I was 15 years old when a family friend gave me Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity.
Besides the practical help it gave me, I was completely drawn into the story of her and Jim Elliot’s courtship. Her description of Jim put a picture in my mind that shaped my expectation of a future husband. Six years later when my husband Matt and I were engaged, I eagerly read Let Me Be a Woman, a book written for Elisabeth’s daughter Valerie when Valerie was engaged to be married. My husband is grateful I read it and let it affect my thinking and practice as a wife.
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