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“It is time for me to go home,” a missionary colleague shared with tears in her eyes.

After serving in a Muslim country in South Asia for fourteen years, she felt the need to return home to rebuild her selfesteem. She shared a recent incidence.

“I was walking along the street the other day. I heard some footsteps behind me and some men talking. As usual, I stepped aside to let them pass, something that I have done almost daily for the past fourteen years. Yet, all through the years, I felt angry that I have to give way to men. But this time, it was different. I felt it was right to do so. Somehow, I had accepted my “lowly” position in the society and in life. I felt that I should give way to men because they were superior to me, a woman.”

“This culture is eating away my selfesteem. I need to step away and rediscover my identity.”