"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands...."
Isaiah 49:15-16
God, how can a nursing mother forget her baby? It's painful to forget a nursing child, even for a few hours!Only a greater pain, horrific pain, could detach a mother from her baby like this....maybe the pain of chronic hunger, wretched injustice, trafficking? These could cause a mother to detach. Yet, you cannot forget your children.
We are engraved, etched in, permanent. Even if you tried to forget, you are reminded of us each time you open your own hands. How deeply, eternally, you love us....
....Don't forget!
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