It arrived on January one. Some one wanted me dead and went into a detailed description on how to accomplish it. I knew the perp because he text the threat. I called the police. I filed papers and faced a trial date to resume the no-contact order. Happy New Year to me! I’m mentioning this experience because it shadowed everything. I never exited my home without checking both ways twice. I developed more security habits. I cried, prayed, and still worried. I left lights on at night. Did I deserve it? Of course no. Have you been threatened? I am a numbers person so I daily calculated the percentage of possibility that he would attack me. I also know his friends and imagined a posse. Every sound in the night made me freeze.
I feel safe now. It’s been a couple of years and the judge did threaten the perp. Just a shout out to my daughter who attended the court appearance and gave the judge a piece of her mind. I love that girl. She is fierce and loyal. This threat made me evaluate my safety network. I shared the threat with my small group and realized I had no phone numbers. My wonderful kids are in other states now. I shared the concern with my closest neighbors and the security system was on-line. I did what I could and prayed when I could not sleep and prayed at other times. It was about money. People do terrible things for money but it was not mine. I was holding funds for a friend and the perp thought he was owed.
Why this comes to mind is I attended Secret Church, a ministry of Radical, last night. We studied the Book of Ruth and prayed for North Korea. These people suffer so much. They are starving and forced to submit to a weekly interview with authorities to make sure they are “loyal” to the crazy dictator. Because Kim Jong Un had a Christian background, his Dad changed the words to Christian songs. Where the songs said God or Jesus, he inserted his name. It is like China editing the ten Commandments. They are killing Christians because only Christians know what they have done. They are the enemies of God and anyone who believes in Jesus. They are starving anyone who will not pledge to Kim Jong Un as their supreme being. These leaders are sick and they live among us. Denying the one true God is dangerous. Living in North Korea is dangerous. My life-threat is nothing compared to a daily realization that if you are truthful about your faith you will go to a death camp. They guesstimate that 70,000 Christians have been imprisoned in camps along with those believers from other religions. These statistics are from non-governmental sources and gathered testimonies from defectors. They are dead men walking with no protection. I had help. They have our prayers.
