The wisdom of Hannah’s story from 1 Samuel tells us, “Go to the place of your pain and there you will find God waiting.” There, in that place where you hate yourself for failing to speak up again, where you loathe yourself for your timidity, God is waiting to give you courage. There, in that place of unfulfilled dreams, that place where life has not turned out to be anything you expected it to be. The place where you reached your limits long before you reached your goals. The place where you ended up barren and childless, either literally or figuratively. There, God waits to meet you and fill you with his presence.