Faith and Life Blog

Third place winner in the LOVE 101 Mother's Day Poetry Competition on May 6, 2022.  Mama’s Love  Mama dearest, I know you love me, Let me count the ways Mama dearest, I know you love me,  You’ve shown me throughout the years  You fed me, clothed me, made sacrifices for me  When I cried you wiped my tears  You taught me right from wrong  Mama dearest, how much I love you  On this Mother’s Day, I wish you   Abundant blessings and good cheer!!  Lona Isaacs May 1, 2022.  Written for my mother Mrs Esther Isaacs  Mother’s Day 2022.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 (NIV)   The story of Esther’s meteoric rise to the position of queen and eventually rescuing her Jewish people from death and destruction is a well-known Bible story. Esther, a young Jewish orphan girl in the care of her uncle Mordecai, was suddenly catapulted from obscurity when she found favour with the King who was seeking a wife to replace Vashti who had defied his orders to appear before him. Having emerged head and shoulders above the other competitors, Esther was placed in a rigorous programme of treatment and preparation in order to step into her role as queen.  The signal act of her queenship was her daring, uninvited approach to the king, which set the stage for her people to be delivered. She had come to the kingdom for such a