Post 1...Tea and Hagar

         Well, here I go again. Creating yet another blog.

                I have wanted to create one like this for a while now. A place where I was sure to go and read my bible then share it with you. 

Then last week the idea of combining it with a tea for two kind of blog...where you can come on over with your own tea cup and we both can read and discover the Word together.

Want to come over?  

     alrighty then

            Sit in a comfy chair while I bring the tea and snack and lets get started...
           Yes, here is some tea and some cinnamon toast with sugar on top. 

Today I decided to set up at the bay window

I like to make it pretty

even if it's just for me

but now you're here

and I'm glad.

I was thinking of one of my favorite verses

Genesis 16:13

She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her "You are the God who sees me, For she said, " I have now seen the One who sees me"

If you don't know the story...here is a bit of a summary

Hagar, ( the one who said the quote above) was a servant to Sarai (later to be named Sarah) Sarai and her husband Abram ( later to be named Abraham) could not conceive a child. GOD told them that they would, that their offspring would be like the number of stars in the sky. Sarai was impatient. She convinced Abram to have a child with her servant Hagar. When Hagar conceived she behaved differently toward Sarai, and Sarai was not happy. In turn Sarai started to treat Hagar badly...so badly that Hagar fled. When she was in the desert an angel of the LORD came to her and spoke to her, and He told her to go back. She then said to him the verse above.

I love it because she realized that GOD saw her. That HE knew all about her. In those days women were considered almost like property. and a servant was lower still, but yet God sought her out and saw her..really saw her. It spoke to me because he sees us all. Sometimes I feel lower than low. I think, I have sinned so much in my past...I feel unimportant. I feel invisible and unworthy. This story, and especially this verse speaks to me. It tells me that he saw her and she knew it. He sees me. and I know it. He sees you too Dear One, and He loves you. He loves us. 

Thank you for joining me on my very first Tea and Devotion post. Let me know your take on this verse. I would love to know.

Blessings, Joanne