Finding God
When Your Story Breaks

A space for those living with grief, doubt, church wounds, and the slow work of holding on.

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Selected Reading

The Caption They Write Under You

You stop coming, and someone writes drifting. Psalm 71 gives words to being read wrongly while you are struggling, and points to the one verdict about your belonging that no neighbour has the authority to rewrite.

The One Who Let Go First

Solomon called for a sword, and one woman let go. For the alienated parent who stopped pulling, not from surrender but for the sake of the children, the ruling that matters is not about custody. It is about who you are.

The Shield He Stitches

A heart with nothing over it will harden itself to survive. The Lord works slowly instead, stitch by stitch, laying the hardness on the outside, so that the heart underneath stays soft enough to feel what a weary person feels.

The Mirror That Cannot Wound You

The lonely and the grieving are talking to a chatbot. It cannot interrupt. It cannot wound you. And that is the thing we have to look at honestly — because a relationship that cannot wound you is, in the same motion, a relationship that cannot love you.

The Hope That Sings Before You Believe It

A song of promise sung by people whose lives had not changed in months. Israel walked into the sea still complaining, and the water held anyway. On the hope that speaks before you can feel it.

The Quiet Pentecost

Pentecost is famous for the loud miracle of tongues. There is a second language miracle of the same Spirit. He intercedes through wordless groans. The sigh is the prayer. You do not have to speak fluently to be heard.
A watercolor painting of a small wooden raft floating on a dark, choppy sea at night, with a single lit lantern casting a warm glow on the water and a dark, vertical structure to the left.

What the Church needs to know about Mental Health

Someone in your congregation is carrying something they have never told anyone. This series takes one condition at a time, naming what it actually is, where the church gets it wrong, and what Scripture honestly gives us, so the people in the same seat each week can finally tell the truth and still belong.  

Part 1 - Depression
Part 2 - Anxiety
Part 3 - Bipolar Disorder
Part 4 - Schizophrenia
Part 5 - OCD
Part 6 - PTSD
Part 7 - Psychosis

A slow walk through Psalm 88

Psalm 88 is the only psalm in the Psalter that does not turn. It begins in the dark and stays there. No yet, no but, no light at the end. Over the next four reflections, we walk slowly through it — what it means that the canon contains a prayer with no resolution, and what it gives the believer who is also without one.

Part 1 - Darkness is my closest Friend
Part 2 - The Psalm that does not Resolve
Part 3 - The Anger that keeps Praying
Part 4 - When the Community Steps Back

The scar tissue is not the wound.
It is the evidence that the wound was survived.

The Book

Wounded Hope: Finding God when your Story Breaks is written for the believer who has done everything right and still found themselves in the wreckage of a story that did not hold. It is not a recovery program.

It is not a roadmap back to the faith you had before. It is a companion for the long road — honest about the wound, serious about grace, and written for the person who is still in the middle of it.

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A book cover titled "Wounded Hope: Finding God When Your Story Breaks" by David Mercer, featuring a watercolor illustration of two cupped, scarred hands being held by another pair of hands against a light, neutral background.