Going to Visit Elisabeth Elliot, I'll Be Back End of August! (& 2-Wk Wednesday LinkUp Party!)

My daughter, Mary, and I are so excited we are about to pop! We are washing clothes like mad and packing for we are about to go on a trip to see Elisabeth Elliot and her dear husband, Lars. I'll be taking a short blog break, but I'll have lots of good pictures to share with you when I return. I know so many of you love them as much as we do, so I will try to share, share, share with you! ☺

Elisabeth & Lars in our home last year  

Lars wants Mary to sing for Elisabeth while we're there, (and for her sister, that we will meet for the first time!). She's preparing hymns of course, but I told her to throw in some songs from The Sound of Music because everyone loves those so much for fun. ☺  I always take some books to read when I travel, and I nearly always have one that Elisabeth wrote! But I am leaving them all at home, because being with her will far outweigh any reading I could do.

We wouldn't dream of not packing plenty of York peppermint patties! That's because Mary calls Lars, "Double Yorkie," and she refers to herself as, "Little Yorkie." It's a long story about a trip to York, South Carolina, but I already bought the York patties to take with us. I'm also taking getting Lars some figs (Sh! surprise ☺)  because his birthday is coming soon, and he loves them. (Mary can impersonate Lar's voice and southern accent to the point you think he's in the room! We're taking UNO & Taboo to play, but I'm secretly hoping Mary does her impersonations of Lars and Elisabeth. ☺ 

Many of you have asked me how I was so fortunate as to get to know Elisabeth Elliot and her husband (and Elisabeth's dear daughter Valerie, too, but she won't be staying with us as she lives in NC). I was just a listener to Elisabeth's radio program way back in 1992. I wrote Elisabeth and we began a writing correspondence which lasted years until she was no longer able to write. She was so good about writing people back! I sent her a tape I made her (a tape was easier for me because I had 3 children under 5 at the time, and I made the tape in the middle of the night!). She later asked me to be a guest on her program, and has stayed with us several times. This will be our first time seeing her home and staying with her! They invited us, and they didn't have to ask twice! ☺☺☺

To this day, I try to reply back to every comment I get on my blog (I don't every time) and on Fb or Instagram as long as I am able, because she is my example. Elisabeth was diagnosed with dementia about ten years ago. She is unable to speak (sometime a word will come out, like when I asked her if she wanted apple pie last time I saw her she said, "No!"), yet her beautiful blue eyes demonstrate her absolute peace and contentment in this last affliction of her life. Oh how her life speaks so loudly what she taught us all so well, from her mentor, Amy Carmichael: "In acceptance, lieth peace."

I'll leave you with this video my Mary (born blind) singing, "This We Pray," to dear Elisabeth!

See you at the end of August!  Have a prayer request? I can still pray for you while I'm on blog break. Leave your request in the comments!

The Linky Party will be open for nearly two weeks since I'll be gone! That's a long LinkUp Party! So Bloggers, feel free to come back next week and post some more!

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