2 death certificates
April 27, 2021
I met her in Burkina Faso, a beautiful young widow with 3 little boys to raise. Her husband asked his doctor to write two death certificates: one for his wife that stated he died of cancer, and one that stated the truth, that he died of AIDS. ‘Facts are stubborn things,’ stated John Adams. The truth is not always comforting. This widow had a right to the facts as she faced forward. I met her again two years later. Thankfully she is healthy, and has a job at a mission school. Her teen age sons are in that school. God has smiled on her and she shows it.
Its human to try to cover or sins, errors, and just mistakes. Then we needn’t ask forgiveness or make restitution. But that’s not God’s way.