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 Elliot.

It's no easy task to figure out what the world to talk about to people who listen to me on the radio.

I'm not assuming that all of you do by any means but a good number of you do.

And if you've been listening for any length of time, you know that you hear the same things

over and over and over and it comes down always to two simple words trust and obey

Believe that God is faithful and do what he says.

And I do believe that that is the only way,

as the old Gospel hymn says, trust and obey, for there's what no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust

and obey and I try to make my talks as practical, as relevant, as down to earth as I possibly can.

But as I was thinking about what to talk about tonight, I decided to make it on the subject of will versus feelings.

Some of you know the story of Fanny Crosby, that wonderful hymn writer, who when she was about six

weeks old was given the wrong medicine in her eyes. She had an inflammation and the doctor put hot poultices on her eyes and burned

the corneas so that she was permanently blind. She became a popular lecturer, a pianist, and organist, married one of her students, also a blind musician and composer whom she had taught at the New York Institute for the Blind.

And they had only one child and that child died. But at age

nine, Fanny Cosby had written this, oh what a happy soul am I, although I cannot see. I am resolved that in this world

contented I will be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't?

To weep and cry because I'm blind, I cannot, nor I won't.

Now there's a lovely example on a very simple down to earth example of the choice to be grateful instead of complaining.

I'm sure that anyone who is born with any kind of a handicap or acquires any sort of a handicap later on,

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