Each comment you posted in response to the previous blog gave me much food for thought, and I’d like to respond to each of your comments one by one. Your responses made a difference for me. I thank you all for furthering my thinking. You really have.

I’ll take the comments in order. First from Heaven Admin:

Reply from One  (Heaven Admin) on January 20, 2012:

I’m sure we can shave off an hour on the photo editing with Picasa. I’ll have a look next time at how you do this. Mauro’s working on the migration of this blog to the latest version of MoFlow, which should make inserting and uploading photos easier and more enjoyable. There are always a million things. What it boils down to is what grips our attention this very moment.

First of all, beloved Heaven Admin, I never meant for you to take on more work. You do much more than I do, much more than I could ever possibly think of doing. If we consider Heavenletters™ a project, which it is, it is one project with several aspects that I take responsibility for on the level that I do. We could really call my level surface, for, of course, God is the One behind it, and He takes the responsibility. Whereas God is also behind your projects, He gives you much more responsibility. We could really say that I have it easy.

You have many major projects going at once, and many in the making, many ideas in addition to what is at hand, and each project of yours is huge and multi-layered. Next to you, what I do is a cinch.

Really, all I have to do is to change my attitude of “too much to do.”

Now, back to photos. It’s not Picasa that is at fault. It’s me! Whereas in the blink of an eye, I can choose to come to South Africa, I am not so quick to make my choices about cropping, adding light, adding highlights, color changes, saturation, warmifying, adding glow etc. So I try many things and decide again and again. Really, Picasa is easy.

The present Word Press program for uploading photos to the blog is simple and easy as well. You made it so, and you couldn’t have made it easier. You have gone to great lengths to make it simple for me. Again, it comes to my decision-making. What size do I want? Do I want this photo or that? etc. etc.

I believe I need to start appreciating how easy what I do is.  From now on, I’m going to think before I post a blog. The thing is I am as pleased as punch to find myself in this delicious position as a Godwriter™ . Let me count my blessings.

Reply from Normand Bourque on January 20, 2012:

Dear Gloria, I am just exactly like you. There is not enough room in 24 hours to fit all that I want to do. There is no way out in the relative world of getting out of the situation. The solution is not in this world.  I think we have to think “holographically”. In every part you find the whole. This could simplify the choice!

Ah, Normand, then I am in good company. And what a lovely position to be in. I should be thanking my lucky stars. There are people who don’t have a passion.  Instead of thinking how to fit everything in, they must be thinking: “Another long day with nothing really to do.”

Normand, we’re the lucky ones!

Reply from Charles Fines on January 20, 2012:

I certainly can relate to this, tho at the same time, if I can use that expression here, a usual part of my day is spent playing solitaire, or as my left brain calls it, wasting time. My right brain would suffer withdrawal symptoms. God usually ignores the left brain/ right brain theory and just says each day is another opportunity to practice living in the moment. And it is, but so is that condition we call ADHD.

So I can’t solve your problem but I can point out that the time you spent gathering, cleaning, arranging, posting, and sending those sea shells probably was worth at least ten times, if I can use that expression here, the time spent as going back in time for the same amount of time and hauling Lauren around on your back as a baby in its effect, on her and everyone else out to the Pleiades and beyond.

I think as long as you keep the Heavenletters rolling, the rest will more or less take care of itself, one way or another.

Cheers, Charles.  You hit the nail on the head as well as the frosting on the cake!

Is ADHD the same as ADD? I have that. I have noticed, for example, that when Heaven Admin works on a project, he focuses on the project. He turns off his email and doesn’t look at it. I, who really don’t do well multi-tasking, I check email often when I am in the middle of something else. I may well try to answer three emails at once, check water boiling on the stove, send a proofed Heavenletter to Theophil, work on a blog, reread a blog entry because I like it… I am seeing more clearly. I want to do everything all at once! I get waylaid. Does someone do that to me? No, I do it to myself.

I have noticed that Heaven Admin seems to look at me wide-eyed sometimes, a little dazed actually, how I get up and go around here and there, making side trips on my way to doing something else, dishes, for example.

I am now back to One’s last sentence and how profound it is: “What it boils down to is what grips our attention this very moment.” Now I get it.

Beloved Charles, you are so right about the time and energy I’ve spent regretting this or that. Oh, yes, much better to be photographing seashells. Point well-taken.

And I must note that I have not yet sent out the seashells. I have a whole bunch more to wash and sort, and I’m still collecting the little red ones.

Reply from Jack van Raders on January 20, 2012

Ok You like an answer? Do whatever you enjoy doing if it takes too much energy do it later like next week. I believe you have a stack of Heavenetters already written but not published. So HL will be daily even if you took a week of and do something just for GLORIA. Ask GOD if I am right. Love and take that time off we do not want you to keel over. Jack

Oh, Jack, how you make me smile. There is an expression in poker. “Put up or shut up.” In addition to being so connected to our Heavenly Father, you are also so down to earth. Yes, of course, if I’m really doing so much as I seem to think I am, then do less. Put up or shut up.

Well, Jack, I seem to be unable to skip doing a Heavenletter. I must write down a Heavenletter every morning. Above all, this I must do, or I couldn’t feel right. Aside from that, yes, I could take a break if I let myself.

If I remember correctly, there is a Heavenletter in which God says we get into the “too much to do” cycle so we don’t have to think of other things. Ouch.

Much food for thought here. Meanwhile, dear Jack, I don’t work so hard that I could keel over! It must be I thrive on what I’m doing.

God bless you all.