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and now it’s about allowing myself to have a softer conversation with Holy Spirit, not just an emergency turn towards as it was early on, but an actual presence that guides me through the day. This is clearly reflected in a misread of A Course in Miracles that somehow continued through the years. My childhood foundation of Christianity must have filtered my reading of the text, a mental shift of single word misrepresented my entire relationship with the Holy Spirit. For so many years I carried the thought that the Holy Spirit was the voice of God, an innocent enough mistake, yet it was repeated often through many readings and had a significant impact on my connection and communication. The actual words being…the Holy Spirit is the voice for God — and that makes all the difference in the world.

the voice of God is a beautiful sentiment, yet it’s distant, authoritative, implying an existing chasm between the listener and the voice. And so my relationship reflected that, there was an authority figure that I could turn to with prayer, and that, if my mind was clear, I might actually hear a reply. It was comforting, but not intimate in any real way. One day, years into the Course, my filters thinned through years of practice, and I read correctly — Holy Spirit is the voice for God.

and everything changed.