{Saturday with Susan} trials and affliction
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 was, would have had but one topic for her friends, would have spoken of nothing but her own trials; whereas, unless I asked her if she suffered much pain, she would not say a word on the subject, and always, if I introduced it, ran into some happy allusion to the support she experienced, the goodness of God to her, or somewhat of the kind. But she was keenly alive to the troubles and afflictions of others; and however trivial they might be, compared to her own, she seemed vastly more affected by them.”
(page 38)
How Susan lived her life while suffering:
What a legacy she left for all of us to thrive for!
Is there any plan to make this book available on Kindle or in PDF format? I have a Kindle Scribe so I can underline, highlight, and take notes on kindle books and pdf files. I’d live to see this option made available. It looks like an amazing book!
I am looking into putting it on kindle. Unfortunately because I typed it all out by hand in an old version of microsoft publisher, it doesn’t translate over easily and I’d have to do a lot of manual edits to get it formatted correctly on Kindle. But I’m willing to try. I’m also kicking around the idea of recording a podcast reading the book with occasional conversations about certain themes in the book, wouldn’t that be fun?