God Hears
How do you need God to hear you today?
1 Samuel 1:20
In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the Lord.”
Fertility, Mansplaining, Asking, Giving and Taking.
These are the major themes in Hannah’s journey to becoming a mother to her only son Samuel and then signing away her parental rights and dedicating that same child entirely back to God’s work in the temple.
Men were constantly trying to interpret Hannah’s needs, actions, desires, and grief. Questioning her emotion, accusing her of being drunk, doubting her hair-brained ideas. Her rival sister wife “kept provoking her in order to irritate her.”
When the son whom she begged God for was finally born, Hannah named him Samuel - which sounds very much like the Hebrew word for heard by God. Hannah’s intuition remained grounded in her trust that God heard her, and her life and that of her child’s were lived in the wake of such potent belief.
How do you need God to hear you today?
Can you tune into the God who hears your deepest and most intimate yearnings? What are those yearnings? Name them now in a posture of curiosity and surrender. If you cannot, can you sense what is interfering with your ability to tune in?