Dear Ken and Linda,
I just want you to know William and I have been praying for you.  I know your hearts so I don't look at the circumstances and neither does God.  It doesn't depend on the circumstances, the strength of your arm or your voice.  I hope you find this encouraging and uplifting.  
I wanted to share some verses with you both and some things that Oswald Chambers says in his book His Utmost for His Highest.  "My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed, but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage." Phil. 1:20  
"We shall all feel ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus on the point He asked us to yield to Him.  To get there is a question of will, not of debate nor of reasoning, but a surrender of will, an absolute and irrevocable surrender on that point.  An over-weaning consideration for ourselves is the thing that keeps us from that decison, though we put it that we are considering others.  When we consider what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He does not know what our obedience will mean.  Keep to the point;  He does know.  Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only- My Utmost for His Highest.  I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone. Whether that means life or death, no matter.  Paul is determined that nothing shall deter him from doing exactly what God wants.  God's order has to work up to a crisis in our lives because we will not ! heed the gentler way.   He brings us to the place where He askes us to be our utmost for Him, and we begin to debate; then He produces a providential crisis where we have to decide- for or against, and from that point the "Great Divide" begins.  If the crisis has come to you on any line, surrender your will to Him absolutely and irrevocably.  What do you expect to do?  You do not know what you are going to do; the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.  Trust Him entirely.  You may not know what He will do next, but you have to trust He does.  We need to come in close contact with the teachings of Jesus Christ.  If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God it is questionable whether we have ever stood in His presence."
God bless you during this time.  We will continue to pray for God's will in your lives.
Sincerely,
Barbara T. Collins.