My son has been reading the book The Hiding Place for school. My wife and I have been going through it with him. What a fascinating, heart-wrenching story.

There's so much I could say about Corrie Ten Boom's story in general, but as we've finished the book, I think I am most struck by the wild, stark contrast between the horrific life that the prisoners of nazi concentration camps had to endure, all the while life just, went on, like normal, for so many people outside of them. Even for people that lived in such close proximity to them, that either had no idea the kinds of atrocities that went on inside them, or worse, had some idea, and chose to do nothing about it. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say, were or felt helpless to do anything about it.

Nobody should ever have to live that way (OK, there actually are some who deserve to, but that's a whole other conversation), under any circumstances, but especially, especially when so many lives go on unhindered alongside it.