What if the problem isn’t that God is far away—but that we’ve gotten really bad at noticing Him right in front of us?

We start this episode in a cave. Literally. Laura tells the story of being deep underground in total darkness, where losing light, sound, and any sense of direction made reality surprisingly hard to trust. This leads us to a conversation about what happens when faith feels like this groping in the darkness.

We talk about what happens when Christianity is merely “something we know” instead of the reality we actually live in—and how noise, busyness, endless input, and even our own moments of darkness can make the world feel much smaller than it really is.

Along the way: Cave of the Winds, doom scrolling, Interstellar, a teenage encounter with the communion of saints, an unexpected experience at the foot of the Cross during Mass, and a child who wishes he could travel back 2,000 years to meet Jesus.

But what if we don’t need to go back?

What if Christ is not simply someone who lived long ago, but Someone alive and available to us now—in the liturgy, creation, friendship, love, suffering, and the ordinary physical world we move through every day?

Maybe recovering the deep life begins by learning to see what is already here.

Where the Church’s story becomes our story.