Coming Up from the Water
In 2019, a retired Marine named David Cade walked into a small church in Clarksville, Tennessee, carrying thirty years of silence. He had never told...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 1:4-11.
In 2019, a retired Marine named David Cade walked into a small church in Clarksville, Tennessee, carrying thirty years of silence. He had never told anyone what haunted him from his deployments — not his wife, not his grown children, not the VA counselor he saw twice and never returned to. He believed he was disqualified from God's love. Too much blood on his hands.…
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