Hurt is a powerful, degrading, humiliating form of abuse, especially when the people we love and trust the most cause the hurt. We have covered our hurt since the fall of Adam and Eve. God created man to live inside the Garden of Eden eternally in perfect harmony, without hurt or pain. However, hurt has existed from the moment Adam took the fork in the road and was kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

The result of inner hurt is a devastating form of abuse because others cannot see it, unlike how we can see a bruised cheek. Nevertheless, abuse affects us spiritually, mentally, and physically. Eventually, it destroys us if it is not stopped. It can bring physical, everlasting pain to the body in the form of diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney problems, AIDS, and other diseases.

God’s grace allowed me to write No More Pain based on my personal experiences and others, and to produce the play The Will To Survive: I’ve Got It, a gospel musical drama based on the book.

My hope is to help someone identify and expose abuse; to provide solutions to heal that are inside; to bring the hurts outside and heal the body inside.