Hidden Places (2001) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Gabe Harper: Add a description of this character.
• Frank Wyatt
• Aunt Batty
• Samuel
• Matthew Wyatt
• Lydia
• Walter Gibson
• Jimmy
• Gabriel Harper
• Becky Jean
• Mama
• Betsy Gibson
• Luke
• John Wakefield
• Eliza
• Willie
• Dr. Gilbert
• Betty
• Nellie Bly
• Peter
• Alvin Greer
• Arabella
• Charlie
• Mr. Preston
• Herman Walters
• Toots
• Henry
• Johnny
• Grandpa Wyatt
• Sam Wyatt
• Ted Bartlett
• Harry
• Ethel
• Simon

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• “"I like a story that takes me to places I've never visited before---one with characters that seem like old friends. But most of all, one that gives me something to think about long after I've finished reading it."”

  Aunt Batty (Betty)

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• God really does know what’s best for us. He created us. His perfect will is perfect for us, whether we can understand it with our limited minds or not. Even so, He allows each of us to decide: Will we choose our own way or maybe society’s way—and end up settling for less than perfection? Or will we let God take us where He has chosen—and be amazed?”

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• “We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it” HENRI NOUWEN

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• “Ask Him for help when you need it. Talk things over with Him the same way you used to talk with your Aunt Peanut or with Gabe. You have to learn to trust God to catch you when you feel like you’re going to fall, just like those acrobats trusted each other. God may be big and strong, but He’ll never crush you. Everything God does in our lives is perfect, even if doesn’t always look that way on the outside.

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• “None of us will ever be all that God wants us to be until we face our past, face the people and the events that God put in our lives that shaped us and made us who we are. But first we have to get over our anger at Him for allowing the bad things to happen. Jesus says if we ask our Father for bread, He won’t give us a stone. We have to stop seeing the bad things in life as stones—they’re really God’s bread. They’ll nourish us and help us grow if we accept them as food for our souls.”

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• Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms, you know. He didn’t have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn’t enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance!”

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• “Look at those trees outside our window, Betsy. If you never saw spring before, you would lose hope, you would chop them all down, believing they’re dead. But spring will come again. They will blossom again and bear fruit. I’m in the winter of my life, and you’re looking at my dying body and seeing it like those trees, without hope. But in Christ, new life will come. Jesus said, ‘Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.’ This isn’t the end. You and I will live for all eternity.”

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• “Do you know why we constantly fight the notion of death, Betsy? I just read about that in Genesis the other day. It’s because God created us to live forever with Him in Eden. Death was not God’s choice; it was man’s. Death is unnatural, a punishment for sin. But God countered man’s choice with another perfect plan—He redeemed us in Christ so we could live forever with Him.”

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• “I like a story that takes me to places I’ve never visited before—one with characters that seem like old friends. But most of all, one that gives me something to think about long after I’ve finished reading it.”

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• “Life is very precious to God. That’s why He made it so fragile and so short.” “That makes absolutely no sense.” “Yes, it does. He made it fragile so we would treasure it, just like He does. You’re not nearly as careful with your cast-iron frying pans as you are with your good china, are you? God wanted life to be precious to us—so He made it as frail as fine china.”

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• “Why did God have to make our lives so fragile and so short?” Walter thought for a moment before answering. “Because life is very precious to Him. He treasures each life He created and He wants us to treasure it, too—like fine porcelain china. God knows what it’s like to live and die in a frail human body like ours. His Son suffered physical death, Betsy, so that you and I can face it without ever being afraid.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Chicago
• France
• Myrtle
• New York
• Washington
• Good Book
• St. Mihiel

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lynn N. Austin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Christy Award (2002: North American Historical)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Literature & Fiction › Fiction
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Fiction
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary