Day 19
Miriam: Tapping Life's Potential
Dedicated in loving memory of our great-grandparents Reb Mendel and Mrs Shaindel Stein who gave their lives to save their children.
There are times in our lives when things look so bad, so hopeless that we would despair of any possibility of change. Yet, as a wheel turns downward, so does it turn upward, and if we hold on long enough, and if we trust in God enough, what looks like a desperate situation could be transformed into redemption.
This is a message we learn from our ancestors, and no one lived this more than Miriam.
She was born at the darkest time of the exile in Egypt, a time when Pharaoh’s soldiers were throwing babies into the Nile River, when the exile was so bitter that she was named Miriam from the Hebrew word “mar” (bitter). Yet Miriam always believed in redemption. She always knew the time would come when the Jews would be saved. The question was how and when, but never if!
