Gloria:
Dear God, I saw a beautiful movie about American Indians the other day, and I was touched by their reliance on You and on dreams.
Their attention on dreams ran deep. Attention on dreams today seems shallow.
God:
They sought for My Will in their dreams. That's the difference. For Whom do you analyze the dream. What a different intent: to find out about yourself or about My Will.
Gloria:
I have had an experience for a long time now, on and off. I am not sure it's a dream. When it comes, it seems to be when I'm just waking from sleep or just falling asleep. I see hieroglyphic-like symbols. I have wondered if these symbols are instructing me.
God:
You understand them on the level they are given. You cannot analyze them.
Gloria:
I have wondered if they have not given me some of the Godwriting.
God:
The symbols you see are like equations of Godwriting. As a sound may be the essence of thought, so are these visual symbols essence of thought. They are visual electrical impulses. They are messages sent to you.
Gloria:
Thank You, God. Generally speaking, I am at my happiest when I am Godwriting.
God:
You align with My Will. You attend to Me. Not by your will, but by your interest. I am like a book you read that you don't want to put down.
Gloria:
Heavenletters is now about two weeks ahead. I kind of miss writing Your thoughts in the morning and sending them out that same morning when every Heavenletter was really fresh. Nothing was held for later.
God:
Heavenreaders receive Heaven the day it is sent out, and they also receive what is written as it is written. The message is sent when it is received. Email provides a copy of what has already been sent. Godmail, as it were.
Gloria:
Dear God, if someone had just sent in questions about the meaning of particular passages in the Bible, if the question had just been up in the air, theoretical, instead of from the heart of Abby, I wonder if Your answer could have come to me.
God:
What you are trying to say is that My answers come through your heart. You fear that if your heart and the questioner's heart were not meeting one another, you would not receive an answer.
Gloria:
Yes.
God:
Well, the answer would never come from your intellect, Gloria, so your heart has to be the circuit. I don't want to use the word involved but your heart does have to be involved without being involved much. Your heart has to be involved enough to want the answer for the other person's sake. And, yes, the other heart has to want the answer to the question. The intellect alone does not give a question life.
Questions from the mind can be answered endlessly in variant ways. A question from the heart has one answer that can fill the heart that asked it. The heart has to be answered, not the question.
So, Heavenletters answers hearts, not questions.
As you have progressed in Godwriting, you are more sure of the answers that come to you. You are more sure of the process. You feel more of My strength and less of your uncertainty as you translate My love into words onto the computer.
What you are feeling more of now is that you fly up to Me for the answers. You used to feel more that I came down to You. Of course there is no difference, for I am everywhere, and I am within you as well as outside of you, for I am the All.
Gloria:
Dear God, although I personally am growing in confidence and all, there seems to be such a difference in me when I write Your words than in me when I am in my personal life.
God:
Take Me with you more in your personal life. Listen for My thoughts and not your petty ones.
Gloria:
There are two things that I am aware of that consistently make me angry. And they are repetitive.
Our back yard is across from the high school. There are no trash cans along a mile of school sidewalk. As the students come back from lunch, they drop wrappers and containers all over. That doesn't bother me. But then the wind blows a lot of them into my yard, and then I feel angry with the school that does not provide trash cans and does not make the kids pick up their trash or even suggest that the kids not litter.
One year I called the school principal, and he told me to call the Head Custodian at the school department because it wasn't his problem.
I read what you said about littering and about loving the litterers and I can do it in theory, God, but I don't seem to be able to love the school, its principal, the lack of responsibility, and the apparent lack of caring. The kids themselves don't bother me.
The second thing concerns a big eighteen-year old who walks through our acre and a half-yard four times a day rather than go one house further and use the sidewalk. I can be outside right there and tell him not to, and he walks right past me and cuts through the yard. He ignores me totally. I find his insolent silence intolerable, and I am really angry.
Isn't there anything I'm supposed to control?
God:
Yes. But you do know what to do, Gloria. Turn this over to Me. Turn the school, the students, that insolent boy, your anger over to Me. Really give them to Me. Don't hold on to them. You are responsible for your anger. The school isn't. That boy isn't. You are.
No one has the right to trespass on your property. The school is impertinent to allow students to litter. But neither is responsible for your anger. Do you see how your anger fuels the situation? Give it up, Gloria. Your anger, give it up. Then see what happens.
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Linda M. to Heavenletters:
Greetings! I loved Lauren's question May 19 and God's response for I have had that question. I also knew the response, but I needed to hear it again and get it embedded in my consciousness.
I saw a book in a bookstore about "letters from God", and I have to tell you that it didn't compare to what Heaven has to offer.