When Church & Religion isn't enough

About Us - Raw Intimacy

I was an adventure-seeking college student when I first got consumed by the hectic pace of modern life. The pressure of running my own business while going to college full-time became so stressful and unrelenting that I felt that I was going to break. In my attempt to manage the endless waves of busyness, I pushed my family, friends and love ones away. Eventually I turned all that frustration inward and entered a long season of depression. The reality was that despite my accomplishments, I constantly felt empty inside. I was questioning everything in my life, but more than anything else I was asking the deeper spiritual questions.

Is this it? or is there more to life? Do I need a lifestyle change? ...Is God real?

At this time in my life, church was not a real place to me. Churches felt like a place where people go to mindlessly follow spiritual traditions and rituals. It was at this crossroad of faith that I became aware of my need for spiritual direction and answers to the questions that were heaviest on my heart.

Be honest with me, have you every felt as if there had to be more to life, church, and God than what you were experiencing? If you answered yes, then you understand where I was when I began asking these soul deep questions. If there is a God, why do I feel so disconnected from Him? If church is more than spiritual traditions and rituals, why did I feel so fake singing the songs and enduring the sermons? If my spiritual life is void of true peace, joy, purpose and love, then where could I go to feed my hungry soul? You see real questions need real answers and real people.