THE POSITIVE DIMENSIONS OF CALL
In Elizabeth Elliot’s book about her year with the Colorado Indians of Ecuador, prior to her marriage to Jim Elliot, she shares her perspective on a time of separation with Jim: Quito was civilization, and we were leaving it. I was leaving, too, a young man named Jim Elliot, who had studied Spanish with Dorothy and me . . . Jim and I had walked in the pastures on the outskirts of town, had climbed Pinchincha, and seen the sun rise as the moon was setting over the city, had ridden the bus to the post office on many rainy afternoons, and had explored the byways of the old sections of town, practicing our Spanish on friendly shopkeepers and children. He was heading for the eastern jungle to work with the Quichua Indians, and I knew it would be a long time before I saw him or even heard from him, since we would be separated by the double…
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