“Something’s gotta give.”

Heaven Admin and I are here to work on projects and get them done. Meanwhile, lots of time goes into doing the daily upkeep of Heavenletters™, writing the daily blog, preparing for Godwriting™ workshops,  Heaven Admin’s beautiful family, a walk or two on the beach, and a couple of meals.

“When an irresistible force…”

I’m talking about decluttering time today. The irresistible force seems to be Time. Where is the time to do everything that needs to be done?  Or does nothing need to be done? Is the writing of books etc. supposed to go out the window?

Of course, God says that time does not exist. I have an inkling of what He means, yet, I am left with the question:

How on Earth does one fit everything into this imaginary limited Time ?

The other weights that this issue hangs on, it seems to me, are:

1. My inclination to want to do everything

2. My resistance to making priorities — and following them.

3. My resistance to cutting anything back. My mind sees that something has to give. My heart says, “How can I not respond to someone who sends me an email?”

4. Energy is also a factor in this. Apart from time, what about energy?

5. How much of my unwillingness to let go is having to prove something to myself, or plainly put, ego?

I wonder, is a time management situation really a time management situation? It must go deeper.

There is no question about my very first priority, and that is writing down Heavenletters™. Along with that is getting Heavenletters™ out. Thank God, there are great people who have come forth to help with this. Heaven Admin, the translators, organizers like Nancy, Berit and many more.

In addition to the writing down of Heavenletters™, there are other details concerned with Heavenletters™ that have to be taken care of. Details are not my favorite thing, yet they have to be done.

I would love to spend more time with all the translators and all the others who help. It’s very easy for me to fall into taking care of what comes in. It’s so much easier for me to answer the phone, so to speak, rather than pick up the phone and dial someone.

I love the blog. How much is for my own pleasure, I don’t know. Certainly, I take pleasure in it. I like to think it serves a purpose.

I love pictures on the blog. They are totally time-consuming. I didn’t count, but taking the photos for yesterday’s blog, Jewels from the Sea, putting them on Picasa, cropping and editing them, emailing them to myself, posting each one separately on the blog, waiting for each one to download, must have taken at least an extra hour and a half.  It’s a labor of love. How can I not have photos on the blog? Yet, is this the best use of my time? Oh, how I love to have photos on the blog.

There is Heaven News which is a daily activity,  Heaven News takes up a good slice of time only when I am finally putting it together, but it’s pretty much a whole day’s project when that time comes.

There are matters to keep tabs on or check in on. The forum etc.

And then there is correspondence. I spend a lot of time, too much, answering email. Obviously, it’s important to me to do so. I write a lot of emails asking people to post rather than to email me. I suppose this is something I could stop doing. Of course, sometimes the people I write to start posting.

I don’t favor formatted responses, but maybe that’s what has to be.  A form letter. “Thank you for your inquiry…..”

Well, Gloria, you can’t have everything, you can’t do everything, you can’t be everything.

Now, Jack, I know, I know what you’re going to say, dear friend. You’re going to tell me to be happy with how I’m doing.

Nevertheless,  something’s gotta give. Something’s gotta give. Something’s gotta give, but what?