Refining fire
Some of the events of the past two weeks have seemed surreal. We have been heartbroken and confused at the treatment of our Kurdish allies. I realize that some people have been surprised by our outspokenness about the current events on social media. Let me share that the people who we have been ministering to for the past three and a half years are also friends with us online. If we are silent as their families face this, what does that say to them? We do not want to add to the division already in existence in America, but we feel we must be a voice for them (as many fear voicing their fears could jeopardize future citizenship). We have told them again and again that God loves them, and we love them. Those are not just empty words. We truly do love them and our hearts ache for and with them. What then does love look like when things become difficult? How can that love be clear when we are now an ocean apart? Later...