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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families," by Shannon Bream.

What a paradox that Pharaoh’s plan was to subdue the Hebrew people by killing their sons, and it turns out a group of females thwarted his plan. Jochebed fought to save her son. Miriam boldly stepped up to protect him. Then Pharaoh’s own daughter took pity on him and spared his life!

How long had it been since Zechariah had prayed for a son? Was there a point when he assumed it was no longer even worth asking? Are there hopes and dreams you’ve abandoned, things you prayed over for years and then put on a shelf for good? We often cannot see how God is weaving together the threads of our lives until long after the tapestry is complete. He may present you with an answer you never imagined decades after your original request. I sometimes struggle mightily to bring about what I see as the perfect path forward, only to realize, when that season is in my rearview mirror, that the agenda I so desperately wanted to achieve was wildly inferior to God’s design. I also believe some of what wounds us most on this earth won’t make sense until we are in heaven, with an eternity to praise God for His infinite wisdom during the times we just couldn’t see past our own pain.

Mothers devote themselves to a future that will outlive them, and they do so in the footsteps of Mary, who also worked for a promised expectation.