Did you know that Sue Thomas was a great lover of good music, and did classical concerts in her younger years, even though she couldn’t hear a single note?

When we were in the Netherlands, we had a private tour of The Beje, which is the name of Corrie Ten Boom’s home where the family hid many Jews during the War.

Here is Sue playing Corrie’s piano in the small upstairs living room. You can see this very same piano in this very same room in the movie, The Hiding Place. Yes, they filmed parts right on location, which really helps bring life into the scenes.

On top of the piano there are family photos…of those who chose to do the right thing and were arrested, imprisoned and killed because of their hearts’ desires to honor God and love people no matter what may happen to them.

When Sue finished playing and was closing the piano lid, she saw those old faded black and white photos. Her shoulders began to heave. “Do you know they gave up their lives for total strangers?” she managed to get out between sobs.

The entire Ten Boom family was hauled away in the back of a military truck.

Those ‘total strangers’ spent several days secluded in The Hiding Place, then walked out free.

This is a great demonstration that there is no greater love than when one chooses to make hard decisions and perhaps even lays down his own life so that others will live.

Such is real love. So much bigger than our normal definition of human love…

Because it flows from the heart of the One Who IS Love.