Amy Baik Lee
Amy holds an M.A. in English literature, and have worked in the past as a short story writer for a monthly devotional and as a manuscript editor. She lives with her husband and their two children in the American West. You can check out her blog here.
Bio last updated September 27th, 2018.
Articles by Amy Baik Lee
Beauty Beyond the Reach of Shadow
By Amy Baik Lee
September 25, 2018
How did Betsie ten Boom, sister of Corrie ten Boom, manage to meet suffering without giving way to fear and despair? wonders Amy Baik Lee. Today we share this wonderful reflection on how we follow the thread of yearning that whispers through our living moments and tugs us forward with a mighty force.
What I’ve come to see is that Betsie’s home years, and her intentional cultivation of beauty within them, prepared her for her time in the Dutch prison and the Nazi concentration camps Betsie made home a place where the eye was drawn to beauty in various textures and colors More astounding still, Betsie wasn’t shaking an angry fist in the face of tyranny with these small acts, or “making the best of things” in futility; the home she made in her cell was simply the spilling over of a Christ-facing faith How did Betsie manage to meet suffering without giving way to fear and despair? In the middle of a concentration camp, how could she interpret the provision of something so small as vitamin drops as an act of love from God? How does one grow to face hardship, not with grim and gray countenance, but with such trust and peace, such expanse of soul?