A Prisoner and Yet...

[Technically I finished this at thirteen minutes past midnight, but I'm counting it as a 2015 read!] Eight weeks ago, Jim Wilson called me out of the blue and suggested that we chat. I was in his living room about an hour later (good...no time to get nervous). He said we could talk about whatever I w......more

Corrie Ten Boom was an amazing lady. She suffered atrocities no one should suffer. She was beaten, starved, humiliated, stripped naked, cold, sick, and lost her family in that concentration camp. And yet... she shared Jesus with the hope of glory to her fellow prisoners and guards. She counted her su......more

Reading this book reminded me that life is not all about me and that life is full of suffering. One of the most fascinating parts about Corrie's story is that she simply viewed her imprisonment as the environment where Christ had guided her to carry the gospel. To Corrie, imprisonment was a fluid pa......more

This book isn't as good as The Hiding Place but it is still so encouraging and so heartbreaking. 💔 Corrie Ten Boom was an amazing woman and is one of my heroes.......more

This is so hard for me because I love CTB!! Like, want to name a daughter Corrie. Buttttt this was not my favorite. It was *fine,* but not great? And almost painted her in too positive a light? If you’ve read The Hiding Place, you know it was Betsie who was the spiritually strong sister but that isn......more