A bit unconventional for Mother’s Day, perhaps, but appropriate nonetheless, I think. So here we go. A poetic reflection on Exodus 1:15–2:10.
Pharaoh feared Jacob’s sons—
all newborn males he ordered slain.
The females, though, he thought no threat.
Then,
two barren women
refused to harm
new life from the womb,
a slave’s wife
bravely protected
her newborn son,
an older sister
watched over
her infant brother,
a servant girl
rescued
a baby from the water,
and Pharaoh’s own daughter
had compassion
on a stranger’s child.
Thus,
the mighty king of Egypt
was defeated
by mothering.