But last year, when the music stopped coming, Kelly found himself in a crisis that couldn’t be written through. I didn’t know what to write about, and I’d never felt that before.”It wasn’t another relapse or some dramatic rock-bottom. “If God is real, if there’s a Creator, then I believe human beings have a birthright to know,” he prayed. I had this out-of-body knowing that God was real, that there was someone to thank.”The revelation didn’t come with a neat theological bow. Gratitude and joy give us the strength to face it.”For Kelly, faith has transformed not just how he writes but how he understands himself.