Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was one of the most well-known female preachers in Europe and North America during the 1960s and 1970s.
Her active support of many Jews during the German reign of terror, as well as her imprisonment in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, shaped her biography. Nevertheless, it was important to her to preach in Germany about the power of forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
Corrie ten Boom embodied the Christian faith so honestly, simply, and attractively that it was genuinely fascinating to many people. She once recounted that she was on a ship equipped with a radar device. The fog was so thick that one could not see the water around them. However, on the radar screen, there was a streak of light indicating that a ship was not far away. Corrie ten Boom wrote: the radar device saw through the fog while our eyes failed; the same is true of faith. It perceives the reality of God where our reason cannot recognize anything.
Corrie ten Boom often used the metaphor of a tapestry to explain the mystery of God's plan in her life. She compared life to a tapestry, where humans see only the backside with its tangled and chaotic threads, while God sees the beautiful design on the other side. This analogy illustrates how life's challenges and hardships may seem confusing or purposeless from a human perspective, but they contribute to a greater, divine pattern that only God fully understands.
