Amy Carmichael’s Prayer
I teach third grade Sunday school at our church, and we have been studying missionaries, both those in the book of Acts and some that have served since the Bible was written.
One of my favorite stories in this series was about Amy Carmichael, an Irish/English missionary who spent most of her life serving Christ in India. Part of her approach included adopting the dress and customs of the Indian people.
Amy left behind many letters, books, poems, and prayer journals, which have been a great testimony to generations of Christian women (including me). As my children’s Sunday school lesson explains, there was one prayer that God never answered, at least not in the way Amy had wanted.
“When Amy Carmichael was a little girl, she asked God to change her brown eyes to blue because her mother had beautiful blue eyes. She was heart-broken when God didn’t answer her prayer as she hoped. Years later as a missionary in India, she darkened her skin with coffee and dressed as a native woman, so she could enter Indian temples and rescue the children enslaved there.
” ‘It is good that you have brown eyes,’ she was told by an Indian Christian. ‘If they were blue, you would be arrested at once, and your work here would be ended.’ ”
What a great testimony to nine-year-old children that God always gives us what is best for us– even in our appearance!
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