Praying we all experience that divine love that will not let us go

This is a story about a mother's love. It happened during World War II. The enemy planes flew over Belgium all night long dropping bombs that set the city ablaze.

People huddled in basements and bomb shelters, and no one knew if they would survive the worst attack that they ever experienced. In the morning they could see hundreds of buildings in ruins. Who knew how many people were dead, or dying, trapped underneath the rubble. Some of the trapped people cried and filled the air with screams for help.

Soon many of the survivors were clawing at the stones trying to save whoever was under there, looking where the moans were heard.

Many distraught people were crying looking for missing loved ones, and that was mingled with the pleads for help of those that were trapped. Folks worked for days trying to rescue anyone who might still be alive.

On the fourth day, they began working on another building, and as they began digging, they heard the cries of a child crying for water. It was bitterly cold, and it took many hours to reach the place where he was trapped.

They wondered if he'd still be alive when they found him, but they kept talking to him hoping for the best. Once more, he cried for water, and once more, they wondered how anyone could still be alive.

When the last slab of stone was removed they found him still conscious with hardly a scratch. Totally amazed, they asked how could this be?

But looking closer, they understood. A little boy lay with his mothers body curved over and above him like an arch protecting him from the weight of the rubble and the bitter cold.

In those last seconds before the building crumbled his mother had deliberately enfolded him in her arms, knowing it was his only chance for survival. She died that he might live. He was saved by the powerful miracle of a mother's love.

Because human love is a love we can understand, God uses this example in Isaiah 49:15, "Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yeah, they may forget, yet will I not forget Thee."

"For God, so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. " John 3:16