I have been watching a Russian television miniseries ‘Life and Fate’, based on the novel of the same title written by Vasily Grossman. Researching the story, I came across a review which stressed the brilliance of the story being the concentration given to the minute details of the individuals within the epic. During the great battle of WWII, the overwhelming clashing of Nazi forces against the Soviet defense of Russian land, the story of individuals became prominent. Within the greater conflict, individual conflict takes precedent. The cares, concerns, beauty, and filthiness of individuals, those made in the image and likeness of God, stood above the magnitude of their time. Acts of kindness, insight, and the awareness of something greater touching the lives of individuals provides a depth necessary to understand the wisdom of God giving to us His own individual story through the life and death of His only begotten son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ. God knows our individual stories, observing with tremendous love and mercy, while possessing the ultimate wisdom of necessary justice—proper judgement and the finality of eternity. Timelessness comprehending the burdens of time and space, reaching out, offering salvation. This farewell letter from a main character’s mother embodies the illumination of love, compassion, and understanding—the immensity of life and the depth of a single human life. The mother, a Russian Jew, writes from a German concentration camp. She prepares for her death, aware this is her final communication with her son. It reminds me of a line associated with ‘Life and Fate’, a reflection upon the importance of kindness in life. Kindness, an act of kindness, the sacrifice of volunteering to enter the gas chamber in order to hold the hand of a frightfully crying child so that child does not have to die alone, or the sacrificing of One’s Son, or as simple as smiling at a brother or sister while walking past.