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

When Your Love Goes Unanswered

A bull elephant lives apart from his herd, yet his low call still carries for kilometres. For anyone whose messages go unanswered, God's own words in Isaiah 65:1 keep company in the silence.

What Colour Is a Shadow?

Monet painted his shadows blue and violet because the sky still lights the shade. The writer of Lamentations found God's love holding him in the ruins of Jerusalem. Your grey season may hold colour you cannot see yet.

When Only One of You Keeps the Vow

The divorce is final, but you still say "my wife" and keep the promise you made. Your friends call it denial. Psalm 15:4 calls it integrity, and God sees what that faithfulness costs you every morning.

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.

When You Are Angry at God

You probably will not say it out loud. You may not have said it to yourself yet. You have only felt it. Anger. At God. And you were raised, somewhere along the way, to believe this is the one emotion Christians are not allowed to have.

What You Sow While Weeping

The psalm does not say heal first, then serve. It says sow while weeping, out to the field with wet eyes, into ground you cannot see producing anything. A reflection on Psalm 126 for the person doing faithful work in the middle of grief, before any harvest shows.
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.