Courage to stand when expediency tells you to run is something many of us lack.
Most people recognize their own foibles. They understand who they are ... who they truly are ... behind the facade. Most people don't delude themselves into believing that there is great heroism within them. Most people shrink from anything that could be perceived as a threat of possible danger.
Then, there are the true heroes. There are the people whose stories make the rest of us understand what courage really is, what strength that overcomes inner weakness is all about.
This is one of those people whose story deserves to be told and retold.
And as we tell it, may we and those who hear us be lifted to a higher
plane of humanity than we have yet occupied, to a loftier plane of
existence than the un-challenging circumstances of every-day life can
reveal in us.
Jane
Haining, a matron at a Scottish missionary school in Budapest, refused
to abandon her young Jewish charges-and gave her life for it.
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