The recent meeting with the President on Mar 26th 2011 at the Official Opening of DaySpring Residential Treatment Centre where I am working now reminded me of this picture of Bonny taken on 27 Nov 2007 with President S R Nathan. That handshake and the certificate he received then was a demonstration of God’s grace in his life during a difficult time of transition for him. I remembered his kept his beard as a sign of his struggle then. Besides that ceremony where he received the certificate of affirmation, the word of God had also brought much courage and comfort to him. Isa. 49:9 “to say to the captives, `Come out,' and to those in darkness, `Be free!' "was a word from the Lord for him while he was spending time with Him and he shared with me that it would be the mission verse for him during that season of his life—one that would keep him going. I adopted this verse in my present mission, living it out to let those the Lord has sent me to come out of captivity and be free from the darkness that they are in. 
