Living in Union With God
There comes a moment in the soul where striving quietly exhausts itself. Not because effort failed but because effort was never the point. Union with God does not arrive through intensity or discipline or the accumulation of insight. It arrives the way dawn arrives. Without announcement. Without violence. Without negotiation. It simply is.
Union is not something you step into. It is something that reveals itself once the illusion of separation loses its authority. God was never distant. God was never waiting on the other side of devotion or theology or correct language. God has always been the atmosphere of your awareness. The breath behind your breath. The consciousness witnessing your seeking even while you were convinced you were apart.
The tragedy and the beauty of the human journey is that we learn God through forgetting God. We learn intimacy through absence. We learn surrender through control. And then one day the soul becomes quiet enough to realize it was never alone in the first place.
Union is not an experience you have. It is the collapse of the one who needed to experience something.
When the self relaxes its grip on identity something astonishing happens. Prayer stops being a request and becomes a listening. Worship stops being an offering and becomes a recognition. Scripture stops being information and becomes remembrance. Every sacred act shifts from performance into participation.
This is where life becomes sacramental. Not because everything is holy but because you finally see that nothing ever stopped being holy.
Union is the realization that God is not responding to you. God is expressing through you.
You were never meant to carry God. You were meant to be carried by God. You were never meant to reach heaven. Heaven has always been reaching into you through the present moment. The nervous system learns to soften. The breath slows. The heart opens without agenda. And suddenly the awareness that you are known floods the inner world with a peace that does not need to be defended.
This peace does not make life easier. It makes life truer.
Union does not remove pain. It removes isolation from pain. Suffering no longer feels like abandonment. Joy no longer feels fragile. Both are held in a Presence that does not fluctuate with circumstances. You discover that God is not the interruption of your humanity but the fullness of it.
In union you stop asking where God is because you realize God has been asking where you are.
The ego wants God to be a solution. Union reveals God as the ground. The ego wants answers. Union reveals belonging. The ego wants certainty. Union reveals trust. And trust is far more powerful than certainty because trust does not require control.
This is why union feels like rest.
Rest is not inactivity. Rest is the end of resistance. Rest is the body agreeing with the soul. Rest is the mind releasing its obsession with self definition. In rest you realize that God is not impressed by your exhaustion. God is not motivated by your performance. God is delighted by your presence.
Presence is the language of union.
When you live from union you no longer divide your life into sacred and ordinary. Washing dishes becomes prayer. Driving becomes listening. Silence becomes communion. Words become unnecessary more often than not. And when words do come they come from depth rather than urgency.
Union makes you slower. Kinder. Less reactive. Less interested in being right. More interested in being real.
You stop trying to fix people. You stop trying to convert experiences. You stop trying to escape discomfort. Because union teaches you that God is not threatened by human mess. God inhabits it.
This is where compassion stops being an idea and becomes a reflex.
In union you do not love others to be spiritual. You love others because separation no longer makes sense. Their grief touches you. Their joy resonates in you. Their healing matters to you not because of obligation but because you recognize yourself in them.
Union dismantles spiritual superiority. There is no hierarchy in oneness. There is no ladder. There is only surrender.
And surrender is not giving up your will. It is discovering that your truest will has always been aligned with Love.
Living in union means you stop asking what God wants from you and start asking what God wants to be through you. This question changes everything. It removes pressure. It removes fear. It removes the exhausting need to measure your spiritual progress.
There is no progress in union. There is only deepening.
Deepening into awareness. Deepening into honesty. Deepening into tenderness. Deepening into the courage to remain open even when life feels sharp.
Union teaches you that holiness is not perfection. Holiness is availability.
Availability to feel without numbing. To listen without defending. To stay present without fleeing. To trust without demanding proof.
This kind of life does not shout. It whispers. It does not perform. It radiates. It does not convince. It invites.
Union is quiet confidence. Quiet strength. Quiet joy.
You will still have thoughts. You will still have wounds. You will still have patterns that rise and fall. But they no longer define you. They pass through a much larger awareness. An awareness that knows itself as held.
And once you taste this there is no going back to the old way of striving for God.
Because you realize God was never the destination.
God was the home you were already standing in.
Union is not mystical escape. It is grounded embodiment. It is allowing God to inhabit your nervous system your relationships your creativity your limitations. It is letting divine Love move through your humanity without censorship.
This is the great trust. That God knows how to be God in you better than you know how to be spiritual.
And when you finally rest into that trust life stops feeling like a test and starts feeling like a conversation.
A conversation that has been happening since before you learned how to listen.
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