She Is Seen. She Is Loved. She Is Heard.

What do a runaway slave, a heartbroken woman at an altar, a Samaritan woman at a noon well, and Mary Magdalene at an empty tomb have in common?

They all had a question underneath everything. Does anybody see me? Does God hear me? Am I loved for who I actually am?

Those are not small questions. They are the questions that shape whether you wake up with hope or wake up depleted. And in this Mother's Day message from Living Free Franklin, Pastor Ty Crowder walks through four women in scripture who were in the hard middle of something — and found out that God had never looked away.

This one is for the mothers who carry things no one sees. It is also for the men who do the same thing and have never said so out loud. It is for anyone who has been praying the same prayer for a long time and is not sure it is landing anywhere. It is for anyone who has a chapter of their story they have decided disqualifies them from being fully loved.

Hagar named God El Roi — the God who sees — before most of the patriarchs did. Hannah poured out her soul at an altar and was told she was drunk. Jesus sat down at a well at noon and told a woman He knew her whole story — and did not move. And the first person He spoke to on the other side of the resurrection was a woman who came back to a tomb in the dark because she had nowhere else to go.

He found them. He heard them. He stayed. He called them by name.

He is still doing the same thing today.

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