“Our loneliness can’t always be fixed, but it can always be accepted as the very will of God for now. And that turns it into something beautiful. Perhaps it is like the field wherein lies the valuable treasure, we must buy the field. It is no sun-drenched meadow embroidered with wild flowers; it is a black and empty place. But once we know it contains a jewel, the whole picture changes. The empty scrap of forgotten land suddenly teams with possibilities. Here is not only something we can accept, but something we’re selling everything to buy. In my case, selling everything meant giving up the self pity and the bitter questions. I do not mean that we’re to go out looking for chances to be as lonely as possible; I’m talking about acceptance of the inevitable. And when, through a willed act, we receive this thing we want, then loneliness, the name of the field nobody wants, is transformed into a place of hidden treasure.”
-Elisabeth Elliot
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