I used to be a master storm creator. When I felt threatened or vulnerable, I’d go into full attack mode – judging, condemning, wanting to “burn everything down” in relationships. Maybe you can relate to this pattern?
The ego’s favorite strategy when we feel scared is scorched earth: destroy the relationship before it can hurt us, prove we’re unlovable so no one gets too close, create chaos so we can feel familiar again.
But here’s what transformed everything for me: learning to hear the “still small voice” in the middle of my storms.
Even when I was in full attack mode, spewing toxicity all over my relationship, there was always this gentle presence saying “Don’t say that. You don’t need to say that. Go the other way.”
For years, I pushed past that guidance. “No, I need to end this. I need to prove I’m unlovable. I need to burn these bridges.”
Then one day, I listened.
Right in the middle of a storm, I stopped and said something like: “I’m so sorry. I don’t mean any of that. I’m feeling so vulnerable it’s unbearable – like a burn victim naked in the wind. I don’t know how to take it back. I need your help.”
The response was stunning. Complete shift from chaos to connection.
A Course in Miracles teaches that we are the light of the world, and light doesn’t attack darkness – it simply shines it away. When we choose vulnerability over attack, transparency over defense, love over fear, we’re choosing to be the light.
We all have the ability to turn on a dime, to choose differently mid-storm. Our willingness is the only requirement. When we’re willing to go the other way, the Christ in us responds immediately.
Willingness is what’s required for us to not just hear the still small voice, but listen and follow.
There’s such beauty available to us when we stop burning bridges and start building love.
TODAY, SATURDAY – Activate Your Intuition Deep Dive Workshop – by popular request – this was the #1 topic people asked me to do a workshop on and here it is this Saturday, August 31. If you’d like to start hearing your guidance more clearly, and choosing to listen and follow, while also feeling like you can really trust that Voice for God, consider joining me for this workshop on Saturday! Click here now for more info.
NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is The Two Voices in Your Head (And Why Only One Tells the Truth) We carry two conflicting evaluations of ourselves – the Holy Spirit’s loving truth that sees our perfection and the ego’s distorted perception that sees only lack and unworthiness. According to numerology, we’re in a completion year where unhealed patterns are surfacing for final healing before we enter a new cycle and this means we’re all being pushed to let go of the patterns of pain. In this episode, drawing from A Course in Miracles Chapter 9, Section 7, the core message is that the Holy Spirit never forgets our true nature while the ego keeps us trapped in littleness, and our only path to freedom is choosing which evaluation we’ll align with through our willingness to value what’s truly valuable.
