Beginning and End

“Nothing could ever matter again but the things that were eternal,” missionary Amy Carmichael’s words floated over the heads of the little girls gathered together in the church.

I was telling Amy’s story of leaving her family and home to travel to India to share the Good News of Jesus. The girls from my neighborhood were spellbound by the story, and their eyes sparkled as they heard about Jesus for the first time.

I put a flannel circle up on the flannel board, and we talked about eternit...