"Looking over the last two years since graduation gives me a funny sense of uselessness.  The way for me has certainly not been conventional or predictable in any way.  But I have sought the will of God, and in this I rest.  It is no use arguing what might have been if so and so had happened.  We are only asked to do what we are told--small, strange, or simple as that may be--our orders are to obey, and in this my conscience is clear.  I have walked in integrity, not purposing according to the flesh, that my path should be yea, yea, and nay, nay.  But having purposed in Christ to do what is pleasing to Him, I find His approval (yea) and seal (amen) in the very smallest and unlikely things [...] Who shall doubt, or say that our labor is in vain?  'Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph.'" - Jim Elliot, The Shadow of the Almighty