All my life I was told of the account of Hannah who prayed all her life for a son, whose husband loves her. However, in the eyes of an adult I read the account of Hannah as a bullied, persecuted woman, loved by her husband, but the husband had two wives. She was not the heir's mother and had no standing. Hannah the account of a woman who in adversity prayed for a son and God rewarded her (and all of Israel) for her follow through on a vow.
