Remembering and Hope

This week The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge participated in a remembrance of the end of the Holocaust.

It was 75 years ago this week that those who had survived being interned at the concentration camp known as Auschwitz, were released. And so ended one of the darkest times in human history. The Duke and Duchess were there to meet some of the survivors still living and to participate in a ceremony of remembering.

Prince William offered some words at the commemorative service attended by many government and religious leaders including Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

Those who survived those camps and the inhumane treatment they endured there, shared a common quality. Despite their horrible situation they somehow clung to hope. Some of the most poignant words ever penned by someone in great distress and unimaginable circumstances, was found on the wall of one of the concentration camps where Jews, and those who helped or defended them, were imprisoned during WWII.

May we all make it our business to remember what happened there, and like this person, to remember to cling to hope and believe God is with us, regardless of what circumstances we find ourselves in.