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\nNancy Davis<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n
I wasn’t there.<\/b><\/p>\n Nancy and Sam Davis were riding along a highway 70 miles south of the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, on Wednesday when they approached an illegal roadblock. Rather than stop, they continued driving and were chased by several gunmen in a black pick-up truck, according Pharr Police Chief Ruben Villescas.<\/p>\n Rather than stop, Sam Davis gunned the engine of their blue 2008 Chevrolet pick-up, a vehicle popular with the dangerous Zetas drug cartel that controls the area. The pursuing gunmen fired at Davis’ truck, and a bullet hit Nancy Davis in the head.<\/p>\n Her husband raced the 70 miles to the Pharr International Bridge, speeding the last part of the way against on-coming traffic to avoid the long lines of northbound cars at the border checkpoint, arriving at 12:25 p.m., according to police reports.<\/p>\n Source:<\/i> ABC News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t know why Sam didn’t stop at the roadblock.<\/p>\n Neither do I know what I would have done in his shoes.<\/p>\n Unless “in his shoes” means all that it suggests. In that case, I expect I would have done what he did.<\/p>\n Some folks, though, (will) say Sam’s decision to run the roadblock was foolish and\/or wrong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And maybe they’re right. Maybe he shouldn’t have.<\/p>\n But they’re wrong to assert he did the wrong thing or to declare they would have done something different (and, presumably, “smarter”).<\/p>\n They have no idea.<\/p>\n No. Idea. At. All.<\/p>\n They weren’t there.<\/p>\n They weren’t in his shoes.<\/p>\n But I’ll ask them a question: Do you think Sam and Nancy would have been better off stopping for an “interview” with heartless, blood-thirsty, life-is-cheap, unjust, low-on-mercy, possibly-doped narco-terrorists?<\/p>\n You don’t know.<\/p>\n Some will say Sam put more value on their pick-up than on their safety.<\/p>\n And maybe such an assumption would be right. But I think it more likely to be dumb.<\/p>\n Sam may have concluded from previous experience, observation, and analysis (and maybe even prayer?) that they were more likely to die by stopping than by running.<\/p>\n In my armchair quarterbacking, that’s a very logical, real-to-life conclusion to draw.<\/p>\n Well, so many other factors play into what took place…and most of those factors we do not know.<\/p>\n Furthermore, we do not know what his eyes saw nor how his brain interpreted and analyzed that information.<\/p>\n We don’t know the terrain. Or the road. Or the stance of the terrorists. Or their numbers. Or their equipment. Or how available it was. (On and on I could go, or<\/i>ing what we don’t know.)<\/p>\n Neither do we know what was transpiring in the spiritual world. It is entirely likely that Sam was allowed to see some things…and not allowed to see others. It is even possible that God urged Sam to make a run for it.<\/p>\n The time of Nancy’s departure had arrived.<\/p>\n Why did it have to be that way?<\/p>\n Well, I don’t know that either.<\/p>\n Nancy Davis I wasn’t there. Nancy and Sam Davis were riding along a highway 70 miles south of the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, on Wednesday when they approached an illegal roadblock. Rather than stop, they continued driving and were chased by several gunmen in a black pick-up truck, according Pharr Police Chief Ruben Villescas. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,203],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","tag-mexico","tag-missionaries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-xB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sam](\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sam-and-nancy-davis.jpg\" "\\"photo")
\nPS: I learned about this event early Friday morning when I stopped by the World Magazine web site and saw this headline: U.S. missionary possibly killed over truck<\/a>. I grew up in Mexico as an MK. I served in Mexico as an adult missionary. I serve on a small mission board with missionaries in northwest Mexico. So of course I clicked the link. My heart raced (or did it stop?) when I saw the photo. She looks like someone I could know! To my knowledge, I never met them. May God comfort and sustain Sam. And give him peace. And, somehow, joy. And freedom from second-guessing himself. And forgiveness for Nancy’s killers. And the second-guessers. Amen.<\/p>\n![\"Prayer](\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/davis-prayer-card.jpg\")
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