Facing Death

Due to the encouragement of a good friend, I just finished reading Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place. I read it years and years ago. As I read it this time, I indeed saw its lasting value as Christian literature and that it still has a powerful impact. In one scene, for example, Corrie talks about as a child she was confronted with another child's death . . . it troubled her greatly. And later that night Corrie's father came to see her, and

"I burst into tears, 'I need you!' I sobbed. 'You can't die! You can't!' . . . Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. 'Corrie,' he began gently, 'when you and I go to Amsterdam -- when do I give you your ticket?' I sniffed a few minutes considering this. 'Why, just before we get on the train.' 'Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need -- just in time.'"