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How are you embodying your values?

We talk to our kids about doing what's right. We talk to them

about thinking for themselves. We talk to them about being kind. We talk to them about so many

important things. But what do our actions say? On April 1st, 1933, shortly after coming to power

in Germany, the Nazis held a boycott of all Jewish businesses.

It was the first small step in many persecutions to come. But too many mothers and fathers

who had talked to their kids about doing the right thing, thinking for themselves, simply went

along with it. But not everyone, of course, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 99-year-old grandmother, for instance.

On that day, she was out shopping and she refused to be told whose businesses she could support.

As the author Eric Metataxis writes, when the essay men tried to restrain her from entering one store,

she informed them that she would shop wherever she liked and did so. Later that day,

she did the same at a famous Jewish department store, ignoring the silly kickline of S.A. men

stationed in front. The story of Julie Bonhoffer marching past Nazi guerrillas was a favorite

in the Bonhoffer family who saw in her an embodiment of the values they sought to live by. That embodiment

wasn't lost on Dietrich, who 10 years later would lose his life plotting to assassinate Hitler,

even though he was a pastor, even though he had plenty of opportunities to escape Germany and live

in peace and freedom in London or America, he stayed. His grandmother's example guided him,

showed him how to live by his values. Let the same be true for your and your children,

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