Your Experience is Your Truth — Honour It

"Diversity is not a threat—it is the very force that sustains us.”

Gogo_Noma

Thokozani, Badimo Child

It’s been a while since I’ve written to share. Today feels like the right time to do so. 04h30 in the morning, and I am in stillness and at peace. I want to share something deeply personal:

Your experience with God is your truth, and it deserves to be honoured.

I am currently reading two books, one of them being Conversations with God the omnibus edition by Neale Donald Walsch. I am so grateful that I am reading it now, in this season of my life. Had I picked it up five or even ten years ago, I know I would not have received it the way I am receiving it today. Timing is everything, and so is readiness.

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The System That Limits Our Experience Of Divinity

The truth is, experiencing divinity has been demonised by systems and structures around us. We’ve been programmed to believe that God stopped speaking to us at a personal level more than 2000 years ago. That somehow, divinity is a stagnant, rigid being—stereotyped, obsessive, and resistant to change. Choosing to engage only with a selected minority, those highly blessed and "chosen" to guide us—or even worse, to save us from our wicked, foolish ways. To rescue us from our ignorance of truth, to bring us into the light, and above all, to save our lost souls.

We’ve been taught that heaven is a distant promise, available only after death, and only if we manage to “make it.” Even then, the guarantee is shaky, as though all our work, our striving, and our faith might still not be enough.

And so we live with this paradox: the very place we are told to strive for—heaven—we fear, because death, the supposed gateway to it, has been framed as failure, defeat, or a victory for the “devil.”

But here I am, in my own walk, experiencing God. And let me tell you, this divine presence - this Lady - is nothing like the “dude” they described.

Conversations With God Are NOT New

For my birthday, I received the book gift of Conversations with God. And reading it is continuously reminding me of a truth I’ve always known deep down: I have never not had conversations with God. The only challenge was believing in the “person” I was conversing with. Why? Because they do not fit the description drilled into me by religion.

Here’s what I know now: your experience of God is your truth. And no one can take that away from you.

Badimo Child, your version of divinity may not look like mine, but that does not make it any less sacred. We are walking different paths, yet heading towards the same center. Your experience of God cannot be compared to another’s, because it is unique to you and to the time you are in.

Wounded Healers

And this brings me to another truth we don’t speak of enough: we are healers with wounds. Even the very spirituality we are advocating for today is often built upon our religious wounds. Instead of embracing one another, we find ourselves comparing. Instead of facilitating spiritual independence, we busy ourselves trying to be solutions to other people’s problems. We are always looking for what is wrong, rather than confirming what is right and encouraging one another to trust, focus, and engage in our own way.

Too often, we recruit and justify our practices—hoping for approval, and above all, hoping others will join us. Religion has made us dependent on collective agreements, and in the process, we sometimes fail to see that the real beauty lies in diversity. Diversity is not a threat—it is the very force that sustains us.

A Call To Embrace Your Truth

If change is the only constant in this universe, then perhaps it’s time we also change the source from which we download the message. Instead of relying only on what others have experienced, it is time to experience God for ourselves. Not just to explore someone else’s truth, but to live our own. Because at the end of the day, teachings are powerful, but they are still secondhand. Your lived encounter—your truth—is where real transformation begins.

So honour it. Trust it. And walk boldly with it.

✨ To be continued… ✨

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Until next time,

I am Gogo_Noma and this is Learning with Noma.

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