I started out by only being able to see that there could be, and possibly should be, a God. But He was quietly present and speaking to me, in His own way, my whole life. But it was not until I was handed a Bible in my mid-twenties that I began to see this in retrospect. The Bible was the first way that He spoke to me in a way that I could recognize, even though it was just words on a page at first. Long story shortened as much as I can, as I read the Bible, and listened to others help me understand it better, I began to have a better understanding of who He is. At some point along the way, I began to really believe that He existed, and started to speak to Him sincerely. Not long after this, I decided to ask Him in, to "come on inside", so to speak. At this point, things really changed drastically for me. Not long after this, I did, yes, begin to hear His voice, definitely not audibly, and not really even in my mind, but out of the depths of my soul (or, subconscious, if you insist). I was given information about circumstances I had no natural way of knowing, and sometimes told to do things that didn't immediately make sense to me, that turned out to be really good decisions. The capstone of it all, though, at least to me, was that when I listened for Him, and spoke to Him, what I can only describe as a pure, clean, liquid light would well up in my heart.
