Thought for the day (June 11)

Subject: RE: Thought for the day (June 11)
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 99 - 03:08 PM

Beautiful, PeterT.

"Let us be strong and do that which is good in the eyes of the Great, Good Spirit, Weshemoneto." - Shawnee -

Subject: Thought for the day (June 11)
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Jun 99 - 09:44 AM

"You have made me so rich, God, please let me share out your beauty with open hands. My life has become one uninterrupted dialogue with you, one great dialogue. Sometimes when I stand in some corner of the camp, my feet planted on your earth, my eyes raised towards your heaven, tears run down my face, tears of deep emotion and gratitude. I have been terribly tired for days, but that will pass. Things come and go in a deeper rhythm, and people must listern to that: it is the most important thing we have to learn in this life. I may never become the great artist I would like to be, but I am secure in you, God. All my creative powers are translated into my inner dialogues with you. Recently, the beat of my heart has grown deeper, more powerful, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches."
- Etty Hillesum (Jewish Dutchwoman, excerpt from herWesterbork Concentration Camp Diary, shortly before she was moved on to Auschwitz and murdered, 1944).