…speaking to me in the words of Jesus,
“I am with you always” (Matthew 28:20).
Then, I heard these words in my heart: 
"I am here with you every day, beneath My endless sky. 
I have given you all these things so that you can know Me. 
Nature is the revelation of My very self,
and if you look closely enough and listen in the breeze, 
I will whisper to you and you will hear My voice."

My heart filled with joy! 
He was here. In my garden. With me. In this eternal moment.
I had finally discovered sacred silence
in today’s peaceful blue sky
and the profound stillness for which my soul had longed. 
I felt the intimacy of God’s Presence in His mystery of Nature. 
I felt His love enfolding me and filling my entire being.​

His whisper awakened my soul 
and I hurried inside for a notebook and pencil.
I wrote only for myself, 
as I had no idea that others might also have spent a lifetime 
searching for a simple way to pray
– a conversation with God, Himself: 
a two-way conversation, as with a friend.  
I first heard Him speak to me on this day, 
but I am sure He had whispered in my heart many times before.

I just hadn’t listened. 
This time I asked Him a question – and He answered.
I had never asked Him a question before – taken part in a conversation with Him – but He waited patiently, until I was ready, and
my life has never been the same.

I returned the next day, and the next, to hear His voice and ask 
what He had planned for me – a lesson to learn, an insight to discover, 
a kindness to pass on, a blessing for myself, a virtue to live by.

I continued writing down my inspirations from 
God the Creator, God the Son, and the Mother of God
in my notebooks – my own peaceful prayer journal. 

I assumed others had already found Divine Intimacy
-- a friendship with God --
based on their devout lives, but one day
I began sheepishly sharing my insights with a few friends and,
over time, my circle of readers grew.

I discovered that God had not spoken only to me in my garden, 
but also to others longing to hear His voice,
and He, theirs.

To this day, I revisit God in this sacred place
to learn the wisdom of Nature from its very source, 
to discover all the truths hidden in Creation,
and to hear the voice of my God, my friend.