The song is hauntingly beautiful with subtle verses and a soulful chorus.

Admittedly, when I first heard it, I thought, “Wow, this is a powerful song.

Thompson pushed through the waiting crowd and grabbed his seat.

There were Thais in the crowd, but mostly Laotians, Cambodians, and Vietnamese from resistance groups fighting the French colonists.

The amendments, including laws against sharing faith in homes, online, or anywhere but recognized church buildings, go into effect July 20.

Every time we go on a trip and stop at a rest stop you find a tree to climb and declare you will climb a tree in all 50 states one day!Most afternoons, these nationalist fighters would come to see Thompson, but on weekends Thompson often tried to catch a flight to the Thai northeast, where tens of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians lived and where Ho Chi Minh’s forces had built a sizable operation.Thompson made little effort to conceal his sympathies for these militants.By the time Jim Thompson reached his cramped corner of the temporary U. legation in Thailand each morning in 1946, a small crowd had already formed waiting to see him.In the soupy, humid air, they squatted on their haunches, chewing sour mango slices and dried pork skins, waiting for their savior, the best-connected intelligence man in Indochina, a man unaware that he would soon be among the last of a dying breed — a lone idealist in an increasingly power-hungry, militarized CIA that would never be the same again."With a contented expression he told them: ‘Now they're adopting the law I'll drive you all out of here.’ I reckon we should now fear such zealous enforcement.” “There are potentially very wide-sweeping ramifications to this law,” Joel Griffith of the Slavic Gospel Association said in a Mission Network News report.“It just depends on, again, how it is going to be enforced, and that is a very huge question mark.” ----- Earlier reporting (June 29): Christians in Russia won’t be allowed to email their friends an invitation to church or to evangelize in their own homes if Russia’s newest set of surveillance and anti-terrorism laws are enacted.