No Longer Downcast
A 30-Day Devotional Through the Story of Hannah for Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and the Long Wait for a Child
by Nicholas Dailey
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Year after year Hannah went up to worship at Shiloh, and year after year she came home with nothing. Her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat. Her husband asked, "Am I not better to you than ten sons?" When she finally poured out her soul before the LORD, the priest thought she was drunk. And then, before anything had changed, before there was any baby, her face was no longer downcast.
No Longer Downcast is a 30-day devotional through the story of Hannah for infertility, pregnancy loss, and the long wait for a child. Along the way you'll follow Loretta, a 76-year-old seamstress in a small Kentucky town who lost four babies and later fostered thirty-one children, and Shelby, a 34-year-old pharmacist who has been trying to have a child for more than three years and lost a pregnancy last spring. They meet on Saturday mornings in Loretta's alterations shop, and their conversations lead into each day's Scripture, reflection, and practice.
Inside
- Year After Year: "Hannah had none," a closed womb and a double portion, a rival at the family table, "Am I not better to you than ten sons?", and Rachel's cry, "Give me children, or I will die!"
- Pouring Out My Soul: a bitter prayer, a vow, a priest who misjudges, "I have poured out my soul before the LORD," and "Go in peace"
- The Women Who Waited: Abram under the stars, Sarai's plan, Sarah's laugh, Isaac's prayer for Rebekah, the unnamed wife of Manoah, and Elizabeth's neighbors who rejoiced with her
- Songs for the Waiting: a life knit together in the womb, tears kept in God's bottle, "a name better than that of sons and daughters," strength to walk and not faint, and the Shunammite woman's "Do not deceive me"
Format: PDF, 6 × 9 in layout with clickable contents
Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under the author's direction.
