--Clippings From My Notebook
--By: Corrie ten Boom
-[A Survivor of Revensbruck Concentration Camp]
--CHOICES ~~
"He will keep you steadfast in the faith to the end, so that when his day comes you need fear no condemnation." (1 Cor 1:8)[Phillips]

--Several years ago I was in Vietnam. It was one of the times I suffered with the people in the war. I remember that I went as far as I could go through the jungle and rice paddies to the front lines so I could speak to the American G.I.'s--young men, yes, in my eyes still boys. Their life was hard. Days and days they had to live in the jungle. They suffered and made people suffer.

We heard around us bombs falling and the "ric-a-tic" of machine guns. The soldiers were thankful--almost too happy--for a visit from an old lady who had come from a country where there was peace. And now I was with them on the battlefield. They seldom saw women there, perhaps only the prostitutes. I had such pity for them.

I tried first to tell them all the jokes I could remember in English. Then I said, "Now boys, I want to talk "turkey" (straight-forward)'" (I tried to use some slang I had learned from the students.) "There are two possibilities. Either you come through the war alive or you fall in action. Let us think a moment if that last thing happens. Are you ready to meet a righteous God? Are you not ready? Come to Jesus. He is willing and able to prepare you."

A lady told me later that her son had written her from Vietnam: "Now I know what it means to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior. I did it and what peace there is in my heart."
Three weeks later he fell in action. ~~
"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."~~