Alex Belle
Oct 285 min read
When Faith Breaks You
I didn’t have a word for it at first. I only had symptoms. the startle when a door shuts too hard; the sermons that still unspool in my head when I make an ordinary choice, the all-encompassing shame that floods over me, the dread that says love is conditional and the world is closing in. Hell, we were supposed to die to self and be brokeb so the Holy Spirit could rebuild us, so I didn't even think that being broken was a sign of anything but the amount of sin I had. After a
