DECEMBER 7TH, 1934

DECEMBER 7TH, 1934

MY DEAR —, — ... I do not feel inclined, like Job, to curse my natal day, but rather to overflow in thanksgiving for the abundance of mercy and grace into which it brought me — mercies abounding even when the infant heart knew them not, and continued now beyond the threescore years and ten of which Moses spoke.

One would desire to number one’s days and apply one’s heart to wisdom. For this is the supremely important formative time, when the creation of God in the new man is proceeding. This is, I fear, with most of us a slow process; I know it is with me. But there is encouragement in the thought of the faithfulness of God who will finish for the day of Christ what He has begun in all the feeble conditions of the present time.

With love in the Lord to yourself and your dear husband,

Yours affectionately in Him,

December 7th, 1934.