And I have no excuses for this. I started this podcast to break the boundaries of hidden trauma, to shackle chains of emotional torture, to truly speak my mind free through Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. And to lead others in a space where we are unashamed to preach the gospel freely and to live in our lives completely sold out to Christ. Trust me, I am not perfect. We all fall in hard times and can get distracted from the calling that God has in our lives. But that is not an excuse to just give it all up. Broken minds podcast is a space for the broken to finally come to terms with the fact that they are actually broken. For according to Psalms 34:18, it says, The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and save such as have a contrite spirit.

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Proverbs 15, verse 1. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. A soft answer, she would often say to calm our nerves as kids, to turn heated arguments into petty happenstances. And she was right, a soft answer is all it truly took. God, whatever happened to my delusional state, all you had to do was let us live forever. Let paradise be my fantasy, and death never ruining our lasting smile. Let us live forever. God, I faced so much pain. For years I could cope, but many times I wished it were me. And few times I wanted it to be me. She wasn't supposed to die like that. Not before I got married. Maybe had a few children, and it kills me. She will never see that side of me.

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I give all glory to God for bringing me out in absolute mental chaos. Many nights I have cried, and many hours I've dreamed of leaving this life. Although God has preserved me through it all.

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I had to fight all my life to fulfill a plan of God that I never even knew existed. But God, you were orchestrating the whole thing. And I played right into your hand. I now know that a broken mind has more stories than just my own. How the very same trauma also took those around me on other paths and stories, not even I am aware of till this day. Broken mind is a harsh title to hold. Although we all have one.