First Baptist Church of Kamloops

We are looking at a woman who became a widow at a very young age. She has no children. She has no husband. In this society, this is the most vulnerable of all people groups. It's in a society society that values family, that values children, and looks upon those who do not have children as somehow being under the curse of God. All of her friends, all of her neighbors, everyone she knew would have looked at her sideways. Sideways. There would have been suspicion regarding this woman. Who is this woman? Why has God afflicted her? She had every reason to doubt. She had every reason to turn bitter and cynical. But that's not what we encounter when we come across Anna. Just the opposite. God has taken her husband. She has no kids. She has no family. No problem because she knows the one who holds all of her days in his hands.