The Absence of Divinity

There are moments when life feels hollow.

When the sacred feels far.

When the voice of God grows silent.

And in those moments, we quietly wonder,

Where is the Divine?

But maybe the question isn’t where God has gone.

Maybe the real question is: Where are we walking?

Maybe it’s not the absence of divinity, but the absence of alignment.

We want peace while waging war in our relationships.

We long for clarity while twisting the truth.

We crave miracles while moving dishonestly.

We ask for abundance while rejecting obedience.

We plead for healing while carrying weapons that wound.

We want God, but we want God on our terms.

We seek the Divine while practicing contradiction 

Want forgiveness but still play dirty.

Seeking God while entertaining the lowest form of light: witchcraft.

Mixing sacred names with profane rituals.

Using spiritual language while operating from control, ego, and manipulation.

And calling it “power.”

We forget the ancient codes.

The quiet spiritual ethics.

The unseen laws of the soul.

We cannot cheat, lie, manipulate, and mistreat people and expect to walk in divine favor.

God doesn’t like ugly.

Not just in what we do but in what we’ve allowed ourselves to become.

Not just in our actions but in our intentions.

Not just in our words but in how we use them.

Maybe it’s the way we dilute the sacred.

How we whisper “light” while working in the shadows.

Or walking with those who walk in shadows.

How we call on God while refusing to honor the divine way.

How we speak of truth with lips that deceive, and lift holy hands that destroy.

And perhaps we’re not truly seeking presence.

We’re seeking proximity.

We want power without purification.

We want favor while acting foul.

We want results without repentance.

So we drain others..or we think we do.

We feed on their clarity, their light, hoping it will fill our emptiness.

But the truth is, light cannot be stolen. It can only be cultivated.

And maybe, just maybe…

If we lived more honestly

If we remembered that every soul is sacred

If we protected what we loved instead of breaking it

If we aligned our actions with the values we preach

If we let go of what harms us and others

Then we would feel the Divine not as a distant mystery

But as a constant, loving, living Presence

The Divine was never absent

We just stopped walking in the same direction

But the path back?

It’s still open

Still lit

Still waiting

We are not abandoned

We are being called gently, patiently, firmly back into alignment

And when we return

We will remember what we forgot

The Divine was never far

Only silenced by our disobedience

Only clouded by our contradictions

Only distant because we were

Only far because we walk in shadows

God doesn’t like ugly

But God always welcomes transformation

Love,

Umi