16/03/2026
This wasn’t something that happened overnight… over years, I found myself wrestling with things I never expected to question.
For most of my life I believed that doubt was something you were supposed to keep quiet. That questioning meant something was wrong with your faith. That anger, confusion, or frustration with what you see around you in religion was something you should quickly push aside...
But life has a way of forcing you to look at things more honestly...
There were seasons where I questioned almost everything I had been taught ... weeks and months of silence... Moments of anger... Times where I pulled apart ideas I had accepted for years without ever examining them for myself...
Not because I wanted to destroy anything... but because something inside me needed to know what was real.
And somewhere in that process I realised something important: questioning isn’t the enemy of faith ... sometimes it’s the beginning of a deeper understanding...
When you strip away performance, tradition, cultural expectations, and the ways we as humans sometimes reshape our idea of God through our own fears, pride, or upbringing, you end up standing in a much quieter place...
A place where belief is no longer something you simply inherited...
It becomes something you’ve wrestled with ... thought about ... and slowly rebuilt from the ground up...
That process changes how you see the world ... It changes how you see people. It changes how you think about love ... power ...humility ...and the ways belief can sometimes be used to elevate some while quietly silencing others...
I wouldn’t have chosen the experiences that forced me into that kind of reflection... but I am grateful for what the process itself has given me: the freedom to ask honest questions ... the courage to think deeply ... and a faith that no longer depends on someone else’s understanding of God...
Because sometimes the most sincere faith is not the one that never questions... it's the one that has wrestled with the questions… and stayed.
Blessings beautiful people.
Ax