White Martyr Family: A Call To Prayer and Solidarity

Imagine yourself 78, diabetic, falsely convicted in a sham trial of threatening national security, imprisoned for over 2,200 days in a maximum-security solitary confinement cell from which you’re only freed for 50 minutes of exercise per day. Could you find it within yourself to respond, when asked whether what you’re enduring is worth it, “Yes, for the glory of God”? Imagine yourself as that same person, reflecting on how you went from billionaire entrepreneur to political prisoner. Could you find it within yourself to write that you had “found prison a holy sanctuary with God”? Could you say that you are “actually most grateful to God for [having] put me through this suffering in order for me to get closer to his presence”? Could you accept your unjust imprisonment as “a joy and treasure for this life and the next”? Could you write that, while “God’s action confounds us, (it) always turns out to be marvelous for us”?

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