The silence wasn’t punishment. It was the only way to bring you back to yourself.
Angel: Why did this season have to feel so quiet for her?
God: Because she needed to hear herself again.
Her intuition is more reliable than the opinions of people who don’t actually know her.
– Jacqueline Whitney
Angel: What do you mean?
God: She’d been listening to so many other voices for so long. The voices telling her who to be. What to want. How to live. What success looked like. What love should feel like. She couldn’t hear her own anymore. Or mine.
Angel: So you took the noise away?
God: I quieted everything around her. Stripped back what was distracting her. Created space for her to hear what she actually thinks. What she actually wants. What she actually needs. And what I’ve actually been saying to her all along.
Angel: It’s been hard on her.
God: I know. The silence was painful. The isolation felt like punishment. The lack of external validation felt like rejection. But it was the only way to bring her back to herself.
Angel: What’s she discovering?
God: That her own voice is wiser than she thought. That her intuition is more reliable than the opinions of people who don’t actually know her. That my voice is clearer than she realized once she stopped trying to drown it out. The quiet wasn’t absence. It was alignment.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
