The Gust

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Clara Stone’s childhood was one of loneliness, distance and confusion. The cause of this was the lack of gentle words, a warm embrace and her fear of death. Then she dared to believe in Christ. She embraced His gift, which gave her an ability to see death as an exit into a promised paradise. That same acceptance should have brought joy and freedom to Clara. However, it seemed she hadn’t picked up His total gift. Despite her pursuit of His call, having left her job as a clinical psychiatrist to care for teenage mothers, she was still hunched, laden with self-doubt and uncertainty. Clara found His call on her life hard to bear. It led to displacements from her home and family. She became a sojourner with no fixed abode, until she met Martha – who had died to herself a long time ago for the sake of knowing Christ. Clara has a new passion, to die to self. She was not alone; her to-be-husband was in pursuit of ‘dying to self’ too. The two smuggled Bibles to the persecuted Christians in China; Clara was captured. She had to stand for what she believed in despite the consequences, as she did – she caught the Gust!