Image courtesy of Natalia Osiatynska from Flickr; licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic In extolling His love towards His people, God uses the attention that a mother gives to her infant nursing child as an example of His own love for Israel. He expects that a mother, in the most natural of all attributes, will tenderly and spontaneously watch over her young. He asks a rhetorical question to Israel: can a woman forget her young? Is it possible for a mother to forget a young infant child who needs her? Notice three qualities that GOD highlights in this simple verse: A MOTHER PROVIDES FOR HER CHILD: Can a woman forget her…