn't spend a week on one topic, or one month. Heavenletters just come one after the other like leaves on a tree. He has the flow he wants, and the flow is not in an order that we would call orderly!
Well, you notice that the Heaven book, Heavenletters(tm), Love Letters from God, Book One, is not organized according to subjects. It is 91 appealing Heavenletters that I plucked from the thousands and lined them up in a way I thought was good.
Now, Magda, coming from a fresh perspective has really opened my eyes!
She suggested making a Heaven CD in Italian. Great idea! Of course, I'm thinking the way I have always thought, to get in as many Heavenletters as we can fit in one CD. But what is Madga's idea? It is so simple and so beautiful, I have to scatch my head and wonder why I didn't think of this!
Magda said, "Let's make a CD of 7 Heavenletters."
That's it! How simple. How manageable. How easy! A light bulb lit up in my head!
This was a great revelation that I gained from Magda. Let's make it simple! I should have known that. In fact, I always say that -- "Let's make it simple" -- but I sure didn't have the know-how to apply that to Heaven books and CD's!
I LOVE Magda's idea of CD's of 7 Heavenletters. Perhaps booklets or ebooklets of 7 Heavenletters too. We could have CD's on all kinds of themes. Much simpler than trying to pick out and organize 100 CD's. So much less time-consuming, less costly to make, less costly to buy. And if on the website, maybe very inexpensive, or free, or by donation only. Where has my head been?!!!!
Magda knows how to record and will read 7 Heavenletters out loud for an introductory CD to use to attract many people to come to the Godwriting workshop in Italy. Magda has lined up a beautiful composer with a beautiful voice to begin and end the CD with, and include a little bit of instrumental music in between the 7 Heavenletters. I heard a sample of this woman's music, and I am sold out.
My idea is that perhaps this magnificent musician will in the future make whole CD's of lyrics taken from Heavenletters.
Just recently a young musician in California asked if he could use some lyrics from HEAVEN #3122 Dream New Dreams.
Some time ago an exquisite composer -- from Italy, as a matter of fact -- composed some Heaven music that took my breath away. Heaven Admin and I wanted to jump on this.
I know this posting is long. Just a little more.
What I also realize is that I am stretched with all there is to do for Heaven that I am already doing, and I keep being stretched more. How Heaven Admin accomplishes all he does is beyond my grasp. I am thinking he stays up late every night working on Heaven needs. So much is behind the scenes that we don't even know.
Heavenreaders have made Youtube presentations of Heavenletters. We would love more of these as well.
Are there others as well as Magda who not only have ideas for Heaven CD's but would go ahead and create CD's for us?
Chuck is already working on a Heaven book, as you may remember.
So, regarding books and CD's, what are your ideas? And might you manifest them?
Now my friend has come to pick up to go hiking in the woods for exercise, so I have to stop writing or I might never stop.
With love and blessings,
Gloria
Heaven audio recordings?
Hi, I'm not sure if I'm bringing this up in the right place, but I just happened to poke my head in and saw this post. Please forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I've come across Heavenletters from time to time and always thought how wonderful it would be if they were in audio form and could be downloaded for listening. I personally have enjoyed the Heavenletters that I've read, but am unable to spend a lot of time sitting and reading at the computer so have not made a habit of it. But how great it'd be if I could play them while doing other things, for example download them and listen to them while driving or taking a walk...
I know this would probably involve a fair amount of extra work, recording the audios and so forth, but I imagine that if you were not able to do them yourself, you could invite volunteers to try their hand/audition, and choose someone who was able to read them sensitively and emotively...? There are some pretty simple and inexpensive ways that people can make quite effective amateur recordings on their home computers... But I'm running off in the details already and I'm not even sure what your thoughts are on the idea in general.
Violet... :)
Beloved Violet, how
Beloved Violet, how important is a reply, and how valued is this one from you.
It is as if you have pressed the button that says Record.
Heaven Admin is eager to do this for us. He has sent me a top recording program. I have an excellent microphone, and I have not yet figured out to do it. I am the cog in the wheel! Perhaps when Heaven Admin and I are together on the European tour and certainly when we are on the Oneness Journey, he will be able to teach me, and I will learn.
And, yes, the idea of Heavenreaders reading Heavenletters out loud and recording is welcome.
There are certainly people who prefer to read with their eyes, and there are certainly people who prefer to listen with their ears. And there are people who would like to do both.
I believe, that when we get this going, it may even be possible to click something on the daily Heavenletter you receive that will allow you to listen to the Heavenletter right then.
Thank you, Violet.
Wow, that sounds wonderful
Wow, that sounds wonderful Gloria! So they'd become more like heaven-phone-calls, maybe. LOL!
Thank you for your lovely, loving response. :D
A proposal to get started
Gloria and Violet, I just discovered this forum and comments about producing Heaven resources. I had placed a remark on an earlier blog comment, but it seems that it is most appropriate here. I have copied and edited the comment for inclusion here:
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I like the “7 best” idea. I have spontaneously begun to copy certain Heavenletters and place them into folders when they address a particular topic that is important to me. I find that reviewing a group of key letters about an important topic gives me a much better and more in depth view of the Heavenletter input on that topic.
An idea emerges from your blog and these considerations (and the comments above): why not start forum topics about certain topics that readers could use to place their suggestions for the key sources? At some point, someone could use this as a basis for a short ebook about that topic.
I like the idea of popular topics. I have noticed that certain problems we all struggle with come up frequently in the letters as well as the personal questions to God forums. These are dealt with with great sensitivity and a wealth of useful suggestions for action. An ebook about a topic like the death of a loved one, drug addiction, illness, etc. would be a wonderful resource to send to a friend or even for a therapist to give to a client in need of help. Ebooks like these may also be wonderful introductions to Heavenletters for people unaware of their value.
Topics wouldn’t have to be limited to human problems, of course, and might include topics like prayer that some of us want to explore in detail or very comforting concepts like our Oneness and our innate access to Truth in our hearts. A potential way to start might be a forum asking for input about potential topics.
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Now back to real time. Just some thoughts. I envision a two stage process. The first stage would be the formation of a core of Heavenletters and forum contents to form an ebook. The second stage would be for someone to take the ebook and place it on a cd.
Actually there would be a third stage, too, as I think about this: distribution. I love the idea of not charging, but I would suggest a link added to allow a contribution, if someone is so inclined. A special “Free Heavenletters CDs and eBooks” section could be added to the home page to allow anyone to access them at any time. I would propose that these would not be copyrighted and could be widely shared.
What we would have, then, is a series of ebooks and cds to promote Heavenletters and which may also serve as inspirational and/or therapeutic resource in the process.
This is not to say that someone so inspired could not start from scratch and take it all the way from gathering the resources to distributing the cds. If this sounds like a good plan, I would be happy to start and moderate the forum sites. If we had no other volunteers, I would also be comfortable constructing rough drafts for ebooks, but my resources and skills would be about spent at that point. Producing cds and distribution would require more expertise than I possess.
Chuck
Thank you, beloved Chuck,
Thank you, beloved Chuck, for offering your love, time, and intelligence. Very generous if you ask me!
Will you show us a 7 Heavenletter ebook you might have in mind? Or several? They don't have to be perfected. Just so we all have an idea. A sample is worth a thousand words!
And then we can take it from there.
With love and blessings,
Gloria
In progress
Thanks, Gloria, for your kind remarks. My previous efforts toward a book were bringing me some of the experience you described of the thousand Heavenletters scattered on your floor trying to organize a theme. You get to say "I told you so" :-) I will put my first rough draft and commments here on this series of comments when it is ready.
Ah, but a 7-Heavenletter
Ah, but a 7-Heavenletter ebook will be a snap! Anyway, you have quite a different mind from mine, and you could very well have succeeded where I didn't! Or maybe a book of many organized Heavenletters was just not to be! But shorties, at least, sound easy!
A first ebook rough draft
The rough draft of the first 7 Heavenletter ebook is done and ready for review by those interested. I do not know how to place the file on this forum with an appropriate link for downloading, so I will need help with this. Input will be very important in getting the rough draft to the final form, so please include candid comments y’all!
If someone wants me to email them the rough manuscript prior to this link being set up, just contact me directly and I will be happy to send it. My contact link is on my personal page.
The rough draft is very rough and will need someone with more expertise and artistic talent than I have to do better formatting and cover design, etc, before publication on the Heavenletters website.
The title of the first ebook is: “How Do We Stop Going To War With Each Other?” Other topics I am considering are:
* Our material life as an illusion
* How our thoughts influence the world
* Oneness
* Can we live without judgment?
* The natural limits of our ability to understand
* God’s directions for self-healing
Of course, I would be very appreciative of other ideas concerning topics and I think it would be wonderful for others to do their own ebooks, if so inclined. This was fun to do and I feel good about the result. It is only a first step, though.
I’m looking forward to any comments…..love to all…….Chuck
Wow, Chuck, I am bowled
Wow, Chuck, I am bowled over. You did it! You really did it!
I love the Heavenletters you chose. I love how you connected the seven Heavenletters you chose. The Heavenletters do seem to have a natural progression. The few words you use in between Heavenletters make sure the reader sees the progression. He can know he's going somewhere with this. It is like you are taking the reader for a walk. No interpretations. Just pointing out the sights. I felt you were gentlemanly, Chuck. You were a guide, yet you said little. Just right! You left interpretation up to the reader. You leave him free to discover for himself.
Technically, I believe this is called giving advanced organizers. Excellent.
I think you have done an amazing job. You make it seem so simple. I know you put a lot into this, and it couldn't have been so easy, yet you make it seem easy and natural and like the only way it could be.
Marvelous job! I hardly think this is a draft!
There are some things I would like to address. Oh, things like: I'm not sure about having the Heavenletters in italics. I might do the reverse – have your words in italics! Little things like this that we can talk over.
I would have you tell more about yourself and how you came to compile this book. I probably would like to see you make very strong statements that will make readers eager to read it -- some selling really!
Perhaps we want testimonials from other Heaven readers and other things like that.
And now your ideas for other ebooks are also fabulous. I am sure the ideas are infinite!
It was Magda in Italy, the sponsor of the Godwriting workshop in Turin, who had the idea of making an Italian CD of 7 Heavenletters only, and from her idea, the idea of 7-letter Heaven books grew. I think this idea is genius, and you have shown how marvelously this simple idea of 7 also works for an ebook. You did it!
Maybe others would like to do this too. Honestly, after reading what you have done, I want to go do one too! There are plenty of Heavenletters for all!
I'm sending the pdf. you sent me to Santhan. He is very involved right now in the European Godwriting tour. When he can focus on this, he will give us his feedback, and you can be sure he will do a beautiful artistic job to match the splendor you have given us.
I also sent you my detailed suggestions.
Thank you, Chuck, for creating this and for doing such a masterful job.
With love and blessings,
Gloria
P.S. You thought this ebook would be for readers new to Heavenletters. I am sure this ebook is as much for long-time Heavenreaders as it is for new ones. I have read them all – and I was utterly charmed with what you did!
Beloved Chuck, are you okay
Beloved Chuck, are you okay with what I suggested? Please let me know what you are feeling.
Loving you, Gloria
revisions to rough draft
Gloria, hon, I was waiting to see if there was any input from other readers before I incorporated your suggetsions into the next draft. I was also hoping that a place could be found so others could access the rough drafts easily before doing the revision.
The suggestions you have made, Gloria, all make good sense and are helpful. What I will do at this point is take your comments and do a revsion and email it to you. I should have that done within a few days. Hope all the tour plans are going well. You sure do have a lot on your plate! Love ya.......Chuck
Thanks, Chuck. I want to be
Thanks, Chuck. I want to be sure you know that you have to go by your own heart with this.
Yes, there is a lot on my plate. Fortunately, Heaven Admin takes care of most of it!
Yes, let's go ahead. This is your baby, dear Chuck. When it's all done, then Heaven Admin will do something wonderful with it.
God bless you.
With love,
Gloria