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Episode 04 | What Informs My Life: God, Grief, and the Faith I Didn't Want to Talk About

I've avoided this topic like wet socks for years—long before this podcast existed.

What informs my life?

What informs the foundation of everything I create and share here?

I have to go back.

A grade-A drinking problem, multiple DUIs, a suicide attempt in 1994, and then July 31st, 1999, when I found my infant son Malachi dead.

I tried to bargain with a God I didn't believe in—take my life, give him his. That didn't happen.

Years later, sent to a Christian rehab in Houston, standing in a hallway away from the chanting and the raised hands, I dropped to my knees and heard something plain and…

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