Throughout her long life, she was relentlessly positive and hopeful. She attributed her long life to her optimism, always looking on the bright side, as the song says. Her love for music - she played over 100 concerts in her time in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt - helped her to cope with the troubled world around her.
While Jesus never told his followers to 'whistle a happy tune', or 'to think about their favourite things', he did teach us how to live without worries and fears. That would certainly help us to see the bright side of life.
' “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.' (Matthew 6.31-33)
We may not live to be 110, like Alice Herz-Sommer (which means 'summer heart'!), but we may enjoy the fact that we are precious children of our heavenly Father, whose every needs are known. What a joy that brings.
Best wishes,
Richard
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