“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”
―Etty Hillesum, “29 September”, in An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork, p. 218
What about us? When we first heart God’s call to follow, did we know that making our families proud would not be guaranteed? Do we understand that playing it safe and pleasing others, especially this who hold authority of us, won’t be the measure of our success?