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Conversion Experience

I have been determined in captivity, and still am determined, to convert this experience into something useful and good for other people. I think that's the way to approach suffering. It seems to me that Christianity doesn't in any way lessen suffering. What is does is enable you to take it, to face it, to work through it, and eventually to convert it.

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