Kate McCord discovered that among the women she met in Afghanistan, forgiveness was a foreign concept.

You know, here's the people who have really been traumatized by their experiences,

of war, of being married to men who have abused them, and there's no expectation of forgiveness for their own sins,

for the things that they've done, and there's

no understanding or very little understanding of what it means to forgive someone else. So they're

carrying the burdens of the things that have been done to them. This is the Revive Our Hearts

podcast for Wednesday, August 19, 2015.

Well, we've been having such a great conversation with Kate McCord.

That's not her real name, but that's the pseudonym she's used for the book she's written called In the Land of Blue

Burkas. Kate has been a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan for a number of years. Kate, thank you

for just opening our eyes and our understanding to know more about these Muslim women, particularly

the ones in Afghanistan. This is fascinating to me, and I know is giving

me more of a heart and a burden for women who were heretofore unknown to me. So thank you for

being with us here on Revive Our Hearts. Oh, it's a pleasure, Nancy. Thanks so much. I'm enjoying our

conversation. And we're having conversation in between recording each

of these programs, and we keep saying, well, we want to talk about this. We want to talk about

this. And on the last program, we talked about the role of women in marriage and being one of

multiple wives, the whole issue of domestic violence. And after we finished recording that last

conversation, you said, oh, there was there

something else I wanted to say in relation to marriage and God's perspective on marriage as you

found yourself sharing it with the Afghan women. Jump in with that thought now, if you would.

I remember a young man in Afghanistan who was coming up to his wedding, and we had been

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