As everyone has commented, wonderful story fabulously told--and I believe every word. I tend to leave comments amplifying stories with those of my own and others. I'll start with others that flow from this line God spoke to you. I don't know if you are familiar with the writings of Jodie Helm. She channels "archangels." In her https://jodieshelm.medium.com/where-should-we-place-our-faith-9931fd28a1d0, she channels "God has never left you. God resides within you at all times. All that is left for you to do is to recognize this great power and use it....You were created so that you could also create. This is what it means to be created in the image of God."

Her https://jodieshelm.medium.com/are-there-other-gods-and-goddesses-363fc53cefec contains these channeled lines:

"All living things who have souls are connected to each other as well as the many worlds that exist everywhere in the universe, and the Creator. This connection is a divine spark we all carry that inspires so many to explain how they were created, because that divine spark is not something they can create or copy. It is greater than they are and defies explanation."

White Feather writes in his https://medium.com/grab-a-slice/finding-our-life-spark-d0ca505a4ab0, "Despite the fact that we all have a life spark within us that is a piece of the Creator and keeps us always connected, we became immersed in sensory perceptions and consequently our awareness went through another separation, this time from our life spark....Within each of us is a life spark of pure unconditional love. Without this life spark we would cease to exist. This life spark keeps us alive despite the fact that we remain mostly unaware of it. It is all our thoughts and feelings of separation that keep us oblivious to that life spark of unconditional love within each of us; that piece of our Creator inside us....We create through the marriage of thought and unconditional love. There is an unlimited supply of unconditional love available to us through our life spark. Like our Creator, we, too, can give life to our thoughts. But since we live separately from and unaware of our life spark we instead create our reality from the combination of emotions and thoughts of separation....In order to create like our Creator creates we must break down our illusions of separation and love ourselves into existence by touching and embracing our life spark. That is when love and life become unconditional for us and we can start putting unconditional love behind all of our thoughts and start creating like the self-aware, individuated, and divine Creators that we were meant to become."

Here are a few poems of mine that echo all this:

https://marcus17043.medium.com/of-connection-to-nature-cd5f0907b32a

https://medium.com/illumination/the-presence-of-god-328581f65545

https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/how-do-you-define-god-9898492eae9