Rebecca’s Whisper “Run! Don’t look back”, I whispered softly, squeezing my son to my bosom one last time. I watched him run into the inky night with nothing more than a satchel across his back as the sobs rocked my body. My beloved son. As his figure disappeared into the shadows, my mind drifted back to where it all began; a cool, windy evening as the desert winds howled, and the orange sun dipped low in the sky lower in the sky. The bleating of the sheep rang out, blending into a chorus with another herd nearby. I led my father’s sheep to the well with my pitcher across my shoulder. It had been a hot day, and the sheep…
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Alone, pregnant and running from pain, Hagar found herself in the wilderness- forgotten by people but remembered by God. Hagar's story reminds us that even in our deserts. God sees. He hears. He provides
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The desert wind howled outside the tent, but inside, Sarai sat still. Her hands, once smooth and youthful, were lined now. Her back ached more than it used to. Her eyes still searched the stars each night, but not with the same hope they once held. It had been years. Decades. She had followed Abram into a land they didn’t know, leaving behind her family, her comfort, her identity. All because he said God spoke to him. He promised him a child, a nation, a legacy. And she had believed him. Each month bled into the next, leaving her arms empty,…
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Another year has rolled in and as I sit in quiet contemplation, reflecting on the story of creation, I am struck by the profound role that the woman has in God’s grand plan as seen in the Genesis 1:26-27 26. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27. So God created mankind in his image, in the image of…