Hi, I'm Leslie Ludi, host of the Set-A-Part-Gal Podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today I'm really excited to share with you about the life of Amy Carmichael.

She's one of my spiritual heroes and I've quoted her a lot throughout this podcast.

So if you've ever heard me speak, or if you've read any of my books,

you probably are familiar with her name.

And I would encourage you to read her books and her biography

because she truly is one of the most powerful examples of

set apart womanhood that I've ever seen. The theme of Amy Carmichael's life

was that in all things he might have the preeminence which means the first

place. The first time I encountered Amy

Carmichael's story, I was in high school and I was reading her biography, the one that Elizabeth

Elliot wrote, called A Chance to Die, and I had that book with me and I was going over to

babysit, some friends of ours, they're little girls and I put the book on the coffee

table thinking I would read it after the girls were in bed and the book is called of course a chance to die and one of the little

girls picked up the book and said a chance to die what is what did she have what disease did she

have she thought it was about you know this girl dying and I

started laughing and I said no it's it's not about that it's about how she learned

how to die to herself and live Christ's agenda instead of her own agenda which of course to an eight year old

girl that was hard to explain but really death to self was such a primary theme for

Amy Carmichael it really started when she was a young woman living in the upper class of

Belfast, Ireland in the late 1800s. There was a day when she and her family were walking

home from church one Sunday.

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