I Don't Know Who I Am Anymore

<p>Wesley Aames came to New Covenant to heal other people. Instead he is shot in his own sanctuary left with a ruined arm a broken parish and a town that wants answers. A young man's suicide causes the pastor's tidy theology to unravel. While he navigates police inquiries parish politics and a funeral for a nameless veteran Wesley must reckon with his past-his failures as a husband a father a would-be savior-and learn to shepherd a messy town that will not be soothed by platitudes. Wesley is forced into a two-front fight-hold the people who still believe in him and stop a legal cascade that could crush lives.</p><p>This is a book about what a church asks of a person-and what a person asks of a church: service confession and the courage to stand where violence and kindness meet. With grace and unflinchingly human detail the novel asks whether a damaged man can lead grace to thrive again or whether mercy itself will be swallowed by headlines.</p><p>This is a portrait of a man who must be both pastor and fighter-healing bruises that won't show up on X-rays while racing to save the living from the dead-weight of grief and judgment.</p>