Promise of A Mother's Womb.

Walker, Sue Brannan

PROMISE OF A MOTHER'S WOMB A dry woman in a peckish bed, she cried out, wrung her hands in sorrow; yes, she had begged, she had prayed for a child, and when month after month, her womb was as empty as her heart, she shared her marital bed. His concubine gave birth, not she, had a son called Ishmael, Abraham's son, and he was proud. Then, outside her tent, Sarah saw three angels who late brought tidings of great joy; she would give birth to a son; she would call him Isaac, and he would bring laughter, not tears, and with his birth, when his father was 100, his mother, 90, the promise of Israel was, by God, fulfilled.