The Experience of Life

I visited and elderly lady yesterday born in 1914 ..So she is 92 years young . I shared a cup of tea and to my shame a slice of cake with her . I was fascinated by some of her experiences , paricularly during the second world war years .

In the space of one year in 1940 her mum and dad were killed in the Birmingham blitz ( she had had lunch with them on the day they were killed and during the night their flat took a direct hit ) . Within a few months her brother who had caught a kidney infection from being stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk died in a Birmingham hospital and then to cap it all off her sisters husband murdered her sister with a knife and at the same time finished off a one of the deacons wives in the church that she attended.

This particular lady struggled to cope with all of this , especially when you think that her husband was away fighting and she wouldn't see him for nearly 3 years ... Who can blame her for struggling . One thing she said though is that it was her faith in Jesus that kept her sane during this horrific period in her life ..

What a story ..Next time I have a few insignificant problems I will remember the courage of this particular lady who had to battle through such devastating losses . And she wasn't alone , thousands of people suffered this way in WW2 ...In fact the final death toll was over 59 million worldwide , a sad indictment of mans inhumanity to man .