"And I'm going to keep that celebration going because I know how it's going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done. I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don't expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn't shut me up; they gave me a pulpit! Alive, I'm Christ's messenger; dead, I'm his bounty. Life versus even more life! I can't lose." Philippians 1:20-21 MSG

When Paul wrote this he was in jail for preaching the gospel. We don't have to go to jail to "suffer for Christ". Sometimes our "jail" is something like unforgiveness, pain, or for us...bankruptcy. I decided in the beginning of this not to hide it or try to keep it a secret. I have felt like we are a proverbial billboard for our faith...no matter WHAT is happening, good and bad. "We will not be embarrassed! On the contrary, everything happening to us only serves to make Christ more accurately known." I love that what I felt was the right thing to do is actually backed up in scripture! Thank you Lord for your love letter to us!