The recent snow days have allowed me a chance to read a bit and I wanted to share a book that I've really been enjoying.  It's called A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliot.  Amy Carmichael was an amazing missionary to India who began a home for children who were being sold to temples for idol worship.  Her story is very convicting as it has given me a heart for the country of India which even today is hostile to Christians as a threat to their caste system.  It is also interesting to read how she came up with a style for parenting and educating the many children in her "Family". 

"In Amy's Bible, on a card pasted inside the front cover, are these words: 

'These children are dear to Me.  Be a mother to them, and more than a mother.  Watch over them tenderly, be just and kind.  If thy heart is not large enough to embrace them, I will enlarge it after a pattern of My own.  If these young children are docile and obedient, bless Me for it; if they are froward, call upon Me for help; if they weary thee, I will be thy consolation; if thou sink under thy burden, I will be thy Reward.' The words are followed by a picture of the Shephed, reaching for a lamb while a vulture hovers overhead." 

Blessings!

-J