Who is my loved one now?

My father used to have an expression. “Annie don’t live here anymore.” He would say it when someone died. I imagine the expression came from somewhere, a movie perhaps, or maybe it just was an expression in common use then. And now I speak of my father who doesn’t live here any more.

Yesterday’s blog entry was Life is but a dream.  The two comments posted at the time I’m writing this touched me very much.

First, Jochen says it all, so simply and so completely:

We will all meet/find exactly that which we miss. It may look different from what we expect or from what we think it is we miss. We will recognize it when we meet it, it’s the essence of all we ever missed.

The essence of all we ever missed.  Without fail, Jochen comes in with simple, complete, broad and true vision. Muchas gracias, Jochen.

And then Emilia comes in with the basic humanness that reflects my own and brings out more.  Emilia said:

So touching. Who is my loved one now? This remains a mystery. I have always wondered why God is not clearer on this topic. Souls are eternal, but this doesn’t mean I will meet again just the one that I lost.

I remember you told us once, on this blog, of an experience you had of living again a scene of your childhood, out of time, as an eternal present moment. Am I correct? Maybe nothing gets lost.

Yes, I remember what you’re referring to, Emilia. I am deliberately not going back to it until I have finished writing this entry.

So, just off the top of my head now, I think that once-in-a-lifetime experience revealed, perhaps proved, that there is no time. Or another way to say it is that everything is occurring at the same time or never really occurs — I almost get the hang of these ideas now.

As sweet as that re-enlivened experience was, what I am realizing now — which has to be obvious — is that you can’t go back in time (even though I relived the experience for those few moments) — you can’t go back to a lesser state of consciousness and stay there. You can’t go back to the past. I did, but you can’t. You can’t stay there even if you want to any more than we can hold back this moment of time in which I am writing now. It’s like we’re not really in the present either.

What I think I am seeing now more clearly is life as the illusion God tells us it is. None of us are really here. We are, but we aren’t. Whether it’s this moment or a flashback or a flashforward, it’s the same. These are the thoughts running through my mind now.

Two things, I suppose,  made my relived experience deep and unique. One is that I flashbacked with all five senses, and I, as the child I was who had earlier lived that experience, was also in the scene. I was the child I was then.  And yet I must have had awareness at the same time of myself as the older person who was experiencing herself as a child, or how would I remember it?

And, ah, then too that re-enlivened experience fades and becomes no more than a recalled memory like any other.

Okay, just now I went back to the original blog about the experence. http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/a-multi-dimensional-memory-time-and-space.htm  I think I said everything then and better.

Yet what seems to be clearer to me now is that Annie never really lived here at all.

Posted by Gloria on February 6th, 2010 under these topics
Family Stories, Godwriting Journal

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16 Replies

Reply from emilia on February 6, 2010

Life on earth never was, I see it must be so, because God says so and because it makes sense to me. Nonetheless, I am unable to grasp it, that we are not.
If life here is only fiction, with One Watcher, this One should be able to go back and forth on the film at His pleasure.

Reply from Gloria on February 6, 2010

I just realized an inaccuracy in what I wrote above. It was not all five senses. There wasn’t taste.

Reply from Jochen on February 6, 2010

Suppose one of your mystery novels is lying on the table in front of you. The whole story is there. It takes you a certain time to read the book, and the story told may span days or weeks or even months and years. But as the book ist lying there now, the whole story is there all at once and does not take a single second from first to last. It does take a little space, obviously. But think of the journeys and buildings and cars and landscapes in the book. Compared to what it contains, it almost takes no space. In reality there is no time at all, no space at all, not even stratification of the story as if on the pages of a book. There is imagination. Imagination is as real as reality gets. Once we get used to the idea that our cappuccino has no “real stuff”, we will be all right with that and enjoy it anyway. We will, in fact, enjoy much much more, and everything will be so simple, so good. Sometimes we will remember our highly civilized sophistication and chuckle.

“A blanket is spread on the beach, and We have a picnic. We have packed a lunch, and We open it on the blanket, and We eat what We have packed. Some children run by and spatter sand. Some children We call Ours, and some We call others’. We hear chatter, and We hear the song of the Ocean, and We eat Our lunch. And so a life is spent.” (Heaven #1434)

Yes, you can go back, and you can stay there. It is not just “a lesser state”, it’s also the vastness of Heaven. What would we ever yearn for if not Heaven? That face, those hands, the voice, the taste of licorice and the view from the kitchen window – it’s their Heavenness that makes us long for them. Sadly, we think that home, felling deeply and truly at home, was only there, only in these hands and faces, only in this view from this kitchen window. That is why we have to be asked to let go of the past. Letting go of the past only means letting go of that strange exclusiveness we have adoptded; it means plucking Heaven from those faces, smells and views and sticking it everywhere, making everywhere the beloved home of my childhood and everyone the beloved people of my childhood and every situation the most beloved scenes of my childhood, which is, of eternity, of paradise. As you can see, there would be no need to even mention what is called childhood trauma. Once we have learned to pluck Heaven from where it perceivably is, we will simply stick some wherever it appears to be absent.

Reply from Margaret on February 7, 2010

Jochen, a deep thank you for this post.

Reply from Gloria on February 7, 2010

I think Jochen is Godwriting, dear Margaret.

Reply from emilia on February 7, 2010

True, Jochen, I see what you mean by your metaphore of the book and by saying that what we miss is how we felt with that person or in that home, that sense of peace, of wholeness, of Heaven.
When God speaks of Angels, though I have never met one, I have no difficulty to grasp the idea and the essence of an Angel. In some way it is familiar to me.
Why, then, the Truth you speak of, and that I accept intellectually, seems to escape completely on a deeper level? It sounds distant and extraneous, abstract and alien. As if it doesn’t belong to us.
I love a simple God, but this idea of Heaven and Eternity, of no space/time, of non existence, etc. doesn’t sound simple and reassuring at all, like my grandmother’s kitchen.
On one point I do not agree with God and it is when He says there is no mystery.

Reply from Jochen on February 7, 2010

For many months, dear sister Emilia, I was puzzled with  h o w  different everyone seems to be reading Heavenletters. I am at peace with it now, content to just look on. Let me tell you that Heavenletters hold for me all the peace and the wonder and the mystery, all the love, all the deep at-homeness I thought I never had. Quite simply, as God is prone to say, I must have had it or I wouldn’t be able to re-cognize it in Heavenletters. We know everything or we would never be able to understand it; we are everywhere or we would never be able to get there. There’s nothing new as   y o u  are prone to say.

What I’m trying to say is that Heavenletters, although I really enjoy the intellectual adventure they are, speak to me at the deepest level I know of, the level where everything is exactly right, the level of unspeakable fulfillment I  d o  feel even if I dare not believe in it. What you call abstract and alien, dearest, is grandmother’s kitchen for me. So cozy. Only, I haven’t entered yet, I’m still looking through the opened door. Understand “mystery”. Describe it to yourself in every detail and then try to somehow sense or capture (not think) the essence. I’m sure it’s no different from what I feel, for I’m not an abstract mind at all, I’m a nature lover, a kitchen lover, a lover of simple things. The only difference may be that I love the kitchen ahead more than the one I had to leave.

Reply from emilia on February 7, 2010

You know I share all your feelings about Heavenletters and of course I love and live for what seems to lay ahead, but is already here.
We all are not that different, I suppose what differs is ego, the one who speaks and conceives of differences, who compares and concludes of more or less.
Only, for me, but not for me only, this dream is still as “thick as tar”, especially when I try to “feel” how Home is like and poorly fail.
Sometimes I also fail to feel my grandmother’s kitchen, then I ask my father or my old nanny, they confirm and give details, I conclude it existed and smelled good.

Reply from emilia on February 7, 2010

Jochen, I was rereading your answer above and I am sure now there was a misunderstanding because of my poor english.
I was not saying I do not resonate on the deepest level with every single thing Heavenletters have been saying to us. I know it is all Truth because my heart tells me so. I do not question a bit because I know it is so.
I was just trying to say that I feel not familiar or at ease, with the idea that we, with all our stories, loves, sorrows, are not here at all and never were because we are Home. This Home that appears magnificent but frail in front of this dream so “plastic” we are involved in.
A life without space and time seems so strange, so far from our experience that it is surprising, to say the least, it is our true state of being.

Reply from Jochen on February 7, 2010

Yes, Emilia, that’s the situation: Sometimes not even remembering grandma’s kitchen or even whether there ever was such a kitchen. But in more lucid moments you have a clear sense of that kitchenness in your heart, haven’t you? You know there is a huge longing in your heart, even if you are unable to say what exactly it is. Strangely, we tend to live under the impression that what we most long for is denied us. That’s what makes our longing so painful. Otherwise longing would be confident, eager and joyful. It is ego at work, of course.

I will tell you a secret. It is still secret even though Heavenletters are spelling it out all the time. I too have not let myself fully in on it yet, but I heard the promise, it says: The most beautiful and desirable state of being you could ever imagine or vaguely anticipate is the truth of you. Feeling it is too good to be true, you yearn, wringing your hands. Don’t be modest, want enough, want it all. If you allow yourself to want the ultimate, that means you are finally fully established in love; and if you fully believe Me when I say you are entitled to the best of the best, that is when you will have it.

Reply from Jochen on February 7, 2010

Responding to your third post of Feb. 7: Yes, I think I understood that already.

Now, my last comment before this one was in response to your last comment before the comment the first line of this comment is responding to. Should you post another response before I can post this one, I think we will have to declare this zipper hopelessly stuck and call nonna from her kitchen.

Reply from emilia on February 7, 2010

Ahah!
I feel better now, never beared being unable to explain myself.
“Don’t be modest”… “too good to be true”… “the truth of you”.
Let’s dream of the unspeakable.

Reply from Jochen on February 7, 2010

Margaret and Señora, your replies mean much to me. I love it when my Heaven friends find something meaningful in what I’m writing.

Reply from Margaret on February 8, 2010

Again, Jochan, a deep thank you: For the discussion, especially this — “the level of unspeakable fulfillment I d o feel even if I dare not believe in it” –and this– “the promise, it says: The most beautiful and desirable state of being you could ever imagine or vaguely anticipate is the truth of you. Feeling it is too good to be true, you yearn, wringing your hands. Don’t be modest, want enough, want it all. If you allow yourself to want the ultimate, that means you are finally fully established in love; and if you fully believe Me when I say you are entitled to the best of the best, that is when you will have it.” I hear God speaking to me through your words.

Reply from Normand Bourque on February 10, 2010

Dear Emilia, I often feel the same way when you say:

—«this dream is still as “thick as tar”»
—«A life without space and time seems so strange, so far from our experience that it is surprising, to say the least, it is our true state of being.»
—On one point I do not agree with God and it is when He says there is no mystery.

Then when I say to myself that I am a Creator, I think of building a bridge between the tar and the ether, between space and no-space, the mystery and the known. Bridgebuilding is a little bit like translating or vice-versa.

Reply from emilia on February 11, 2010

I suspected I was not alone to feel that way.
Bridgebuilders, I studied to do something else in my life. But it must be so, we are hanging in the void and the fact is that I feel good.

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