My therapist tells me I have that voice so blocked that God could plant a neon blinking sign in my driveway telling me what I need to do and I still wouldn't get the message. So I understand your confusion, escape. What she tells me to do is practice every day, knowing that God wants to help me, wants to talk to me. So I try to set some time aside every day to meditate, to get quiet, slow waaay down, and listen for guidance. Some days I feel nothing, other days I come away with a new insight. I agree with the others: time and prayer. Also messages can come from anywhere, often I'll catch something on the radio or on TV or a billboard or see something on the sidewalk that manages to tell me something I need to know. In prayer and mediatation, take what comes. No one ever said God can't speak to us through our imagination.