Morgan Ortagus, Harris Faulkner's crosses to bear

It's heartbreaking to watch Harris Faulkner and Morgan Ortagus bearing similar crosses. They're both the parent of Jewish children growing up in a suddenly anti-Semitic world. Monday on Outnumbered, Morgan was overwhelmed with justifiable emotion.

Morgan talked with Harris about their shared burden, saying "It's really hard to be a Jewish parent right now," Ortagus said. "I thought about you this weekend too, Harris, when I saw this. Because your husband is Jewish and, you know, whenever Hitler was going after [the Jews], they didn't care if your kids were half Jewish. And I thought about you as I was thinking about coming to Outnumbered and I thought, they would go after my daughter, they would go after yours as quickly as they would mine. And it's- it's just terrifying to be a Jewish parent right now."

Ortagus was just getting started. Next, she said "I know this time clearly who would hide us and who would watch us go by. One thing I thought through all of this is I'm going to teach her to fight — I’m wearing my Star of David, I’m not taking it off, I'm not going to hide — and that's what I'm going to teach my daughter. As much as I look at college campuses and I look right here in New York City, kids not much older than her had to barricade themselves in a library, had to be escorted out the back. This is happening in America."

Harris told Morgan "My biggest prayer is that we don’t become anesthetized or blind to what's unfolding before our eyes. We haven't seen the hunting of Jews — if you could translate all of it, and I've looked at a transcript here from Dagestan, it's hunting, it's catch them — it's what Emily- it's hard to say, Emily's so right about what they wanted to do, and they were screaming it, proudly screaming it. I think about that one Arab woman — I mean, what if there had been Israelis in there? That's a great question, what if there were and she helped — I have all the hope in the world that it's not going to be everybody against the Jews again."

To Morgan

It's easy to see that the thought of what your daughter might go through brought you to a moment of tumult. When confronted by life's tumultuous moments, it's best to lean on my favorite passage -- Proverbs 3:5-6. It starts with 3 commands, then finishes with a promise. First command: Trust in the Lord with all your heart. God is instructing you to trust Him. After all, He's the all-powerful God who loves you unconditionally. What better place to start? Second command: Lean not on your own understanding. Why wouldn't we want to trust Him instead of trusting ourselves? He's omniscient. We're far from omniscient. That ends that debate. Third command: In all your ways, acknowledge Him. Whenever you have the opportunity, thank Him for His blessings. Start with the most recent blessing. Start with the most important blessing. It doesn't matter where you start. It matters that you start. Finally, the blessing: And He will direct your path. If you trust Him instead of yourself, if you praise Him whenever you have the opportunity, God will direct your life. He'll provide you with wisdom. (After all, Proverbs was written by King Solomon, the wisest man in human history.)

To Harris

Check out Ephesians 6:10-18:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the [b]wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [c]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints
The whole armor of God includes a) the breastplate of righteousness, b) and the gospel of peace; c) the shield of faith and d) the helmet of salvation. You're literally protected from head (helmet of salvation) to toe (the Gospel of Peace). This armor is defensive in nature. It protects you. God didn't stop there, though. He gave us a weapon to go on the offensive. He gave us prayer and supplication to go on the offensive.

To Harris and Morgan

Yes, we're living through tumultuous times but that doesn't mean God didn't provide us with the right tools to get us through the tumult. If you use the tools I've highlighted, God's blessing will be yours. Finally, to Harris, the defensive pieces of armor that I described protect you if you face the enemy. There's no protection if you turn and run.

UPDATE: This is powerful:

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