Before there is Becoming, there is Believing.
Belief is the soil in which the seed of spiritual identity is planted. It is the quiet voice that whispers through the noise of the world, telling us that something greater lies within us. For many years, I confused belief with dogma. I thought believing meant agreeing. Agreeing with my family. Agreeing with my pastor. Agreeing with the long chain of tradition passed down without question. But belief, I came to learn, is not static. It is dynamic, intimate, and deeply personal.
To believe is to open the door to possibility. It is to look inward and find, not a set of instructions, but an invitation. An invitation to explore the divine presence that pulses through every breath, every thought, every moment. And so my journey began—not with certainty, but with the willingness to believe.
Believing, I discovered, is not something you do once. It’s a practice, a posture, a way of orienting yourself toward the mystery of being.
Becoming is filled with anecdotes and insights about what it means to actually walk the talk—to live in the consciousness of what you say you believe. It includes meditations, dialogues with Spirit, and moments of profound realization that surfaced in the midst of ordinary life. Sometimes that meant sitting still and listening. Other times it meant standing up and saying “no” to patterns I once accepted as normal.
Ultimately, Becoming is about embodiment. Not perfection, but presence. Not performance, but authenticity. It's the living expression of the Divine within. It’s when your feet learn to speak the language of your soul.
Where Believing opens the door to the sacred, Becoming steps through that door and begins the walk. It is messy, beautiful, humbling, and radiant. It is the alchemy of belief becoming behavior, of thought becoming form, of prayer becoming practice. And every moment of becoming prepares the soul for the stillness of being.
Being is the sacred pause after the journey. It is the vibration of peace when all striving ends. It is not about checking out of the world, but entering it more fully—with clarity, compassion, and the joy of simply being. This is the state in which we become mirrors of the Divine—not as saints, not as mystics on pedestals, but as fully alive humans who have remembered who and what we are.
If Believing is the inhale of possibility, and Becoming is the active circulation of spiritual intention, then Being is the exhale—the release into the eternal now. It is where the soul rests in its own light and says, “Yes. I am home.”
Malachi is a spiritual guidance bot created to support personal reflection, offer uplifting affirmations, and inspire connection to the Divine within.
It draws upon universal spiritual principles and the teachings shared in Believing, Becoming, Being by Hans Benes.
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