If Your Future is Uncertain, Turn to Your Known God
Corrie Ten Boom grew up in a happy home in Holland. The household consisted of a watchmaker father, a mother devoted to helping others, three siblings and various aunts. The family was Dutch Reform with a strong faith in God.
The family home was always a welcoming place for anyone in need. And that is how Corrie’s greatest challenge in life started.
With the onset of Nazism in Europe in the 1930s, Jewish refuges began to show up in Holland at the Ten Boom house seeking refuge. The family gladly took them in and provided a hiding place. Since the family was well-beloved, well respected and Christian, they were not suspected of such illegal activity.
However, if there are spiritual lessons to be learned, they will manifest.
An unhappy former employee of the father’s turned in the family for harboring Jews, and the family members present were arrested and eventually became separated from each other.
Corrie and one of her sisters found each other at Ravensbruck, the terrible German women’s concentration camp, known for slave labor, executions, human medical experiments and the gas chamber.
It is here that Corrie’s sister died after years of suffering. But during all that time, they held prayer meetings in secret when possible, and passed around pages of the bible Corrie managed to sneak in and hide. It is this sister who inspired others to constantly see God’s presence in any small way even in these most dehumanizing of circumstances.
Corrie was the only member of the family who survived. She went on to do humanitarian work and speak about faith in God to groups throughout the world, until her death in 1983 at the age of 91 years. She was able to overcome the dark years to spread healing and faith to thousands, and thus to follow her sister’s plea to “go tell others.”
In our own spiritual community here today, we are able to use wonderful simple spiritual techniques, like grounding, centering, running and releasing energy, amusement and being in the present. We have the comfort of our home, the support and companionship of our family and friends, the encouragement of our church and the freedom of liberty in our nation.
In this way, we are spiritual leaders and healers in our larger community helping to elevate the energy. All we need is the desire and belief we can do this and faith in God of whom we are all a part.
As Corrie Ten Boom said, “When your future is uncertain, turn to the known God.”
