Aquieta tu corazón

by Elisabeth Elliot, Poiema Publicaciones (editor)

320 pages, Paperback

Published March 14, 2025

About the author

From the Author's Web Site: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials.

Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.

A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category -- a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death.

Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.

After having worked for two years with the Aucas, I returned to the Quichua work and remained there until 1963 when Valerie and I returned to the U.S.

Since then, my life has been one of writing and speaking. It also included, in 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. He died in 1973. After his death I had two lodgers in my home. One of them married my daughter, the other one, Lars Gren, married me. Since then we have worked together.

Reviews

[Sury L.L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Los libros de Elliot tienen esa característica de tener muchos capítulos, y son breves. Este es el tercer libro que leo de la autora y puedo señalar que en este libro cada capítulo fue sacado de las experiencias de Elizabeth Elliot a través de las cartas que recibía. Y cada anécdota y enseñada está cargada de recuerdos, sentimiento y buenas formas de explicar el tema central que es la quietud de nuestro corazón en un mundo tan caído, la quietud en momentos de incertidumbre y en momentos que parecen interminables. Donde el dolor y el sufrimiento en las personas es constante que las respuestas para nosotros son necesarias, sin embargo a muchas preguntas quizá no las tendremos, pero descansamos en la confianza de que Dios es fiel en todo momento y ahora el propósito no lo vemos pero esta, y con el paso del tiempo se va esclareciendo y todo ese proceso lo vemos en diferentes formas en los capítulos.
Es un libro interesante. La razón por la cual le pongo cuatro estrellas es porque para mí se vuelve repetitivo.

[Solange San Martín · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen libro, edificante. Especialmente las primeras 3 porciones que alientan en la fe y lucha contra la ansiedad. La parte relativa a meditaciones de la vida diaria creo que deberían estar en un libro aparte.