In the 1940s and 50s, Jim Elliott and Elizabeth Howard documented their relationship in a series of letters.

Years later, their daughter Valerie saw something very special in them.

Because they were well read in scripture, they knew the theme that death brings life.

And so they often wrote about their own dying to their feelings.

And by that, they meant dying to their feelings for each other.

Today, Valerie shares some of what she found in the love letters of Jim and Elizabeth Elliott.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Forgiveness.

For February 12th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

So can you remember back to when people actually wrote letters to each other?

When's the last time you actually used a postage stamp on a letter you were sending to someone? And are you old enough to have written love letters to the person

you're now married to? Maybe, maybe not. Roberts and my relationship has been way more texts

and emails than it has been love letters. But we're talking this week with

Valerie Elliott Shepard, the daughter of Jim and Elizabeth Elliott. And they were back in that

wonderful era of actually writing letters. And there's a wonderful story about their love letters.

So Val, welcome back to revive our hearts. And we're eager to have you give us a little inside scoop about the love letters. So, Val, welcome back to revive our hearts and we're eager to have you give us a little

inside scoop about the love letters of your parents. But thanks for coming on to tell us some of

their story and yours as well. Thank you for having me. And let me just say if you missed the last

two programs or you're not familiar with the Jim and Elizabeth Elliott's story, make sure

and go back to Revive Our Hearts and listen to the last two days because Val has shared

some of that story with us. It's spellbinding. It's a really important story in Christian history

and you want to know it. So you can go back and listen to that. Now, in more recent years, Valerie has

taken the love letters that her parents wrote to each other, and she'll share with us how she

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