What would you say is the toughest job?

Welcome to another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Elliot.

She called us to a higher standard and don't be satisfied with just a little

empty religion in life when you can have more. Well as our series continues in the coming weeks,'ll hear from family, friends and others who are influenced by Elizabeth, her life, and her message.

Hey, thanks for coming along, especially if you're a first-time guest.

Well, we begin an extended series called The Call to Motherhood.

We'll be hearing from Valerie Elliott Sheppard as she talks about her own mother.

Was she the kind of mother who was distant?

Maybe occasionally spoiling her child?

Well, stay with us to hear about that.

Also, we'll hear from Elizabeth's good friend Arlita Winston,

as she talks about Elizabeth and her relationship with her

grandchildren. We'll begin with mothers as shapers of Destiny. Now that sounds like an important job. This is your friend Elizabeth

Elliot talking with you today about mothers as shapers of Destiny. Maybe some of you read the story that ran in the Reader's

Digest called The Woman in the photograph. It was written by a journalist named

Bob Green who described his mother as a beautiful woman, a graduate

of Wellesley College, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, but when asked what she did, her answer was I'm Robert Green's wife and I'm

Bobby Debbie and Timmy's mother. I think of my own mother. She was what was called

Spoon Girl at Germantown Friend School back in 1917. They had two awards that were given out each year. One was to the

outstanding man of the class. He was called the cane man and they presented him

with a very fancy cane. The cane man that year was

Leonard Carmichael who later became the president of the Smithsonian

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