I am Synonymous with God.
Synonymous with God: A Reflection on Sacred Reclamation / Ashley Mozingo, mBA
There was a time when I was told—softly, firmly, sometimes with smiles—that God was above me. That holiness was a thing to reach for, not remember.
That I, like everyone else, was fallen, broken, forever in need of saving.
But somewhere along the way, I began to notice a dissonance between what I was being taught and what I was coming to feel deep in my bones.
Contrary to what I was being taught, I saw myself synonymous with God, and not beneath.
That revelation did not come from arrogance, nor from rebellion.
It came from remembrance. From a quiet whisper within that grew louder each time I moved closer to my truth.
It came from nature’s patterns, from the wisdom in my bloodline, from the resonance of energy, presence, and intuition.
It came when I stopped seeing God as only a distant figure in the clouds, and began seeing God in breath, body, beauty and in every honest expression of life.
To say I am synonymous with God is not to erase God’s greatness…it’s to accept my own. It is to name the divine as something not limited to pulpits or pages, but as something living in my ability to heal, to nurture, to create, to love, to transform. It is a recognition of my origin and my inheritance.
I no longer serve a system that demands my smallness in exchange for salvation.
I remembered that sacredness is not granted but remembered. And with that remembrance comes responsibility—not to control, but to connect. Not to dominate.
When I say I am synonymous with God, I am reclaiming a truth that was never lost, but buried, distorted and weaponized.
God is not above me.
God is with me
and within me.
