This is about Lois Einhorn's book, Forgiveness and Child Abuse — Would YOU Forgive? (www.LoisEinhorn.com). Talking about Lois' book is the same for me as talking about Heavenletters, because her book features a Heavenletter given by God in direct response to her question: Would you be able to forgive? The Heavenletter shares space with 52 other responses, one from our dear friend Bernie Siegel and from other notables such as Patch Adams, Ed Asner, and Mahatma Ghandi's granddaughter, and also from spectacular people who are not yet well-known but deserve to be. — Gloria
Dear Heavenreaders,
Bernie Siegel, M.D., was asked to contribute to a very special book on forgiveness. The question the book posed (in my words), was: If your parents tortured you every waking day of your childhood mercilessly, would you be able to forgive them, and how?
Bernie's contribution to this book included a Heavenletter. God bless Bernie.
The author, Lois Einhorn, miraculously rose above her inhumane childhood, and serves as a great testament to the human spirit. After Lois read her first Heavenletter, she emailed me and asked me to be a contributor. It was God she wanted, of course, and God she got!
The publisher just wrote to me now:
Be on the lookout for your thank-you copy of Dr. Lois Einhorn's book, Forgiveness and Child Abuse: Would YOU Forgive? It is in the mail! We at Robert D. Reed Publishers are very grateful for your contribution to her book. As you will soon see, the book is a beautiful testimony of 53 contributors' love and compassion in answering Lois' tough questions about forgiveness and child abuse. Thank you very much for being a contributor." Cleone Lyvonne Editor/Creative Director Robert D. Reed Publishers www.rdrpublishers.com
Lois wrote to me just now too:
One of the neatest and most creative things the publisher did was to send out a teddy bear with each galley proof. Hence, I now have a teddy bear named after me. I'm SOOOOO excited about that. What more can one want from life than to have a teddy bear named for them!
Lois goes on to extol her publisher:
I feel VERY blessed. My publisher, Robert D. Reed Publishers, was beyond wonderful. They were everything one could want from a publisher and tons more!
Patch Adams is another contributor to this book. Remember the movie about him? I will say more about this book and its contributors as soon as I receive my copy of the book.
Lois Einhorn, Vestal, NY
I am so happy for Lois. I think she has a best seller here. And I am well aware that her book could well be Heaven's major entrée into the world.
After I read Lois' story, I knew deeply that there is no one and nothing in my life that ever needed forgiveness. Any hurts I harbored were NOTHING. Do you know what I mean?
In the last issue of Heaven News, I mentioned Dr. Lois Einhorn's book about forgiving the unforgivable. Since then, my copy of Forgiveness and Child Abuse, Would You Forgive? has arrived. It's a remarkable book, and the author is a remarkable person. I do not think I could have survived one day of what she went through for seventeen years. She not only survived, she triumphed.
Thanks to Bernie, who introduced Lois to Heavenletters, Heavenletters is represented in the book.
My endorsement on the back cover reads: "This is an intimate brave book, unlike any other I have ever read. It took me on a journey from the depths of inhumanity to the heights of the human soul."
To give you an idea of the insights and power of Lois' writing, I would like to include a quote from Lois in which she speaks of religion as poetry. Of course, she wrote this before she ever heard of Heavenletters, but doesn't it seem like she's talking about Heavenletters? Listen to this:
"What if religion consisted of poetry rather than theology? What if metaphors and other images replaced doctrines and dogmas? Would we then realize that we are all God and Goddess, Priest and Priestess, and the Divine exists within us and we exist in the Divine?"
I'm delighted to be part of the Heavenletters experience, and I thank you for giving me this opportunity to write a foreword to this ebook and to express how Heavenletters have contributed to my life.
In responding to my book, Forgiveness and Child Abuse: Would YOU Forgive?, Dr. Bernie Siegel mentioned Heavenletters. I was intrigued. I contacted Gloria Wendroff, one of the most heavenly people I know. I am in good company regarding my assessment of her, for God chooses very carefully who will serve as a conduit for His messages.
Now Heavenletters have become part of my daily routine. I usually read them with a cup of hot tea in the morning or sometimes during a particularly chaotic part of my day. There's no bad time to read them.
The letters somehow seem to relate to personal issues of that particular day. They provide affirmations. They help me make better choices as I ask, What would God do?
The letters are nondenominational. They deal with the Heaven we have here on Earth.
The letters provide me with healing and hope, light and love. They pierce my heart and lift my spirit. They remind me that God is loving, that I am part of God, and that God is part of me.
One dose per day of Heavenletters isn't enough! Read this book!
* * *