Basket of Hope

Exodus 2:3 “…she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds…” (NIV)*

Hope contained in papyrus

For God, this fine child spared

Hidden among the reeds

Deliverance awaits his care.

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If I could stay in that basket

Placed in waters still

Nestled in God’s woven plan

Sheltered in His will.

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Whatever threats be spoken

Or arrows thrown my way

I’d float secure in papyrus

And for His purposes, wait.

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photos and poem by Patty Perkins

Exodus 2:10 “When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.'” (NIV)*

*The One Year Bible, New International Version, copyright 1986, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.