God's Footprints, Part 2
During the same week that I receive Angie's devotion on looking intentionally for God's footprints in our lives, I was reading The Hiding Place , the story of Corrie Ten Boom. Corrie lived with her father and sister in Holland in the 1930s. She was 50-years old and working in her father's watch shop when Germany came in looking to "exterminate" anyone they deemed unworthy, from Jews to the mentally ill. Corrie became one of the queen ringleaders in the fight against the Holocaust, finding hiding places for anyone in need and taking in the "least desirable" into her own home. Eventually she was caught and sent to a concentration camp as punishment. Corrie and her sister Betsie were in the camp together. Their parents had raised them in a Christian home, which included nightly Bible readings and belief in the power of prayer. While Corrie was like "the rest of us," not shy to hide her complaints when the smell of the latrines was ...