This Week’s Focus:
How to quiet the mind, open the heart, and experience God not as an idea to understand—but as a living presence flowing through the ordinary moments of your day.
For most of my early life, I tried to think my way to God.
If I could just read enough books, memorize enough scripture, or figure out the right theological formula, then maybe—just maybe—I’d finally understand the Divine.
I approached faith like a math equation: If I do A + B, then God will give me C.
But somewhere along the way, my formulas stopped working. My head was full, but my heart was empty. I could explain God, but I couldn’t feel God. I had knowledge, but not intimacy.
By my thirties, life was noisy and nonstop. I was running a busy law practice while my wife and I juggled four kids, carpool schedules, and mountains of laundry. My mind was always ten steps ahead—planning, fixing, managing.
I tried to think my way to God the way I handled a legal case: analyze the facts, apply the rules, reach a verdict. I read theology books during lunch breaks, tried to pray while drafting wills, and convinced myself that if I just found the right “spiritual loophole,” inner peace would follow.
But it didn’t. My head was overwhelmed with ideas about God, but my heart felt hollow. The kids kept arguing over who got the blue cereal bowl, a client wanted me to “creatively adjust” the facts, and my prayers had turned into bullet points for God’s to-do list.
One morning, just before dawn, I sat in my den with a cup of coffee, staring at the wall, and muttered, “God, where are you?”
For once, there were no answers—just quiet. And somehow, the quiet felt more honest than all my over-thinking.
In that stillness—not in my mind, but somewhere deeper—I heard a gentle whisper:
Stop thinking about Me. Just be with Me.
That whisper changed everything.
I realized God wasn’t waiting for me to figure him out. He was inviting me to experience him.
Not as an idea or a doctrine, but as a living presence moving in and through my everyday life—right there in the chaos of kids, clients, and coffee stains.
That’s when I understood spirituality isn’t about mastering the facts about God. It’s about relationship—being drawn into the magnetic pull of Divine Love that’s already within and around us.
What’s Spirituality?
Spirituality isn’t about trying to figure God out; it’s about experiencing God.
It’s the shift from head to heart—from analyzing the Divine to actually being with the Divine.
It’s realizing that God isn’t somewhere “out there,” waiting to be proven or understood. God is right here—woven into the everyday moments of life—in the sunrise that catches your breath, a child’s laughter echoing down the hall, a friend’s unexpected hug, or the quiet peace that comes when, out of nowhere, you hear God whispering the answer for which you’ve been searching.
Spirituality is waking up to that Presence. It’s learning to live from the quiet center of your soul instead of the noisy chatter of the mind. It’s letting love—not fear—be the guiding rhythm of your days.
You don’t earn it, achieve it, or figure it out. You allow it. You receive it.
It’s as if God whispers,
Stop trying to understand Me. Just be with Me.
When we rest in that Presence, something beautiful happens—we feel the quiet pull of Divine Love drawing us closer, like a magnet gently bringing the human and the Divine together as One.
The Magnetic Pull of Love
For a long time, I saw spirituality as a restless search for something I didn’t yet have—a reaching for God somewhere out there, beyond me.
But over time, I’ve come to see it differently.
It’s not that we’re reaching toward a distant God; it’s that the human and the Divine are two parts of one whole—like magnets created for each other. The pull we feel to experience God’s presence isn’t about absence; it’s about completion.
When the human and the Divine draw close, they don’t compete or cancel out each other. They unite. The spark between them becomes love itself—the flow of grace where God’s Spirit and our spirit live and breathe as one.
Spirituality isn’t striving for what’s missing; it’s awakening to what’s already here. It’s the moment the magnets meet—the union of Creator and creation, heaven and earth, heart and Spirit.
Spirituality isn’t about chasing after God—it’s about awakening to the union that already exists between you and the Divine.
That tug you feel in your heart—the quiet longing for peace, love, and meaning—isn’t something missing; it’s grace itself. It’s God drawing you closer, reminding you that you and the Divine were never separate.
In every breath, every act of kindness, every moment of stillness, heaven and earth meet. The human and the Divine complete one another in love. When we awaken to that magnetic union between the human and the Divine, spirituality shifts from something we seek to something we live.
It’s no longer about chasing God through ideas or theology but about allowing that divine connection to move through us—shaping our thoughts, our actions, and our love.
That’s when we move from knowing about God to knowing God—not as a concept, but as a living presence within and around us.
Knowing God as a Relationship of Love
Over the years, with the help of wise mentors and a few divine nudges, I’ve learned that spirituality isn’t a one-size-fits-all journey. It’s not about being perfect or enlightened (thank God for that).
It’s about showing up—every day—with an open heart and a listening spirit.
Spirituality is a relationship between you and God—a living, growing friendship with the Divine.
And like any friendship, it needs care and attention to stay alive and grow. If you don’t call, don’t listen, and don’t make time for a friend or loved one, the relationship drifts.
Love deepens when it’s nurtured, and the same is true of our friendship with God.
That’s what the divineFlow lifestyle offers—not rules or rigid formulas, but a simple, down-to-earth way to keep the human and divine connection with God strong, alive, and growing.
Through the four practices of divineFlow—a few minutes of daily quiet time, a bit of soul-nourishing reading, hanging out with people who lift you up, and using the spiritual gifts God’s planted in you—we keep discovering more about God and our True Self. We live from a place of inner wholeness.
That’s how grace sneaks into the ordinary and transforms our daily rhythm from just getting through the day to actually living it—awake, alive, and joy-filled.
When we take time to care for our relationship with God, we flow with Divine Love’s magnetic pull, gently drawing us toward what’s real and true. The more we open our hearts and keep showing up, the more we feel that steady draw toward peace, balance, and wholeness.
Each moment of reflection, connection, and discovery becomes an electrical spark of grace—God and us, pulled together by love, lighting up the world from the inside out.
It’s Your Turn
If your heart is nudging you to take the next step—to move from reading about divineFlow to living it—I’ve created a simple tool to help you begin.
Download my free Jump Start Your Meditation Practice guide by clicking here.
It’s an easy, practical way to build your quiet time.
You don’t have to be an expert. You just have to show up—one quiet moment at a time.
That’s where spirituality begins—in the simple choice to be present, to let your spirit rest in God’s Spirit, and to feel that quiet magnetic pull of Love drawing you closer.
Once you’ve settled into that rhythm, you can take the next step with the Quieting Your Mind Guide. Click here to download that free guide.
Start where you are. God’s already there—the Divine magnet within you,
waiting to meet you in the silence. Now that’s spirituality!
Spirituality isn’t an incurable longing—it’s an irresistible attraction.
Like two magnets created for each other, our soul and God are made for union.
What we call holy longing is really the energy of love itself—
the quiet current pulling us home,
not toward something distant,
but toward the Presence already pulsing within us.
It’s the meeting of two hearts—
the human and the Divine—
beating as One.
—brian j plachta
Want to Go Deeper?
If your mind ever feels like a restless monkey—jumping from one thought to the next—you’re not alone. Quieting the noise is part of the journey from head to heart.
To help you take the next step, listen to my podcast episode:
? Taming the Monkey Mind: A Simple Guide to Meditation
In this short, practical episode, I’ll walk you through a simple way to calm your thoughts, settle into stillness, and experience the quiet presence of God within you.
Let’s practice together—because the more we quiet our minds, the more clearly we hear Love whisper: “Stop thinking about Me. Just be with Me.”
—brian j plachta
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