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putting the mask back on and trying to cover it, you’ve already seen
“
the whole show. You’ve seen it. So, it’s like God showing, God exposing
people to themselves.” “being surrendered takes
Dave chips in concerning some of the challenges he’s faced at work, out all the anxiety. We
“Sharon reminds me that I’m not there for them. And they’re not the ones
that placed me there. God has placed me there. So I walk in with a smile just have this daily joy of
and I say you know good morning and go about my business and they knowing that no matter
can do what they want. They can talk about me or be unfriendly or not what we’re going through,
talk to me. Several people don’t talk to me, they just don’t and I’m not God is with us. Even if
worried about it.” it is the fire, even if it is
We asked Dave to share a very intimate part of his story, his own
personal battle with depression. He had this to say, “Sharon has just the valley, it’s going to be
been such a key instrument in my restoration. …when I had met you okay. We’ll have victory in
guys in 2017 (referring to my husband Samuel and I), I was in such a whatever presents itself.”
deep dark place of depression and oppression and pain, a lot of pain
from my previous marriageand still living in that pain and I was on three he had experienced something
medications, two specifically for depression.” He goes on to share with called brain zaps, which are a
us that one afternoon, the same sister that he had come to Mombasa to feeling like an electrical shock.

David says, “Oh it was horrible. It
was really really uncomfortable
and disconcerting coz we’re like
what was going on? And Sharon’s
influence and her listening to God
and saying …you’re no longer
taking this medication, you don’t
need it. You don’t need it so stop
taking it.”
Sharon says, “Medication isn’t
supposed to do that to you.”
Having taken note of the growing
cases of depression globally and
their impact on young and old, rich
support with the project came to see him along with two other sisters and poor alike, we asked David
and they asked him about three or four times how he was. Eventually what he thought the cause and
he said, “I’m not well.”He adds, “So they prayed over me and we had a cure are.
time of fellowship and it took some time but they declared over me that “It’s trauma, in most people’s cases,
my mind was healed and that healing had started taking place that day it’s trauma. I think today, more
and that was just that kind of that brew that God had going, that He was than ever, a significant catalyst
preparing me for Sharon and preparing us for our lives together.” One or significant seed in depression
of the sisters asked him specifically, “Do you know what David means? is people’s expectations for
Do you know your name?” She said, “You are Beloved!” Fulfilling a word themselves and the way they
given to him by a pastor a few weeks prior, who had said to him “Within compare themselves to others
two or three weeks you’re going to understand what it (David) means.” and it’s social media that fuels
“So I have that plaque up there from that wood carver down in Mtwapa that fire of ‘I must be this person I
that says Daudi, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.So the Fearfully and must look this way I must have my
Wonderfully Made theme was the healing part of my brain and my selfie with the Eiffel tower behind
depression and so on. But Sharon has been so instrumental in my me.’
recovery… her encouragement was what helped me follow through with But it’s this thing it’s almost like
the titration of that medication, coming all the way off of it. I came off it the souls… well they’re lost. And
but suffered some pretty heavy physical side effects.” we’re holistic beings, what we do
David and Sharon shared that as he was coming off the medication, in the physical manifests in the
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