The Watchmaker's Hands That Held the World at Bay

In her memoir The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom recalls a childhood ritual that shaped her understanding of God. Every night in their narrow Haarlem house above the watch shop, her father Caspar would climb the stairs to her small bedroom. His large, steady hands — the same hands that repaired the tiniest watch mechanisms by day — would reach down to tuck the blankets snugly around her.…