Ahead of Her Time

Amy Carmichael was a woman ahead of her time. Back in the 1890s she worked hard
and fought long against what we now call human trafficking.

She went to India as a young woman and saw girls (especially)

being used as temple prostitutes. Little by little, one by one, she began to rescue them.

Eventually she established a home where as many as 900 children

lived out their childhood. She also started a hospital on the grounds.

And so we gathered around Bonifice's table on a rainy Monday morning.

Our friend in Germany took us on a tour of her new flat

before leading us via Skpye in discussing Amy Carmichael's biography.

This is a fairly new biography of Amy and some of us had read

others, as well as books that Amy has authored.
But no matter how much we read about her, we never get over

amazement at her sacrificial life ... how she mothered so many

children, how she never went back home to England for a visit, how she spent many
years in bed after a fall in her early 60s, how she never drew attention to herself ...

Our leader posed challenging questions because

Amy's was a life that demanded that.

Amy did much of her writing during the last 20 years  of her life, 

when she was mostly confined to her bed after an accident.

"Gone, they tell me, is youth,

Gone is the strength of my life,

Nothing remains but decline,

Nothing but age and decay.

Not so, I'm God's little child..

Only beginning to live;

Coming the days of my prime,

Coming the strength of my life,

Coming the vision of God,

Coming my bloom and my power."

A.C. 1935