“Let not our longing slay the appetite of living.”
Jim Elliot’s words in a letter to the girl he wanted to marry would become famous when he was slain just a few years later, a martyr at 28 years old.
He waited to propose, believing he was called to be a single missionary. They had only two years and three months together as husband and wife. I can’t help but wonder if she ever felt cheated, ever asked why. Was their waiting needless? What would have been wrong with them marrying sooner, as so many of their friends and fellow missionaries did?
Elisabeth Elliot weaves bits and pieces of their love story throughout candid advice to singles in her book Passion and Purity. The book was first published the year before I was born, but quite timely when I read it as a teenager.
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