A Chance to Submit to the Past

     And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?"

      "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.

 Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her." The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."… Genesis 16:8ff

I am moved to take Circle of Hope's reading for this day of Lent another direction. I am tempted to run away from my "mistress." Maybe you are ...