Elisabeth Elliot passed away yesterday morning in her sleep. According to reports she had long been “suffering” from dementia and recently had a series of ministrokes. I say “suffering” because while dementia was not something she was happy about, she received it in the same way she received the news of the death her husbands, ‘She accepted those things, [knowing] they were no surprise to God.‘
Eilsabeth’s testimony, biography of her husband Jim Elliot, and other works on gender roles and her book ‘Passion and Purity’ (on her five year courtship with first husband Jim Elliot) are must reads.
Otherwise Christianity Today has a great article on her life, works and faith.
Steve Saint, son of Nate Saint (one of the missionaries killed alongside Jim Elliot) wrote this of Elisabeth:
I think Elizabeth would be happy just being remembered as not much of a woman that God used greatly. To the rest of us mortals she was an incredibly talented and gifted woman who trusted God in life’s greatest calamities, even the loss of her mind to dementia, and who allowed God to use her. He did use her.
Tens of thousands of people will mourn her loss. I will certainly be one of them. But isn’t it incredibly wonderful that our loss is certainly her gain. She can think and talk once again!
And she is now welcomed into the arms of her loving Saviour with a most well deserved, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant… Now enter into the joy of your Master.’
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