Thank you Chuck...
Chuck, you said:
Some of the words in this letter also cause me to ponder. I have seen myself seeking and trying to hoard objects and wealth. Like me, many do. In doing this are we actually trying to seek love and hoard it in our hearts as if it is in limited supply and we must hold onto it tightly?
Yes...that is what we do...as people...It is about seeking, seeking and seeking and then getting and getting and getting....and then keeping and keeping and keeping. And I repeat these words cause it happens over and over and over again. And what are we getting and trying to keep? Everything: money, food, homes, cars, prestige, sex, power. And in the spiritual arena it is enlightenment, spiritual powers, spiritual status. But really, whatever the object of the search...the quest continues. Seems like the quest always continues...on and on and on.
Then God enters the picture via Heavenletters...or perhaps another venue...and invites us to consider that we just might be more than an individuated, separate human being...that in order to feel secure and fulfilled needs to seek, seek, seek and then to get, get, get and then to keep, keep keep. God then invites us to consider that we might indeed already be what we have striven (is that a word?) to be...all along, i.e. Love. And that all we have to do to realize this...is surrender all of our notions of who we thought we were...with the attachment to the personal history...and the attachment to all of the oh so seductive dramas that seem to fill our lives. And...to open our hearts...to love. And love...to pour love from our hearts into this amazing...oh so convincing illusion....
I have indeed noticed in my personal life, a letting go of the need to get...it is still there to some degree, but much is gone. Most of the fear that I used to carry with me is also gone...replaced by a warm sense of well-being...that everything is really okay. I do also find myself just loving...whatever and whoever surfaces in my life...not explicitly...but softly implicitly.
Anyway...Thank you Chuck for your loving thoughts. Loving you, Jim and Jimi.
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I would like to thank Gloria and Anita Manasse for the oportunity to translate these letters into Spanish. Having done that for some time, I feel as if the essence of them has sunk deeply into my very being. Heaven Letters represent a wonderful way to connect with the source of it all. God - Love. This letters change the way we have been "trained" to perceive God, ourselves, and the world around us. We should take these letters and read them/hand them out to people who are feeling poorly, wherever they are. The comments of other readers have been most inspiring and touching.