The Emerald Horizon (The Star and the Shamrock #2)

by Jean Grainger

Elizabeth recalled Rabbi Frank’s response to her outrage over Daniel’s potential execution during that whole nightmare. The rabbi was not sad, because to him, death was going home to God. He was a deeply devout Jew and a kind leader of the community, but he seemed incapable of understanding the loss of a loved one. Love of life was central to Jewish philosophy but the events of the last few years seemed to have made the rabbi less concerned with this world, choosing to focus instead on the next.

Glad faith god religion works for some but its ok if it doesnt

best way to support someone who is grieving is just to be there. To not try to make it better or explain it away, but just to be there and let them cry, let them endure the pain. Just be beside them so they know they are not alone.’

Truth

She was raised Catholic but had not been involved in the church in any way for decades. Daniel, Liesl and Erich were Jews, but she didn’t feel a strong pull in that direction either. However, she did believe that this wasn’t all there was. She felt a strong sense of spirituality, that those who went before were not gone, that there was some master plan. If not, well, then the last six years, or indeed the Great War before that, were just answering some egomaniac’s need for power, and she couldn’t countenance that.

All flags did was separate, show difference, one group rallying to one flag, another group rallying to another, all of it based on nothing more than what patch of earth you happened to be born on. It was all so stupid.

I feel the same about flags today!