Many of the important things in life are not simple. The last category of how God Speaks to us is one of those complicated, nuanced truths that is very important.

1st part, God can, and does, speak to us through our circumstances, or the events in our lives.

2nd part, Not everything that happens to us in our lives is God speaking to us, and if we relate to Him this way, it's going to be hard on us.