Several things struck me when I re-read Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place recently. The family already had a habit of ministering to people on the margins: the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the sick. And they had been shaped by suffering. /1 https://twitter.com/CTmagazine/status/1327659564171452417

The kind of bravery and surrender to God’s will that they exercised under Nazi occupation reflected their already-in-play habit of resisting the evil & dehumanization that existed in menial ways. So when the day of major evil came, they were ready to resist in big ways. /2

We should not assume that we would have done what the ten Booms did. If anything, we should examine ourselves and wonder whether we’re doing anything to resist callous dehumanization of the poor, the sick, the feeble, the undesirable, the vulnerable, & otherwise marginalized. /3

Or else we might find ourselves in the same position as the Dutch Church many decades later, finally seeing clearly its own sins but without the ability to go back in time to make different, life-saving instead of death-filled choices. /4