By Rev. Eugenia A Gamble
Recently, as I continue to go through my mother’s things after her death at the age of almost 99, I have been pouring over photographs. My mom kept her High School scrapbook from 1943. She kept my grandmother’s scrapbook from 1905. She kept slides of vacations and piles of pictures of holidays shared in the family home where I now live again. Many of the photos are not labeled so I don’t know the date or the identity of some of those pictured. They were so well known to her she could never imagine forgetting them, nor could she imagine not being with me to tell me when I asked. Nor could I. Even though some of the memories are gone with her, each face tells a story of a moment in time special enough to record in some way.
The Bible itself is like a family album for us. There are those we know so well we could never forget them, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses, King David, Jesus, Peter, John and Paul. There are a few women standing next to them, or slightly in the background, whose names we remember, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, the three Mary’s in the New Testament. But there are many others whose stories we may not know. Each day for the next two months, I invite you to explore the story of one women from the Bible. We will begin with a look at women from the Old Testament and move through the New. These devotions are totally inadequate for the more prominent women but will lift up a thread from each life. I invite you to ponder what we can learn about ourselves, and about God, from each one.
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