Offering wisdom and insight for dealing with life's difficulties. Come back tomorrow for another daily devotional message from Elizabeth Elliott. This page displays a new devotional message five times each week. The Elisabeth Elliot daily devotional is provided courtesy of Back to the Bible.   Meet the Author - Elisabeth Elliot Missionary & Author Elisabeth was born in Brussels, Belgium, where her parents served as missionaries. She graduated from Wheaton College and later went to Ecuador as a missionary. In 1953 she married a former classmate, Jim Elliot. Together they worked on translating the New Testament into the language of the Quichua Indians. Their daughter, Valerie, was born in 1955. Ten months later, Jim was killed by the Auca Indians while attempting to take the Gospel to that primitive tribe. Elisabeth continued her work among the Quichuas and later lived and worked among the Aucas. She returned to the United States and remarried. Her second husband, Addison Leitch, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, died of cancer in 1973. Today, she lives north of Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband, Lars Gren. Her daughter, Valerie, and her husband, Walter, and their eight children live in Simpsonville, SC. Elisabeth is the author of a number of books, including Shadow of the Almighty, Passion and Purity, A Path Through Suffering, The Shaping of a Christian Family, and Keep a Quiet Heart. And she was for nearly 13 years the host of the daily radio program Gateway to Joy offering practical biblical guidance for women. The transcripts of these programs can still be read by means of the Internet ministry of Back to the Bible.