After her two sons were executed with five other descendants of Saul, Rizpah spread sackcloth on a rock and kept watch over their bodies. She kept the birds away by day and the beasts by night, continuing from the beginning of harvest until rain fell. Word of her watch reached David, and he had their remains gathered for burial. Her devotion reminds us that even where loss is beyond our power to change, there is still room to care. We can stand beside the grieving and honor those they have lost. Love still has work to do when it cannot make the hurt go away.
“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.” —2 Samuel 21:10
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