Dave

“Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“Learn to trust His heart when you cannot trace His hand,”
― M. David Sillis

“I can’t give this letter a storybook ending in the world’s eyes. Today finds Bob back to his regular schedule and the boys spending extra time talking with me flopped across the foot of my bed, which seems to be my permanent residence for now. My head symptoms have not changed. The medication has not settled well, and so the struggle continues. Whether I am in the valley or soaring above the mountain tops, God is there with me. I thank God that I am able to be His child. Now that’s a true storybook ending!”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

“It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa