“Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love the most. When that is the experience of the heart, sorrow and disappointment and heartache become sweeter than the greatest natural happiness.” -Hannah Hurnard
from the final issue of the YLCF Journal, Autumn 2003
Dear Friends,
As I sit down to write you, I realize how long it has been since we last talked through these pages. The last year of my life has been such that the YLCF was put on the very back burner. And through that I have realized that the seasons of my life are changing…and it is time for me to bid farewell to editing.
In addition to my spare time diminishing, so have the article submissions and monetary donations. Without those three ingredients, the magazine cannot continue.
It is with sadness that I begin the final issue of this magazine, through which I have met and been encouraged by so many of you. Much has changed since my cousin and I started our little girls’ “club” in 1991—now there are over two hundred print issues to send out, and thousands of you who read these pages online. It is amazing to me how God has used this little publication in your lives. I am so thankful for the part He has allowed me to play in ministering to you. Yet I sense that this is the Lord’s timing for me to discontinue publishing.
However, the website will continue! I find that I am able to update the website more frequently, publishing pertinent topics in a timely manner. So please keep submitting your articles for publication on our “e-zine.” And keep visiting www.ylcf.org—there will be many updates in the future.
Most of this issue was compiled a year ago, and as I look through the pages, I realize how much I have changed in the intervening year. I have cut a few articles that were originally for this issue, as well as added a few on topics that have become important to me. I pray that what arrives in your mailbox will be something the Lord can use to encourage and inspire you.
I don’t want to say goodbye—for I pray that we will meet again online. Until that time, may you find joy and contentment while trusting in Him!
Clinging to the Cross,
Gretchen Louise
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
-Psalm 73:26, NAS
His death has redeemd me…
His Spirit fills me…
His love animates me…
His Word governs me.
-E.C. Haaskell
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