Emily, wife of America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson, wrote home from Moulmein, Burma, in January 1847:"This taking care of teething babies, and teaching natives to darn stockings and talking English back end foremost . . . in order to get an eatable dinner, is really a very odd sort of business for Fanny Forester [her pen name--she was a well-known New England writer before marrying Judson].... But I begin to get reconciled to my minute cares." She was ambitious for "higher and better things," but was enabled to learn that "the person who would do great things well must practice daily on little ones; and she who would have the assistance of the Almighty in important acts, must be daily and hourly accustomed to consult His will in the minor affairs of life."
Cindy,
ReplyDeleteWhat an encouragement this post is to me, who dwells in the "minor affairs" of life! Thank you for sharing this. And what a lovely picture you inserted =)
"Teach me the happy art of attending to things temporal with a mind intent on things eternal."
Valley of Vision, p. 249 (Christlikenss)
Karen Carlson