Note to Heavenreaders: Just a reminder that questions and answers to God that appear on these pages were written about a month ago.

Annette to God:

Dear God, last night I suddenly discovered that my body was ill. It took me by surprise, as I had been feeling so good just hours earlier and haven't felt ill in quite a while. I am dismayed because tomorrow I start school. I cannot afford to miss any classes, especially not right in the beginning!

Dear Heavenly Father, You know how much I have been looking forward to beginning school, which is a whole new phase of life for me. Am I unconsciously trying to sabotage myself? What is going on with me? What do I do?

God to Annette:

What you do, dear daughter, is feel better. Or if not that, disregard what your body is feeling. I do not usually suggest that you deny anything, but a touch of illness is one of those things I do tell you to ignore. When you listen overmuch to how your body is feeling, you give your body permission to take sovereignty over you.

You are perceptive to know that your body is not you.

Not every time, but most of the time, when a body does not feel well, the cure is getting up and going about your business, getting your attention involved in something more interesting. While your attention is no longer on how you feel, somehow the fleeting sense of illness flees. Try it. Your old belief was that when you felt ill, you had to take care of yourself. Perhaps you have thought that at the first sign of illness, the right thing to do is take to your bed until you feel better. How you were feeling became an important clock of your life.

But I am saying to you, Get up and feel better.

You may already be feeling better as I write this. Get up and go to school regardless of how you think you feel.

It is certainly possible that you are sabotaging yourself. But no need to figure this out. Remember your T-shirt that says "So What!"?

So, it's So What, how you feel. It's So What, the cause. Regardless, dear Annette, you are shedding old beliefs.

Try this: when your body doesn't feel well, take it as a wonderful sign of new beginnings. Old beliefs are getting out of the way. You are getting unstuck now. Consider a sense of illness as troubadours heralding a parade of joy. Jump for joy when you do not feel tip-top. Who said you had to feel tip-top? Who said it was awful not to?

You have found that you no longer pay that weighty attention to what foods you eat as you once did, and everything is fine. Now you no longer need pay that homage to how your body feels at any particular moment. Your body is not an egg to be coddled. Your body is, after all, only a body. It is not you. It is not everything.

Do you remember when I told you to proclaim that you are strong?

This is a good time to proclaim it.

You are strong.

Your body is strong.

I am Almighty.

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Jona to Heavenletters:

I'm just writing to say, thank you, to God and you. It's so awesome to have a connection with the other people that get your heavenly letter, even if it just a little one. It was so cool for me to read the letters that Diane and Abby wrote to you about my question and God's answer. I'm glad that they appreciate it so much. Even if I never meet them or never hear from them again, it's just awesome to know that they are God's children too.

Have a good day, Gloria. Love, Jona (16 years old)

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An excerpt from the last Ask God workshop:

Gloria to God:

Dear God, when people come to learn Godwriting, I see their faces change. Something leaves their face, and more innocence appears.

God:

What could be more innocent than wanting to hear what I have to say? The face lifts Heavenward, and more light shines from above.