Diana's Star

By: Diana Bertholf

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Synopsis: Says Diana Bertholf: "My family is Jewish. Cathy, a girl I considered my friend, told me, 'My mother says you are a Jew and your relatives killed Jesus.' Once a teacher in an early grade gently said, 'I always pray for my little Jewish students. The Bible says to pray for the Jews.' Wasn't I OK the way I was? "These incidents ate at me like a piece of sand in an oyster and a shell of confusion and rage began to build up around my spirit. "When I was twenty-two, I read the Bible. . . . The story in that book amazed me with its simplicity and straightforwardness. It seemed an honest, reasonable way to believe and to behave. Not that it negated my Jewishness; rather, it added to my understanding and broadened it. The Messiah had, indeed, already come." This is a story of change and growth, of alienation from family and personal turmoil, of searching and finding. Diana says, "How precious it is to serve a living God who knows us and watches over us tenderly. It is like walking on a path and being guided by the north star."