Emails from the Heart

You cannot believe the wonderful emails that reach my inbox. It’s my heart really that they reach. Very much. I am in awe of the most simple gentle beautiful generous words that come my way. I learn so much of what God teaches from the emails that come to me from the most beautiful souls in the world. Their emails make me want to be like the people who write them.

How would you feel if you received an email like this one?

“I was just wondering if there was anything you needed from me, or anything I could do for you.”

If God had a contest and asked us to write one sentence in twenty-five words or less that would reflect His heart, wouldn’t that one win?

I wring all the joy from what people write, but I do not take it personally. I know that such givingness comes from who they are, not who I am.

Let me tell you more of the greatness of people who write in.

People ask personal questions of God through Heavenletters. They have the desire and the trust. And so I am further privileged to know their inmost hearts.

Sometimes their questions are something like the sentence above in that they express their desire to serve. It may be to serve their family. I have learned that there are husbands whose very being is occupied with the love and caring for their families. I mean love, not the tangled webs you see on TV.

Others have questions about helping youth and education and deep-seated desires to do something good for the world.

And, of course, there are also questions that are concerned with a difficult personal situation, but with every question to God, the surface coverings are gone, ego erased, and the people’s true hearts are revealed, and, believe me, they are beautiful.

A Dear Abby at heart, I am keen about doing personal questions. I even have a system. As soon as a question comes in, I email the person who asked the question to let them know I received it, and I assure them that God’s response will be emailed to them within the next few days. I am so on top of personal questions that I have a folder where I immediately place the question, and I check this folder every morning. I may let other emails slide when I am overwhelmed, but personal questions to God, never. Well, never, except—

I was deleting emails, and was stunned to come across a personal question that I hadn’t filed, hadn’t responded to, and had no recollection of. It was three weeks old, and the person had never heard one word from me. You understand that people pay for personal questions, and right next to the question was the Paypal form saying it had been paid for. I had left this person waiting for an answer, not for an ordinary shipment, but for an answer from GOD.

Amazing to me that this person hadn’t written to protest.

I am quite different. If positions had been reversed, the one who didn’t answer would have heard from me in no uncertain terms. I would have been irate. I wouldn’t have stood for it. No one is going to do that to me etc.. If positions had been reversed, I don’t know all I would have done, but I know I would be outraged and ready for a fight.

Immediately I wrote to this dear person, apologized profusely.

Here is the reply:

“It is nice to hear from you. Please don’t feel bad about not answering my question right away. I knew I would eventually hear from you. If there is one thing the universe wants me to understand, it is about patience and Divine Timing. I understand this. It is okay. I just figured you were busy and would get to it when you could, and when that time came it would be the perfect time. Do not feel one smidgen of guilt over this, okay?”

Now do you see how beautiful the people are who write in, and how God sends them to me so I can learn to be more like them?

Posted by Gloria on March 30th, 2006 under these topics
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Reply from Junee on April 11, 2007

Dear Gloria, Iam ejoying reading your blog. Thought I’d start from the beginning (after having read the latest),and I found this interesting, quite apart from your beautiful attitude toward the people you meet through emails, which I have already been delighted to experience. I had wondered whether you actually read (before Godwriting an answer)the persons’ question and it seems you do. Or is it that your reading comes afterward and I have misinterpreted? My thoughts were that God, being omniscient, would not need to read the question in order to answer and so many questions, well, all of them really, are personal between the sender and God alone. Of course you are the essential component, the instrument by which this Godwriting can be made available for the other and I know this is your sacred mission in which you fully respect that privacy. I am simply interested to know if the content of questions is read first, if it is necessary somehow in the process, and/or whether God answers through you without you knowing the question? I hope you find this post, back here in the archives one year after you wrote the above! Love to you Junee

Reply from Gloria on April 11, 2007

Dear Junee,

Absolutely, I read the person’s question. I ask that people pour out their hearts and ask through Heavenletters only questions that really matter to them. If a questioner should ask a bare question, just the question without the questioner’s emotional involvement, I ask the person to pour out his heart.

It’s not really questions that God (through Heavenletters) responds to. It is the person’s heart. And the answers seem to heal the person’s heart. Nothing in their particular situation may be changed, but they are changed, and so everything is changed.

I believe the question is an important part of the process.

I do read the questions over carefully, and reread to make sure that nothing is left out.

I have thought that the person’s question opens gateways to God, and somehow this opening allows me to “tune in.� But that’s only a guess. I honestly don’t know how the answers come through me. I know the answers surprise me. It is the same with the daily Heavenletters. I don’t know what’s coming. They certainly are not from my individuality.

I do know that people who ask their personal questions gain from God’s answers. There are many who have asked and donated for questions over a period of years and keep coming back.

Let me backtrack a little. There are questions, and there are questions. There was someone I knew who repeatedly said to me: “Tell me my mother’s maiden name, and I’ll believe your answers come from God.”

I have no desire in proving anything. God cannot be proved. And I have no interest in silly questions or parlor tricks. Personally, I am only interested in questions from deep in the person’s heart.

Yes, of course, you’d think God above would know a question and its answer without any words. And I believe there may be people who can get answers that way. I am not able to and/or I am not confident enough to try it, and I don’t know why I would want to. There may well be a God above that is outside us, but there is also the God within.

I’m grateful for your question, Junee. It’s a good one, and you have helped me to focus.

You will find more about this on the Heaven web site under Ask God Your Personal Question and also under The Story of Heavenletters. And more on this blog too.

For an example of a question and God’s answer and how it worked miracles, see Nancy’s Question to God III In-laws. You’ll see a link to it in the right column above under Most Popular Posts.

Reply from Junee on April 11, 2007

Thanks Gloria, Yes I’ve read all you’ve suggested above already. You’ve supplied a long answer and I’m grateful but I still don’t understand. That’s the nature of the thing I suppose. Will you be kind enough to bear with me a little on this yet so that I can try to get a sense of the process? I am not coming from a trivialing mindset here, nor am I for one second suggesting that Godwriting comes from anywhere but God, Spirit or the Divine. I am trying to follow what you say and am deeply interested in this. You say that it doesn’t work for you if you don’t read the question (from the senders’ heart) first, that’s not your way and I understand that. But I don’t understand why you then say that “I don’t know why I would want to” try it (ie.Godwriting without reading the senders’ question). And this is followed by a comment about a possible outside God as distinct from the inner God. I’m afraid I don’t understand your meaning conveyed by these comments - what the connection is - and I do want to. I might be a bit dim! (er…slow, that is!)Love to you, Junee

Reply from Gloria on April 12, 2007

Dear Junee,

You are not dim at all! Questions are good!

Let’s see if I can figure out why I feel so strongly as I do.

I go by my feelings, dear one. I just know I really wouldn’t want to pull out God’s answers without the people’s questions. For what purpose? Why would I want to? Tell me why anyone would want to?! Is it better to? Are God’s answers better?

God’s answers are amazing enough to me already! I just want to hear God and give His answers to those who ask for them. I LIKE tuning in to people’s questions.

Please know that the answers come from a deeper level than the questions themselves. The answers do not come from the surface. God’s answers are not typical, and they may go to issues that neither the questioner nor I were aware of. Is this perhaps what you are getting at?

Now, the writing down of daily Heavenletters is another story. They don’t start with questions. They just come. I wait a few seconds to hear what God wants to say. This came as a directive from God.

Originally, Heavenletters mostly came from personal questions, mine or someone else’s. Then God said that, for the daily Heavenletters, He didn’t want our agendas. He wanted His agenda.

I suppose if I ever heard God say: “Give people My answers without reading their questions,” then I would!

I mentioned God above and God within because a distinction matters to some people. I personally like to think of God both ways. I love the intimacy of God within, and I also love the concept of God the Father. I find myself in the happy position of just loving God. How this happened, I don’t know.

Does this help?

God bless you, dear Junee.

Reply from Junee on April 13, 2007

Dear Gloria, Yes, this helps and thankyou so much for saying questions are good because I feel I have so many. I have always been this way and often feel afraid to ask questions because more often than not people seem to get defensive and there is rejection and misunderstanding. Perhaps it is the kind of questions I ask - they usually go beyond the status quo and are perceived as ‘challenging’ although my intention is a pure one of seeking knowledge and understanding. I am sooooo thankful it is perfectly OK here! I love this openness! Yes Gloria, I am understanding a little better now. It seems that your reading of the senders’ question ‘tunes’ you in somehow to receive the answer. And you have no reason at all to question the way this works - exactly, why would you? It works and that’s the point! You flow with your feelings and God’s guidance without interference from the mind. Maybe it could be called Trust without the need for understanding. Maybe that’s how we should be? Maybe Trust as well as Understanding actually don’t go together? Does one cancel the other out? Is this making sense? The thing with me is that I seem to want both. I haven’t thought this through properly yet. But yes, you seem to indicate you sense where I’m coming from. The thing about the reading (knowing about), or not, of the questions, is around the issue of God’s Omniscience (All-knowing). It seems to me from your (much appreciated) answer that of course God doesn’t need to know what is already known to God, but you do in order to ‘tune in’ to do God’s work. Do you think I’ve got this right? I suppose it must be possible to do Godwriting without reading first for some people but it is not the way it came to you originally and works fine for you still today. Gloria, would you say that the God within is the same as the Higher Self? Profuse Thanks! Love to you, Junee

Reply from Gloria on April 13, 2007

Dear Junee,

People can only ask the questions they have!

I used to be the most defensive person in the world! I’m so glad I’m not overly senstive as I used to be before Godwriting and Heavenletters had a chance to work their magic on me. I truly do appreciate your questions. You are interested, and you want to understand.

Yes, trust is good. But even without trust, people can Godwrite. There is a certain surrendering, however, which you expressed by saying “without interference from the mind.”

Yes, I like to read the questions and get into the skin of the questioner. But not only because that’s how it’s worked for me. I cannot imagine that I would ever want to do it another way (unless God wanted me to). I don’t understand why anyone would want to do it any other way! I mean, what is so great about doing it without the question! Why would that possibly be considered better?!!! Does that give the Godwriter a higher status? I really don’t understand. If it’s status, that’s not a higher thing at all. Only in the relative world would it be. Or to prove something. My personal feeling is that it’s better to never do anything for the sake of proving you can.

And that brings up your question about whether I would say that God within is the same as the Higher Self.

I suppose so. At the same time, I have to say that I like to listen to God and not my Higher Self. I feel love for God. I don’t feel love for my Higher Self. There are words I relate to, and words I don’t. I love to write down Dear God, or God to Gloria, but Higher Self — I don’t feel a connection with it. I feel much more connected to the Sun, Moon, and Stars than I do Higher Consciousness!

I also feel God’s love for me. The word God evokes love in my heart. I don’t feel great love coming to me from my Higher Consciousness! God within (and God above) and Higher Self may be one and the same, but they’re not the same to me.

For some, I know it’s important to make a distinction between God in Heaven and God within. Intellectually, I understand that God is everywhere, and I love that He is close. Otherwise, I don’t care where God is! I am just glad He is!

And, then, of course, God says again and again that We are One. God and I are One. You, Junee, and God are One.
And you and I are One. We are One with everyone and everything.

Right this minute, it feels that way to me. Probably because of your question, dear one, my attention is on God and Oneness.

Do you realize that this entry, Emails from the Heart, was written and posted in March of 2006, and now in April, 2007, you are the first to respond to it!

Thanks, Junee.

Reply from Junee on April 13, 2007

Yes Gloria, I do realize that. I can’t imagine why no-one answered it at the time. Perhaps everyone was busy on that day? To me it’s all new NOW and there are so many things here I feel I want to respond to. I’m responding all over the place here, even if I don’t always leave a comment! I’m sooooo glad you “truly do appreciate [my] questions”! I can’t tell you what a great honour it feels to me to talk to you Gloria! You are so open and honest and you treat me as a friend and equal! This is so refreshing and uplifting to me! You are a gift to everyone and this - all of this - is special to me beyond words! (New paragraph! How come my carefully set out paragraphs all bunch up together and disappear when I click submit?) Words are wonderful, aren’t they, yet sometimes a problem. Words always come not only with a common conotation but often whole bunches of subjective, individual ones. Words like God, Higher Self, Higher Consciousness and so many others. Each individual has a string, sometimes many, of associations with each of these words, each bearing traces of memory, nuances of feeling, positively or negatively experienced, often not conscious. I understand what you are saying. I wouldn’t feel right about saying “Dear Higher Self” either! (My query was about the metaphysical concept and thankyou for sharing your thoughts on that! My own sense of this is that what is understood as the Higher Self is the same concept as the God within, through which we find the path ultimately to complete mystical union with source. I really have no idea but I don’t think there is an outside God. I imagine God as the essence and core consciousness in all life and all forms. People call this essence all sorts of things; that doesn’t change the Truth of the Essence, it simply reflects the relative culture or individual.) On a personal level, I have a lot of trouble with words used for ‘God’. ( There are very few words that I feel I can relate to or adopt as my own personal spiritual language. I could never relate to ‘Father’, ‘Lord’, or even ‘Son of God’, ‘Son of Man’, Brotherhood of Man’ or ‘Great White Brotherhood’! Golly, anyone would be forgiven for thinking that Heaven must be the most sexist place that could be! That would be my worst nightmare! And to be honest, it is only in recent years that I can embrace the word ‘God’ as meaningful personally, a meaning which transcends all petty, divisive, human-limited-meaning terms.) That one word has so many different conotations for different people! Some people become completely alienated from ever seeking God because of terrifying ideas associated with this word! Imagine sitting in a church and hearing ‘fire and brimstone’ sermons! I could go on but I won’t - we all know the legacy of damage done by the ego’s divisive and misguided notions of ‘God’! - and I don’t wish to lower the high tone of this blog site by focusing on such sad things; just to acknowledge the hidden depths of associations words can have on people. I’m sure anyone reading this knows what I mean. Because we are human, with all that that implies regarding our complex psychology, and come from such diverse backgrounds of many cultures and religious/spiritual experience, and because of the nature of language, it seems so important to me to realize that God really doesn’t care about the words we use to address the Divine within us - we are free to use what feels comfortable and resonates most truly for us personally. God cares only for what is truly in our hearts! Is’nt this so comforting? We can forget the outside. The meeting place is in our heart where words don’t matter. God knows our wordless truth! Yours sincerely in Oneness! (Now that word I like!). Love to you, Junee

Reply from Berit on April 13, 2007

Wow !!!!! What wonderful, REALLY WONDERFUL Angels you both are!!! Reading all this did really take me to Heaven. I can understand, dear Junee, your questions, your need to understand and clarify thinks, I really think your questions (never stop if you have some!) are taking you directly to God and God’s love.
Dear Gloria, your way of feeling God and of talking about all this is Heaven I think. I share the different feeling about feeling and talking to God in us, around us, in everything, and to our higher self. I think if I feel a difference between God my higher self it is because I still have to feel really our oneness. I simply love God with all my heart, and my yearning for Him and to feel ALWAYS ONE WITH HIM, is very strong. I see Him as my Father who protects me and as my Mother who cuddles me sweetly. Your explanations of how Godwriting and answering to personal questions work is very important and so beautiful I think, it goes so deep really, it does something to me which I am not able to describe just now.
I just want you to know that I appreciate very much everything you both have written, very much.
May God guide and protect you both and all His children each moment, may He shower all His infinite Divine Love and Blessings on you!!
All my love dear Angels !!

Reply from Daisy on April 13, 2007

God is there he tells me so and he tells me nothing absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God.
I was unsure a way to go but through planting a few seeds in the ground he has shown me the way forward
things that were lost are being found… Forgiveness
Peace and Harmony Luv Daisy

Reply from Daisy on April 13, 2007

For i must try to remember that when we go out, it is Gods light that he sends us from above… The universe is awesome, the sky the weather, the sun, the stars wow
when you think of them in heaven, the moon gives us a light in the darkness of the night… Magical and yet still Gods light…

I witnessed the full Eclipse of the Sun in France the last one… but only for a few minutes the light went out everything in darkness,quite
an experience, the birds animals were confused they were
not the only ones.

I to felt cold to the bone my hands and feet went numb… This was an amazing event to see
and the solar fire round the moon as it covered up the sun… and yes God he gives us light, heat and life his
wonders to perform… Hope faith and love the greatest of these is love for everyone… Luv Daisy

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