Cast Away: When God Feels Silent (Psalm 22:1-2)

Chuck Noland spends four years alone on an island, his only companion a volleyball named Wilson. He cries out to no one. He nearly takes his own life. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me?" The psalmist knew what Chuck knew: sometimes the heavens are brass. Sometimes you talk to a volleyball because no one else answers. Yet Chuck survives. He builds a raft. He returns. The silence wasn't God's absence; it was the space where Chuck had to choose whether to keep breathing. Sometimes faith is just not quitting.