We were without power ALL day yesterday. It finally came on about 2:30 this a.m. If I heard once "I am bored" from Wang Chung-Freedy Bob-Woohoo-Chang, I heard it a thousand times. So, what does Ed do? He pulls out an old hymnal he has and decided we needed an old-fashioned hymn sing. We all looked at him like he was nuts but we did it. Halfway through the first song Chang said "I not bored anymore". It didn't last long though!!
I started a new book today it is "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom. It is amazing so far. I do not usually read non-fiction but this is proving to be a good choice. It is a 1971 book on the life of Corrie Ten Boom, written by ten Boom together with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
The idea of a book on ten Boom's life began as John and Elizabeth Sherrill were doing research for the book God's Smuggler, about ten Boom's fellow Dutchman, Brother Andrew. Corrie ten Boom was already in her mid-seventies when the Sherills first heard about her. She was one of Brother Andrew's favorite traveling companions and many of his recollections were about her. In the preface to the book, the Sherills recount: ...his [Brother Andrew's] fascinating stories about her in Vietnam, where she had earned that most honorable title "Double-old Grandmother" - and in a dozen other Communist countries - came to mind so often that we finally had to hold up her hands to stop his flow of reminiscence. "We could never fit her into the book," we said. "She sounds like a book in herself." It's the sort of thing you say. Not meaning anything. It was later made into a film of the same name. The title refers to both the physical hiding place where the ten Boom family secreted Jews from the Nazis, and also to the Scriptural message from the Book of Isaiah which states in part, "Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word... Hold thou me up, and I..."
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