David Miller Christian author

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. My faith is not a tidy thing — it has been tested in burn units, stroke wards, and the grinding silence of a failing business. It did not come out of those seasons prettier or simpler. It came out deeper, more honest, and more anchored than it has ever been.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta with my wife Leanne. We have been married thirty-five years. She is a nurse, a woman of deep faith, and one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known. We have three children and a grandchild.

I write and speak for the person who is on the ground right now and needs to know it is possible to get back up. For the man whose marriage is in the fire. For anyone who needs to hear it from someone who has actually been there.

Because it is possible. I am the evidence.

I did not set out to become an expert in resilience. Nobody does. You become one the only way it is possible — by going through things that require it.

In 1986 I walked into a job site in the forests of northern Alberta and into a gas well fire. Burns covered over eighty percent of my body. I spent months in a burn unit learning what the human will to survive actually feels like when it is tested past every comfortable limit.

In 2012 a stroke hit me without warning. I woke up unable to complete sentences, unable to trust my own body, rebuilding my mind from the ground up.

In August 2023 I collapsed on a beach in the Okanagan with an aortic dissection — a tear in the main artery of the heart. The kind that kills most people within hours. I was undiagnosed for over a hundred hours. I should not have survived.

I did survive. And in between those three near-fatal events I lived through a seven-year business collapse that took everything financial — and the long, brutal work of rebuilding from nothing.

I am in my late sixties. I train four to five days a week. I am still here.

Why I Write and Speak

I write and speak for the person who is on the ground right now and needs to know it is possible to get back up.
For the man whose marriage is in the fire.
For the person whose body or business or confidence has been stripped away.
For anyone who needs to hear it from someone who has actually been there.
Not theory. Not motivation. Hard-won truth from inside four decades of real crisis and real recovery.
Because it is possible.
I am the evidence.