In the last week or so, God has been showing myself to me very clearly. I began understanding with great clarity the difference between myself and most of the people around me, and it all started because of a misunderstanding between myself and a friend.
Then, a couple of mornings ago, I saw a quote that embodied what God had been bringing into a tangible reality for me, and the comments underneath it gave me the understanding that people around the country, and the world, are not awakening in the way I had assumed they were.
Like my Mama Kay always said, don’t assume, because that’s when you make an ass out of u and me.
The quote was simple:
The system is designed to distract you from realizing your spiritual power.
The Lord works is mysterious ways, for sure. The comment section underneath that post became a living parable right in front of my eyes. The misunderstanding between my friend and me started my journaling about this topic; those comments are where this post was born.
The Comments: A Living Parable
Most of the commenters dismissed the spirit entirely, saying it was only ever invented to comfort us from the fear of death. Many others reduced everything to money and survival, insisting happiness only comes with financial security. A rare few touched on authenticity, on the mind as the biggest source of suffering, on the choice to buy into or reject the bag of illusions we’re all handed.
One person pointed out that no man-made system stands apart from God’s peaceful order, yet he seemed to miss that everyone else in those comments was doing exactly that, by choice, precisely because of the conditioning of one or many systems. The people who left those comments didn’t WANT peace. If they did, their comments wouldn’t have been so argumentative, so incensed, so angry at the mere suggestion that God and peace were available to them.
It’s a spiritual thing that drives that, ultimately. The enemy doesn’t want people to be aware of their true power. The enemy doesn’t want people to be in union with God. And the system was built by the enemy.
It was a perfect mirror of the human condition, of the ways we stay asleep. Clutching control, comfort, or ego while something deeper calls us home is the crux of it all. The Bible calls this exact condition by name.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Romans 8:6)
That comment section was Romans 8:6 playing out in real time: people choosing death and calling it realism, while peace sat right there, offered and refused.
Souls Trying to Connect While Speaking Different Languages
I’ve been sitting with this in my own life, in that liminal space between what is and what could be. I’ve been holding what God’s been showing me, and this morning it’s time to share the depths of what I’ve seen so clearly with you.
We all carry the capacity for deeper connection to God, to ourselves, to one another. Creativity, wonder, the ability to feel the swirl of multiple realities at once, these are not extras handed out only to the “weird” ones. They are our birthright. Scripture actually says as much.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10)
We were built to search the deep things. But the system trains us young to stay in the rut, to focus on the visible, the measurable, the 3D survival game. Some tell us outright not to dream too big. Others are sneakier about it.
They say “dream,” but the moment your dreams stop serving material gain, stop fitting a “reality-based” life, those same dreams get relabeled reckless, unstable, bad for you. The message underneath is always the same. Don’t question. Don’t surrender.
The result across the board is souls trying to connect while speaking entirely different languages.
One person might experience a relationship as a divine assignment, something sacred, God-woven across timelines, meant for stewardship, mirrors, and growth. They experience it as a holy trust that flows constantly, even through friction, because it belongs to the Lord first. These type of people live in the awareness that our energies intertwine on levels most people never notice, 5D soul realities swirling alongside the everyday 3D bodies.
I’m that type of person. The institutions, namely the church and the education system, couldn’t beat it or train it out of me. But the cost in my everyday life is being very much a hermit. The people who once made that kind of open dialogue possible are all dead now – at least physically. I’m still learning what it looks like to carry this alone in 3D form.
Another might see the same connection I described above as a personal choice, something that’s picked or dropped depending on whether it feels good, fits a role, or meets a need right now. What’s chosen can be picked up or set down when convenient. But are you really choosing? Or has the system conditioned and trained you to think you’re in control?
Control is never firmly in human hands. It’s in God’s. The drama in our lives is not something external to avoid, but a mirror revealing where surrender is still needed.
Covenant or Convenience
When these two realities collide, the pain isn’t random. It’s the friction of awakening. One is being pulled toward full surrender, releasing the throne so God can bless the story. The other clings to the illusion of being the chooser, the architect, the one who holds all the pieces. One sees covenant. The other sees convenience.
Neither is “wrong” in a simplistic sense. But only one path leads to the peace we all claim to want. God doesn’t decorate our self-built kingdoms. He invites us into His.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it. (Psalm 127:1)
The drama we walk into, or run away from, is often nothing more than consequences and reflections circling back, refusing to let us play both sides forever. This isn’t only about romantic or intimate connections. It’s how we hold everything – our faith, our work, our grief, our future.
The system wants us distracted, ego-protected, and living with minds chattering with distortions that manufacture suffering. It conditions us to fear the unknown, to reject the “crazy” inner adventures that lead back to our true selves. But the pain and struggle are purposeful. They evolve us. They strip away the conditioning and return us home.
The Church Took the Mysticism Out of the Map
This way of thinking and experiencing will not sit well with everyone reading this, but I’ve never written to make people comfortable. I’m here as much for those who are deconstructing what the church taught them as for those still inside it, because teaching Scripture in context is exactly what the church fails to do, and that failure is what wrongly constructs people in the first place. The church has been one of the biggest culprits in this exact institutionalization.
Scripture was never meant to be a rulebook. It is a map, alive and moving, and the same Spirit that authored it is still speaking through it. But when an institution needs control more than it needs truth, it strips the mysticism out and leaves behind a checklist. Paul warned exactly this would happen.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2 Timothy 3:5)
A form of godliness. The shape of the thing, without the current running through it. This is why “spiritual power” language makes so many religious people flinch, while the exact same power is described all over their own scripture.
Paul didn’t tell the Corinthians to shrink from mystery, he told them:
…we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory. (1 Corinthians 2:7)
Hidden wisdom, ordained for our glory. That is not rulebook language. That is map language, the same map I’ve been describing this whole post.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6, KJV)
It says lack of knowledge, not lack of rules. Lack of knowledge, lack of the deep things, lack of the very mysticism the institution trained everyone to be suspicious of. I know this firsthand, because the church tried to institutionalize me too.
The church tried to hand me a rulebook when God had already handed me a map, and it took decades of deconstruction, loss, and surrender to tell the difference between the two.
You Don’t Have to Convince Anyone
I’ve learned the hard way that I can honor what I experience as God-chosen without demanding the other person see it the same way. God has given me great clarity on that in recent weeks. My role isn’t to force the map on anyone. It’s to live in it. To keep sharing the view from this sky, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it feels one-sided.
Souls find each other across lifetimes for reasons. Sometimes the assignment is simply to mirror, to catalyze, to remain open while the other decides what they’ll buy into. The truly beautiful part is that none of it is wasted.
Even in the mismatch, insight comes. Gratitude rises. The Spirit still moves. Creativity stays alive. That deeper knowing, that we are not just cogs in the wheel, refuses to die.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (2 Corinthians 3:17)
If you’re feeling the friction right now, if relationships, faith, or life itself seem to be exposing these gaps, lean in. The mind will try to distort it into suffering. The system will offer distractions. The institution will offer you a rulebook when you were looking for a map. But God is in the liminal space, weaving something far more real than our 3D arrangements.
You don’t have to convince anyone. You just have to keep waking up to who you truly are. The spiritual power was never gone. It was only waiting for us to stop looking at the map someone else drew.
Closing Thoughts
I didn’t write this to convince anyone that my map is the right one. I wrote it because I’m tired of watching souls talk past each other, defending the very cage that’s keeping them from the peace they say they want. I’m not saying our 3D reality isn’t important – it’s the whole purpose of experiencing life in human form. I’m saying that our 3D reality isn’t a replacement reality for our souls, and isn’t what should drive or control us. It should all flow together.
Some of you will read this and feel seen for the first time in a long time. Others will read it and feel accused, and that reaction is worth sitting with instead of dismissing. Either way, the invitation stands. Not to agree with me, but to stop mistaking the rulebook for the map, and to let God show you which one you’ve actually been living by.
What about you? Have you noticed these different “realities” in your connections? How do you navigate the pull between ego and control versus surrender? I’d love to hear in the comments.
Maranatha.