Here is a guest post by Cheryl Glass:
Hi. I’ve been thinking about mothers of the Bible lately. For example, if David’s mom had been on the hill of battle when Goliath came out to challenge the Israelites, and David stepped out to answer the challenge, do you think she would have grabbed him and told him to sit down and be quiet? Or buried her face in her hands and just stood there wondering where she went wrong? When John the Baptist started wandering the wilderness in camel hair and eating locusts and honey, do you think Elizabeth tried explaining to her friends that he’d always been just a little bit odd, or that it was just a stage? Did Moses’ mom blame herself after he murdered the Egyptian, thinking that if she could have raised him, things would have turned out differently? Do you think Rachel wanted to step up and tell the other others to stop picking on her boy just because he was different than their sons? This couldn’t really be a Bible study, because there is no where to find the answers, but it’s something I wonder about….