Amy Carmichael, a single woman, became the mother of thousands of Indian children. There was a time when the family that she founded as a Dohnavur Fellowship—little children, rescued from temple prostitution—that family numbered over 900 people at one time. And she worked there for fifty-three years. And she wrote these words in one of her poems, “If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, for that a little emptier my house on earth, what rich reward that guerdon20 were.” You and I have no idea what God has in mind when we make the offering. But everything is potential material for sacrifice.
