All my life I’d been taught that suffering was good. For anyone doing the Lord’s work, pain was to be accepted, even embraced. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous,” I was told often by my parents, quoting Psalms 34:19. “But the LORD delivereth him out of them all.” And I believed them. When people criticized us in the press, it was a sign the ministry was working. When filming was hard and demanding, it was a privilege to serve the Lord. Even when it felt like the whole world was peering at us through paparazzi lenses, there was a voice inside me saying, Tough it out, Jill, this is what
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