How to Write a Blog

I received two emails from two special friends on the very same day. One friend is a home stager. You know what that is: staging a house so that it sells quickly and often for a higher price. My other friend is an amazing composer.  They both have fascinating stories  to tell and great knowledge to give.  I have encouraged them both to have their own blogs.

To my surprise, they both do have blogs, and I never knew! But here’s what they wrote to me about their blogs:

 Don’t know how you discipline yourself.  We created a blog for our website & haven’t touched it sense.

yes…I have a blog…just have to believe that someone would come to it!

So, because I have a blog, I think I am an expert, so here’s what I wrote back in particular to my staging friend:

It is not discipline at all. It is pure pleasure. Of course, writing is my thing.

It is easier to write a blog entry every day than once in a while.

What we write for our blogs doesn’t have to be marvelous. It’s just what we feel and are thinking about at a certain moment.  Have fun with it. Take pictures.

One thing that has helped me – well, many blogs are only serious. I mean, if I wrote only about Godwriting – even though it is the joy of my life – I might be hard-pressed.  As it is, I write about anything I want when I want!

Pretend you are writing an email to me, telling me what goes on. I would love to learn from you. Tell me about color. Invite people to tell you their stories about getting ready to move etc. Have you read about all my decluttering resistance and all?

In this age of the internet, we have such an opportunity that people didn’t have before. We can write our innermost thoughts and have an audience. Until recently, diaries and journals didn’t have an audience. Of course, there is wonderful correspondence from the past like with Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett who later became his wife.  Diaries had no one to read them until they were discovered after the diarist’s death and perhaps published then.

With a blog, we can humbly express our thoughts and share them with dear people all over the world.

I am so glad that Heaven Admin suggested I write a blog and provided me with such a beautiful place to post my thoughts and get feedback. And I am so grateful to all who read this blog and all who post so I know they are reading it.

There’s no way I would be writing any of this unless there were you.

 Happy New Year to all. This is going to be one wonderful year. Many blessings! Start your blogs!

Posted by Gloria on December 31st, 2008 under these topics
Writing in General, Decluttering, Personal Development, Godwriting Journal
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Reply from Wilma on December 31, 2008

I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it. Sure, blogging can be fun. And I can see a value in keeping a journal to help us understand our lives better. But to imagine that we need to have an audience for everything we think seems a tad narcissistic to me. And to get realistic here, if everyone who reads your blog also wrote a blog, would you have time to reciprocate and read all those blogs regularly?

Reply from Sally on December 31, 2008

GG, I enjoy your blog so much. It is just pure fun without a motive. I especially like the wide variety of topics that you have touched on. I think it is wonderful that you share your thoughts and life with us this way!

Reply from paula on January 1, 2009

Happy New Year to you! Let’s hope that it truly will be the New Year of Realization, as God says in a recent Heavenletter.

In a certain sense I agree with Wilma. I am reading a book on Christhood which includes the exercise of writing down what we feel and the thoughts that come into our mind. Now, while I am doing it, I get into this dilemma: am I writing it for myself, or is someone else going to read it as well? I noticed that the writing is different, if I do it knowing that what I write will be read by someone else, from what I would write if it were only for myself. I noticed that when I know that it’s not only for my eyes, I’m holding myself back. Maybe this means that I am still ‘a house divided against itself’, as Jesus says in the gospels. Maybe when I’ll be so crystal clear that what I let people see of myself and what I feel deep within are the same, I will be enlightened.

I love your blogwriting, Gloria, it has permitted me to know you intimately. And some posts have really made me realize how we all are truly ONE.

Reply from Jack van Raders on January 1, 2009

Dear Paula, Do axcept Gods word and not Hope it will be a good year but feel the good energy flowing and Know the year will be the best Yet. All of you, Take the best Year Love Jack

Reply from Berit on January 1, 2009

Dear Paula,

maybe the difference in writing for yourself and for others is that fear comes in, fear of being judged negatively or not properly understood.
Fear does not belong to you and neither to your beautiful heart, it brings you out of alignement. Don’t make choices based on fear. Do what you do because you just love it ! it doesn’t matter if it’s only for yourself or for others, the love you radiate and shower on all while writing is a blessing !

Reply from Gloria on January 1, 2009

Beloved Paula and Everyone,

I know exactly what Paula means. You should have seen me at the beginning when this blog first started. I wrote and rewrote. I would ask my daughter to read what I wrote to make sure it was good enough for anyone to see it.
For me, the comments from readers add spice to the mix. Your comments are an added blessing. Maybe audience isn’t. the right word. Audience sounds superficial sort of. What I am overjoyed is to have made friends who read the blog and let me know what they think and feel. I know someone is listening. I am grateful for those who read and don’t comment too.

I look forward so much every day to read what you have to say.

If no one responded, I know that writing the blog would not be so enjoyable for me. You are all gifts.

Reply from Jochen on January 1, 2009

What a great discussion to start the New Year (although the entry itself and the first two comments are of December 31). I agree that everyone starting a blog sounds impractical, but contributing here or on the forum where we have every reason to expect being received lovingly and attentively is a very good idea. What we seek is total agreement with ourselves. In that state, what matters? Criticism? Judgement? Ridicule? Not at all! Somewhere God says, “What does it matter when you fall flat on your face?” When I am at one with myself, nothing whatsoever. But even if I am not yet - could I somehow bring myself to not let it matter so much when I’m caught saying something that makes me look foolish, judgmental or any number of supposedly embarrassing things? Who invented embarrassing and had it become a pandemic? So why not use this blog and the forum to grope our way towards that state of self-love where it will be the most natural thing for us to always be true to our truth and not fear anything?

Reply from Gloria on January 1, 2009

I love the quote you included in your dear comment above.
It must go into the e calendar book. Do you know which Heavenletter? Can you find out? I love what you said too:
Who invented embarrassing!

Reply from Jochen on January 1, 2009

Fears Are like Potholes
Heavenletter # 710 Published on: September 29, 2002

^_^

Reply from paula on January 2, 2009

I guess that, as always, I wasn’t clear in what I intended on holding back in my writing. It’s not that I’m afraid of looking foolish, judgmental or feeling embarassed about what I write. On the contrary, I’ve written some very foolish things. It’s more about how the people and situations in my life affect me and how they make me feel, and I hold back because I don’t want to hurt them or get them involved in case someone else will read what I’ve written.

Plus, when I write I KNOW what I feel, but if I think someone else will read it, I will try to explain my feelings more clearly.

Reply from Gloria on January 2, 2009

Cara Paula, I know just what you mean. I hold back in that way too.

Reply from One on January 4, 2009

I look forward to every new blog post and every new Heavenletter. I know my life is more complete by having connected with all of you. What a gift the internet is!

Writing is a form of Self discovery. By writing, so much is unravelled.

One Love

Reply from Bonnie on January 5, 2009

Fears Are like Potholes
Heavenletter # 710 Published on: September 29, 2002
“What does it matter when you fall flat on your face?” When I am at one with myself, nothing whatsoever. But even if I am not yet - could I somehow bring myself to not let it matter so much when I’m caught saying something that makes me look foolish, judgmental or any number of supposedly embarrassing things? Who invented embarrassing and had it become a pandemic? This is not to say that you have to enjoy what you don’t. You do not enjoy being wounded, but you can enjoy something. You can enjoy something you never enjoyed before. You can enjoy learning, even when it is a lesson you have had many times before. Perhaps, if you finish with it, you can be finished with it once and for all.

Yes, Jochen…God says this very thing!! Good for you!!
Arise and Walk
Heavenletter # 1114 Published on: November 9, 2003
“Even when you stumble and fall, is it not possible that you can enjoy that view? You would not have chosen to be on the floor, but now that you are, what would it take for you to make it worthwhile?

At the very least, when you have an untoward experience, you can add that to your repertoire, check it off your list, and set it aside. Now it is behind you. You already experienced it. Now it can be said and done with.

How often you regret what has already been said and done, and aggravate over it! And all your attention and all the attention in the world does not remedy it. If your heart was hurt, it was hurt. But, over and over again, you scold yourself or someone or something and you replay the event that has already played, and yet you call yourself a practical person.

A practical person chooses to let go. A practical person chooses to enjoy.

This is not to say that you have to enjoy what you don’t. You do not enjoy being wounded, but you can enjoy something. You can enjoy something you never enjoyed before. You can enjoy learning, even when it is a lesson you have had many times before. Perhaps, if you finish with it, you can be finished with it once and for all.”

Reply from Bonnie on January 5, 2009

Jochen…Heavenletter says the same thing you do!!
Fears Are like Potholes
Heavenletter # 710 Published on: September 29, 2002
“What does it matter when you fall flat on your face?” When I am at one with myself, nothing whatsoever. But even if I am not yet - could I somehow bring myself to not let it matter so much when I’m caught saying something that makes me look foolish, judgmental or any number of supposedly embarrassing things? Who invented embarrassing and had it become a pandemic? This is not to say that you have to enjoy what you don’t. You do not enjoy being wounded, but you can enjoy something. You can enjoy something you never enjoyed before. You can enjoy learning, even when it is a lesson you have had many times before. Perhaps, if you finish with it, you can be finished with it once and for all.

Yes, Jochen…God says this very thing!! Good for you!!
Arise and Walk
Heavenletter # 1114 Published on: November 9, 2003
“Even when you stumble and fall, is it not possible that you can enjoy that view? You would not have chosen to be on the floor, but now that you are, what would it take for you to make it worthwhile?

At the very least, when you have an untoward experience, you can add that to your repertoire, check it off your list, and set it aside. Now it is behind you. You already experienced it. Now it can be said and done with.

How often you regret what has already been said and done, and aggravate over it! And all your attention and all the attention in the world does not remedy it. If your heart was hurt, it was hurt. But, over and over again, you scold yourself or someone or something and you replay the event that has already played, and yet you call yourself a practical person.

A practical person chooses to let go. A practical person chooses to enjoy.

This is not to say that you have to enjoy what you don’t. You do not enjoy being wounded, but you can enjoy something. You can enjoy something you never enjoyed before. You can enjoy learning, even when it is a lesson you have had many times before. Perhaps, if you finish with it, you can be finished with it once and for all.”

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