Suddenly all these people painted red with no clothes on, pointing the arrow towards me.

Then they grabbed Suzuki and go away with him.

Then the other man came to me, they took my backpack, he starts taking my clothes off.

I was so scared they took everything, even my tennis shoes, my sock. No one ever touched me,

but they disappeared with everything and with my husband.

Welcome everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic week. This week,

you know, some people's stories you can relate to a bit. Some people

you can't relate to at all. This is such a crazy story. I read a book about Marcia Suzuki a few

years ago, written by or co-written with a dear friend Jemima Wright, who's actually going to come on

the podcast in the next month or two. And it's called A Way Beyond Death, a Brazilian

couples fight against fear, suffering, and infanticide. And it's a mind-blowing re which will flag

up, I'll put in the show notes. But if you're new to inspired, it's all about meeting friends

of mine from different walks of life. And it involves overcoming the sucker punches of life, it involves digging deep, it involves seeing Jesus do beautiful things that you couldn't possibly imagine. And so you're going to get that from Marcia. I'm really excited. Welcome Marcia. Hi Simon, thank you very much for having me. Brilliant to have you. So you've said that, you know, it's not your first language, but I'm very confident you're going to be fine marcia's Brazilian I'm talking to her right now she's in

LA me. Brilliant to have you. So you've said, you know, it's not your first language, but I'm very confident you're going to be fine. Marcia's Brazilian. I'm talking to her right now. She's in L.A. So let's just kick off with your childhood. You're born in Rio. Was it a normal family life? Yes, I was born in a suburb in Rio. And yes, it was a normal life. I came from a middle-class family. My father was a lawyer. My mother stayed at home to take care of us.

So then what was your journey to meeting Jesus?

Well, I grew up in a family that was not religious. They were not church people, but they did believe in God.

But since I was very, very young, I had that thirst for God in my heart.

I was so curious about everything that has to do with spiritual life.

So when I was around six, I went to a church.

And when I heard, you know, the teacher was a Sunday school.

And when I heard the teacher, you know, talking about Jesus and Jesus would come back and, you know, take us to heaven.

I don't remember exactly what it was, but I was so touched and I wanted to follow Jesus.

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