What I have Learned about God in 9 years
Aug 06, 2025
My relationship with God started 9 years ago, and it has evolved a lot. Use any other word suitable to you instead of God - Universe, Source, etc.
This is what I've learned:
⚜ to feel and experience God, I had to get out of my head. I've had so many ideas about what God is or isn't. I keep returning to the ever-evolving relationship with it, which keeps making my life better. When I step away from this relationship (out of anger or reaction), I get lost, and it gets messy. Too hard, when I start driving from my ego.
⚜ This relationship has taught me to be kind to myself, value myself, and the gifts I have been given, not hide but share, and trust deeply. It is still a work in progress, but it's improving :)
⚜ I've learned that God doesn't want me to suffer - in fact, it wants me to have a good, meaningful, joyful, expansive life. I might not have many/all my desires fulfilled, but likely - those were lower desires, that served no one (not my highest good nor others).
⚜ I've learned that God doesn't oppose itself to other things. Like God vs. the sciences, or God vs. dancing, painting, nature, Tarot cards, technology, business, parenting, etc. And it can be incorporated into those things, and then the effect and impact are better.
⚜ When I open towards God in my life, it steps in right away. It holds no grudges (including many times I was angry, resentful, and lonely). It embraces me as if the past didn't exist.
⚜ It had taught me to soften a LOT!!! Lose many protective barriers I've built over lifetimes. Not get rid of my discernment - quite the opposite. Wise choices are necessary and required daily. But anger, judgment, fear - those barriers have become much thinner.
⚜ God is a daily practice, like drinking water. At least, for my system, I can't go too long without the experience of touching God. Often, no fireworks happen, no lights are flashing, and no commandments are downloaded, but the connection is strengthened.
⚜ God doesn't care so much about the belief system. It feels that the belief system is a convenience, like culture, tradition, holidays, and language. It has its beauty. And God can exist within or outside of it.
That is all for today ...
Some food for thought ...
Xx,
Mariya