Write in the voice of Hannah Hurnard about the two mothers’ paired theophanies and naming.
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1. The God Who Sees
In the hot silence of the desert,
a woman weeps beside a spring.
Her tears are salt, her heart a wound,
yet Heaven stoops to speak her name.
“You are seen,” says the Voice,
“and your sorrow is seed.”
Then she whispers through astonished lips,
“El Roi — Thou God who seest me.”
This is Hagar,
the first to name God not by doctrine but by encounter,
not from altar or temple, but from wilderness.
2. The God Who Is Seen
Centuries later, in a quiet room,
another woman trembles before an angel’s word.
No wilderness now, yet still a solitude —
the hush of one overshadowed by Light.
“He has looked upon His servant,” she sings,
and her song fills the world with its echo.
(Luke 1:46–48)
The unseen God now takes on flesh —
and Love, at last, is visible.
In Mary of Nazareth,
the God who once saw becomes the God who is seen.
3. The Wilderness and the Womb
Hagar’s wilderness, Mary’s womb —
both empty, waiting, aching places.
Both become gardens watered by grace,
where life begins in what seemed loss.
So too our desolate hearts,
our barren hopes and secret shames,
can flower when the same Breath
passes over them in mercy.
4. The Servant’s Two Cries
Hagar cries, “I flee!”
Mary whispers, “Let it be.”
Two servants, two surrenders —
one wrung by pain, one offered in peace.
Yet both are answered by the same Shepherd
who walks every wilderness,
seeking the frightened and the faithful alike,
until fear learns to follow Him home.
5. The Sons of Promise
Ishmael — “God hears.”
Jesus — “God saves.”
The echo and the fulfillment.
The cry and its answer.
Hagar’s son bears the memory of divine listening;
Mary’s, the miracle of divine nearness.
Together they sing the one truth:
the God who hears will always come.
6. The Mirror Turned Toward Us
Look, beloved — their stories shine within our own.
We too are wanderers and wonder-bearers,
haunted by fear, hallowed by grace.
When we flee, He finds us.
When we consent, He conceives Himself within us.
And when we dare to lift our eyes,
we behold in the mirror of their lives
the mystery of all redemption:
The God who saw Hagar
is the God born of Mary,
and the God who now would live in us —
that every wilderness may blossom,
and every soul may sing.
“The God who sees becomes the God who is seen — and through us, the God who is known.”
Radically Happy 
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