Hey everybody!
There was too much to text last night about the speech given by the Polish Holocaust survivor. She simply started telling her story of how she grew up as a little girl, and then the changes that took place as the war progressed. There were several things that stood out to me from her talk.
1) How she was forced to learn the German language in school at a very young age. They wouldn’t speak any other language. And that Jesus did that to keep her alive. It was her value, even as a very young girl, during the war.
2) That the Holocaust didn’t happen 1500 years ago, or even 400. This woman is still alive. Even though she is old – it happened in our lifetime.
3) She said that at the death camp where she finally ended up, people were nailed to crosses. Whew! I was thinking of Jesus and what he suffered. And I’m not sure if she was actually put on a cross for awhile, or just threatened with it, because she would lie when translating for the Germans who were in charge of the camp.
4) Her love for America. Her love of life and liberty. She described in detail the Americans who took care of her in a hospital when she was taken out of the death camp. The heart of her message was for people to love America, and value liberty and life.
When she got to the part where she was describing the kindness of the nurses and soldiers who took care of her in the hospital, I couldn’t help but think of all her words as being to us, God’s people. Just like the verses from Ezekiel 16, God has taken us out of our own blood, he’s loved us, and fed us. I feel like her words, her passion, in helping people realize the great value of liberty in this country, was for us! She was talking about America, but I was feeling – us, the place where God has brought us. For us to value the great liberty and life we have been given in the Spirit; it is no small thing. God has given us a precious gift, worthy of our love and our lives. I pray that God will grant us a part in feeding, nurturing, and loving our precious family as they are liberated from that awful prison that holds them.
Donna