One woman's faith to let go. |
And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. -- Exodus 2:8-9 Jochabed. She feared God more than the Nile. She didn’t know what would become of her precious baby boy, but she knew he was safer in a basket on the river. Perhaps she sent the baby’s sister to the riverbank to keep an eye on him. Did she rejoce when Miriam ran back to her? “Come, Mama! Pharaoh’s daugher has taken my brother from the river. She needs someone to feed him for her!” Oh, how Jochabed must have run with Miriam, back to her baby, to hold and nurse him again. Can you imagine Jochabed’s happiness for her son’s safety and her sorrow at not having him as her own any longer? I can’t. But there are those who can. Mothers who stand firm in the face of an abortion industry and give birth to a child. Mothers who know that when her child is born it will belong to another. Mothers whose babies leave the hospital without her, in some other parents’ arms. Mothers who, like Jochabed, trusted God to provide a safe refuge and let the basket go. May God fill the hearts of these very special mothers with peace and joy. |