The Blessing of the Lord

This is the book J/W are currently reading along with dozens of others. Anyway, "The blessing of the Lord- stories from the old and new testaments" is retold by Gary D. Schmidt and illustrated by Dennis Nolan.

Today we read the story of "Hagar, The Egyptian Maidservant" from Hagar's perspective. In case you don't know,this is a story from the old testament. Hagar is the maidservant of Sarah who is married to Abraham. Sarah, not believing God's provision that she will have a miracle baby when she was over 100years old, marries Hagar to her husband, Abraham.

Hagar bore a son named Ishmael for Abraham and taunts Sarah. Angered, Sarah ousts Hagar and her son but they comes back to Sarah and Abraham under God's instruction but later was again albeit permanently ousted by Sarah and Abraham. Believing she and her son will die in the desert, God saves Hagar and Ishmael and tells Hagar He will let Ishmael have many descendants and will make his descendants into a great nation.


This is J's rendition of the story and this is W boy's.
This is picture of W on an earlier day when he was cold. We took a picture since everyone thought he looked like Mary with the blanket around his head. :-)