Adapted from Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot (p. 69-71)

The Incarnation Is A Thing Too Wonderful Some things are simply too wonderful for explanation–the navigational system of the Arctic tern, for example. How does it find its way over twelve thousand miles of ocean from its nesting grounds in the Arctic to its wintering...

Regrets

148/Elisabeth Elliot When my father was twelve years old he lost his left eye through disobedience. He had been forbidden to have firecrackers, but he sneaked out early in the morning of July 4, 1910, and, with the help of a neighboring farmer, set off some dynamite...

Adapted from Elisabeth Elliot (pg. 206)

Stilled now be every anxious care; See God’s great goodness everywhere; Leave all to Him in perfect rest: He will do all things for the best. From the German Back to the...

Adapted from Elisabeth Elliot (p. 146)

the work included children in other kinds of need. The most powerful witness to the quality of the service Amma rendered is to be seen in the Indian men and women who were reared there and who have remained to lay down their lives for others. Pungaja, for example,...

Spiritual Opposition

Adapted from Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot (p .98) When Lars and I returned from a fortnight in Scotland and England there was the expected pile-up of work awaiting us, and the usual temptation to feel overwhelmed by it. The suitcase had to be unpacked,...