By David Van Rooy Not by the Easy Road “The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts” (Prov. 17:3). We could not have known what lay ahead when we stepped off the aircraft into the humid Okinawan night in early March 2020 — tired, disoriented, but hopeful. Like many before us, our family accepted orders to this island in East Asia, knowing a multi-year military assignment would come with sacrifice. What we did not yet understand was that we had also...
