On suffering, bread and prayer in Ukraine

"I can share with you what I got"

The latest in a series of quotes from an interview with a woman in Kyiv.

“The other day, my husband was out, and he met our neighbor, who was coming from the grocery store. And he said, ‘Oh I just got some bread.’

“But of course it was all gone from the store within minutes. And he asked my husband if we had bread. And my husband said well, we don’t. We ran out. And he says, well, I can share. I can share with you what I got. So people are caring about each other. And this helps.

“And also one other thing. I was talking to some of my friends, Christians and students of our seminary. I was assuring them that there are a lot of Christians in the United States and Canada who are praying for them. And everyone is responding, that we really feel those prayers. We do feel it.

“It’s something you cannot explain. Even though the situation is so crazy, you don’t know what will happen tomorrow. But you feel this protection — this invisible protection over you. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s also the testimony of some of the soldiers. So many are already testifying I should have been killed in this situation, but somehow I was spared.”