It occurred to me to randomly find some great postings on the forum and share them here. This Godwriting™ blog is so important to me, I never want a day to go by without posting an entry. Yet I’m really stretched to the gills, and I have to focus on what I must, even when I like so much to write in this blog.

Here’s one posting I happened to notice today in reference to Heavenletter ™ #829, The Great Love in Your Heart, published on January 25, 2003.

On September 7, 2009 Jochen posted:

God, You are telling my life, our lives, in enough detail to make it impossible for us to say to You:  “You don’t know much about what is called the human condition, dear God.” I don’t know why it feels so good to have Your awareness acknowledged, but it does. And then, inevitably, I want to be told what to do with all that old stuff. The answer, knowing You, isn’t surprising:

Take off past learning.

And my “Yes, but how…” is stopped short by Your next sentence:

This means to put first things first.

Putting first things first seems to be the entire instruction. Get your heart out of those moth balls, leave everything else to itself. Strange I still secretly want formulas for dealing with useless old stuff. Strange it still feels safer and somehow more virtuous to try tidying up a very familiar mess than doing something much simpler but unfamiliar. Afraid? Ashamed? Of what? And does it matter?

Even when I’m afraid of God, as in HL #832, God suggests:

“Does it matter?

It is good to hear this today. Smart timing, God!

The above was written and posted in love by Jochen, Germany.

I, Gloria, love how Jochen breaks down (builds up!) this Heavenletter into two short sentences:

Take off past learning.  Put first things first.

How interchangeable these two sentences are.

If I personally had been asked. “What does it mean to do away with past learning, I don’t know what I would have answered. I might have not even had an answer. But I am sure that I would never have thought of: “Past learning means to put first things fast.”

I am amazed at how God gets to the heart of the matter and makes it sound so simple. Maybe it really is.

Every day I am floored that God gives out so much love and wisdom and that I somehow can pick it up. And then, when I go back at a later date to see a Heavenletter and read the comments, I am floored again.

It would seem that a lot of my life since Godwriting is being floored, being floored (delightfully) by God’s words, Heavenreaders’ comments, and how beautifully my relative life revolves itself. In my post-Heavenletter life, frogs turn out to be princes.  Princes remain princes, and this Godwriter turns out to be Cinderella at the ball, and the Godwriter attends the ball again and again and dances forevermore in the company of God and all of His children that she is privileged to know.

How different can my pre-Heavenletter life be as compared to my post-Heavenletter life? There is no comparison at all and yet…it’s likely that pre-Heavenletters — I wasn’t looking in the right places.