I only feel myself resting

I only feel myself resting in God's arms, to state it a bit pathetically. Whether it is here at my most dear and safe desk or in a month or so in a bare room in the Jewish ghetto or perhaps in a working camp under SS surveillance, I will always feel myself resting in God's arms, I guess.

Yes, my Lord, I remain very faithful to you, through thick and thin. (...) The only human thing that still remains in these times is: to kneel before you, o God.

There are moments when I feel like a little bird, covered by a big protecting hand. (July 28 1942)

--An Interrupted Life
Etty Hillesum
Killed at Auschwitz, 1943