The Mothering Nature of Jesus

05/11/2008 - On perhaps two different occasions - or on one told differently by two authors - Jesus displays a hint of His Father's motherly nature, brooding prophetically over the holy city's refusal of Him in these words:

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!" ~ Luke 13:34; Matthew 23:37

It is with that same protective instinct He watches over God's children now, and for His protection we should always be grateful.