mind and heart. This often comes through reading the Scriptures, enjoying a good book, or having a friend throw an offhand comment my way and later discovering that it was from the LORD. The first significant reference to a journal that deeply impressed me was that of missionary Jim Elliot. At age 27 he died a martyr’s death by the spear of an Auca Indian. In his journal, these words were inscribed: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” These words put meaning