Through Every Fire
Stories of Faith and Resilience
I don't speak as someone who watched the fire from a distance. I speak as someone who walked out of it.
Three times I should not have survived. A gas well fire in 1986. A stroke in 2012. An aortic dissection in 2023 that doctors said was unsurvivable. I write and speak about what I learned on the way back.
This Was Not My Plan. I Keep Coming Back Anyway.
In 1986 I walked into a gas well fire in northern Alberta. Burns covered over eighty percent of my body. In 2012 a stroke took my words and my balance. In 2023 an aortic dissection, undiagnosed for over a hundred hours, should have killed me. In between, a seven-year business collapse took everything financial. Through all of it, the same woman beside me. Still here. Still married. Thirty-five years.
In my late sixties. Training four to five days a week. Still in the fight.
I write and speak about what actually works when everything falls apart, not theory, not motivation, but hard-won wisdom from inside the fire. For the person who needs to get back up. For the marriage that is under pressure. For the faith that is being tested past the comfortable limit.
Books by David Miller
Speaking
David speaks from inside the fire, not outside it.
Before the Fire Comes: Building a faith that holds when everything falls apart. The question is never whether the fire will come. It's whether the foundation beneath you was built before it arrived.
When Nothing Moves: Holding on to God when He seems silent. The hardest season of faith is not the crisis. It's the long middle where you have prayed, believed, and done everything right, and nothing has changed.
Nothing Is Wasted: How God redeems every season of suffering for a purpose larger than you. No suffering is accidental, no season is wasted, and the God who met me in the fire will meet you there too.
Marriage Through the Fire: How a covenant survives what most marriages do not. What thirty-five years through burns, stroke, aortic dissection, and financial ruin teaches you about staying.
Getting Back Up: What the comeback actually requires. The crisis is not the hardest part. The hardest part is what comes after, when you are left standing in the wreckage trying to figure out how to move forward.
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— David Miller