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Runaway: A Story of Hagar
Hagar finds herself being forced to leave her home, hated by the woman she serves, cast out of the camp, and pregnant. Who will help her in the desert? Who can see her? The story of Hagar is retold by historian and minister, Charles Millson, in an exciting new fictional account based on the Bible story found in the book of Genesis. Follow Hagar's journey from Egypt to the Holy Land as she encounters Abraham's God and finds that, even in a desert, there is a God Who sees me and a God Who cares.
200 pages, Paperback
Published August 11, 2017
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August 29, 2017
I really, really liked this book. Not just because it was a familiar story, although I knew the details of what is known in the Judeo-Christian world about Hagar, the mother of Abraham's son. In fact, despite the rating, the book made me slightly uncomfortable. It was very clearly biased on the side of Hagar, the underdog of the story. So much so, in fact, that when my husband asked me what I was reading, I told him I had subtitled it Saint Hagar and Witch Sarah. :)
As I read through it, however, I realized that this is how the descendants of Ishmael have always viewed the story of Abraham and his two sons. That the Judeo-Christian view of the story, the one I had always just known, had a counterpart. I knew this before, of course, in a factual way. But reading a fictionalized account, which fleshed out personalities and jealousies and indecision and ego and racism/classism and presented the main character in such a personable and relatable way really made me FEEL how others might view this story I knew so differently. It made me remember that even those of us humans who are hand-picked by God get it wrong. It reminded me of how much we hold on to our egos and our biases instead of handing them over to God. It especially reminded me that, out of human weakness and fault, God can bring the most beneficial of outcomes.
As I read through it, however, I realized that this is how the descendants of Ishmael have always viewed the story of Abraham and his two sons. That the Judeo-Christian view of the story, the one I had always just known, had a counterpart. I knew this before, of course, in a factual way. But reading a fictionalized account, which fleshed out personalities and jealousies and indecision and ego and racism/classism and presented the main character in such a personable and relatable way really made me FEEL how others might view this story I knew so differently. It made me remember that even those of us humans who are hand-picked by God get it wrong. It reminded me of how much we hold on to our egos and our biases instead of handing them over to God. It especially reminded me that, out of human weakness and fault, God can bring the most beneficial of outcomes.
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