Watching the Prison Clock

Time presented the greatest fear. When we were first made prisoners we thought that we would be out in about sixty days. The weeks passed and we thought ninety or 100 days would surely bring deliverance. The hundredth day did, but for so short a period! Time went on until I had been under the Jerries nearly five months. The days seemed so long and the nights so dark but not once did I feel that we would never be freed. The uncertainty of the time tantalized us. It made the waiting hard and the men impatient. Liberation seemed so far away. I found that by living a day at a time and trusting the future to God was the surest and best way of passing the time.