Has anyone ever read: "Stepping Heavenward-One Woman's Journey to Godliness" by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss?

I have read it once before and I didn't really understand it, but reading it again is like reading another book.

It is really a great book! I have really grown in the LORD from reading it. I have enjoyed reading about this girl who has become a woman after her husband's and God's hearts.

That is what I want to be!

Here are a few things that struck me as I was reading.

Page 228-229

May 24th, 1843

Isn’t that how we all want to feel? I don’t have children yet, but I cannot wait to be married and have a few little ones running about.

No we are not always going to be the mother that takes delight in the wonderful things that she talks about, but we want to. And we will try our hardest to be that mother that thinks all those precious things about our children.

Page 248-249

June, 1844

"Little Ernest was taken sick the day I wrote that. The attack was fearfully sudden and violent. He is still very, very, ill. I have not forgotten that I said once that I would give my children to God should He ask for them. And I will. But, oh, this agony of suspense! It eats into my soul. Oh, my little Ernest! My firstborn son! My pride, my joy, my hope! I thought the worst of my life was over.

Page 249-250

August, 1844

I think that she really got the point of giving your children to God. When you dedicate your child to God, then you are giving them to Him. The child is not yours anymore. You were given this child to raise in God. Although she had to keep reminding herself that she gave him, she really got it.

I think that when you lose a child, whether in the womb or in life, you have to be willing to give them to God and remember the joy that you still have: the other children that He has given to you and your husband.

When she says that it is a fearful thing to be a mother, I kinda understand. Not fully because I am not yet a mother, but because when my siblings get hurt I and fearful about them, but I know that if God wants them we as a family are ready to give them to Him.

Page 323-324

September 23rd, 1852

That is how I hope I feel about my home, husband and children when I am married. Why do we worry about things that are unimportant, when the most important are here living our everyday lives with us? We worry about the house being clean, and the laundry being done and the yard, and simple things that will not last forever, instead of worry about the eternal lives of the children that God has privileged us to be in loving charge of.

There is so much stuff I could go on about, but I think that you should get this book and read it for yourself.

This book helped me turn my life around.

Last June I was ready to leave home. I had my bags packed and had started walking. I was in front of our neighbors, when I came back because my bags were too heavy to carry 3mi. to town.

The wound I had caused in my relationship with my parents wasn’t healed, so this past winter I packed my bags again and called someone I knew to pick me up. I was leaving this life. I was tired of my parents telling me that I could do what I wanted and let me live the way I wanted.

But then from the wise words of my sister, Alatariel, I knew that that was not want God wanted for my life. I knew that if I left that would mean that I was taking myself out of what God had already laid down for me, and putting myself on a different path that who knows what would of happened.

I realized that if I did this I could not only change my future, but the future of my husband’s and my children’s and of the generations of my family. My sins could be the cause of magnitudes of problems for 4 generations. And it says in the Bible that the wages of sin is death. I could be responsible for my death or anyone in my family because I did this. Because of my disobedience, I could cause the next 4 generations of my family to disobey, and then they could get killed because of disobedience. Do you see the pattern my sin could cause? Pain.

So I decided in February that no matter how much I didn’t like what my mom told me or how many fights that we had I was gonna stay here and put up my best fight. Even when I decided that I was going to stay, I was still having problems with my parents.

Then I got out this book and started reading it. I had read about 20 pages when I realized that even though I had decided to stay I was not being a real Godly Christian about it. I was not doing what God wanted me to fully, I was only doing it halfheartedly.

It was then that I just cried out to God and told him that I could not do this on my own. I realized that I did need Him to help me.

That is when things around here got tremendously better with my relationship with my parents.

I think that if you read this book it could help you, possibly change your life around. I know that it did me.

I know that I am now a changed person, even from April, I am changed I see things differently now.

I sometimes don’t like what my parents have to say, that is how it is, but I understand that I have to do it anyway and with a God pleasing attitude.

Please read this book.

If you don’t have it and would like to purchase it, you can at www.soulresteducationalsupplies.com , or you can email me at missamanda@soulresteducationalsupplies.com if you have any questions.

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Thank you for spending your precious time to read the ramblings of a 16-year-old girl who is trying to become a woman seeking the way of God.

I can only hope to become as much as a blessing as all the people I meet here are to me. So THANK YOU.

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