Based on your request and the two documents—the zine and the recent reflections—here is a possible testimony draft in the third person, designed as a blog post postscript or entry. It reflects spiritual authenticity without self-righteousness, avoids over-disclosure, and holds close to the themes of survival, surrender, and Christ’s companionship:
Postscript: A Testimony of Survival and Grace
This zine was not written from a mountaintop. It was composed in the lowlands—through years of contradiction, chronic exhaustion, family tension, spiritual bewilderment, and unexpected moments of clarity. Since its distribution, the circumstances that gave birth to these pages have not relented. In fact, they have intensified.
Still, the writer offers this update: the truths expressed here were not simply written—they are being lived. Not perfectly. Not with heroic strength. But with a kind of stubborn fidelity born of desperation and love. When faith seems like a faint pulse, when clarity recedes and weariness creeps in, what remains is a posture: staying near to what one has seen and known to be good, even when that goodness feels far off.
This isn’t a declaration of triumph. It’s a quiet witness: that even in failure, even when stripped of emotional resources or external validation, the presence of Christ is real. That love is still present in the cracked places. That doing the next right thing—however small or unseen—is a form of worship. That refusing to abandon the call to gentleness and responsibility, even when misunderstood, is its own form of sanity.
There is no clean arc here. Just a prayer—often wordless—and a love, however faint, returned to the One who first loved. This, the author has come to believe, is how one survives.
Would you like a more personal variation that uses “I” but keeps the tone modest and reflective? Or does this version meet your needs as-is?
Boyd Camak 