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The Divine Beloved | Rethinking Your Relationship with God

August 07, 20253 min read

There comes a point on the spiritual path when the language we were given for God no longer fits.

Not because we’ve turned away from the Divine—but because the old names, the old frameworks, the old fear-laced doctrines can no longer contain the relationship our soul longs for.

For many women, this awakening feels like both a loss and a homecoming. We begin to unlearn the distant, masculine, rule-enforcing God we were taught to revere. And in that space, something softer begins to rise.

A whisper. A presence.
A knowing that says: You are already held.

That presence, to me, is the Divine Beloved.

Not Judge, Not Lord, Not Distant

So many of us were taught to see the Divine as a judge, watching from above, weighing our actions. Or a king, ruling with detachment. Or a father, whose love is conditional, whose anger must be appeased.

We were told we were born sinful. That closeness with the Creator must be earned—through repentance, obedience, sacrifice. Or accepted through a savior. 

But what if none of that is true?

What if we were never separate to begin with?

The Divine Beloved: A New Way of Knowing

The Divine Beloved is not a title or a role. It’s a felt experience. A relational knowing. A presence you can feel in the stillness, in beauty, in the deepest corners of your heart.

This isn’t about religion.
It’s about reconnection.
To the Source of Love itself.

The Divine Beloved is:

  • Always present, never withholding

  • Gentle and unthreatening

  • Delighted by your being, not your performance

  • Curious about your heart, not fixated on your “sins”

  • More like a lover, less like a judge

  • Found not in a temple, but in your own breath

When we say Beloved, we speak of something intimate. Reciprocal. Affectionate.

This is the Divine not as distant authority—but as sacred companion.

You Were Never Separate

The idea that we are born broken—that our nature is sinful—is one of the deepest wounds organized religion has inflicted on the human spirit.

But what if we were never separate?

What if we’ve always been one breath with the Holy?

The ache you feel for something more, something deeper, is not a flaw. It’s your soul remembering.

You don’t have to sacrifice or suffer to be close to the Divine. You don’t need to prove yourself to be worthy of love. You don’t need a priest or a doctrine or a ritual to access God. 

You are already inside the love you long for.
The Divine Beloved is already here.

Finding the Divine in the Everyday

You might feel the Divine Beloved when:

  • You walk outside and the light hits the trees just so

  • A song moves something in your chest you can’t name

  • You cry alone in your bathroom and somehow feel not alone

  • You hold your child and sense the holy

  • You exhale and feel your body finally soften

The Beloved is not reserved for holy places.
She—He—They—it—lives in the ordinary. In you. In now.

A Love That Doesn’t Leave

So many of us carry spiritual trauma, not just from religion, but from the belief that love can be lost. That God withdraws. That one wrong move means we’re cast out.

But the Divine Beloved does not abandon.

The Beloved waits.
Listens.
Remains.

You do not have to fix yourself to return to God.
You are already found.
(you were never lost)

An Invitation to Rethink the Divine

This isn’t about rejecting anyone’s faith. It’s about expanding our understanding of what love can feel like when it’s not wrapped in fear and shame.

It’s an invitation to:

  • Reconsider how you speak to and about the Divine

  • Let go of names and concepts that make you feel small or unworthy

  • Reclaim your right to a personal, living, loving connection to Source

  • Let yourself be beloved

You don’t have to believe exactly what I do.

But if your soul has been longing for a softer God…
A wilder Love…
A sacred presence that delights in your humanity…

Then maybe, like me, you’re being called into relationship with the Divine Beloved.

The One who’s been with you all along.

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