Every Life Matters

I had plenty of time to read while sick for 3 weeks. One of my favorites was Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution by André Trocmé, the Frenchman famous for saving thousands of Jews (mostly children) from the Nazis during World War II. Yad Vashem (the Jewish Holocaust Museum) awarded him and his wife the prestigious “Righteous Among the Nations” medal for the part they played in the rescue efforts.

Among many other profound statements in the book particularly relevant in this time:

“We know that every birth, every life, and every death matters to God. If each person has thus been invested with such value, how great is the worth of the sum of human history!”