Sarah, Hagar and their Husband Abraham

About the Book

s story faithfully follows the Biblical account of Abraham as he first received and then sought to carry out the covenant made directly with God,with between-the-lines details from the author's imagination. Sometimes the beautiful Sarah did not understand her husband's special Relationship with Yahweh, Jehovah God, and at other times she grew impatient with both Abraham and his God. Like the time she despaired of having a child and devised a plan that would make her a mother. She owned a servant girl, Hagar, and reasoned in her mind that since Hagar was hers, then any child Hagar might bear would also be hers. If Abraham were the father, then she and Abraham would have an heir. Hagar did bear a son, Ishmael, and with time God fulfilled His promise to Sarah and also gave her a son, Isaac. Her resentment of Hagar's son became so intense that the child and his mother were turned out to survive as they might. Isaac inherited the covenant blessing from his father to build a strong Jewish nation but God raised up Ishmael to be equally great and become the father of the Arab nation. This book relates of the beginnings of two faiths and how God must have planned it this way all the time.

About the Author

Jannetta Faires Johnson graduated from high school at Ramer,Tennessee; from college at Blue Mountain, Mississippi and received a Master of Social Work degree from Florida State University. She moved from Alabama to Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, which she proudly calls 'home'. Since retiring from the Georgia Department of Resources, she has worked on an every-other-week basis as a bailiff for Judge Melody Conner in Gwinnett Superior Court Her big achievement in life has been rearing two exemplary sons as a single parent. They have made her grandmother of five. In August, 2002, she married Don Butler. Her other published books are "Harry's Jr." and "The History of First Baptist Church, Lawrenceville."