In case you were wondering, the homework load of an engineer has been having a direct impact on my ability to post mega-frequently here.
But I'm trying to, you know...get my second post up for the year. XP
Anyway, this post is happening, not because I am caught up on my homework, but because it is important.
Happy Birthday, Liberation!
I'm sure we're all aware to some degree of the horrors and treachery that happened during the Holocaust. But that is not what this day is about.
This is a celebration of liberation.
A reminder that no matter what, suffering will end. It may be in this life, it may be in the next. But God will deliver His people, and as we are all his children, we all have better days ahead.
Good triumphs over bad. The will to survive is stronger than we can imagine. We are much more resilient than we realize, and those torturous trials that we undergo often lead to valuable experiences that illuminate our lives and the lives of many others.
One perfect example is Leon Leyson. I recently read his memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box, which artfully depicts his experiences as a young Jewish boy who lived through the Holocaust. I highly recommend it.
One of the greatest victories of Leyson was his ability to heal enough to share his experiences with others, to inspire and lift hundreds of thousands of people in his community. Although one may never truly recover from such experiences (and he notes several such experiences that haunted him to his death), Leyson is able to overcome it all and build a wonderful, influential life as a teacher, a husband, a father, and a grandfather. His propensity to make good come despite a terrible past is a great triumph over the evils and faults of the world, and his liberation from the could-be crippling events of his childhood is a stark message of hope arising from the ashes of so many other lives destroyed.
Never lose hope that liberation will come, many times over.
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