Today is Wednesday, December 16th, 2015; Karen's Korner #3208

Something written and published by Corrie Ten Boom in "Each New Day:  365 Reflections to Strengthen Your Faith". If you recall (or if you never knew), Corrie was held in a Nazi concentration camp for her family's work in Holland, helping Jews to escape from their potential captors:


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"Once, while we were on roll call, a cruel guard kept us standing for a long, long time. Suddenly a skylark began to sing in the sky and all the prisoners looked up to listen to that bird's song. As I looked at the bird I saw the sky, and I thought of Psalm 103:11. O love of God, how deep and great; far deeper than man's deepest hate. God sent that  skylark daily for three weeks, exactly during roll call, to turn our eyes away from the cruelty of men to the ocean of his love.

"For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear (stand in awe of)him."

~ Psalm 103:11 KJV

"Thank you, Lord, that you are always willing to turn our eyes in the right direction unto you."

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