Status Updates From Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

^She could endure because she cast all her anxieties on God. She gave up the most enormous hopes of her life and the smallest details of her schedule to Him.^

^He [Jim Elliot] jotted in his journal, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”^

^Betty spent many wintry afternoons in Mrs. Cunningham’s cozy space. The older lady would pour out tea, and Betty would pour out her soul. Mrs. Cunningham’s rosy face showed sympathy, love, and understanding as she listened. She would quietly sip her tea, nodding. Then she’d pray, look up, and strengthen Betty not with sentiment, but with strong words, words straight from the Scripture.^

I aspire to be this

^”Love is spontaneous but must be maintained by discipline.”
—Oswald Chambers^

^Art moved her profoundly. She wrote in her journal, “When I hear a great composition—poetry or music—I am deeply moved by the passion of its author, the pathos—and love seems to me to be too high and glorious a thing to be thought of in connection with any man I’ve ever known. I wonder if the Lord has someone for me.”^

^Betty went on to describe the concert . . . a family that sang “perfectly beautifully together . . . They have very fine faces, portraying strong character and pure lives. All have absolute pitch, a rare quality.”

Their names?

The family von Trapp, led by Baroness Maria von Trapp, singing at Wheaton nineteen years before The Sound of Music movie would enshrine them forever in American culture.^

^One young woman asked, “What is missionary life like?”

[Amy] Carmichael’s concise response was not particularly encouraging: “Missionary life is simply a chance to die.”^

Jim Elliot was wild