The One Freedom No One Can Take
Historical Account★★★★Dr. Viktor Frankl, author of the book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” was imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II because he was a Jew. His wife, his children, and his parents were all killed in the holocaust. The Gestapo made him strip. He stood there totally naked. As they cut away His wedding ring, Viktor said to himself, “You can take my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me--and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!” Even under the most difficult of circumstances, happiness is a choice which transforms our tragedies into triumph.
Binus, Daniel; Crews, K'dee Elsen, “Core Beliefs Pt. 1” (AudioVerse teaching 33231).
The point
Viktor Frankl's suffering under Nazism illustrates the freedom to choose one's response even when everything else is taken.