Kantha 100% Cotton Scraps Cavas Bag

Size: 14”x18”

Material: Recycled Cotton Canvas

Lining: Recycled Cotton Kantha Quilt

Pockets: 1

Hannah knew the weight of empty arms.

Each year she watched child after child fill the arms and the life of another - her husbands second wife, whom he had taken after years of Hannah being unable to conceive.

Her husband loved her, even more so then the second wife. But love did not quiet the shots that rang out from the taunting of the second wife. And yet, no matter how cruel her taunts were, the silence in her own womb was crueler.

This year, when she faithful returned to the temple in Shiloh, standing before where the tabernacle rested at the time, was different. The silence she choose to keep and the silence that unwelcomly dwelled within her was unbearable. The grief did not harden her, it drove her in the arms of her own heavenly Father and she could not stand. The desperation in her heart poured out from her so hard, surely it could drown her before the tears from her eyes. And as it seemed she was about to take her final breath, she prays:

 "Give me a son, and I will give him back to You all the days of his life.”

She asked for motherhood and offered it back all in the same breath. It was not a bargain, it was surrender.

Hannah gave birth to a son and named him Samuel. And true to her promise, once Samuel had been weened, Hannah brought him back to live in the temple under the pastor, Eli’s care. She walked away from the child she had begged for — not because her longing for him had faded, but because she trusted God more.

The ox is a symbol of sacrifice, and was a common literal sacrifice at the temple in Shiloh. The towering plants rise as symbols of birth — life where there was barrenness. The Hebrew script translates to "God has heard".