Feeling Love

Heavenletters™ are so full of God’s love that sometimes kind Heavenreaders think I must have all that same love. I wish I did.

For sure, I feel more love these days than I ever did before. By far.

I have more practice with love since I’ve been writing down God’s words every day. Feeling love is kind of nice to get used to. And I am blessed with great opportunity.

When I read your comments on the forum or in this blog, I find my heart bursting with love. You already know that.

On the other hand, when something happens, someone says something unkind, or an unexpected bill I can’t pay presents itself, or any number of things that can happen to interrupt my sense of feeling abundant love or even love at all, I get back to love much sooner than ever before. (Is this the same for you now too?)

Naturally, when I feel the opposite of loving, I don’t like it.

As an example of how ridiculous I am, I may think of an incident from thirty years ago, and I think of a person involved in that incident — I haven’t thought of this incident or this person in all these years – and yet, now, I find myself annoyed or downright angry at this person, and I mutter something under my breath to this person like: “You jerk. You idiot. You so and so…” Probably it’s really myself I’m annoyed and angry with. I have been a jerk, idiot, so and so — and so on.

Now I have to go on a little tangent. I do not like it at all when people lump people together and say something about landlords or tenants, blacks or whites, Jews, Muslims or Christians, teachers or students, rich or poor, men or women, teenagers etc. — as if they are all one entity. I don’t think this is what is meant by Oneness. I don’t care if someone is saying the nicest things. It doesn’t matter to me whether the statement is pro or con. It doesn’t matter. I just don’t like it. I have no tolerance whatever for lumping people together. I really don’t like it. That is not to say that I don’t sometimes fall into it.

People who lump “teenagers” together are generally making an assumption that teenagers are pretty rude and immature. Any teenager who is courteous and mature must be an exception. I don’t think all teenagers are wonderful or not wonderful. I can say with integrity that I have had a lot of personal experience with teenagers who are incredibly wonderful.

I cringe when I read about one group wanting to annihilate another group as if the group is not made of sentient Human Beings. I cringe when I read about or hear someone lumping Muslims and terrorists together, as if 99.9% of Muslims are not peace-loving people as much as we are, or as much as we like to think we are.

Okay, I have no tolerance for labels or generalizations of any kind.

The other day I had what I can only believe was an experience, the kind that is like lit up in neon lights.

I don’t remember what I was in the middle of. I know it wasn’t Godwriting™ or anything like that. I could have been sweeping the floor or just walking from one room to another, when suddenly I had an overwhelming sense of love, waves of love. I was being blown away by love. This was almost too much love for me to bear. It was a sense of love directed to a particular group of people, yet the love was enormous, unlimited, truly boundless. May we all experience this. May we always experience this.

Why this particular group of people at this particular time? I wasn’t thinking about “them” (them is another word I have no tolerance for.) Maybe my love was directed to this group because “they” (another word) need love the most right now. This could be, though, honestly, who doesn’t need all the love in the world all the time?

I imagine this great sense of love that I experienced would be like if God placed a golden crown on our heads and said, “Now you are enlightened,” and we’d know it to be true. Or maybe the sense of love I felt was close to the love that God holds us in. It was big. It was very big. It wasn’t my individual love, not at all. Although directed to one group, it was oh so much greater than that.

Anything I say cannot represent the greatness of the few moments of this peak of love. When I had this great embracing love, it was a strong feeling, not thought at all, yet along with the expansive feeling, there were words that came to me: “I love these people. I love these people. I love these people.”

I do not name the specific group there. I think if I were to name this group of souls, it would take away from the power of the love I was blessed to experience. Naming this group would distract you from the love. I did at first write down the words, and I saw for myself that naming the group diminished the experience.

So I will simply say that the words that accompanied the beat of my heart were: “I love these people. I love these people. I love these people.”

Or perhaps I can say, the words were: “I love. I love. I love.” For a little while, I really did love.

Posted by Gloria on May 26th, 2008 under these topics
Miracles, World Peace, Heaven Letters, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Margaret W on May 26, 2008

Dearest Gloria, what joy it is to read about your experience of loving! May all of us very soon know these pure waves of loving others. Was it you who told me the story (I remember it very unclearly) about someone who was on the receiving end of pity because of the life she had lived, a life in which no person she was aware of had ever loved her? She rejected the pity with the affirmation that she HAD known love and the joy it brings; she had known the joy of loving others.

Many years ago I once went to sleep praying fervently I would know the feeling of God’s love (God loving me). I had a very vivid dream of being in a huge tent, serving food in a food line for people who were being sheltered from a raging storm that was destroying homes, flooding, etc. Very clearly I was aware that the one serving food right next to me was Jesus. The dream changed forever how I think about God’s love–that somehow we know it best by giving it to others.

I experienced something similar later when my late husband was very ill and helpless–the experience of my own deepest happiness coming when I was able to do anything to bring him happiness. Perhaps this is something those who are parents learn from loving their children? Loving you, my friend, this Memorial Day morning.

Reply from Jo on May 26, 2008

Angel Gloria,
My experience is that these “awash in Divine Love” moments come out of the blue when I am doing the most mundane tasks and I am not focused on or “trying” to do anything. Often I’m standing outside by the gas grill waiting to turn dinner over and I will suddenly begin to vibrate with the waves you are talking about. Suddenly the whole “Oneness” thing makes sense and I can’t separate the the inflow from the outflow! Maybe it is while doing those mindless tasks that we are most open. Our agendas are tempoarily on hold and our over-thinking minds are quiet, leaving an opportunity for awareness to pour in unrestricted.
The first few paragraphs of this entry made me think of Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, which I am devouring at the moment. He does a beautiful job teaching us about what sidetracks our deeply Spiritual selves, and plunges us back into what our “little selves” think is oh-so important.

Reply from Gloria on May 27, 2008

Oh, Margaret, what a dream you had. It was like a vision, wasn’t it? I suspect that it is true. When we are giving service, Christ is by our side OR we are by his. Very beautiful.

Jo, Heavenletters or a book or anything at all can only stir what is already in your heart. All credit goes to you and to God. Ultimately, to God alone.

I love the point you make about effortlessness. You’ve made that before, and it applies on so many many levels.

Reply from Sally on May 27, 2008

Gloria is your experience a sample of what God was talking about in the May 18th Heavenletter Roses, Roses, Roses? I found that one very intriguing. It gives me hope and something to focus on other than the problems of the world.

Reply from Pam (fortheloveofGodde) on May 28, 2008

Someone sent me an email describing a Hawaiian healing technique called “Ho’popono” (spelling could very well be wrong). Very basically, it’s a way of healing yourself to help heal others. For me, it’s been so very powerful–when I feel annoyance or irritation or anger rising up at someone else, then I have to bring it back to ME. WHAT is in me that is vibrating to that energy? Then it’s time to say, “I’m sorry, I love you, I forgive you.” Of course, I’m saying that to MYSELF to heal MYSELF of whatever button was being pushed. It’s been amazing to me how well that works. Mind you, I sometimes have to say it a LOT–but I say it until that feeling of love and calmness comes over me. It ALWAYS works if I let it. It always works if I actually do it, I mean to say. I think it works by removing that negative energy in ME, there’s a little less of it in the world. Have you ever noticed how if someone is mad at you and you react in loving kindness, it almost makes them madder? It’s like that angry energy can’t stand to not have the same reaction. But if you keep at it (the loving kindness, I mean), there’s no choice but to calm down. There’s no “hurrican” being created.

I know I’m not explaining this very well, so I’m hoping that someone else understands what I’m getting at and has a better way to say it! If you do, THANKS! If not, consider this yet another long, drawn-out post that ends up going nowhere … LOL

Reply from Jo on May 28, 2008

I think you are explaining it beautifully, Pam! Thank you!

Reply from Gloria on May 28, 2008

Yes, Pam, that is great. What is wonderful is that you remind yourself to do it.

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