# 0037: Bible Stories

Last week, I had the opportunity of teaching my two oldest kids in Sunday School. Long story, but we walked in, turned the light on and jumped into class with no plan really. I opened up the Children's Bible to a random page and started reading. 

I told the story of Baby Moses (Exodus 1-2) and compared him to our little baby boy. Then, we made our own Baby Moseses and baskets and a river and yada, yada class was over! 

Since becoming a mom, I love that I am able to understand better certain Bible stories like this one. I love that I "get it" when it comes to matters involving other parents and children, because like everything else in the Bible, the principles never go out of date, they are never irrelevant. 

How terrifying it must have been to be a pregnant Hebrew woman just hoping that your baby wouldn't be born a boy because you knew he would be taken from you and killed. I can't imagine your husband would feel that great about it either. Then, for Moses's mom to carry him, birth him, keep him hidden and nurse him for 3 months then send him down a river in a basket! I can't imagine putting a three month old baby in a basket in a river and just hoping for the best. That was the best she could do. 

I love that I can understand these people's feelings better because I'm a parent, too. That's as far as I want it to go, though. I don't want to experience having a Pharaoh that would sentence my kids to death as soon as they're born. Just being parents is where the comparisons can stop for me.

What a blessing for Moses's mom when her sister convinced Pharaoh's daughter to let "a Hebrew woman" nurse him. She got her baby back! She got him back for a while longer anyway. 

I love that I "get" this stuff just a little better now that I have had my own babies. 

This isn't the only story in the Bible having to do with parents, babies, family, etc, of course. There are so many great motherly and fatherly examples in the Bible.