Hannah is barren (Samuel 1:1-8)

  Jay Kesler tells his story in his book Going Places. Late one night he was walking down a street in India. A boy with no legs hobbled up on crutches and asked for money. Jay obliged him generously.

Jay turned and continued walking. He hadn’t gone ten steps when he heard a terrible racket. He turned around and saw several beggars swarming over the boy. They were stealing from him the money he’d just begged.

Like Peninnah, who ridiculed Hannah for being barren, the other beggars made the boy’s burden even heavier to carry.

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