Graced beyond telling is the story of one woman’s growing up in life, in faith, in self-discovery; a story of finding inner peace, inner meaning, inner acceptance of the person God intended her to be.

It is about a growing awareness of God’s presence in her life, bringing wonder, trust and peace. A story of searching, occasional and deep confusion, times of abandonment, vulnerability and a growing sense of God’s Spirit at work in her life and her ministry. It is an account of her ‘yes’ to the presence and purposes of God in her life, purposes that shaped her world and her life even before her life began. Ultimately, it is a story of grace at work in the ordinary everyday of her life.

In a sense, too, it is the story of everyone’s journey in faith - unknowing, trusting, discovering, letting go. A journey of accepting that our lives are part of a cosmos infinitely larger than ourselves and a gradual making sense of that mystery and accepting it in faith.

...a love story of great depth, beauty and honesty … holds together light and darkness, dislocation and connection, adventure and ordinariness, pain and delight, wonder and struggle … – Madeline Duckett rsm

Corrie’s account of her life-long spiritual journey offers a ‘lighthouse’ for those on this voyage of discovery. – Gabrielle McMullen

This beautiful book is replete with wisdom. It will give inspiration and encouragement to many readers. – Brian Gallagher msc

This is a book with heart and soul; and offers an invitation to delve more deeply into the hope and grace that is offered to all. – Fiona Basile

Corrie van den Bosch is a Missionary Sister of Service. Her family migrated from The Netherlands when she was a child, and settled in rural Tasmania, which is where she first met the sisters whose congregation she joined sixty-four years ago. The MSS mission took her into the highways and byways of many parts of Australia’s rural and outback areas as well as into urban areas. She credits the people with whom she has lived and worked, and also the country itself, for the woman she has become and the story contained in this book.