Abram and Sarai in Egypt
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”
Sarai
A woman who is prepared
to do whatever is required
to protect those she loves
A woman
who leaves all that she knows
to follow God
destination unknown
A woman
who places herself in danger
and plays down her beauty
to ensure her man will live
A woman
who stands aside
to ensure her husband
produces an heir
A woman
who is disrespected
and retaliates
setting up generations
embroiled in bitterness.
A woman
who lost faith
in the promise of God
but still found it in her
to be hospitable
to the Lord’s messengers
A woman
who eavesdropped
and who laughed out loud
at the notion
of bearing a son
at the age of 90
already beyond menopause
and who carried her laughter
through conception
and each anxious trimester
all the way to birth
and the fulfilment
of God’s promised blessing.
Truly a matriarch
of the people of God.
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