We’ve Been Adopted
StoryIllustrationHistorical Account★★★★On a flight to California, Penelope Duckworth, a chaplain at Stanford University, talked with a Christian woman who had adopted a Jewish daughter. She explained that after Hitler had annexed Poland, the Nazis came to her village to round up Jews.
She had been shopping near the train station where German soldiers were loading Jews into rail cars. Those helpless victims were destined to die in a concentration camp. That woman saw a soldier pushing a Jewess toward the station, and she had a little girl toddling behind. He stopped her and demanded, “Is she your daughter?”
The terrified mother looked straight into the Christian woman’s eyes, who then was standing nearby and said, “No, the child is hers.” From that moment the Christian woman took that Jewish girl as her own daughter.
Vernon Grounds, Our Daily Bread, Special Edition, Day 37.
The point
A Christian woman claims a stranger's Jewish toddler as her own to save her from the Nazis, picturing how God adopts us as His children through Christ.