The God I have come know is the ground of billions of far flung galaxies and also, the ground of our very being. This Sacred Mystery includes all of life regardless of belief, religion, creed, or lack thereof. As the great psychoanalyst Carl Jung had inscribed upon his doorway and tomb: "Called or not called, God shall be there."

I am not claiming to be a theologian or spiritual guru nor, do I want to prove I am right or anyone else wrong. I am a simple woman, writer, and speaker on a spiritual path awed by all the everyday miracles.

All of the articles below (and most on this site) speak to ways of communicating with God I have long practiced and experienced in my life. Just this morning, I felt such awe and gratitude at how God answers my prayers.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein.

Two nights ago, before drifting off to sleep I asked God to send me a dream clarifying what I needed to know (about a stuck-ness within myself). I awoke screaming from a terrifying nightmare which, when I fell back asleep, I returned to for the dream’s finale. This was not what I had in mind.

After two days of ‘being’ with my dream, journaling many insights about it, and feeling the ‘ping’ in my soul of truths sinking home I felt deep gratitude. I have learned that listening to our dreams is another way of communicating with God.

Through being with this nightmare I saw the driven taskmaster within me and the deep unworthiness that has haunted me since childhood (despite professional success) surface from the depths for yet more healing and light. As I journalled these insights within the three morning pages I write each day before I do anything else (thanks to Julia Cameron’s suggestion in The Artist’s Way) I was gifted yet again with another prayer answered.

Before going to sleep last night I read an excerpt from Oriah’s, “The Call,” wherein she wrote each of us has a ‘word’ we are here to embody and teach. Although this was a new concept to me it rang true. After all, we have personal missions here – why not a personal word to embody and teach? Of course, I wanted to know what my ‘word’ was. Was it “trust? Security? Freedom? Expression?”

I know one cannot madly dig for such answers. Rather, answers to queries like these are bestowed through grace and trust. Again, for me, communicating with God is the answer. I sent off a little prayer asking God if it wasn’t too much to just send “my word” along to me.

As, I mentioned, while I was journaling my three morning pages and writing many insights about my taskmaster and childhood the ‘word’ squarely hit me. “Worthy!” Just like that. There it was. So clear. Totally obvious.

Being our family’s baby and only girl with two big, brothers - five and seven years older than me – I’ve struggled all my life to prove my worth. Also, within the fifteen years I facilitated the “Career Assessment Program” for people in career change at our local college – I wanted more than anything for participants to see their worth: to know their God-ness and their gifts.

Communicating with God is something I live and breathe as much as I humanly can. When I forget my True Self it is not too long before my small, still voice within calls me back home. Come with me now, dear reader.

Stop. Take a deep breath and on the out breath repeat, ‘I calm myself.” Now, do this three times and, just at the end of the out breath, just before the next in-breath comes of its own accord, notice the space. God is here in this still, expansive, eternal space. Communicating with God begins with our willingness to be still and listen.

Can you take time to sit and be still each day? Communicating with God springs from this still place within although I see God speaking to us in a myriad of ways. “The Kingdom of God is within you,” my friend if you’ll but take the time and listen.

Below are articles with stories and ideas about Communicating with God in Everyday Life. Click on the underlined title to read the article if you want to know more.
Remember Your God-ness and Gifts Recently, I watched part of a TV interview with a very successful, singer/song writer (I did not catch her name) who spoke openly of her darkest hour and also, of a magical, childhood awakening to her gifts. Her heartfelt stories point toward the truth of our God and gifts. Within her most hopeless hour and a happy childhood recollection she found God comforting and guiding her…

Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life The ‘self-willed, create-your-reality’ line of thinking so prevalent today has never sat well with me although I realize the power of the mind and of belief. Rather than self-willing, I am called to more closely know and follow the workings of my Inner Guidance and of God (the Divine Mystery, Higher Power…). Since we began yourlifework.com, nearly four years ago, this calling to know and follow God has been reflected in most of my articles in some fashion. Listen to this calling is another way of communicating with God.

Look for God Incidents I wonder what God Incidents have appeared in your life lately? It seems the more I look for, and then follow my God Incidents (Higher Power, Source or God as you understand Him/Her) the more I see God’s handiwork and guidance in my life. There are many ways of communicating with God.

God Works in Wondrous Ways Striving to achieve doesn’t work for me any more nor does self-willing. Years ago, I achieved goals though steely, self will but now, I prefer to follow God’s promptings which speak to me in wondrous ways. Communicating with God in this manner is our lifework.

Trailing Clouds of Glory Communicating with God - returning home to our true self, in each moment, is our lifework. We get sidetracked thinking the promotion, job, or finishing that e-book/workshop/project is what’s important. Certainly, accomplishing some tasks is necessary however, the state of our being as we go about doing the task is more important than getting the task done.