![]() ![]() "Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere." "If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes." “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.” “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. "This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only he can see." ![]() “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.” ![]() But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.” “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. “With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be…” “What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.” “In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.” “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” “Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves.” “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” “God takes our sins – the past, present, and future, and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says NO FISHING ALLOWED.” “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” “Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.” “Some knowledge is too heavy.you cannot bear it.your Father will carry it until you are able.” “You will find it is necessary to let things go, simply for the reason that they are too heavy.” “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.” When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command, the love itself.” Give me your forgiveness.And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on his. Jesus Christ had died for this man was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him.Jesus, I cannot forgive him. “Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. "Love is larger than the walls which shut it in." “And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work he will give us to do. “Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.” We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. There are two things we can do when this happens. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. “Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. "You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have." The title refers to the secret place where the family hid countless Jewish people needing help in their home and is based on this scripture, “You are my hiding place and my shield I hope in your word” ( Psalm 119:114). ![]() She authored a number of books and was most famously known for The Hiding Place, the incredible story of her life. God brought incredible beauty and healing through her difficult experiences, and her words still have great relevance and impact in our world today. She was miraculously released from prison just days after her sister had died there. Corrie and her sister were sent to a notorious Nazi concentration camp. When their home was raided after an informant tipped off the Nazis of their activities, the entire family was imprisoned. The ten Boom family were Dutch Christians who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust of WWII. Evidence still that God uses all we walk through in this world for greater purposes and good, more than we could possibly ever imagine. Her deep wisdom came with the cost of journeying through great pain in this life, yet many of us have gleaned amazing nuggets of truth from her experiences. Corrie ten Boom was one of the godliest, soul-rich individuals I’ve ever read words from. I think the rest of the world would agree. According to Jewish custom, celebrating the same day for both birth and death is the unique sign of a very special individual. At the age of 91, on that very same date in 1983, she also passed into Heaven’s gates. This past month on April 15th marked the birthday of the amazing woman, Corrie ten Boom. Image courtesy: Ten Boom Museum Photo Album, Stock Footage by The Legacy of Corrie Ten Boom ![]()
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