Finding God in the Silence
The outback doesn't have church bells or Sunday sermons. But sometimes, faith is louder in the quiet.
I stopped going to church years ago. Not because I stopped believing-just because the routine felt hollow. Stand up, sit down, repeat the words everyone's repeated for centuries.
Out here, under a sky so dark you can see the Milky Way like a river of light, God feels less like a concept and more like a conversation.
The Big Questions
Why am I here? What am I searching for? What happens when I find it-or don't?
These aren't Sunday school questions. They're the kind that wake you up at 3 AM when you're camping alone under the stars, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest person.
And honestly? I don't have clean answers.
Faith Without Walls
I think we've made faith too complicated. We've built systems, hierarchies, rules about who's in and who's out. Meanwhile, God is sitting out here in the dust, waiting for us to just... be.
No performance. No pretending. Just honesty.
What I'm Learning
Faith isn't about having all the answers. It's about being okay with the questions.
And out here, in the dirt and dust of the Australian outback, I'm finally learning to sit with them.