Valerie elliot shepard husband quotes

Many times during my adult years, I&#;ve been asked if I felt burdened by “having to be like” my mother. I’ve often said no, because for about 20 years, I wasn&#;t consciously thinking I had to be.

When I went to Wheaton College, I assumed I would be like my two amazing parents in zeal for God and study habits.

I had a carefree, expectant attitude that “of course, I would be like them” because I wanted to be.

She's like a gift that really does keep on giving.

"I'm everlastingly thankful for my mother, who taught me to trust in Jesus, and today we thank our Creator for sending His Son to pay a debt He didn't owe.".

“Wherever you are, be all there.

“Let not our longing slay the appetite of living.” Jim Elliot's words in a letter to the girl he wanted to marry would become famous when he was slain just.

Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard wrote to each other over the five years before they were married.

I was naïve.

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My Father’s Words to Live By

I hadn&#;t read the whole bookThe Journals of Jim Elliot until about six years ago. I had perused it, searching for the “good parts,” but I&#;d never read it all the way through.

When I did, I came across four maxims, and it dawned on me that these were ideals that I could live by, with God’s help.

Now that I’m no longer the youthful and carefree idealist I was when I entered Wheaton, I see much more clearly that serious prayer and meditation are keys to making these my own.

1. “Answer to the rudder, or answer t