A Prayer for the Basket Season of Your Adult Child
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges of letting go of adult children while trusting in God's care for them.
Jochebed, the mother of Moses, understood what it means to do everything you possibly can for a child and then face the moment when your hands must let go. She waterproofed the basket with tar and pitch. She tested it carefully. She waded into the river as far as she could. And then she had to release her son into the water where Pharaoh was drowning baby boys. She did her part with extraordinary care, and then she had to trust God with what she could not control. What held Moses was not the basket. He was in the palm of God's hand. The same is true for every child being released into a new season — whether it is a wedding, a dorm room, a first apartment, or a drift from faith that feels like the most frightening river of all. God had your child before you did, and He holds them long after they leave your house. He never takes His eyes off the water. The basket was always His to carry. Today's Bible Verse "But when she could hide him no longer, 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 along the bank of the Nile." — Exodus 2:3, NIV Ponder Today Preparation is your part — the…
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