Phrasing for dvar Torah

I’m giving a dvar Torah at my synagogue this Shabbat, and I’m struggling to iron out the phrasing for one bit.

In the dvar I mention my religious background (I promise it’s relevant to the parshat!). I was raised without religion, and was agnostic-bordering-on-atheist until a particular experience in my mid-20s. I originally wrote “at the time I hadn’t found any evidence for God or had any kind of religious experience”.

I intended “religious experience” to mean a personally spiritually-meaningful moment, like hearing God speak to me, witnessing a miracle, feeling the divine oneness of the universe reverberate through my soul, etc – trying to convey that I was open to subjective “evidence” of God, not just hard evidence, but had found neither up to that point. However, in reading my dvar to my partner, he thought it brought to mind mundane religious experience in the sense of having gone to religious services, said blessings before meals, and things of that sort – like I was saying I didn’t believe in God at that time because I’d never been taught to say the Sh’ma at bedtime or something. He suggested replacing “religious experience” with “personal revelation”, but now I’m worried that might be an overly Christian phrase since I’ve never heard Jewish people use it to describe experiences of the Divine.

I’m sure I’m overthinking it to death, I’m just nervous because I’ve never given a dvar before. How would you phrase the sentiment?