I have been a rather anti-routine person. I must have seen routine as the enemy of free spirit. And how I long to be a free spirit, which, I suppose, is another way of saying I want “to be me.”

This morning, this very morning you are reading this, I realized that I like routine. I never imagined this could happen to me!

It is unlikely that I would be writing down Heavenletters™ every morning unless I had the routine of sitting down to write them. Of course, I haven’t thought of writing Heavenletters as a routine. It’s what I want to do, yet, still, it is part of my routine.

Before I start Godwriting™  every morning, I usually do a few repetitive things.

Every morning as I open my inbox and discover today’s Heavenletter, just as you open your inbox and find today’s Heavenletter and read it, I read it and routinely turn it into plain text and send it out to a few good people whose computers aren’t accepting of HTML.  I realize that it gives me comfort to do that simple easy little routine process.

Then I like to see who’s posted what on the forum and if there are any messages that need special handling, for instance, if someone isn’t registered, their postings stay in a queue, waiting to be okayed. So I okay them.

And then I come to the blog. I have a few entries written ahead, yet, somehow, this morning, I wanted to write this entry right away and share that I really do like routine — routine of my making, that is.

As soon as I finish this blog entry, then I will start listening for a Heavenletter, which, wonder of wonders, has also now become routine. Of course, receiving every Heavenletter is a glorious time. Receiving a Heavenletter fills my heart and gives me a glimpse of what it must feel like to indeed be in Heaven. And so, even the magical writing down of the most un-routine thing possible is also part of my routine.

Before, when there was so much email and I asked everyone to post rather than email, I couldn’t get out from under. I had to discipline myself to write down the day’s Heavenletter first and get that out of the way! That sounds awful — get the Heavenletter out of the way — but  if I started replying to emails first, there was no end to it, and once I started answering emails, I was caught up in answering them — I had a kind of fever about them. Certainly, if I let them, emails would sidetrack me from Godwriting!

Now, with emails down to a manageable minimum, writing down the day’s Heavenletter is like a dessert I save, not until last but just for a little while.

It feels good writing to you, fresh in this moment, this entry that is only a few seconds away from being put up on the screen.

And now I will close, and see what God has to say this morning. (Incidentally, it is 6:15 a.m. right now.)

By the way, what are your routines, and what is going on with you?