Miep Gies, Who Helped Hide Anne Frank, Dies At 100
Brethren, since I love human interest stories, I just had to share this article about a selfless lady (Miep Gies – now deceased at 100 years of age) who assisted in hiding Anne Frank from the Nazis: http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/22211455/detail.html
Anne Frank’s cousin wrote of this lady:
“Every day for over two years she put herself in danger by hiding Jews from the Nazis,” said Anne Frank’s cousin, Bernd “Buddy” Elias, who last saw Gies on her 100th birthday. “If they had caught her, she would have been put in a concentration camp herself.”
Ms. Gies said of herself in helping Anne:
“Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”
“The Diary of Anne Frank” (published in 1947) was the first popular book about the Holocaust and has been read by millions of children and adults around the world in 70 languages.
A very selfless and brave lady in helping others under very trying and difficult circumstances.
Richard Hill 2:13 pm on January 13, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks for posting this Mike. What an impressive lady! We need more people in the kingdom willing to put their livelihoods and their lives on the line.
When we truly see the gift of salvation we’ve been given, we come to understand a seemingly paradoxical statement. It costs us nothing and it costs us everything.
I pray for courage today, this year and the rest of my life not to give in to my own fears, but realize God has put me where I am for a purpose. When Esther feared for her safety Mordecai gave her warning and this wise advise. In Esther 4:14 he says “. . .Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (NKJV)
Though I might suspect what God has in mind, there’s no way I can know. Here’s a humbling thought. I might not have the capacity to understand it even if He whispered it in my ear! The requirement is not to understand. The requirement is to act with the courage of my convictions in whatever lies before me. God will work out the rest. “In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)
How do we see our place in the kingdom of God? Is it just one of privilege? Do we see the responsibility that has been placed on us?
Mike Riley 8:55 pm on January 13, 2010 Permalink |
Richard, thank you for writing these encouraging comments! Yes, we are indeed put on this planet to fulfill God’s purpose for our lives. We must have the courage, the conviction, and the fortitude to fulfill that purpose.