" But she also knew that the God who made him would give her the strength to carry out her vow. She would give the boy back to God because he belonged to God. Because she had promised. Because none of them were really their own. God, Maker of all things, was the One who gave and took away, and she had been given a great gift. Too soon she would give that gift back, because God had need of this child. Just how, she did not know, but somehow, someway, her son would do God's will and bring Him glory. "

― Jill Eileen Smith , A Passionate Hope: Hannah's Story (Daughters of the Promised Land, #4)