Distraction and anxiety, sin and fear, spiritual wounds and distrust, are all wrecking people’s relationship with God. The world is in chaos! And so are our souls! People struggle to trust God, to find peace, to connect with others. They need help to feel God’s delight in them and reimagine the way he relates to them!

G.K. Chesterton once said:

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly humanity’s ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this; that by its creed joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special and small.

But is this true!? Does Christianity really satisfy our need to be the ‘right way up’? We must confess that we have thought this to be true about Christianity—that we have wanted it to be true—but we have not often experienced it to be true. 

We believe that Christianity is true, that it has solid answers to our tough questions, but we have sometimes felt that our hard-headed theology didn’t match our everyday experience. We believe truth about God can be known, but sometimes we feel that we do not know God. Sometimes the gap between our belief about God and our experience of him seems too large to bridge.

We believe that many share our struggle. We desire an intimate connection with the living and loving Triune God, but often feel that he is unwilling to be present. Some of us have sensed God’s presence in the past but been so beaten down by life that our connection with him feels tenuous. Others have never felt the presence of God. They may believe that God exists and is loving, but perhaps he does not love them. 

Many of us have rightly sought more connection with God at church. But whether through the church’s fault or our own, many of us did not find God’s presence, only programs. Where we should have found a home, many of us only found a house. 

Others have sought connection with God through greater effort. We poured ourselves into ministry, service, books, social media, or self-improvement. But most of us just got burnt out. 

Then there are those few who gave up hope entirely. We stopped believing we could experience joy as something gigantic and sadness as something small. We stopped hoping for the peace of God’s presence that surpasses understanding. So, we settled for whatever happiness we could dig out of this valley of tears. We turned to carnal pleasures or isolation.

We are the tired mom, the recently divorced, the burnt-out pastor, the student deconstructing their faith. We are the nurse who can’t catch a break, the daughter finding her way, the father whose family is a mess, the hopeful but unsure, and everyone looking for God. We all need to rest and reconnect. 

Signpost Inn is for everyone who needs to understand God and experience the peace of his presence. It’s for everyone who needs to slow down, take a breath, and listen to God’s voice. It’s for everyone who needs a little help on their spiritual journey. 

Signpost Inn is for everyone who desires to connect with God and find direction.