The Watchmaker's Daughter Who Gave Thanks in Hell
On a bitter December day in 1944, Corrie ten Boom walked out of Ravensbrück concentration camp clutching a discharge paper stamped with a clerical error....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24.
On a bitter December day in 1944, Corrie ten Boom walked out of Ravensbrück concentration camp clutching a discharge paper stamped with a clerical error. She was fifty-two years old. Her father Caspar had died in a prison corridor ten months earlier. Her beloved sister Betsie had perished in Ravensbrück just days before, whispering from her cot, "We must tell people that there is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still."…
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