It broke my heart when my husband left me for another woman.  I have come a long way in forgiving him, but it has been very hard to let go of my anger toward her--a woman I don't even know.  But God did some amazing work on me a couple of months ago and let me see her in my Bible.

To the Other Woman

by Lisa Baker

Women of old

With stories untold

Mere glimpses of lives we see

When I take a look

In this ancient of books

A snapshot in them of me

Yet tonight I saw there

A new kind of heir

To the legacy scripture can weave

And now I must release

My resistance to peace

So forgiveness my hate can relieve

For you are like dear Hagar, proud

Should you be rejected and cry aloud

El Roi will hear your humbled  plea

And prove to be the One who sees

And you are like Rahab of old

Whose intervention still is told

Despite disgraceful reputation

Was used to bring the world salvation

You are Bathsheba, mother to kings

Gomer with heartache in her wings

You are the woman before the crowd

Insisting stoning was allowed

At times I wondered at this lot

So used by God though to men naught

These women I’ve seen with prideful eyes

Disgusting sins—then I realize

That I am like them in some ways

For any goodness God be praised!

But you are like them somehow too,

Should I not love like God loves you?

Written September 25, 2005

Copyright 2005