Now there are young Jewish refugees looking for shelter against the rising threat of Hitler and the Nazis. He works as head of the Dutch Reformed Church’s program for Jewish outreach, raising money to house elderly Jews in his town. An ordained minister, Willem lives with his wife and children about thirty miles away in Hilversum. Corrie jokes with Peter and wonders where her older brother Willem is. Pickwick arrives, initially scaring people with his face, but eventually winning them over by using his stomach to hold his coffee cup. Nollie excitedly promises that the whole family, including Corrie’s favorite nephew Peter, will come to the Beje soon.īack at the house, Father is busy playing with the children who enjoy listening to the dozens of watches ticking, which the jovial old man carries with him to regulate them. In her present voice, Corrie remarks that she can hardly believe that so much suffering - including the death of her father and disgraceful treatment of his sister - would follow such happiness.Īfterwards the whole of Haarlem shows up to celebrate with this well loved family and Corrie has to go to her sister Nollie, her husband and six children’s house to fetch more coffee cups. The group then reminisces about Mama ten Boom and her delight in special occasions such as these. He arrived at the shop years ago after being a traveling clock repairman. Christoffels, the repairman arrives midway through, surprising everyone with a brand new suit, although he normally wears shabby clothes. Afterwards they have scripture reading according to tradition. The two sisters arrange the flowers in a room full of ticking watches, as Corrie reflects that the family is finally catching onto more effective advertising methods although they are too generous to make much money from the business.Īt 7:45 Hans the apprentice arrives, at 8:00 Toos the book keeper comes and as he does every day at 8:10 Father ten Boom comes down to breakfast. A beloved family friend who is generous and kind, Pickwick gets his nickname from the work by Charles Dickens on account of his incredibly ugly face. In her party finery, Corrie hurries to answer the doorbell, receiving the first of many bouquets of flowers, rather than Herman Sluring or Pickwick as she expected. Nevertheless, Corrie dresses in relatively modern fashions compared to her mother’s generation who wore black from the neck down. Unmarried and forty-five years old, she feels less graceful and slender than her sister Betsie who is seven years older. In a small house called the Beje in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie gazes in the mirror, waltzes to her closet and gets into her new maroon dress, while reflecting on the changing times. 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.Corrie ten Boom wakes up one early January morning in 1937 to discover that there will be exceptionally sunny weather for her family’s watch shop’s one-hundredth birthday party. “Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”. #Jesus Quotes #Healing Quotes #Men Quotes 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. “How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.”. #Hurt Quotes #Healing Quotes #Keys Quotes “And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. #Flower Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'”. I take each remark as if it were a flower. “When people come up and give me a compliment. #Book Quotes #Strenght Quotes #Brain Quotes “God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things.In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.”. #Jesus Quotes #Mad Quotes #Perfect Quotes Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.”.
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