Project – Facing Facts
May 20, 2026
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 had died of cancer, and one that stated the truth that he had 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 years later. Thankfully she is healthy, and has a job at a mission school. Her teenage sons are in that school. God has smiled on her and she shows it.
It’s human to try to cover our sins, errors, and just mistakes. Then we needn’t ask for forgiveness or make restitution, but that’s not God’s way.