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Hope and Hannah pt. 1

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                This new series is all about hope. What should we do with the feeling of hopelessness and how can we help others through it? This series goes through the story of Hannah and how hope is shown through her life. What is hope? Hope is, “A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” At some point in our lives, we have all hoped for something. For most of us, we have been in a situation where the outcome wasn’t what we expected or wanted.  Hannah’s story: Hannah was married to a man named Elkanah, he had two wives: Hannah and Peninnah. There was one main difference between the two, Peninnah had children, Hannah did not.  In this culture, having children was seen as the blessing and favor of God.  Every year, when Elkanah would go to make his sacrifice, he would hand out portions to everyone in his family. When he did this, he gave Hannah a double portion of what he gave everyone else, even ...