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Selamat Hari Ibu! 

Segenap pengurus MRII mengucapkan Selamat Hari Ibu.  

Poem by Ruth Bell Graham

Had I been Joseph's mother

I'd have prayed protection from his brothers;

"God keep him safe; 

he is so young, 

so different from 

the others."

Mercifully she never knew 

there would be slavery and prison, too.

Had I been Moses' mother 

I'd have wept to keep my little son;

praying she might forget 

the babe drawn from the water of the Nile,

had I not kept him for her nursing him the while?

Was he not mine and she but Pharaoh's daughter?

Had I been Daniel's mother 

I should have pled 

"Give victory! This Babylonian horde 

- godless and cruel -  

don't let them take him captive - better dead, 

Almighty Lord!"

Had I been Mary - 

Oh, had I been she, 

I would have cried as never mother cried, 

"...Anything, O God, anything... but crucified!"

With such prayers 

importunate my finite wisdom

would assail Infinite wisdom; 

God, how fortunate Infinite Wisdom should prevail!