Moses and Miriam

Dearest Addie,

At church this past weekend, you made the coolest craft! Daddy and I were quite impressed with your artwork. Here is a picture of what you made... Unfortunately, I had to read your accompanying paperwork to fully understand what it was: it was Moses (and Miriam) in the basket floating along the Nile River.

 Exodus 1:21-2:10 (New International Version)

21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. 22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

The Birth of Moses

2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 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. 3 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. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. 5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. 7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” 8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

What was very neat about tonight, was that your teacher stopped us in the hallway following the service to tell us how attentive you were during the story and how you asked for another clothespin to make a doll to represent Moses' sister, Miriam! You did a great job paying attention to the story to remember this while you were making the craft afterwards...hence the two "people" in the basket. I also love that you are such a great BIG SISTER to your own little brother. You take such good care of John, just like Miriam watched out for Moses in this Bible story. We are so proud of you, and we love that you love Sunday School so much!

God bless you sweet little girl!