From Doing to Being: Discovering God in the Wilderness
Gregg Burch was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where his early spiritual yearning led him to search for deeper purpose beyond business success. After 25 years working with his brother in the family construction equipment business, Gregg sold the company and followed his calling. He and his wife Genie built an off-grid log home in Colorado, where Gregg discerned his vocation: to bring his leadership experience into service for God’s Kingdom. For more than 25 years, he has coached and mentored pastors and professionals, helping them integrate career, spiritual journey, and family. He now shares his insights through GodsFaintPath.com, drawing on decades of journaling, study of mystics, and formation at the CAC Living School.
I grew up unchurched in the Bible Belt, but I could not see Christ for the Christians. I began a journey through all the world religions in my early 20’s and was particularly struck by Carlos Castenada’s work The Teachings of Don Juan. The old shaman said, “The only path worth following is the path with a heart. It is the one that allows you to live the warrior life. All others will lead to suffering and emptiness.”
I have been seeking and walking the path with a heart ever since. I was baptized at age 28 and have pursued a deeper journey into my Christian Faith since then. My journey has taken me from the boardrooms of business leadership into the quiet places of prayer, silence, and surrender. For many years, I measured my life by the usual standards of success: growth, recognition. Together with my brother, I helped build a thriving family business, and by most accounts, I had “made it.” Yet even in the midst of that achievement, I felt a deeper call stirring within me — a call toward significance, authenticity, and service.
That call grew louder in seasons of hardship. When I faced legal battles, financial strain, and even the failure of projects I had poured myself into, I came face-to-face with my own limits. I learned that control was an illusion, and that trust in God is not optional but essential. In those humbling moments, I discovered that storms are not sent to destroy us but to shape us. Through them, God deepened my roots.
Out of that surrender came a new way of living. I entered the wilderness — both the literal wilderness of Colorado and the spiritual wilderness of contemplative practice. There, in silence and solitude, I began to hear the faint but steady voice of God calling me to be rather than to do, to trust rather than to grasp, to live out of abundance rather than scarcity.
Today, through my writing and reflections at God’s Faint Path, I seek to share that journey with others. My hope is that my story — with its failures as much as its triumphs — can remind others that resilience is a gift born of challenge, that love is the truest measure of a life, and that God is always present, even when unseen.
Gregg’s Journey Illuminated
I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where my spiritual yearning grew as I entered adulthood, haunted by the question: Is this all there is? At 21, I married Genie, then 18, and together we welcomed our children, Florrie and Andy, completing our family.
For 25 years I worked with my brother Travis in the family business, selling, renting, and repairing heavy construction equipment. Despite our success, I felt unsettled, burdened by the belief that I was never good enough. At age 28, after my baptism, I received my first vision: I would build financial security and then step away by midlife to pursue a deeper calling of purpose and peace.
At 48, after selling the business, Genie and I bought land and built an off-grid log home in Colorado. Walking that land, God revealed my calling through an image: a man standing with one foot in the world of secular leadership and the other in God’s Kingdom, holding a conduit to channel wisdom between the two. I discerned that my purpose was to bring the lessons of secular leadership into service for the Kingdom, equipping the next generation of leaders.
For the past 25 years, I have lived into that calling as a coach and mentor, helping pastors and professionals weave together career, spiritual journey, and family life. This has been the most impactful work of my life. After a decade of journaling from the saints and mystics, and completing two years in the CAC Living School, I founded GodsFaintPath.com to share the wisdom I had gathered.
