"This is the story of how Much-Afraid escaped from her Fearing relatives and went with the Shepard to the High Places where 'perfect love casteth out fear'. For several years Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepard, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much Trembling. She loved her work and desired intensely to please the Chief Shepherd, but happy as she was in most ways, she was conscious of several things which hindered her in her work and caused her much secret distress and shame.
In the first place she was a cripple, with feet so crooked that they often caused her to limp and stumble as she went about her work.She has a very unsightly blemish of a crooked mouth which greatly disfigured both expression and speech and was sadly conscious that these ugly blemishes must be a cause of astonishment and offense to many who knew that she was in the service of the great Shepherd. Most earnestly she longed to be completely delivered from these shortcomings and be made beautiful, gracious, and strong as were many of the Shepard's other workers, and above all to be like the Chief Shepard Himself. But she feared that there could be no deliverance from these two crippling disfigurements and that they must continue to mar her service always." ".....poor little soul, she was still Much-Afraid even when promised the greatest thing in the world...... In all her life, however, Much Afraid had never been able to ignore Fear".
-Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard-
"This is the story of how Much-Afraid escaped from her Fearing relatives and went with the Shepard to the High Places where 'perfect love casteth out fear'. For several years Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepard, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much Trembling. She loved her work and desired intensely to please the Chief Shepherd, but happy as she was in most ways, she was conscious of several things which hindered her in her work and caused her much secret distress and shame. 
In the first place she was a cripple, with feet so crooked that they often caused her to limp and stumble as she went about her work.She has a very unsightly blemish of a crooked mouth which greatly disfigured both expression and speech and was sadly conscious that these ugly blemishes must be a cause of astonishment and offense to many who knew that she was in the service of the great Shepherd. Most earnestly she longed to be completely delivered from these shortcomings and be made beautiful, gracious, and strong as were many of the Shepard's other workers, and above all to be like the Chief Shepard Himself. But she feared that there could be no deliverance from these two crippling disfigurements and that they must continue to mar her service always." ".....poor little soul, she was still Much-Afraid even when promised the greatest thing in the world...... In all her life, however, Much Afraid had never been able to ignore Fear". -Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard-
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brought tears to my eyes such a good post. love you so much!
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