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The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom

by Pamela Rosewell Moore

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Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal and arrest by the Nazis, had launched for Corrie a worldwide ministry of travel and speaking. Awed by the spiritual challenge this companionship posed, Pam wondered how she could keep up with the energetic 83-year-old. But God knit a strong bond between the young Englishwoman and the remarkable Dutch evangelist. Then Corrie suffered a stroke. Hospitalization followed; physical therapy; then long, loving hours at home. Corrie regained a little mobility for a time -- until the next strokes hit. She never regained her speech. But the ministry that had touched millions continued as Corrie communicated through her eyes, through elaborate guessing games with those around her, through silent intercession for people God brought to mind. For those five silent years of imprisonment, Corrie's spiritual depth offered mute testimony to her ongoing trust in her heavenly Father. The details of these years will move all who loved Corrie ten Boom. They will encourage those involved with the elderly or handicapped -- and those who are themselves bedridden -- that God is at work mysteriously in and through even the most incapacitated. This book attests to the truth Corrie loved so dearly: that, in spite of everything else, Jesus is always Victor.… (more)
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De altijd zo energieke Corrie ten Boom kon ineens niets meer: niet bewegen, niet praten. Ze had een hersenbloeding gehad. Haar begeleidster Pam Rosewell moest ineens leiding geven aan een vrouw die gewoon was zelf de leiding te nemen.
Enige tijd daarvoor was de inmiddels 86-jarige Corrie ten Boom gestopt met reizen en woonde met Pam in een bungalow in
Californië. Maar haar werklust was gebleven, tot enkele dagen voor haar hersenbloeding. Daarna braken haar vijf stille jaren aan.
Zij was haar spraak kwijt en communiceerde met haar ogen en soms een enkel woord. Ondanks haar handicaps verwonderde iedereen zich over haar vredige uitstraling - een gevolg van haar intieme omgang met de Heer.
Wat Pam schrijft over haar jaren met Corrie ten Boom - de zeer actieve en de zeer stille jaren - is een bemoediging voor allen die te maken hebben met ziekte, bedlegerigheid, onvermogen en een naderend einde.
  karnoefel | Feb 2, 2019 |
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Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) is internationaal bekend (geworden) door haar indrukwekkende beleving van haar geloof. De in Haarlem geboren (15 april 1892) dochter van een horlogemaker kreeg een christelijke opvoeding. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog zetten haar ouders zich intensief in voor de joden. Door verraad werd het gezin door de nazi's opgepakt en in Scheveningen gevangen gezet, waar haar vader na tien dagen stierf. Corrie en haar zus kwamen uiteindelijk in het beruchte concentratiekamp Ravensbruck terecht. Betsie overleed er, maar Corrie overleefde de verschrikkingen. Na de oorlog trok ze tot haar 87ste levensjaar getuigend van haar Heer en Heiland de wereld door. In Californie werd ze getroffen door een hersenbloeding, en vijf stille jaren (ze kon niet meer spreken) volgden. Ze stierf op haar verjaardag in 1983. Haar nicht Pam vertelt over leven en laatste jaren van deze bewonderenswaardige en voorbeeldige christin: loepzuiver en doorleefd. Een vijfde druk van een nog steeds bemoedigend boek.

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Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal and arrest by the Nazis, had launched for Corrie a worldwide ministry of travel and speaking. Awed by the spiritual challenge this companionship posed, Pam wondered how she could keep up with the energetic 83-year-old. But God knit a strong bond between the young Englishwoman and the remarkable Dutch evangelist. Then Corrie suffered a stroke. Hospitalization followed; physical therapy; then long, loving hours at home. Corrie regained a little mobility for a time -- until the next strokes hit. She never regained her speech. But the ministry that had touched millions continued as Corrie communicated through her eyes, through elaborate guessing games with those around her, through silent intercession for people God brought to mind. For those five silent years of imprisonment, Corrie's spiritual depth offered mute testimony to her ongoing trust in her heavenly Father. The details of these years will move all who loved Corrie ten Boom. They will encourage those involved with the elderly or handicapped -- and those who are themselves bedridden -- that God is at work mysteriously in and through even the most incapacitated. This book attests to the truth Corrie loved so dearly: that, in spite of everything else, Jesus is always Victor.

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