By the Grace... He Survived the Fall—and the Fight Within

There are some stories that stick with you—not because they’re loud or dramatic, but because they carry the weight of truth, pain, and purpose. David Pierce’s story is one of those.

Years ago, David fell off a church roof and hit the asphalt below. The impact was devastating. His left femur snapped. His left wrist was crushed. And his head hit the ground so hard, it bounced like a basketball. He doesn’t remember how long he was unconscious—just that when he woke up, doctors were shocked by what they saw… or rather, what they didn’t.

No internal bleeding. No brain bleeds. No injuries that explained how someone could fall from that height and survive the way he did. They kept him in the hospital for six days, running test after test, waiting for something to show up. Nothing did.

And yet, David was still there. Broken, yes—but alive. And walking again, even if it’s with what he calls his “pimp limp.”

He says there's only one explanation: By God’s grace.

But what many don’t know is that the fall wasn’t the only miracle David’s lived through. In fact, the greater ones, he says, happened in silence—behind closed doors, in moments of deep personal pain.

David shared that there were three different times in his life when the weight of what he was going through became too much. He felt like he had hit rock bottom, and in those moments, he made a decision he now sees as a cry from a hurting soul. He attempted to end his life—three separate times, years apart, using three different weapons.

Each time, he pulled the trigger.
Each time, nothing happened. Just a click.
No bang. No shot. Just silence.

And each time, within a day or two, he would take that same weapon outside. Every time he pulled the trigger then—it fired. No malfunction. No misfire. Just a moment that had already passed, untouched by human understanding.

David says those quiet miracles are the greatest he’s ever received.

He doesn’t talk about them often—not out of fear, but out of the weight of what they mean. But today, he shares them because someone else out there might need to hear it. Might need to know that survival is possible. That grace shows up in hospital beds and in split-second decisions. That even in our darkest moments, there is a reason we’re still here.

Today, David is a father. A man who walks through life, not without scars, but with purpose. He’s still here—for his daughters, for his family, for a reason bigger than even he can explain.

And he knows exactly why.

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