Ellen Vaughn has read the private journals of the late Elizabeth Elliott, including about the days she was falling in love with Jim Elliott.

She felt like she had found her soulmate, someone who wondered about the same thing she wondered about, who almost would finish a sentence for her before she had expressed her thought.

That was a new feeling for her.

She had been perhaps a little bit intellectually and emotionally lonely prior to that.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For September 15th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, Revive Our Hearts is now in its 20th year, and we stand on the shoulders of the beloved Elizabeth Elliott.

Her program, Gateway to Joy, was the predecessor to revive our hearts. We want you to get to know

this hero of the faith better. So we invited Ellen Vaughn into the studio. She's a New York Times best-selling author and has spent the last several years calming through Elizabeth Elliott's private journals. Nancy sat down with her in the studio. Let's listen.

Our listeners have been waiting for this book, have been eager for it. This is the early years of Elizabeth. It's called

Becoming Elizabeth Elliott. And I'm already telling you, I can't wait for the second volume.

Because I've read this one, and I know you're still working on that, and we don't know exactly

when it were released. But in the meantime, we're really thankful to have this one. And to be

unpacking for our listeners,

what I've already had the joy of reading, and that is glimpses into the early years

and the making of the Elizabeth Elliott we knew and loved when she was an older woman.

Some things that your book helps us discover that we've never known before.

Right. It was interesting to me, even when I started working on this book, all of us,

I think, have a tendency to think of Elizabeth Elliott as twice widowed and middle-aged.

Yes. That's when we first came to know her. Right, right. And much of her public ministry was in that season of her life.

But she was a young, inquisitive, curious, passionate, funny, not yet formed young woman.

And that's the story that this book tells.

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