out of the water

Good morning friends,
As you think ahead to Labor Day weekend, Robyn Fitzgerald has secured a block of tickets for Saturday's (September 3) Red Wings game for the church. It's always a fun night out together, so let Maria or Carl know if you're interested (I'll be away this week) or let me know next week. I hope a good sized group of us can go.

We read this as part of our Old Testament reading yesterday in worship. Moses' mother seeks a way out of Pharaoh's horrible, genocidal policies for her son. Ironically, it's Pharaoh's own daughter who ends up taking him in. I wonder if in the time Moses' mother nursed Moses for his adoptive mother she also taught him about Israel and God's story with them. We never know who God will use to bring light and hope into dark times. I pray we would be open to God's surprising grace each day.

blessings,
Sam

Exodus 2:1-10

1Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman.2The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. 3When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. 4His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.



5The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. 6When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said.



7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it. 10When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”