“From that day on Hannah was severed from the child she had longed for and loved with every fiber of her being. And, at the end of the day, she would go home with Elkanah and Peninnah—the same two people who had broken her heart a hundred times before by their choices and actions. Yet despite all of this, Hannah was secure and uncharacteristically confident, for she had come to understand that God is on his throne, and the one who trusts in him, though she is hurting, is standing on solid rock.”