Comments on: The emotional Hannah https://comefollowmestudy.com/the-emotional-hannah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-emotional-hannah Unlocking the simple and super relatable lessons in every scripture through powerful study Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: caliblack25 https://comefollowmestudy.com/the-emotional-hannah/#comment-12750 Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:05:34 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=8090#comment-12750 In reply to Patti Peterson.

I love this perspective. Thank you so much for sharing! <3

]]> By: caliblack25 https://comefollowmestudy.com/the-emotional-hannah/#comment-12749 Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:04:41 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=8090#comment-12749 In reply to Debbie S..

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]]> By: Patti Peterson https://comefollowmestudy.com/the-emotional-hannah/#comment-12742 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:24:08 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=8090#comment-12742 I see part of this story a little differently. I Samuel introduces us to a faithful man, Elkanah, and his wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Elkanah provided appropriately for Peninnah and her children, and verse five tells us:
“But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah…”
Worthy is defined as ‘deserving of, fit for’; so Elkanah gave to Hannah an even more generous portion, perhaps an extravagant portion, to express and demonstrate his great love for her and the high esteem in which he held her.

During my own experience of infertility, pregnancy losses, and stillbirth, I was directed by the Spirit to Hannah’s story and came to read verse eight, not at all as a thoughtless rebuke by an insensitive man, but as a tender and emotional response by a compassionate husband grieving for his wife’s pain. This, in my own words, is the message I hear in verse eight:
“Oh, Hannah, my beloved wife. I see thy sorrow and would that I could mend thy broken heart. I cannot take away thy grief, yet I do, and will always, love thee, honor thee, and care for thee better even than 10 sons could do.”
This is the love and compassion I received from my own husband who shared equally in all my sorrows.
I love Hannah and Elkanah; their story brought comfort to my own grieving heart and peace to my soul until, eventually, I was able to rejoice as Hannah did in the Lord’s blessing of sons and daughters.

]]> By: Debbie S. https://comefollowmestudy.com/the-emotional-hannah/#comment-12741 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:40:20 +0000 https://comefollowmestudy.com/?p=8090#comment-12741 Too often emotional responses are looked on as weakness. The Lord knew why she was and blessed her. I’m so thankful the story shows that emotions are real and okay.

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