Before I tell you about a very baffling mystery I encountered this week, I want to welcome my fellow Elisabeth Elliot friends. I’m so glad to have you here, and hope you’ll come back again sometime. To my regular readers: Some very cryptic and curious things happened around here this week. On Tuesday I got… Read More Mystery of the Booming Blog Stats
Summer birthdays can be really awesome or really weird. Parties can be big, all-out shindigs, or altogether nonexistent, because all of your besties are camping or traveling or working odd hours in summer jobs. Fortunately, Kayla is happy to celebrate anywhere we happen to be at the time. Due to its July 28th date, we’ve… Read More Maine-ly About Turning 17
The lunch date was July 15, so it’s been a little over six months now. We were at our annual youth camp, held every year at Gordon College, and just a hop, skip, and a jump from Lars and Elisabeth’s home in Magnolia, MA. Elisabeth had passed away in June, we’d been to the memorial… Read More Lunch With Lars: Root Beer Marinated Steak Tips & Holy Moments
It’s already happening. I couldn’t wear shorts on my run this morning and had to pull out the long-sleeved t-shirts as well Next thing you know ~ probably tomorrow morning by the looks of it ~ I’ll be wearing mittens on my morning runs. Mitten day is always a sad day, because it ominously marks… Read More A Poem and a Latte Help, I Guess.
It happened while I was sitting in a Sunday morning worship service about 6 weeks ago. I don’t really know if it was the Holy Spirit, but it certainly seemed like it. The thought, or rather, the strong compelling notion just kept coming to me: Go and see Elisabeth. You need to go and see… Read More The Saints on Strawberry Cove: Part 3
Summer 2006 ~ Introducing my kids to heroes of the faith This picture. I have been searching high and low for it so that I could include it in this part of the story. I’ve had my kids searching high and low, too. I spent time in my 100 degree, newly insulated attic yesterday going… Read More The Saint on Strawberry Cove: Part 2
It was not surprising to me that this was her address when I saw the return label on her envelope about 14 years ago. #10 Strawberry Cove, Magnolia, Massachusetts. Of course that’s where she lives. It’s perfect. I couldn’t believe she had written me back. I reached out to Elisabeth Elliot, widow of Jim Elliot,… Read More The Saint on Strawberry Cove: Part 1