That Fresh Feeling

"My calendar says 'Mother's Day,' with Father's Day not far off. And so the people will pause for a few hours to honor those for whom Children's Day comes 365 days a year, those who dare not interrupt their love to seek that honor. The florist shops will bustle, there will be a flurry of carnations, and the following T...hursday it will all be forgotten until another May rolls around. I, too, pause though not with flowers, for such are fast-fading sentiments for the immutable devotion of true parental care. I am grateful to you and to our mutual Father, who has loved us all with love unknowable." -Jim Elliot wrote in a letter to his mother in May of 1941