Daily thought
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Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum, that incredibly beautiful woman who died in Auschwitz in 1943, whose diary was published in a book titled "The Interrupted Life", tells her story about her gradual discovery about where God resides. In her!

She recalls being in Westerbork, which was a camp where 10,000 Jewish people were waiting to be taken away, and she says some incredible words. "It isn't that I need God; God needs me!" She explains that God needs me to open my heart so that I can receive God into my being and then begin to radiate the presence of God which is the presence of peace, the presence of forgiveness, the presence of compassion.

L'Arche Canada - 2013