Jul 19, 2005 / 22:00 pm
For San Francisco publisher Denise Carrigg, every day is an opportunity to grow deeper into the mystery of God. But it wasn’t always this way. She shared her story of faith and conversion with the San Francisco Gate recently.
Carrigg grew up in a strict Catholic home — her family even lived in Fatima to be close to the Marian pilgrimage site for three years — but she became an atheist in college.
“I became convinced that God wasn't real,” she told the newspaper. Still, she remained interested in the great existential questions about the meaning of life.
But things changed when she was 21. She said she had a conversion based on a mystical experience in Paris that made her realize that God actually existed. It was during a period that she describes as her “deepest existential loneliness,” that she felt God had reached out to her personally.