Translators and Heaven Admin and others give and give to Heavenletters™. The bigger picture is that they give in their service to God. This is one of the loveliest things I have come across in my whole life. Those who give service to the Universe are definitely heroes. Come to think of it, selfless service is what makes a hero in the first place, isn’t it?

I mostly read escape literature, detective-type books. I can read them mindlessly. That’s why I like to read them. I know we’re supposed to be mindful, yet I love reading these books because I don’t have to think, and I don’t have to feel.

I don’t want to read serious books any more. I don’t want to watch serious movies either. There are some wonderful wonderful ones, like Dances with Wolves, but I don’t want to watch the suffering, pain and injustice ever again.

Please understand — reading detective-type novels is not what I would recommend for you, not at all. I don’t recommend detective books for myself either, but here I am, turning pages. It’s detective novels or children’s literature, and I’ve already read all the good children’s literature that I know of.

Now, in the detective-type books, people may get killed right and left, but it’s not real. There is injustice; that is real, but it always gets corrected. The good guys are superheroes and always win.

I will tell you about a book I read recently. The Watchman by Robert Crais. It is truly unputdownable.  The hero (without pay, as a favor to a friend) is protecting a very feisty 21-year old girl from being killed by some drug lords. The girl is very wealthy, wild, spoiled, outrageous really, used to getting her own way, amazingly uncooperative, wanting to run the show, fighting at every turn, and some bad guys keep finding out the safe houses where she is being hidden, so Joe Pike, the hero, takes the girl out of the system because someone from within is obviously betraying her location. The reader knows Joe Pike is dedicated and will save the girl’s life even if it costs him his own.

Before you are a quarter way through the book, Joe Pike has probably killed six people, but you love him. And the girl loves him too though she fights it tooth and nail.

And Joe loves her. Of course, he never takes advantage of her, and he gives her up in the end because she is so young and because of the life he leads. His giving her up is of itself heroic.

Well, the point of this is that I find so many parallels between a hero like Joe Pike and the Heavenletter heroes who really exist and whom I am privileged to know. They care for much more than just themselves. There is something good that they take responsibility for. No one makes them do it. But there they are, doing it.

Heaven heroes are our good fortune. They are heroes like Joe Pike.