There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

Second talk is entitled A Loving Providence.

Do you know what a providence is?

It's a word we use, I guess, probably not very often, but it covers a great many things.

It means a making provision, we ought to be able to remember that one, since it comes

from the same root word, providence, making provision, exercising forethought, preparing,

guiding, caring.

A simple illustration would be your own providence with your children.

You make provision for them, you exercise forethought, you prepare things, you guide them,

you care for them.

One has said the detailed providence of a rational, personal God.

That is the thing that I find so staggering.

In my old age, I've been reading over some of my journals.

I'm now working on volume 30 of the journals that I began in when I was 16 years old.

They're not, that's not going to help you with how much is in which years were in which

book, because I just use blank books and I fill up a blank book and then I go to the

next one, but I'm now in my 30th blank book.

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