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loving a man with cancer

Tracy & Anthony Friesen

We ended up messaging back and forth for the next month, talking about all of the deeply personal, serious things that had so shaped our attitudes and lives, things like his cancer experience and my experience with Dan, and matters of healing and faith, and my arthritis, and depression and purpose…

Joining Together in God’s Love

He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” So His merciful and miraculous leading is individual—“Thou (singular) shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.” The temptation is great to imitate or to expect the same manner of guidance which God has given another. “What is that to Thee; follow thou Me.” His Word abounds in examples of His separate leading of His sheep.

(from the journal of Elisabeth Elliot, quoted in Devotedly by Valorie Elliot Shepard)

More Love Stories

Love and War: 250 Years of Wartime Love Letters True Love: Engaging Stories of Real Life Proposals A Cord of Three Strands: Three Centuries of Christian Love Letters Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot