Staff Retreat

This past week we had our annual staff retreat where we spent 3 days learning, praying, worshiping, and team building with all of our Monterrey staff.  During one of the teaching times we studied Jochebed.  10 points if you know who this Old Testament character is before I tell you.  Don't worry, I didn't recognize it at first either.  It's Moses' mother.  What struck so many of us about this great story is that she abandoned her child.  She put Moses in a basket on a river.  Didn't drop him off in a children's home or look for a "forever family" for him, but put her infant in the river.  It was the most loving, sacrificial thing she could do and it was part of God's great plan for Moses.  A few weeks ago I posted about gaining perspective on the parents that drop their children off in children's homes, and this was another great reminder.  Sometimes leaving your child in a children's home is the best, most loving thing you can do in your circumstances.  And what a great story to encourage our children!  Old Testament hero Moses was abandoned too, and look how God used him!  Burning bush, 10 plagues, leading Israelites out of Egypt, 10 Commandments, all because Jochebed placed her infant in basket and pushed him down the river.