In this picture from left to right: Me, Elisabeth Elliot, and my mom. 

I was 18 at the time and my mom and I went to hear Elisabeth Elliot speak at a church in Virginia Beach, Va. 


If you know who Elisabeth Elliot is then you have to know that this was a special treat for me.  I had a couple of books signed by her that day.  I remember that she made me promise that I would actually read the biography "A chance to die" about Amy Carmichael that she had written.  So I did.  And I read it.  I made a promise to Elisabeth Elliot! 

So my first thanks for today is for the mentoring that she gave to my mom and to me.  I can remember as a teenager my mom would turn on Elisabeth's radio program every day and it always started with her saying "You are loved with an everlasting love, and underneath are the everlasting arms.  This is your friend Elisabeth Elliot.....".  Good stuff.

More thanks for today:

• More rain because it gives me a chance to shake up the fashion with some polka dot rain boots!
• AND I am so thankful for my kids.  I love those little buggers.  They just go with me everywhere.  All the time.  It's never convenient but we are together and I'm learning my kids.  Not "learning" as in the wrong way to say "teaching".   I teach my kids but I'm also learning them.  Learning ABOUT them.  Their personalities, their gifts, their tastes.  Their hearts.  Thankyou God for my children.  :)