Hannah’s Quiet Prayer
Can God hear a prayer with no sound?
Hannah wanted a child more than anything, and year after year there was none. One year at God’s house she prayed so hard, with her lips moving and no sound, that the old priest Eli thought she’d had too much wine. She told him the truth. He blessed her. And a year later she had a son, Samuel, whom she gave back to God, just as she’d promised.