She’s been married three times and widowed twice, yet has lived as a single woman for half of her 85 years. I told myself you couldn’t possibly be interested, let alone–‘ ‘In love. And only if God so led, would Jim ask Elisabeth to marry him. Finally in 1953, Jim felt God give him the go-ahead to propose . The letters are filled eloquent messages of love and longing. To me it seems that Elisabeth has lived through every possible season of life a woman could experience. Even though they were miles apart, they were in the same country. five years after the first time he’d said, “Passion and Purity, Elisabeth shares Jim’s letters from those years they were apart. Because of the influence one woman has had on my life from the time I became a Christian at age 16. As an author she’s written about her firsthand experiences with loneliness, longing, heartbreak, passion, purity, and triumphant love. He spoke of a story he had read in his Bible study that morning–the story of Abraham’s offering up Isaac. She says of their honeymoon, “It was unspeakably worth the wait!
I found myself laughing with the crowd at Jim Elliot, the ‘India-rubber man,’ who could be tied in knots but could not be pinned. Then suddenly [he said,] ‘We’ve got to get squared away on how we feel about each other,’ Jim said. After that, the widows of the other fellows martyred in Operation Auca talk about what brought them to Ecuador.
Their daughter Shana, born just after the release of "Moondance," has recorded five albums of her own and often shares the stage with her father.
THE MUSE: Renee Fladen-Kamm THE BACKSTORY: Keyboard player Michael Brown, then 16, wrote the 1966 hit about bass player Tom Finn's girlfriend, who was in the studio when the band recorded "Walk Away Renee." As Brown recalled, "My hands were shaking."UPDATE: Fladen-Kamm, a singer and vocal coach, lives near San Francisco.
This week, the momager posted an adorable throwback pic of her granddaughter Penelope Disick!
Kourtney Kardashian's daughter looked extremely stylish in a black furry jacket, ripped jeans, and aviator sunglasses!