Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 Repackaged edition published 2013 Ebook edition created 2021 All rights reserved. You, too, will learn to let your heart rest “where true joys are to be found.” © 1984, 2002 by Elisabeth Elliot Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. They learned many lessons which Elisabeth Elliot now shares with you. Through their time of waiting upon the Lord, both grew in faith and their love was purified. the elation of love mingled with the pain of separation. fear of what may lie ahead combined with trust in God.  During those five years both experienced the same feelings that you may now have-loneliness. Jim took their word for it and committed himself to bachelorhood for as long as the will of God required.” Five years passed before Jim Elliot knew that it was God’s will that he and Elisabeth marry. There were some areas where women could not go. Older missionaries had told him that single men were needed to do jobs married ones could never do.  Perhaps for life, perhaps only until he had firsthand experience in the place where he was to work as a jungle missionary. The rain was the other fact he explained to me as we sat on the grass by the Lagoon-that God was calling him to remain single. The sunlight, which turned my world into a radiance of color, was the knowledge of Jim Elliot’s love. Table of contents : Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Introduction by Ruth Bell Graham 1 Me, Lord? Single? 2 The Life I Owe 3 Passion Is a Battleground 4 Unruly Affections 5 Does God Want Everything? 6 The Snake’s Reasoning 7 The First Date 8 Unfailing Love 9 The Revelation 10 Does God Notice? 11 Oozing Ache 12 Holding Pattern 13 Material for Sacrifice 14 Honor Above Passion 15 Little Deaths 16 Life From Death 17 What to Do With Loneliness 18 What Providence Has Gone and Done 19 The Rebel Sigh 20 Self-deception 21 What Women Do to Men 22 What Do Men Look For? 23 The Mess We’ve Made 24 Hot Sweats and Wet Feet 25 Nobody Knows the Trouble 26 A Letter at Last 27 Whetted Appetites 28 How Much Can a Kiss Tell You? 29 They Abstain From Nothing 30 A “Small” Sin 31 A Cave and a Driftwood Fire 32 How Do You Say No? 33 Four Bare Legs 34 His Sublime Keeping 35 Impatience 36 I Have You Now Unravished 37 Hold God to His Bargain 38 God Granted and God Denied 39 Confused Rollings and Wheels 40 Love Letters 41 This Is Our God-We Have Waited for Him 42 Out of Love and Into Charity 43 A New Act of Creation Source Notes About the Author Back Cover Recommend PapersĪlso by Elisabeth Elliot: A Slow and Certain Light The Savage My Kinsman Love Has a Price Tag No Graven Image The Journals of Jim Elliot Through Gates of Splendor Shadow of the Almighty Let Me Be a Woman The Mark of a Man Discipline: The Glad Surrender Quest for Love “Rainbows are made of sunlight and rain.

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