I don't see my husband back there yet, but I hope he's somewhere because he told me I was to wait until he could start timing me.

Where is he?

Oh, okay.

Talk number two is called Give Your Life Away.

I'm going to tell you all the same things I just said, because you didn't get them the first time.

And I have a three-point outline.

Number one is give up your right to yourself.

Number two is take up the cross.

And number three is follow.

Because I do want you to get it through your heads.

Okay?

Another illustration of a woman who's had a very deep influence in my life

was Amy Carmichael, who gave her life away.

Before she was 20, she believed that God wanted her to remain single for the rest of her life.

When I wrote her biography, I came across all sorts of interesting data, and it appeared to me that she had had probably at least three proposals,

but had believed from her teenage years that God was calling her to remain single,

which she did, not realizing that God would someday make her the mother

of more than 700 children in South India.

She gave up the very effective traveling evangelism that she did for the first six years,

traveling by bullock cart, which is probably the most uncomfortable method of travel in the world.

It's a wooden cart pulled by two bullocks,

cows with long horns. It feels as though the wheels are made are square because Lars and I took a

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