In Reply to: Re: "If you're sick, God is judging you!!" posted by Acheick on November 24, 2002 at 21:12:24:
When we left, we moved- and still are in a tiny little town in Europe. You'd never think anything can happen there; however , at the restaurant my hubby was working was an attack and the funds got robbed. He was severely beaten with an iron pan and I am just glad he lives. These guys had guns. I did go through some condemnation, but I am okay now. Another friend, now fm, who let me stay with her for a couple of weeks after leaving Asia said, she was scared for months...amazing what we used to believe. In German you say; Glück im Unglück- which means something like: we were fortunate that things did not turn out worse. And I agree: I could have been a widow. Looking back at the past five years I think that I could have done better, esp. with my kids. But I had some waking up to reality to do myself. I think that sometimes I wasn't much help to them, esp. going on and reading different postings in the chatrooms. They are really helpful as far as seeing what the kids went through. It is shocking at times and I have some explaining to my teen-daughter to do. We left when she was eight and I thought she was relatively okay. But it turns out not quite. Sometimes I get a bit impatient like: "How long is this going to take until we are really normal?" But at the same time lots of good did happen and we are basically okay. Maybe God has mercy on the stupid, ha!