Corrie ten Boom and the Watchmaker's Listening Room

In the narrow house on Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands, old Casper ten Boom gathered his children each evening around the dining table for Scripture reading. Young Corrie sat close, watching her father's lips move silently in prayer before he opened the Bible. "Corrie," he once told her, "when God speaks, He often sounds like the most ordinary thing — a neighbor's request, a child's cry, a knock at the door.…