An uninterrupted dialogue with You (Etty Hillesum)

Sometimes the most important thing 

in a whole day is the rest we take 

between two deep breaths, 

or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. 

--Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life

    You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out Your beauty with open hands. 

    My life has become an uninterrupted dialogue with You, oh God, one great dialogue. Sometimes when I stand in some corner of the camp, my feet planted on Your earth, my eyes raised toward Your Heaven, tears sometimes run down my face, tears of deep emotion and gratitude. 

     At night, too, when I lie in bed and rest in You, oh God, tears of gratitude run down my face, and that is my prayer. 

--Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), Prayer from Auschwitz 

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