SACRIFICIAL LOVE:
(Poem by Ruth Bell Graham)
Had I been Joseph’s mother
I’d have prayed
protection from his brothers
"God, keep him safe.
He is so young,
so different from
the others."
Mercifully,
she never knew
there would be slavery
and prison too.
Had I been Moses’ mother
I’d have wept
To keep my little son:
praying she might forget
the babe drawn
from the water
of the Nile.
Had I not kept
him for her
nursing him the while, ’ was he not mine?--and she
but Pharaoh’s daughter?
Had I been Daniel’s mother
I should have pled
"Give victory!
--this Babylonian horde
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