Postscript

…now has a whole new meaning because it has a face. As much as I’ve heard about people suffering for God, today’s experience had a bigger impact on me. We met a couple that has faced some very difficult things. You can read April and Reid’s story on-line. It’s an incredible story.

It had us both thinking about what could lay ahead of us. I’ve really been struck thinking about how God doesn’t always protect us from bad things. He allows them to happen, and he doesn’t promise that life is easier for a Christian. To the contrary, the Bible says to expect suffering. That hasn’t been in my experience, yet. For us, we know that in the place where we plan to live we’ll likely experience theft. We could get mugged, robbed or car jacked. I don’t like thinking about it, but I’m trying to prepare myself as well as I can. Violent crime I’m less worried about because they are not as frequent in the city where we’re planning to live. It’s a majority Christian place, so I’m not worried about violence related to my faith. But, we will both be traveling to other places. What will we be faced with? How will we handle it?

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