We have done several videos about the book, "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom. The insights on this book are amazing. As I went through the book I realized that it is full of potential goals that one could set to grow spiritually and emotionally. The main subject is forgiveness, allowing us to step away from the person's actions and take on our Heavenly Father's 'Perfect Way' of loving. From her first love who walked away from her because of her family's lack of social standing to the Lieutenant in the Nazi Concentration Camp that sought her out for the light she carried within her soul, to the SS officer that stood guard over the showers and came to one of her lectures post World War II, then came up to her to shake her hand. Forgiveness is a strong and powerful emotion. She opened homes for the survivors of the concentration camps to help them heal emotionally after the inhumane treatment. And, to her surprise, German soldiers also sought out the emotional help. She attempted to put them together in the homes, but arguments happened instead and no healing happened. So, she put them in separate homes...let the healing happen, then slowly put them together for short time frames and true forgiveness began to take place. She was amazed at what she was seeing, Jewish concentration camp survivors and the German soldiers, together, and happy. Truly turning it all over to our Heavenly Father was the best way to heal all of the wounds left from a horrible experience. Forgiveness is something that is shunned in today's world. Instead it is more favorable to pour salt in an emotional wound and let it fester and grow; one is 'justified' in the hate that then builds. Because...you deserve to hate and not forgive; the person doesn't deserve forgiveness. This breeds hate, sometimes generational hate. We have been commanded that we should forgive, indeed '70 x 7' should we forgive. Now, the generational hate, that needs to be forgiven and we need to move forward. Parental abuse or abuse from a relative, should also be forgiven. That also does not mean that you put yourself or others in the situation to have the abuse to happen again. It means that you have taken it all off of your shoulders and laid on our Savior's shoulders. He can take it away from us; then if the person doesn't change that is their issue with their Savior. We can't take other's freedom to choose away from them. We can choose for ourselves how we react. We have put together a workbook to use throughout the book. We have deep introspective for one to go through with each chapter. Some are simple; some may take a little bit of thinking. It's an amazing book, I highly recommend getting and reading it. The workbook will make you think deeper as you read it. To purchase the book: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom To purchase the workbook: An Introspective: The Hiding Place by Carolyn Bendall
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