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In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her. Working from Scripture, well-known speaker and author Elisabeth Elliot shares her observations and experiences in a number of essays on what it means to be a Christian woman, whether single, married, or widowed. Available in trade softcover and as a Living Book.

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I n order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her.

Visit Tyndale online at www.tyndale.com.

TYNDALE and Tyndales quill logo are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Let Me Be a Woman

Copyright 1976 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Copyright renewed 2004 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Cover photographs copyright 1999 by Michael Hudson. All rights reserved.

Designed by Julie Chen

Also by Elisabeth Elliot:

Shadow of the Almighty the life of Jim Elliot

The Savage My Kinsman Elisabeth Elliots first year with the Indians who killed her husband

The Mark of a Man the meaning of masculinity

Passion and Purity the Elliots love story

Loneliness a wilderness and a pathway to God

Scripture quotations marked RSV are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version.

Scripture verses marked Phillips are taken from The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips, copyright J. B. Phillips, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972. All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-1-4143-2808-9 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-4143-2725-9 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-4143-9556-2 (Apple)

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FOREWORD 1976

A STRONG southwest wind blows across the harbor this morning, whipping the lilac bushes and honeysuckle in front of the cottage and sending the gulls steeply upward when they seem to mean to go down. The masts of the moored sailboats tip and swing, and the gray water flashes with whitecaps. There is no sound but the wind, the crying of the gulls, and, once in a while, the bell buoy, muffled and far away. It is a good morning to write to you, Val, better than the first two mornings I was here, for they were beautiful sunny mornings and I went across the road to the beach and walked with MacDuff. He raced joyfully along, his square muzzle sweeping the sand for new exciting scents. Then he would stop, his gay Scotty tail and pointed ears erect, his nose lifted, every nerve aquiver as he waited for me to catch up with him, when off he would tear again. You know how he does.

Yesterday afternoon I found a quiet place on the sand, out of sight of any house, and sat with my back against a smooth granite rock. You were to have come with me to the Cape, but wonderful things happened to change that, and instead of being here you are with Walt. It was blissful sitting in the sun, looking out toward Nauset Beach across the harbor, thinking of your happiness. He will leave you today, I know, to take up his duties as a minister in Louisiana, and then you will leave for England to study, but you have had a few days with him, and when you are engaged such days are unspeakably precious.

You and I will have four or five weeks together between now and your wedding day eleven months hence, and we will talk, but I know that there will not be time to speak of all we would like to, so I write you these notes.

You know, Im sure, that the notes come not only out of my own experience of marriage. They come out a lifetime, most of which has been spent single (I have been married, you know, for only a seventh of my life). They come out of being a woman, and seeking to be single, married, widowed a woman for God. The attitude with which this effort began is summed up in the prayer of Betty Scott Stam, copied into my Bible and signed when I was ten or eleven years old:

Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt, send me where Thou wilt, work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.

A NEW PERSPECTIVE

T HIS BOOK was written at the height of the strong feminist movement that swept through our country in the seventies and eighties. Women were told that they ought to get out of the house and do something fulfilling. They listened, and many discovered what men could easily have told them: that by no means is fulfillment necessarily to be found in any job in ditch digging or in the office of a CEO any more than in the kitchen. I knew that real satisfaction and joy come in response to acceptance of the will of God and nowhere else. So I wrote a book as my wedding present to you, putting down in black and white the great eternal principles that distinguish men from women.

Twenty-three years ago, Valerie, you became the bride of Walter D. Shepard Jr., who grew up in a missionary family in Africa. In accord with the scriptural injunction to be fruitful and multiply, God graciously gave you the high privilege of becoming the parents of eight: Walter III, Elisabeth, Christina, Jim, Colleen, Evangeline, Theo, and Sarah. I am fascinated as I watch the dynamics between these children so different from your experience as an only child, ten months old when your father died. The Shepards mystify, nettle, and charm me. I am their greatly blessed grandmother now.

Everything I have written in this book has in one way or another, I suppose, been tested and found helpful for you, although in some ways, no doubt, wanting. I have watched you learn to be a wife, and I was with you and Walt in the hospital when you first became a mother (I dying a thousand deaths as you suffered, and Walt cheering you on). I was there years later to weep with you and Walt as I held in one hand your tiny little Joy, who died before birth.

God has assigned to you the position of a pastors wife first in the Cajun country of Louisiana, then in Mississippi, California, and now South Carolina. I have watched with awe the grace and insights God has given you in training, nurturing, disciplining, and home schooling the children.

At times we have together been asked to speak at womens conferences. Your wisdom has often helped me as I try to answer the stream of marital and child-rearing questions that come to me through my radio broadcast, Gateway to Joy. We seek to encourage women to cultivate a gentle and quiet spirit, to learn to see Christ in their husband, to love and honor them even when they may seem not to deserve it. Let us not forget that Christ laid down His life for us, and we in turn are to lay down our lives for each other. Fathers and mothers are given the awesome task of making saints of their children, but this cannot possibly be done except, first, by godly example and then (line upon line, precept upon precept), by discipline administered with love and prayer.

When you are overwhelmed by all that God has required of you when He let you be a woman, read Isaiah 41:10-11: Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand (RSV).

January 26, 1999

Magnolia, Massachusetts

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THE GOD WHO IS IN CHARGE

W HEN Walt came to me at Christmastime to ask for your hand I said to him, There is no one to whom I would so gladly give it. Then we talked of the long wait you would have if the wedding date was not to be until after your graduation.

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