I just finished reading A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lillias Trotter, by Miriam Huffman Rockness. One of my friends read it a while ago, but I didn't write down the title and thus didn't check out the book. Recently I saw that one of the professors at Master's was going to do a workshop on women missionaries, and I saw Lillias Trotter's name in the description. I wrote down her name and headed to the library, determined to find her biographies before someone else did (though I doubt many college students would be really interested in reading an extra book at the start of the semester ;) ).
Lillias was a pioneer missionary to Algeria in the late 1800s-early 1900s. She and two friends landed on the coast literally knowing no one and speaking no Arabic (though they did know French; whew!). Lillias lived and worked among Algerian Muslims for forty years. She is a great inspiration of trust and dedication; I hope I can be like her one day.
I included several quotes from her diaries and other writings. I underlined the parts that I especially liked.
"For the blessedness of receiving is not all God has for us: a new world lies beyond - a world of giving: a giving first to God in surrender, then to man in sacrifice."
"The whole place gives one the impression of being 'White unto the harvest.' May God Himself put in the sickle and gather the souls into His garner, to be made in their turn seeds for future sowing."
"I am full of hope that when God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones."
"...and then a strange peace - almost joy settled down on us - & the certainty of one of God's sequels worth waiting for as they have ever been in time past when our ways have been switched off the lines on which we counted."
"...time is nothing to God - nothing in its speeding, nothing in its halting - He is the God that inhabiteth eternity."
"...it is an older faith that learns to swing out into nothingness & drop down full weight on God...nothing between us and the abyss but Himself - A rejoicing in every fresh emergency that is going to prove Him true - The Lord Alone - that is trained faith."
Lillias was a pioneer missionary to Algeria in the late 1800s-early 1900s. She and two friends landed on the coast literally knowing no one and speaking no Arabic (though they did know French; whew!). Lillias lived and worked among Algerian Muslims for forty years. She is a great inspiration of trust and dedication; I hope I can be like her one day.
I included several quotes from her diaries and other writings. I underlined the parts that I especially liked.
"For the blessedness of receiving is not all God has for us: a new world lies beyond - a world of giving: a giving first to God in surrender, then to man in sacrifice."
"The whole place gives one the impression of being 'White unto the harvest.' May God Himself put in the sickle and gather the souls into His garner, to be made in their turn seeds for future sowing."
"I am full of hope that when God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones."
"...and then a strange peace - almost joy settled down on us - & the certainty of one of God's sequels worth waiting for as they have ever been in time past when our ways have been switched off the lines on which we counted."
"...time is nothing to God - nothing in its speeding, nothing in its halting - He is the God that inhabiteth eternity."
"...it is an older faith that learns to swing out into nothingness & drop down full weight on God...nothing between us and the abyss but Himself - A rejoicing in every fresh emergency that is going to prove Him true - The Lord Alone - that is trained faith."
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