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Reply from Carol Maurer on November 8, 2006

Gloria, this little story is reminiscent of the way this wonderful organization was founded: http://restorativejustice.org/ A father forgave and befriended his son’s murderer. I believe both boys were gang members in the inner city, and the father kept in touch with the boy and gave him love and encouragement throughout his many years of incarceration. When I heard this story on the radio, from the father and founder himself, the boy (now a man) was nearly ready to be released from prison and was prepared to spend the rest of his life working with the Restorative Justice program, which is now all over the world.

There is also a “Chicken Soup for the Prisoner’s Soul” book with many wonderful stories of this type of forgiveness. Amazing things grow out of forgiveness. To me, it’s all about letting MYSELF off the hook, because feelings of anger and resentment make me so miserable I can’t stand to be with myself or anyone else. So I must work through the forgiveness process, and sometimes it does take work, and lots of Godwriting, but there is always a wonderful gift for me when I do it. I find it is a process of forgiving myself for my misperceptions, and this is certainly a process that needs renewing every day.

THANK YOU, Gloria, for bringnig up this topic.

Love,
Carol

Reply from Gloria on November 9, 2006

Dear Carol,

I love what you wrote very much.

We really have to let go of everything! When we hold on, we keep much happiness away.

Of course, this is easier said than done. I so admire the people who can forgive the one who killed their child. I have some small grudges that I haven’t yet obliterated.

I will recommend a book too. It is The Hiding Place by Carrie Ten Boom. Even while Carrie’s sister was in a concentration camp where she later died, she had great compassion for those who had inflicted so much pain. She worried about the torturers after the war, and she envisioned what Carrie, who was in the camp with her, would do to help these suffering souls after the war. And it came to pass.

I have another true story that will go up one of these days.

Reply from doolin on November 9, 2006

What an incredibly wonderfull story - our hearts and therefore our thoughts words and deeds are changed by forgiveness and Heavenletters helps us to come to that greater understanding of what we really are to each other!

I want to say many thanks to those lovely people who make Heavenletters and Godwriting possible - your work is so precious and valuable to us, your readers. You’ll never know!

Superb topic Gloria.

Much,much LOVE

Reply from Stefanie Newton on December 2, 2006

Dear Gloria,
To forgive is completely healing. The outcome doesn’t matter - even if the boy who was responsible for the daeth of the girl and was taken in by her father didn’t turn out to be something wonderful. It’s quite possible that he did because to be forgiven to that extent by the father you can imagine would change your whole view of life. ‘Wow - if there is that much love out there and it has been given to me, what else might there be?’ Finding God is much the same. The Heaven letter on forgiveness was wateshed for me - I finally understood how we could be loved unconditionally and why it was so important fot us to forgive ourselves. I could understand loving and forgiving if someone was sorry for what they had done but not if they weren’t. I could only forgive myself because I was sorry. Through your letters and stories I can now see that it is only by becoming aware that we no longer like this or that behaviour, or this or that feeling, in ourselves, and being sorry and forgiving ourselves that we evolve into loving beings and can begin to understand God. If God is not the One to forgive us then All That Is not the One to judge us either. We judge and forgive ourselves whenever we realise that we have reached a point where we no longer like our feelings or behaviour and we have changed. When I was saying to myself ‘Oh why did it take me so long to get to this point?’ - Spirit said to me ‘Well, there always has to be a ”point”when change occurs. Just be glad that you are there.’ It was so much easier to tell other people in the course of my work - I’m a hypnotherapist - that ‘If you are upset by things you have done, then you don’t need to worry about yourself. It’s when you’re not upset at hurting others, the environment etc. that you should be concerned. (Of course you can’t be worried until you are! - until you reach a ‘Point of Change’) It was very hard though to apply that to myself. Spirit reminded me of what I would say to others and ask me if I thought I was different to everyone else! I still thought though that God had to forgive me and accepting unconditional Love was really hard for me unless I felt forgiven. Now that I have forgiven myself - and, as you said, God was most insistent that I did it, and I was helped to do it - it’s easy!!
I love the Heaven Letters. They’re so practical and pertinent to life as we live it. They have the same ‘feel’ to them as the voices that speak to me. Very loving, incredibly understanding and supportive but never ‘babying’. You have to take responsibility for yourself. In a way they are uncompromising, but in a wholly acceptable way. It always feels ‘right’.
I loved your story of writing the letters. You made me laugh so much. I tried ‘Godwriting’ myself and it has been very helpful.
This isn’t the right place to tell you about my experience with ‘Finding Spirit’. The story is long. I have ME, so very limited energy, but I will perhaps send it by e-mail when I can work out how to shorten it. I learned a lot, and I have been told very firmly that things are changing with channelling. I am not ‘allowed’ to have any voices with a name. I had a very negative entity contact me who I thought was wonderful. He seemed very wise. He taught me many things and helped to make some important changes that I really wanted to make but wasn’t listening well enough to my conscience to implement them. He said he was my ’soul-mate’ and he really seemed to be. I have never felt such love - physically as well as emotionally - and I really love my husband. Then things kept going wrong and he would be incredibly hurtful - both emotionally and physically. He would deny that it was him - ‘It sounded like me but it wasn’t’ etc. I was very ignorant about everything - I was told by a medium that he was my ‘guardian angel’ - when I went for help. I only put up with all the negative stuff because I believed him - he did so much that was good. If he hadn’t been a ‘personality’ to me I would have told him to go or ignored him. But he had made me love him so much that the thought of being without him was unbearable. In the end Spirit helped me and explained to me that his aim had always been to control me and hurt me - as only those you love are able to do so well. Spirit said that ‘Anyone can say that they are ”Anyone” ‘ You cannot see them to know. When I hear from Spirit now they say that they are all from ‘God’ and without a ‘Name’ They say that I will be much more discerning about what I accept and what I will discount if I don’t know them as an individual. I read a ‘channel’from ‘Archangel Michael’recently that worried me enormously. It told people to look for their ‘other half’ by meditating. They would have an ‘orgasmic experience’ etc. After my experience with my so-called soul-mate I think everyone should be very wary of doing something like that.They might get their soul-mate but they might not. These amazing physical experiences are definitely possble - I’ve had them - but my feeling is that they are not from higher beings. Maybe that will come but we are still too vulnerable to negative influences at present. This is just what has happened to me and what I think as a result. Maybe you know something quite different.
There now, I have after all told you a bit of my story - so maybe it is the right time and place! I TRUST!!
Thankyou for your work. Isn’t the internet wonderful!!!!!
With love and gratitude,
Stefanie

Reply from Gloria Wendroff on December 4, 2006

Dear Stephanie,

What a beautiful comment from you. Thank you for posting from your heart.

I just wrote a long comment to your posting. I’m in a hotel in Munich. When I finished typing, I received a message that my posting could not be retrieved.

I’ll see if I can get this much to post. And when I’m back home and settled, I will write you again. Your comment deserves a real reply.

God bless you, Stephanie.

With love, Gloria

With blessings and love,

Gloria

Reply from paula on December 5, 2006

Dear Stefanie,
I was surprised when I read about your experience with the entities from the other dimensions, because it’s so similar to the experience I had at the beginning of my spiritual path. I wasn’t looking for my soulmate then, but it was my ego and pride that attracted to me entities, who told me that I would save the world, even give birth to a new saviour. I think that it’s because of this experience that I can’t trust ‘hearing’ anything. I can’t even godwrite, because I don’t trust what I receive. This has brought me to follow exclusively my own heart, which was maybe the purpose of this experience all along.
I read that message from Archangel Michael, too. And I think that if people do not how to protect themselves or how to apply their discernment, many will go through the experience we had. We all have such an enormous need of love within that we are willing to believe any entity that speaks of love. But then again, maybe these persons need to live this experience, and people like you can help them get out of it. Maybe you had to live this experience in order to be able to help others.
This certainly is an important and relevant issue. Thank you for bringing it up.
With love,
Paula

Reply from veroniKA on December 5, 2006

yes Trust is the word…

there is so much mis - trusting…in the world…

and the higher your vibrance gets the greater is the discernment

but discernment is listening to your heart not mistrust…

reading heavenletters and godwriting is lifting the vibrances

and you can say to yourself you are protected -
it is your intent and your decision…

by staying within your heart
- when your vibrations get higher
one very often will be attacked by entities -

for me it is love that is looked for everywhere and from whomever…

they get this love in sending back their attacks in the envelope of love…

love you
veroniKA

Reply from Gloria on December 8, 2006

Cara Paula,

I’m at an internet cafe in Brosov, Romania right now with Santhan! When I get home and settled, I will say more about how you can feel secure with your Godwriting. This is a big part of the workshops — how do you know it’s God? The relationship between God and us is so sweet, of course, I want everyone to have it. God does too!

With love and blessings,

Gloria

Reply from veroniKA on December 8, 2006

Paula dear
and all dears…

it was so interesting
this workshop..

really, one person was so anti… the first day

and then the second day she wrote in her evaluation that she feels very connected to God and the group…

and another one could not write

God to…because of “who am I?”

but now
she gets her messeages!!!!

love you
take you doubts please and give them to your very best friend….

veroniKA

Reply from Daisy on April 18, 2007

Just came across this on forgiveness, and something that occurred to me that while it is good being forgiven, for things i have done. It is more important for me to forgive others for the things they have done. After all we forgive others and we shall be forgiven…isn’t that the way it goes. It sounds so easy when is being said… i guess in practise to if we open our hearts and minds to forgive.. Luv all Daisy