“But I thought we might put them back in shape. Two elderly gardeners were poking about the flowerbeds… inlaid wood floors inside, and a grand gallery around a central hall, and–and bas-relief statues, set along the walls… Round the final bend, we saw it, a fifty-six room mansion in the center of a vast lawn. Not surprisingly, it looked exactly as Betsie had envisioned it, right down to the inlaid wood floors and statues. 25-26Ī widow of the suburb of Blemendaal provided an estate to Corrie, to be used as a place of healing for victims of the holocaust. It is this love that overcomes, and is able to change even a colorless prison camp into a garden of flowers. The women had been freed or sent to other prisons The same week I rented the whole camp, and now it is a place where refugees can stay while they build houses in the neighborhood…What a change bright-green paint and flowers, many flowers, can make to a place! … Human love has failed in this world, but the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given to us (Romans 5:5). When I returned to the camp it was empty. ![]() I could speak to them of Jesus’ victory, His love for sinners and His finished work on the Cross when He carried the sins of the whole world, theirs included. Young women still, now imprisoned behind barbed wire but more imprisoned by demoniacal powers. How their experiences during the War had demoralized them. It was in Darmstadt, where shortly after the War I found several of my former guards. ![]() Corrie ten Boom, Not Good if Detached, pg. No matter how deep down into darkness one goes, deeper still are the everlasting arms. Only those who have had the experience of being in a concentration camp can know how deep that darkness really is. Have you read my book A Prisoner and Yet.” In it you can see that Jesus’ light is stronger than the deepest darkness. I’m truly thankful for her life and witness. What an amazing woman humble and unpretentious always admitting her faults, loving others, even enemies and trusting God in the darkest of situations. ![]() I have been sharing stories from Corrie ten Boom, and today I want to share some final quotes from Corrie.
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