Courage to care

My son's mother-in-law, Gus Kaminski, died this week.She was a person whose warm love seemed to embrace everyone. During World War 2, in her native Netherlands, she was involved in hiding many Jews who would otherwise have gone to the gas chambers. Her own life was on the line but she had the courage to care and was later honoured as a righteous gentile by the state of Israel. Her memory is honoured. Now I remind myself of the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis, 'With God every apparent end is only a more glorious new beginning'.