I never talk about this, although I do ask for prayers once in a while.
When my parents were still working and I was still in school, every time we met with missionaries & their kids I felt like they were all the way out in Mars. It seemed like they didn't live life like we did. Sometimes my parents would tell me about very young kids being left at boarding school while their parents were gone out to "field". Those boarding schools were only for these missionary's kids. Obviously the kids there were all so well behaved. However I was never able to imagine myself in their shoes.
Since last summer they left for China to begin their 3 year mission term, I slowly started to realize what I was never able to see, what I had never understood.
Parents & kids of young or old live their lives in faith everyday to be missionary families. They have tasted God's love and truthfulness and they know God is true. God has the power to protect and He is always in control. All these give them the peacefulness in heart knowing God will look after them. However there is still a human side of fear that one day someone in the family might be taken away forever. This fear comes out sometimes late at night, sometimes during a car ride home.
God will never let us carry what is more than we can handle, and this fear is definitely something we can handle. This is the reason why we rarely talk about it, but it's still there, deep down in heart...
PS. Please pray for my parents safety in China
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