What would you do with bullets flying through the air, but you’ve got one patient left who isn’t safe? Would you go back to save them? I know a woman who was in that exact circumstance… she chose to go back and save the patient. She went back onto the battlefield even though it could’ve cost her her life. Colonel Ruby Bradley was an influential woman because she showed sacrificial love to everyone she met; she served our country with a passion, and we can learn a lot from her.
Ruby Grace grew up on a small farm in Spencer, West Virginia with her family of seven. Her parents were Frederick and Bertha Bradley. Ruby grew up the fourth child out of five. Her sisters were Jessie and Anna, and her brothers were Doy and Smith. She stayed in Spencer
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Ruby put others before herself, being willing to risk herself so that another person could be saved. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” God states that in His unconditional love for us, He would give up His ONLY Son to die an excruciating death. Moreover, Christ took on the sins of the world. Romans 5:8 says, "But God shows His love for us that in while we were sinners, Christ died for us". God used Ruby Bradley to save many lives, and whether she even knew it, she was mirroring the love of Christ to all those she saved. Christ tells us in John 13:34, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.". Ruby dedicated her life to loving others, and put their needs above her own. Another verse that sums up Ruby Bradley is Romans 12:9-14 which states, "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the LORD. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the LORD's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.". It must have been a struggle in a POW camp, but Ruby persevered. In a biography about Colonel Bradley, Angel in Fatigues: the Story of Colonel Ruby G. Bradley, the Most Decorated Woman in the History of the United States Army, the author said that when Ruby applied to college, she obtained a reference from her minister testifying to her good moral character. Whether or not she was a churchgoer, she certainly showed sacrificial love like
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In her opinion, we show our love for God by caring for those that are our brothers, or our fellow creatures of God. Our actions toward our brothers can bring us closer to our salvation, but can also have the reverse effect. Taking a “bad” job that undermines the poor and takes advantage of them will bring you further from the kingdom of God. We can also harm our fellow brethren, and become further from God’s kingdom by being passive consumers of products made by people in poverty conditions. Dorothy states in Poverty and Pacifism, “It also means non-participation in those comforts and luxuries which have been manufactured by the exploitation of others. While our brothers suffer, we must compassionate them, suffer with them” (1). Again, we do not always remember the consequences of our everyday actions because we are not perfect beings. If we were, we would be on the same level as
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Furthermore, at one point in the book she tries to help save the lives of the men alongside her. Cora has a different longing, “’Why die at all!’ said Cora, advancing from the place where natural horror had until this moment, held her riveted to the rock; ‘the path is open on every side; fly, then, to the woods, and call on God for succcour! Go brave men’” (Cooper 89).
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