THE SUFFERING OF TERRY ANDERSON
Terry Anderson is a living testimony that waiting need not mean passivity. For six years he was forced to wait in a dark cell, sometimes alone, often chained. His captors were brutal. They tortured him, physically and mentally. How did he respond? “You just do what you have to do,” he said to reporters when he arrived in Damascus to freedom after his release, “You wake up every day, summon up the energy from somewhere and you get through the day, day after day after day.” There were periods when he said he felt like giving up, overwhelmed with despair at the suffering and hopelessness of his condition. but he was not passive. His was a waiting of active expectancy, even though there was no clear vision of how or when the story would end. Anderson filled his horribly truncated existence in dogged pursuit of growth. From fellow prisoner Thomas Sutherland he learned to speak French. From his captors…
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