Kate McCord says, around the world, women struggle with misconceptions about God.

In America, this manifests itself in, you know, well, God doesn't love me clearly because

he didn't give me an excellent American life. In Afghanistan, it manifests itself by, well, clearly,

God doesn't love me or see me because I'm a woman,

because I'm in this horrible situation. God is far from me. God doesn't care about me.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, August 18th, 2015.

Thank you for joining us for Reviver Hearts today, and we're picking up in the middle of a fascinating conversation with a new friend, Kate McCord, is the pseudonym, and she's taken that

pseudonym for security reasons and for the

purpose of protecting the relationships that she's developed in the land of Afghanistan.

Her book is called In the Land of Blue Berkas, and of course that being the trademark

uniform of Afghan women. Kate, thank you so much for living this story and then for

sharing it in this fabulous and fascinating book and then for joining us here on Revive Our

Hearts to talk about it. So glad to have you as part of this program. Thanks, Nancy. It's really

fun to be here to talk with you. And you're a consummate storyteller,

which stood you in good stead during your years of living in Afghanistan. And you worked as a

humanitarian aid worker and got to know so many of the people that for us are maybe just a distant,

far away, hidden, silent group of women,

because once they're behind those burkas, they're not, you just don't know who they really are,

but you got behind the burkas, behind the walls, and got to know them as friends.

I did, and it was, in some ways it was really, really difficult,

and in some ways it was such a rich blessing.

I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

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