One of my surprises in traveling with the ten Boom sisters in “The Hiding Place” has been how Corrie and Betsy could continue to make such costly sacrifices in the face of such horrendous neediness. Sharing food as they were starving. Giving away their thin blanket to warm another person when they were shivering with cold. Administering their last drop of medicine to help someone else who was also hurting. What in the world enabled them to do that?! Especially in a place where, perhaps worse than the external abuses, were the internal survival choices to violate even your own moral bearings just to stay alive. I think I stumbled upon the answer in today’s “Jesus Calling” devotional. “When you find your completeness in Me, you can help other people without using them to meet your own needs.” WOW. A secret Source that frees us from the prison of our selfish preoccupation with pursuing “me first,” often at the expense of others! When our souls feel full, that scramble to fill an aching inside disappears, empowering us to genuinely care about others! And make sacrificial choices! Talk about freedom! “Me first” vows might be the worst prison of all! So Corrie and Betsy may have been encased in barbed wire and brutality, but not in the isolated cell of survival at all costs selfishness. “If the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed!”