Some broke and bled.
I broke and wrote.
Now Christ holds the pen.
Words for the places we don’t talk about. Essays on faith, healing, and the slow work of being remade.
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From David’s desk
We were taught to think our way to God. To reason through the pain. But feelings don’t respond to arguments — and the part of you that needs healing isn’t the part that reads commentaries.
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The enemy attacks the fire, the mind, and the reason.
The Church must answer on all three.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith.
It is what happens when faith takes itself seriously.
Shallow thinking is a spiritual crisis
dressed in confident language.
Some people defend their captors.
They mistake bondage for belonging.
Pain is not the enemy.
It is the signal. What suffering is trying to tell you.
The church's silence and shame didn't stop the movement.
They fueled it.
Generational rest debt is real.
You're tired in ways sleep can't fix.
God can use broken things.
He does it all the time.
But he doesn't want you to stay broken.
The exhaustion of spiritual theater.
The relief of praying nothing at all.
Long before scientists tracked synaptic changes,
Scripture declared: be transformed.
When God gives you truth but not reach.
What to do with a word no one will hear.
Unforgiveness isn't just spiritual rebellion.
It's a neural prison.
The Christian healing journey spirals before it rises. Going back to old wounds isn't failure — it's the work going deeper.
ReadHow to hold faith and wounds from the church in the same hands — without losing either one.
ReadWhat happens when the primary image you have of fatherhood is absence — and the Gospel asks you to call God "Father."
ReadThe Psalms didn't sanitize grief — they gave it a voice. What the church lost when it stopped lamenting, and how to recover it.
ReadInside the church, "just pray harder" has silenced too many people who needed real help. The cost of that silence is generational.
ReadIn a culture that equates exhaustion with faithfulness, Sabbath is not just a command — it is a countercultural act of trust.
ReadTriggers are not proof of failed healing. They are the body's memory — and they hold the map to what still needs attention.
ReadShame isn't just an emotion — it's a full-body neurological event. Here's what Scripture and science say about how to get free.
ReadOur earliest bonds shape the lens through which we receive love — including divine love. Here's how to heal what blocks the receiving.
ReadBetween survival, migration, and a culture that equated stoicism with strength — here's what was lost, and how to grieve it without losing them.
ReadComparison is not just envy — it's a theological error. Here's the identity framework that dismantles it from the roots.
ReadFor people raised in cultures where saying no was disloyalty, limits feel like abandonment. Here's the theology of healthy limits.
ReadFirst-generation success carries a grief no one warns you about. Here's what it costs to climb when the ladder wasn't built for you.
ReadThe theology you inherited and the wounds you carry are not separate. Here's how to untangle them without losing either your faith or your sanity.
ReadWhat to do when your therapist says one thing and your theology says another — and why most conflicts between faith and psychology are not what they appear.
ReadMost spiritual warfare isn't fought against external darkness. It's fought against the lies you've believed about yourself for decades.
ReadThe Instagram version of holiness doesn't survive contact with real life. Here's what becoming more like Christ actually looks like in the mess.
ReadWaiting is not empty time. It is the season in which God does the work we cannot see — and the thing most likely to break us if we misread it.
ReadTrauma doesn't just live in memory — it lives in the body. What somatic science and Scripture say about releasing what the flesh still carries.
ReadThe Holy Spirit convicts. The enemy accuses. Learning to tell the difference is one of the most important skills in the spiritual life.
ReadThe Black church has given generations a place to survive. Now it must become a place where they can also heal.
ReadTears are not weakness. In Scripture, they are language — the vocabulary of a heart too full for words. Why God receives them as prayer.
ReadIn many African homes and churches, falling apart is not permitted. Here's what that cost us — and what healing asks us to unlearn.
ReadThe problem isn't your faith. It's the version of forgiveness you were handed — the one that skips past grief and calls it obedience.
ReadWhile you were learning to survive, God kept the version of you that was made before the damage. Here's how to meet that child again.
ReadChristian counseling is not prayer with a couch. Here's what it actually is, how it differs from secular therapy, and who it's for.
ReadWhen the church performs hope instead of holding pain, it abandons the people who need it most. Scripture models something far more honest.
ReadDissociation cuts you off from your body, your emotions, and often your sense of God's presence. Here's how to find your way back.
ReadBeing known is not the same as being seen. Here's what Psalm 139 means by divine knowledge — and why it's the most terrifying and healing truth in Scripture.
ReadPrayer is powerful. And it can also be a way to feel faithful while avoiding the cost of showing up. Here's what James 2 says about both.
ReadIt's not pride that haunts the gifted — it's blindness. They carry what others beg God for and call it ordinary. On familiarity as the silent assassin of purpose.
ReadI sat with men who move millions and realized they were still guessing. That's when I understood what God had placed inside me — and what He places in you.
ReadWhat's "right" shifts with culture, law, and convenience. Truth doesn't flinch. On the dangerous difference between the two — and why it matters for your faith.
ReadYou didn't craft them. You didn't choose them. They came burning through your bones. And until they're spoken, you know no rest. A letter for the prophetic soul.
ReadWe are rich in revelation but poor in compassion. A plea for emotional intelligence and accountability in African churches — from someone who loves the Church enough to tell the truth.
ReadPain unprocessed becomes a parasite. The victim who never confronts their wound may one day embody the very thing they feared. On the cycle — and the only way out.
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Some broke and bled. I broke and wrote. Now Christ holds the pen.
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