This booklet is the letter that Elisabeth wrote to her friend seeking to be divorced from his wife.

Elisabeth: I've been reading from a letter that I wrote to a young man whom I thought had a wonderfully happy marriage, an ideal marriage-a wife and two lovely children. He just divorced his wife. I tried to persuade him to change his mind. Well, I didn't get very far.

"Your present discontent is a mercy," I wrote to him, "affording opportunity to repent. Any inkling you have that all is not well is the still, small voice calling you back to repentance, reconciliation and restoration. Will you set about rebuilding as soon as you can?"

Any divorce ought to be bad news to a Christian, because we know how God feels about it. This particular divorce was terrible news to me, because I happened to love both Dick and Sally. Of course, those are not their real names. If my letter to Dick seemed to my correspondent to have no love in it, perhaps that was because he imagines that love and judgment are mutually exclusive. "If you love people, you will never say anything that will make them uncomfortable." Is that true? Jesus said a good many things that made people uncomfortable. Sometimes we're afraid to say what God wants us to say because we might make someone uncomfortable.

Elisabeth Elliot is the author of These Strange Ashes, Through Gates of Splendor, Passion and Purity, and A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael. She lives in Massachusetts.

Elisabeth Elliot is one of the most influential Christian women of our time. For a half century, her best selling books, timeless teachings and courageous faith have influenced believers and seekers of Jesus Christ throughout the world. She uses her experiences as a daughter, wife, mother, widow, and missionary to bring the message of Christ to countless women and men around the world.

“Remember, you are loved with an everlasting love and underneath are the everlasting arms!”