"I could see the stress having a real wear on his health. Six months before he passed away, I said to him, “If you don’t slow down, I sense that you won’t be here next year.” He prayed about it and said to me, “I don’t sense the Lord telling me to change anything.” And I wept. I just wept."

Today I talk to a woman who shares her incredible and heart-wrenching story about ministry abuse, losing her husband to a massive and sudden heart attack, and how, by God's grace, she managed to overcome all these hardships and move back to the Middle East as a widow at age 61. 

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Timeline 

• 00:00 Intro 
• 01:15 Called to Missions at age 8 
• 04:00 Moving to the Middle East 
• 06:30 Choosing boarding school 
• 09:00 Overworked  
• 12:00 The heart attack 
• 15:00 Finding support after widowhood 
• 20:00 Going back to work 
• 22:30 What did recovery look like? 
• 30:00 Setting boundaries 
• 32:30 Moving back to the Middle East at 61 years old 
• 36:20 Finding your place in missions as a widow