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.

You know that the topic of these talks is loneliness, and it's a subject which I would hardly

have thought of writing a book about.

I certainly don't consider myself an expert in any sense of the word, but it has amazed

me over the years to find how many letters I get from lonely people.

And I finally come to the conclusion that everybody is lonely in some way or other.

We all have an area into which nobody else seems to enter.

And although probably many of you would say, well, I would not call myself a lonely person.

Just by the time I get finished, you'll understand that I am referring not only to a personal

condition, but also to a human condition.

I think back a number of years to one midnight.

I was sitting on a plane and off the right wing of the plane, the moonlight was flooding

the field of clouds, and everything inside the plane was dark and silent.

It was about, well, as I said, it was moonlight, and it was midnight.

And occasionally the stewardess would walk up and down the aisle, maybe taking a pillow

to somebody or a blanket.

And there was a couple.

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