Hannah (hannah’s child)

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Behind the song

‘Hannah’ is about the story behind the whole album project which is about giving back to God what He gives.

History records that a woman named Hannah wasn’t able to have any children and her female rival (Peninnah) teased her, driving her to despair.   She lived in a culture that idolised fertility.  So in the worst of her grief, Hannah went to the temple and poured out her heart to God, begging Him to bless her with a child, a sign of glory in the context of her society.  Hannah promised God that if He would give her a child, then she would give the child back to God for His exclusive service, even to the extent of allowing the child to grow up in the temple, away from home.

The famous prophet, Samuel, was the son given to Hannah as recorded in the book of 1 Samuel in the Bible.  Samuel was able to do great things in history because his mother kept her promise and took him back to the temple so that he could live a life in service to God as a prophet.   After Hannah had carried him for nine months, breast fed him, bonded, learned to love him and enjoyed the ‘glory’ of boasting a son to the world, all of her instincts as a mother would have been to hang onto her child and to not let him go.  But she kept her promise and gave back what the Lord gave.

The music, the songs, the album, the creativity, my life itself… are all meant to be like Samuel.  If I am blessed with any of these gifts, including my life, it’s because God has given it.  And I would love to be like Hannah in understanding that these gifts only reach their true potential and purpose if they bring glory to the one who has given them.  The song acknowledges however, that our natural tendency is to hang onto our gifts so I would love to use the song as a constant reminder that the value of all things is in the creator of these things, not the things themselves.