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.

Okay, here's the first question.

It is one thing to be able to accept something that happens in one life to us.

But how do you handle physical pain that happens in us and is really beyond our control?

I always have physical pain, and at times it keeps me from doing anything.

This is depressing, even though I know God's grace will be sufficient.

I'm very glad that this question is asked because I'm sure there are many of you have the

same question, and it's a question that I cannot speak from very much personal experience

about.

I've had very little physical pain in my life.

I've had only one baby, and I guess that was the worst, and as far as pain goes, I don't

know anything worse than that, and probably some of you do.

But a few months ago, the Lord gave me a lesson.

I fell down the stairs and injured the sciatic nerve, and for two weeks I was more or less

in an agony each time I moved.

Now I was very grateful for the fact that when I was perfectly still, I was not in pain,

and I kept thinking during those two weeks of God's teaching of all those who are in constant

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