Things We Couldn't Say

I just finished an amazing book called "Things We Couldn't Say," the story of Diet Eman, a Christian woman who lived in the Netherlands during WWII and worked with the underground resistance and helped protect Jews. It is a very graphic, genuine account of her life, including her thoughts, prayers and frustrations during all of the sufferings she went through while helping others. Diet's decisions bring up very interesting moral questions that I have never had to face, since she had to decide whether to obey what the Nazis were telling her to do, whether to lie to them, who she could help and who she could trust, etc. However, the message I found most important from her story was the truth of God's promise that gave Diet hope throughout all she went through, the words of Jesus that she carved, at one point, in Dutch into her prison wall, "Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." I believe there is a reason Jesus gave these as some of his last words, knowing that we would need to remember this promise especially through the sufferings that we are privileged to go through for his sake. I recommend this book for everybody.