I know what you mean, Gloria. I had a happy childhood but I didn't live my teens at all, and I thought it was my mum's fault. But now I've come to realize that I used her as an excuse, I myself created all the experiences I lived. There's nothing to forgive. Maybe some behaviours and acts could have been different, but everyone did their best.

We were so poor that I never had a teddy bear. We created imaginary animals and persons with cones and plants. I only had one doll, but I lost it when I moved away from home. I kept looking for it for a long time, but now I know I was just looking for love. - Some time ago I was having a walk and thinking about the images we have of Jesus and Mother Mary, and I asked God to give me an image of Himself. You know what I bumped into: a wide open fircone. - Anyway, this is a different story.

Can't wait to read the book of Lois.
Paula

Thanks for a wonderful memory Paula,

I was at a CFO, (Camp Furtherest Out,) years ago. After a week of being there I walked five miles daily in very thick forrest, crossing streams, climbing over huge rocks etc. and never got lost. Like finding a needle in a hay stack, I always found my camp. I did have company, God was with me every step, and I used His advice to find my way back. One day after coming back from this adventure, my long white cane broken and left behind, a tree branch acting as a cane, someone approached me. He put a horse chestnut into my hand and asked if I knew what it was. Feeling then sniffing I told him and then went on and told of a story before losing sight. I was in Cubscouts and lost an inspecttion because of stains from horse chestnuts that I couldn't get off of my hands.. This stranger told me that for days he had been praying for a way of approaching me and found the nut. It turns out too that this man was a psycoligist! I thought afterwards something like, "Man if this man didn't know how to approach me, imagine what the ordinary public has to suffer!" Paula, after being blind for almost 49 years, I KNOW that this is still very true for most of us who are made to endure our separation by what the public think of any disabled person. I love kids because they aren't restricted by those fears of the unknown. Often I hear parents hushing their kids if the child asks, "What's that man doing with the long stick."Daily I pass a school and am always open with the inquisative kids. I love visiting schools and talking with them, try to do it a few times every year.

My lovely Paula, when money allowed I supported kids through the various Save the Children programs I heard on TV/radio. I often asked those kids in our penpal messages if they were able to buy a toy with the extra dollar I sent them. What a thrill when I heard back that they had been able to buy necessary tacks, string so that they could tie a can to it and try catching it on the end of the stick! Oh Paula how I ache now to teach the world how to create love via the pink light! It would end poverty, divorce, hunger etc. Join with me now in loving all of existence. Love even terrorest who are so filled with hatred that all they feel is negative. Heck, I'd rather be blind-deaf-dum and unable to move even my nose when ichy! Create a glowing pink Earth right now, and thank God we are free to feel and enjoy His perfect unselfish LOVE!

LPL,
Joe

This is my email to Dr Einhorn:

quote
Dear Dr. Einhorn
I replied to Gloria Wendroff's comment on your book on the Heavenletters forum and she said you'd like me to email you.
Well, I really don't know what to say. I didn't know you were a famous person in America (I live in Italy). Somehow, Gloria's description of your book made me think of a simple fiery woman who succeeded in forgiving something terrible. When I hear of child abuse, and even when I just see parents mistreating their children only with words, out of ignorance, I feel something stirring inside me, and I am not sure if I could forgive.
As I told Gloria, we were very poor, but I had a happy childhood with 8 sisters and 2 brothers. My father used to beat us with a cane, but he did it only when we 'deserved' it, and I never thought of it as a mean and bad thing. We were 9 daughters and I can't even imagine what it could have been like to be abused! And I honestly cannot say whether I could really forgive, evenif I'd want to.
I'm curious about all the contributions to your book. Can't wait to read it.
May God bless you!unquote

Dear Joe,
that's a wonderful and meaningful experience you tell about. Yes, we 'normal' people have problems in approaching disabled persons. No matter how open we are, it's difficult not to treat you/them differently. And I think it's the same with skin colour. I have an African friend. When I met her the for the first time, I went to her with the intention of treating her 'normally'. But the mere fact that I HAD TO PUT INTENTION in it showed that I was treating her differently. Otherwise, I'd just done it without thinking about it.
Don't strain yourself about helping people and saving the world. Let God do it through you, as He's already doing.
Paula

All these recent events and people's stories made this question arise in my heart:

Dear God,
if we - as you say and as I know - are only your perfect Love, then what are all these events and trials in our life for? Why do we need to improve ourselves and grow and learn from life? What are we improving: our ego, our little self? Or are we taking off layers of veil to get to our true self.
With gratitude and love,
Paula

Paula my Child,

"You are soul, you are ego, can you locate either, might they be the same? I love to be recognized and stroked, don't you? You are God who wrote this message,Joe is God who is replying, and both of you and I, love to be stroked and loved."

LPL,
Joe

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Hi Paula,

The question you ask is one that has been asked by
many thousands, millions, of people from all over the
world. There are different answers fro different
sources but they all seem to come from the same place.
My own understanding, bringing all these different
reasons into account, is this. This world was
originally created by God, and by all of us when we
were still God the One, to be a playground of joy and
fun. The Garden of Eden is translated as Garden of
Pleasures. When we separated ourselves out from the
unity of God, when He/She separated parts of Herself
out to fill this playground, the intensity physical of
sensations overwhelmed us. We forgot who we were. We
became merely human rather than divine human. We
separated ourselves from God with a fig leaf.

When this happened the garden became a life of
hardship, a life of competing states such as pleasure
and pain. Life became hard. We were led out of the
garden and began a process of learning about physical
life. We became fearful, and in that process we lost
our heritage. Our perception of who we are changed. We
began to judge ourselves and others harshly. In order
to regain our divine nature we have been learning
compassion and love in all sorts of conditions ever
since.

Now according to all indications it is time to return
to the Garden of Pleasure. We are in the process of
remembering who we are, and in this process we no
longer need to ask why. We just need to open our
hearts to Love. Once we become the Love that we are
then life will take on a whole new meaning, one of
pleasure and the wild expression of Love playing with
its own self.

Dance the Dance of Love,
Robert

Robert:

That is exactly, precisely the way I understand it.

John

Yesterday I received my copy of Lois Einhorn's book 'Forgiveness and Child Abuse'. I didn't have time to start reading it all, but I went straight to the Heavenletters contribution by Gloria. I'm sure it's not by mere chance that the contribution by Gloria and God is one of the final ones. Glancing through the pages I saw that the contributions were expressions of all the contributors' consciousnesses, some very complicated, others more simple. But the simplest one seems to be the one by God.

I was also struck by the difference between Gloria, as the human being she is, and Gloria, the scribe of God. While the human is sad and angry and unable to forgive, the divine says simply that it's not for us to forgive. Imagine how this lightens our useless burden: we don't have to struggle to forgive, or pretend to forgive, we just need to leave things to God. In this case, we can save the child and protect them and just accompany the parents to God's frontdoor leaving them there. - This difference between the human and the divine made me think that we can really all do our own Godwriting and let our light shine. I had this image of Gloria letting GOd's light shine through her, expanding it in all the world. And we can all do this.

I happened to be translating a Heavenletter just yesterday where God says: 'When you free the others, you free yourself." Meaning that when we stop controlling others (even thinking that we must forgive them), we leave them to God's care and set ourselves free.

Another thing that strikes me in God's words is the same thing that Jesus said on the cross: "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they are doing." People are really doing their best for their own level of consciousness and are responsible on that level. This is ever more obvious in our daily lives. So it's not for us to condemn or to forgive, because if we do 'we reduce ourselves to their consciousness' (as God says). We are only to leave them to God. "God, I relinquish them to You."
It's as easy as that.
Paula

Dear Paula,

Thank you for your insight!  Odd how we can read another's wise words and not hear them.  Let another say them, and they reach us.  So often I find another person's insight so helpful to what I've been hearing for ages.  Gloria has a fantastic way of making one wake up and pay attention.  Your quoting her makes it that much more awakening Paula, thanks!

LPL,
Joe

 At 05:00 AM 2/9/2006, you wrote:

Quote:

Yesterday I received my copy of Lois Einhorn's book 'Forgiveness and Child Abuse'. I didn't have time to start reading it all, but I went straight to the Heavenletters contribution by Gloria. I'm sure it's not by mere chance that the contribution by Gloria and God is one of the final ones. Glancing through the pages I saw that the contributions were expressions of all the contributors' consciousnesses, some very complicated, others more simple. But the simplest one seems to be the one by God.

I was also struck by the difference between Gloria, as the human being she is, and Gloria, the scribe of God. While the human is sad and angry and unable to forgive, the divine says simply that it's not for us to forgive. Imagine how this lightens our useless burden: we don't have to struggle to forgive, or pretend to forgive, we just need to leave things to God. In this case, we can save the child and protect them and just accompany the parents to God's frontdoor leaving them there. - This difference between the human and the divine made me think that we can really all do our own Godwriting and let our light shine. I had this image of Gloria letting GOd's light shine through her, expanding it in all the world. And we can all do this.

I happened to be translating a Heavenletter just yesterday where God says: 'When you free the others, you free yourself." Meaning that when we stop controlling others (even thinking that we must forgive them), we leave them to God's care and set ourselves free.

Another thing that strikes me in God's words is the same thing that Jesus said on the cross: "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they are doing." People are really doing their best for their own level of consciousness and are responsible on that level. This is ever more obvious in our daily lives. So it's not for us to condemn or to forgive, because if we do 'we reduce ourselves to their consciousness' (as God says). We are only to leave them to God. "God, I relinquish them to You."
It's as easy as that.
Paula

Safe in My arms you're only dreaming.
Love is the Answer.

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