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Corrie Ten Boom's now classic autobiography The Hiding Place recounting her time working as part of the Dutch underground during World War II and her enduring of Nazi prisons and concentration camps with her sister Betsie is a surprising book on a number of fronts. In many ways what is most remarkable about the it is how unremarkable Corrie's story is—it is the account of a group of incredibly normal and almost boring people, humble people of faith attempting to live out their lives in faithfulness to God and their neighbors. The power of her story, however, is found in what these normal people decide to do when placed in dire and extraordinary circumstances. And thus, interspersed all throughout The Hiding Place are ever increasing miracles of the mundane. They are miracles to be sure, instances where God meets people and the truly miraculous occurs, but they are low-key miracles bound up in the ordinariness of life. Corrie ten Boom's story has been inspirational to millions but it also offers a direct challenge: Will we allow God to be present and move in our everyday lives? Even when we do not seem to be heroes or extraordinary people can God use us to bring about the miraculous?
