You're listening the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are talking about the family and how the family is so important. It is the little church,

but also how we need to be in our families discerning

and accepting the specific mission that God has given us, that we weren't placed in our families

to just stay there forever and never do anything different from each other, but that God has a unique plan

for all of us. And it is our job while in our family to discern that and accept it.

Yesterday we looked at the dramatic story of Abraham and Isaac and how God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, is a reminder

that we belong to God. We have been entrusted to our parents, but we belong to him.

Now, today we're going to look at another very famous character from the Old Testament,

and that character is Moses.

Now, let's think back to the very beginning of Moses's life.

When we're talking about family, Moses probably doesn't come right to the top of your mind

because Moses was taken from his family or he was

sent from his family when he was very, very young. If you remember the story, Moses's parents were

slaves in Egypt. The entire nation of Israel was enslaved there. And because of some prophecies from the Egyptians, because they were

worried that the nation of Israel was getting too big and too strong, the Pharaoh decided to

kill all of the newborn sons that had been born right around the time of Moses. So to protect

her son's life, she took her new baby son, who was Moses. She made a little

basket out of reeds. She wrapped him in a blanket and she put him on the river. And she asked

Moses's older sister to watch and see what happened to this basket as it floated away. Clearly the hand of God was involved here

because the basket that Moses was in floated right up to some of the women from the royal

household of Pharaoh who were down by the river. And in fact, Pharaoh's own sister, who couldn't have her own children, found the

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