I really love this woman:
"It's alluring to think of our own situation as very complex and ourselves as deep and complicated, so that we waste a good deal of time puzzling over "the will of God." Frequently our conscience has the answer."
'Discerning the Call of God', Elisabeth Elliot
Sept./Oct. '92 newsletter
"'The chain of cause and effect which makes up human life, is bisected at every point by a veritcal line relating us and all we do to God.'-Von Hugel
This is what he has given us to do, this task here on this earth, not the task we aspired to do, but this one. The absurdities involved cut us down to size. The great discrepancy between what we envisioned and what we've got force us to be real. And God is our great Reality, more real than the realest of earthly conditions, an unchanging Reality. It's where we belong. It is for us to receive it--all of it--humbly, quietly, thankfully."
(excerpt from Elisabeth Elliot's newsletter Nov./Dec. 1992)
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