Anne Frank

June 12 was her birthday.  Anne Frank was the Jewish girl who was hidden from the Nazis for two years.  Eventually, they found her and she died in a concentration camp from typhoid in 1945.  She is know for her diary, "The Diary of Anne Frank."  It is quite uplifting.  In spite of all the fear, and death around her, the dreaded Nazi regime, Anne wanted to maintain the virtues in herself that would contribute to a better world someday.    Wow!  I have a bad day or a stretch of messy stuff in my life, and virtue for a better world flies out the window.  These are the times when I get resentful, fearful, and self-pitying.  That is for starters.  Anne was just a kid, but a graced kid who shows me how to "detach" or as we sometimes say in sports, "suck it up."  She could not change the Nazis or her present situation in a "secret annex" but she could change her attitude.  Maybe she was grateful for life, for being Jewish, for a God who loves her.  You think?