Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her friend, Miss E.N. on January 31, 1836. “Dear E., we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord always, and why do we not? Is it because we are so sinful that we ought not to be happy?…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary in 1836. Such truth is necessary to remember and cling to at heavy times like this. “Yesterday I was much depressed by hearing someinstances of the depravity of human nature, and feltthankful that there is a…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary on January 8th, 1836. “I hope my hard heart has received a new impulse. I have sometimes been very cold lately–have done those things which I ought not to have done, and left undone those things…
As many of you are, I’m devastated over the murder of Charlie Kirk. I watched so many of his videos debating others with respect and with truth. I’m heartbroken, but also comforted that he is now with his Savior. Still, what are we to do? I feel like there is bound to be a shift…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote in her diary on Sunday, April 6th, 1834. “The greatest deficiency of my soul is lack of love to Jesus, and of simple faith in His goodness…” (page 80)
It has been so busy this summer that I just don’t have time to keep up on all the things, and unfortunately, the blog has slid way down on the list of things I’m trying to keep going. HOWEVER, today as I was weeding the garden and pulling up the dead snow pea plants, I…
Today’s excerpt from A Life Hid with Christ in God is from a letter Susan wrote to her sister in 1833. “…if you would be a happy Christian, if you would enjoy that ‘peace that passeth understanding,’ you must never rest satisfied until ‘every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.’ This…
As I was annotating the memoir of Susan Allibone, I came across a line from a hymn that Susan quoted in a letter to her friend. I was marking the references to verses and poems she often included in her letters, so I typed that unfamiliar line into Google and went down a lovely rabbit…
In Susan Allibone’s memoir, she often asks friends to pray for her. I was quite struck with how different her prayer requests are from my own. If someone asks me how they can pray for me, I usually ask for prayer about problems or difficulties I’m facing. Susan very rarely (maybe never?) asked for things…
Last year, I republished an memoir from 1850 about Susan Allibone, a remarkable woman from Pennsylvania who lived the last 21 years of her life in great suffering. After she died, a friend wrote the following to her family: “I have often been struck by the unselfishness of your sister. Most persons, afflicted as she…