Words of a kindred spirit…

"…there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one's own.  What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image.  And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire.  I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be, and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes.  This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly; that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through, have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!"

-Elizabeth Prentiss
Stepping Heavenward