| I often turn to my Bible for comfort and hope. One | | | | mother, in the Bible? And if the Pharaoh's daughter |
| reading, which always piques my interest, tells of | | | | had not rescued Moses, who else could have? Would |
| Moses' mother hiding him for a few months, and | | | | he not have been murdered anyway, had anyone |
| then, placing him in a basket of bulrushes, and setting | | | | else found him? If this is so, did Moses' mother know |
| him afloat on the river. She knew, if she kept her | | | | that the Pharaoh's daughter would be visiting the |
| baby boy, he would surely be murdered. Her | | | | area where she placed Moses? Was this young |
| surrendering of her baby was his only hope for life. | | | | woman, in particular, the only hope for Moses and his |
| As I reread this passage last night, I wondered, how | | | | birth mother? |
| different my life might have been, if my child's | | | | One final pondering of mine: While this appears to be |
| adoption had been an open adoption. Moses' adoption | | | | an open adoption from the birth mother's side, what |
| was really an open one, because of his sister's | | | | about the adoptive mother, the Pharaoh's daughter? |
| involvement. Indeed, his mother was his wet nurse! | | | | Could she have been so naive that she never figured |
| Did this knowledge and contact make it easier for his | | | | this one out? And Moses? When did he become |
| birth mother? | | | | aware of who his birth mother was? What was his |
| Wondering this, I remembered that when my child | | | | relationship with each of his mothers? Just how truly |
| was born I never saw her sweet little face. Why? | | | | open was this adoption? |
| Because I worried that, if I saw her, I would never | | | | Well, perhaps my own firstborn child's history is |
| be able to let her go. Still, all the worry over her well | | | | enough of a mystery for me. Perhaps I should |
| being through the years........What a relief it would have | | | | content myself with learning all I can about her past |
| been to know that she was well, happy and loved...... | | | | circumstances? I don't know, it is somehow |
| Another thing I have been wondering: is Moses the | | | | comforting to find our selves and our humanness |
| first mention, of a child being surrendered by his birth | | | | recorded in the Bible... |