A Nursing Mother Analogy

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“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” Jeremiah 15:16
“She gleaned in the field  ...  and she brought forth, and gave  ...  that she had reserved after she was sufficed.” Ruth 2:17-18
“Where hast thou gleaned today?” Ruth 2:19
“Take this child away, and nurse it for me” (Ex. 2:9). A mother can only nurse her child from that which she herself has taken in and made her own. When a mother is nursing her child, she is very careful what she feeds upon. You will sometimes hear a mother say, “No thank you, it doesn’t seem to agree with the baby.” She is very careful what she feeds upon. And I suggest that even that little example has a present-day application to mothers of children at any age.”
— Albert Hayhoe