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. Tranquility at Home.

May I see the hands of those of you who have a model home

when it comes to Tranquility.

Now, some of you are not being honest because you do have model homes. I'd like to visit some of those, but anyway, we all know that there can be improvements.

And if you want headings, I have not given you three points for the first two talks,

but this one does have three points, and I think you can probably not only get them down but you might even be able to remember them.

Love, joy, and peace.

Are those the things that characterize your home. It should be the fruits of the spirit we're told

our love, joy, and peace. And all the rest of the fruits of the spirit, I think,

spring from those three things.

And as a matter of fact, all of them,

it can be said spring from love because if we love God enough and love each

other we will have joy and we will also have peace.

So it's interesting to study the list of the fruits of the spirit because love is the crowning virtue and Jesus said if you love God and your neighbor then you will be fulfilling all the commands and that should be the primary virtue of a Christian home.

Whether or not you're married and have a husband and children,

you have a home of some sort.

Maybe it's a dormitory room. Maybe you share a room with somebody else. But that is your place from which you operate. And I believe that we women are called to create homes.

Whether it's one room or a basement or a beautiful house,

it can be a place of tranquility and refreshment to other people.

...