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.

I grew up in a home where we said the Lord's prayer every day, and I'm very grateful for

that, but naturally we six children just rattled it off, and it never meant much of anything

to me as a child, and my parents took the view that since your children's heads are going

to be stuffed with all sorts of nonsense, they might as well be stuffed with something

that's worth remembering, and we have that prayer and many hymns and scripture verses

in our heads because of the faithfulness of those parents.

But the familiarity that we have with the Lord's prayer opens the very real possibility that

we won't really pay attention to what it is we're saying.

And the older I get, the more comprehensive I see this prayer to be, and the more meaning

it has for me, so often when I pray, and you probably have the same experience, when

I pray for other people, I would say probably nine people out of ten, I really don't know

what specific needs they may be facing, and of course I don't know all the needs of

any of them, so to pray the Lord's prayer with that person in mind helps me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that there are truths which are commonly considered so true

as to lose all the powers of truth, and they lie bedridden in the dormitory of the soul.

A wonderful metaphor, these truths that become so familiar that they lose all the power

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