Pray Like Hannah
Hannah was married to Elkenah. He also had another wife. That wife had borne him children. Hannah had not. Her most fervent desire had not been answered. At what had to have been one of her lowest points, and I think we can all identify with this moment, she is at the temple praying. It says she is moving her lips but words aren't coming out. In fact, the priest Eli, accuses her of being drunk. In reality she is praying with all her heart. Perhaps she is so full of emotion that audibly speaking them will unleash the tears. Perhaps she struggles to even find the right words. Perhaps she is afraid to even speak out loud those personal desires. I've been in all of those praying situations, haven't you? In 1 Samuel 1:10 it says, "And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore." Can you feel her there? In the bitterness of her soul? When it feels like there is no goodness left aro...