Be Still and Know ..........

Dogdancing championship final

Glory to His Name (with a catchy tune)

Audrey Hepburn a great humanitarian, but will she be with the Lord in heaven?

Some have wondered whether Audrey Hepburn was a saved soul. Her aristocratic mother’s family lived in the Netherlands and like most Dutch of the time were officially Calvinist Christians, although we do not know whether they were true believers. Her mother (Ella van Heemstra) was a devout Christian Scientist—a heretical belief system developed by Mary Baker Eddy. Audrey’s father (Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston) was officially a Protestant, but we find no proof that he was a true believer. He was a very troubled man—an adulterer, a Fascist, and a Nazi sympathizer—even in his old age, he apparently remained detached emotionally from Audrey, who supported him financially.

Audrey certainly did some good works on behalf of others, and she did say she had “faith” and believed in “miracles,” but the same could be said of those in Christian Science and various other belief systems. As far as we can tell, she was not religious; in fact, she seems to have stayed apart from all organized religion. She publicly said her faith was not “attached to any one, in particular, religion…. My mother was one thing, my father another. In Holland, they were all Calvinists. That has no importance at all to me.”

If she was a true believer, we found no evidence that she revealed it publicly. Only God knows her heart. Like all humans, she was a sinner in need of a savior. We can only hope that in her later days she did fully acknowledge that need and accepted Jesus Christ’s payment for her sins, turning her life over to Him, as the one and only way to God. Her Earthly life ended on January 20, 1993, due to appendiceal cancer