Women of Valor: Amy Carmichael
Women of Valor, Calling, God, Jesus, Intention Meg Elizabeth Brown Women of Valor, Calling, God, Jesus, Intention Meg Elizabeth Brown

Women of Valor: Amy Carmichael

As I read the words of Amy Carmichael, she seemed to be a friend that I already knew. The sister I never had. The woman who discipled me to Christ without me knowing. She wrote, "There are times when something comes into our lives which is charged with love in such a way that it seems to open the Eternal to us for a moment, or at least some of the Eternal Things, and the greatest of these is love. It may be a small and intimate touch upon us or our affairs, light as the touch of the dawn wind on the leaves of the tree, something not to be captured and told to another in words. But we know that it is our Lord. And then perhaps the room where we are, with its furniture and books and flowers, seems less "present" than His Presence, and the heart is drawn into that sweetness of which the old hymn sings. The love of Jesus, what it is; None but His loved ones know."

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Don’t be a Martha?
Meg Elizabeth Brown Meg Elizabeth Brown

Don’t be a Martha?

I mean, wasn’t Mary acting rudely towards her sister? Most women at that time were either housekeepers, ran businesses out of them homes, helped the family trade, or were prostitutes. But, I honestly thought Mary was perhaps lazy or just super social and wanted to hang out with the guys. I was also confused for years by Jesus’ response towards Martha.

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