I got to the point where I really desperately needed somebody to help me because he was a big man, and he was totally helpless for the last few-about six weeks. Well, while he was dying, I was taking care of him at home, after he had left the hospital. But he was 18 years older than I was and four years later, he got cancer. The following year, Addison Leach asked me to marry him-that was just totally unexpected. His wife was supposed to have died ten years before, according to the doctors but she died about a year later. He and I got acquainted because he asked me to come and speak for some things that he did in the summertime there at that college. He was the vice-president of a small college there, and his wife was actually dying of cancer. Share with us a little bit about husband number two, if you would.Įlisabeth: Through a speaking engagement in Missouri, I met a man by the name of Addison Leach. It’s a little bit like some of the missing books of the Bible or something you know?-you just kind of wonder about him. We’ve seen his name posted and given credit to quote after quote, but husband number two. It was a great love story.ĭennis: Elisabeth, I want to ask you a question because we’ve all heard about Jim Elliot. She and her husband, Lars Gren, were married for more than three-and-a-half decades. She went on to write many other books, including Passion and Purity. She wrote about his martyrdom in the book, Through Gates of Splendor. You’re about to enter into a conversation we had with them as they shared their story of how they met and how they dated.īob: Some of our listeners may not know Elisabeth Elliot was married, for the first time, to her husband, Jim Elliot.
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Hearing her on the radio for years, she always sounded a bit stern so to get to sit down with her and know-ĭennis: Well, don’t miss this, folks-she was very stern.īob: She was, but she also had a side of her that was just delightful and fun.ĭennis: She was not straight-laced, sober, and sad-she knew how to have a good time. In fact, I have to tell you that one of the great revelations of getting to meet her and getting to know her was that she did love to laugh.ĭennis: Oh, she had a twinkle in her eye, Bob! You could see it! It was like the eye of the tiger, except with a grin.īob: Yes. It’s encouraging to know that we’ll get to laugh with her again someday. It’s a great story! That’s all I can say.īob: It is a great story and, of course, this is the year when we mourned / when we wept as we said, “Goodbye,” to Elisabeth, who gained the heavenly reward. Someone had the foresight-probably it was you, Bob, to record this-because I laughed until I cried, listening to this woman of God, and a man who pursued her and won her heart. They visited with our Weekend to Remember ® marriage getaway speaker team, back in 1999.
Elisabeth Elliot Gren married Lars Gren, and it is truly a hoot of a story. Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 says, “For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven.” It goes on to talk about “a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which has been planted, a time to kill and a time to heal,” and certainly “a time to weep and a time to laugh.” We thought, as we were going to conclude this year, that we would do the latter-we’d have some laughter about a great woman and a great man, who were married a number of years ago. That’s what we’re going to do today.ĭennis: We are. I think, as we get ready for Christmas, and as we reflect on a year that is about to pass, it is good for us to remember time that has gone by. Only a few of our listeners will know that that’s Dooley Wilson, from the movie, Casablanca, singing, As Time Goes By. Thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition. That’s what we’re going to hear today-the real-life love story between Elisabeth Elliot Gren and her husband, Lars Gren.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Bob: Over the years, we have seen a lot of love stories played out on the big screen but, in truth, there’s nothing that beats a real-life love story.
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