Dear Duke,
 
I just read your Nov/Dec 2025 MF editorial (“Becoming Loving: Experiencing Failure and Being Loved”). I love what you shared and appreciate your heart and insight.

You wrote, “Most of us mask our lack of capacity to trust and receive people’s love with spiritual achievements and knowledge. We are works in progress.” It takes insight and experience to have that perspective, beyond just information from a book.

You also humbly shared, “When I went to reach the unreached as a 28-year-old with my wife and daughter, I said all the right things. But I was immature, full of shame, and desperate to be accepted. I wasn’t going to let anything get in my way and treated people accordingly.”

I could have said something similar about when my wife, son, and I went to the mission field when I was 35.
The QR code shows part of my testimony about how I wish I had received heart healing teaching before I moved overseas (hearthealing.site/wounded-heart/).

Now, my wife and I are broken vessels who have received love and acceptance from Jesus. We have seen the urgent need for missionaries, young and old, to receive heart healing from Jesus.

I am currently part of a holistic ministry—Deeper Walk International—that has helped and is helping many to experience more breakthrough, healing, freedom, and walk in greater maturity. There is such a great need for this, and the Lord continues to bring more attention in the body of Christ to this previously overlooked area.

Increasingly, more missions organizations and ministries are now devoting more resources to the emotional and mental health and well-being of their missionary families. This is good, and I pray this continues.

I hope that some day MF will dedicate an issue to this topic that used to be unknown, invisible, or ignored.

You ended your article with, “That all the world may experience God’s love.” I’ll close with, that all missionaries may truly experience God’s love and know it in their heart.

All the best and much shalom, John & Leigh