At the pinnacle of a high-powered career, Kate McCord left it all, sold everything, and went to Afghanistan.

I actually went to Afghanistan from the north from Tajikistan, so I came across on a boat,

and across a very muddy river. And on the Tajik side were all these Russian soldiers and it was it was somewhat modern

relatively speaking and then on the Afghan side were men who walked around in clothes that looked like

to me like pajamas I wasn't used to them yet the chalvar comizes with a long shirt and the

baggy pants and they all had sandals and turbans and blankets wrapped around them.

That was a winter coat.

And Kalashnikov's assault rifles that they just kind of swung around from their hands as though they were tonka toys.

Then we got across the river and drove.

We couldn't drive on the road because it was all destroyed.

So we were driving on these donkey paths over the mountains.

It was unbelievably beautiful.

And we would pass through villages and I would see children playing and women would run and hide from us in their blue burkas. And counterintuitively in all of that, I thought,

this is where I belong.

Oh, I can't believe I'm here.

Oh, what a privilege.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, August 14th, 2015.

Well, I am very, very thankful to have with us in the studio today a new friend who has written a book that I really want our listeners to pick up and read and to be impacted by, as I have been.

The name of the book is In the Land of Blue Burkas, and we're going to talk about what that title means,

and the author is Kate McCord, who's with me here in the studio.

Kate, thank you so much for joining us here on Revive Our Hearts.

Really so glad to have you here today.

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