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Ressmont · 08-21-2009

Last week I picked out my old 1971 copy of "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom from my bookshelves. I have read it several times, but not in the past 20 or so years. Most of you have probably enjoyed it with its stories of the ten Boom family in Nazi-controlled Holland and how they worked with the Dutch resistance movement helping Jews escape and hiding Jews behind a wall in their home, The Beje.

Being a rainy day, I decided to sit down and read it once again. This time, however, I found myself making numerous marks and notations in the margins. From the beginning it made me queasy how astounding alike was Corrie's world and our world today--since I am an American, here in free America! Holland was free and Christian, but suddenly like an anvil falling from the sky, the country was seized and controlled by war and imprisoned by Nazi German socialism. The quaint life of a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker was turned horribly upside down.

Page after page was eerily reading like today's news. I wonder if people will wake up in time? Perhaps we are indeed finally at the End of the Age.

Anyway, I thought I would mention to anyone interested that this is a book worth reading or re-reading again. The central message of Corrie ten Boom's book "The Hiding Place" is forgiveness and that Christ is the Victor over any sort of evil and that faith can indeed move mountains in impossible places and that Jesus is all that we need, no matter how difficult the circumstances.

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Ressmont Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hiawatha Forest Posts: 21	The Hiding Place Last week I picked out my old 1971 copy of "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom from my bookshelves. I have read it several times, but not in the past 20 or so years. Most of you have probably enjoyed it with its stories of the ten Boom family in Nazi-controlled Holland and how they worked with the Dutch resistance movement helping Jews escape and hiding Jews behind a wall in their home, The Beje. Being a rainy day, I decided to sit down and read it once again. This time, however, I found myself making numerous marks and notations in the margins. From the beginning it made me queasy how astounding alike was Corrie's world and our world today--since I am an American, here in free America! Holland was free and Christian, but suddenly like an anvil falling from the sky, the country was seized and controlled by war and imprisoned by Nazi German socialism. The quaint life of a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker was turned horribly upside down. Page after page was eerily reading like today's news. I wonder if people will wake up in time? Perhaps we are indeed finally at the End of the Age. Anyway, I thought I would mention to anyone interested that this is a book worth reading or re-reading again. The central message of Corrie ten Boom's book "The Hiding Place" is forgiveness and that Christ is the Victor over any sort of evil and that faith can indeed move mountains in impossible places and that Jesus is all that we need, no matter how difficult the circumstances.