.. .makes all the difference in the world.
The special gift and ability of each creature defines its special limitations.
...so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling--wings, in fact, which bear her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
Single life may be only a stage of a life's journey, but even a stage is a gift.
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.. . We accept and thank God for what is given, not allowing the not-given to spoil it.
..and it is in obedience to the command that we will find our full freedom.
The freedom of the sailboat to move so swiftly and beautifully is the result of obedience to laws.
She is doing the thing she was made for. She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
..It meant not doing what they wanted to do in order to have something they wanted more. The freedom of the few was brought at the sacrifice of the many.
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.
By refusing to fulfill the whole vocation of womanhood she settles for a caricature, a pseudo-personhood.
***excerpts from Let Me Be A Woman by Elizabeth Elliot
The special gift and ability of each creature defines its special limitations.
...so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling--wings, in fact, which bear her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.
Single life may be only a stage of a life's journey, but even a stage is a gift.
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.. . We accept and thank God for what is given, not allowing the not-given to spoil it.
..and it is in obedience to the command that we will find our full freedom.
The freedom of the sailboat to move so swiftly and beautifully is the result of obedience to laws.
She is doing the thing she was made for. She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
..It meant not doing what they wanted to do in order to have something they wanted more. The freedom of the few was brought at the sacrifice of the many.
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.
By refusing to fulfill the whole vocation of womanhood she settles for a caricature, a pseudo-personhood.
***excerpts from Let Me Be A Woman by Elizabeth Elliot
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