“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.”
(1 Samuel 1:27)

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I personally can attest to the fact that a mother’s love and prayers go way back, sometimes even before our beginning. So today, I’d like to share with you one such prayer, spoken twice, that I didn’t even know I had in me. (“Hmm, I wonder if Hannah had felt the same way.”)

There was a time not all that long ago, when I could not call myself “a mother”.  Some of this was self-inflicted, and sometimes not. (I’d spent a couple of decades crusading that I would never get married or have children. I have learned now to never say never.)

The History and the Pain

I had lived through and learned enough in my life to know better, and that I didn’t ever want to revisit…