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was greeted by her husband with a warm hug and a kiss. Jonathan did not agree with the tradition of parents hiding their affection from their children’s seeing eyes. “Who needs to know more than they, that I love you?” he often told Mary; and the children grew up in a household where loving was an accepted and expected part of life.
Be ready for him, Julie. Be ready to be the kind of wife he needs, the kind of woman he can love deeply, can be proud of—not just of her outer beauty but of her inner beauty as well.
but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.
“Your inner strength—and your outer beauty, Elizabeth—I need both.”
Yet Mother had always said you don’t know a person until you live with him.
I love them in some mysterious way. They trust you, lean on you, so simply, so completely. You sort of feel you have to be worthy of their trust.”
“Are you saying—?” I began, but Mr. McLain cut in, “I’m saying that, with a child or a dog, you’ve got to give them a chance to grow up—natural like. You can’t pamper them forever, or you spoil them. They can never be what they were meant to be. Kip’s a Husky. Sure, they are a scrappy bunch when the need arises. And the need will arise someday. Here in the North, it’s bound to. I think you oughta give Kip the chance to prove himself before he gets up against an animal where his life depends upon his fighting skill.”
trained them with firmness and kindness rather than harshness. They responded to him with respect and devotion.
She was a patient, beautiful person with a heart of love and an open mind to truth.
“And, most importantly, we have a God who sees us and knows that we are in need. He has promised to care for His children.
I did not become sinful because I took in the knife, but rather I consented to take the knife because I was sinful. Do you understand me, Elizabeth?”
