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Feeling the silence and seeing the brilliant stars in a black sky.... I just see the place as a sort of church.  I'm not one for organized religion but definitely am a believer in a higher power.

I was raised Roman Catholic but like many people, I developed an "issue" with "organized" religion.

I tell people I'm NOT a religious person, but I think I'm a Spiritual one to some degree.

  You get out in the Q or anyplace that for a moment you can escape man's influence and look at the night sky on a clear night and tell yourself there is no order/planning there.

I don't think you can and really believe it.

What it does for me is to remind me just how  small/insignificant man really is in the big scheme of things.

  I also believe that IF you want to talk to "GOD" then NOTHING man-made can rival the splendor and awe as being in one of Nature's Grand Cathedrals to have that "conversation".