because connection happens through mirroring.
His essence is unconditional love, and you reflect that love through the way you act.
But before you can channel love, you have to first feel awe.
Awe relaxes the nervous system, opens your emotions, and gives you enough space to recognize something greater than fear.
Without awe, love collapses into survival mode.
And that’s where trauma patterns distort the mirror:
1. People-pleasing looks like love, but it’s fear.
2. Avoidance looks like peace, but it’s numbness.
3. Narcissism looks like confidence, but it’s shame.
To build a real relationship with Him, you have to heal the parts of you that learned to survive by avoidance, hiding, or controlling.
A true relationship begins when you choose:
• love with boundaries,
• compassion with honesty,
• responsibility without ego.
And awe is what makes those choices possible.
Because awe reconnects you to something larger, and love becomes the way you participate in it.
That’s when your actions become a small reflection of His unconditional love, and the relationship finally feels real.
More guides:
How does anxiety can turn into awe?
https://nextself.ai/spirituality/when-anxiety-turns-into-awe/
Sadness turns into awe:
https://nextself.ai/spirituality/sadness-isnt-the-opposite-of-awe/
Singing helps feelings of awe last longer –
https://nextself.ai/spirituality/why-big-moments-of-awe-fade-so-fast/
Explore the NextSelf Blog. Start with this post explaining the world of souls. And my Youtube.
The blog lists all the difference patterns to study, understanding patterns is how one can develop 'Daas' [felt knowing].
Update: As awe, trust, and love deepen, they can allow greater openness and intimacy with the Creator. That intimacy can include sadness when you notice how much more of His goodness can be revealed.