WAIT! Don't skip this recommendation. The title is off-putting and sounds like some preachy tome about abstinence. But it's actually a poignant memoir. An amazing TRUE love story on two levels. It's about Jim and Elisabeth, and it's about Elisabeth and her God.
I think this book is a great antidote to all those unrealistic running-through-the airport grand romance movies. I love how it took years for them to get together, and how sincere they were about their calling and serving God. How angry I get when Hollywood has the man or the woman giving up all their dreams for the greater dream of the relationship. This book shows that a real relationship, a real love, will never take you away from your true purpose.
This book is not just about romance, though. For me, the greatest lesson in the book was how to really turn over your life and your decisions to God. How refreshing to read about a woman who was able to have a higher purpose, serve others, and "get her man" in the end. So often, it seems like a woman has to choose one or the other.
"My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better. . . . God knew that giving me Jim when I wanted him would not provide the far more important training I needed for things to come. It was in that learning to eat the Living Bread, sufficient always for one day at a time, that I was taught and disciplined and prepared for later things."
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