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In Her Book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom ...
Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Aug 4, 2009 (message contributor)
In her book, THE HIDING PLACE, Corrie Ten Boom relates an incident that taught her to be thankful for things we normally would not be thankful for. She and her sister, Betsy, prisoners of the Nazis, had just been transferred to the worst prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck.
Upon entering the barracks, they found them extremely overcrowded and infested with fleas. Their Scripture reading from their smuggled Bible that morning was in 1 Thessalonians. It had reminded them to rejoice always, pray constantly, and give thanks in all circumstances.
Betsy told Corrie to stop and thank the Lord for every detail of their new living quarters. Corrie at first flatly refused to give thanks for the fleas, but Betsy persisted.
Corrie finally agreed to somehow thank God for even the fleas.
During the months spent at that camp, they were surprised to find how openly they could hold Bible study and prayer meetings in their barracks without guard interference.
Several months later they learned that the guards would not enter the barracks because of the fleas.
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