This made me think of the people at Auschwitz. Did they ever lose hope that God would intervene when day after day some of them would be taken away never to return or worse? At some point did the one’s who believed that surely God could not let this go on just throw in the towel and shake their clinched fist at Him? “How can You see this and just sit there and do nothing?” I cannot begin to imagine the mental and spiritual contortions these people must have gone through surrounded by such relentless brutality and hatred. That fact that any of them emerged with their faith intact is nothing short of amazing.

“What you have done …”

“… What I have done, I had to do.”

“But at what cost? Your ship. Your son.”

“If I hadn’t tried … the cost would have been my soul.”