Forgiveness vs. rejection Clearing the record of those who have
wronged me and not holding a grudge. Forgiveness does not come
naturally and it is difficult to really understand the meaning
of forgiveness. Forgiving, forgetting and moving on are all
important aspects of forgiveness. On a winter morning in 1944,
the Gestapo raided the home of Casper ten Boom. Casper and his
two daughters had quietly sheltered Jews during the German
occupation. Casper ten Boom died a few days after the raid and
the girls, Betsie and Corrie, found themselves on a train bound
for a dreaded concentration camp. There, the sisters were
starved, beaten and subjected to forced labor - all because of a
stranger named Jan Vogel. It was he who betrayed them to the
Nazis. In the midst of betrayal and mistreatment the character
quality of forgiveness may seem impossible. That was Corrie ten
Boom's initial feeling - she hated Jan Vogel. She was so
consumed with anger that she became ill and was unable to sleep.
Yet Betsie expressed no rage.