Counting the Cost

by Jill Duggar

I’m not saying your work here isn’t great, but we are reaching more people through the show than you are here on the mission field.” The sting was sharp.

It seemed to me that he was realizing that he was losing control of me.

Fear and guilt. Guilt and fear. At times it was almost hard to breathe.

It seemed Pops wasn’t being generous when we thought he was being generous in the past. He was showing us Proverbs 23:1–8 in action.

IBLP had put a lot more energy into teaching me to fear the world beyond its doors than it had put into teaching me to trust God and discern for myself how to reach a good and wise decision on any given issue.

Back when there were just eight of us kids, and to me our little garden felt like Eden. But like that first paradise, sin got in. Evil had spread. The innocence was broken.