Yesterday was All Saint's Sunday, (All Saints Day was actually Nov. 1st), and at our Church we invite adults and youth to come dressed as a saint of their choosing, join in the processional into Church, and then during the sermon time, we are invited up to tell a brief story about our saint.Here are some of us, which included St. Francis, St. Bill the Deacon, St. John Leonardi, Saints of the Medical Professions, St. Miriam, and St. Ruth.
I represented Miriam, older sister of Moses & Aaron, who at age 10, helped save her brother Moses when he was a baby, and his mother had set him adrift in the Nile, it was Miriam who went to Pharaoh's daughter after she had found the baby in the basket, and told her she could get a nursemaid to help care for the baby. When Pharaoh's daughter agreed to that, Miriam went and got her mother to then care for the baby, thereby saving Moses' life and allowing her mother to care for her own son.
Later Miriam developed her leadership qualities as a prophetess and leader of songs - "Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her,with tambourines and dancing. Miriam sang to them, "Sing to The Lord, for He is highly exalted. The horse and its rider, He has hurled into the sea." (Exodus 15:20-21)
Some people thought I was trying to represent some flower child hippie of the 60's..*L* Far out, eh? PEACE!
One of the other Saints who came that day represented women suffragettes, and brought her message to get out and VOTE on Tuesday...very apropos for current times.
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