Twenty years away, and He found me in a hospital hallway

Tom B. · July 22, 2026


I stopped going to church at nineteen. I had reasons, and most of them were good ones at the time.

Two decades later I was sitting in a hospital hallway at 3am, and a chaplain sat down next to me and said nothing for twenty minutes. That silence undid me.

1 replies

  • Grace L. · July 23, 2026

    Thank you for writing this out. The part about the silence — yes.

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