I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague i….

Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich….

This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution..

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city gir….

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arr….

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation c….

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the prev….

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in ….

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me..

Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. So….

The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free….

They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews..

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was..

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me….

Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselve….

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do..

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would h….

It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant ….

Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realizatio….

It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to….