Hannah is spiritually concerned woman driven to prayer by her infertility but able, too, to see the wider need around her. Yet the leaders who should help her in this time – the priests – are failing: they give no aid to her prayers. But God still hears and Hannah finds peace, for she has submitted her will to God’s. Thus, when the prayer is answered with a child, she sends him to replace the useless priests. But in so doing, finds great blessing for her soul for any ‘loan’ to the Lord is always overpaid when it is returned.
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Lending to the Lord