Several months ago I came across a wonderful article titled “ ‘Refugee is not a profession’ ” in the Spanish edition of The Herald of Christian Science (Anni Ulich, December 2018). As I read it, tears of gratitude welled up in my eyes.
Recalling the author’s faith and perseverance was of great encouragement to me during a recent mountain hike. Her article recounts a time when she was a young girl during World War II, and her mother had an intuition to leave the village they had been evacuated to after the bombing of their city, as the fighting got closer.
During a nightlong journey to a nearby harbor, the author’s little sister, just five years old, complained several times that she could no longer walk. Her older brother kept praying the Lord’s Prayer. Her mother, too, was no doubt praying every step of the way, and she felt led to tell her five-year-old that she must tell her feet to keep walking.
