Although missionary and writer, Patricia St. John, always thought of herself as “an ordinary sort of girl,” her life was extraordinary because of her supreme love for Jesus Christ. The life portrayed here is not that of the self-conscious saint, concerned only with her own saintliness. On the contrary these pages offer us an inside view of someone utterly human, prone to mistakes and failures like the rest of us yet suffused with the love of God and a contagious joy and peace that was like the bubbling up of a perpetual fountain.