Perspective

[eleneariel]

London, 1940, during the Blitz; a group of men return to an underground bomb shelter to report on the damage.

Then one woman looked directly at her husband. "Is our place gone?"

"I'm afraid so, girl," he said. "There isn't much left up there. But we're alive. We're all lucky to be alive. We'd have been dead if we'd stayed up above."

"Oh, what a mercy we didn't!" she exclaimed. "How lucky we are!"

Incredible though it sounds, within a few moments, a whole lot of people were congratulating each other on their extraordinary good fortune in only having lost all their worldy posessions.

Safe Passage, by Ida Cook

This was a book worth reading.

Comments

[joyfulmelody.livejournal.com]

*adds book to wishlist* LOVE this. :)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

It's a really neat book. :)

[ransomedsea.livejournal.com]

Saying anything after that seems silly.

I'm making note of this one.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

It's simply written, but I have great respect for these two sisters. They're really something else.

[princess-mia.livejournal.com]

I think I shall have to add that book to my list of ones to get from the library. Thank you! I love the passage from it.