The Hem

I was seven years old, hanging onto the edge of a pool on a summer day in the 1980s, when I slipped under the water — and left my body. In this episode, I'm telling the full story for the first time: watching a crowd gather around myself on the ground below, following a presence I couldn't see through a dark tunnel, and emerging onto a shore so vivid that nothing since has come close to matching it.

I'll walk you through what I saw on that beach, the figure whose hand I took, and the choice I was given — stay, or go back to a life I was told would be hard. I'll also share what happened years later, when my father — who never believed me as a kid — finally asked me to tell him the story again, just months before he passed. It's a moment I didn't understand the weight of until much later.

This episode is about what I carried out of that tunnel, how it's shaped every hard season since, and why I finally felt ready to share it out loud.

In this episode we go back to Genesis 3 and sit with the question God asked Adam and Eve after the fall - "Where are you?" That question wasn't confusion. It was an invitation. Today we talk about the ways we hide from God in our shame, our sin, and our regret - and what it looks like to finally come out.

Scripture Referenced:

Genesis 3, James 5:16

Journal Prompt:

God, this is what I've been hiding from You..."Shop: ChristCenteredMinds.com

How God took one of the worst seasons of my life and turned it for good.

My testimony on how God found me at my lowest and delivered me from SI and depression.