The Hiding Place

I read this book as a teenager (required reading by my very wise Mother!), recently I read it again and was amazed at how different it touched me. I believe there is something to say about how differently you look at life the more experiences you have. What a touching book, I highly recommend it to everyone. It was just completely amazing the attitude this woman and her sister had, despite what they went through. It just shows me that no matter what we experience in life through the help of Heavenly Father we can all move past all hurts, disappointments and all other challenges we may face.

Corrie ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom has long been honored by evangelical Christians as an exemplar of Christian faith in action. Arrested by the Nazis along with the rest of her family for hiding Jews in their Haarlem home during the Holocaust, she was imprisoned and eventually sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp along with her beloved sister, Betsie, who perished there just days before Corrie's own release on December 31, 1944. Inspired by Betsie's example of selfless love and forgiveness amid extreme cruelty and persecution, Corrie established a post-war home for other camp survivors trying to recover from the horrors they had escaped. She went on to travel widely as a missionary, preaching God's forgiveness and the need for reconciliation. Corrie's devout moral principles were tested when, by chance, she came face to face with one of her former tormentors in 1947. The following description of that experience is excerpted from her 1971 autobiography, The Hiding Place, written with the help of John and Elizabeth Sherrill.