A Thought for the week
Week of August 2
Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. Exodus 2:1-4
The story of Moses is one of faith. The Pharaoh had ordered for all male babies to be killed and Moses’s mother could not hide him any longer. She prepared a vessel for the baby and let him go down the Nile.
In our deepest struggles, we are called to let go. Let go of the things that are precious to us and give them to God. When we let go we may find something new. In the case of Moses, he was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter. The daughter called on Moses’s mother to raise him until she could raise Moses on her own. Letting go of your struggles and giving them to God in faith can bring blessings that we could never imagine on our own.